Today certainly had its ups and downs. I spent more time than I would like trying to address the audio sync issues that I was having with the video for Day 4. I thought I actually managed to find a solution, even rendered the entire video out again, only to find that my “solution” somehow led to the last several seconds of video dropping from my file. Fortunately, I think I’m probably making more of a problem out of this than it needs to be. I only have the issue if I try to force Blender to render out to a frame rate that doesn’t exactly match the source video. If I just keep the frame rates native everything goes much smoother, and due to all of the practice I’m actually getting pretty fast at syncing up the external audio and adding in the various image overlays. So I should be fine as long as I can stick to the single source videos I’m doing for the vlog. Hopefully I’ll be able to find a better solution by the time I need to start getting more complex.
Art also had its ups and downs today. My main focus for the 30 minute challenge was another day of just practicing my fundamentals with some lines and circles.
I’m only posting them here to fully demonstrate why I don’t normally bother. Super boring stuff, but also super needed. Seriously, I’m fairly sure there’s not a straight line in the entire bunch, which was a bit disappointing as I thought I was making some headway with that.
After some warmup with the lines and circles, I decided to follow up on one of the anatomy videos I’ve been binge watching. Learning is useless if you don’t put it into practice, and practice makes perfect, so I put my hand at some spines:
The two on the top were nearly excruciating to render. I swear it took me a full thirty minutes just to draw those two. Oddly, later in the evening I sat down with my android tablet and busted out the other spines in next to no time at all. They’re a bit less deliberate, and I don’t think I got the curvature quite right, but the actual curves and lines were much easier, and involved way less erasing. I’m wondering if it’s time for a new nib on the stylus for my drawing tablet, or if the practice for the first two just really helped out.