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All it ever does is rain, Christophe Jarcot

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Dmitri Cavander, Ferry, August 2017, Oil on canvas

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[ID: A gif of a 3D scene in progress next to the illustration it's recreating, a corner of a game environment concept by Christopher Kondylis. The scene is an inked painting of a broken down short dock outside a stone building, several boards from the end of the dock fallen into shallow water with cattails and steps down from the dock to a grassy patch with a bucket. The newest step of the 3D process includes all the structural wood, stone walls, bricks up the corner of the building, the bucket, a treasure chest partly obscured behind the dock, and a brick-colored tiled roof that was cutaway in the concept. None of the water, plant life, moss, or discoloration is represented in 3D yet. End ID]

High time I mentioned this WIP here! I was looking for a small scene to make with a strong focus on trim sheets and for which I was less invested in the story (so that I'd err on the side of optimization over detail and maybe possibly not grind to a halt at the presentation steps). Christopher Kondylis has a small but rich collection of concepts for a hypothetical sequel to Square's Vagrant Story--a story I have refused to look up so that I'd continue to just work with what I saw and could make efficiently. He kindly gave me permission to recreate a portion of this picture and I'm still having fun with it! So far the materials are:

Wood Trim (flat multi-tiling, planks, strip, and end grain blocks)

Bricks & Metal Objects (large bricks, small bricks, latch, nails, and mirrored chest emblem)

Metal Trim (plain strip, thin strips, bolted strip, and filigree strip)

Stone (multi-tiling)

Roof Trim (semi-cylinder gutter, edge strips, and flat multi-tiling)

I actually have some unclaimed space in the roof trim for anything else that won't need an alpha channel, but from here I expect to add the vertex colors differentiating rocks in the wall from each other, make grunge masks for each material (all have one RGB packing channel free, the wood has two since it's 0% metallic) for spacial textures to work with as they fade in, and I still get to map out the best allocation of plants and water to UV space.

What I *need* to make time for outside of stream is actually pulling this into Unreal to check the trims and vertex colors are working as expected; then maybe we'll have an actual final camera angle and something more than the unbaked Eevee showcase above, to help me shake the not-true-to-concept soft cartoon feeling and gauge how much messier and/or yellowed things should be before importing versus what will be covered by lighting.

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*slick car salesman who now sells showers but hasn't adjusted his tone* now this one here's got some punch. you turn this baby right here all the way hot, it can lobster-boil grandpa in 49 seconds

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doing my best to harmonize with the yard workers outside my apartment's window

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I designed this furniture for home studios, its from a series of pieces, and the concept is to turn normal rooms in a house into usable recording space.

however, in many modern building the acoustics are so bad as to make the rooms unpleasant to be in, so there are likely many other houses and offices that could benefit from this book case.

this is a bookcase, but its also acoustic treatment. the gaps between the shelves, and the space at the back form a slat diffuser. (which reduces echo). one advantage of this design is that the books should actually improve the effectiveness of the treatment

the gaps between the shelves can be sized to tune the bookcase to different sized rooms, providing a even better result.

the fact is that the most inaccessible part of a studio for most people is the recording rooms. The requirement that the rooms be mostly empty for traditional acoustic treatment to work is a major factor in that inaccessibility.

By building acoustic treatment that serves a dual purpose the hope is that good recording space can be more accessible, and further that the space will be more pleasant to live in

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Armored woodlice:

1. Pseudarmadillo spinosus 2. Unknown, Armadillidiidae 3. Loreola sp. 4. Loreola sp. 5. Unknown, Armadillidiidae 6. Echinarmadillidium fruxgalli

Photos by Nicky Bay // Facebook // Website

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

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new mug painted and carved last night at the studio. by the end of it I was second guessing if impermanent was even a word 🫠

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My littlest weaving assistant.

Not pictured: her nipping at my toes when I try to treadle, like the worlds pointiest game of whack a mole lolllll

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I thought I might share one of my new tattoos. A couple years ago, a dear friend and I coined the term “fish bag moment”

A fish bag moment might be sitting all alone in an empty new apartment after coming out and upending your life, or starting a new job in a brand new line of work because it’s closer to your dreams

It’s what happens when you take a leap of faith or make a hard decision for yourself, when the future is so hard to visualize and everything feels scary. You’re just a fish in a bag and you can’t see where you’re going

But you’re on your way to a bigger aquarium

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Vancouver’s nightly crow migration - March 2024.

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IT IS DONE

I AM FREE

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Why is it?? That I can go through the whole day feeling fine and dandy but the second I lay down for bed impending doom settles on me?

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The axe/shotgun: this is still the same tool for chopping firewood, but with a cartridge amplifier.

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I present to you my proudest creations yet,

The perler bead Lords In Black:

Thank you.

Ps. Pokeys eyes and mouth glow in the dark:

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There was a phrase that I used in my classroom when my students would ask me about doing questionable things, and my response was always, "Technically you can, but should you?"

The reason I used this instead of a simple yes or no answer is because it opened up conversation. Instead of blindly looking for permission, the conversation became more about cause and effect. Usually it navigated the "well you can't tell me what to do I'm going to do it anyway" instinct in kids when I'd say no, because all they were looking for is something to challenge them.

For example: "Can I jump off the slide?"

"Technically you can, but should you?"

If they answer no, I'd ask why. Usually they'd say because it's against the rules or I don't know.

If they say it's against the rules, I'd ask them why they think it's a rule. And if they'd say I don't know, I'd explain that the slide is five feet off of the ground, and jumping that high is a good way to hurt your knees or worse.

And then the most important part: if you did do it, how can you make it safer?

That's when the creativity juices started to flow. I'd get anything from pillows to beds to bouncy shoes to wings to someone catching them (which became a whole different conversation). And I told them since we didn't have those things here, it wasn't safe. And safety is everyone's number one job at school.

It stopped them from doing it behind my back. It got them to engage in critical thinking. And it helped them figure out how to do things without help.

However, there's always been an itching thought in the back of my head. Somewhere out there, did one of my past students drag their mattress out to the slide and jump off of it?