Been meaning to write this for a long time, but for obvious reasons haven't yet.

Rewind to the beginning, At least 1997. I joined a bulletin board group called Alt.Fan.Dragons. I kept up with these people and considered a lot of them my best friends ever. I've physically lived with one friend of mine more than once. A long comes the first Trump elections and suddenly on the Telegram group semi-related to the previously mentioned group, I'm being gas lit, constantly attacked and harassed and basically trying to struggle session me into being both political and pro-Democrat.

Knowing my vulnerable mental state but not knowing the deteriorating situation in-person, they more or less started trying to get me to commit suicide. Being the idiot that I was, I kept making excuses for people. That they don't know any better, that if I can just explain my beliefs and position well enough we'll stop fighting. Then they started posting images of children being r*ped in drawings and jokes about killing house cats. I pretty much quit that week and started cutting not just ties but anyone adjacent as well until my internet timeline was spotless.

Who are some of these fine people? Well the channel changed after a massive narcissist named Apocrypha took over the channel as admin. This is a pathetic person who is so disliked, in that the only way she or he can maintain a social network is by manipulation and inviting pedophiles in. One more person for the pile is Wyrd whose weird fucking name I can't remember how to spell. He was the one posting kid r*pe.

There's been a lot more shit that has happened to me besides this internet shit storm. I was evicted, I had to move back into my parents for awhile but now I have my own home at the price of which, that I work up to 60 hours a week. I lost my disability and insurance too. I've also been going through a lot of.. just remembering stuff and dealing with drama.

All I can say is, bitch should have tried harder to kill me because I've dealt with far nastier things in my life and much more professional people at breaking folks.

I'm sort of trying to get my motivation back again. Sort of thinking about just quiting doing holiday artwork. That way I'd have more time to concentrate on what I'm already doing like commissions. Who knows.

This is improved since Sunday where I thought about just quiting altogether.

Hello! If you would like to see what I am working on, I now have a Trello: https://trello.com/b/xFEk78X0/unive.....alblue-artwork You will see previews of what I'm up to and their current progress.

I also have a Discord channel. Its not terribly active, but its there. https://discord.gg/dE7PnB

I am worried at the news that a friend of mine was either banned or temporarily banned on FA. This is the sort of liberal witch hunt backlash that I've predicted. Because when you see heresy all around you, from your perspective, and can't find any genuine witches: you will invent some.

If that sort of behavior is allowed, its only down hill from here. Next will be ponies and humanoid artists because they do not conform to being "furry enough". And after that, they will begin purging anyone that does not make a high enough popularity quota, because why not. Once a power to arbitrary get rid of someone is given, it inevitably is used over and over again by those in power.

Now I know a part of this controversy is about those showing Nazi or pro-hate group artwork, statements, etc. That goes against policy, ok that checks out. But the scuttle bug I've been hearing is that, this is not the people being effected by this, but instead anyone that is disagreeable to the PTB.

You know.. a lot of my friends complain about this and that involving furries or FA but for all it's faults, I've had a worse time recently with Derpibooru. Those people have been fucking rude, self-entitled little snots. A game I started with myself, one of which has only existed for two days is, I click one of the trash talkers and try to look at what they've submitted.

75% of the time they've either submitted nothing or everything they have uploaded to the site is By Someone Else meaning they haven't actually contributed anything on their own.

Anyways, rant =P. As of the weekend my Patreon went up to five Patrons now which is multiplying it by x4 in just a weekend. Not bad for someone that "only jiggles their mouse up and down and uses models, characters, and textures made by someone else" like not all of Source Filmmaker isn't by someone else. Valve*cough*, *generously gave us this awesome tool for free cough*

Or like MLP to begin with wasn't made by someone else like three decades ago.

Oh Lordy do I steal unrepentedly and must prostrate myself before the Cheetos encrusted neon green and red/black edgelords that are the originality of our fandom whom are totally not stealing, themselves, the manes of Twilight Sparkle or Vinyl Scratch and just recoloring them and claiming they though of it on their own. Amen.

Opps I ranted again. Its just the pure unadulterated arrogance of some of these people its just unfathomable.

Ok I got Draco's suggestion. I forgot to add that my deadline is Monday or Tuesday. After all I need to know what I'm making ahead of time before I make it. I mean its free art!

