I keep telling myself to do this, but always put it off. But now that my storage drives are filling up, I might have to finally cave in and get it out of the way 🤦‍♂️

Like I know the techical steps, mostly, but idk, I just always seem to mess up at some point. Might return to a simpler design/model idea, instead of a full-body character.

Honestly making me reconsider some design choices, cause I'm not really "specialised" in character creation. I can do modelling, texturing, some programming stuff. And I'm ok with the sculpting & assembly, but rigging and rest of prep for real time...

That's totally something I'd build as a kid :D

He has a smoooth brain, no ridges or lumps, no valleys or bumps...

Just like me IRL, I love it!

Certain areas actually look quite good, even from quite close-up, like the ears, back of the neck and cheeks. Also kind of depends on the camera angle 🤔

Not sure if you're still open for more additions, but here's some of mine. I've included 2 variants of my early PNG phase and 2 shots of my latest & current 3D version :)

Respect.

I guess this sets my goals for this year to post at least more than 3 long-form videos to YouTube and more than 11 shorts this year, if I want to increase those stats for 2025 at least.

No guarantees that the views or watch time will follow of course, but seems like YouTube is the way to go atm..

As always, I have to give credit to @stringcheesedude.bsky.social for giving me this idea of yearly stats-updates posts in the first place, I'm just bringing it from X-Twitter to Bluesky now.

At least not yet. I barely have enough energy to make it through the average day, and streams just drain me. But, if I can improve even further on my #YouTube activity, and maybe other platforms like #Bluesky or #TikTok, then I could still keep growing? Even if it's reaaaaaaallly slow

In my head, I thought I barely did anything last year, but turns out I actually DID manage to do more than the year before, and even though it's only a minor increase in uploads & activity, the numbers don't lie! I think this really solidifies the idea that I'm not cut out for streaming though...

It's depressing because I feel like I go through these phases EVERY.FUCKIGN.YEAR. where I think "ok now I'm really gonna put my all into creating this year..." and then it doesn't go anywhere because life or mental health issues get in the way, but seeing the numbers like this kind of helps....

Idk, like this isn't new to me, I'm used to toxicity in competitive modes in various games, but sometimes I just wish people could be nicer... This whole situation led to my first ever "leaving mid-game" in #Deadlock
...

And the thing is, we weren't even losing that bad. Yeah, this game can be very "snowbally" if u lose some fights early, and the enemy just rolls over u mid-game, but we were fine, but they still found it necessary to just shit all over me :/

But just because I'm doing worse than average, in a non-ranked gamemode, I'm being jumped on by like 2-3 teammates, calling me out and saying I'm trash, which really messes with my "chill vibes"...

Ooh, I'll definitely look into this one, looks promising! Thank you :)