News Update

Hey guys! It’s been an exciting couple of weeks. Stand by for a super long update!

Workstation upgrade

I was able to secure a new graphics card that’ll help me work a lot faster. While I’m modeling, animating and rendering. The new card is about twice as powerful as the old one.. and the best part is that I have both of them working together.  Assuming the math works out, that’s about 300% rendering capacity! Something that would have taken 24 hours to render will now only take 8. Plus it’ll speed up day-to-day work as well! :D

The excitement  went two ways however. While everything is working and humming along happily now, during installation almost two weeks ago I made a mistake. To make a long story short, I somehow managed to disable the two hard drives responsible for storing all my 3D projects.  The projects are safe and backed up continuously on the cloud so no work was lost. However I had nowhere to store it  so work stopped until I could fix that. I ordered replacements immediately only to have them promptly caught up in what can best be described as a relative snow storm and almost a week worth of delays. I finished downloading around 200 Gigabytes of backup data onto the replacement drives a couple of days ago and now, after reconfiguring everything that depended on those old two drives, I’m once more up and running, better equipped than ever!

Animation update

Due to the chaos following the workstation upgrade I was unfortunately unable to perform much work on the animation. Though I can say that with the new videocard animating this will be a lot easier, considering how much of this animation relies on complicated render effects that are only visible when you run it through a “quick” preview render cycle. Those previews are now actually quick and will help us immensely going forward. For this animation and all that’ll follow. 

Character update

This is a long term project I must have been working on for over a year now, off and on, but I wanted to share the progress I have made so far. It’ll be a while before this character is completed, but you can look forward to this little guy being added to the roster in the future!

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In other news

I would like to thank everyone ( and there were a lot of you!) who voted and commented  on the tier rewards poll. Lots of votes and helpful comments that’ll help me plan out future changes. 

That’s it for this update, I would like to thank you for your support and wish each and every one of you happy holidays and a happy new year. If you have any questions, comments or just want to hang out with your fellow patrons, feel free to join the Discord or leave a comment down below!