July news

Hello dear Patrons !

Summer is here, with all its usual eyecandies ! Heat, miniskirts, bikinis, tanned skins... I just love this time of the year ! It's not as warm as it should be lately but it's good enought. There's also the Euro 2016 happening and it makes the country very lively ! Concerning holidays, I don't know yet when I'll take some but it's likely to be in august, I'll keep you in touch.

The user membership system on my site is definitely a thing of the past. Half of the patrons didn't like it and it's way too much. Some left, maybe you have noticed the pledge growth stagnate. Anyway, I have deleted all the user accounts and the reward-related pages, so it's no use trying to login ; from now on, everything will happen on dropbox. It will be much easier for me to maintenance and for you to access without login. The provided links will change every month. You can already check your patreon message box for the july links !

Consequently, I'll do some big cleaning among my posts today, deleting obsolete posts. I also have to rewrite my presentation that is a bit chaotic.

One of the programs I use, Clip Studio (ex Manga Studio), has a new feature for doing animation pretty easily. I'm currently drawing a sequence, I will show it to you when it starts to look presentable. I haven't done animation since art school so I might be a bit rusty. Eventually, I could do this more often if it looks good.

I'm still having trouble with video screen capture. I checked everything, tweaked photoshop resources settings, and It looks like the problems comes from my ram. I already have 16gb but still, hd capture+h264 encoding+photoshop at the same time, even when running on different drives including ssd, the recorder still fucks up after 5mn of recording. Photoshop latests versions are heavy and a lot of people have complained about it. Latest release was supposed to correct some of the slowdowns, but again it's not working properly. I have yet to try with Clip Studio. It's less resources-hungry than photoshop. All the more, I'm using it more and more. At the beginning I was just using it for the comic, but Its proves very efficient with illustrations too thanks to very useful and unique features that photoshop doesn't have.

Have you seen the latest digital art breakthrough with VR ? It's fucking awesome !!!

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I'm drooling as I watch these videos again... to sculpt and paint at the same time, even if the result is a bit sketchy, it's so badass ! It's the future of concept art, architecture, etc... I want it badly. I showed it to a few friends and they where all in awe. I started to put some money aside to buy a HTC vive and the tilt brush, it's expensive so it might take some time but it's worth it. If I buy it in the end, I will definitely make something for you guys !

Next step : electrodes helmet for "mind-painting" ?

- Andromeda pages are progressing !

- Spin off will be released mid July this month.

- An illustration is also on the way, a famous character fanart mash-up with my comic

Voilà, I think I've said it all.

Happy summer everyone !