Week in Review #30: Articulated Guys

This is the latest I’ve ever been on a week in review. It is fully next week. But here’s what happened. First, my game jam scores: Creativity: 3.875 Narrative: 2.625 Enjoyment: 2.625 Artwork: 2.375 Audio: 1.000 (my game had no audio) Not bad! I hoped for a little higher, and I only got 8 ratings lol, but I am proud. I’ve learned a lot about Blender modeling since finishing the jam, now that I know what I don’t know, and I’m eager to revise this soon and bring it closer to how it is in my head. But not yet… As I mentioned last time, it is now time for Halloween. I’m keeping and building on last year’s jungle theme, and I knew I specifically wanted to add some small humanoid animatronics. I just spent four days living in Blender and my muscle memory was still sharp, so I dug through my bookmarks and learbed how to export a 3D model as a papercraft template for printing and assembling. (Turns out that “export to paper” is a built-in add-on, you’ve just gotta enable it.) So I modeled a…