Supa-Daemonic

It's been one hell of a long time since i've uploaded anything new, but it's all been for good reason.

A year or so ago, before I started work on my robotic character, I was working on a lot of pictures from both Max and Terragen. Although I still do like all of my original pieces of artwork, and it's always important to remember where you started, I would always have significant regrets about them. As if I knew I could have done better if I had only put in the extra time, or if I hadn't settled.

So i decided to do things a bit differently, if I wanted to become really good, i needed to truly commit to my pieces of artwork and not settle for anything less than the best I could do. It meant that my pieces wouldn't come out as often, but it was the way I wanted to go. I'd rather have a two page gallery with awesome pieces, than a twenty page gallery with mostly medicore ones.

I've got an animated short that i'm planning, and which the robot is a part of. It's still got a long way to go but each piece I make from here on will contain charaters from it, as well as some shots of the scene. It'll be awesome when it's finished, I can't wait.

Wish me luck.

It's funny, lately I feel alone when i'm with other people. I feel like i'm seeing the world a lot differently than I used to, and I don't necessarily like what I see. It's kinda messed up, but I can't help it.

The next few months are going to be really hard and are going to test my endurance. I can feel it coming like a storm. There's going to be a lot of work for Uni and kq9. I'm only going to get through this if I supercede my own ability and achieve new heights.

I just have to keep pushing, keep struggling, keep improving until I reach the end of this. Until I find out what it is i've been trying to say my whole life and learn how to express it.

I continue because I love what I do, I love kq9 and 3D and even though things are really hard, I wouldn't want my life any other way.

And so I continue to sit at my computer every night and improve until my fingers hurt, until i'm satisfied that I deserve what I want.

Where to begin, it's been so long since I last wrote a journal entry. You'll have to forgive me because I've been so damn busy it wasn't funny.

Last year I dreamed of getting into a course through mid semester, but unfortunately I was denied. I tried to not let it get me down though, instead I tried to build on my knowledge. I knew that if I kept pushing myself with 3D that I would get somewhere. So I kept pushing myself, and I began to teach myself other packages such as Maya(which is now my favourite of all).

It was then that something happened that I didn't expect. I got an email from the Pheonix Freeware online www.kq9.org asking me if I, along with some other Deviant artists, if I would be interested in joining their development team. I jumped at the opportunity and met with them as soon as I could. I have been working with them for almost a year now. A few months ago I was promoted to Lead 3D modeler. I don't want to talk about them too much as i'm not sure if I'm aloud to. We have a deviantart page if you would like to check it out at KQIX

I have learnt so much with the team, and I could have never developed as much as I have without them. I can only look forward to what else I will learn.

Though I have come so far, I haven't had as much time to make 3D artwork. I can't wait until I get the opportunity again.

With the experience i've gained I got into one of the courses I wanted. Speaking of which I have exams in a few days that I have to worry about. But aside from that, things are going really great.

Thats basically what i've been doing for the past year in a nutshell. And now I have to get back to work.

The last few months have been a huge learning exprerience for me. Not only being able to get opinions on my art but through a lot of patience and dedication as I have been trying to learn as much about 3d animation as possible.

Hopefully this will come in use as i'll be trying to get into a multimedia course based on 3d animation and programming in the next few weeks. So I hope that everything I've learnt will give me a head start in getting in.

Not only that but I managed to get my hands on a copy of Maya, so I'll be exploring that in depth. I'll also try and find a copy of Lightwave to use also. Hopefully I'll build up some experience across a number of programs.

Wish me luck!

I've been trying to pry myself away from terragen lately as I want to further my skills at 3dsmax. So I decided to pick a fairly detailed object and making it in 3d. Going back to my roots, like when I made my chessboard. This time I picked a photo frame and made it as close as I could to the real thing, it turned out very close but afterwards I felt that it wasn't detailed enough.

So then I thought to perhaps make a table or a window for it, but for that to look right I would need to make the objects that come with it. So you see I would keep having to make more and more objects for the scene. So i've decided to make an entire room of my house, with as much detail as possible. This challenge should keep me occupied, hopefully it should turn out pretty cool.