Entering the world of 3D AI

Dozerfleet Studios now has a double-camera setup for shooting backgrounds and video in 3D. The setup doesn't quite have all its bugs worked out yet, but enough of a double image was able to be produced to result in anaglyph experiments demonstrating the strengths and drawbacks of using AI to make post-processing conversions to 3D.

For posters that mostly consist of AI-generated assets in the first place, it's very difficult to combine native and post-processed assets together to make a believable composite. Depth map manipulation to improve Photoshop layer pixel displacement on a flattened copy of a file - with all assets added before flattening of layers - is the most practical way to do it.

This is most evident in the 3D version of the main book cover / official poster for The Tale of Plum Bixie:

However, while post-processing can speed up the editing process, and is usually pretty reasonable, it has nothing on the power of a wisely-chosen setup of native 3D shooting - something not possible with most AI art generators that are equipped to only do so-so with generating 2D assets.

Some 3D glasses are needed to truly see the difference, but here's a sample image of a Christmas village that was post-processed using the app Owl 3D:

By contrast, this is that same village when two different cameras' feeds were overlapped to produce native 3D:

The depth detail is simply amazing; and the depth maps involved with Owl 3D, as good as they are, cannot hope to match the sheer power of a proper parallax reconciliation.

Granted, achieving this latter image took a little more work. The right eye camera was a Canon PowerShot ELPH 135. The left eye camera was a Vivitar Popsnap VEC S124. Stabilizing either camera without a tripod splitter was an exercise in splitting hairs. To make matters worse, macro photography like this pushed the limits of what both cameras could do. When it came to color recognition, the Canon definitely had better chrominance range than the Vivitar.

As a consequence, the resulting composite image is a fraction of what was originally possible. Regardless, the point was made.

This was also demonstrated when The Amazing Spider-Man first hit theaters in RealD 3D, and was shot natively. The result was a far-better-looking world than the MCU, which released The Avengers with post-processed 3D. Native 3D clips of TASM are hard to find now, with most YouTube clips featuring badly-washed-out post-processed 3D that's difficult to watch. Clips of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 suffered for this format, however, as it made more obvious than ever when Andrew was web-swinging against a greenscreen - a similar problem to that which plagued The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

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The Avengers didn't have that issue, since the 3D made available is the original post-processed result, just switched from RealD 3D to anaglyph per the limitations of most home monitors.

What does this mean for Dozerfleet 3D?

• Whenever possible, backgrounds and props that can be shot in native 3D can and should be done so. With a few tweaks, the Vivitar's current limitations may be overcome gradually. A tripod splitter will further aid the two cameras in communicating with each other to achieve an ideal parallax angle.
• If The Mutt Mackley Show ever made a comeback, an upgrade to the SD card setup for the Vivitar would enable Mackley videos to be shot in 3D. A different puppeteer might be needed, since the director / camerman would have to manage two cameras as the same time. This would allow future Mutt Mackley entries to be in native 3D.
• If location doubling is possible, backgrounds for story covers / posters could have 3D equivalents. Some clever blending of post-processed AI-generated foreground assets and native-shot assets would make better-looking 3D possible.
• Where such location doubling isn't possible, post-processing would be necessary to take full advantage of environments that are AI-generated from wholecloth.
• For Blood Over Water 3D for the remake, action shots that are complicated enough would be post-processed. Simpler shots could be done in The Sims 4 with carefully-handled trucking of the in-game camera to the right. The front and back covers, however, would have to be post-processed.
• So far, with regard to the machinomics, only Blood Over Water TS4 is being planned for a release some time in 2025 or 2026 with a 3D release. Readers will be encouraged to have or else order pairs of 3D glasses when reading Blood Over Water TS4 3D. All the other remaining machinomics are being planned for 2D only.
• From there, anaglyph work will be in limited supply, on an as-neede basis. Some anaglyphs are included in the official handbook for The Sims 4: Magic of Movies and Memes Stuff, though these are post-processed.
• Projects that are deemed passionate enough, or where there is enough demand, will then use native 3D as much as possible, and post-processed 3D whenever native 3D capture isn't possible. Most projects, for the sake of time, however, will still be 2D-only releases.

If Dozerfleet had its own version of Deadpool and Wolverine

Due to the nature of the Percolation Warriors saga, it's entirely possible for a Dozerfleet equivalent of Deadpool and Wolverine to exist - without ever using either Marvel character.

