Art, music and video games: The Universal Wombat

Good morning, fellow Wombatants! Michael here, and welcome to another Status report! (Report #31 on the 31st! What a coincidence, especially since it can never happen again, what with months having 31 days at most.😉) So, as you might have noticed, we've been super-idiotically busy these past couple of weeks. So, let's break it down as we usually do: -Art- Well, you might have our new project, " Sketchbook Saturdays " popping up, yesterday. Basically, Amalia and i realized that we're looking at Art too much like we look at music. In music, if you wanna share something, you kinda have to make a whole song, because sharing individual bits of the creation process is kinda difficult. Think "Hey guys! Check out these 20 seconds of drums we recorded, today!" So with music, it's a case of getting inspired, and then really dedicating yourself to a project until it's finished and ready for release. Now, we've been looking at art the same way, but actu...

 Why hello there, fellow Wombatants! Amalia here, and welcome to Sketchbook Saturday, a new series we've come up with for this blog! See, at the time of writing, we just recently started getting into art. As in, drawing/painting. Now, every time we pick up out pen and get on our tablet, we get really into it, but with so much other stuff going on, it can be a bit hard to find the time. ...... which is why we've decided that we should encourage ourselves. And a good way to do that is to regularly post something! So why don't we get started with today's subject? Here it is: So one reason we got into art in the first place is because i quite like to create representations of my form. Sooo i finally tried to draw myself, using a pre-existing image as a reference so i could practice.  It turned out..... kinda better than expected, actually. I rather like how my hair came out, though Michael thinks it looks a bit too rigid and brush-like. Well, he may have a point. In any cas...

Hello there, fellow Wombatants! Michael here, and if you're reading this, then it's finally happened! Our self-titled tune, Close Quarters Wombat, is finally out! Is it our best work yet? Eh, to be honest we think it's sort of head-to head with Filettatura di Scarto and Mixed Signals, but this one's certainly felt the most like a journey! It started as a silly pun in our Planet Zoo series, turned into the name for our next song, and then gradually, as we decided to branch out and reorganize the way we operate, it turned into not just our new artist name, but also effectively our mascot. We really did - not - expect this when we started putting this tune together. Of course, with the rebrand (along with a lot of life stuff) came a lot of delays, so this tune's been in the works for nearly half a year. Well actually, some of that time was spent with it in the works, some of it was due to a sheer lack of time to work on it or a need to finish other projects, first. The...

  Hello there, fellow Wombatants! Amalia here, and it's time for us to talk about a (fairly) modern game for a change!

  G'morning, fellow Wombatists! It's Amalia here, hittin' you with another Status Report! We've been fairly busy, so let's start by talking about... -Art- Well, we finally got our next project done in this regard! For some practice, we did our best to do a digital paintalong with Bob Ross! (Not real-time of course. Bob was incredibly fast!) You can see the finished work up above, and this time, we also recorded a speedpaint, look: We feel like we could have added a bit more overall contrast or colour depth, but eh, it was fun to make!😉 For our next work, i'll be looking into making a first self-portrait. Our first time drawing a human (or well, human form). Let's see how iffy i can make myself look, eh?😜 -Photography- Well, you might have seen this recently on our Cara or Pinterest : We've come to a bit of a routine now, where we do something each Sunday. Status Report Sunday every other week, and every - other - other week, it's "Side Projec...

Hello hello there, fellow Wombatants! Amalia here. And y'know, we were looking to write about an entirely different game, here. Something we're really looking forward to writing about. But nooo, we had the idea that we could upload the occasional video with commentary on our new YouTube channel   (An idea which we've since scrapped) , so we needed a game that would offer a good, simple gameplay loop to talk over. Lo and behold, some hours and hundreds of kilometres later, we're knee-deep in... ..... and so we've decided to own it and write about it. At least this way, we have an excuse for playing it.😉 ETS2 is a..... well trucking simulator. Made by SCS software, it came out in 2012, but it's been continuously updated and expanded since then, so it's actually quite current. In fact, the playerbase has massively grown over the years, to the point where it just reached a new peak this year! So, in keeping with our usual approach, let's get the technical d...

Good morning there, fellow Wombatants! It's Michael here, and boy have we been busy! Should make for a good, interesting Status report, so let's get right into it! -Blogging- Well, we've clearly been spoiling you, these last two weeks. Not one , not two , but three new blog posts! Please don't get used to that pace, we only managed to put those out in such quick succession because we'd already partially written them.😉 Although having said that, we are already working on another gaming post. One that, frankly, we never intended to make, but the game ambushed us, as it were. Oh, also, with 4x4 Evo 2, we had a bit of a first, in that we uploaded gameplay of it to our YT channel and embedded those videos in the blog post. Mind you though, y'shouldn't expect to see a post about every game we upload videos of on YT. In fact, if we're planning to write about a game, we likely won't make any public videos until the blog post is out. We wouldn't want to...