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@vondellswain / vondellswain.tumblr.com

✌ vondell(vonˈDEL) dayton, ohio, USA
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did kiana mai’s character trope design challenge where I synthesize a character based on commonalities in all my favorite tropes and wound up with an earthbound alien named S80 (pronounced ‘Sadie’) who’s job is to uplift humans before their imminent destruction, but she’s fascinated and distracted by the rest of the life on earth. she has uplifted a growing number of other earth animals like cats and corvids and now they’re like familiars and mentors. but . . . will their combined knowledge of earth and its ecosystems be enough to get humanity back on track?

character designers: this is a fun challenge and I loved it and recommend it if you have a spare couple of hours. really makes you sit down and unpack what kinds of traits/tropes you like and how/if they could fit together.

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hey yall! here’s an animation of me drawing on isometric grid paper from yesterday! I had to pick my phone up a lot of times to make this.

did you know I have a page over at ello.co/vondell, and that it’s a pretty good place to keep up with my art? I have good news if you didn’t: now you do!

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hey all long time no see

i’m trying to work out a bird wing model/rig that’s fully operable in both flying and rest poses, and one that i’ll be able to use textured planes for each group of feathers of instead of hand-modeling every feather, which seems unnecessarily complex to me for the purposes i’d need it for. but i haven’t seen anyone do a model/rig like this. i’m not sure how it’s going to look yet, i’ll know better once i start putting alpha feather textures in. 

i’m hoping i’ll be able to tweak this for use on non-avian maniraptorans too.

should i like … make a dev blog? or something? i feel like i shouldn’t post every update on WIP projects on this blog but i don’t really have any other place for it. i’ve been putting WIP shots on my personal but that’s probably not the place either. but i don’t know how i’d update a dev blog if i’m not actually working on any big projects. maybe i should find some big projects to work on!

i wanna work on this again!

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collaborating with a writer friend on a project ... can’t say much about it yet but here’s some incidental concept work that doesn’t give anything away ... other than maybe the time of year!

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