Hey! First of all thank you for taking your time to read this as I am going to go trough some topics that I would like to talk about
I also don't want to bore you with all the text, so here's a recap in case you like
TLDR -> CHARACTER POLL FOR MARCH CANCELED TILL NEXT MONTH, I KNOW HOW TO DO BASIC MODELING NOW AND YOU CAN PROBABLY NOTICE CHANGES ON HOW THE RENDERS LOOK FOR "ANIME" PROJECTS IN THE FUTURE
Monthly Poll Animation
For this one, I have been starting to wonder if on the long run you guys would want to have longer videos instead of just 10 to 20 seconds loops.
Lately I've wanted to do longer or more personal projects, but having a certain "limit" like delivering videos monthly has made it increasingly difficult to achieve that goal. Like some of you guys would have noticed, I have been trying to have at least 2 animations a month (One choosen by the supporters on F4nbox and the other choosen by the supporters on here) I certainly underestimated how long the process of animation can be sometimes. (On top of that to also work on comms has made it quite the challenge nowadays)
Having that said, for this month I dont plan on doing the Monthly poll as I am with my hands quite full already. Instead I will make a poll to know what you guys prefer. (longer works but no small animations a month, or small animations a month but no longer works) hopefully I will return to do them next month
Hope you guys understand 😔
3D Modeling
I have been testing the waters whenever I can to try new stuff and just recently finished working on this Low poly model for Shoebill (yes, this random birb that I love so much, sorry you have to see her) so I can finally say I know a little bit of modeling!
While this might sound like a stretch, I hope to one day be able to work on some custom outfits (specially for some Holo girls) that dont have the 3D models available (like some of the summer or casual outfits) so I have been taking my time to study on this field that I lacked lots of knowledge to begin with
Style or Quality --> something about how my works look IDK
Looking back at my works I have had quite a struggle to find a good looking render instance for my "Anime" style on blender, the setup I had been using for some time clearly lacked some parts and where a bit stressful to work with (Yes, me dumb, blender difficult, whatthefuckisanode).
Finally I took the chance to test a specific build for Blender called Goo Engine that is focused around that area and not only the setup for scenes is more easy to do, but offers more flexibility like the shader properly reacting to the corresponding color of the light (Which is something that I had lacking previously) and a bunch of other cool stuff.
This would, in fact only affect my "Anime" style works as I find the new engine to really make the colors and shading pop up more. for future works, this would be the standar for me to use but if you maybe think it looks worse... feel free to tell me in the comments or share your opinion about it!
Hope you have a good day/afternoon/evening!