Cool Fox by Sam Duckworth on Sketchfab

Here's the current state of the model! If you click on the title, you'll get to see it in an interactable turntable. The skinning and rigging was a very quick job as I wanted to get a dynamic pose rather than a T-pose.

I'm looking into making the textures pop a bit more with some detail rather than being mostly flat colours.

To avoid making this topic potentially go in a further sourer direction, I've found a lot of comments here to be rather insightful! It's good to get a fresh perspective to a problem.

I do have some good news though, I did manage to finish that project for work on friday! Huzzah! Not sure what the next big (or several) work projects will be for me but I'll have a bunch of techniques to potentially try out if I ever start to feel fatigued by a project, whether for work or personal.

When I'm feeling down, I normally watch or play something that gives me a nice nostalgia blast to help cheer me up. Well... I've been watching Gladiators!

One of the biggest UK gameshows of the 90s. Much bigger in production than American Gladiators and even had a few international seasons too! The later seasons start to lag a bit and eventually ended as it became obvious that the producers were running out of event ideas (a lot of the newer events weren't particularly good) and a lot of gladiators had to be pulled off due to injury (such as Nightshade and Jet)

It was (and still is) very cheesy but dagnabbit, I love it. (the attempted revival though was utter shite though..)

I'm not crying... I'm just making a lasagna...

"Mummy On The Orient Express"

Written by Jamie Mathieson, previously known for work on "Becoming Human" and "Being Human". As well as writing an upcoming episode titled "Flatline".

Holy shit, can we have more of this guy?

Maybe the bar is so low from last week but I really liked this episode. A lot.

The cinematography was back on form, the practical effects and costuming was lovely. I feel like this is our "bottle episode" for this season. We essentially only saw three or four sets/rooms and yet and a minimal use of CGI, and minimal use of Clara ("Welp, we are trapped in this room in the dark for most of this episode!"). Very much a Doctor heavy story.

I found the episode to be very engaging and intriguing, I liked that they referenced that this premise was mentioned in an earlier series and tied it in nicely.

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I did find this funny when re-watching the episode. BBC appears to have spent a lot on The Teller's costume and animatronics and ran out of budget for coming up with an item to show a projection that Psi uses:

USBs do amazing things in the future

I've been on a bit of an animation kick lately... Talking about a film like Coraline or Paranorman could be pretty cool!

So things have been rather positive for me lately. I haven't worked on the old man model again just yet because I was given an art test for a games company!

This is the first time a company has gotten back to me on my job search, and they like me enough to give me an art test so things are promising! The test was to model this character's head and shoulders in a hi-res sculpt, retopologize it, UV map it and apply textures on it:

And spend no more than 8 hours on it. This was what I managed to come up with! There's a few graphical errors that I didn't have time to fix but I think I did a decent job with the time-frame. What does everyone think?

New episode on tonight with the return of the darleks! One thing that I will say about the previous episode is that I quite liked the cinematography. This new series already feels different in tone, it looks and feels moodier/darker with harsher lights (Like in the restaurant scene, it feels cold, clinical and tense even before we realize that something is up) which makes me wonder how 'dark' this series will get. I wonder if it'll be like the baker years with horror/gothic elements to it!

So I have a question guys, who would you say is your favorite doctor? For me, I go with Paul McGann. The TV movie is very cheesy but he has some great moments in it ("Stand aside or I'll shoot myself!") What makes him my favorite is that I found him to be really enjoyable and engaging in the Big Finish audio dramas! If you haven't listened to some, definitely check them out.

I totally agree Tomahawk, that was my major issue with Clara. Instead they pretty much used her as a mouth piece for all the fans that were in it for Tennant and Smith only.

They already have, in Matt Smith's regeneration episode, it was implied that the Galifreians granted him another regeneration cycle. This has been done in classic who (not with The Doctor though)  with gallifrey giving The Master a new cycle (can't remember the reasoning behind it though)