J'avais des astres dans les yeux

making pretty good headway on the project stack!

* you've heard me talk about the doujin circle i'm part of a few times here; along with some public projects this coming year, we quietly got the main site online -- more as a placeholder homepage for some of those projects: vanillacollective.org there's a high chance you'll see me reference this site and said projects next month, since there's at least two/three that haven't been released yet. :) 

* starting a double tellius ironman run & let's play (pictures/text) over on my FE tumblr for the next few weeks (the link's not easily copy-able but the dedicated tag is "krad loveblogs tellius"). might be of interest re: ironman gameplay (tl;dr where either you let characters perma-die without resetting the level, or you restart the entire game), general meta notes, and also because it's my plan to talk very extensively about the tellius' casts character designs/color choices, which has always had some influence on how i design characters. at the current pace, hitting port toha by friday/saturday, which as you know, i'm quite excited about <3

* incidentally, finishing the gunter animatic this week before my brain gets taken over by zihark again. :p  i'm doing an experiment where i slowly drip out 15 cells over the course of this week; all the artworks were quite gorgeous, it was a lot of artistic effort, and it feels like such a shame to bunch them all into one or two posts especially when i was not looking forward to trying to figure out how to make a gif work smoothly. the fact it has a good chance of higher engagement than usual isn't something i'm passing up either.

* i fell into having fun with ren'py for about 48 hours last week as part of a 'can i do this?' curiosity drive with recreating the fe9 dialogue window + making some custom sprites. :D loads of fun, will eventually post some screenshots of said sprites. the hardest part of truly recreating the dialouge screen is moving the nameplates & darkening the non-speaking characters which is going to require some python finagling, something i don't have the bandwidth for at the moment.  while i have no real desire to do a visual novel any time soon, it's nice to have the skills now already there on standby.

* in smaller projects, finished a smattering of one-off FE illusts (some senri kita inspired), continuing to do doujin thumbnails, having a Meeting(tm) on thursday about some long term life shifts and if i have the financial wiggle room for them, getting the $portfolio website tightened up if i need to yeet myself from the dayjob in a hurry, progress on haus stuff is continue to move along in the background, etc.

all good stuff to happen, but still hoping to continue to pare down said list because i want to read more again!!

lowkey tickled to be a small part of the current EN-fandom doujinshi revival :3c

of all types of art mediums/projects, it's probably the one i'm surprised to have gotten the most sustained emotional satisfaction from, despite the outsized effort involved.