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4 mos ago
Current Just curious if anyone is interested in a Pathfinder 2e Revised game? roleplayerguild.com/topics/…
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3 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/…
3 yrs ago
The crew is booking up for this class three Firefly. Get in while the git’n’s good!
3 yrs ago
Our Firefly game is finally up! Come gander over yonder: roleplayerguild.com/topics/…
3 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…


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That feeling of falling


In the black on the way to Pelorum...


This ship, it felt strangely familiar, yet completely foreign. She walked the confined passages while in the black, making sure the refugees and students alike had what they needed. Her feet remembered what it was like on that Firefly all those years ago, and she caught herself looking for those same familiar faces. But around each corner there was no Dorian, no Vas, no Riley--and no Marisol. She even missed the big dog, Daisy, which she took on walks around the cargo bay while in the black. But that was a closed chapter in the book of her life. No matter how familiar this transport ship felt, it was not that one. She wasn't that Lyen any longer, either.

Once, she was naive about the world outside of the monastery. The ten years she had served and learned while on Santo had prepared her for a far more complicated life among the secular. If her memory of the chapter she led while on that ship had taught her anything it was this: sometimes the 'Verse has a sick sense of humor.

A double edged sword, Ly remembered, looking out through the cargo bay, as the China Doll took flight above the Blackout Zone, the feeling of accomplishment for completing her calling: free the captives. And the mixed feeling of loss at the lives she could have saved, had been able to remain. The captian of this ship appeared to be a caring man; one who understood the value of life. Had it not been for Badger's debt, though, she was unsure if he would have volunteered in retrospect. On Bernadette, the Captain offered her the option to stay aboard the China Doll; in that moment she had accepted, and joined her lot with theirs, whomever this crew might turn out to be.

That fluttering feeling in her stomach hadn't settled yet--probably wouldn't until Pelorum. In her heart of hearts, the idea of relaxing on a beach for a while felt like a welcome gail of good luck, but whether she would let herself partake in this fantasy was a whole other matter.

The ship felt empty, now, since they made birth and offloaded the refugees and volunteers on Bernadette. Only the crew remained. The crew, and a nun, it seemed. What I wouldn't do for a task to busy my hands, she thought, but the kitchen was stocked, the clothes were cleaned, even the latrines were spotless after the onslaught which was the students of OU.

And so it was that she found herself reclining at the galley lounge, stroking the feathers of a particularly preening bird with blue plumage. It clicked at her contentedly while she followed the flow of its feathers with her fingertip. At least there was something she could do; Lucky agreed.
Finally completed the walk cycles for these guys, now on to idle animations and actually getting through an episode:



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:

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