There was that warning prickle in the air.
Tsa'run didn't give any indication of noticing, glancing around with his eyes. This particular walkway was usually quiet at this time of day, and nothing seemed out of place.
Except for Es'tad stepping out suddenly in front of him, his impressive mohawk rippling slightly. Tsa'run faltered then, the ingrained habit to stop and greet his superior checked by a gut feeling. Sensing his uncertainty, Es'tad grinned with definite malice, then launched at him.
Super quickie sketches of Zara, 10-11 years old doing gymnastics and probably 17 or close enough to as she is in the current block I'm working on practising a form or something. And the one in the middle because I like odd numbers and because I'm trying to work out how to convey expression with those bloody goggles covering half her face all the time!
Also, that ring hold was tough even with a base.
The plan for streaming on Thursday was do a quick sketch, then carry on with the rig test anim. That didn't happen. What happened instead was this.
I don't do anything more complex than textures for backgrounds, the bed is just one ridiculously oversized prop masquerading as a background. I don't hink that's going to be a normal thing either. I am not really looking forward to shading those tattoos XD
With luck I'll have this finished later today but more likely tomorrow or so.
Not quite a redo of Shimmering Wings. Next job is to try and work out if the first gen Avians had head feathers or if they developed later on down the track. Taha'ne is the earliest known ancestor of Tsa'run and the original developer/inventor of "The Art" (a branch of kung fu specifically tailored to the Winged who eventually evolved into the Flyers, and which was further developed to accommodate both Base Terrans and Evolved with extra limbs).
The problem with doing 3d or animation or 3d animation (for me at least) is that the works in progress shots can be exceedingly boring. I spent pretty much the entire streaming day yesterday finishing up the tail end of the rig test anim, and am currently letting it finish up a timing render which didn't finish overnight because I forgot to turn Avi's particles off. Oops.
I'm usually streaming on Picarto on Sundays after 12 and Thursdays from 9am-3pm AWST, though lion dance season is coming up which may throw the Sunday streaming a bit. I did a random ~4hr stream today as the in-laws have a busy week this week and decided to come today rather than not coming at all because they're awesome like that, working on an Ingress wallpaper:
Yesterday I switched up between working on the Zul'jinn concept:
Stuff I was working on as the year ticked over (because we apparently don't do parties anymore).
Still working on the rig test animation, just about at the end of the blocking phase and then I go back through with the detail phase (there should only be one but there will probably be 2-3 and me trying and probably failing to stop myself). The unofficial title of the above is "YOU IDIOT". All will become clear when I get the render out XD D is average Dragonkin height (2m tall) but I think I made Avi and Base a little bit small, should have made them 1.7m instead of 1.6.
Because they're apparently useful to have and I haven't done one forever (seeing as I've spent so much time redoing things). Let's try a 5 year plan.
2017
2018
Lord Tsa'run, general, Inquisitor and bodyguard to High Prince Zul'jinn.
Another draw it again, the painfully cringeworthy original was done in 2003 and available for Patreons to laugh at. Redone as a sketch because it was supposed to be quick, but this way of colouring takes a while and is quite enjoyable. At this rate though AU$10 might be a bit of a bargain XD Anyway I probably just wanted to draw these two characters interacting in the original drawing so I have exactly no idea what's going on here. Drew Tsa'run in the full military uniform and Zul'jinn in more formal gear to show development or something.
Unless I'm doing concept illustrations or commissions I will probably be churning out a lot more of this type of sketch as they're a lot quicker to do (3-5hrs rather than 15+).
Edited 2017 Jan 7: made the scripts slightly more reliable (not relying on window ids) but they will now get extremely confused if there's more than one instance of Blender open
Because I'm not smart enough to get the MacOS version of the Automatic Scene Switching plugin for OBS Studio, I gumbied an easy manual one with bash scripts.
So there's some scenes set up in OBS like so:
Set shortcuts for the scenes in OBS settings like so:
