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What I’m Working on:
🎮 My friend Will Spaar and I just finished our second game jam game, Radio Quiet.
🐋 Animating the Into the Aether Season 7 artwork by Scout Wilkinson.
🎙 Editing an actual play podcast passion project based in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Universe.
What I’m Learning:
🖍 Brushing up (get it?) my drawing skills with Marc Brunet’s ART School for Digital Artists.
🍩 Finally dipping my toes into 3D with CGBoost’s Blender Launch Pad.
🎸 Learning to play acoustic guitar through Paul David’s Acoustic Adventure.
Free Time Fun:
👟 Resting my legs after running the Harrisburg Marathon and doing the occasional Nike Run Club treadmill run. Gotta wait out the cold somehow!
🎮 I am very deep into my new game plus run of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. Also slowly but surely working myself through the many JRPG’s of last year with Persona 3 Reload and of course, actively build crafting for my Dark Urge playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3.
📚 Right now I am reading Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. Just a super dark blend of a Richard Scarry inspired art mixed with a small town serial killer murder mystery. It looks exactly how you imagine it to and it rocks.
Gear I’m Using:
💻 M1 Max Macbook Pro with 64GB of RAM connected to a BENQ GW2765 monitor with a NuPhy Air 75 keyboard and Logitech MX Master 3S mouse. For drawing and cel animation I use the Wacom Cintiq Pro 22.
🎙 Elgato Wave: 3 microphone and for headphones either AKG K240 for editing or Sony WH-1000XM4 for listening to music/podcasts while working. For recording, I use Audio Hijack by Rogue Amoeba, which actually rocks. Podcast-style recording is such a breeze with that app and I honestly can’t say enough nice things about it.
🖥 I edit video in Premiere and audio in Audition (although I do find myself defaulting to Logic more these days). For animation I use After Effects primarily, but for character rigging I do everything in Moho Pro 14. For drawing and cel work I use Clip Studio Paint.
🔌 I am not a huge Plugins for Everything guy, but I do have a few I can’t live without. Labels, EaseCopy, Kbar, Portal, FX Console, Align Pro, Ray Dynamic Color, Overlord, True Comp Duplicator, and Motion 4.
🖌 For brushes, Ayeoops’ Everything Brush I use for, well, everything. I also really like her Clip Studio Pack for funky textures.
🎮 PS5 for most things. Odin 2 Pro for retro games and PS5 remote play. Switch OLED for indie stuff and anything that really benefits from the OLED display. My iPhone with the Delta Emulator for low stakes Pokémon instead of scrolling Bluesky so much.
Updated January 2025