Monday, last week, I woke up with a new perspective on some things and ready to tackle other things and make real progress. I also woke up with a raging sore throat. And the progress train pretty much went off the rails from there. I even spent one evening staring at a blank television because I was too wiped to bother to turn it on. Fortunately, whatever tackled me seems to be fast moving and I’m on the mend. Though I have been warned the cough may try to hang on for a while.
This week I’m going to try to find some of those ideas and the enthusiasm that I started last week with and see if I can get this train back on track. I’m not sure how that’s going to go. Still. I’m gonna give it a try.
And I did get started, a little. I spent a little time adding the lower leg to the Funky Bird. I wanted to get the whole foot added in but I got tired and decided I was better off getting some sleep. So the foot still needs to be done. I want to do the foot because it is going to influence the shape of the boots the Bird will be wearing. Ah, yes, the Bird will be wearing some sort of clothes. Remember the sketch and the fuzzy collar? Once I get the foot, and maybe the boot, done then I’ll work on the arm. I’m leaving the face to last mostly because I’m afraid I’ve not got enough polygons to work with and I’m not ready to deal with that
yet. For now, here’s how the Funky Bird is coming along.
It has occurred to me that now that the Worm Guy is done it’s time to build the environment for him to sit in for the cheery card that he’s meant for. That doesn’t mean I’ve started it yet. I haven’t really. I did do a bit of testing out a way to make a leaf and that didn’t quite work out as I wanted so I didn’t keep the work. But I got some information from it and that’s the important part. I have been considering my options for creating the foliage that I want and I think I’m going to do it the “hard” way. There is a way I might have been able to do that could maybe be easier, that I haven’t tried before so I don’t really know how to do it and if I do it and it works, it may not actually work for the scene I’m building. So, the hard way, I’m going to model it all. I probably need to get to work on that.
Of course there are lots of things I need to get to work on. The challenge is figuring out what to do next. Some days I’m so excited to work on things and I want so badly to work on three or four things and I’m just busting at the seems and I get nothing done. I feel like a lawn hose that the water is turned on full blast and there is this massive crimp in the hose so there’s barely a trickle coming out the nozzle.
Ah well, at least I have a full week off from the day job at the end of this month. I can look forward to a little time that I can dedicate to un-crimping that hose and preparing for my Black Belt test for Taekwondo. Which is also coming up the end of this month. From now to then I’m going to do what I can to get the Funky Bird farther along, start on the scene for the Worm Guy, and do some work in ZBrush. At least that’s the plan. As always, check back to find out how things worked out.