Speaking of warcraft 2. I've been thinking about resources in rts, and there is usually 1 like in Westwood rts, or two like in blizzard ones or 5+ in smth like AoE. And they got their role and all, shape their games, set standards, but what's the deal with warcarft 2's oil?) It's so weird)

is it a Gremlin Nob from Slay The Spire?

So there are lot of islands on the UV and one pixel of padding. Is it the features of the pipeline? My guess, there are no mipmaps so the padding is not necessary, and you try to ensure that every island has absolute least amount of stretching so pixels look crisp, hence lots of UV islands?

Here's the original bot. It has power cell on the back. In hindsight I should've drawn him in album orientation and draw the crystals too. Probably I draw it later and photoshop it in.

Not worth doing that again.

Then I would regain energy in 1-3 months and can go on another manic period. Consistently, and everyday I can only do bare minimum of drawing. Setting a goal of drawing every day achieves a small halfhearted scribbles to cross a square and costs commitment and resources.

I would make grand plans and long projects, and depending on engagement the manic period can lengthen. In the end I fizzle out and depending on how much energy left - I can just become mellow to drawing, burnout or have a small breakdown. usually drawing stops being fun.

I always struggle when I model something complex. I just get paralyzed and don't know what to do. This blows my mind, how do you actually get something like this done?