Update 10/6/21 - stuff is doing
Added 2021-06-10 21:35:11 +0000 UTCSo, that was a couple of weeks...
My plan was to take a week away and just take some time relaxing and getting in some good biking. That is really not what happened. First up, on the monday morning, I got the van all tidied and ready to go. Packed bikes, had my trip planned. Got on the motorway, first stop the local supermarket to fuel up and get food for the week. Most of the places I was going to are quite a long way from shops, plus one of the areas is just coming down from a higher Covid tier while the last place is the current centre of an outbreak. I'd spend my time there a long way from people anyway, so I would have been fine as long as I didn't stop at shops, or go to pubs which was where the outbreak was originating.
I pulled into the petrol station a full 25minutes into the trip, and my brakes started grinding badly. I weighed up if I should risk it, but the sound was horrific, so I turned around and went back, stopped at a garage and got them to book it in for the next day.
I then spent until thursday being ill.
Finally, I felt well enough to try and salvage what I could of the trip, so I went. Headed up to Loch Lomond, did some stuff there then went around to ride north of Stirling. And the brakes started grinding again. I was going to risk it regardless, but they started losing power, and the highlands are known for having a lot of hills, so I bailed again and headed back.
So, the week worth of travelling and biking turned out to be one long day with a pissy 8km of riding managed. It was good riding, but still, nowhere near what I was hoping for.
The brakes have only just been fixed today, but now I can't try again for a week off, because I got offered part of my old job back, so the lack of van hasn't really mattered because I've been busy all week.
On top of that, I've been stressed with the NHS. In Scotland, anyone over 30 has to wait for a letter with an appointment for a covid vaccine. They've started opening it up to under 30's to register appointments now, so I went and checked when I was due an appointment. Turns out, according to NHS Scotland, I don't exist. Which explains a few things.
I've not really hidden that I have mental issues and a horrendous lack of self-worth, so to be honest since they've been making a fuss about vaccine appointments being done based on importance, the fact I don't exist for them confirms in my head that even the health service thinks I'm worthless and don't deserve a vaccine.
Obviously, it's probably because I moved and one or the other GP failed to update my records properly, but logic doesn't really factor into mental illness. Knowing is half the battle I guess, but knowing that there's a reason for it doesn't fix it.
The long explanation is that I have been working on both the next episode and the side-project, but I've been struggling to find the focus to stay at it long enough to get decent progress. I spent an entire day retopologising a single spaceship then trying to simulate explosions in space, but wasn't able to get a decent result from it, and it feels like it's going to be one of those things where I either let it eat up weeks trying to get it right, or bodge it and try to fancy up something that is going to be pointed out as looking shit.
I'm hoping to get some more done this weekend. For now, I'm handling the animation for Roane that goes in the foreground of the explosions, and I'll skip past the scene to finish other stuff off, and probably end up coming back to this scene at the end if I can't get a good result soon.
Also as a final note, I've recently discovered Disturbed. Obviously, I knew about them before, and I've heard a few songs, but now it feels like a great band that somehow passed me by, and now I have to make that time back.
Comments
For the animation Dargon is absolutely right I would say. There are 4-5 good creators, which are I would say somehow leading. And I would say because of that everybody wants to see animations on that level forcing more and more. This probably includes me aswell I would say. So idk doing animations and start to begin with it looks really hard to me I would say
OurFavDolphin
2021-06-16 22:12:17 +0000 UTCTo be honest, I don't really see it as much of a choice. I can't risk what is essentially my home! Still, got a bit of riding done, so it's not all bad. Yeah, like you say, there's always going to be critics, but at the same time, it's good to avoid blatant things. Luckily, I think I'm starting to move along the right track for that scene, so hopefully I can start moving forward a bit quicker.
Methodia Rascal
2021-06-13 21:41:30 +0000 UTCGood call on turning back the second time, brakes are arguably the most vital system of a car, and to have them be dodgy is to risk disaster. Sucks that Murphy conspired against you though, sounds like you had a good vacation plan. Glad to hear that there's at least some portion of income coming in, but I imagine working with the same company again comes with mixed feelings, heh The SNAFU with the NHS sounds like business as usual for a gov't org. I'm sure that can be solved eventually, but it'll for sure be a pain in the ass until it is. I hear you on depression taking otherwise-neutral facts and twisting them into negatives. You're already focusing on the actual cause of the situation, which is more than I would've been able to do. Here's hoping they're able to get you in quickly, both into the system as a whole and in for a vaccine. For animations, you gotta do you sometimes. There will always be nitpicky critics; occasionally they have a point, but I think a lot of people don't recognize how many things have to go right to get an animation at all! Gosh, listening to some of those Disturbed songs brings me back. Fantastic sound, and it's a different experience listening to the full album versus hearing a the more popular ones on the radio.
Dargon
2021-06-12 18:36:26 +0000 UTC
