Hi Ho, Hi Ho, back to the ice and snow. Thats right back to Antarctica for another six months which means my internet connection will not allow me to connect here. So if you like my work you will have to head over to my DA account where I will be posting all my photography and 3D work.

https://www.jimdeer.deviantart.com

Back out of deep freeze, going to take me a bit before I get everything back to something I can call normal.

For those that watch me here... ya I know, we all tell ourselves little lies like that... it will be at least next spring before I post anything here. If you do actually find my work interesting you can keep an eye on my Deviant Art page as it will be more likely to be updated. My DA page will be mostly my photographic work but I do hope to finish my doe project as well as launch into a number of others, however the amount of time I will have to apply to this end is still unknown to me.

So for those who do watch me, thank you, know that I am not dead yet, just going into a deep-freeze

Well, been almost a year since my last post, starting into a new job now that will hopefully allow me more time to work on 3D. Unfortunately I will also have very limited internet access so it will be likely next spring before I will be able to post anything.

No I ain't dead yet. However due to life happens, most of my work has been put on hold. I simply do not have the time right now to work on things like I did.

Well after a couple months of piddling around with other projects I have started on a new character model this time a doe. The basic head model will also serve as the base for a buck model I plan to do as well. this new model, like the panda one will receive dynamic fur using Sasquatch, and will have dynamic clothing produced using Syflex. I plan to do a more extensive animation sequence using this new doe model instead of just the silly and simplistic DOTA dance I did using the Li-Na model.

My Li-Na model, I have decided, needs the head reworked, it just does not look right, and I have pinned down the problem, however this will require creating new UV maps and new texture sets which is something I am not interested in doing at the moment so it is being set aside until such time as I feel like playing with it again.

Finaly, after about five monthes of working on my 'Li Na' model, I am putting the finishing tuches on her. A little more playing with the lighting and I should be ready for a final still render.

" well after a month long timeout Im about ready to get back to my panda girl, Li Na. Had to put her aside for a wile as it was getting to not being any fun to work on and that was showing up in the quality of my work. All Im waiting on now is for the RAM I ordered for my newly upgraded workstation . At the moment it is only running on one gig and trying to render on one gig or ram is almost pointless, what was taking me thirty seconds to render with eight on my old setup is now taking over three minets with only one and Im pushing twice the cpu power as my old setup. Should be in within the week.

Ok its official, UV mapping sucks. Spent three hours mapping just the left foot. I wouldnt even bother mapping the feet or body but Ill need grey scale maps to drive the fur properties.