Sure, the Deadpool part of the equation would prove difficult, given Percolation Warriors is set after the death of MODM. However, MODM also was at one point going to be in a story called MODM: Reckoning, which had a similar plot to Thor: Ragnorak. In that story, MODM had to save MascotWorld from the Ultimate Meme Destroyer, an evil clone of Rick Astley, who had employed Insanity Wolf, Lucky Leprechaun, and the Jollibee as his minions. MODM was aided by Leonidas, Tide Pod Chan, Tay Zonday, Eduard Khil, Ugandan Knuckles, Overly Manly Man, Dat Boi, and (oddly enough) AoStH Robotnik. While Leonidas being helpful was no surprise, the surprise best backup warrior was Tide Pod Chan - desperate to be known for something other than getting eaten by morons.

So who could possibly replace MODM? Ideally, like with Deadpool and Wolverine, it'd have to be someone who can't die easily. Cornert Mindoche would be a little young. However, with some borrowed Remotach from Earth-G7.2.1, Candace "Lemon Witch" Mason could fill in the role of being the goofy world-hopper on such an adventure. She certainly wouldn't be as invincible as Deadpool, nor as vulgar. Give her some bladed weapons, and she could perform some of Wolverine's role as well. She could work in a pinch.

As for the serious teammate? The nearest equivalent to Deadpool in gunplay would be Plum Bixie, who would also be the closest personality match for Wolverine. Selling it as a female-led story would be tricky; but Percolation Warriors: Plum x Lemon could theoretically work as a Deadpool and Wolverine knockoff. If they can't defeat the new enemy with just the two of them, it could be made a trio. Maddening Rod could join them. To make sure all three of the Big Three universe families are represented, Kayla Tarington from the Knights of Cortascius could tag along - making them a core team of four.

Candace would be struggling with the fact that she gets bored easily. Zize? With the fact that she's afraid springing into action could lead to Inner Fox taking over her mind again. She doesn't want to undergo yet another exorcism, with Cherinob inside her head, ever again.

Who would be the villain?

As usual, licensing would be key. However, it's possible that a mishap with the Multiversal Triumvirate could lead to the Percolation Wave cloning Cerato right before he died, leading to an ascended Cerato. This rogue Cerato, desperate for a chance at relevance, would steal an entire transport vessel from under the Triumvirate, and use it to create his own separate universe - the Backlot (similar to the Void.)

Inside the Backlot, Cerato would use his stolen Triumvirate tech to make himself a veritable demigod among the residents. It wouldn't be paradise; but it wouldn't be a Mad Max-style wasteland either. He'd gather random Ice Chimps, Gwirdon Treaders, and others he'd captured and enslaved to become his servants. This would also include bringing Miscarriage the Stork back from the dead, resurrecting Oxymoron the Bull, resurrecting Shakesbear, resurrecting Uwchfiol, and resurrecting the Christina Wade version of Microwave Mouth. Anyone who puts up too much of a struggle gets fed to a clone of Salt the Raging Hamster.

In time, his plan would be to build his machine up so that he could start pruning from within the Divergency any timeline that he felt he could absorb energy from in order to grow his own power. He especially wanted to delete Earth-G7.2.9, to get revenge on the ascended Tanya Woven for having the nerve to humiliate his variant.

After careful analysis, Plum Bixie would be chosen to go after him - with help from Lemon Witch. Zize's being very hard to kill, combined with Candace's general unpredictability and remarkable talents, would make them a formidable duo for distracting Cerato long enough to sabotage the machine - leading to Cerato destroying himself.

The scariest plot twist? The girls must also visit every world Cerato has visited, and de-fuse a bomb of his from going off. If it goes off, it's set to target the Bootes Void. Cerato believes that if the Bootes Void in enough universes gets attacked, the feedback could unlock Earth-G7.0.0 - allowing Cerato to locate Pele and free her from the Bootes Void. A revived Pele would automatically create a multiversal crisis that would require Cherinob, Radjuatt, Soetera, and the rest of the Angelic Army to fix. Cerato would get mocked for having a similar evil plan to that of the Spot in Across the Spiderverse - until he points out how his intention to negotiate with Pele would actually make everything even worse.

