Interesting start to the year blasting useless guff into the abyss and finding the bits of software and projects which really matter to me. For the most part I have ditched social media, I was using twitter, mastodon, bluesky, and youtube constantly before and now it's some sporadic youtube use and the odd visit to bluesky. I stripped my three neocities sites right back to the essentials, decided against pursuing livestreaming for now, and picked to use NG blogs/news instead of self hosting a static wordpress site. Looking forward to being a supporter here again, and on neocities despite my minimal presence there.

I'd really like to make the Flash Forward entry I've had in mind since 2021, and with any luck I'll actually do it amidst work now that for the first time since then I'm no longer a post graduate student (thank goodness!). Ruffle was incredible then but has blown me away recently with how it can run older 3d frameworks like Papervision3D without much issue. Still yet to test a newer one like Away3D or Stage3D (my laptop, from 2011, struggles even with Papervision) but I have high hopes! Would be great to include something 3D in a submission.

One of the projects I want to include in that, which has survived the purge, I had some fun with recently modelling and rendering an asset for with Softimage 2015 R2, gif attached:

I'm so charmed by SI but when I have the computer to run it, I'm looking damn forward to using the latest version of Blender again. Using 2.79 on this laptop is an option, but not one I relish, and learning SI has been fun, even though it's a dead end. I'll be holding off on any new 3d work until I'm on Blender. It'll be interesting moving from Flash CS3 to a newer version of Animate, I have been really attached to CS3 everything (hooray for having an enterprise copy!) and of course it runs perfectly on this laptop, but I don't think I'll be able to keep it up on whatever computer I get next. Not sure i want to either, I've had a habit of dragging old hardware and software far beyond its use by date. That all being said, if I can get Flash CS3 running on the latest version of Mac OS somehow, I'll do it bahaha. But, I'll settle just fine for Animate.

Anyway hello, hello hello, great to be here again and pouring my thoughts into a blog post. I wont be a consistent poster, and if my track record is anything to go off then it'll be a while til I post again. Hopefully it'll be in April with that FF entry and to celebrate 25 years of the portal! How good