I'm Alive!

Just made it through the first term of Game Arts school; I've learned a lot so far and I wanna tell you guys all about it.

We've done a lot of stuff from sculpting a skeleton and the muscles that go with them, modeled a dining set, a nendoroid of our choice, and some weapons/mechs. We also got to texture the models we made!

We also did a bunch of 3D animation like jumping, run cycles, and even got to copy a reference of our choosing. We then ported them into Unreal and made short clips of the characters. Although my first term review went badly due to lack of sleep and burnout. But I wanna do better for the next two terms. I initially enrolled in the school with the plans of specializing in modelling, but at the moment I feel like the basics are enough for me to learn sculpting casually. So I'm shifting my specialization to animation and go back to my old roots.

Apologies if I suddenly disappeared for 2023 with no new art in sight. I've just been real busy with school and only had the time now to let you guys know. It's been four months being away from home and honestly I caught a bit of homesickness earlier around this month, but I was able to distract myself with work to ignore that for now.

With the formalities and sappy stuff out of the way, I wanna talk about future plans I wanna put down just to remind myself of where I'm at now and where I'd wanna be.

• I still wanna draw; despite my education and career heading towards a 3D path. I still want to draw or even animate in 2D; whether that be fanart, or original content.
• I might lessen commissions; I'm not removing them out entirely, but I might make my services exclusive to a certain niche, just so I can earn more but work less. As selfish as it sounds, I have dreams too, I don't want to keep working for someone else's dream. (I'll probably already be doing that with whatever studio I land in.) I want to have me-time during my free time; this is where my personal projects come in.
• I don't want to beat around the bush any longer; there are multitudes of projects I'd like to work on. First and foremost: Sorority. It's an idea I've had in the back of my head for almost 5 years now. As much as I'd like it to be on different types of media, I'd like to have it as a web/comic. Next is a VSRG (Vertical Scrolling Rhythm Game) that teaches you the fundamentals of such games. Rhythm games tend to only have the "rhythm" aspect in their games with lore at most only being tied to the characters you play as. I want a rhythm game with gameplay outside of the music. (UNBEATABLE is doing the right thing, argue all you want about Hi-Fi Rush, I'm sorry but that's not a rhythm game. It's a platformer with hack & slash with tempo at best.) Lastly is an untitled animated story that I'll be referring to as "Project C". It's a dystopian world where majority of humanity have fallen into the hands of AI, (very timely, and hip discussion topic. 😎) With a clear distinction between the rich and the poor. Nothing too big, just your classic robin hood kind of story. Besides two or three more spin-offs to Sorority, I think that's about it with regards to personal projects.
• I want to work on myself more; right now life is hella stressful but I'm always trying to figure how to make things easier. I have terrible time management, and get affected by certain emotions stronger than others. I'm easily distracted by my curiosity with a lot of things, especially when it comes to tech or art.
• I want to get back to streaming; ever since my PC broke down two months before my school in-take, streaming became impossible. I want to return to this when I finish my studies, I genuinely enjoy streaming as entertainment, zero viewers or not. I have a lot of fond memories during the times I've streamed, and I want to have more of those memories.
• Did I ever mention I liked language learning? Learning about cultures and the languages they speak always intrigued me. I want to travel to places and spend time learning there. Some of the languages that I'd like to learn are French, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.

That's about it for current dreams and aspirations I wish to work on starting next year.

I'll also be celebrating my birthday next month so I'm just waiting on that.

That's it for now, thanks for reading, back to lurking I go!