more texture!

hehe i've been absent quite a while, haven't i? i've been out of town, which is my favorite activity nowadays. not only nowadays, but always. i need to get out of town.

besides swimming and eating whatever comes to my sight, i took some photos. i even saw one wild animal (which was really surprising for me) for the first time in my life. in the daylight. can you guess which ferocious wild animal i saw? sorry, no photos of it because the ones i took were quite shaky. so i made this into a riddle. hint: it has a domestic version, too.

you know by now that i'm amazed by texture. here i leave you with one. i think this is made of reed, used as a roof material. look at the gaps and the mismatched pieces. the non-uniformity of the string that holds the reeds together. there is always some randomness in which things are handled in this geography. i think i sometimes (not always) i like it. ok, my quest for textures will go on. do you have some textural research material, too?

bye bye july. although i am quite crazy about summer, daylight and hot weather, i never liked you. and i like your younger brother, august even less. what a month! september is ok. may and june are the best;)

short circuit

oops, what's wrong with the girl's neck?

these days i allowed myself to relax a little. i almost always have the feeling that i am missing something. did i get enough computer skills? did i miss to call that lady? did i pay the bills? am i missing a very important oppotunity right now? is everything ready for the application? (what application?-hehe there is always something to apply to, right?) am i working too much? too less? am i having too much fun? too little fun???? it's a crazy orchestra playing in my head, and i only want to push the mute button. i just want to stop sorting things out.

i'm going away for just a liiiittle bit. then i'll go crazy in my thoughts again:)= you can't help it too, can you?

someday i'll become a tree.

i promise.

vegetables are good for you

i found this really nice plant plugin for 3d, it's called xfrog. great for growing trees, plants, flowers, trees in wind, forests etc. offers great solutions! hope it comes handy when someday you need it...

i tried to install the trial version, but somehow i couldn't manage to make it work. does anybody know how to do it? no matter how hard i try, i can't set it right. if i can, i will post some 'results' here.

do you need doing plants in your 3d work too?

deluge

the weather was almost winter-esque today. i suddenly missed the hot weather! not much to say though, i've been feeling a little bit blah. hi to everybody. everybody?

look i'm growing weeds on my tires!

hehe this is by far the most amazing vehicle i have seen in months:) don't you love the color and the crazy toyish shape? i don't think it has been moving around for a loong while. if i had such a lady, i sure would be cruising around the city! (but we don't do that, do we? with all the pollution and energy consumption and stuff.) this lady actually claims to be a 'mobile disaster container', so not a really humorous subject, but i can't help but giggle at it. and i am truly crazy about the design (no-not being sarcastic at all). lovely, don't you think?

enough

i'm really fed up with all the 2d stuff i've been doing! i want to do 3d stuff. like real models, objects, revolving in the 3d space. don't get me wrong, i love doing 2d drawings. the last job i did for a website was really a blast (i promise to give links when it's out). but i miss modelling, texturing, rendering and for the most important part, designing things that will be real objects.

hehe this is the stuff that has been keeping me busy lately. i feel the same with the girl.

do you get fed up with whatever you are doing sometimes? do you feel like 'oh but i should be doing this (whatever you like most) instead!' am i the only one? am i?

grow

i really wonder when a child becomes an adult. i've never quite bought the idea that it happens 'when you make your own living'. does it happen when you hit 20? 30? when you have a child?

well, my job doesn't quite allow me to grow up. i wonder if i purposedly chose such a job to be able to remain a child. so 'making a living' didn't turn me into an adult. and i sure didn't feel grown up when i hit 20, nor when i hit 30. so this age counting thing doesn't help much, either. having a child is not an option right now, so i'll place my bets on that one, i guess.

i will need to make a choice quite soon; the deadline is approaching. i really feel exhausted because of the pressure of that. in the meanwhile, i have to keep working, which is good to feel sane:D but why do i have so much time to linger on the idea? can't we just skip a couple of weeks and get to the point?

hm.. i sense too many personal details. why don't we listen to some massive attack then?

wake up!!

right now i have no time, so i leave you with an alarm clock. don't set it a time when you are not home, or your neighbors will be pretty pissed off:)

more like it:)

hehe i've been experimenting foolishly. this brush thing is getting more and more interesting...

by the way, my friend who was building this gave birth on 8th june to a lovely girl... congratulations and a biiiiiggg hug to her and her hubby! i think she won't be able to check for a long time, but i'm really happy for them and wanted to mention, though a little late:)

i'm still kind of upset for coming back to the big city. responsibilities... why don't you just go away?

we love brushes

here's a quick way to pattern all over. if only my graphic tablet didn't break down. grr. do you have do-it-yourself brushes too?