I have a deadline of the 22nd so that I can send this to the Sci-fi Fi Pack of the artist group I belong to.

No cost, just best suggestions. Any species.

Captain Picard:
Will Riker:
Geordi la Forge:
Worf:
Doctor Crusher:
Deanna Troi:
Lt Commander Data: SweetieBot
Q: Discord

OC's are allowed.

So I'm still alive and finally getting my life put together. On that subject, I've made a written database of my activity going on right now. I swear I remember someone had a Blackjack and Littlepip request. If you were that person please let me know, I've checked email, Tumblr, Deripbooru, Discord, and FA.

This weekend I go back to PA to pick up my cats then this will all be finally done. No more moving. Hopefully I'll start a massive upload campaign to catch 2017 up with where I'm actually at on things I've been doing (or rather, were doing before July when I started moving).

One month from today exactly and I'll be moved.

One week until I take a vacation. Four weeks after that I finally move. Growing impatient to get this over with to be honest.

Heh I made a rhyme. So here is how things are now..

I am now getting an income again. Been a long goddamn road to get here. Now I'm hoping to move by September. This isn't going to be easy but its why I haven't been real active. Mostly just planning, working, and chilling.

Just a rant about Derpibooru and something I didn't really notice fully until now. Just like my title says.. if you don't like it, well keep it to yourself unless you have a good reason to not like it.

There are people on there that immediately "downvote" other people just because of who they are or because they don't like all Source Filmmaker art, etc. BTW, if your making a site, this is why you shouldn't even have a "downvote" system to begin with.

So upvote. You Your vote can help counter the vote of a self-entitled prick.

Hey nerds. I just updated my profile so if you want to stalk me, my lines are now open.

In addition, I think I'll make a Discord channel just for myself for people to goof off, talk to me about commissions, or advice/share stuff about Source Filmmaker.

Hey guys I have some Warhammer 40k stuff and some RAM for sale

http://www.ebay.com/usr/blueflight

Hey I haven't quit doing stuff but I'm still in a stall. LOTS of stress at home. Maybe until July before I see any income. My car can't be used until my breaks are fixed but I have sort of a plan for that - although it still won't be street legal.

I have a couple of homes lined up to move to.. I hope. I so badly hope.

I am also updating my name on Derpibooru so if you want to see the same stuff you've already seen, search for Artist:UniversalBlue there.

Sorry about lack of uploading. Living with my family right now has me so stressed and so unhappy that I've been unable to do anything. 8 days until my social security court hearing. I'll know what to make of my life after that.

Damn I can't look at my screens for too long before I start getting sick. Have an appointment with the head doc next week.

Long and short of it. I have a concussion and a hundred tons of family drama. I'm doing ok, for what it's worth.

My own personal experiences with stuff I'm a fan of, when I learn there are things that haven't been released to Joe Public like myself, I usually crave it more.

But.. I look at this folder I have marked Unreleased and cringe for the most part. Do people really want to see stuff I didn't deem good enough?

It's tempting but I'm unsure if (or a bigger question, how) I'd want to display this stuff. Admittedly a good chunk of it is porn. And its not that their concepts are bad. If It thought they were bad, I probably wouldn't have done them in the first place.. its just that my execution of those ideas was bad. To be fair, I didn't have the abilities I now have when I was making these.

Another option is to re-make them. Those I think are good enough in idea, I'll likely take this option from.

I have a large backlog to upload. Excuse the spam.

I has one set up now!

https://www.patreon.com/UniversalBlue

I am accepting Requests but would appreciate any sort of donation or commission that people are willing to give me. I put a lot of effort into my work, especially animations no matter how short. If you are interested, check my Profile to see if I am open for work and other info.

Skip If Your Like “No Money, Just Want To Make A Request”

A 30 second spot can take me two weeks of solid work. Since this is a hobby, if I wasn’t strapped for cash I wouldn’t even ask for any. But as of January I can’t even pay for food for my cat (luckily I hoard supplies for the lean times like now).

Requests / Suggestions

Again I will accept Requests and Suggestions or even some criticism, although I admit I am often lazy but I try. If your here, you’ve seen my work. I’ll do still images and short animations. If I like your idea enough, I may expand it to be several minutes or several parts. Depends on my mood and availability of time and health.

