*There’s an egg in my head*
*Sshhhh, me too*
As the 3D software I use continues to get patched in stages, and I’m driven to hide people’s haircuts just to make the software usable, I have come up with a temporary solution: baldness.
I simply take every [problematic] hair-growth object in the 3D scene and slave it to a single figure. Then I toggle that figure’s visibility so I can work. And which figure do I use as this visibility-toggling intermediary? That’s right; an egg. I searched the Poser library for ‘egg’ (because of the baldness), and it turns out there’s a free egg figure! Hooray!
So there we go, an Easter Egg of sorts; within each characters’ skull in the upcoming comic, there lies a single fried egg, to which their hair strands are slaved, and from which I can more rapidly operate the hair visibility! Hooray!
Did you need to know this? No.
Does it make the workflow less annoying? Yes.
Do I really need to do stuff like this to get round the buginess thing? Ohhhh, yes. Here’s a simple ‘render in background’ test render:
^^ I was about to use this in the upcoming comic, but then I spotted a tiiiiiny little error – see if you, too, can spot the problem.
Ahh, software, eh? Teams of people frothing at the mouth because of legacy coding, essential libraries of vintage patching, nightmare licensing deals with monopolising third parties … it’s a mess. One day our AI overlords will rule all this shenanigan-ing unnecessary and we will all breathe a huge sigh of relief. Especially software programmers, who we will find wandering the hillsides and mountainscapes of the world, their walking sticks and their smiling eyes guiding their peaceful progress.
I mean don’t get me wrong, more often that not it’s not the software’s fault at all, but the nob who’s trying to use it. I was going to share some renders to demonstrate that point as well, but they’re rife with spoilers, so. You’ll just have to imagine. Here’s a few test renders instead:
^ enough of a test for me to go “Nah, lose the pink top” and not bother making it actually fit her.
^ working on a nice little top for Charlie instead.
And here’s a few renders that made it in:
So yep, sheepy pyjamas and Gods in greenhouses. Usual sort of stuff from the desk of Sindy Anna Jones.
Comic update: 100 pages complete on the penultimate Lithium, maybe 20 more to go, or something. Out before Christmas. Ho ho ho boobies.
PS. I understand there are problems with lots of American politics right now, but voting for a glorious act of brutal self harm does not move you forward, nor does it drain any ‘swamps’, it just opens the door for people like Putin (the ‘genius’, according to Trump). Voting for that grotesque wreck of a man will unfortunately push you ever closer to real living, breathing Fascism. And God knows how desperately close you got to all-out bloodthirsty chaos last time.
The BBC puts it that he will be remembered for, “his atrocious handling of the deadly Charlottesville protest in 2017, the rise in violent right-wing extremism during his tenure in office, and the viral spread of malevolent conspiracy theories that he encouraged.”
If you put someone in power with a sustained track record of saying absolutely any words in any order in order to sway people through an emotional ‘them-vs-us’ response, then you will lose your ability to vote in a fairly short space of time.
^ that photo’s taken after Trump was briefed by US intelligence on what Putin was up to; he was one of his only supporters.
Remember the last time Russia was able to actually vote on leadership? Uh-huh. Cool. But yeah, by all means vote for whoever you want, I mean who am I to shout DON’T DRINK THE POISON A SECOND TIME YA FUCKEN WEIRDOS!
Meanwhile in the UK, we actually managed to vote out our awful community-centre-closing, economy-humping utterly provably corrupt Conservative party, and have begun to reverse the adolescent ‘ignore the experts’ mentality. Perhaps now we’ll even fix our Victorian prison system, and in the process who knows, maybe we’ll spot the link between the Housing Crisis and the runaway-train of completely unregulated landlords who hoard property like peoples lives are a game. Good things can happen.
PPS. If you disagree with my politics and think I should stick to comics, you’re probably right I mean look at Jesus, he never got political; which is why he lived a long life and died peacefully in his sleep.
PPPS. Boobies.
PPPPPSSSSSS in case you missed the conversation, you should check out the extraordinary comments on the Motherf*cker blog post – there’s some eye-opening accounts going on in there that should not be overlooked 0_0
Sindy,
Thanks for the comic update.
As far of the political stuff:.. oh man… I respect your thoughts but I do disagree. Did you know that our current government here in the good ol USA just made changes that they can take lethal action against its citizens on our sovereign soil? Oh who is running our country… the same people that our VP Kamala is running with. Wait what! It’s just like the good ol England throwing a guilty book against a man standing in a spot praying in “thought”? Wait does England have laws to keep its citizens like cattle and not allow even thoughts… sounds like a movie 🍿 but it’s not.
