Wanna Build And Render A Heart Using Blender...

Watch is spin around in a beautiful oblivion....

I know you now have that song stuck in your head. You're welcome ;)

Something I've wanted to do for a long time now was create 3D models. Just sort of adding it to the laundry list of little niche skills I want to have.

This isn't really coming out of left field either: always wanting to push myself and try something new, I had a brief period there where I wanted to create special occasion cards (as I often do) with Magic Eye. So I went and found the program online that allows you to add the image to it, but you have to have a 3D image to start with. Reason #1.

A little while after that I got it in my head that I could create a cooler looking model for King of Tokyo than the card ones provided out of Sculpty. That was fine and dandy until I become more acquainted with 3D printing. So then I was totally down with that method, but you have to create a 3D model for the program to use. Reason #2.

Oh, and Carla wants to make some keychains :P Reason #3.

Off the hop, it looks like a beast of a program. Not difficult I'm sure if you know what you're doing, but I just sort of dove right in. Now I'm taking a step back and looking at some tutorials. I'll keep you posted ;)

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What's Been Up

Greetings and salutations!

So there's been a couple of things happening since February, mostly work related things, a few small projects here and there, the typical ins and outs of running a business.

I had a wonderful odd call from someone randomly asking how much I charge for a logo. After launching into my speech about cost, value, etc. I found out she is from the Ontario Office Works program. lol. That's two people I've directly contacted out of that office now :)

I'm also into consideration for working on a retainer. This is huge for me. It means that I set a price for a certain amount of work over a certain amount of time, and that's my fee. I can make a couple of month's pay at once with this, and it guarantees work. I'll let you know how this goes.

I've been working through some side projects for friends also, cards and shirt designs (check my previous posts). I'll make full posts about the bigger projects when they're finished.

On top of all I'm working on the wedding :) I'm designing the signage and the cards and we're organizing the fun and games. Another post of wedding stuff will follow, as well as invitations and such :)

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Contests... For Science!

Good morning all.

I promise to create a legitimate post by the end of the day, but for now the wonderful Lara has pointed me in the direction of this contest. Looks pretty awesome :)

Who knew that being a designer and a nerd would eventually pay off, eh?  I've already posted some of my Portal related work here and here, but this gives me a chance to collect up some of the things I've done in the past :P

As always, I own the designs and the art, but I don't own any of the characters, their images, GlaDOS, the companion cube, and I don't work for Valve.... yet ;)

A Valentine's Day card I made waaaaay back...

 A poster I made for Carla when she was gone to Japan for a year...

A t-shirt I deisgned for my sister who wore it at a con last weekend.

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Valentines Double Shot!

So as I posted on my Facebook account, Valentines Day was just around the corner, and I was offering the creation of custom, nerdy cards for your geeklove.

Well, the wonderful Lara commissioned me to create a card for her boyfriend, who is madly in love with Game of Thrones. For those of you who aren't, well, there's no accounting for everyone.

With the limited timeline to needing this done (they did in fact only receive it in the mail today) I had to stick with interesting basics. This isn't to say that I skimped out on the card, or that they or I didn't love the results, but one day my cards will play music!

I also take the opportunity to make my fiancee a nice card when I can, and I put together this little gem because she too is a massive nerd and likes Portal...

As always, much love to you all, and thanks for reading!

Conspiracies

It's still the start of a new year, and that means working up some new ideas, new projects, and some new fun to share with the world :) I have some new projects on that go that I'm hoping to report on in the near future, but for now I'd like to comment on this new thought experiment I'm involved in, brought to you by the brains floating in that jar over there...

I'm not going to go into the details now, I want you all to pop over, read it for yourself, and then hear what you have to say. But I am down with the idea. My goals look like this:

• Gain a new client - I'm a freelance graphic designer and visual communications expert that owns his own business, so I'm trying to expand my client base.
• Finish a play test of my board game - I love anything nerdy, I love board games, and I have an idea for one that fulfills a lot of needs for me. I need to complete a play through so that I can start the beta testing, and not just design the art for it.
• Outline a single story I am writing - Not only do I do board games, I write. I have a number of stories bouncing around in my head and I should start outlining them in order to complete them.
• Check off at least 4 things from the wedding list - A list of things yet to do for our upcoming wedding. Need to keep on track of it all so that it doesn't lag behind and we don't stress at the last minute.

I think they're pretty reasonable, and obtainable. I need a kick in the arse every now and again to keep working, and I fond that I had already let one or two goals lapse in the first cycle. If for no other eason, I hate not to feel like I'm accomplishing things!

Speaking of, I need to make some phone calls. Goal number one, after all :)

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Creativity Is Like A Race...

The first to the finish line gets the glory, everyone else gets to go home in defeat :P

http://io9.com/5975491/a-history-of-superman-told-in-25-logos-over-75-years?post=56141710

At least I know I had mine finished, poster sized, ready as Christmas presents...

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A Bit of Silly...

... in this commission for the holidays. Hope you enjoy!

Thanks for reading :)