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I have now been with every named character when the world ended. Except for Vera. I am pretty sure she will turn out to be the one summoning the Purple Doom.

Curious what her reason for this will turn out to be. Hopefully more than just EVIL.

PROTIP: AI’s 3D effects are also pretty slow. Get your object’s rotation roughed in with the display set to “wireframe”. Especially if doing this is one of the last steps in a page full of shapes, patterns, transparencies, and textures.

(And yes, I use photo reference regularly too. Block in the pose you need from it, turn it off, and work on top of the rough sketch.)

https://dragon.style/media/T6keHtvnb-jErCQQPLk

So really all that stands between me and finishing this page is tweaking some rudimentary 3D objects in Illustrator, then adding a little detail and maybe some cleanup - AI’s 3D effects are pretty messy sometimes. https://dragon.style/media/aO59zhelUzMDfzLwuaM

Dear Capitol Hill lady with one worried-looking midsized dog on a leash and a pug in a polka-dot stroller with a matching ruff: I applaud your efforts to become a Local Eccentric. You are well on the way.

I feel like the pages I am producing now are the end of a very long process that began when I was a kid and had my mind blown by @sinkevitch@twitter.com's amazing painted art for the otherwise-utterly-forgettable "Starriors" toy tie-in comic.

Thanks, Bill. https://dragon.style/media/dXBdTiRzSc2n1F66iOw

Well that's done. Just uploaded a little Wordpress style for Parallax that will loop through all the pages posted to a chapter, separate them out based on the tags for one side or the other, then pick one to display first.

Right now there's just a handful of finished pages for one side. And there is no effort made to make a graceful transition between one side and the other. But it's good enough for now. Guess I get to decide what to do with the rest of today - turn roughs into pages? turn scripts into roughs? Or something Not Parallax?

Oh hey cool, it managed to realize the update had wedged up and aborted it! Wordpress is pretty damn sophisticated now.

Ugh, I spent most of the day knocking together a just-good-enough style for Parallax. Put it on my site, uploaded the first few pages, then I decided to update WP and its plugins... and it has wedged up while decompressing Jetpack. Everything on egypt.urnash.com now shows "Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance".

It's 10pm. I will deal with it TOMORROW.

You know that point in a project where you're looking at an old pile of code, trying to decide if it'd be easier to kludge a copy to your new needs, or to start from scratch?

I'm right there on Parallax. And holy shit I sure do not remember much about how my custom ComicPress style works right now.

Hopefully I remembered how to do the whole process correctly; the last time I did this I kinda half-assed it, and it faded all too quickly. Because holy shit it sure is nice to look in the mirror and see someone with bright red hair looking back at me instead of... vaguely-blond, with black roots clearly going grey. Seeing that makes me feel even more old and tired than I already do.

And oddly enough, getting dressed is making me want to start doing more exercise again. I guess this is because red-haired me was generally in good shape for several years in a row; faded-haired me tends to have given up on that along with stuff like "keeping the hair dye refreshed".

This was a pretty good run down the Tubehole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_yT196iNHg&feature=youtu.be

I also made it well into the second set of levels in Pure mode, huzzah! Still haven't quite finished the first set in YOLO.

Janet has a new friend. https://dragon.style/media/-eBwGorFVc_ALB-yJxw

It’s been a while since I had a plain buttermilk biscuit from Morsel. I keep on getting whatever the days special is. But today I had one. And holy fuck their buttermilk biscuit is just so DIVINE.

I just checked. Looks like the price for a pair of Industrial Stilts ranges from $100-500, depending on height and materials.

https://www.homedepot.com/s/stilts?NCNI-5

A small stepladder is probably far more sensible for the occasional times I need to reach something higher than my natural range around the house, but...

Shower Thought: The Reverse Marvel Method http://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2018/05/19/the-reverse-marvel-method/

STILT UPDATE: I got to see him using them. Super useful for those jobs where you would otherwise have to scurry up a ladder, do a thing, come back down, move it, and repeat.

1. He says there are models that are twelve feet tall.
2. There are springs in them that absorb some of the shock of walking around.
3. I do not have any earthly use for these things but now that I know they exist I want a pair SO BADLY.

INDUSTRIAL STILTS.

Brought in by the guy who is plastering the walls. I did not see him using them; I was in the back sorting laundry and making some kind of disjointed Twitter post about being a cyborg artist.

https://dragon.style/media/ZpQPxSIkzA9hpqQusps https://dragon.style/media/nSuhYf6SR3dm5_vyPN0

At least i have a kitchen wall again as of today. They are going to be coming in tomorrow morning to plaster and paint it, apparently. I was resigned to not seeing any forwards motion on it until next Monday, so that’s a nice surprise. https://dragon.style/media/JaBR3XdRF0a-ESj5s70

The transcendent joy of doing a near perfect run through a level is pierced when Jeff suggests that I BE SLIGHTLY CROSS WITH RUNNING OUT OF LOO ROLL.

Seriously this game is perfection and it is a fucking shame hasn’t even covered his costs for making the damn thing; Polybius is the work of someone who has been a master of his craft for years, taking multiple risks and nailing every single one. IMHO at least.

Sitting here playing Polybius in YOLO mode (start at level 1, no extra lives, ever) and wondering why I am crying.

GOTY 2017, 2018, and forevermore.