2025 New Years Resolution

Created 06 January 2025
Updated 14 January 2025

Resolution

I want to stop saying “I’m not an artist” and start doing art, start being comfortable with fucking up, and generally be more creative with all tasks I do.

Reasoning

I’ve always felt like “I can’t do that” when approaching creative tasks, but over the last year I touched on many artistic projects and did just fine. AI has become a big deal and through it I learned that even if I’m bad, I’m still a hell of a lot better than whatever image generation models can pump out, because at least I can follow instruction.

Most of the difficulty I’ve faced when doing art has been landing on a consistent art style. I don’t really have one, and I think that’s going to be the toughest challenge to overcome.

Hard goals

I feel it’s important with any resolution to have hard goals, otherwise how do you say that you’ve done it?

Find an “art style” that I want to cultivate.
- In progress over here!
Do a self portrait!
Add more images to this site, hand drawn, rendered out, whatever.
Figure out real-time VFX for game assets!
Create a character!
Figure out Blender’s Non-Linear Animation tool.
Figure out Animation blending in Godot/Blender?
Do some creative writing, an original story.
Learn some audio stuff? How to master properly, maybe learn some foley stuff?

Accomplishments

“Fun” and Games Podcast

I recorded an episode for a podcast! In it, I told the story of my RimWorld colony! I think if I want to do more recordings of myself, I should probably get a better microphone, the one I have barely picks me up, or perhaps I’m not using it properly. In any case, it doesn’t have a stand and I had to hold it in a cup for the entirety of the recording, so It’s probably a good idea to get a new one anyway.