finally, here's my initial method vs the correct method. huge difference in that background that I did not realize and is quite obvious in hindsight

(2/2)

3)copy a color noise image (or anything you wish to base your palette on) into your clipboard

4) mix between pasting and then eyedropping the noise image to sample desired values (with underlying random colors), then undoing the paste right after, and eyedropping the painting itself to taste

animating the duck guy from DHMIS over random tiktok audio

glow

Ice-Dawg and Bigfoot (short by me and @derrek.org)

used Serum 2 to make MeowSynth 2. has the finely tunable controls of a vocaloid but for only one word and the word is meow

and heres the process video