Latest progress over the past several days, achieved doodling during Gundam Seed (“Bad Anime Date Night” with my husband Joe, which is often not bad, not always anime, and not at night!) or other interstices between working on a novel.
- git repository setup, initial commit with Joe’s help. I might have been able to figure this out on my own, but not on two hours of sleep…
- game design noodling (see first photo in this post, above). Need to review Euler’s totient function and Vigenère ciphers, sorry not sorry.
- narrative script outlining. I want to go back into Inkle Studios’ Ink to prototype that. (I love Ink’s IDE!) This and WWISE are where I’ll focus my next efforts, when there’s time.
- prologue music both in my DAW as well as preliminary recordings using Little Wars‘ venerable acoustic piano (see the second photo in this post, above!) with its beautiful rich tone, by arrangement with Little Wars (thank y’all!); and my Yamaha Arius YDP-103. The Yamaha is an entry-level digital piano (a discontinued model), but that suited me: I could afford it, and I play for personal enjoyment and composition sketching rather than performance. I’d like to grab some more takes and experiment with EQ and sound design! I also have Plans involving different orchestrations of the same theme.
- animation progress in ToonSquid.
- background and splash screen progress in Procreate. I’m pretty happy with the palette I generated!
I promised I’d talk about the iPad Air and Apple Pencil I’m using!
ThinkSpace Education apparently sends out periodic? surveys to students about the experience. I’m usually active on the postgraduate Discord but was alarmed that I was getting mentions because I hadn’t poked my head in for a couple days due to Circumstances and I was wondering if I was in some kind of trouble. (You can tell what kind of grade schooler I was…)
No—I was startled to learn that I’d apparently won the iPad Air drawing that one got entered into for returning the student experience survey. Startled and very grateful. I am one of those people who names their devices, so I named it ThinkSpace Fren. :3 (I hope they forgive me the jokey spelling…)
The punch line is that, in a spirit of helpfulness (or helpiness, depending), I returned the survey before they announced the iPad Air incentive. So I really wasn’t expecting this!
I had a rather older iPad + Pencil, which was still perfectly functional, and which was the reason I hadn’t upgraded! In a spirit of paying it forward, I passed that on to a friend who wanted to learn digital art. :3
Yours in calendrical heresy,
YHL