Update: Journey to become a Master 3D Artist/Animator (Patreon)

So it's been a while since my last update. I had to take a break from everything. Unplug from the constant feed of information, notifications, needs of others. My body was starting to rebel with my imbalance of work/life. I don't like to talk too much about that stuff because I believe you give more energy to the things you talk about good or bad.

So Iets stick with the good part and talk about my new again journey into 3d for the 4th or 5th time. But this time, my goal is to master it, not just dabble in it. I'm in the middle of taking this course by an artist named, MinusT. He's self taught, the course is all in Korean but I think reading the subtitles helps me focus more.

3D software can be hard to learn, there's just so much to remember. I have over 400 notes I've taken while learning Blender. He starts with this simple character first to help users learn the basics. (of course I changed her into my style. You can see the goat girl she was supposed to be at the bottom of this post.) Later, he'll teach how to to make a more complex model along with animations, backgrounds and VFX. I'm only about 10% of the way into into his Blender course.

It'll be a couple years before I'm competent with Blender but I'm ready to be a full-fledged 3d artist/ animator. The benefits are so great, refining one model and getting to animate it like a puppet. So much more efficient than drawing 100's of images to make a 2d animation. I'm getting too old foe that shite. I'll still draw 2d pinups though.

The images near the bottom we're my first attempts at posing and displaying this character. Lighting and camera focal lenses change the look so dramatically. Had fun creating camera angles I'd normally avoid drawing. This model is very basic, no fingers/toes or facial features to articulate. The model isn't optimized, it breaks if I try to make more 'interesting poses'. The next model will be more intricate. My goal is to achieve an Overwatch/Pixar blend of 3d art style as I improve.

Also making tons of progress on Akumi Mobile this month. I can say for sure we'll have a 2nd play-test ready by the end of April.
Onwards and Upwards!
  Lessons I'm currently learning.