Blood. Everywhere. Blade’s hulking form was crumpled in a pool of it. The initial adrenaline rush, bordering on painful when it had spurred him into panicked, unthinking action, was subsiding now. Trix clung to the bloodied katana like his life still depended on it, his mind struggling to comprehend the enormity of the situation before him. They stayed there, the three of them, in a moment that lasted forever. Trix with the murder weapon. Blade, the not-so-innocent victim. Sable, curled up in a corner.

The relentlessly hilarious @meesterboom requested a Dragonkin with a mohawk, no colour preference. It was so, so very difficult not to give him a hot pink mohawk. Gave him an extra long ratty but no tattoos as I’m not sure if he’s a Tribe Flyer or not. If he is I think one of the tattoos is going to be blue stripes like in Braveheart: [missing image] Sketchy for approval. This work by ryivhnn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

Ninjaroo is thoroughly going to be his official nym. I’ve recently decided to open my $10 Patreon tier to people on steem who regularly interact with me or are on the Team Australia and Be Awesome Discord channels. @aussieninja asked to be a ninja kangaroo, which meant lithe agile little gray wallaby. All ninjas wear headbands with medallions right? XD The ninja balaclava is down around his neck for the moment because I wanted to draw his face (I did originally have it up like he probably would do when playing parkour chasey).

Farewell 2017, happy 2018! I did my usual and had a drink while 3d-ing. I probably should have taken a photo of the drink for the benefit of the steem crowd but didn’t. JJ piked out but the kids stayed up with me (probably for the novelty of staying up til midnight as 8yo’s bedtime is 8, and the big two at 9:30). Despite procrastinating for pretty much the entire day I managed to finally close the retopo and have started painting.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

@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.