My Actifit Report Card: April 8 2022
Felt okay, though I’m still not feeling great. I think that whatever has been bothering me was happy for a while but that it’s starting to come back with a vengeance, so it’s a good idea to get it checked out as soon as possible.
The medication that I’ve been on does seem to mildly help with the upper stomach stuff, at least, which was what made it hard to sleep. Of course, I haven’t been on it long enough to really tell.
Freelancing gig started for real today. Got paid the up-front portion, did about 30% of the job by my estimate. Probably should have asked for more money, but I’m not feeling ripped off. I quoted the price and didn’t get haggled down or anything, and the part that took most of my efforts today was actually more fun than I had expected, but it also was way over the amount of time I expected to spend.
Got to use like five different skills, though, because I’m making a cover illustration for someone else. Since it involves “real” things, I had to make a 3d model, set up a scene and materials, render it out, process it, shunt it over into my 2d software, and make some alterations.
One thing that was particularly fun was figuring out how to make a realistic-looking leather surface with stitches, which would have been hard in 3d but was easy once I’d rendered out by just making a brush in Affinity.
I might do tutorials on how to do the stuff I did today, since it turned out pretty well.
Just have to do some text and other work on the cover, and it should be 100% good to go.
Also got some writing done. Carrion Birds, the velotha’s flock reboot/spin-off has come along nicely and is about 1/7th of the way through the actual text-gathering bit. Then it’ll just be editing, maybe another playtest, and release.
It’s mathematically simple enough that I don’t have a lot of stuff to do to make it work, and besides I already have a core rulebook and unreleased expansion for velotha’s flock to draw from.
The only question is how to handle the interior and worldbuilding. I kind of want to draw from 1910s art throughout, using public domain images as both a segue into the times and a visual element, though I’m not sure how to do it without looking too much like a textbook.
There’s a right way and a wrong way to do it, and I’m not sure I’ll pull it off.
The irony here is that the original velotha’s flock was a renaissance for me as far as using a lot of public domain art and pulling it off pretty well, all things considered.
Still editing the book on libertarianism. Almost through the economics section. The only part left is my section on public goods and the Austrian economics perspective.
Life is good, God is good.
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