Aefter Ragnarok
AER ProgBlog: more retopo and another character backstory piece
Sunday, 17 December 2017 @ 8:09pm
I was supposed to do this before Silly Season kicked all the way in and…well I’m in some downtime before it arcs up fully so here we go XD
Retopo is going slowly and painfully as per usual. I just have to finish the wings and then I can start painting, and hope that my retopo job isn’t completely crap and that he animates all right. Then after that I have to fix the rig and give him some hair and then maybe have a little fun while I work out who I’m doing next.
AER ProgBlog: retopo and storyboarding
Tuesday, 24 October 2017 @ 8:26pm
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.
Stars Glow
Wednesday, 13 September 2017 @ 7:37pm
Switch on the sky and the stars glow for you
Go see the world coz it’s all so brand new
Don’t close your eyes coz your future is ready to shine
It’s just a matter of time before we learn how to fly
Welcome to the rhythm of the night
There’s something in the air you can’t deny…
Owl City: When Can I See You Again
Saving as a png ate my colours again. I really need a 16bit image format that browsers can understand.
Very late Thursday streaming!
Saturday, 29 July 2017 @ 12:41pm
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 This work by ryivhnn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
Thursday stream - High
Saturday, 1 July 2017 @ 5:49pm
I started on an engagement present for @jedau on Wednesday, and decided to continue it on Thursday so of course it got streamed.
Did something slightly different, instead of just cutting a piece out of each track as usual, I axed anything that wasn’t sappy, upbeat, uplifting or didn’t have lyrics I could use and used slightly longer samples than otherwise. The first and last tracks are still the first and last tracks (and in fact the first track was the inspiration for the piece as well as what I thought of when I read Jed’s dramatised recount of the proposal to his girlfriend). The ending is rather abrupt because I was pretty tired by that point and my computer was playing silly buggers.
Aurelius quick concept
Sunday, 25 June 2017 @ 2:16pm
@jedau over on Steemit hive took a bit of a shine to Aurelius in the Black Fingernails Red Wine piece due to name similarities, and these gems came up in the course of our conversation:
Haha! Definitely make him look like a Quokka :D
And
Oh right!! They’re native to Australia haha! Man, I wish I had those things as pets haha! Maybe add in a scar across Aurelius left eye to give him that sort of intimidating presence. When people ask how he got it, he’ll think of some awesome story, when really it was because he slipped while getting a midnight snack and hit his face on the corner wall.
Thursday streaming
Saturday, 24 June 2017 @ 6:03pm
Who would have thought that editing a 6 hour video would take longer than a 3 hour one? Additionally I had some fun and drama with KDEnlive, apparently its annoying settings are per project; I had to specifically tell it to use most of my cores for rendering as it kept trying to use one and overheating my computer which caused it to hang and made me mad. And even after telling it to use 7 threads (so I could have one to do stuff with) as it turned out I had to just sit and let it do its thing all by itself as if I attempted to use my computer while it was rendering something would violently overheat and then the computer would hang.
Thursday streaming - now with a process video
Friday, 16 June 2017 @ 4:07pm
This one’s especially for @jedau on Steemit hive who has made numerous requests for a process video. So here’s me retopologising Za’haran/Red like I know what I’m doing, 3hrs timelapsed into ~8.5mins (bonus: learned KDEnlive). I apologise if the flinging around in and outside the head I was doing gives anyone motion sickness. And who knew trying to credit everything I was listening to would take all day, might never do that one again XD
Forgot I was supposed to be streaming update
Sunday, 11 June 2017 @ 9:43pm
My headache has finally cleared but my shoulder is still hurting like hell so I managed to completely forget about streaming this weekend, not that I would have been able to stream for more than an hour anyway at the rate I was going, had to take very frequent breaks!
Retopo is another thing that really isn’t my friend so even if I did know a way to reuse retopo models I would likely just keep doing retopo per character just for practice.
Thursday streaming
Thursday, 8 June 2017 @ 7:34pm
Yep I’m trying to stream again. I’m currently looking at Thursdays again (because that’s when the inlaws come down to hang with the grandkids and then somehow my house gets cleaned in the meantime, yes I have awesome relatives), Tuesday nights and one of the two weekend days (which one will depend on what is going on at the time), won’t be announcing them til I can make sure the schedule works reliably though. If you’re keen as mustard you can still drop in if you like though.