What I've been doing

So, for those interested, I got Covid, nothing serious, just one day of symptoms because I was already vaccinated (only two shots, sigh) but I am stuck at home, at least for the next two days, when I will hopefully be tested negative and come back to my normal life and maybe to nights filled with less vivid and uncomfortable dreams.

I used this period at home to climb the very steep learning curve of Blender, the open-source 3D program, not to do 3D but to get accustomed to its 2D animation feature: the grease pencil. And I'm finally learning it! 😀

I don't know if I reached the flex of the curve, but at least I don't feel like I'm defusing a bomb while I'm drawing there.

I'm kind of disappointed that this program works with vectors but not curves, so every curve you see it's just a broken line with a lot of points (vertices) and you can't really do the "Flash" thing of animating a character by pulling their nodes here and there because there are so many of them.

Or maybe you can and I have just to discover it.

If you're wondering, no, I will do still my static art on Krita, and also the sketches of my animation, I'm way too used to pixels, that feel more like physical art works. But I'm noticing that after of bunch of frames trying to preserve the consistency of the lineart, inking stills feels so natural and enjoyable. Animation is very benefitting my art in general.

(Celebrity Bangmatch Update this Sunday, BTW.)

And this thing of modeling the architecture and never thinking again about perspective, vanishing points is very interesting. When I modeled the environment for the three God Dads and moved it under the grease pencil my heart grew a size and I thought.

"Now they have a room! How cute."

(But no, I won't model even the details of the room, I will draw them on another Grease Pencil layer, like a very dishonest real estate agent.)