Not Much On the Western Front

Because of the new Graphic Card and Blender 2.81, I couldn't resist going back into Dad's Blender Shoppe. Not because I wanted to fix a bunch of stuff, but to fix the result. The Original Video that I rendered had a massive amount of fireflies all throughout it. It was all because I had sacrificed quality for speed. With the speed of the new graphic's card and Blender's new denoiser, I thought it was worth the attempt. I've rendered frames 214 to 937 and I still have about 777 frames left to go. That's about half the animation within six to seven days, (I've lost track.) I'm not sure if this is any faster than before, but the results certainly look a hell of a lot better.

Robotech Valkyre Day - Day: 31 Actual Working Hours: 26 hrs 55 mins

I had once again paused on working with it. Not because I want to ditch it, but I'm looking up a better way to model it, without being wasteful. I did go through each part and marked seems and then I painted it with Blender's Texture Painting. Damn, if it doesn't look good, but can I do better?

I couldn't help myself, but I tried sculpting people again. Every now and then, I keep pulling out my pen and tablet and doodle something out. My most recent attempt is my best so far. (I know, I know, every new project is better than the last. That's because our skills get better with every new project.) I almost want my next project to be a specific person or character. Here is a couple of pictures. F.Y.I. It's supposed to be a woman, but even I can admit that the features are very non-gender specific.

The Audio Project is still in the works and I even compiled my first version. It's terrible, but there are a few decent song changes. I want to send it to my client, but it might give her a bad feeling that she should get someone else. Which, might be a better idea, but I don't want to throw in the towel yet. It is difficult to work on it since it's an audio project. I can't work on it with the family around, kids have a tendency to "need" me whenever I put headphones on. So, I have a small window between the time I get off work until I have to pick up my kids.

Finally, I downloaded Blender Version 2.82 and installed it today. I'll start working on it tomorrow.