In my infinite wisdom I decided to stay up late again (to 1am which used to be normal bedtime once upon a time but I have been trying to make bedtime 10-10:30 for two decades x_x) to finish the blocking.So now I've been doing more fun stuff like arcing the arcs (so that things don't just shortest path to the next keyframe like they were doing in the blocking video from the last post

Blah blah blah the usual. A lot of my project work time got overrun by other things that needed to be done. Some of it was kind of unavoidable (like the couple of times a year we do performances, and competitions when they come up). The rest of it was just somehow I ended up being the one that absolutely had to do the thing because for some reason everyone else was completely and utterly incapable.

I spent the first two weeks of March editing a video out of several that I took on and off during an old friends reunion/meetup. It was supposed to be a quick job and in fairness it only took me a day to put together and do the basic editing and a couple of hours , but I had a problem with led flickering and trying to fix that resulted in ghosting in places which required a directly opposing solution and that was what I spent most of the two weeks on.

Same freaking problem. I stayed up way too late and then didn't end up posting on Muddling Monday because I hyperfocused on trying to kerbstomp it into the ground. The kerbstomping part didn't happen but I did at least figure out something that worked (at least for now, I don't know if it will still work later).

There is the usual reason for no progblog since the first one of the year, and that was I got stuck.I needed to comb the hair on the highest multires level (because the render looked completely different to the viewport, which I thought was something to do with hair settings and didn't realise the levels would make that substantial a difference) and I'm not sure if multires and curve hairs play well together as combing was really quick and easy at level 0 but at level 3 it's jittery and unpredictable and often moves in at least the opposite if not some random direction (it's not laggy at all, just unpredictable and makes an already tedious process extremely unnecessarily aggravating). I got really mad and deleted the hair node group modifier thingies I'd put on it earlier and shoved the Surface Deform node back to the top which has helped a bit, as in it's not jittering randomly or pretending there's some kind of force field active and it doesn't keep flying off in random directions instead of going in the direction I'm pushing it.

In which I flip normal behaviour and make lazy loading images the default and eager loading the thing you have to do unless it's the first item in a list.The nonsense I get up to when deciding to try to make everything green on Pagespeed.