Huh. I could have wrote this. Except I'm 33 and in Colorado. And I hang out more on Tapestries than on IRC.

I hung out on furryMUCK for a little while, back in the day. I never did explore tapestries though.

Well, we should hang out sometime, maybe have a chat at a furmeet or something. Colorado isn't that far away. I've admired your art since I first saw it a few years back.

I haven't been on FM in years. I'm sure my character was purged long ago. Not adult enough for my taste anyway.

I've never been to a furmeet. Been to a few cons, but those were over a decade ago. There's a con that goes on over on the east side of Colorado... Don't remember what it's called though. Rocky Mountain something something I think. Maybe not. In any case, I could do that, sure. Good excuse to get off my ass and get away from the computer.

Yeah, I've never gone to a furmeet either. Been to a Doctor Who con and a Star Trek con and some general sci-fi cons though. I heard some folks talking about a decent con in Colorado, that's what made me think of it. I usually haven't had the time and money in the same place for a furmeet, or if I did, therewas no one I knew there to give me a reason to go.

Could be a fun little trip. I could easily get to Colorado and back over a weekend or a 3day weekend or something. I mostly just go to work and then come home and draw pictures, or continue to teach myself 3D software, or chat with friends.

I actually lived in Colorado for a year or so, a place called Salida, just worked there at a ski-resort so I could snowboard for free for a year.

Yeah, I was just looking through your gallery again and I forgot you were doing some 3D work in blender. I've been teaching myself blender for awhile now. Maybe we could come up with some kind of collaborative project or something, possibly.

I don't know anyone else working in 3D around here, let alone furryily. I've thought about maybe trying to produce a dvd to sell like rangarig has done. (If you are familiar with his work.)

I've done a few furry models so far but have been working on creating a music video for a friends band for the past year and a half. (It's pathetically, barely halfway done.) So I haven't done much furry 3D yet. I have a primitive cat model and a primitive anthro model, both rigged, but I've done but nothing really post-worthy. At least not furrywise.

For me, I've just never bothered to take the time or money to go to one. I really don't have a whole lot of friends online that I could meet up with, which is half the point of a convention or meetup. I shouldn't say never... I've been to two cons, but that was years ago, middle of the 90's. The first one scared the crap out of me, the second one, I just didn't know anyone and didn't get there soon enough to sign up for any of the events. Spent half the time in my hotel room on the computer.

I used to snowboard a little bit myself, though never in Colorado. Learned in New York and Vermont. Been raised here since I was seven and never been on a mountain on a board, heh.

I'm pretty far away from a collaborative project right now. I'm struggling just to get one good render, one complete scene that looks good. Hell, I haven't even fully finished a model yet. Toybunny is the closest I've come, and she still needs a lot of work. But I'm more than happy to give tips and such, what little I know. Most of it has all been learn-as-you-go. I knew zilch about 3D art before I found Blender, and now... I know more, but not nearly enough. Still a lot to learn about lighting and textures. It'd be kinda cool to trade/share models though, learn from and improve on what someone else has done.

I'd love to do a music video, but I don't have nearly the processing power. Any kind of animation would be extremely frustrating right now. I need a bigger, better computer, something with multiple CPUs would be awesome.

Well, at least you've gone to a couple. It would be interesting to check one out.

Yeah, I'm still learning a lot. I started doing the video in order to motivate me to keep learning and working with blender. I guess I'll give you a link to my livejournal about it if you are interested. http://jmwheeler.livejournal.com/

It is slow and frustrating working on it, I saved up and bought a new computer just so I could get better results. I need to save up for a new, new one now. By the time I can afford it, this one will be obsolete.

Yeah, I really want to get some 3D furry stuff going as well.