June ProgBlog #1

in #aer6 years ago

I forgot to mention last update. Ages ago (6 years eep) I mashed a calendar for AER. Years later (because I always seem to notice glaring things years later, this does not bode well for whenever I finally get around to animating x_x) I suddenly realised, all the scientists in the Tranquility Calendar are guys.

They were all great and interesting people but seriously?

I mentioned this to darqx and said I wanted to "even" it out a bit (there's 13 months so it's going to be slightly lopsided but near enough is good enough as far as I'm concerned). So being the awesome sibling she is, she helped me find a whole pile of notable female scientists from a variety of fields (and by that I mean she found most of them in the time it took me to find a few because one of us can just do things and the other only just do things when the focus is there, and then I somehow had to choose which was bloody hard work).

We ended up with:

  • Archimedes (original - mathematician/physicist/inventor/astronomer)
  • Burnell (Jocelyn Bell-Burnell - astrophysicist, replaces Brahe)
  • Curie (Marie Curie - physicist, replaces Copernicus)
  • Darwin (original - naturalist/geologist/biologist)
  • Einstein (original - theoretical physicist)
  • Franklin (Rosalind Franklin - chemist, replaces Faraday)
  • Goodall (Jane Goodall - primatologist, replaces Galileo)
  • Hamilton (Margaret Heafield-Hamilton - computer scientist/systems engineer, replaces Hippocrates)
  • Imhotep (original - polymath/physician/medicine)
  • Johnson (Katherine Goble-Johnson - mathematician, replaces Jung)
  • Kepler (original - mathematician/astronomer/astrologer)
  • Lamarr (Hedy Lamarr - inventor and also an actor)
  • Mendel (original - geneticist, also probably the original geneticist)

Red is going slowly, but at least going. I'm trying to get the quads on the wing membranes as squareish as possible because they'll probably be moving a fair bit and in the unlikely event I attempt cloth dynamics on the wing membranes (seriously if I attempt cloth dynamics I'll have to redo the wings).

I was hoping to be struggling with uv maps by now but the wings are the last thing to do and the retopo is actually going faster even though it doesn't really look it. I can dream about this mythical day when I get a character retopo'd in one session. Or at least in less than a week. I was also hoping to have @lordnigel's upgoats signature done and sketches knocked out for @f3nix's avatar (we're doing an avatar now instead of a bananafish, fun :D) ages ago, however the pathetic excuses there is we're seriously house hunting (home opens and whatnot occupying weekends that I would normally be trying to do most of this kind of thing) and competition season is coming up, so the big two are doing a lot of prep for their badge tests and will be trying to qualify for regionals. This is on top of homeschooling activities (which I'm currently failing at more often than not because I'm always tired and 9yo has been a bit more challenging than usual) and housework (yeh I need to kind of do a serious proper clean rather than the spit polishes I've been doing), yeh I'm generally pretty wiped out by the time I get around to doing art and while I'll scratch a few things out if I know I'm not so tired I'll be wondering wtf the following session and have to redo it (I am so sick of redoing things!), I usually end up spending more time scrolling through steem upvoting things and sometimes leaving comments if I can brain enough.

So sorry I'm taking so long Patreons and request queuers! I'm doing my best!

This post also appears on my blog.

  • @symphonyofechoes header [still cooking]
  • avatar for @f3nix [I apologise in advance for having fun with the pose ideas]
  • upgoats for @lordnigel [pretty much done, just letting it cool down before I post tomorrow assuming I don't decide I need to redo it again]
  • upgoats for @bengy
  • upgoats for @superoo7

Want a crowd character? If you interact frequently with me here (either on my posts or your posts or better yet both!) or on one of the linked Discord channels, all you have to do is let me know and tell me what you'd like :) It can be one of your characters (including ones you make up on the spot for this XD) or a self insert. There's a bunch of different human types to choose from, and pets/other animals are also welcome.

Thanks for looking! ^_^

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You rock @ryvihnn 😎✌️ and to be sincere I'm so eager to see what will come out from your pencil with the avatar.. it's like if I'm smelling the parfume of an apple pie baking in the oven! Take your time, don't worry and I wish you the best in your house hunting.

Ahhhh I hope I don't disappoint :D

I'm having fun with it, at the moment I have two posey poses (one is very slightly Michael Jackson XD) and one that I'm working on that's "doing something" (as I actually suck at portraiture, I usually like my characters to be doing things). I'll throw them at you on Discord before I post them here (or I can just post them here) when I've sketched all of them :)

goatsig

Doing something as watching or working on some gears? That's so cool.. my eyes are lusty for curiosity haha 😊

it must be hard to work with it :c
but at least you are right, it's looking good :D
hope to see the final result... someday? xD

Hopefully sometime in this lifetime ;D Thanks!

goatsig

Nice swaps! Hooray for equality! Too bad Hippocrates and Copernicus got the boot. Though I do strongly believe in Madame Curie's inclusion. What about Ada Lovelace in place of Margaret Heafield-Hamilton?

I need one per letter which is one of the reasons why it was sooooooooooooo haaaaaaaaaaaard XD

I'm glad you're able to poke your head in on occasion :) House still keeping you busy?

goatsig

The future and present houses are keeping me busy! Storm season is upon us, and we've inherited a leaky roof (the current one). Just last night, I was using a stick to poke holes in the ceiling to prevent the water from caving us in haha!

Argh nightmare! Can it be fixed sometime soon or do you have to wait out the storm season with many buckets and tarps and hope for not too much damage done before it can be repaired? Or can contractors slot in between typhoons? XD

goatsig

We were able to get a roofer to do some temporary fixes. I hope it holds though, as I feel my weight has gone over the threshold of what the roof can take XD

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