Source Filmmaker

No stream tonight… Have some food and SFM porn instead

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Today was a rainy day. A perfect time to do some laundry, a little animation, and make soup and sandwich to keep heat in them thar bones. I made my first attempt of Manhattan style Clam Chowder with a grilled cheese with buffalo chicken, pepper jack  and a couple steakhouse tomatoes inside of sourdough wheat bread. I was missing the fresh parsley, but managed to make due by using a little bit of dried parsley with a shredded carrot at an attempt at something similar. I regret nothing. :meseeks:

I also managed to edit a few scenes today and clean my bedding at the same time, that I may lay my clean head of hair on a clean pillow for what may or may not be clean dreams. I just need to make it through one more day, and I’ll be free for a little over a week.  I’ll have time to be productive on things I enjoy, and I’ll have to promise to do something nice for myself if the weather permits… like maybe take myself out for a latte or sushi or something, and perhaps a small shopping adventure either local or over teh interwebz. :zorak:

I anticipate there will be more streaming as well. :melon:

My kingdom for a skeleton

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I spent a good chunk of the evening trying to animate a final scene for my upcoming Freedom Planet video, but ran into a problem with a particular model I downloaded from the Gmod workshop. I found a nice 3D model of Lilac I wanted to use for a scene to end the video, and I extracted it for SFM use. Upon playing with the model I found out after posing it for various keyframes that I couldn’t do it properly. The model doesn’t have a skeleton, but you can move around the limbs. Unfortunately, the next video won’t have as much animation as I had originally anticipated.

The gameplay will have to do most of the talking. I’ll probably release it next Sunday, (not the upcoming one).

Lifestyles of the Digital and Imaginary

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I had a productive semi-painless work day. Did a little more script writing, and then went off to building the next stage for future videos. Sometimes a change of scenery is nice, this will be where I do my livestreams. I wanted a more comfy scene, as streaming for my friends reminds me of the days of old when having friends over for video games and vice versa. I still have some models to spawn, such as our own chosen characters, controllers, and maybe some other household items that come to mind. If anyone has suggestions I’d like to hear them. :melon:

I’ve also finally gotten around to putting in some time off for myself. I doubt I’ll go anywhere, but I need about a week to myself for some rest. When I start having nightmares about being late for work, or being unable to leave it I know bad things will happen if I don’t try to get some proper R&R in. I’ll need it after next week… Oh god I saw my schedule, and I might actually go insane. Split days off and three graveyard shifts for my class starting at 10pm… I can’t complain too much since I do normally get two days off in a row together (one of the few perks I have left until that gets taken away), but I do hope it goes back to normal afterwards. No one needs to hear me break into insanity again… unless we’re filming it. :rick:

Getting close to the final chapter

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Well, it took almost a week, but the animation portion is all finished for the Brain4Dead finale! I’ll begin splicing it into the rest of the video tomorrow. I won’t be releasing it until next Monday though, the extra bits of polishing I need to do will make me miss my targeted Monday deadline. I also managed to take a break from animating to play a little Left 4 Dead 2 with a friend and his roommate. We made it through the campaign, and I may have more video fodder down the line.

Today was a good hobby day. We have a bad storm outside that has been pretty much been going on for over 24 hours. and I’ve been lounging, drinking some flowering oolong and enjoying some Mushu soup and some roast teriyaki pork and rice. It was leftovers from two previous dinner nights, but worked well together in smaller portions to make what seemed like a larger oriental meal. I might take the leftover pork tomorrow and make a homemade soba soup bowl for myself.

Lifeflight

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This was pretty much what I worked on today in SFM… I’m working on one hell of a scene at the moment and I’m not even half way through it yet! I have ti finish animating Yutram and myself the rest of the way PLUS another special guest.

We should really do something about these random office intrusions…

Right on queue

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I finished my project last night! I’ll be releasing it tomorrow as planned, and have also done some prep work for Episode 3. I’m hoping to release it next Monday, but we’ll see… My To Do List for that particular episode build isn’t as large as the previous two, and that’s mainly because the pool map in that entire campaign has to be the most entertaining.

Since I was already in Windows working in Source Filmmaker I decided to take a break and end the evening with some Yakuza 0. I haven’t played much of anything lately apart from whatever I can get away with during a lunch break, and according to my stats on Steam most of my time has been spent animating. All work and no play makes me a dull Overlord, and playing this gives me something else to write about. I’m really liking the game so far, quite a stress release. I’ll admit I was surprised by the Karaoke mini game; I’m about as good at karaoke in the game as I am in real life… I’ve never played a Yakuza title before, but I think I’m going to enjoy this. I like punching simulators… in fact this is reminding me that I still need to check out that MGR mod that replaces the sword with fists. I want to see how far I can get by punching my way through the entire game! I wonder if I should stream it…

Find the strange

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Had a quiet evening to myself. I contemplated taking a nap, but ended up feeling the need to shed my creativity into the current video project, and when creative juices are ready to flow you’re a fool to hold them back. I should have a video come Monday, though I’ll have it done sooner if I have time tomorrow. I have one more thing to do in SFM and everything else can be finished up in Shotcut. This one scene I was animating tonight… I kept dying as I was trying to animate it. I had Yutram do his best Batman impression with some improv behind it, and it’s so stupidly amazing… my animation is ok as normal.

I’ll also need to take time to possibly make a meal ideas in order for Saturday. Not sure if I’ll do French, Italian, or something random.

Hard at work breaking the internet

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Sorry for not writing these last few days. I’ve been kinda strung out from work, was out a little late for a birthday dinner (we celebrated my brother’s a little early), and of course I’ve been doing more animation work for the next video, and today I woke up feeling nausea and shakiness. Turns out I was dehydrated for once, while also being sleep deprived.. good thing I’m on my weekend.

I don’t think I’ll have the new video out this week, but I will keep working on it and possibly release it next Monday. I completed most of the scenes tonight. I have two more to work on tomorrow if my body decides to cooperate. I’ll be sure to brew some tea for my bed side.

The Overlord Uses Imagination: It is SUPER EFFECTIVE

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Got more animating done tonight, enough to render some footage. I’ll have one separate scene to render and then I can continue the rest of my work in Shotcut, and hopefully release it tomorrow or sometime later in the week. It was fun to work on, so many ideas pouring in as I was working on animations. It’s amazing what happens when you’re chillaxin’ like a bawler and listening to you and your friend going on about stupid shit in a game, and you take this unstaged mess and turn it into some form of entertainment for lack of a better term. I think some of my inspiration comes from those old SNL TV Funhouse skits, where they took real audio and animated a cartoon around it, adding as much ridiculousness as possible… and I’m someone who loves to deal in ridiculousness. :melon:

I’m thinking I might relax in bed and play a little Crash Bandicoot before knocking off for the night. I haven’t really played much of anything these last few days, animating takes time, among other things that require my attention. :melon: