A Return to the Realm of the Creative

I should definitely start with an apology to anyone who has taken the time to check this blog since June. As I wrapped up my teaching job in Japan and prepared to move back to Canada in August, then onto the UK in September, my model-related projects kind of fell by the wayside, and so did this blog. That being said, I'm now firmly set up here in the UK, I've dusted off the models and made myself a "Man Cave," so it's about bloody time I started cranking out some more content for the old bloggerino. Here's hoping there are still some folks around who'd like to read it ;)

So, though I have been away, I haven't been idle. My creation tends to follow tracks, and as I wrapped up my sojurn in Japan, cameras broke and new ones were bought and, eventually, photography moved to the forefront as modelling was placed on the back burner.

So, though this might not be, strictly speaking, of interest to the modelling/40k crowd, I've filled my summer with stuff like this:






...and this:


...and, as I made some of my first forays into videography/editing, they yielded stuff like this:


...and one of the things I'm probably most proud of ever having created:

And that all has little and less to do with modelling and sculpting, but I dream of a time when I will be able to just sit around and make stuff all day long. When that happens, I hope that this can be the place where those creative forays come to rest.

Enough of that for now, though.

The blog will be back to models by Friday. Promise :)

Spinal - A Grotesque Update--NOW in 3-D!

Okay, so maybe that 3D bit's a lie, but it is the case that I felt bad for not updating the Grotesque project on Friday, as I had been doing for the last two weeks, so I decided to use a new toy that just came in the mail to create a time-lapse-style video of me at work. It's the first time I've ever done anything like this, and the angle is a bit pants, but I thought folks might find it fun.
Featuring the sounds of fine, fine Canadian group MSTRKRFT. If you like the music, look them up. You won't regret it. Back to the video, though: I think that, should I do this again, I'll probably learn a lot from this initial outing.

So anyway, yeah: I got some more work done on the Grotesques this week, but not as much as I was hoping. Lesson? Don't predict that a week is going to be great for working until after it already has been!

Here are some pictures of the team in their current state: