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Aaaaaaand Back!
12 years ago
Yep, I'm back and kickin'! I'd prefer not to get into any of the particulars of what happened here in this journal ("Big Brother" could be watching, if y'know what I mean =/), but I'll answer any questions via more discreet means, since I know I left a lotta people bewildered and confused by the 2-week timeout. =P
Anyhoo, pardon me if I'm a bit slow in coming back into the swing of things again, things got REALLY busy IRL during the course of those 2 weeks. My mom started a new job, so all her portion of the daily animal duties fall to me and Pookin, on the days that she works (in addition to what he and I already do everyday), which has been pretty exhausting. That, and things have been really intensifying with my classes. The school cut funding for a lot of the programs my instructor had wanted to introduce to the class, and the remaining choices weren't very ... "newb friendly", for lack of a better term. We needed a 3D Animation program to serve as a "stepping stone" into the more advanced stuff, and he kept drawing up a blank.
Welp, after some sleuthing about, and having seen a lotta artists here on FA fiddle around with it now and then, I looked into Sculptris ... aaaaand it's been PERFECT. I didn't know it was made by the same company that did ZBrush (and even more than that, is actually intended to work in TANDUM with ZBrush), so now not only is Scupltris being installed in all the Macs in class ... but the school has ALSO authorized funding to procure -ZBrush- for the class, too! We'll FINALLY be having access to an industry-standard program, eeeeeeeee!!! ^o^ Definitely expect to see some screenshots soon of some of my portfolio pieces I've been cranking out, ever since I first started fiddling with this thing. =3
Also just an FYI, I've also got 4 upcoming regular art pieces upcoming, too, that I'm working on in between other RL stuff, so look forward to that, also. ^_^
And for a final update ... I know this'll seem like it's coming out of nowhere for a lot of people, but ... after some on again/off again attempts to reforge contact between myself and my female ex ... and long long hard soul-prodding on both our ends ... we've decided to take a chance on love again. I've kept a lot of my feelings post-breakup pretty private, for the majority of the emotional roller-coaster ride I've been on, but I was just too emotionally exhausted to want to continually go into it. There was a lot of problems, but I honestly think there's still a chance to work through them. Hell, my current relationship with Pookin is rife with flaws, too, and yet here we both still are, y'know...? So we're going to try again, and see where life leads us. Not sure yet if she has any intentions of coming back to FA, but just wanted to update accordingly.
Til next journal, folks!
Anyhoo, pardon me if I'm a bit slow in coming back into the swing of things again, things got REALLY busy IRL during the course of those 2 weeks. My mom started a new job, so all her portion of the daily animal duties fall to me and Pookin, on the days that she works (in addition to what he and I already do everyday), which has been pretty exhausting. That, and things have been really intensifying with my classes. The school cut funding for a lot of the programs my instructor had wanted to introduce to the class, and the remaining choices weren't very ... "newb friendly", for lack of a better term. We needed a 3D Animation program to serve as a "stepping stone" into the more advanced stuff, and he kept drawing up a blank.
Welp, after some sleuthing about, and having seen a lotta artists here on FA fiddle around with it now and then, I looked into Sculptris ... aaaaand it's been PERFECT. I didn't know it was made by the same company that did ZBrush (and even more than that, is actually intended to work in TANDUM with ZBrush), so now not only is Scupltris being installed in all the Macs in class ... but the school has ALSO authorized funding to procure -ZBrush- for the class, too! We'll FINALLY be having access to an industry-standard program, eeeeeeeee!!! ^o^ Definitely expect to see some screenshots soon of some of my portfolio pieces I've been cranking out, ever since I first started fiddling with this thing. =3
Also just an FYI, I've also got 4 upcoming regular art pieces upcoming, too, that I'm working on in between other RL stuff, so look forward to that, also. ^_^
And for a final update ... I know this'll seem like it's coming out of nowhere for a lot of people, but ... after some on again/off again attempts to reforge contact between myself and my female ex ... and long long hard soul-prodding on both our ends ... we've decided to take a chance on love again. I've kept a lot of my feelings post-breakup pretty private, for the majority of the emotional roller-coaster ride I've been on, but I was just too emotionally exhausted to want to continually go into it. There was a lot of problems, but I honestly think there's still a chance to work through them. Hell, my current relationship with Pookin is rife with flaws, too, and yet here we both still are, y'know...? So we're going to try again, and see where life leads us. Not sure yet if she has any intentions of coming back to FA, but just wanted to update accordingly.
Til next journal, folks!
(flying glimp-tackle hug)
So good you're back! ^^
(XD damn phone messin' up mah message XD)