Saturday, January 11, 2014

Happy New Year!

Well, a Happy Belated New Year to everyone!
Yeah, I know I'm late. I wanted to leave the Pirate's Bane blog post up a bit longer.

Okay, my resolutions/ projects this year.
Other than loosing weight... (I have that one every year) there are a few things I want to do this year.
Here is what I'd like to write and publish this year.
Afraid of the Dark (Which was written back in 2011 and is still not out yet. Poon currently has it)
Book projects in write order:
Jethro 3 No place like Home (Currently 115+ pages including the short story with it, Searchlight)
Alive (14 page treatment)
To Touch the Stars  (still a treatment)
Ghosts of the Past (Currently 80+ pages including the short story with it, Lewis and Clarke)
Booststrap 2 -(Maybe?)
Short Stories: Multiverse (some have been done years and years ago)

Along with those, I get to do the covers for them, plus play with scenes I've wanted to make, such ask this:
(This is currently noncanon since I haven't gotten to that time period yet)
The Veraxin is by me. So is the Yard Dog image in the background. (I cheated) The rest all came from Daz3D and was modified by me to suit my needs. The corridor for instance is from Stonemason. I just got his latest version to play with too!
Since I have all those Daz goodies, plus I can model, sculpt, and rig stuff, I may do some more, or maybe a movie or 2. I dunno. I think that's asking a bit much though. This one I started back in November, but then hijacked it for that Xmas image I posted a couple blog posts ago...

...Let's see... work on a couple Zoid projects I've been putting off (including laying the groundwork for a possible comic, but alas, another thing I keep saying every year) Talks with Mechmaster over said comic, or another comic....(it is up in the air) and I'm also working with a buddy on a 2D side scroller Unity game called NUTZ we're working on right now. (Tut tut people! Don't be so dirty minded! It's not what you think!)
Wow, that is a lot. I've got my work cut out for me. lol

To top all that off, Da Hammer 91 cursed me by asking about the admiral's family. A few others have asked, so I finally got around to jotting out the treatment for Sparks, the first book in the Gottenburg time period. (Twighlight of the Federation, aka the Xeno war trilogy/series)
Thanks for that, it took forever to get to sleep that night. lol

I'm itching to dig into that... but manfully holding off ...for now. I don't know how long I can hold out though. I will say the plot is a bit different than I had first imagined. We'll see if I keep it that way or not.

Oh yeah...A couple people have bugged me about putting up my Amazon Author Page. I may get around to that too.

Oh, a certain somebody (not me) is also currently working on a wiki for the Federation Universe too. lol

The rest can wait!

EDIT: I ran this past Mechmaster who also pointed out the shadow errors. He advised me to switch to Area shadows, which I did. A bit of tweaking resulted in this:

And for those asking on the FB page, right now I don't know who the other people in the shot are, same as you. They are just people walking around. And no, this isn't a ship it is a space station...


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