maverisms

I could say I haven't had time to keep up with all the stuff happening in my feed, but that wouldn't be exactly true. I've had the same amount (sort of) of time as always. What I've not had was energy. I think that what people usually mean when they say they haven't had time to do something they generally enjoy doing. I could generalize to to all cases but there are a lot of situations where the genuinely isn't enough time. In the case of things we want to do, we tend to carve out time for them. Not having that time would imply a lack of energy for that carving. Without the power to carve, one probably lacks the power to do. That's where I'

It took the better part of two days to get this right. I learned a lot about lighting. Like, "I hate lighting." Interior lighting in Blender Cycles is often a pain. The ray trace often goes wild on random pixels causing "fireflies." Extremely bright pixels. This is tied into the way Cycles uses noise, so it's fairly easy to work around, once you figure out how to get rid of the worst of it. Getting rid of the worst of it without making it look there were no lights in the scene was a challenge.