Bit of a shorter post this week! With Low Poly Day coming closer, I've been working on my models to get it done before then. However, there isn't particularly much to show off.
So far, this is the progress on the Jeff and Jules models that I've been working on (The Cory model hasn't had any progress yet). Something that is the most striking change that I've done is make the hair a lot more vibrant. This makes it stand out a lot more, especially against the lower contrast colours of everything else. For the textures, I've been primarily using gradients that I've pixelated afterwards. This lets me minimise the amount of UV unwrapping that I have to do for the models. I haven't textured the weapons yet since they're a bit more complicated than the character models. Progress has gotten a bit slow because the novelty of the project has run it's course, and I'm craving to work on other things now. There's also the nervousness of starting my Post Grad course next week. I've been very nervous for the whole week, especially since I haven't been doing much animation at all. That's been because I've been too scared to start. I did do something for my demo reel for that animation test a while ago, so I've done some animation kinda recently, so I know that I can still animate. I'm hoping that I haven't gotten so rusty that I can barely make something coherent.
On the note of my course, it's very likely that I won't be able to make as many significant posts once I start. Considering that this is a full 9-5 course for each weekday, there isn't particularly much room for me to do my current projects without burning myself out. I'm hopeful that I could ask to pump out playblasts for my school work to be able to post on here, so fingers crossed!
Something also to note is that I plan on making a little something for the Pride Collab. I won't give details, but it's just something simple. It's very interesting that, out of all the avenues of personal expression, this is the one that I've embraced my feelings about myself through updating my bio. I haven't even told my brother, who is very woke (affectionate). I suppose that it's easier to just edit some characters on an online profile than it is to tell someone huge news about yourself. I wouldn't dare tell my dad about this. I have absolutely no idea how he would react at all. So for the time being, it's fairly under wraps in terms of my real life relationships.
If you don't have a clue what I'm talking about, I'm saying that I'm non-binary. This particular part is just to convince myself about it. It's been something that I've had on my mind for a long time, and I've finally found something that I feel describes my circumstances. I might eventually share a story about how this came about, but that's for another time.
Apologies for having less updates this week! As I said, it's slow going because of the dwindling interest in the project. I'll be sure to get it done by the day though!
Thank you and good-bye for today!