So much happens in life, and yet I don't feel the urge to write it down. At least, I stopped feeling the urge. I suppose it's a habit thing. If I begin writing things down again, it will begin to feel natural to write things down. I haven't had time to do much in Blender, so that's why there haven't been any art-related posts. However, I
am making something in Blender now. This time of year, I have to write a lot of thank-you cards: my birthday is on the 7th, Christmas is on the 25th. I have a hard time writing cards. I think most of it is that I don't like to write the same thing over and over to everyone, but I can't think of anything unique to say to each one... so I get stuck. Instead of all that this year, I decided I would make a Christmas-themed "thank-you animation" to email to the people I would like to thank for gifts given. Unfortunately, it's going a bit slower than it used to because I'm rather out of practice. Hopefully things will speed up once I figure out how to get the lighting down. Modeling comes fairly easily to me, but lighting... uff. Not so much. Texturing is even worse but I'm going for a simple, cartoon look, so the texturing is fairly easy. Lighting is the challenge this time. Oh, and I'm using Cycles. It's a lovely engine, but I do miss Blender Internal... just because it was familiar.
