Smudge Marks

I have actually been working on art. Just nothings scanned to show. Mostly because Photoshop keeps barfing on me. feh.

I do actually have a piece of May done that I want to turn into shirts, and another of Ebin that just need s couple final touches before I can post them. Hopefully, by next Monday I’ll have that new May price to show along with the T-Shirts and the WIP scan of Ebin.

It doesn’t help that, on top of my work on the Radio Comix/SinFactory Comix site, I have been experimenting with Vue again. Love that program, but it is slooooow when it comes to renders. Also, instead of grabbing the PLE version of the high end package, I downloaded and installed the base program, Vue Pioneer.

The difference between the two is that the PLE locks you out of saving your work, while the other is a base package and to get all the really nifty features, you have to pay. For me, that’s not a bad deal, pay-as-you-go for the features I’d actually use, is a good thing. While buying the full package in one lump sum would be more cost effective, when your living by the skin of your teeth, paying piece-meal is a good option. And now I have a system to actually use it on, I is a happy artist. Down side though is to get something to show you guys, I’d have to pay for the render upgrade, which I can’t do right now (the base renderer is awesome for stills, but suffers from flickering when animated). So until them Vue will be relegated to “learning and poking” usage.

Once I finish getting RC/SFC upgraded and into mataince mode, I’ll be back onto the comics and animation. Paid work before fun work. That is if I can pull myself away from learning Vue long enough to do said things. ^.^

So, I’ve been poking around with WordPress/ComicPress lately fiddling with the multi-user function. I have to say, I’m liking what I’m seeing.

In the long run – merging things together will make for great management happiness on my end. I mean I *can* do the work. But making it streamlined and easy to maintain makes it for much easier work in the long run and less stress about things like updating and other management things that tend to bog one down over time. And let’s be honest here, I’m not exactly the most punctual of people here. ^.^;

But this leaves a big question on wither I should move WoWBlanc/ over to the new system.

Part of me is “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it”. Aventures of Blanc is sitting happly it’s it’s little sub directory, minding it’s own busniess.

But another part is “It’ll only be more difficult if you do it later”.

What to do, what to do ….

Sorry for things being so quite here. Just so many sites to keep updated really wears you down. Trying to fix that, though. Expect some changes here in the future. ^.^

One of the things that has changed is that the user/production pages at WithoutaBox have gone away to merge with IMDb. So that got me looking into other blog/production options. Didn’t really find any, but I did find something more useful – Wreckamovie.com.

In my constant flay-lings at trying to finish many of my animation project, the one thing I’ve discovered is… I can’t do it all.

Literally.

Suddenly stumbling across something in a production that I can’t do is like hitting a huge brick wall at 30 miles an hour, that you never saw coming. And when I hit that brick wall, I have no were to turn to. At lest until now.

In my wondering today, I’ve stumbled across Wreckamove.com a site that specializes in connecting people together to work on film projects from around the world on an volunteer basis. So I figured I’d give that a try, starting with Longing for Home.

I posted my need for a tree model and a star-field mat painting there and see what develops. ^.^

If you wanna check it out and see how Longing for Home is developing, please feel free!

http://www.wreckamovie.com/longingforhome

Cross-your fingers.