Not wishing for a repeat of Cherinob 3; Zize, Candace, Kayla, and Carly would wish to fight back against Cerato and his army. However, they'd need allies. And that's when they discover the resistance in the Backlot:

The Resistance

While they were mostly there as a joke in Deadpool and Wolverine, fans rejoiced heavily to see Elektra, Human Torch, and especially Blade return to the silver screen after over a decade of irrelevance. A Dozerfleet version of that resistance could look like the following, and would really sell this story:

• A clone of Replox: Created when Cerato unsuccessfully attacked the world of Replox: Abstract Foundations. He was bounced back out by the Wave, but not before creating a clone of Kevin Mend. The clone lives in constant pain, as he and the original Kevin share the same Abstri-Matrix. He's willing to die for the cause of dethroning Cerato. Not only because he feels it's the right thing to do; but also because he wants to be set free from the fact that two versions of Kevin on the same Abstri-Matrix bond are not supposed to exist.
• Pollo Dehielo: Nearly everything about him has been forgotten, except for the fact that he's man in a chicken suit that makes ice. He gets a little tired of being called "Cold Chicken Batman."
• Cyberpunk Volkonir: A clone of the prince that first got displaced into a cyberpunk world, then got abducted into the Backlot by Cerato. In spite the progress his upgraded cyberpunk Golden Lion Knight armor helped him achieve in the cyberpunk world, he was unable to make much progress against the upgraded Cerato.
• A clone of Earth-G4 Ciem: Transported to a world where only shreds of her original Ciem suit from Imaki remained. A strange Zeranite pocket dimension she's connected to allows her to hide her 32 absurdly-long tentacle centilegs inside her body, which confuse the Percolation Warriors due to the fact that the Ciem they're familiar with has ten tiny centilegs and relies more heavily on Zeran teleportation to get around.
  
  This Candi never got to marry Donte, never got to save Denny Levens, barely managed to save her world from the Hebbleskin Gang and Arfaas' Doomsday Ship, struggled to get over the death of her daughter Angie, had no idea if her sister Miriam were okay, and generally felt like a failure at everything. Before finding the others, she felt very alone inside the forested and mountainous Purgatory-like Backlot. She especially feared Cerato, as Cerato seemed particularly intent on showing malice toward all versions of Ciem. She's aware that many consider the Earth-G7.2.1 version of her to be markedly superior, making her feel that much more like a failure.
• Redundant Man: Not afraid to die for the cause anymore, Redundant Man after stopping Professor Jargon's Duckzilla monster plan soon found himself and Detective Red Herring trapped in the Backlot. Red was among the first to be killed by Cerato, though he dreams of the day he can avenge his friend.
• Mutt Mackley: Desperate to get home once more, he remembers the time he lived inside Charlotte Duvarin's dorm wardrobe at Ferris State. He struggles with the fact that no one takes him seriously, given he's the size of a hand puppet - and somewhat resembles one.
• Jessie Morcin: The cancellation of Kozerlen saw her quickly fade out of relevance. However, she returns in this story looking for redemption. Even after getting past Corvin the Caller, and dismantling much of the Kozerlen conspiracy, she was no closer to learning the truth about her husband's disappearance than when she started. And after a decade, she was ready to give up. However, she knew she'd never finish the job if she couldn't escape the Backlot. The Percolation Warriors get confused by her appearance at first, noting that she bears an eerie resemblance to Monica Shelly.

Searching for transportation, they find Hilo, Ackro, and Colly from When Bikes Argue inside the Backlot. However, Ackro's rear axle snaps, rendering him useless. Colly gets sacrificed to shield Jessie from an attack by Miscarriage. Hilo survives, but proves to be of little use to the team. Barry the Car proves unusable, given his brake lines being corroded to uselessness.

Dozerfleet Turns 30

With completion nearing on the articles needed to make the official handbooks for the Anarteq Saga Story Pack Series for The Sims 4, Dozerfleet officially celebrates turning 30 years old today.

No special cake this time. Pumpkin pie will suffice. Things have come a very long way since that 5th grade classroom in Wyoming, Michigan. With power restored to the neighborhoods just a few hours before this post, central Florida is quickly springing back to life. Other areas are still reeling after Milton and Helene.

Rumble back-up channel for Dozerfleet Studios seems more likely

On the eve of the Air Force admitting that things like DEW lasers and chemtrails are, in fact, a reality, YouTube seems more determined than ever to label admitted facts as "conspiracy theories," knowingly lying, in order for its CEO to craft her own "reality."

