My team and I finished our game, Mission: H.E.A.L. for the 20 Second Game Jam with about 54 minutes left :D I've typed up my progress throughout the duration of the jam on my art blog if interested hehehe

  Holy cow this jam was a bit of a rollercoaster; my goal for this project was to try the entire 3D modeling workflow for both the characters and level. My only other experience with 3D art was a very high poly head sculpt cause I really didn't wanna try to do retopology (it lagged bad lol), and doing quick creature sculpts and hair grooms for my last job. So this game was gonna force me to do everything from modeling, UV unwrapping, texture painting, rigging, and animations. I did get help with one idle animation for the tank robot but did the rest of his animations by myself. For the turret and boss, I generated the metarig from scratch and did the animations. The lab setting for the actual level was very easy to put together and only took me like 2 days.

  The biggest issues I ran into during the jam was: 1) forgetting to apply transformations before animating, 2) UV unwrapping properly, and 3) export settings. These were what made me wanna pull my hair out every four days. My rigs were having some weird warpping when I moved certain limbs and applied scale, and it was so frustrating to get through. I assumed it was also why my models would basically "reset" back to the origin point whenever I pose them in the scene for image rendering(?). UV unwrapping was so so tedious, especially when I can't see why they're still unwrapping weird even with seams marked where I think makes sense?? Like there were so many bits and pieces. And omfggg all the tutorials I've watched for exporting models w/ animations and scenes were all different with it came to export settings. I had to write down the file names with every exporting steps to see what worked with UE5. SO FRUSTRATING!!!

  At the end of the day, I am glad I got to dive into this and teach myself the process. Idk what possess ppl to want to be 3D artists, I deeply respect yall, but you guys are insane /j

  (!! Minor spoilers !!) Omgomgomg everyone watch Badlands rn I loved it so much :'D It's such a refreshing take on a Predator movie, but it was still very much enjoyable!! I went to watch it on opening night at a smaller theater, but there was a good amount of people at the same showtime (7:45pm)! They were very fun to watch and laugh with! I went with my partner and bought my babygirl with me ofc ^^

  The movie was so beautiful! My fav aspect was the worldbuilding definitely! Amazing fauna and flora designs, the mech/robotic elements, the food chain/survival of the fittest, everything omg,, I love that the movie isn't afraid to be funny and light-hearted at times and still keeps the tense and brutal combat scenes. The acting was great! I enjoyed all the characters; none of them were insufferable and were well-written imo. I love Elle Fanning's portrayal of Thia and the polar opposite trope hehe. It was literally about a guy, his yapper sister, and the dog he said he didn't want lol

  Badlands has hands down secured a spot in my top Predator/Alien movies! I cannot wait for what Trachtenberg will create next; I'm a big fan of a lot of his works, and I feel that the franchise is in good hands :) Badlands is easier to digest if you don't like heavy gore/violence since there's no humans (I get why it's PG-13 now lol) Bud, my daughter, I love u sm aaaaghh

  That is all for now! I wrote this review a little late bc I've been trying to get my life together and lock in; I've been feeling constant burnout when it comes to drawing and life :( I think I need to do a deep clean to get back in the groove, but ye until next time!!

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  It's Predator: Badlands release day! What's a better time to review a Predator figure than now hehe. These past movies from Dan Trachtenberg have been so so good, and I just know the new one will be amazing!! Actually carrying this franchise fr Here is a small review of the NECA Ultimate Bear Blood Feral Predator figure! All my personal opinions, ik everyone has their own criterias for figs, and I wanna do more reviews of figs and model kits I own :D

  I bought this at a local flea market last summer for about $30 but haven't found a good place to display him yet (I need to organize my shelf). This figure is based on the bear scene in the Prey movie with a clear plastic body and spear! I bought it complete, but I did lose one of the S-shaped belt hook that holds his folded combistick :( it's ok though cause the main spear takes the spotlight :D

  The packaging is so pretty and matches the same blood-soaked transparent gimmick as the figure. It also features a box slip with a beautiful photograph of the Yautja! If you do care for preserving the packaging, the circle sticker seals do rip off the blood printed on, but I personally don't mind.

  The accessories included are: two additional mandibles (slightly open mouth and closed mouth), a pair of holding hands, a pair of closed hands, blades for the right arm, an extendable spear, backpack, and collapsed combistick. Compared to the standard Feral Predator, the combistick doesn't come with a magnet to attach to his back with the backpack, instead it's held by back hooks u have to work in between the lower back and hip parts. I did end up stressing the piece trying to get it to stay in place :( If I have time (and the willpower) I'll go in and drill a hole for a small magnet in the combistick so it can hold on his back. And since there's two magnets on both his shoulder blades, both the backpack and combistick can attach! This does come with less accessories than the standard figure, but that's what I wanted to bring up.

