New Lunargyros page is new. Even though that doujin is coming slowly, at least this continues on!

So I spent most of my labtime yesterday playing with the KH models. ♥ I am chalking it up to an educational experience, since I AM learning things! I put the textures back on all of them (not certain if I have all of the transparency maps right) and tried rigging Axel with a skeleton. :D The basic skeleton actually works okay (he's so dang skinny it doesn't seem like he needs to skin much!) But I think I need to redo the skeleton to include ANYTHING that moves, such as his clothes, hood, drawstrings, and all those big hair spikes. Because as it stands now, the model keeps trying to assign itself to the wrong joints...when I move his shoulder, parts of his hair move with it, and when I bend his knees, his knees go right through the coat. XD;

I think what I will try to do first is animate Kairi petting lion!Sora entirely for the cuteness factor 'cause it's something simple and can use both a biped and a quadruped...also, lion!Sora has no clothes to get in the way, and Kairi's clothes are not that intrusive since she's got so little on anyway... Except since we only just started class and just did a simple biped skeleton, I don't know where the root joint goes on a quadruped. I'm guessing it's the chest.

It would be great to learn how to do a facial rig since all the models HAVE the full faces with separate eyes/mouth/eyebrows, except I don't know if we're even going to cover that, since face rigging and animating is supposed to be very hard. D: Eeeeek!

Either way: I HAS KH MODELS I CAN MAKE THEM MOVE, WEEEE.
AND ALSO. Zexion came with Lexicon! :D So if any dudes/cosplayers/fanartists out there want the EXACT cover design as it appears on both the front and back of the Lexicon, I can share. :D

OMG, NEW SCANS FOR BIRTH BY SLEEP. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. ♥ I am so thrilled for this game I can barely keep the squee contained! Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella worlds = YES. Three playable scenarios/characters = VERY YES. Terra being more hot with every picture = DAMN YES. VEN, WHY YOU LOOK SO MUCH LIKE ROXAS IS HURTS?! And where is Aqua already?!
I'm even starting to warm up to 358/2 Days now. XD I'm still a little wary, and BbS is my first game choice, but if I can survive the fandom crap I think I could actually enjoy playing the Org game but let us play as the CoM members too, plz?

(Okay, I promise I'll stop with the video game geeking out...some day. Probably. But hey, everyone else is probably geeking themselves silly over Halo 3 just coming out, so I'M ALLOWED TO DO THIS TOO, K.)

Otherwise, I have three classes down, four to go! Character kinematics actually looks like it's going to be fun, if not very fast-paced. But I'm so happy we're finally getting around to making things move! Digital video essentials was a whole lot of technical jargon, which I suppose will be useful in the future (maybe now I'll know how to program a VCR or something?) Knowing all those different formats and aspect ratios is always useful when trying to make something look good. I just need to think of a good idea for that final project in Match-Moving two terms from now, and that will be the hard part... I was thinking something using stop-motion with my action figures, but that might be too difficult since it's all still image and not actual video. Or else I could do something fun with my dog or the cats, but that requires hoping that animals will act the way you plan them to, and I'm no animal trainer...
Our animation teacher was very much of the surfer dude mentality, and while fun to listen to, he had a habit of going off on random tangents about whatever...we really didn't get to the bouncing ball assignment until the last half hour of class. XD; And this is yet another class that requires some kind of short film final project...I was thinking of doing something with a rubber ducky. (Apparently we're supposed to steer clear of full characters, for simplicity reasons).

And we haven't even gotten to Production Design II or Visual Structure yet! O_O Definitely looks to be another busy term!

Drawing: Back to work on the next comic pages!

Writing: Many school notes...