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SculptJanuary 23 – Forest Spirit. A snailwife.

It is said that only the wisest old women go on to become snailwives, because a snailwife’s advice is second-to-none (though slow in coming). They are commonly found in forests, gathering bits of mossy dead tree to make their famous snailwife cakes.

Snailwives famously smell of damp moss and warm cheese. They travel completely naked aside from the famous snailwife hat. The hat is to conceal their identity – if their mortal name is spoken to them, they vanish into thin air forever.

You can easily distinguish the benevolent snailwife from the notorious and malevolent slugtrollop at a distance by the presence or absence of the hat and shell.

– Professor Quollism’s Book of Completely Made-Up Stuff.

Turns out the stylus from the Bamboo Fun isn’t compatible with the Intuos 4, but fortunately the Bamboo Fun is just fine for sculpting. So in the end I haven’t dropped a day, just had a very late evening…

Onward!

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Let’s have some 17 to 23 January 2016.

My tablet stylus
is cactus at this point – the eraser seems to work sort of but that’s about it – the drawing tip doesn’t register at all, the rocker switch either doesn’t rock or only intermittently works, and the glitches are epic. A friend might have a working replacement (one of my old hand-me-downs!), so I may end up dropping a day on SculptJanuary and making it up over the long weekend.. or I may end up dropping it for however long it takes to get a new working stylus and not crossing the finish line after all. Bad timing is bad.

I even had a fun character design for the “Forest Spirit” sculpt – sort of a snail crossed with a grumpy old lady who collects random bits of filth.in her handbasket. Hope I can still get her done.

Also this week I put together a beast of a new PC with a beast of a video card. Partly it’s a VR and gaming rig, but it’s also a makey-stuff rendering rig too. It’s named after one of these, a fearless desert hunter called a mulgara.

This week’s image was an aborted fur edge-lighting test that has very little to do with anything. The old PC couldn’t render it with CUDA due to not having enough memory on the video card, but the new one renders it just fine. 🙂

No movement to report on “A moment in the sun”, though if I can’t get a new stylus shortly, I’ll get going with layout again and just finish the remaining January sculpts off whenever I need a sanity break.

EDIT: Borrowed back my old tablet from aforementioned friend – the old stylus doesn’t work with my usual tablet, so I’m on the old tablet until the new stylus shows up in the post. Hurrah!

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SculptJanuary 22 – Mountain. Uluru is technically a monolith but eh, close enough. And it’s almost Australia Day so whatever.

Sadly my tablet stylus is nearly dead (hence the unfinished sculpt). So there might not be a sculpt tomorrow, depending. We shall see.

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SculptJanuary 21 – “World Improver”. Jim Henson, legendary puppeteer and person without whom I wouldn’t have learnt nearly as much as quickly as a little kid thanks to Sesame Street – the same goes for many of us, I’ll bet!

I tried to do Bob Moog but it didn’t happen. I also broke my tablet stylus and fixed it during this sculpt. Hopefully it stays fixed!

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SculptJanuary 20 – Crustacean. Meet Cherax sp, a freshwater crayfish also known as a yabby or marron. It’s red which means it’s been cooked. Yum!

Normally it has legs and little bumps but my dicky shoulder demanded the rest of the night off.