  The figure itself is okay to handle imo; Posing-wise, he's... average. Unless you pose it in a basic, upright pose, I reccomend a stand (but that could just go for any fig). There's some stiffness in the torso where it's rubs against the abdomen, although the blood has never chipped off. I do wish there were more to the feet, but it's just a single piece with 360 swivel and no tilt. This Yautja is very sharp! I'm close to giving him a mani and pedi with a sandpaper!! Be careful handling it with long hair, as well, cause it'll snag. I would also be a bit careful with the ends of his lioncloth since it's really thin plastic and will be pushed against a lot the more you handle him. It hasn't been an issue yet, but just something to keep in mind!

  Overall though he looks good! Very pretty figure with a great head sculpt and movie accurate! Love the varying hair lengths on his shoulders poking out, and the transparent/translucent parts are nice! Good articulation despite the feet; a good amount of posing is achievable, and most pieces are stable when handling. A 8/10 figure for me that WILL be coming with me to the movies tonight >:)

  Badlands review soon!! I'm v excited to watch yet another Predator movie with my bf!!

  Mini post of the last few weeks! My contract is still on pause(??), but I've been back at my part time for a bit. I'm gonna need to look at other job openings cause idk how long this will last I finally cut my hair, too, so it did temporarily help with the stress. Thinking about some ways I can bleach my hair again, and I was looking into some chunky highlights(?), but I saw a video from Frederic Chen on insta where she got the top half of her hair bleached, so it's like a reverse peek-a-boo color!! It's so cute, I might snatch that idea for myself hehe

  I'm heading to Philly this weekend for a wedding, and I was struggling finding dresses/outfits. Ended up with a pretty baby blue gown and went through my entire closet to put together a turtleneck + smock dress outfit. I tailored the fancier dress to cinch at the waist more and hemmed the dress to a walkable length (will attach pics if I remember). I still need to find matching shoes for my dress, and maybe make a bow with the excess fabric if I have some time. Omg I get to try on the press on set I bought! It's baby blue like my dress :D

  My bf and I also talked about the con game plan, and I didn't wanna think about it much cause I can't afford to make cons a priority at the moment, but he's not gonna take no for an answer and wants to pay for everything :') what a gentleman hehe. In exchange, I drive and try not to kill us lol. Our general con schedule is: Magfest and Katsucon with some local cons whenever we feel like it. Cosplay has been dropped to a lower priority, but I do want to finish my Ahtal-ka armor for the MonHun shoot at Katsu next year. I have the headpiece about 80% done :) I'll put up a progress bar and to-do list of my cosplays here eventually. But yeah that's about it goodbyeeeee

  In August, I started the ultimate journey of moving away from Google and Google-owned services. This was something I wanted to do for the past few months for multiple reasons: their constant fight back with ad blockers, OBNOXIOUS amount of AI in my face, their involvement and funding of genocide of the Palestinian people, lack of data privacy, etc., but I'm finally making the push!

  Google Chrome was the first to go and was replaced with Firefox. I know it's not the best browser with those reasons in mind, but I had the option to turn off all the AI features it had. It was pretty easy to move my stuff from Chrome over, as well. A feature I really liked is their version of Chrome's tab groups which is pretty much the same thing. Startpage also became my default search engine, but I might have to look for something better for image search since the 'related images' from Google was something I liked.

  Removing Youtube from my frequently used site wasn't as hard as I thought lol; I think it was the fact that I only bother to use it by clicking the bookmark shortcut to access it. Even before this, I didn't really find that many videos interesting enough for me to actually watch it.

  Gmail was pretty easy to replace. I now use Proton Mail, and their transfer and forwarding method is very convinient. A downside is that I would have to create a few more accounts for my other emails, but that means I can finally condense all my alt addresses I use for free trials lol. Having a Proton account also includes a drive storage with 2gb

  Now I need a replacement for Drive and all that, and I'm thinking LibreOffice for Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc. (substitute for Microsoft Office, too :D) but I want to look for a good online counterpart like Drive and Office. I know LibreOffice has some kind of online version, but I'm not sure if I'm smart enough to figure it out lol.

  That's what I have done so far! There's still a couple of stuff to look into in terms of de-googling and a few non-google replacements (Spotify to physical media post up soon!)

  Hi, this is my first blog post on my currently half broken site lol. Still trying to get it all together while learning new stuff and watching things break. I wanted to start this site because social media platforms keeps getting worse every year. It's not the same creative outlet anymore, and there's just so many changes that just doesn't benefit their users. I don't care for numbers and visibility, just a place I can dump all of my hobbies, creations, thoughts, and customizations onto :)