On May 17th of 2024, the video for the song "Gates Demi!" was falsely accused of "trying to incite [current] violence," by referencing "a conspiracy theory." Online chat bots suggested that Dozerfleet Records contact a criminal lawyer to go after YouTube for this. That option is being considered.

The Dozerfleet Studios Channel was issued a warning, with a strike pending, over the video in question. The video was deleted. What were the butthurt and triggered so upset over?

In 2020, there were confirmed sightings of Air Force DEW laser drones over California, immediately before several "wildfires" broke out across the state. Left-wing TV rags blamed it on "climate change," while right-wing rags like Fox News blamed the fires on Antifa.

The song, released in 2021, was a parody of "Chop Suey!" by System of a Down. It made fun of the "wildfires" claim, by outright stating the DEW lasers were to blame, as they were. The song speculated that Bill Gates and his globalist allies were involved, and that they had intentions to continue starting fires this way. This speculation appears to have been confirmed by none other than Russel Brand, who published video of DEW lasers being used to commit arson and genocide in Hawaii in 2023.

The same bridge to the song later went on to reference disenfranchisement in Michigan, with well-documented cases of mail-in fraud. On top of that, it mocked the state of New York for law enforcement's failure to take action against hospitals and mobs for crimes against the elderly. It also made fun of Oregon, over the whole "Summer of Love" debacle.

The parody song was deemed acceptable at the time of its upload; but was suddenly deemed "not okay" out of nowhere, three years later. Given that many other videos have gone into far more detail on this subject, and in venues that don't involve comedy or entertainment which should fall under key protections, without that content being deleted, it would seem as this particular music video was unfairly targeted.

The decision by YouTube to ban the video was contested with an appeal; but the video was deleted forever anyway.

If any further mischaracterization or undue harassment by YouTube continues against Dozerfleet properties, then as many videos as possible will be moved to another platform. The YouTube channel may very well shut itself down. This blog will then link to the new platform. And if this blog's rights to reference the existence of a parody song are infringed, then Dozerfleet may relocate entirely to a new website. Legal options are also being considered, as censoring comedians just for mentioning truths that the admins don't like due to it being politically inexpedient is an unlawful form of censorship.

Claims of "it's just a private company" fall flat, when it has stock trade value! And when they get their advice to censor that specific content specifically from Congress and the FBI, then that means it's collaboration with a criminal enterprise that is explicitly violating the First Amendment, over the very specific main reason the Amendment was created!

That is unacceptable.

As such, all individual song lyric listings for Every Ape and His Brother have been taken down from this blog. The lyrics will be compiled into song books, and then republished as downlodable e-books by album. Any soyboy who still tries to "report" inconvenient truths in a work of art, is asking for trouble!

Relocation of the Bookstore?

The Bookstore is a fairly new setup structure for this blog. However, options are being explored for moving it to an actual official HTML web host. For-profit e-book content would probably be marketed through Barnes and Noble first, then Amazon if successful. However, the free content would most likely be moved to the new Dozerfleet website. The blog here would be reduced in capacity. The Dozerfleet Labs blog's download content would also be relocated, possibly to the same new website.

There is some exploration as well about the possibility of relocating the Dozerfleet Channel to Rumble. Too much political interference in the affairs of YouTube is making it dangerous to rely on YouTube as a sole video host. While most Dozerfleet video content at present is not political enough to drive most to a state of panic, recent developments by Merrick Garland and other ne'er-do-wells influencing the FBI have compromised that agency's integrity to the point that woke extremists now can flag literally any minute thing they don't like as "right-wing extremism," which has already led to hundreds of thousands of users' personal liberties being infringed via criminal acts of entrapment and doxxing. This is unacceptable. Secret police tactics like this have no deserving place to exist on any single square inch of this planet, and certainly have no place in a free society!

This isn't to say that all YouTube content would be disappearing. Currently, all pre-existing YouTube Dozerfleet content would remain where it is. However, future videos would be moved to another service. Videos on the new service copied over from YouTube would have to face a litmus test for audio permissions, to ensure that there's no tracing or copyright issues.

