u/EtheriumSky

Maybe It's a long shot, but I'd like to help out at the stand of any small/mid-size, ideally indie publisher/game designer at Essen Spiel!

I'm working towards publishing my own farily large game - it won't be ready for Essen this year just yet, but I want to attend the event to learn first hand from the experience of other more experienced publishers/designers. I'd be happy to work with someone at their stand, I could help set up / wrap up, I can help teach games or run playthroughs, I can run errands and help out with whatever else you may need.

I'd like to have some hours here and there to myself so I can meet manufacturers and potential partners for my own project too - but otherwise - I'm all open! I simply want to be of assistance to someone else going through this design/publishing process - so that I can observe, learn from you hands-on, and so that i can have at least a clue of what I'm doing there next year when I bring my own game to Essen. :)

I have already directly written to a number of designers and publishers offering my assistance - but until I hear back, I'm casting a wide net and offering my help on here too.

Thanks!

"Things Which Do Not Belong" is a big, ambitious Co-op engine builder in which we play as a group of friends rushing to save a surrealist Soviet Submarine which inexplicably appeared in our swimming pool - before it's discovered by the national army!  The game is based on an original movie screenplay and so has a very rich and well developed "story-world".  The game design is now complete, I've been playtesting for a year, I'm currently working with an artist who is *hand-painting* (seriously beautiful!!!) illustrations for the game, and I'm looking for a 3d sculptor to bring those illustrations to life as miniatures for the game!

In an ideal scenario, I'd like to have:

• 9 'Villager' Miniatures: all specific characters, based on finished illustrations + detailed descriptions, 25mm bases
• 3 "Main Characters": Those are player-characters, so they're most important but design-wise same as above, 25mm bases
• 5 "Art Machines": Those are the visual "hook" of the game.  Surrealist art/war machines in unlikely settings, ie: A Submarine sticking upwards from a swimming pool, a tank with a twisted barrel in a strawberry field etc, also based on illustrations + descriptions, 50mm bases
• There would hopefully be more elments, and if my dreams come true, some big, intentionally over-the-top elements - although that's all for add-ons, stretch-goals and the expansion down the road.  For now, key focus is on the above.

I'm not ready to share the art samples publicly just yet (hence just a random img for attn, sorry), and will only launch socials and a new web site later this month, but for now, you can see some early prototypes of the game and a rough synopsis video here: http://etheriumsky.com/TWDNB .

I'm looking for a 3d sculptor who is not only skilled and talented, but has experience with mass production and understands the process and the limitations of the materials and can be patient and supportive in the revision process, as some revisions are expected when working with the factory.

If the project sparks your interest - please get in touch and let's chat further!
Please do also send me some past work samples (3d designs + finished minis).

Since reddit floods me with spam messages from bot accounts - Please reach out to me at: info@EtheriumSky.com .

Thanks a lot!

Mavic 2 Pro.

Had it for few years, never crashed, firmware all up to date.

Some time ago, on and off, id pull out the drone and both the live preview and the recorded file will look like this nightmare:

https://youtu.be/pODejHcQbfs

I'll spend hours swapping batteries, memory cards, settings, restarting and so on - usually wihout much of a difference, but then randomly sometimes it'll fix itself. Sometimes after swapping a battery, sometimes after waiting two days, one time after re-installing the firmware. But then some time later i'll fire up the drone, or maybe mid-flight - it'll start doing that crap again! Weird interference, flicker, whatever...

I'm losing my mind over it. Have a client shoot tomorrow, it's 3 am, and i'm out of ideas...

Please help.