(Way Past The) Weekend Update #23

Guten Tag!

Hello everyone! It's that time of year again where the days go colder and colder as we approach the end of the year but here's Priscilla making it warm! This past weekend was also quite very... boisterous. You know, with elections and all but anyways!

The development!  I've just recently finished Aanya's "content" scenes and I'm about to create ones for Priscilla and Fiona. There's also a couple left for the Playbuck pinups but I can always do those later. There's also a new part of the house added and areas to go. For this current update, the intro scenes will be revamped entirely, none of them would be scrapped but just restructured into different paths as to not overwhelm new players with the info dump during the intro sequence. 

Trying out Blender! Blender is one of those applications you hear when starting out with 3D design because it's free. It's often been overshadowed by other apps like Maya, 3DS Max, or Cinema 4D but over the years, I've heard good things about it and with the recent update, things like the UI have been improved a lot. I wanted to try it so I could create objects to add to my workflow. Another interest is character rigging for animation but let's wait and see if I could improve my Donut creation skills first.

Dungeons and Dragons. I actually don't play the game but I love watching videos of people playing it. One recently that caught my eye is Arcadum's channel on Twitch. The guy's been a DM for almost a decade and the universe he crafted, Verum, has become a living world of it's own. He runs multiple campaigns and each of this group interacts with the world and helps it evolved which also affects the other people playing their own campaigns. He's not only a great world builder but also a great storyteller. 

Gibson Girls. If you've tinkered around with Reincarnotica's Credits, you might've seen their picture on top. These are the Gibson Girls, a series of pen-and-ink illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson as a personification of the ideal American Beauty, the "New Woman", around the late19th century. I've come across them when I was reading up about Gil Elvgren, a prominent pinup artist in the 40s and 50s. The drawings were so influential that girls literally lined up on his office vying to be a 'Gibson's girl'. It's a fascinating read really on how his illustrations might've influenced the style of the 1910s up to the roaring 20s.

Anyways, that's it for my musings and I hope you all have a great November!

Cheers,

Polyrotix