S H E M O V E S.

Might've popped her thumb up a bit too quickly though, but I'm still practicing.

Also, have a nice neutral-color wallpaper I made while working on reflective surfaces in Blender.

Tools used:
Blender
MakeHuman Community

It's not much, but I'm teaching myself how to animate (more) in Blender since I only know Autodesk Maya well enough to do much.

And guess what? Once my student license is up, I can't use Maya anymore without shelling out a heap of money that I don't have. So I figure I'd might as well learn some alternative software.

I do like Blender quite a bit, anyways. It's not quite as big as Maya as far as use in the production industry, but it's enough for my personal purposes.

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So, y'know Timothy from Pony-Me, right?

Yeah, he supposedly entered the simulation as a toddler, but the problem with that is that in order to match his description relative to Lisa, he'd actually be roughly around 11 years old by the time he enters, thus bumping his age post-simulation to his early 20s, reducing the age gap with Lisa by nearly half a decade.

Yup.

Okay.

This is fine.

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Took a heckin' long time, and I ultimately gave up on doing anything more complex as well as using my render farm, but local rendering through Blender just spat out a video that I've converted into a gif below:

The render time alone is the reason why I wanted to get a render farm up and running. 36 frames and it took nearly an hour.

Took a heckin' long time, and I ultimately gave up on doing anything more complex as well as using my render farm, but local rendering through Blender just spat out a video that I've converted into a gif below:

More specifically, my daily driver PC and my secondary workstation PC that I restored after picking it up from a thrift store.

4K Blender Renders coming soon! (and maybe an animation in the future?)

Added multiple ideas to the new Universal Framework for Pony-Me's original fiction adaptation, and worked on chapters for two currently-unreleased stories that I plan on publishing soon.

I should probably get back to working on the Pony-Me fan character story, shouldn't I? I've been so busy with life and new story ideas that I nearly forgot that I still need to work on it.

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Beyond HD quality, but I forgot to add lighting.
EDIT: apparently Fimfiction breaks with the massive image. Here's a direct link: https://i.ibb.co/v3gN64h/Lisa.png

This one has lighting but is at a lower resolution simply because I didn't want to spend time waiting for my Core i5 2400 to finish rendering a >4k image a second time.

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They still don't work correctly in Maya, but they work pretty well in Blender.

I'll probably post a higher-quality render of Lisa at some point.

Yeah, it's an AU of an AU that strips away all the pony that made the original AU an AU of MLP in the first place. Confused yet?

Yeah, me too.

Anyways, I'm writing a new Universal Framework document with loose ties to MLP. I've already expanded upon Lisa's backstory to include more than just "Lisa's parents died and she's sad so she made the simulations."

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Mild "holy crap the story I poured everything into is about to come to an end"-style rant coming up.

Yeah, for those (very few) people who wish to see Pony-Me but without ponies, I've been on a hiatus for around half a year now, focusing instead entirely on fleshing out the world and characters of Pony-Me to let myself have a stronger foundation for the story.

Well.

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Yeah, I'm splitting the (still incomplete) 7k+ word chapter I've been working on into separate chapters. I'll be posting the first part tonight, which clocks in at around 4.2k words.

Also, the previous 3D modeling post is somewhat related to the upcoming chapter.

Made using MakeHuman Community 1.2.0a2, wearing default clothing using a stock human base.

There. Now y'all know what she looks like.

Yup, it's gonna be a long one this time 'round.

Based on what I have left both written down and floating around in my head, I'd say that we have at most maybe three or so more chapters left, possibly even less.

Once the story's done, we'll wrap things up with a fitting epilogue, and move on...

Things that I've done just in the past couple of days of not paying mind to anything on this site:

• Watched a local concert for a band that my sister's friend's older brother is in. This is literally the first time I've ever gone to a concert, even if it was just in a basement.
• Watched two movies and finally began watching "The Man in the High Castle", a series I've been wanting to watch for quite some time now
• Was productive

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That is to say, we're on the home-stretch now.

What I mean is, Pony-Me is in its final planned story arc and doesn't have very many chapters remaining before it reaches its ultimate end. The current chapter has been in the works for over a month, and while things started off slow initially, just within the past week I've doubled the length twice. It's already become the longest-ever chapter in the story, with still more content to follow.

It's been a long journey for Lisa.

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Kinda realized that it was a bit short, so I added some more so that it'd flow better into the next chapter.
EDIT: Holy crap. Somehow I managed to forget to actually paste the thing in here.

Elizabeth Waters stifled a yawn, glancing up from her computer’s monitor, then at the digital clock hanging on the wall.

“Hm.” She snorted, folding her arms, “Lunch break already.”

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Kinda realized that it was a bit short, so I added some more so that it'd flow better into the next chapter.
EDIT: Holy crap. Somehow I managed to forget to actually paste the thing in here.

Elizabeth Waters stifled a yawn, glancing up from her computer’s monitor, then at the digital clock hanging on the wall.

“Hm.” She snorted, folding her arms, “Lunch break already.”

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Still don't have any clue what to name the story.

Elizabeth Waters stifled a yawn, glancing up from her computer’s monitor, then at the digital clock hanging on the wall.

“Hm.” She snorted, folding her arms, “Lunch break already.”

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So. It's 12:41 AM, and I'm not tired at all right now. I've got some soft orchestral music looping in the background, and I already wrote my usual pile of horsewords into Pony-Me's in-progress chapter. Heck, I even got a few more unread chapters knocked off my tracking list. So what now?

Well, about Pony-Me. It's got quite a few versions of its narrative.

Let's turn back time a bit, shall we?

Pony-Me 1.0

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