Decided to finally get around to doing some sculpting this week! After watching a video that refreshed me on the controls of Zbrush and a little follow-along on making a cool model (seen below!), I'm confident that I'll be able to make good progress in the program!

Here's the sculpt! I'm very proud with how this turned out in the end! I might get around to refining this, but for the time being it was just a practice to get my bearings in Zbrush again (I've quickly coloured it and am making a art portal post as we speak). I followed along with this Nexttut tutorial, and the man hosting it was very enjoyable to watch! Obviously things weren't perfect, but it's certainly pretty good for a practice sculpt. Even better, this only used around 3 or 4 brushes. I've got plenty of community made brushes which I would love to use in the near future, but the fact that such a small amount of brushes can be used to make something is quite astounding. Wouldn't you agree?

Currently, I'm in the process of jotting down notes for both animating and Zbrush. I'll be sure to intersperse the animation notes with actual practice.

The notes are a bit all over the place, but I'm hoping that I can either sort them out at a later date or interpret them afterwards like some sort of archeologist. The notes that I'm been taking have been from mostly YanSculpts Blender Anatomy course for the sculpting and I Want to be an Animator for the animation notes. I really did try to use Blender to sculpt, but I just genuinely don't enjoy it's UI or its features (luckily anatomy is universal!). I know that it's an incredibly valuable tool to a large amount of people, but with the time that I've been using Maya, Blender just seems completely alien to me now. The course does need a little bit of modification because of the difference in programs, but it's still a really good resource to work through. I don't know how good the notes will be instead of just following along with the tutorial, but we'll see at the end of next week.

In other news, I saw the Kickstarter for the Newgrounds documentary is live! I definitely think I'll donate some money, even if it's just a little bit. Newgrounds and many other flash game sites were such cornerstones of my childhood, I feel compelled and obligated to help out in showing the world the impact of the one I cherish the most. Newgrounds is sort of past is golden age at this point I'd say (though that might just be nostalgia talking), but if I can come back to the site, then anybody can.

Thank you for having a look through this update! I'm very excited to get better at sculpting, so stay tuned for the progression!

Thank you and good-bye for today!