"If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live"
- T. Wiseau
As is traditional in the same way as a running joke that didn't really have a punchline nor a point - just like bitcoin - the weekly ragout cooker journal is here! I swear none of this was planned out. It just happend and now there is a bomb on the speeding journal bus that will explode if Sandra Bullock doesn't figure out how to disarm it. Something something Nicolas Cage with a Russian accent and white doves are in there aswell for good measure. Yes. The bees. They are in his eyes.
On a more serious note, I am now getting Zbrush back up again. Every single time I have to leave it for a while, I forget the quirky things that it does and doesn't do. So it is sort of like relearning over and over again. If you start it up, you better have a plan on what to do with it. It is not the kind of "play around" software you'd be using unless you have a specific idea (and know how to do that..)
It is a software that I have a love-hate relationship to. It is so complicated to do what you want to do, yet there is really nothing quite like it that have all these insane levels of control and complexity. It is an industry standard for a reason.
If you go to ArtStation for a visit, you will see why that is. It is worth suffering through the learning curve and adapting to the utterly bizzarre UI. Adding the GPU render option to it means I can make very pretty looking things. I believe there are some specific settings I need to explore. A general rule of thumb is that, in true Zbrush fashion, nothing usefull is in plain sight nor have an understandable name. Iykyk.
Today I will start doodling some ideas down for the projects I intend on making soon. I already have a few ideas but need to flesh them out a bit first and also come up with a few more.
9 more days. Mentally I already left work. I have absolutely no idea how days go by at this point. It is all a big blur of unhealthy amounts of coffee, pointing fingers at me and me not giving a crap about anything. There is a fitting Cranberries song about zombie in your head but I don't know its name.
No special shout-outs this time. I do see some intresting new things happening though.
Journal officially branded with the TealDeer badge for authenticity.
Sounds like my relationship with Blender. I've used it many times for different projects, but every time I take a break from it I have to relearn it. And many of its useful tools are hidden away, too.
I'm so envious of your time off. But, my time off will be in late August. I'm going to Scotland for a week, so that should be fun. But, yeah, I fully understand being completely checked out of work way early.
-- BK