The Fifth Return by Peter_Pixy_Harrison
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The Fifth Return
Every year during September I set aside anything I'm working on briefly to start building for the coming year but also during this time I revisit the starting point of my journey not only into the realms of being a 3D artist but of becoming a published author too.
Some people tell me that revisiting the same scene is pointless, as why would you want to continually remake the same scene? Well for me it's simple, firstly to test just how far I have come and grown over the last four years but most importantly, for me at least, how can you be sure of where you are going, if you don't remember where you have been?
The original was a simple scene, made with what I had to hand at the time and what few skills I had learned in the few months that I had been toying with 3D software, each year the scene has become more involved and lavished with the fruits of my labour and my deep love for the worlds I created.
This year marks the fifth time I have returned to remake and reimagine this scene that gave birth to an entire world and then a universe all of my own making, although this years return is tinged with sadness as I have taken the decision to actively remove Evelyn from my active character line-up.
Although this decision has hit me quite hard, as I never dreamed that I would be sidelining my first character so willingly, although I was aware that this day would come when Scorpio and the concept behind her world first arrived and pre-warned that all characters no matter how special have a timeline and that there is a point where all stars end.
However, I take solace in the fact that I have removed Evelyn to both protect and preserve her as she is rather than allowing her to become little more than a fragmented shadow of what once was.
With that in mind, this will never be the final time I will revisit this first scene but this will be the only time each year from here on that you will see Evelyn actively used.
Comments (2)
starship64 Online Now!
This is beautiful work.
Peter_Pixy_Harrison
Thank you very much, despite four years of moving and ever evolving characters and worlds, this still is one of my favourites
Giana
i personally will never understand why i feel so drawn towards Evelyn, thus it is an impossibility to be able to tell you. and though i do know some of her story, i also know it isn't that which pulls me in... there is something so magically deep about her for me... not sure what else i can say...
Peter_Pixy_Harrison
In truth I feel the same about her but I can't explain what it is about her that is so enchanting? Yet that magical thing she has going on is why I have to put her aside, partly the stories I'm telling don't work with her anymore and I also don't want her to become anything less than she is.
Believe me when I say that this is the hardest decision I have ever had to make over the past four years, even choosing a publisher was easier than this one.