Tira Yugen comics

  Okay sometimes when you load a scene file and the graphs of the animation timeline don't stand up to stepping back (long story; sine wave parabolas, keyframes etc), you get this. It's ... not right, whatever it is. Kinda looks like an AI tried to "Create a big dick comic in the style of Tira Yugen" haha! Aaaanyway. I'll do a proper update on Friday but the next comic is looking gooooood (better than this cursed picture anyway! Hey maybe this counts as a Halloween post ... yeah I'll change the date on it so it fits. Spooooky! Woooo etc). Also, someone asked if I have social media: no I don't. The rotting demise of social media is God's way of teaching us why billionaires shouldn't be in charge of anything bigger than a cup.

      Ahh, champagne. There are lots of ways to enjoy it, but ... you know. Some ways are better than others. Ever done this? I have. It's cold as all heck, and it goes bloody everywhere, immediately. Straight to all your warmest bits, I swear. Anyway, this and many other real-life experiences upcoming in comic #5, check back. Two weeks maybe?

I have completed the first (and most complex) half of the new comic! So we're getting through it pretty well. Check back on this blog: I'll release hints and stuff as we get closer - the only thing I'll say right now is it will be best enjoyed with a bottle of champagne (/cava/prosecco). See rejected render on the right. I rejected this pic because it was goong to be on like page #2, and the focus on her cleavage is just too distracting at this early stage of the comic, heheh. Also, as someone asked - if you would like to contribute to the comic and buy me some 3d Content or a gift card - Daz3d is a good way to do that. My username on that is tirayugen, or the email is tirayugen@gmail.com (think you need that if you're sending a gift card?). Anyway comic #5; unlike comic #4, there's no nasty surprises in this one, so we can all relax and look forward to a jolly, fun little comic released, for free, sometime this side of Christmas! Hooray!

  Okay, at some point my characters will need to sit down and get some food in them, we don't want them passing out now, do we?! No.  So I've built a meal scene and it took far more effort than I'd expected haha! So I will blog about it even if nobody cares ... because I do. Now I probably could have cut corners creating this meal, but then my comics wouldn't be my comics, would they? They wouldn't be works of love and intricacy, they'd just be rough fantasies spaffed out into the world as fast as possible. And nobody needs that.  So here is a little lighting test; some beautiful displacement-mapped bread, some fine bump-mapped reflective tabletop grain, a glass with actual caustics appearing (that's light transmission; the bright spot to the right of the glass above), the reflective side of a bottle of champagne, the deep reds of a full bottle of wine, a nice shiny plate and an admittedly slightly crap-looking plate of spaghetti. We love the little details ...

After a short intermission while Google locks me out of my own account and then deletes some of my writing (wow, thanks Google, so helpful), I thought I'd pop in to say hello. Hello!  Right, I'm back in so here are some answers to your questions! Yay! "If Anna the sister of Kal's mother, how comes they have the same family name?" ~ good question. Either [1] Kal's parents are divorced and he and his mum chose to revert to the mother's name, Smit, or [2] parents were never married, used mother's name, or [3] are married but used the mother's maiden name anyway. All three options are pretty common in post-patriarchal setups. This is not to diminish marriage itself, which remains a profound and wonderful thing - two people vowing to honour each other will always be an amazing thing to celebrate. Post-patriarchal does not mean anti-man, it just means equality is stronger and therefore naming and marriage tradition stuff is more of a choice than a for...