I got very briefly stuck when I found out that I don’t think I can do a double loop with the tail with five controllers. Firstly there was a lot of keyframe shenanigans which I kind of just did but didn’t really need to stress about that much for a rig test (but I kind of had to do it because I KNOW). I generally avoid frame by frame like the plague but sometimes it’s a thing that has to be done apparently.

Prehensile tails are a pain, why would anyone design a character with them. why do I have pretty much no control over this head-universe Trying to get this tail to wrap neatly has been an interesting experience. I’ve tried going forwards cleaning up everything between keyframes and going backwards from the shapes I wanted to end on and it seems I can break everything whichever way I do it so I’ve kept inching forwards as that seems to break things slightly less.

In my infinite wisdom I decided to stay up late again (to 1am which used to be normal bedtime once upon a time but I have been trying to make bedtime 10-10:30 for two decades x_x) to finish the blocking. So now I’ve been doing more fun stuff like arcing the arcs (so that things don’t just shortest path to the next keyframe like they were doing in the blocking video from the last post)

Blah blah blah the usual. A lot of my projeect work time got overrun by other things that needed to be done. Some of it was kind of unavoidable (like the couple of times a year we do performances, and competitions when they come up). The rest of it was just somehow I ended up being the one that absolutely had to do the thing because for some reason everyone else was completely and utterly incapable.

I spent the first two weeks of March editing a video out of several that I took on and off during an old friends reunion/meetup. It was supposed to be a quick job and in fairness it only took me a day to put together and do the basic editing and a couple of hours , but I had a problem with led flickering and trying to fix that resulted in ghosting in places which required a directly opposing solution and that was what I spent most of the two weeks on.