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ETA: So um, if you're a classmate of mine, and you came across this site either via facebook or watching me futz about on the internet over my shoulder... I apologize in advance for everything you're about to see. (You brought this on yourself.)

Art prompt theme tables

Apollo/Midnighter (The Authority)
( Prompt table for fanart50 )

Dethklok (Metalocalypse)
( Prompt table for 20_inkspots )

The World/Sanji (One Piece)
( Prompt tables for 20_inkspots )

~*~

*UPDATED 11/1/09*
Commissions still in progress

2008
Name	Request	Type	Paid
Ecthelian	[No Name Cafe] Lawrence/Jonathan XXX	Sketch	x
Nichelle S	[Stormhawks] Piper/Aerrow	Sketch
Jaimie W	PLEASE EMAIL ME YOUR REFERENCE	Sketch	x

2009
Name	Request	Type	Paid
admiral_chowder	[Kingdom Hearts] Xigbar/Vexen	Sketch	x
dr_seiji	[No Name Cafe] Leo/Richard	Sketch	x
mytsie	[Star Trek] Kirk & Spock	Color	x

~*~


Installed 7/26/09

Little late, I guess, but I just got back from trick-or-treating and a much needed shower. (Fortunately acrylic sluices right off.)

Oh, right, so this was my costume:



Just orange pekoe black tea and watered down acrylic paint, ( if you were wondering ) And I could not, in fact, see very well at all. Which was convenient because all the houses we went to were made out of stairs.

Anyway, got a small but respectable candy haul from the area around campus, and got to forget for a couple of hours that I still have a metric fuckton of things to do this week -_- Including a brief presentation on my film for the school's chancellor or something which IIIII can't stop being jittery about. Le sigh.

(I'll talk about that in more detail when I can finally wrap my brain around the experience of directing an animated short film. Right now, I'm still lazy from Twitter and between BFA and directing, I think I just has the dumb for everything else at the mo...)

Hope your Halloween was safe and fun! :D

I found this on my Facebook Wall this morning.



It's from my old animation professor.

That is all XD

I JUST CAN'T STOP WEEPING WITH JOY. THE TEARS DON'T STOP. (Sorry, I'm.. I really don't have enough fucks to give that your flists are probably saturated with this right now. Or will be, in a matter of hours.)



AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! 8D AANG STATUE. POLARBEARDOG. KORRA. AMAZINGLY GORGEOUS WATERBENDING. ALSO FIREBENDING. BENDING EVERYWHERE. EVEN MORE OF THE SHANGHAI CITY, POSSIBLY?? ANIMATION. KORRA.

SO MANY FEELINGS. I HAVE ALL OF THE EMOTIONS RIGHT NOW.

ETA: AvatarSpirit updated with a really interesting list of information from the Avatar panel. Copypasta'd behind the cut:

( Notes from the Avatar panel--potentially spoilery )

... there was nothing in those notes that was not exciting to me (OMG TOPH, YOUR LEGEND LIVES ON T__T)

So whose Captain America: The First Avenger premiere experience involved at least one audience member breaking out into a round of AMERICA, FUCK YEAH? (I'd set up a poll but I don't feel like it.)

Speaking of the audience, we spotted a couple star-spangled cosplayers in line, one person wearing the actual American flag, and one Na'vi.

Yeah, I don't know.



Without getting spoilery, it was fun. HAM and CHEESE everywhere (Weaving brought the ham; headshots!with!effects! brought the cheese), plus a heaping helping of weird music video shots that confused more than informed where the characters were or what they were doing or why, but one doesn't question that many motorcycle jumps and leaping-over-explosions moments XD Like I said, fun. ( Spoilery stuff ) But I will say, I'm mildly disappointed Cap didn't jack anyone's car. Or at least add a little homage to this:



I don't honestly have that many thoughts on this. Chris Evans was probably the best thing about it--I was skeptical (not because I didn't think he could handle a dramatic role, but because I had suspicions about where they were going with the character, as Evans tends to be typecast) but he was capable and, you know, he was fine. Also foine.

So was Bucky. And Peggy. And random sexy!Tudor lady.

(BTW Hayley Atwell, the actress who plays Peggy, said "man-boobs" on Craig Ferguson which makes her my favorite person of the week :3)

Rock on, New York :)



To the remaining forty-four, let's catch up, shall we? Let's race.

In between animating my shots, I did a couple practice doodles of Hicox!Fassbender. This was the only one that didn't look like it should be selling a roll of Brawny paper towels XD

( Blah blah fanart )

In the meantime, so far summer's been spent either animating on my classmate's film during the weekdays, meeting with the pre-production team for my film over the weekend, and trying to scrape time to work on stuff for those meetings, um, also during the weekdays. Fun times.

