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Probably going to sound silly, but you know how SHIFT-J fills holes when you have the edges around a hole selected?

I had a dream where if you selected 2 points, and hit SHIFT-J it similarly added an edge connecting the two points.

I see what you mean- but I think it's coming at it from a very different direction.

The key word in my OP was "side hobby".

I find myself making a video game, and then have a bunch of assets laying about that I don't really know how I could used for a different story. But maybe it could make some small extra cash that could go into funding the next game, if I turned them into purchasable assets.

I can usually make a cute character model, all properly outfitted and rigged in just a day. And as an artist, sometimes I just wanna model ideas. But this winds up creating things that do not fit with the game I am working on at the time.

So, as you might be able to get a sense of, I have a bunch of spare models just lying around and nothing to do with them.

ENSONIQ5 brings up a fair point. I find it admirable that he decided to determine what to consider as factors for picking his votes consistently across all entrees. Though I dispute suitability for Renegade. Since for my perspective, Anim8or is a means toward telling stories, so I knew from day one of judging that it'd have my vote.

@ronaldefarmer Thanks. What can I say besides, I love designing characters. I feel like "taking a spin" on existing characters is a fun way to try to express what the characters mean personally to me! Yea there were a number of steps that went into making the text for my bit.

Yea my title was just as thecolclough reported.

3 Choices huh? I'm going to have to spend some time thinking about this...

750 x 450, sure thing!

Hehehe it's good to know that's how it looks. When I design environments, I tend to try to make it feel like, if you were there, it'd feel soft. And when I make character I always want to design them in a way that they feel so cute, the viewer should want to just give them the hugs.

Now that I think about it, Thecolclough's piece and mine have nearly fully opposite aspects, what's lacking in "Be Lovely to Each Other" shows up in "Red Letter Day" and vice-versa.

RLD's got a very graphics design corporate feeling, mine has more of a art gallery/museum vibe to it.
RLD relishes in the crisp geometric hard shapes, mine's got soft biomophic shapes all about it.
RLD goes for realism, mine is instead impressionistic.
RLD hones strongly sculptural finality (solid still render),  mine's implies it's a moment surrounded by past and future (as if part of a animated movie).
RLD brings completely new imagery to An8, mine takes the source material and relishes in adaptation.

I feel like RLD has a lot more, for lack of a better word, muscle work at it's core than mine does. Mine instead focuses on the use visual techniques (the kind of stuff I learn as a game developer) to get more abstract and impressionistic representation of ideas rather than fully "real" representations. This idea comes up best when you think about Thecolclough's suspension rods being actual rods, vs my glow bugs actually being sprites applied to billboards. So to bring an RPG metaphore into this, Colclough's a sword and shield wielding warrior, and I'm a spellcasting wizard.

That-- or I'm just having way too much fun looking at what came out of this little an8 challenge. Or maybe both.

Hey everyone, I'm working on a video where I'll analyze all the entrees and, just for fun, I'll also give a kind of artist statement for my own entree.

Not giving any criticism on work, I'll just be expressing how each of the pieces made me feel on an emotional and philosophical level. Do any of you have titles for your works?