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2 yrs ago
Current Just curious if anyone is interested in a Pathfinder 2e Revised game? roleplayerguild.com/topics/…
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4 yrs ago
Like Sci-fi? Like the Wild West? Firefly: Second Verse's lookin' for a Pilot, Companion, First Mate, and Mechanic: roleplayerguild.com/topics/…
5 yrs ago
The crew is booking up for this class three Firefly. Get in while the git’n’s good!
5 yrs ago
Our Firefly game is finally up! Come gander over yonder: roleplayerguild.com/topics/…
5 yrs ago
Just put out an interest checker for a new Firefly game here: roleplayerguild.com/topics/… Drop by if you're curious!

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Linux makes me happy, Blender helps me art, and Fedora solved a lot of my problems.


I'm here because I like to RP in depth with high quality writing. Now, don't mistake me for high quality; I'm just hoping it rubs off.

Sharing cohost/GM duties with Sail3695 of "Firefly - Second 'Verse." Advanced game here: roleplayerguild.com/topics/186036-fir…

Pretty much all my posts are collaborations posted by others on our game!


I put some art works in progress here: roleplayerguild.com/topics/185966-art…


Most Recent Posts

Can I just say a huge thank you to @sail3695 for getting us to the next episode! I'd give you a round of applause but seeing as this is written text I have to rely on emojis!

Thank you for all you do keeping us in the black Sail!
Working on a walk cycle. First time I've used the action editor, and hope to learn more about the NLA.



Youtube turned it into a short so it won't embed here for some reason...

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@BrokenPromise Think of mouth cards exactly like your Chicken Run expressions. I've drawn a few mouth shapes for vowels, and I swap out the 'cards' on key frames to make it look like the character is talking, or looking a different direction. That's what I mean by mouth or eye cards. They're drawn eyes or mouths that I swap in between in order to match the voice acting.

Thanks for the tip, and I'm interested to read some of your writing. And let me know if you are interested in sharing some of your 3D or 2D art.
@BrokenPromise I have seen "Chicken Run," yes, and that's an interesting way to do it. Thankfully, I'm just going for mouth and eye cards with this for simplicity. Maybe down the road, if I find better solutions, then I might make a big change. I'm excited to start using the NLA editor to create and blend looping animations so that should hopefully make things simpler when animating.

I'm interested to hear more about your creative work, in Blender, or out of. Do you share your creations anywhere online?
Been messing around with some Pixar Cars stuff because my nephew just turned 5 and I wanted to wish him a happy birthday! (he loves Cars, btw)

Animation is nowhere near done, but here’s a still from a bit ago:



And here’s a basic animation test with a rig.

@BrokenPromiseThank you for your kind words. Yeah, creating assets, rigging them, animating them, then rendering and adding sound effects, etc. can definitely amount to a herculean feat. Thankfully, for this animation, I went with eevee, so I didn't have to wait long for these 400~ frames to render.

My computer specs are thus!
CPU: i5-9600k
GPU1: AMD RX 6700 XT
GPU2: NVIDIA GTX Titan X (2016 card, but works for the Optix denoising and offloading rendering)
RAM: 32 GB
VRAM: 24 GB (both cards added together)

I actually used the method you're describing above where you render only key frames, then add them back into Blender and space them out to re-render the middle frames, but I did this for the mouth animation and decided against using it, in the end. It was just simpler to my process to render the in-between frames because I wanted animation to be going on in the background, too.

This animation took me about 3 weeks of work between getting the intro set, the characters modeled/animated, the sound, etc. It could have taken longer, now that I think about it.

Do you have any projects you wouldn't mind sharing with me from your previous work? I'm curious what you're using Blender for.
Hey gang. I decided to try and animate our sessions, and I made this first intro to test things out. I had some musical help from Nathan's killer talent. Let me know what you think:

To commemorate our first DnD session last week, I made this artwork.

My Hobbit barbarian casually elbowed the dwarf who was carrying a bound goblin looking for his friend Scortch (sic). Well, he ended up finding his friend… at the bottom of a deep, dark pit…

I’d call it true neutral, c’mon, it’s just a goblin!

Any feedback is welcome.

All done in Blender.

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