I’m not done playing yet. Just because I don’t have quite as much to show for what I did with my toys last week doesn’t mean I’m done playing with them. I just had a few more things I wanted to play with.
I finished setting the scene for Sticks and Snowman. I added the last bit of accessories to the scene. So now there is a present, a holiday ornament, and a Santa hat to work with. I also added a sky or background sort of thing. And a light. I added an overhead light to act like a sun. None of the pieces required any real modeling, at least so far. I did have to scale the ornament down but that was it. Now the scene is ready for me to start animating Sticks. I thought I was going to start on that during the week but didn’t feel that 
having 30 minutes or an hour was going to be enough time to really work on it. Instead I left it to the weekend but somehow I still didn’t get started. I might be just a little overwhelmed. For just the little bit I did, and then had to remove, I have already figured out that for as small a thing as I want to do, it’s probably going to be a lot of work and take a fair amount of time. At least it’s all prepared for when I finally get up the courage to start it.
Since I still wanted to play during the week, but wasn’t quite ready to work on the animating, I decided to work on the Penguin a little more. He needs a leg and a foot. I started working on the leg, trying to get something a bit roundish and stumpy. It’s
getting close but I think it will need a little more work.
I was going to work on the foot too but I realized I needed a better idea of what a penguin foot looks like. To figure that out I used Google to pull up some pictures. I don’t really want the standard cartoon flipper feet. Though I’m not sure a realistically modeled foot will look right either. I think I want something in between. But that could change by the time I start modeling the foot.
In addition to playing with my digital toys, I spent some time with the Lego. I got the first set I had been working on, built. I had the one building to finish as well as the toy machine and some elves. That one is now all done. I still have one more set to put together. I’m not entirely sure I will get it done before the weekend. If not, I might save it for next year. I have continued to work on the Advent calendar items. They tend to be much smaller and easier to tackle in a few minutes. Of course, at the moment I’m a day or two behind but it is coming together.
I’m looking forward to the Holiday weekend coming up. I don’t have my Taekwondo class on Saturday so the staying home in the pj’s and playing with the toys on Saturday is sounding like a pretty good plan. Not sure that’s the plan I will stick with. My parents,
who were very helpful with painting and other projects around my place over the summer and fall, have finally got their new home and they get their furniture delivered this week so I could go up and see the new place and possibly help with the unpacking. Even with that, I expect I’ll find a bit of time to play with the Penguin and Sticks and who knows, I could start on another toy.