Hi all!
Slow week? Not at all. My editors might think I am having a slow week, but in reality, I was on another learning curve in my picture making software. I need to introduce a new character at around chapter 16 but could not find a suitable 3D model anywhere on the internet. That means that I had to improvise and ‘create’ the character from scratch using a 3D model of a similar character.
I had to do a scaling of the character so that the dimensions would be true. Also, there was work to be done on the character’s skin. The character supplied at $17 just did not have the same skin as the new character in the story. So, at the drawing board (Laptop) I tried different settings and eventually after 22 renders of the scene, I hit the one that I needed.
Now you are curious as you might anticipate a neon-green Martian Allain. Not quite. It will be an animal. A wild animal. As Kait told Adrian: ““Adrian! That is a Leptailurus serval. It’s a protected species and a lethal predator.”
And Adrian replied: “Yeah? Well, tell the 'lethal predator' to stop eating my biltong.”
Well there it is! Have fun. Here is chapter 10 of “Let the river run.” Enjoy.
Goodbye 4 now!
Jody.
(2026-04-20, 06:56 SAST.)