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The kids wanted to go trick or treating for Halloween, so we ended up doing some quick Halloween research and reading and decided that the proper way to do things was not to do the commercialised going around begging for candy but to give the neighbours candy. However we had no time to prepare for that and 10yo’s birthday was kind of vaguely in the vicinity so we decided to do a “spooky themed” birthday party instead.

Last progblog I’d finished light and shadow 1. I hoped I could get light and shadow 2 done in one session. I did get there eventually XD

Light and shadow 3 should theoretically go a little bit quicker as they’re kind of emphasis layers. I’ll decide then whether they’re high enough to do caustics, at this stage I’m likely to bail as doing caustics on this many characters feels a little bit daunting. Hoping to knock this one off tomorrow, but that will depend on what else is happening tomorrow.

Last progblog I was starting to work on patterning the merminnows with help from my frenemy Google Image Search (for minnow and danio, I didn’t even know what a danio was until I started searching, but they are tiny and have interesting patterns). After about a million billion trillion years, the flats got done:

And then about that again, light and shadow 1:

8yo kicked off the month by discovering that bubble bath mixed with water is a much more effective bubble mix than detergent mixed with water, and that pipe cleaners are easily repurposed into bubble wands.

I’m not sure whether he made that discovery on his own or was assisted or led by 10yo.

There had been vague plans to host a Halloween party as the kids want to dress up and do spooky things, and then it was decided that 10yo should have a spooky themed birthday party seeing as it was close enough, and the boys could invite their friends too. The smalls set about making invitations, directed by 10yo.

I originally intended to combine July, August and September into one post as I didn’t think I had kept track of enough material to be able to make a post each. As it turned out I was wrong (which is not unusual when it comes to the home ed front, I always think that I have been terribly slack any given month and find out we’ve done more than I thought). However some of the September stuff still got caught up in the July/August mashup so this is the rest of September that escaped.

Got this request on Discord from @kubbyelizabeth:

Happy to help out a steemate where I can, I agreed and asked her what she would like me to draw. The answer:

and then when I asked when she needed it by, it was along the lines of “whenever it’s done”.

Easiest client in the universe to work for! XD

Haven’t really had a chance to work much on this lately, always other things demanding attention (and apparently I’m not supposed to take time out of sleep to make up for it but that’s pretty much all I got left).

Tail retopo is driving me up the wall a little bit, I had quite a few goes before I got a mesh I’m vaguely happy with. What I wanted was to just draw the mesh and smoothe it later but apparently my lines were so terribly wonkered that I need to fix everything before I can proceed.

I was going to make a comment footer anyway (which turned out to be bigger than I thought on busy, couldn’t get Krita to resize it without things going stupid though) and decided to make a process video purely for testing out dtube and bitchute.

DTube was a bit of a problem as I couldn’t figure out how to get it to recognise that I have a local ipfs node. This was because I had exactly no way of knowing that there was a config script for that unless I knew about the existence of this article (found with some serious google-fu). The config script has been run and hopefully I didn’t mangle my node.

July and August were a bit of a blur as some not fantastic events occurred which monopolised my thought processes. We got reacquainted with death when my last two cats died within two weeks of each other (the one before had died Christmas last year and we had also lost a guinea pig recently). There were some extended family dramas which didn’t involve us directly which fortunately resolved before getting down and dirty with the legal system became necessary rather than advisable. Sprat was up for the semester break which is always great and the kids and I had lots of interesting conversations. Unfortunately I can’t remember any of them.

This one is from last Thursday! A lot of stuff happened that prevented solid work on it so it ended up getting dragged out for the entire week! And then I didn’t stream this Thursday because other stuff had to happen. But we got there eventually! In this one I finish off High and continue working on Red. Digits are my nemesis (yes I have several of them).

Track list

• Third Eye Blind: Semi-Charmed Life
• Savage Garden: Affirmation
• Secret Garden: You Raise Me Up
• Mark Mancina: Toe Feiloa’i
• Collective Soul: Run
• Walk the Moon: Shut Up and Dance
• Thomas Bergersen: Dragonland
• Fun ft Janelle Monae: We Are Young
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Tell Me Baby
• REM: Shiny Happy People
• Thomas Bergersen: Promise
• Thomas Bergersen: Soulseeker
• David Arkenstone: Starlight Inception Main Theme
• Thomas Bergersen: Aura
• Cat Empire: The Chariot
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Scar Tissue
• Lin-Manuel Miranda and Opetaia Foa’i: We Know The Way (from Moana)
• Thomas Bergersen: Starvation
• The Wallflowers: One Headlight
• Mark Mancina: Navigating Home (from Moana)
• Imagine Dragons: Radioactive
• Jason Raize and The Lion King Ensemble: Endless Night (from The Lion King Broadway Musical)
• Bon Jovi: You Give Love a Bad Name
• The Mighty Mighty Bosstones: The Impression That I Get
• Youth Group: Forever Young
• Globus: The Promise
• Guns n Roses: Civil War
• Paul Cardall: Our Love
• Scott Irby-Ranniar, Geoff Hoyle, Kajuana Shuford and The Lion King Ensemble: I Just Can’t Wait to be King
• Eric Whitacre, Conspirare and Craig Hella Johnson: What If
• Andrew McMahon: Synesthesia
• Thomas Bergersen: A Place in Heaven
• Thomas Bergersen: Remember Me
• Eskimo Joe: Just Don’t Feel
• Piano Guys ft Megan Nicole & Alex Goot covering Begin Again (original by Taylor Swift)
• Alex Goot and ATC covering Good Time (original by Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen)
• Thomas Bergersen: Soulseeker
• Mark Mancina, Opetaia Foa’i, Te Vaka and Pasifika Voices Choir: Te Ka Attacks
• Vai Mahina, Sulata Foai-Amiatu and Matthew Ineleo: An Innocent Warrior (from Moana)
• Jebediah: Harpoon
• Mummer’s Dance cover (original by Loreena McKennit which is what’s linked because I still can’t find my version)
• Ramin Djawadi: The Children (from Game of Thrones)
• Lindsey Stirling: Shadows
• Coldplay: Clocks
• Mr Mister: Kyrie
• The Smart: City Lights
• Everclear: Wonderful
• Creed: My Sacrifice
• Eskimo Joe: New York
• Spin Doctors: Two Princes
• REM: Bad Day
• Samuel E Wright and The Lion King Ensemble: They Live in You (from The Lion King Broadway)
• Phil Collins: Another Day in Paradise
• Thomas Bergersen: Age of Gods
• Yanni: Looking Glass
• The Piano Guys ft Shweta Subram: Don’t You Worry Child (original by Swedish House Mafia)
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Otherside
• City of the Fallen: Immortality
• Starship: We Built This City
• Fall Out Boy: Young Volcanoes (explicit warning)
• Black Eyed Peas: Where is the Love?
• Eagle Eye Cherry: Save Tonight
• Survivor: Eye of the Tiger
• Thomas Bergersen: Fearless
• Avicii: X You
• Audiomachine: Young Blood
• Bush: Glycerine
• Thomas Bergersen: Homecoming
• U2: Numb
• Thomas Bergersen: Cassandra
• Tracy Nicole Chapman, Stanley Wayne Mathis and Kevin Cahoon: Chow Down (from The Lion King Broadway)
• Peter Hollens: Some Nights

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