Contact

The best way to contact me is to either send me a message here on Tumblr or go to one of my two FurAffinity sites and send me a note. Either one I ought to notice pretty quickly since I’m on both of them nearly daily.

Pricing

$5 Simple Poster (already created character or characters) - These are simple still images done with either existing characters or using model or models you supply me. BTW, I don’t mind doing multiple angles or little tweeks. You might notice I have the habit of posting several images from the same work.

Art for custom characters - Original Characters (OCs). I haven’t come up with pricing for this as I am still learning Blender. So this will depend on how much trouble it is.

There’s also a second option. If, for example, your character just has the same body as Rainbow Dash, I can recolor her features like eyes/body/mane. You can look at my own character as an example.

$8 Complex Poster, Comic, or Short Gif - I guess the best way to explain what I mean is this series of pics I made here: http://universalblueartwork.tumblr......tion-whoah-big - Multiple characters, custom made background and scenery.

Or a very small animation like 5 seconds long (negotiable based on complexity). This is to give folks a chance for icon gifs or whatever they might want. Price is negotiable, I’m only concerned with complexity and difficulty in the animation’s creation.

$10-$15 Dance Animation - Just an average price idea. Dance animations are preloaded on to a model. But the real work comes in all the post-editing I have to do in order to make an anthro model still look good because the animation in question wasn’t meant for a complex model. Also the longer the animation is, the more I’m going to want to ask for it.

$15-$20 Animation - Again it depends on complexity and difficulty of what I’m working on. I’m figuring on this being 15-30 seconds. I’m less worried about the length of time, and more worried about how difficult the project is. Sometimes an animation can be longer but less complex so easier, while another can be extremely short and extremely difficult to work with.

Long Animations - I will just base prices on something like this after we’ve discussed the idea for the project. I’m unsure, but I think the longest thing I’ve done to date is 4 minutes (but its not done so you haven’t seen it yet).

Sound: Projects with sound are fun but take extra work and I’m also limited to what sounds I can find on the internet. Obviously anything I use can not be commercially used as I do not have permission, but that should be rather self explainatory given how fandoms work.

Requests, Trades, and Gifts
I am willing to take Requests and trade my work for someone else’s. Of course these aren’t guaranteed and Commissions must take precedence. I’m also only going to take so many things on at once. I will be posting how many slots I have open or if I am open at all. Gifts are a different matter. I don’t expect anything for a gift and it is based on my own decision to make one and likely will be spontaneous.

Do’s

I will do Safe work as well as Not Safe stuff.

I don’t have a problem with gore and violence, but I won’t do something that is meant to be hurtful towards any group or individual. I understand parodies and different kinks so I understand the difference between something some what artistic and something that is just hate mongering.

Non Ponies: Are perfectly fine. You just don’t exactly find a lot of furry models to work with. Also I’m a bit equine biast. Humans are fine too, I guess.

Kinks: We all have them. I have no problem with blood and some extremes of bondage, BDSM, role playing, drowning, implied non-consensual.. if I don’t list it (because it’s impossible to list everything), don’t be afraid to just ask.

Dont’s

Again I won’t do something that is meant to be hurtful towards any group or individual

I will do work of “feral” characters, but sorry, I won’t make porn of them. Although oddly some violence is ok.

I will not do work involving sexuality or violence against underage individuals.

Kinks I Won’t Do: Water Sports and Scat, baby-anything, vore, unbirthing

Things are beginning to resume a state of normalcy of sorts. I still feel a little sick but I think its allergies. I've beaten two Flu's and Pink Eye.

As well as gotten through the holidays which is always a damn ordeal itself. And I've gotten January's supply run done and did a lot of the major cleaning. I do have a new chore in that I have to drive my mum to an appointment three times a week, but otherwise I should be back to doing what I want again with the addition of the health to do so with

Both FN and FA won't allow me to upload thumbnails of my work. Any thumbnail you see is the result of the site itself thumbnailing the work I uploaded. Hence a thumbnail I created only works for Flash because you can't take a picture of Flash.

Oh fucking well. I've been aiming to move towards gif when animating. Obviously I'll continue to do full video where and when I can, but the gif is smaller and more versatile - especially on works that don't have sound. I'm also doing gif because their fully compatible with Tumblr.