Stavros, you may not know how much you all mean to me and how extremely meaningful your presence is to Verve's creation. I'm really not kidding when I tell you that you all are pure high-octane fuel for me to keep going. Every time you get excited, it's like a motivation meter that goes up, up, up and I'm totally on the receiving end of it. But when you guys paint and you create these new pieces of reality, I'm ready to explode for joy, every single time. I'm pretty sure many of you don't fully understand how much every doodle of yours means to me, let alone the carefully painted masterpieces that already fill this forum!
SO...yes, it's absolutely a powerful collaboration, even if I so often go: Yeah, been part of the plan, yeah, thought of this, thought of that... it is true, but it means- above all else- that we are on the same page, driven by the same energy!
Thing is, up until now I'm pretty sure most of us thought that a painter has some sort of limited set of needs or possibilities and even if we were to pull all there was together, we could still see each feature as something imaginable and few things surprise us. But with Verve.... my goodness... it's really the gateway to things that should've been normal all along, but somehow never made it into the mix. And the majority of the features and ideas truly target artistic usefulness, even if you can go way outside of that, hahaha.
But just for the record: I started to build a mapping solution for the fractal brush's stroke, which went on my nerves. That's all. I made only a little test setup to see what happens to the uv mapping and that was the lid of Pandora's box, flying off!
Talking about organic growth, bizarre pathways of evolution, surprises around so many corners, it's a total adventure. Of course, you hardly get the pitfalls, the scary moments, the dreadful passages and the gauntlets I have to run through every now and then. But that's what makes an adventure. Right now I'm really before a massive canyon that started off as but a crevice. I'm having to get my "ducks in a row" in order to find my way across, build a bridge, so to say. I keep digesting my own thoughts, allowing them to find all the little links to hook it all together properly. I'm looking back at the way I've had Verve grow and how I knew at every little addition that it will pile up to become quite messy, but now it's time to really clean it all up. Very scary indeed. And I only want to do it, when I have a clear system in my head. It's more complicated than you might think. But I think this is all stuff for the dev diary instead!
