Alexis

But the ADVENTURE!

Gryphon animation blocking complete!
#gamedev #indiedev #blender #animation

The Suit - Bad Space Comics Water, oxygen, power. What do you do when the tank hits empty?

In honor of spoopy month, what's the scariest piece of media for everyone? For a while for me, it was the story Colour out of Space. But then I read The Suit www.badspacecomics.com/post/the-suit and it STILL haunts me. Terrifying to lose myself, piece by piece, until I'm just a prisoner in a shell.

I knew it!

I want to grab everyone and bodily shake them an yell about how they should read The West Passage by @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social but I haven't finished it yet and I don't want spoilersssssss

Found Georgia Tech's OMSCS and I've not been this excited and despairing in a WHILE.
🤩 I love school and learning and it's a fair price!
😭 The money I'd spend on it is mortgage money until I'm employed again
😖 Am I even actually smart enough for these courses as a self-taught tech artist?

While waiting for dinner to heat up, I went out into the back yard and waltzed under explosive lightning until the rain arrived.
Is this how one touches grass?
The song was Whisper by Burn the Ballroom and no I couldn't keep up (was fun tho)

Oh dang! Great job then carry on!

Getting that detailed with the texture, I recommend looking up a weave structure called twill. Specifically 2 over 2. That's what's used for pretty much all denim, and I'm not really parsing that rn. There's more to denim too, feel free to tell me to bug off unless you wanna dive into weaving tech

New page on the portfolio! As a tech artist I have my hands in UI a LOT. Gotta make sure you can adjust to different screen ratios and sizes, and that things scale well with different languages. Not to mention ease of use and flow
alexis3d.com/ui-art/
#gamedev #uiart #techart

There's overlap here with graphics programming! I'm shite at math, but learning to write shaders and the shape of the math that underpins it all has been fascinating!

I am seriously considering an apprenticeship to be a farrier.

The stiffness looks great, very like real denim! Is that a function of the lower res mesh, or more to do with the simulation settings?

Thanks! I haven't built a rig since 2010, and never in blender. If you're interested, check out Dikko on YouTube

Everyone say Hi to my fully-rigged Gryphon!
#gamedev #indiedev #blender

One of the most valuable things I'm learning right now is what IS and ISN'T destructive to my rig. I'm finding lots of spots that need tiny tweaks and I'm so happy that I can work in edit mode without breaking everything I've done in pose mode. Not to mention I'll be able to use any mesh in future

All I've accomplished today is verifying that all my bone axes are oriented correctly 🫠

Help, I should be making control shapes but I keep getting distracted making my gryphon pretend to be my over-stimulated kitten.

it is SHOCKINGLY similar in game development right now too. Everyone's looking for operations and money people. 🤷‍♀️

"but it's PRETTY" was huge in my decision to get a minstrel against the recommendations of my whole guild. If the seller can give you a little spinning lesson though so you know how to use it, it might be a good deal?

While at Tempo, I showed off the first weaving I ever did and my coworkers loved it. (featured in my banner) The art department made a game carpet based off the table runner I wove. They did such a fantastic job and I'm delighted that some of my Special Interest made it into the game!

Honestly, the fact I'm making a gryphon for this is great. After running the ik/fk switch tutorial videos, then I needed to do it five more times, run I to a handful of other issues, and learn more about how blender works and what it's capable of.

Job hunt prospects might be depressing right now, but working on Gryphon Game makes me so happy. I'm following tutorials from Dikko on youtube to learn blender, and I got mister flappy's IK/FK switching all hooked up!
Tomorrow begins control shapes.
#gamedev #indiedev #blender #3dart

Uuugh, I'm sick as a fecking dog. Everything hurts, even the chills hurt. Send soup.

YouTube video by SACTigerfeet Demo Reel - 2024

Oh right! Here's a showcase of my work at Plai Labs! While at Tempo, I made tools and implemented art.
Alexis3D.com
youtu.be/fXmejXWxMEo?...

Working on The Bazaar has been a wonderful experience, and I'm so sad to have it end so abruptly. The game is really something special and I hope it does well.
That said, anyone need a tech or VFX artist who's real good at Unity and learning on the fly, hit me up!

*annoying, but made treacherous.
I can't type

I finished my blanket and immediately felt sad there was nothing to weave. So today I'm dressing my loom with an experimental warp for a scarf using leftover yarn from other projects. Yes, that's mohair and I'm crazy.
#weaving #fiberarts

There's a fly in the office. Annoy, but mad treacherous by the kitten pinballing around the room like an absolute maniac. Pictured here in speepy mode.

I have a beloved antique my little pony mug that has met a similar fate xD