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Ergol (OC) WIP

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After months of not doing any artwork, I finally started sketching my OC "Ergol" 🍄 I began 3D-sculpting him live on Twitch 🤗 https://www.twitch.tv/aemiliuslives I didn't think I would make much progress and was just blocking some shapes, but in the end, it came up better than I anticipated and might actually be usable. "Ergol" was going to be my 2023 passion project, but for a variety of reasons (including my laptop breaking in December), I didn't manage to make much with it. But here we are, and there's always 2024, lol.

Ergol (WIP)

VOD of the actual stream (I only began streaming last week, lol).

Ergol title
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So, 2022 marked my 10th year on dA. For a variety of reasons, it's been one of my most inactive years here. But it's still been pretty productive. In April I did my 3D-sculpting Daily Challenge for the 7th time. I finally managed to put together the video showcasing all the renders, WIPs, turntable animations, and alternative renders of the 30 sculptures. Again with some terrible unscripted commentary (CC available). Take a shot every time I say I love something or something was fun to make, and you might end up in an alcoholic coma, lol.


Also featured towards the end of the video, a look at some of the animation work I did this year, and what to expect from me for 2023. Animation (sort of basic and rudimentary, of course) is going to be my main goal next year. I'll probably make my Daily Challenge again in April, even though I always tell myself I'll never do it again, since it's so exhausting and time-consuming.

My 7th annual 3D-Sculpting Daily Challenge.

2022 Daily Challenge completion calendar chart

Some really weird and unexpected stuff happened this year. From world politics to my personal life, things I never thought would happen just did. Among them, I'm finally working on my own animated projects, and I also got a Daily Deviation. lol. We really are living some strange and unprecedented times.

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My Daily Deviation.


Early this month, my laptop's hard drive broke beyond repair. Sixteen months and 2Tb worth of work, research, and (frankly) hoarded stuff were lost. That was a massive setback from which I still haven't recovered. I wasn't careful enough, I should have known after last year I had a lot of blue-screens-of-death and none of the system recovery options worked, at least the hard drive still worked back then, and I could recover my stuff. Now, the HD was just fried. Moral of the story: back-up your stuff, kids.


So all in all, it's been a (mostly) positive year. And I'm actually excited about 2023, which is something I don't remember saying about a turn-of-the-year in a long time. As I say in the video: this year I made some animated parodies, but now I'm already working on what's hopefully going to be my first big (original) animated project. I might complete it in 2023, it might go into 2024. I have no idea of how it's going to develop, but that's part of what makes it exciting. I'll be learning as I make it, which is the best way to learn, IMO.


Thanks for the support throughout this decade and Happy New Year!

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I finally put together this year’s 3D-Sculpting Daily Challenge wrap up video. Featuring all the renders, WIPs, turntable animations, and alternative renders of the 30 sculptures I did back in April.


For the first time, I recorded unscripted commentary for this (CC available), which is something I always wanted to do (but I always chickened out of it). It didn’t come out great, but I’m ready to move on from this and call it done after so many months. LOL.

Challenge gallery

https://www.deviantart.com/aemiliuslives/gallery/77911672/2021-daily-challenge


https://www.artstation.com/aemiliuslives


https://www.instagram.com/aemiliuslives


https://www.tiktok.com/@aemiliuslives


2021 Daily Sculpts Mosaic
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Hi

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Hello. I hope everyone is doing fine in these unusual and scary times we're living.

I've been away from dA for nearly a year. Not only that: I've been almost completely disconnected from the community and from my "creative side" as well. I wanted to do many things. Like opening my own group, collab, support my friends, perhaps finally do commissions and stuff I always talked about. Instead, I drew back into a cocoon of isolation and darkness.

This time of social-distancing (or full-on lockdown in my case), feels like a good time to go back to making things. Occupying my mind in this time of uncertainty, try to build up some hope, and scratch the long-abandoned creative itch.

April is coming and with it the "promise" I made myself last year: making my daily-challenge thingy one last time. And I decided it'd be the last because each passing year it became more difficult to do, the time and inspiration were harder to find. I wanted to quit at least once every single year out of the four I've done the challenge. But then, obviously unaware of what was to come, I thought 2020 would be a good time to have a fifth and final one, and I told myself I'd try. I don't know whether or not I'll be able to pull it off, but I intend to try. Things being what they are, time isn't a problem anymore. I hope other problems won't arise.

Thanks once more for your attention and support over the years.
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An update(?)

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Dang it, I wanted to create a new group so I'd engage with the community again and become more active in dA... but not only I shelved the group idea, I also stopped coming here altogether. I realized I have like two months worth of unanswered messages, comments and notifications :( I'm not sure why. Being demotivated and uninspired isn't new for me, but I still used to come here often and tried to support my friends. At some point that stopped, for no specific reason, and I can't even promise myself I'm going to change that. I'm fine, so to speak. I'm just in a more... isolated kind of mindset than usual. Thanks for your time.
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