( Blah blah I just want to be a cog in the machine )

Anyway, at the upcoming meeting, we'll be looking over everyone's take on the lead character design. I'm hoping this won't have to involve a session in "This Is How To Draw East Asian Faces, And No That Doesn't Mean Just Draw A ("Normal"/Default/White) Face With Hilariously Tilted Slit Eyes" but even with all the Asian people in our department, I'm not holding my breath. I'll just look forward to being pleasantly surprised.

...for Fassy honest-to-god Bambi eyes O_O



(Started typing up a giant reaction post to all the movies I watched in the last two months, but somehow Fassbender's woobie face just seems more illustrative.)

Edit: "Baking will not bring you peace, my friend."

Oh, hey, look who still draws things every once in a blue moon. (Yeah, it's a human Ratigan, because guess what I found out: animal drawing eludes me.) Oh, hmm, gotta fix that arm holding the bitch-stick.. I'm still working on trying to develop a human Basil that's not too moe or whatever.

Anyway, hi flist, it's been a while! Sorry for all the twitter feeds and generally not keeping up on what's been going on with you lot. Anything I should catch up on? What's new with you guys since we last chatted? :)

For me, it's lots of new stuff, and lots of the same old stuff: still in school, working on getting my degree in animation, and so forth. Haven't applied for internships yet, but in fairness, really haven't had the time -_- In true ~me~ fashion, I'm still somewhere in between furiously busting my ass and chronic procrastination. The newer new stuff could probably get a post of its own. Older new stuff, I'm not sure how far back to go, but..

This past year in review

• Last summer, animated on two different student films (Moonchase and the excellent No Robots, congrats to the director on all the film festivals!)


• Same summer, most of my animation work went to my professor's indie film house produced Enrique Wrecks the World, a fun, cracky cartoony gore-fest where I got to make a cat ravage the bodies of baby birds and blow up a whale, among other things.


• The latter film got our team a nomination from the Academy for Best Short, so we got to attend the Annie Awards! Got our nom alongside Teddy Newton for his stunning (and well-deserved award-winning--seriously, you don't mope about losing to Pixar) Day & Night short. We also sat right between the Dreamworks team (who we joined in freaking out over all the How To Train Your Dragon wins) and Eric Goldberg. Matt Groening was there as a guest-of-honor as well, and we just kind of expired on the spot every time we saw him XD


• Traveled to Canada for the Ottawa Animation Film Festival with a handful of classmates, which was pretty sweet! On top of a lot of diverse selections of excellent animations from all over the world, there was also a really awesome selection of Osamu Tezuka shorts--even if you're familiar with all his manga work, you wouldn't believe what a versatile filmmaker he was! We also took an afternoon off to see as much of Parliament and bits of Québec as possible. (Finally got to try poutine, which I now despair of finding anywhere here in California.)


• Finally got to see old LJ buddy notrafficlights in person! For one semester she exchanged into my school's animation/illustration program and kinda took the department by storm ^_^ Miss you bb~


• Got what I guess could be considered a project-based job. Basically a Global Climate Change awareness campaign decided to funnel its message into a marketable and entertaining mascot, hoping it could be used for PSAs and as a teaching platform for educators. So the guy leading it brought the project to our department and asked for storyboarders to take some basic GCC prompts and turn them into fun 2-minute animatics, which would be used to generate interest with sponsors. I'm.. not going into storyboarding for my major, but they asked me anyway, and I like having money, so I've been doing animatics for them for a year now :)

So yeah! Busy but having a good, productive time with it. I think last year was instrumental in bringing me out somewhere on the positive end of the artist's perpetual "OMG I'M AWESOME"-to-"FUCK I'M JUST TERRIBLE WHAT AM I DOING HERE" warring spectrum. Or at least it was, and continues to be, a confidence booster. At any rate, hopefully at least some of the above will look good in my thin little portfolio. Meanwhile, summer's just begun, and instead of kicking back I'll be spending it animating for the No Robots director on another of his films over the summer.

When I'm not doing that, I'll be busy working with my own team of artists on pre-production for an animated short film I'll be directing between now and fall semester O_______________O More on that later, for sure. Because at some point I'm bound to have a nervous breakdown about it and you will hear of it.

All right, here's what's gonna happen. I'm gonna do this again, only this time I'm grudgingly giving in to DeviantArt on account of their very dependable Flash player whatever thing. Cuz you need that to get the full effect...


My Little Pony Stark by ~vejiita4eva on deviantART

So, you know, go. Go get it.