Hello REWRveryone!
I hope you're doing well.

So... I'm more than a week late, but as promised, here's the monthly news to resume what happened during the month of July.

COMMISSIONS:

The 3 sketches for the 3 commissions had been done, sent, and 2 on the 3 are validated and paid. So, this month, I will of course start working on those 2 while waiting for the 3rd to be validated. I was a bit late and sent those sketches like a week ago, but at least, the sketches are done, and I'll start giving news of their progression to the commissioners each week through Discord.

SCRIPT:

Script had hugely progressed once again. This month, I had tons of ideas I had to write on. And I'm very VERY happy because my lore and story is now, from what I think, perfectly coherent. I'm really proud and hope to be able to share it soon or later, as a novels serie or as a comics (probably still too ambitious for a whole comics, though, unfortunately).
To give you an idea of how ambitious this project is, if I merge the chapters I need to merge from the previous versions with the fresh new version I started to write, I'm currently at 300 pages written in A4 format, with basic font size. I have to tell it, I already wrote a lot of projects in my life. I even reached 100 and more pages for 3 or 4 of those, but 300, that's definitely a first. And it's not even 25% of the whole story I have stocked in my brain.

COMICS:

Heh... That's where I feel a bit ashamed, I have to admit. My comics didn't progress at all since July despite finishing a new final page was one of my monthly objective. But I'm not too ashamed because... all the ideas I got, it was important for me to write them in my script. And this took me a lot of time because of all I had in mind. I probably wrote more than 40 pages of script in A4 format during July, after all.

3D:

There had been some progress as well. I started to improve my low poly animable and customizable 3D human character, making it available for Cycles render, which was not possible before without having an ugly shadows around the neck that only a scarf could have hidden.
I also started the rig for my dragon, but I stopped because I'm still questioning about what kind of controllers would be better for the wings, the tail and the neck.

2D ANIMATION [NEW]:

I know, I know, it's not very clever or serious to start working on something new while I have so many projects to work on. But this is something I wanted to practice again after I didn't practice for more than 5 years: working on 2D animations. And for that, I decided to join what we call a "Wings of Fire MAP" on YouTube. For July, I just signed in. The parts we had to work with, if accepted, was shared this month (August). Also, we still lack of participants, so... if there are 2D animators in my followers reading that journal AND if you're interested to join, feel free to. The link is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUgRKQZdHio and all the details are in description (with a Discord channel link to join).
This MAP is also a way to test out the Grease Pencil of Blender, which looks promising for 2D animation, that I already tested, but never used for a project.

LIFE UPDATE:

July flew by faster than I expected. I didn't make a lot of sport, but I tried my best to work on my project and to practice with Blender and Krita. I'm a bit sad my goals for this month wasn't fully achieved, but I'm not disappointed though, because I made progress.

# NEXT GOALS for AUGUST:

• Giving weekly updates on my paid commissions AND on my progression for the WoF MAP on their Discord channel

• Working regularly on both paid commissions (and on the 3rd if it gets validated and paid) and on my WoF MAP's part