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3D Queue Update
3 years ago
This was a tough journal to put together. Actually, this has been a tough thing to think about for a while now but as part of my own new year's resolution, I have decided to take the steps into being a bit more confident about myself and my choices.
Two years ago, I could very much say I was a different behemoth. My goals in the fandom were largely different from where I am now. Before, even at a subconscious level, I think there was ambition or drive to become known for my art and to possibly even turn my hobby of 3D modeling into a small business.
Being green to the whole thing, I threw wide the gates and took on 8 model commissions, thinking I would be able to finish each one within about 2 months. Although it is possible to do, I found my pride in my work making these models take months at a time - personally crafting everything from scratch to make sure the commissioner got something that made them feel 'at home'
Don't get me wrong, I am still proud of my work - but that means my 8 model commission queue has become a 2 - 3 year mission.
This has been weighing on my mind, as over these two years, how I view my personal time and what I do for hobbies away from my actual job has changed significantly and I've just not had the courage to do anything about it. Until today that is. I want to protect my love for doing art as a hobby on an if-and-when-can basis and the commission queue has been dictating what I do with my spare time for years now. So, with a fairly heavy heart, but with eyes looking toward the future, I will be canceling my current backlog of model commissions. I will still complete those I had begun work on, but those that have not been started will be canceled.
I will still be doing art, and I may even take a single commission on an ad-hoc basis, but for now, I want to take back the reins of my free time. I will be informing each person in my queue that this affects, but I wanted to post this as a message to those I cannot contact or those who looked toward me for commissions. No money was ever charged until a model was completed, so the queue merely acted as a way of organising my tasks.
I want to thank everyone who liked my work enough to support me, and enough to even request that I do work for them. It is a regret of mine that I'm not able to push for it - but, I do accept that this would make it feel like a job for me and not something I do in my spare time.
What do I plan to do with this 'free time' going forward?
- For one, I want to revisit some of my older works and bring them up to standard, including my own model which has anatomy issues if you know where to look
- I would like to up my game when it comes to clothing, texture work, and animation
- Dabble in taur models and getting those rigged and working
- Creating public base models people can use and edit
- Creature creation which may turn into adoptable models in the future
However, let me learn from my past mistakes and see how far along with this I actually get. :P
Two years ago, I could very much say I was a different behemoth. My goals in the fandom were largely different from where I am now. Before, even at a subconscious level, I think there was ambition or drive to become known for my art and to possibly even turn my hobby of 3D modeling into a small business.
Being green to the whole thing, I threw wide the gates and took on 8 model commissions, thinking I would be able to finish each one within about 2 months. Although it is possible to do, I found my pride in my work making these models take months at a time - personally crafting everything from scratch to make sure the commissioner got something that made them feel 'at home'
Don't get me wrong, I am still proud of my work - but that means my 8 model commission queue has become a 2 - 3 year mission.
This has been weighing on my mind, as over these two years, how I view my personal time and what I do for hobbies away from my actual job has changed significantly and I've just not had the courage to do anything about it. Until today that is. I want to protect my love for doing art as a hobby on an if-and-when-can basis and the commission queue has been dictating what I do with my spare time for years now. So, with a fairly heavy heart, but with eyes looking toward the future, I will be canceling my current backlog of model commissions. I will still complete those I had begun work on, but those that have not been started will be canceled.
I will still be doing art, and I may even take a single commission on an ad-hoc basis, but for now, I want to take back the reins of my free time. I will be informing each person in my queue that this affects, but I wanted to post this as a message to those I cannot contact or those who looked toward me for commissions. No money was ever charged until a model was completed, so the queue merely acted as a way of organising my tasks.
I want to thank everyone who liked my work enough to support me, and enough to even request that I do work for them. It is a regret of mine that I'm not able to push for it - but, I do accept that this would make it feel like a job for me and not something I do in my spare time.
What do I plan to do with this 'free time' going forward?
- For one, I want to revisit some of my older works and bring them up to standard, including my own model which has anatomy issues if you know where to look
- I would like to up my game when it comes to clothing, texture work, and animation
- Dabble in taur models and getting those rigged and working
- Creating public base models people can use and edit
- Creature creation which may turn into adoptable models in the future
However, let me learn from my past mistakes and see how far along with this I actually get. :P
they've made a taur model that works in VRchat o3o
<whisper>ferrrralllsss</whisper>
*runs away*