A while back before the Steem/Hive War I was experimenting with some semi procedural setups for some snow capped mountains in Cinema 4D and Octane. After a few tests I made a video tutorial that I figured could be a decent onboarding/advertising tool for at the time Steem. I just checked before posting this and the video is at just under 4.5k views. Unfortunately I'm pushing people to Steem and not Hive though. I'll need to do a few more in the future with updated advertising info. Also a good strat for artists that want to help with onboarding. I see a lot of tutorials or process videos posted in OCA. Drop a shoutout to Hive and OCA in there to help with the cause :)

Before I made the tutorial I'd also made a quick video going through the setu to show the variety you could get with the technique. Here's that

Also before I got the final technique to look the way I wanted, here were a few previous tries.

Life updates

So I've been a bit MIA actually and I've mentioned this before, but for those not hanging on every word of my posts, I moved from California to Texas after having lived in California for about 15 years.

It was too expensive and some of the nanny state laws were getting to be a bit too oppressive for me and my family. I'm originally from Texas and my mother still owns the house I grew up in although she lives elsewhere, so we moved back into that house, although it was meant to be temporary because that house is full of a lifetime's worth of stuff.

So I thought we'd stay here for a few months and save a bit of money, but my wife had other plans and aggressively started house hunting immediately, so we've been doing a lot of driving around and looking for places and all the lovely hustling and red tape that goes with that sort of thing.

Hasn't left me much time for Hive, but I've tried to log in at least once a day and curate. Do a bit of moderation and cleaning etc. What's been great to see is that everything is still running nicely. Some broken rules going unchecked, but nothing too crazy. I'm hoping to be more settled in in the next month or so and be able to focus a bit better, but in the meantime I'll try my best to be active.

Especially on the daily showcase posts as that's how we get a little income for the community, so hopefully I can have a chance to get back on track.

Anyway, hope you all are doing well and staying safe in this crazy world we find ourselves in. See you all in the next post!