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What I’m Working on:
🐋 Animating the Into the Aether Season 7 artwork by Scout Wilkinson.
🎙 Editing a soon to be announced podcast passion project with some friends.
🧠 Brainstorming ideas for an upcoming game jam this winter.
What I’m Learning:
🖍 Brushing up (get it?) my drawing skills with Marc Brunet’s ART School for Digital Artists.
🎸 Learning to play acoustic guitar through Paul David’s Acoustic Adventure.
Free Time Fun:
👟 Training with Nike Run Club to run the Philadelphia Marathon. 186 miles run this year so far!
🎮 Been slowly but surely working my way through Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, but Cloud and the gang have found themselves on the back burner for a bit while I am very deep into Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. I also finished Baldur’s Gate 3 recently, which feels kinda wild to type.
📚 Right now I am reading Spinning by Tillie Walden and really enjoying it. I am also picking away at
Oh Sh*t What Now? Honest Advice for New Graphic Designers by Craig Oldham, which I wish I could go back in time and make my college-self read. In addition to all that, I also have been trying to read more zines this year, and so far Just the Good Bits by Carey Pietsch has been the highlight.
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 am slowly trying to pick up Logic). 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 Threads so much.
Updated August 2024