Holiday Update

I hope everyone has a great holiday whatever they celebrate! I'm going to take a short break for Christmas. It's a different approach than last year when I crunched almost everyday except Christmas itself to finish The Promotion and then burnt out hard. I don't feel like I deserve much of a break for all the goals that I have failed to achieve this year, but at the same time I also don't think forcing work will be any more productive. Planning and building my new PC was pretty stressful and set me back at least a few weeks. It won't be more than a few days, but I could use some time to relax and regroup. I should get back to work before the new year, but there probably won't be any finished content until then.

I would like to share some ideas that I want to work on next. Earlier this year, I played Gears 5 on my old PC. In a glorious 20-30 fps, I powered through it because I enjoyed the game so much. I'm excited to replay it on my new PC. I would really like to do some stuff with Kait Diaz. Similarly, I have been playing Control on my new PC. The more I play, the more I really want to do some stuff with Jesse Faden. Creatively, I actually have some really good ideas that I want to try. It's an artistic spark that I haven't felt in a while. The game has a really interested world that allows for a lot of possibilities. There's enough that I want to try a short movie for fun. It's a little ambitious, but I would like to do something with her at least. Both characters are at the top of my list to create stuff with, but they will require some modelling work.

Additionally, I still want to do more stuff with Dragon Age. In the aftermath of The Promotion burnout, I finished some Dragon Age books and finished a replay of the entire franchise. It's not like a huge desire, but it has stuck with me that I want to do more. I've said this before, but I want to continue with the Morrigan model. The main thing is that she needs shape keys for facial expressions. Such as this year is, patron support is about the same as it was at the start, so I'm not really any closer to working on the Morrigan short movie. I wanted to hit patron goals to work on bigger projects and... totally haven't. Add in that the desire demon model needs an overhaul to work in Blender, and I am really not eager to work on that. I would like to do some standalone animations with Morrigan or other characters at least.

Lastly, I need to play catch up on some commissions. The FemShep set was the last project I did on my old PC, and then the new PC build really derailed things. The commissions are mainly focused on the Final Fantasy 7 Remake and the Resident Evil Remakes, so those have some lovely models to work with.

It's a good mix of model work, animations, and commissions across a variety of franchises. I just need a few days to relax and reset. I hope everyone has a great holiday season!