I missed the whole Fraggle Rock thing growing up, jumped straight to The Muppet Show, and I still haven't seen a single episode, but that might have to change. This looks amazing.

Hunh.

I have exactly zero ability to be even a little bit objective about this show, but fuuuuuuuuck it looks so good.

A-fukin-greed my friend. I'm so ridiculously happy with how this matte extension turned out.

And now In Living Motion whynot:

(Still some work to do, I haven't even touched the roto on her since 2018 so there's something kinda funky going on there I think)

2021 was one of those years where I feel like I finally unlocked the next level of both my art and how I relate to my art, and where I want to be going and doing and all that jazz. So I thought it might be fun/interesting to do a little shot evolution comparison through the years.

(Side note: Between the two 2018's is when Teague did his notes pass and suggestions random recording thing he does and somehow managed to unlock the mental block in my brain and I very literally had that "all my instincts suddenly flood back into place and I feel like I've regained my power" moments, and remembered how VFX work after not touching it for like 5 years. So if nothing else, we can all blame Teague for where I am now...thank? Maybe thank.)

I'm not a huge fan of social deduction games, but I could be down for Among Us if that's what everyone else wants to go for.

As for modded, yeah afaik it only works on desktop since you have to use a modded client to launch it.

Assuming the weather doesn't take a turn for the even worse (HA. Last weekend= 0C, today = negative 38 with the wind chill. Fuuuuuuuuuucking northern BC) I think I'm still going to try heading home for Christmas weekend, so I'm out for next weekend. But I'm planning on being back for the following weekend, so we could aim for DiF Does New Years if enough people are around.

Gad. And I do emphasize. Damn.

Thanks dude! And big same, pretty much the second Julia started going down this road in the episode I was head over heels in love with the whole thing and it's been sitting in the back of my brain percolating ever since.

I've actually never played KRZ, heard of it, but that's about it. Gonna have to fix that soon I think. As for the actual inspo, basically it was the convergence of the two main thoughts going on when I was developing the idea: 1) In the episode Julia explained that she was aiming for a "midwest diner meets midwest open air chapel" sort of thing, so that gave me the overall shape of the 2 walls and point roof opening out. And I knew that I wanted to incorporate some more of the diner aesthetic into the walls. And then 2) I knew I wanted to make it a cryptid, ghost-story, sort of thing, and where I eventually wound up landing was the idea that this place that was basically metaphysically ripped out of another universe and exists here for a time and so everything around the edges is aged and destroyed and shredded, and then it gets more and more pristine towards the fountain. So that let me kill the two birds of "creepy, haunted place ripped from another reality" and "creating that shape" with one stone, and the rest just naturally fell into place from there.

Duuuuude that is so rad.

Admittedly this is BigDamn "why would you even want a focal plane more than 1 mm wide" Artist talking here, but naaaaah, the bloom is primo stuff in here, honestly I could even see more wrapping around from the car headlights working well on the bottom panel. (Specifically sort of wrapping around the top-left side of the car/frame to balance the bright right side of the top panel. But that might just be me.)