Kenny’s created a monster!

“I will CUT youuuuu…”

He has a lot of catching up to do.
Also, if you missed the blog post, the “__ years in the future…” headings are now officially relative to 2011 instead of “whenever you’re reading it”. Time to lock the years in place.

The day after the previous comic, I realized that THIS approach was funnier to me, so I’m calling a redo on it and recounting the event from a different vantage point.
Stay tuned tomorrow(April 1st) for an announcement.

Oh by the way, they’re still in school, but only for a few more months. Kenny & Fuego graduate this year.

Today, I’ve started using Blender as my main 3D program. I gotta say, it runs a lot faster than Second Life(not surprising, considering SL is primarily an online game/environment), and as soon as I learn how to do everything in it, it’ll be MUCH faster to use than Second Life(No chat! Yay!). I really only did the walls and lighting in this comic’s backgrounds, but that’s pretty much what I do with Second Life. The desk, drawers and chair in the first panel came from Scopia, who has a bunch of free 3D models at resources.blogscopia.com. The second panel’s background was made in Second Life because I couldn’t figure out how to make the curved tunnel wall correctly in Blender, although it wound up not looking curved anyway(update a few months later: I had been looking for the function to make a cylinder hollow, which Second Life has, but as it turns out, real 3D programs make it hollow right from the start!). Still, I was able to place that particle accelerator set behind Kennyland so people can see it in full. The third panel’s background was made in Blender, and was dirt-simple. I almost feel bad for covering up so much of the background with Fuego’s sleepy head because Blender did such a great job of shading. That’s another benefit of using a “real” 3D program; the shading. I look forward to finally using mirrored surfaces that actually reflect objects.

I’m still very new to Blender, despite having it for a few years now. Second Life was just too easy. I liken its building tools to training wheels, though, so it’s high time to get back to Blender, whether I make time for tutorials or not. I’m learning a lot just by diving right into it. That’s how I learn most programs, anyway. I got an introductory tutorial to Blender years ago, so I’m not flying completely blind. I’ll try to read more tutorials as time goes on, but the main thing is that I’m not going to wait until I’ve taken the tutorials, because that’s gone nowhere.

Update(Aug 2011): Btw, not ALL new sets will be built in Blender. There were a few new things that were beyond my Blender skills after this comic, so I don’t want those to be representative of what Blender can do. An easy way to tell if it was done in Blender is to see if shadows were cast. Although I’ve cast shadows in Second Life before, too(takes a setting change that didn’t always work), so the clearest way of knowing is if I mention it in the comic’s description, usually by giving credit when somebody else is the one that made a model.

Wow, it’s been over a year since we last saw Patrick!

Kenny does eat fruits and vegetables occasionally. Guy IS nearly completely carnivorous, but ferrets are completely carnivorous, anyway.

You’ve broken the ferret’s brain, Fuego!

When I was a kid, we had 4 food groups. Currently, there are 6, with one of them being “oils”(???), so I can definitely see us dividing it up even further as we become even more aware of what our food is made up of. I figure saturated and unsaturated fats could be added at some point, as well as red and white meat. Of course the “My Pyramid”(formerly the simple “Food Pyramid”) will get increasingly complex once you figure in different species.
Although the reason it was 4 when I was a kid is because the previous amount of 7 was deemed too complex, but it’s hard to say what we’ll think of it in 118 years.

Go get some sleep, Guy.

(In case the term “Bouillon cube” isn’t used in the U.K. or Australia, the translation would be “stock cube”)

Guy finally befriends a rabbit, something he never expected.