Put Me In Coach

This project has been on the bench for far, far too long. It’s time to get back in the game and start making things happen again. I’ve been sidetracked most of this year. Much of my time was spent working on two other projects and most recently the day job has been consuming my life like never before. What time I was able to spend on Newfound Room this year has been spent in learning mode — time spent on learning normal mapping and GIMP mostly, but also on learning new ways to do this type of on-the-side work without killing myself from lack of sleep and exercise. Now, however, the time is here to get moving again.

Thousander Club Update
Here it is! The home stretch is finally here… after, how many years now? 4 years? 17 more hours and I will have met my goal of 1000 hours spent making game art. Where do I stand after all this time? Stay tuned and I will provide a nice look back at the journey at the end of the year. Also, I crushed my goal of 1000 miles of biking this year. That goal just got easier and easier during the year. So much so, that I even ride through hail storms and winds that knock pieces of the bay bridge down.

Previous Year: 737 hours
Total: 983 hours
Biking for the year: 1,543 miles

A New Challenge
Now that the thousander club is wrapping up and things are just starting to get rolling here on making new models for game devs to use, I will be taking on a new challenge. I’ll have more about it in the next few weeks, but for now I will simply state that I will be challenging myself to make and distribute a new free game asset every week for the coming year. I’m still debating on the details of how I will work it, but in short I will be putting a lot of focussed energy on making this site as strong as I can in the coming year.

Stay free
~shs~