I've partially learned to cook. It's a means of me keeping my cost of living low so I can continue writing. But it also produces food that is way better than what I get at a restaurant. Sometimes I'm just damn tired and damn hungry. And at least a dozen times I've gone through the various meal delivery apps and I go so far as to make my selections and then I'm like, "holy crap, that's expensive." I've had my... Read More
The first draft is completed. I'll be sending it to my beta readers soon and try and simultaneously get it out for editing. Read More
I've mentioned I do a Writer Buddies status report to help motivate me writing. I also sometimes use 3D for that purpose. This is a high definition rendering of me talking. I don't look like that, it's just a model. And it's only 1080p. I can go up to full 4K resolution, but it balloons the file size to enormous proportions. This is already 380 megs and at full quality it's about 1.7 gigabytes! You can hear the trash trucks... Read More
I was called into jury duty and the trial I was on just completed. You're not supposed to come from more than 20 miles away, but to make the calculation, they draw a straight line. As if we could fly. So I'm like 23ish miles away and have to travel clear across Los Angeles county at morning and evening rush hour. I relied upon Lyft and Uber to drive me. So I ended up spending way more money than the... Read More
Got a lot of writing done. I'm working! I swears it on the precious. This is a video update I made for my "writing buddies" group that I work with. Wanted to show off some more animation. That's a troll in a disco. The head is only 24 frames a second, which is why the animation is stripped-down. The troll is 30 FPS. But this is just testing cameras, mostly. [video width="2052" height="634" mp4="https://hardluckhank.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/movie.mp4"][/video] Read More