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Just a random side girl I finished recently. She was needed for the scene coming up, so did a quick little holiday inspired render for you guys with her once I finished her re-sculpting.

 

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Hey everyone, sorry I just realized we didn't get one of these out last week. Cloon and I both are drowning in real life shit, so apologies and all that. Work has me traveling like a madman right now every day. We partnered with a new manufacturer and their plant is close enough to me that I have been having to drive an hour and change each way every day for the last 12 days to try and get everything set up for our companies partnership before the holidays really kicked off. We're not quite there, and I'm not even super confident it'll be done before Christmas, but we'll see. Fingers crossed. On top of that I've had to travel out of state to get to another site for some other shit I won't bore you with. ATR has been on my mind A LOT lately. Cloon and I still try and squeeze in some discussion about it when we can, but I can't even begin to tell you how seriously we're both being dragged through the fucking gutter right now. I've been getting some writing done though, so it's not all loss, but yeah, haven't been home to render anything for the last couple weeks. Probably won't be until after Christmas. Cloon, my brother, has barely enough time to pass a fart let alone work on anything else at the moment. God bless the man, and may he find strength in the coming days to end the year with mind in tact. Anyways, that's about it. I really need to try and hit the rack and catch a few zzz's before I need to get up and haul my ass out to the lab tomorrow. Hope y'all have a much better week than I'm sure we will. Happy holidays and Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate, and for those who don't; we hope you have a great week. Best wishes to all you and your families. We'll talk again before the new year.

Stay frosty,
NME

 

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Hey-o! Coming in hot this week. Son is here, so it's been fucking awesome having him around. With his current age and interests, it actually freed up some time for me to work on ATR. I didn't have enough attention span to finish the scene I'm working on because we were constantly talking and stuff, but it did open up some environment work, and I got more writing into the script file. The most work I've been able to get done on the game in the whole month. I have to travel, as expected, tomorrow and Tuesday, but then I'll be off the rest of the week and my son flies home on the 3rd. As long as I finish this shit with our new partners before EOD on Tuesday, then the start of the year should be business as usual, and a lot less stressful and time consuming. For a few months anyways. I'm fired up and ready to hit it. To be honest, I'm a bit worried. I've been so leisure or absent all together in Blender that it's almost making me anxious that I will ahve forgotten things that are important. So I mentally try and check-list my workflow while I'm out. Like remembering to key both the object transforms as well as the rig in each frame otherwise if I need to go back, things get fucky. Not to mention I had some things fucked up before I got reamed at work that I still need to fix before the next scene. Nothing new, just more character fuckery. The polygons are fucked or something about vertices being layered or whatever the fuck. All I know is that I can't get the clothes to conform to the movement of the models because of it, and I do rememebr what I did I just didn't realize it fucked anything up until I tried apply the conformation modifiers on the clothing to the model. Let's just say, I won't ever do that dumb ass shit again. But it was all in the pursuit of optimization. It just happen to be one of those hard lessons learned the hardest way. Lol. All good though. Like I said, no stranger to Blender giving the occasional swift kick in the nuts. Keeps me humble. As I said, the big man is here, so I'll keep fitting in some ATR while he's visiting when I can, but otherwise I should have a FUCK TON more time once the new year kicks off proper. I can't fucking wait for real. Anyways, that's it for this one. Just wanted to make sure I got one more check-in before the new year. I hope you guys have a great week, and an amazing start to your new year. My son and I bought a shit ton of shells we'll be popping off on the eve. It's going to be glorious. 'Merica.

Happy fucking New Years, gents.

NME & Cloon

 

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Hey everyone, Happy New Year! Sorry I forgot yesterday was Sunday. Man, I'm so happy the holidays are over. I'm already back to work on ATR. Cloon is cooking up a couple things I need to finish off the scene and I'll have it done and post-worked in the next couple of days. I still have some issues with Melody's model I'll eventually need to work out, but functionally for the scenes she has coming up, she's ready to go and looking fantastic. I've also started working on a clothing shader that I can plug and play to enhance not only the realism of the material, but also just make it better. For example there was this cute dress design but the actual creation of the dress and the materials were fucking atrocious. So I took it, played with it a bit using some procedural texturing shaders inside Blender. Replaced most of the materials, and managed to not only get the ribs to stop distorting around the boobs, but also added a realistic light catching effect and roughness variability as well. It's still in its infancy stage, but off to a great start I'd say. The goal for this week is to have scenes posed and ready to render this weekend for the next scene. I'll focus my whole attention on just finishing the scene I'm on, and then I'll move on to clothing for the next scene. I'll be super happy if I'm already 10+ frames into the next scene by the weekend. In the meantime, I'll be getting back to my animation coursework. As it stands now, my animation work is still painfully ass. I hate everything I make. But we'll get there. Lots of things filling my 3D plate, so, I'm trying not to be too hard on myself. It'll all come together in time though. Until then, I'll just enjoy the journey. Maybe at some point I might even make a banner for Patreon. I guess. (Sarcasm). LOL. I know we've had that construction sign up for a long time. But our original idea got neutered when Patreon changed their profile layout. I've been aggressively avoiding updating it because it looks stupid, but eventually I'm sure they'll force it. Or if anything, hopefully they'll just give people the option to choose between the OG and the new layout. That would be ideal. Anyway, that'll sum up this log for now. Just a quick ramble so I can get back to work before the chaos gremlin wakes up and eats my morning before work.

Have a great week everyone. To our followers and our Patrons; we look forward to another great year with you all. We appreciate all of you.

Stay frosty,
NME