The following videos would be safe to transfer:

• Disney / Dreamworks / Dozerfleet/ Fox / Nest Princesses, in the World of Mad Max, per Wonder AI
• 3/13
• All My Ducks are Pekins
• Gates Demi!
• She Said (But She's From Clown World)
• Penguin on Drugs
• The Blue Face Film Strips
• Trailer to The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff
• Kings in the Corner

Ciem: Ash Cloud: Making the Forfica would probably be re-made, to remove references to a certain someone. The trailer for Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil may need a new soundtrack. The Gerosha Chronicles, According to AI may have to be replaced entirely with smaller bit videos per story section. Otherwise, that video won't get duplicated outside of YouTube.

Old live content would not be transferred over.

No one should have to live in a world where a monopoly gets to control all of someone's business, spy on them even off-platform twist their words, and send in the SWAT team over a mere difference of opinion. But that's what the world is coming to. Because the not-self-controlling preferred Moloch to Christ. So the world is becoming Hell. If Google can't purge the hell minions, then reduced dependence may be a necessary future move, even if relocating ANY Dozerfleet content would be a major inconvenience.

New Ciem: Inferno tie-in books available for download

Click on the above images to visit the download page for each book.

The compendia for Ciem: Inferno tie-in books about the inmates and staff of the Madison Juvenile Center in 2015 in Earth-G7 have now been remade. These guide books aid in understanding more about Candi's world to those who didn't ever live in Indiana in that time period. Many aesthetics and even some characters are loosely inspired by the Netflix series Girls Incarcerated.

While originally made with The Sims 4, these guide books have been completely remade in 2023, using Wonder AI by Codeway Dijital.

How much property damage is inflicted in Ciem: Inferno?

After the YouTube channel Spider-Arab released a video trying to estimate the property damage costs in Insomniac's new Spider-Man 2 game, a thought came to mind: what would be the cost of damages in Ciem: Inferno alone, if the same logic were applied?

Looking through it all, Boonville and Evansville in Ciem: Inferno would suffer over $3,000,000,000 in damages. However, most of that would be just the dirty bomb launched by the Screwworms in the opening. And it was an attack on Emeraldon's childhood home, so Ciem wasn't really involved.

If we ignore the dirty bomb, then about $33M - $36M or so in damages occur. Which is surprisingly small, for a superhero story setting.

• The Screwworms inflict an estimated $50,000 in damages to the Old National Events Plaza. Possibly more. Conservative estimate, $50,000.
• Candi's first battle with Lava Tigre destroys a phone pole or two, and does some other minor damage to the street corner. Estimated about $30,000 in damages.
• The battle of the Chuckles gas station probably does, possibly, about $40,000 in damages, mostly to the van.
• Lava Tigre and the Pyro Panthers blowing up the Boonville Fire Department easily does at least $12M in damages.
• The police station being targeted next? Easily another $7M.
• The Pyro Panthers destroy several homes, so let's say $10M in damages.
• Drop-In's attack on the police convoy results in three police cars getting destroyed, for easily $210,000 down the tubes. Assuming Candi's handcuffs were about $30 in value, her breaking them adds an insignificant amount to the total number of damages.
• Drop-In's jetpack would cost an unknown amount to make. But assuming the worst, Candi damaging it results in another $2M in damages.
• The Hebbleskin Gang compromising City Lake Park No. 1 is probably no more than $2M in damages, tops, when you factor in the costs of removing the radioactive material that they were housing in the one building to create the energy dome force field.
• Drop-In later causes a total of probably $200,000 in damages to the Madison Juvenile Center during his battle with Ciem and Flintirah.
• The construction site was probably up to $30,000 in development, so that getting compromised during Lava Tigre's battle with Ciem and the Purge-Flare would have been at least that much.
• Ciem destroys Frank Morvel's van to save the girls he captured. That's another $40,000, give or take.

The police attack on the Purge-Flare's van wasn't counted. Nor was Miriam teaming up with Chris to steal materials to fix Chris' van and Purge-Flare equipment. Candi wasn't involved in any of that. That's maybe another $3M in damages, at worst.

Still, about $33M - $36 million of property damage are estimated to occur in the story.

With the dirty bomb, Ciem and her enemies add up to being just a tad more expensive than Spider-Man. But if one ignores the dirty bomb, especially since Candi wasn't involved and it was more an Emeraldon problem, then Ciem proves to be worth probably no more than $40M in damages inflicted, worst case scenario. This makes her quite a bit less crazy than the $2B price tag on Spider-Man; but still a nightmare for city developers. To her credit, because the dirty bomb was an attack on Emeraldon; he'd probably face more heat than she would.