Not an update in the traditional sense, but this is still pretty cool anyhow!
I’ve been participating in these 3D challenges since August 2022 (Moving Meditations was my first) but this is the first time I’ve actually used Fighting Dreamers in the prompt and it’s way better than my other entries because of it! (….and also the awesome community helping me out)
There’s a Top 100 but I never go in these to win, although Honorable Mention (in the render montage before the judging stream) would be rad as hell. But maybe I’ll get lucky this year!
I actually made these lads around August and just…never got around to promoting them. Whoops!
They’re my first attempt at FD-Adjacent merch, choosing to go with a generic base to add the ability to customize them either with random colors, or paint them differently upon request.
Although now I intend on phasing my resin stuff out to go back to 3D printing (depending on how well this venture works) and I’d like to give these guys homes to protect from Monsters. Which leaves the custom option off the table for the time being.
They’re good little figures though, maybe not the best at standing, and the paint jobs are a smidge rushed, but that just adds to their charm! I’m even discounting their original price from $18 to $15 both to reflect the moderate quality and also just so I can get them out of stock just a bit quicker.
I don’t expect to sell many of these at cons considering how niche they are, being based on the webcomic and all. But if these lads sound like a fun thing for you to have, hit me up on Etsy and we can work something out 😀
Besides, there’s Version 2 to look forward to… along with more simplified versions of the main cats in the future (just as soon as I learn more 3D modeling)
As expected, I got overwhelmed by like 5 things happening at once the past couple weeks and I don’t expect that to fix itself anytime soon, so I’m going on break until January 12th
That also happens to be my birthday too! Advancing the plot as a gift to myself ^u^
Gonna have a proper drawn out update to mention this too (since news posts are kinda glossed over, no big deal, I skip them too) but we’ll be back in action August 11th!
Also, we’re gonna start doing Bi-Weekly Updates, in batches.
Basically, every other week, there will be a minimum of two pages going up for each update, maybe 4 if I’m really vibing with it (or I need that much to finish a scene chunk). This way I can make up for missing updates, and maybe I can get through the series before 2030.
And I get a week off to breathe and/or build up on pages that’ll probably just be flat colored at least 90% of the time to speed things along. I think it’s a good balance. We’ll see how it works out.
I wasn’t intending this guest comic thing to be a proper hiatus but I guess that’s where we are now.
Got a lot of distracting stuff going on in the background and as expected it’s stunting my work, and I hit a wall around now where I want to try different stuff for a bit. So I figured I may as well lean into it and take a proper break to regroup, and come back fresh with some new pages
Posting here to keep the pace going in the comic, the guest comic stuff is still valid though (maybe not the Twitch stuff as much)
SURPRISE UPDATE! It’s a guest comic call! Next month’s gonna be BUSY.
Email me at mannykat8x(at)gmail(.)com with your comics/art (make sure your images are 900 pixels wide) or with any questions. I’ll also be available on Discord for those who know me on there already and want to ask questions/ send the comics there, and also make sure to include: – Your alias (username, real name, etc) – A brief description of your comic/art (if you think it’s needed) — Or some comments of your own in general – Any links to sites you’re on (Twitter, Deviantart, etc)
Any help in this endeavor is greatly appreciated! I’m moderately confident in my own ability to get enough pages done to last a month at least (not counting what I already have queued up) but it’s always good to have a backup buffer on the off chance something blindsides me.
….legit though if you want my discord just DM me and I’ll send it back