Animation

There probably won’t be much in the way of content next month, other than a couple small gameplay videos. I’ve mainly been focusing between two different SFM projects, so far they’re both tied for the lead. We were going to do some audio recording for the ending of a Tetris video tonight, but ran out of time. Oh well, there’s always tomorrow… I did at least get some animation taken care of on Operation Podcamp (not the actual title). It’s finally starting to look like a proper camping scene, well… such as it is. If I have time I’ll probably toil away at it a bit more tomorrow.

Open Thread!

Survived Black Friday like a champ – didn’t buy anything either. I did my work, and then got the fuck home, made an after work breakfast and put work into one of my SFM projects. I’m pretty much done animating the audio I extracted; now I just need to come up with an ending to tie it all together, and I think I know what to do. I just need to write it out when I’m not as sleep deprived. For the time being these ideas can spin around in my head like a blender of untamed game theory. I’m thinking this will be ready for early January! Start off the new year with some gameplay and animated shenanigans!

Been pretty much coasting on black tea until now. I’m hoping the chamomile and sleep medicine catch up with me soon. It doesn’t take much caffeine to keep me going for what feels like days. All the more reason why I prefer tea 99% of the time.

I made more video progress this evening! Sadly I can’t share the particular shot I’m working on… it’s disturbing enough that I want to keep it under wraps until the proper day of deployment. I showed it to one of my friends, and they referred to it as “cursed”. Not an entirely wrong assessment. I can, however, share a shot from a different scene that I was working on last night.

Far more tame compared to what I’m currently working on.

It’s a long ways to go before this project sees the finish line, but that gives me time to bounce ideas off for how to end the video. Yutram and I had a fun chat this evening, discussing a couple scenarios, and even potential ideas for future videos… when I can get to them.

I wanted to get started on moving the game servers over to AlmaLinux, but by the time I even get to my computer I’m too tired to get started. I’ve taken on extra duties at work while a friend and co-worker is on vacation, and while I’ve been handling it pretty well it’s still pretty tiring (one of the reasons why I didn’t post yesterday)… especially coming in one hour earlier, but even then I don’t mind it that much. It just means I get home sooner and it’s one hour less of assholes interrupting my shit.