Recently I had a request that got me reflecting on my working methodology and revealed something of a shortcoming in my puppet building process. When I decided to start the shop, I established a few fundamental parameters, the most important…
As we talked about on the recent Pixels and Puppets episode, the current PC hardware ecosystem has me rethinking my approach to upgrade cycles. I’ve always been a tinkerer and enjoy the building process so I naturally fell into ……
Being an older person, I’ve had a lot of jobs in my life. I’ve been a fast-food worker, retail sales, a bar busser in a Goth club, and a succession of various web design and development positions. Some were fine,…
No Such Thing as an AI Puppet Builder. Yet.
A busy week leading into a busy weekend has my brain in “chicken in a wind-storm” mode. Hard to pick just one topic for this morning. Why choose? Puppet stuff: A Goblin and one Greeblee done, which is a little…
A rare appearance by The Oracle 1.0 Another day, another thing wot is broke on that bird site. Hello to another new wave of Mastodon folks, hope you’ll find the platform as uplifting as I have. It’s a different ……
Today’s logo brought to you by the goblin puppet I finished yesterday. I really, really like it, so much so I’m hesitant to put it up for sale. And yet I will. O:P regulars know or are sometimes surprised to…
Fair warning: I hardly mention puppets at all in this one. For various reasons I often don’t sleep well Monday nights and last night was no exception. Extra stuff on my mind. Last year I decided it was time for…
Another Monday and another week of building! It still throws me sometimes that I actually look forward to my job. You’d think I’d be used to that by now. As was recently talked about in the O:P Discord, unlike most…
I’ve been making The Oracle for longer than I’ve … Read the rest
Almost at the stage in working in the NWN server for the O:P community that most of the mechanical infrastructure is built and I can start thinking about story and quest plot lines. This will, of course, be the video…
I often say to people curious about the scope of this field, puppetry and puppet building is small but bigger than you think. When I started, I never dreamed there would be enough people out there to turn Operation: Puppet…
