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4 years ago
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Commission Status: - OPEN! Email me at: marleynox[at]gmail.com
******I have RETURNED with a finished commission!
I made a VRChat avatar and world for a client and it ended up taking me many months. The character was very detailed. I uploaded some views of him, along with a single collection of images for the world.
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::wipes brow with a tissue:: Ohman... it was so much work. I don't think I'll ever do such a detailed commission again. But I sure learned a whole lot about Blender and 3D modeling, rigging, and texturing. I'm hoping to use Blender for commissions in the future!
Speaking of commissions... !
I am open for them! I am also going to run a commission special soon. This is because I am prepping to have some expensive medical procedures done, and I need to start saving and paying off as much debt as I can.
I am going to get bariatric surgery in February. This year of COVID revealed some underlying health problems I've been struggling against that I didn't even realize. I've always struggled with my weight, so I spent a lot of time working out prior to COVID. Because of that, the disease was kept at bay. But when the gyms closed, I took some time off, and boy... it got bad fast. My legs suddenly felt super heavy--I mean, they were always heavy. But this was a DIFFERENT kind of heavy. Like, 20lb weights on my legs. Walking was suddenly 10x more difficult.
I went to a vein doctor to have my legs checked... and the news wasn't good. They said that I have lymphedema, lipedema, and chronic venous insufficiency (CVI).
CVI happens when blood struggles to reach your legs due to a large number of factors--for me, those factors are lipedema, obesity, and lymphedema. Working out was only hiding this issue.
Lymphedema happens when your lymph nodes struggle to process the lymph fluid in your body, which leaves large pockets of protein-rich fluid just sitting and swelling up your body. Lymphedema affects cancer patients, and is a side-effect of a disease called lipedema. Lipedema is a fibrotic fat disease that isn't well studied, but affects 11% of women. They believe it is related to hormonal imbalances. In lipedema, the hormonal changes in the body (such as during puberty, pregnancy, or menopause) cause fat to become fibrotic, which makes it impossible to remove except through surgery. Lipedema fat cells form pebble-like nodules under the skin, which swell up with fluid and are painful to touch. I've gotten so sore that even having a cat stand on my lap is excruciating.
These swollen fat cells end up strangling the lymph nodes in the body, causing lymphedema, which can lead to an even worse condition called lipo-lymphedema.
So my doctors have suggested that I get either a gastric sleeve or gastric bypass to shed as much metabolic weight as I can. Once I lose the metabolic weight (meaning, fat that can be processed by the body, not fibrotic fat), the fat left behind will be mostly the diseased, fibrotic lipedema fat. Once I recover from the gastric surgery, I will need to get a special kind of lipsuction to remove it.
Unfortunately, liposuction is not covered under most insurance. So... I need to start paying off whatever debt I have now so that I can make room for some hefty loans in the future.
Thus... commission special! :D
More to come... but for now... I hope you enjoy the VRChat work I submitted!
I made a VRChat avatar and world for a client and it ended up taking me many months. The character was very detailed. I uploaded some views of him, along with a single collection of images for the world.
Avatar:
LINK
LINK
LINK
World:
LINK
::wipes brow with a tissue:: Ohman... it was so much work. I don't think I'll ever do such a detailed commission again. But I sure learned a whole lot about Blender and 3D modeling, rigging, and texturing. I'm hoping to use Blender for commissions in the future!
Speaking of commissions... !
I am open for them! I am also going to run a commission special soon. This is because I am prepping to have some expensive medical procedures done, and I need to start saving and paying off as much debt as I can.
I am going to get bariatric surgery in February. This year of COVID revealed some underlying health problems I've been struggling against that I didn't even realize. I've always struggled with my weight, so I spent a lot of time working out prior to COVID. Because of that, the disease was kept at bay. But when the gyms closed, I took some time off, and boy... it got bad fast. My legs suddenly felt super heavy--I mean, they were always heavy. But this was a DIFFERENT kind of heavy. Like, 20lb weights on my legs. Walking was suddenly 10x more difficult.
I went to a vein doctor to have my legs checked... and the news wasn't good. They said that I have lymphedema, lipedema, and chronic venous insufficiency (CVI).
CVI happens when blood struggles to reach your legs due to a large number of factors--for me, those factors are lipedema, obesity, and lymphedema. Working out was only hiding this issue.
Lymphedema happens when your lymph nodes struggle to process the lymph fluid in your body, which leaves large pockets of protein-rich fluid just sitting and swelling up your body. Lymphedema affects cancer patients, and is a side-effect of a disease called lipedema. Lipedema is a fibrotic fat disease that isn't well studied, but affects 11% of women. They believe it is related to hormonal imbalances. In lipedema, the hormonal changes in the body (such as during puberty, pregnancy, or menopause) cause fat to become fibrotic, which makes it impossible to remove except through surgery. Lipedema fat cells form pebble-like nodules under the skin, which swell up with fluid and are painful to touch. I've gotten so sore that even having a cat stand on my lap is excruciating.
These swollen fat cells end up strangling the lymph nodes in the body, causing lymphedema, which can lead to an even worse condition called lipo-lymphedema.
So my doctors have suggested that I get either a gastric sleeve or gastric bypass to shed as much metabolic weight as I can. Once I lose the metabolic weight (meaning, fat that can be processed by the body, not fibrotic fat), the fat left behind will be mostly the diseased, fibrotic lipedema fat. Once I recover from the gastric surgery, I will need to get a special kind of lipsuction to remove it.
Unfortunately, liposuction is not covered under most insurance. So... I need to start paying off whatever debt I have now so that I can make room for some hefty loans in the future.
Thus... commission special! :D
More to come... but for now... I hope you enjoy the VRChat work I submitted!
