Blood moon's a pretty sweet way to kick off my 40th birthday, ngl.

More than just taking a break from 3D, I see this period as a sort of celebration. I hit 40, I hit a major Flames comic milestone with the completion of the 1st standalone chapter! Lots of commissions, some game playing, and through the year some travel for fur cons to see folks!

Ibercon was an unexpected opportunity and while I shrunk away at first, I'm glad I took a chance to see if work would let me add on some vacation days. I'll be flying out to Spain for Ibercon and a week in Madrid, then fly down to Atlanta for FWA. It'll be hectic but I'm really looking forward to meeting up with some friends and seeing some sights! Then a few month later, I finally get to share Anthrocon with two other good friends! I'll probably check out MFF again too tbh. If this international flight goes well, I hope to do it more beginning next year.

There's a lot of catching up to be done, too. I'm a week into some serious cleaning around the house. I have a mountain of landscaping work that needs to be done and March is probably when it needs to happen.

On the 3D front, I have less-concrete plans but I don't see myself entirely giving up on my current tech stack. I have a handful of little projects I would like to create; including animations. I do want to start taking time to get up to speed on Blender and hopefully figure out how I want to move forward. There's a mountain of assets that would need to be created just to get back to where I am now. Not guaranteed I'd ever manage to, either. So other possibilities I'm considering is an approach with more-limited visuals and dependent more on writing. I may even ultimately have to switch to a purely written format. Hopefully the writing is more coherent than my journals.