Since childhood I tried many different creative fields because I was searching for myself. I remember building cool things with command blocks in Minecraft. It felt very close to programming, so I decided to try real coding. I created different small programs and even a simple game with my friend. But soon I realized that programming felt too technical for me and not creative enough, so I stopped.

Later I tried making gameplay videos on YouTube. Creating content felt closer to what I wanted, but something was still missing. After that I tried music. I made a few releases and learned how to work with sound. It was interesting, but again it did not feel like my true place.

At the same time, while making gameplay videos, I discovered 3D. I wanted a mascot for my gaming channel, a character that could represent my ideas. That is how Tomas was born. At first my main focus was still gameplay content. I thought content creation was what I truly wanted. But one day I decided to create my first animation and upload it.

Everything changed in that moment. For someone who spent a whole year getting only one thousand subscribers, suddenly seeing hundreds of comments every minute and a huge amount of views felt unbelievable. I made another animation, then another one, and I could not stop. Now it has been four to five years, and my love for animation only grows stronger.

Only recently I understood the real reason why animation feels perfect for me. Animation brings together almost everything I enjoy. It has both a technical side and a creative side. It includes music, acting, voice performance and storytelling. Through animation I can create moments that will never happen in real life. I can shape emotions and guide what the audience feels. It is a place where all my interests meet and grow together.

Animation became the one art form that finally connected all parts of me. It lets me be a creator, a storyteller, an actor, a director and even a musician when I want. It feels like the perfect home for everything I love to do. And the more I explore it, the more I understand that this is where I truly belong.

If you ever feel like you cannot find yourself, just keep searching and keep trying different things. You may discover who you are in a place where you did not expect it at all.

I decided to share the current stylization progress on my socials. It’s already usable for animation, so now I can gather more feedback and figure out what to improve, fix, remove, or add based on the comments.

Today I was thinking that with the release of the new version, I’d finally be able to continue working on stylization in Cycles. But they postponed it to another date, which means I have to delay my work too... I really can’t wait to bring my idea to life and start making animations in the new style but it's impossible in current version cause of annoying bug with custom shaders.

I’ve built a setup that works perfectly in Eevee, but unfortunately it doesn’t work in Cycles because of a bug. The good news is that this bug has already been fixed in Blender 5.0, but it’s currently in Beta until November 5.
Since I use Cycles for my main projects, I decided to pause work on the stylization for now and continue once the stable version is released.