It is that time of the year again. Won’t be making resolutions. I make plans. Plan for 2022 was make home studion which could stay as it is going forward. That almost happened. One midi keyboard and one guitar pedal not being available when I wanted and new eurorack case prevented that to be finished by the end of the year but it will happen early this year. Trigon 6 module might find its way to studio when it is available but everything else should be finished early this year.
New eurorack case has turned out to be quite interesting. Every time I feel I could keep Lifeforms in case I find something weird from them. Midi to CV conversion has weird feature which appeared in current setup. It is really annoying but it can create cool randomness when used correctly. Addition to that I have had really had time calibrating SV-1. I get them working perfectly but next time they are all over the place. It could be temperature and calibrating them when they are cool. Unless I get them to stay in tune without constant calibration there will be major changes in what modules will be in that case.
When I set home studio I got proper workspace for drawing and video editing. Wasn’t planned but it made sense to do that too. After I got work spaces in proper condition 2022 year 2023 will be year to git gud. There are things to get good at. Making music, drawing and 3D animation with Blender. Nothing that I start from zero because year changed. It has been on going process which I try to focus more this year. There is one bigger secret drawing related project I want to do. Publishing it depends how it works out. 3d animation would be for music videos at the moment. I like how Cinematic Laboratories and Make Noise use 3D animation in their videos. I did that few years ago in few videos. Music is just fun and I like to get better at it and produce more of it.
Trying to figure how to schedule this year so I manage to learn everything I want. There is a problem of using it or losing it. I have few online courses to take on each topic. But which order to take them so I don’t take the course and then don’t do anything with it afterwards. I feel I need to learn basics of Blender every time I use it. Goal is to time learning in a way I start to use what I learn. At the moment learning Blender again for fourth or fifth time and music theory seem most optimal route. I haven’t found course which teach one thing I need for that secret art project. I would like to know if there is good online course on how to draw same character again and again and make it look same every time. You can get there by drawing but I like to learn on which things I should concentrate on. I learnt to draw male and female faces after someone pointed good web site teaching the differences. I haven’t found good enough information on drawing the same character again and again.
If you wonder why I am learning Blender for forth or fifth time there is a simple answer. Earlier times rendering time has been huge issue even when using rendering farms. Now it should be better. I have some ideas for 3D animation besides music videos but it has been too time consuming so far. It might still be but I want to try again and there is online course which tells how to make 3D animations fast with Blender.
