Digging up some old files. I've always liked the approach on this project—ZSpheres to get the silhouette, rough sculpt dictating the edges, decimate (lazy, perfect) and a manual sharpening of edges. Tiny texture, project UVs and you're gold.
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I stare into the loop. I do not look away, because the loop does not look away.
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Designing the origin myth for the world's primary magic resource. Born from a goddess's regret. Weaponized grief.
Good.
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Screenshot of a Google Doc showing the text: "Her eyes are a scalpel—cold, clinical—peeling back the dermis of my intention, checking for the cancer of a trap." The sentence is highlighted in blue.
This week's creative highlight (see what I did there?)
I need to start using "dermis" in daily conversation.
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"A fine line between exhaustion and murder."
An overpaint test over the sculpt. The goal: fight the poison of over-rendering.
I needed to respect the anatomy, test the palette, and break the dead-eyed doll trap 3D meshes tend to have.
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Writing the damage is one thing. Sculpting the scar tissue is another.
“Survival isn’t poetry. It’s a hard shell you grow over torn skin. And waking up tomorrow—that’s the only victory that matters.”
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I handwrite the draft at night. Type it into the phone in the morning. Somewhere in between, autocorrect decided to turn a lance of darkness into a lethal vegetable.
A terrifying way to go.
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Why spend years learning to paint when you can spend days bullying a render engine with math until it submits?
The Lie vs. The Node Tree. Picking up a pen is too simple, huh?
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The Pancake Rite.
Application of percussive maintenance to a Lothric Knight. The armor is steel. The club is wood. The result is physics. Still no medal. The beatings will continue until the RNG improves.
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Breaking the helmet. Strand by strand.
The irony is that it takes hours of precise, grueling geometry to make it look like she just ran her hands through it in desperation. Calculated chaos.
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A Denoising Normal XYZ pass from the archives.
Technically, it's just coordinate data. Visually, it’s the exact last thing my character sees after I mistime a dodge roll against a swamp boss.
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Oh gods, it's Patches...
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The raw, heavy clay: the thing as it actually is—
Versus the stylized low-poly: the pretty, efficient lie we feed to the machine to keep it happy.
(there's a metaphor in here, somewhere)
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Just a cute little smile. Positively harmless. I'm sure it's a friend.
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If you're going to forge a blade that cuts intention, bends the veil between worlds, and hums with a god's regrets—you can't just toss it in the armory. You have to spend the extra hours making its archive page look halfway decent.
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I was about to mock Eevee's fog render—but I did a double take when I recognized the brutal sketch of silhouette framed by a fast, chaotic watercolor study of atmosphere and focus.
Eevee: 1, Andra: 0
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Week 2 of wrestling Cycles, fog, and light into submission. Silencing the nefarious voice inside my head whispering "we need more lights."
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