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