Melodowska

Finished animation from Blender Guru's fourth doughnut tutorial in blender.

we're up to frame 39, only 161 to go.

This would probably go a lot faster if I didn't have to watch my laptop like hawk so it doesn't shut off. Settings says it's set to never turn off or sleep while plugged in, reality says otherwise.

Anyone else love holding down the arrow keys to watch every few frames added how much more of the animation is made. Just me?

I started this so long ago and only just finished it. feels like every time I finish exams I either start or finish a blender tutorial, and the one that always comes back like William Afton is of course the titular doughnut tutorial.

Great day for me to also find out there's a fifth one out now!

Guess that'll be my plans for my next semester break. Being a Biomed student is creativity crushing during the term. Making cute models feels like a betrayal to the studying I could be doing instead. Do I study though? of course not.

I've started the animation render. Only 200 frames this time but we're 4 hours in and only 23 frames done. My computer is not as good as it used to be in my old games art days. Might be time to upgrade, in this economy though? might need to sell a kidney or something.

2023 to 2024 to 2025

Hard to believe that each of these are a year apart sequentially.

Happy holidays though guys. I've had this account now 3 years and it's so nostalgic to see my old posts from back when I was doing my first degree.

I'm a biomed student now which is a wildly different experience from being a games art one. Science classes are so much easier than art ones and I will die on this hill.

I missed doing art though and making things, so I impulsively made myself an art business and signed myself up for markets and artist alleys and somehow got accepted. Now I have to do stuff and it's great. I don't have to feel guilty drawing or modelling things this way, and it has gotten me to try out new things I otherwise never would have had a reason to.

This side hustle of mine is called Moon Kristelle and you can find my sporadic posts about it below:

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I'm happy i was able to fit in one last tutorial for the year. Going back to university to do a stem degree has left me with a lot less free time to create things than my last one, unfortunately.

I went to Miku expo last night with my best friend and can say it was hands down the best concert I've ever been to. Despite all the Miku merch I own though none of it was wearable so I had to quickly make my own badges with old drawings of other characters and the official Miku expo Australia poster.

rendering this took days and required a fan on its highest setting pointed directly on top of my computer to keep it just below boiling.

Made following The Observatory's harvest moon cow tutorial in Blender

This was from a while back when I was doing this instead of studying for my exams and as soon as they were done my family all up and got the flu and I've done nothing since.