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.

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.

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

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.

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.

This has been the better part of a week in the making. Almost full days because I stupidly thought that I would get it done next session. I now have headache-caused-by-terrible-posture and my neck is violently out again. Pro-tip: do not spend hours a day hunched over a tablet. And while I’m not completely happy with it I’m happy enough to post it. And obviously I need a hell of a lot more practice with dark scenes.

Wings are more or less done. I say “more or less” because I was spending a very long time obsessing about the edges of the wing membranes, and then figured I should just make sure they’re thick enough to retopo around and not obsess about that kind of thing too much. So I did that for the two inner membranes (I obsessed over the two outer ones before making this realisation) and made sure the wing fingers were more or less symmetrical on either side and easily visible to retopo over.

I miss you like nobody else. The memorial forest was quiet. It usually was, especially at this time of day. Walking on autopilot with her head down, Zara unerringly wended her way to the tree she wanted. The markers were all identical; elegant stone slabs extending a metre and a half out of the ground in their neat little rows. The trees were a bit more individual, growing wild and free. The marker simply said “In loving memory”. Zara absently touched the screen on the top of the marker. It brought up a timeline of all the people that had been buried under that tree.