January 16.2022

Welcome to 2022!

	Dan Fiorella remembers John Rawlins This week Dan posted on his blog concerning the passing of John Rawlins and it is probably better to let the writer's words speak for themselves by reading the post yourself versus my writing some exposition: R.I.P. John Rawlins.

	3D Renders I've been working on a couple of GR related item in Blender. First is Harvey the Robot! This one was fun as it used a lot of basic shapes to make the character. As an intermediate user of Blender I wasn't able to translate some of the subtleties of the drawn character, such as the eyes and how they relay a high brow attitude without any eyebrows, into the model however I'm happy with how it turned out. In the animated clip, I was able to get some thruster flame variance for an added touch.

	I continue to play around with the 3D model I created for 3D printing and I tried it in a 3D rendered scene. This is my first attempt at this outside of some very basic physics work with a bouncing ball and of course after a 17 hour render I see things I'd like to do differently. I hope to learn how to emulate the hyperspace jump ring next as an effect. You can check that out the output here:

	Niko meets Bravestarr Not sure how Goose is going to feel about this one, but Niko sure seems ok with it! See Grobi-Grafik's artwork over on DeviantArt for the picture.

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