Hello. After a fair amount of consideration, I decided that I'm retiring this account indefinitely.
There are a few reasons why I'm not using this site anymore (one of the biggest being how DA dropped the ball with the whole AI-art thing). But honestly, I'm also just kind of tired of posting stuff here anyway, it's been like that for me ever since the website made the jump to eclipse tbh lol. Point is, I kind of just want to move on.
I won't be active here and I won't be responding to any kind of comments or DMs anymore.
If you still want to see my art, you can find the other places I post art on right ere: https://bio.link/smamuel
Otherwise, thank you all so much for being with me and enjoying my stuff. This account is how I got my start, and I couldn't be happier for how it helped me grow as an artist.
See you all on the flipside!
(Don't worry about classy btw, he's enjoying retirement :))
sooo yeah pretty much everything related to the Unnightmares and Dream animatronics is now gone, all of the pieces related to them have been put into storage and can no longer be viewed anymore. The SFM and Blender downloads have also been taken down.
The reason being, to be blunt, I regret making em. I'm not proud of those models. At all.
V1 was a bunch of crappy edits of EA's models. V2 were slightly less bad edits of EA's models but still bad. V3 aka the dream animatronics never even came out because I was still tracing another person's models and I grew to realize that was a really shitty thing to do, so I cancelled them. 90% of these models were just blatant edits of other peoples models.
I don't want these models to be part of my portfolio anymore. They don't represent me as an artist and I honestly don't even consider them my models to begin with.
The artists who made the models I used were perfectly aware that I was doing this, they've have since moved on to other things, and probably don't care that I did this anymore. But what I was doing was still a pretty shitty thing for me to do and I want to just wipe my gallery of this crap and move on with my life.
What I'm doing won't purge these models from the internet forever and that's fine honestly. If you still have these models, feel free to keep them. All I ask is to not re-release them, and also for any ports of these models to be taken down if possible. I don't want them available anymore.
That's all from me. I hope you all understand.
Goodbye Unnightmares and Good riddance. (except dream plushtrap. he was made entirely from scratch, so he can stay.)