A new year and half way through the epilogues. So soon we will begin something new and i fear i’m not ready. Too little time, too much to do! December has been a distracting month thats for sure , one plagued with severe art anxiety. I’m hoping that tomorrow with GDQ marathon running all week i’ll be able to recenter myself. This new web site cannot wait any longer.
That said, here is the compilation of what i thought were the best piece for each month of 2021. I think there was an improvement this year.
and to finish, two photo of Bean, one of last summer foster cat, a little bundle of love to keep us sane in this cold winter season. Always there when we draw, sometime doing his best to be in the way of said drawing!
Its that time of the year! Holidays are upon us and Lordpanther is sponsoring another edition of the holiday stream where 4 of us, darkvolt, mau, i and Kite will be taking your requests from 2pm onward until we feel like we’ve taken enough. How to get yours? simply come to http://twitch.tv/gaming_artist after 2pm east. And let the master of ceremony know what you want and preferably from who. If an artist is too busy it will go to the next available artist. It is limite to one character per request , one request per person.
Now for the news. Artists have their high, and their low. For me and many other these come in wave. After months of hard daily work to push my craft i’m afraid that i wavered at the end of animation month. I did not complete the big music video, nor the game. And the new site background is not finished either. My down coincidence unfortunately with the ones of many of my close artists friends. You could say we inspired each other when times are good. Of course it did not help that FF14’s new expension came out at the start of december following this, giving me an escape. Is the escape good? I do not know for sure. But my output is certainly low in the last few weeks. We did skip an update altogether to take a few days to enjoy the videogame release, and for that i apologize. There is an irony that i will be working during the holidays but not for a game release. Though something to keep in mind is that a lot of our friends are deeply invested in that game as well, making it an event to share with the community. Meanwhile family’s holidays gathering in this post covid world is… complicated. May your own break this month be a good one.
There it is, completion of my animation month challenge. Ending with a live2d facerig of Momo. She was much harder to make than the purple cat one i used on stream , which i had to stop as well. Perhap once Hel begins i will find the strenght to resume weekly streams.
No progress on 3d learning, some progress on the revision of the web site thanks to Vilx, one step forward with game engine as an attempt at html5 mini game was put up on Daydream however there is a glitch that prevents the cursor from being replaced
Html5 is possible, however it’ll need the web site to be prepared for it. I have another experiment planned for daydream this month, likely to go in combo with the animation challenge; The daily animation continues with no missed days yet. I’m glad to report there is an improvement over 2020’s animation month. Now wether i can wrap up the 2019 big music video by the end of the month… This may require the entire final week of this challenge.
Overall the output is less than i had hoped but i kept steady against a difficult challenge. And these studies are paying off to improve the quality of my commissions output. Big things to tackle soon : Finish the second daydream game, finish the second music video and give Vilx more assets for the web new web design. We will be taking a break on december 3 so all these need to be finished by then.
The epilogues are well under way at a rate of 2 pages a week so looking at the list of requests i’ve received, Hel will likely start in february instead of january due to how many needs to be done. More time is fine, as i need to push the art style and practice other forms of medias that will be required for the project.
While i finally gave up on trying the 3 days a week schedule, its worth noting the sizes of the pages at the moment:
Heltober was unfortunately dropped mid way so there will be less hel themed artworks to share this time. Meanwhile we’ve reached november which last year i’ve done 1 animation a day for. Well, if i have to practice animations now feels like the right time. plus wrapping up the two unfinished big animation from last year would be a nice to do before the next project.
Doing these games have a purpose. It is to be able to produce HTML5 interactivities. Things like Path to power made years ago or the anniversary special of a year ago, both would’ve been doable if i had the skill i am pushing for right now. I don’t know where in the next project this skillset will be use, but i’ve no doubt something will come up. At the moment i am making something for daydream as a test of such a possibility.
Technically i was a programmer before being an artist… Many, many years ago. Some of the backend of DT is still cursed by my touch to this day. Lets make the next project better by being ready this time. Speaking of, the prep for the final redesign of DT front page had started. Once the cat rain animation is done i suppose i won’t have any excuse to delay any further.
I think thats it for the last 2 weeks + 1 day? i may have missed things my friends have done but it is tough to collect it all, as some design work are just shared through discord sharing.
Those bi monthly news updates are massive so lets try to break it down. DT moonless : Epilogues are here at last! I will cover all the characters and clans that people want to see covered. If you wish to make a request you can do so on our discord server in the moonless age […]
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