Honestly I’ve already chosen the less of two evils at this point of my life. The amount of chaos that has come out of my government at the moment… aka I live in the state of Colorado… I take a change. Oh and to mention Colorado… beautiful state, love it… but the entire government is ran by the democrats. Tell you what they do… they make you vote on a bill, the citizens of the state vote no. Then the democrat senate, house& governor pass the same bill regardless after you said no… where is the choice that we have… all they want is “do as I say & not what I do”
Honestly the chaos that surround government is based on a lot of feelings these days instead of true facts. Life isn’t easy, we just move along the best we can and hopefully live long enough that our families and children have a better life than we have now.
We can all agree we have our own opinions and thoughts … I appreciate yours and love your creativity you produce.
Aye fair enough. Except does England have any laws against thought?! I’d be interested to read more about that. And I thought lethal action against citizens was always a thing? Otherwise how would police swat teams operate? Even in Goode Olde Englandshire we allow the occasional Citizen Hunt, we’re even encouraged to use narwhal tusks and get praised as heroes (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50870309). Or perhaps I’ve misunderstood something.
Well… here’s what’s been in the news from there … https://youtu.be/ppahtNxZBt4?si=tbHcxllMcdMq5Dt1
And no… the department of defense had a directive policy stating that they couldn’t but that changed 6 weeks ago when they “silently” change the directive to allow full lethal force… beforehand it was non lethal force. Also swat teams are going against people that have broken laws… the new law of lethal force is against peaceful protestors or objectioners.
We here in the USA have our constitution and we have that to keep our fundamental rights to freedom. Everyday… there’s an attack on our freedoms and our legal system, which is part of the checks and balances of our nation has been working overtime and years behind trying to fix our problems the other parts of government that pass laws contradicting our constitutional rights.
Like I said it’s very ugly here due to too much government (democrats believe in big overwhelming public control) and not enough people taking a step back and thinking about the consequences of their decisions.
You know what’s better than talking about our stupid governments????
Kitties and boobies! That’s what we need more of!
Well I’d definitely want to protect the right to protest and to peacefully object to things 👍. I’d also want to protect the ability of authorities to intervene when necessary – but the specific details of how they do so, are important; and I’d be careful of broad headlines that damn entire groups, either way.
I have to push back on your link though – getting news from youtube is a little like getting facts from Wikipedia; the content is worth checking, particularly when an emotional response is [purposefully] triggered. A very quick look at the details of the ‘thought control’ case show the court case was reasonable, the guy involved was inside a ‘safe zone’ designed to keep vulnerable people safe from dickheads even if they were just miming their opinions. The guy needed arresting in my opinion (and I say that as a big fan of prayer and the Bearded Dude upstairs). Here’s a more calm appraisal of what happened: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/christian-bournemouth-christchurch-uk-parliament-army-b2631603.html … in fact anyone who had any involvement with actual legal proceedings in the UK would be fairly quick to point out the absurd problems with EWTN’s coverage and the weaponisation (aka monetisation) of a non-event like this. We have a similar problem with the Daily Mail; it’s entertaining to consume, but it does rot the soul rather.
We can 100% agree on two things though … boobies.
Well. The votes are in and Trump has a go. This will be intristing… .
How about a bet? I bet we will loose Ukraine and Taiwan. Also the US institutions we be reconstructed by Project 2025.
…as a german this sounds to familiar to watch. Looks bit like 1933 now.
Let’s hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
You forgot to mention… the senate and house now has a majority of republicans, just like trump. Also our Supreme Court is 5 out of seven republican biased. Last time I remember was back in the 1980’s with Regan when he brought prosperity and peace to not only the USA but the world.
The amount of name calling, chest pounding, looking down on each other and the words of “do as I say but don’t do as I do” is just so rampant.
I’m not a huge fan of trump… but I am a believer of the republican ideals for the current situation of the dumpster fire we have here in USA.
I’m mean honestly can you trust people who say” I own a gun to protect myself from you and intruders in my own home” but says I can’t have one because they are dangerous and I “might” use it for a mass murder. We have a constitution that our country abides by. Current members of that same government people say … I live and defend the constitution…. But they block comments and free speech on my social media accounts, ban me from sharing something to my fellow friends and then lie directly to our face and say we are free to protest but have no way to make a protest from said ban. It’s our word vs theirs… honestly someone that say our upcoming government is shades of previous governments that started ww1 and ww2 has not looked at what our super large government is currently doing. A republican ideal is to downsize government and close our borders from dangerous people.
I say to all… I hate politics…. And I absolutely hate politicians…. They are evil in my personal opinion. They don’t deserve to be on tv and be praised like actors, musicians and celebrities. They also don’t deserve to be in government for an entire career. Being in a position of government, a person is to serve the people… not the other way around of controlling people… and be limited for their time served with term limits. Oh hey look… our president can only serve 2 four year terms… vs our law makers can go year and year, decade after decade. It’s all f’ing crap.