Paul Strong

Thank You

Added 2022-02-16 01:24:12 +0000 UTC

I appreciate your patience while I sort things out for myself. I may have a good income source on the horizon to give me the stability I need.

Still been doing regular practice on sculpts and in the last month I've had some success doing "likeness" sculpts of a couple fans' heads. Also doing some rigging practice here and there, and I feel like the workflow is getting simpler, but I still haven't automated TF-friendly joints on rigs in Maya. A friend on this Patreon (mostlyhuman) does incredible, and borderline-mind-boggling, TF rigging work in Maya and is helping me find a solution... so I hope to return the favor by coding some automation that we can both use.

So I think at this point the biggest difficulty for me in the TF animation process isn't coming up with the ideas or getting good sculpts done anymore; now, it's back to dealing with the rigging in Maya in a way that supports a multiple-stage TF, in addition to the quirks and hard crashes that Maya doles out on the regular.

Also done a little work on setting up a streaming server, in case anyone wants to watch me sculpt on random evenings. Could be fun?

Thanks again,

Paul