I now have a video up on my youtube account(EledorEldurn), of what was originally going to be my first abridged series, or rather the first 2 mins and a half of what was going to be my abridged series, which I also tacked on the end a trailer to what I'm currently planning on doing.
I've found so far I can actually manage a number of voices, and if you watch the youtube video, you will hear about six of them, and that wasn't including my normal voice, from my new series I have managed to find another six new voices, some which still need a bit of work before I can maintain them, as I have the problem, especially in long pieces of speech of dropping back into easier to do voices, or my normal voice.I really need to work on my process for editing the footage, of which I use windows movie maker to do it with, I have to import a video, add in sound effects(usually voices) and if I want to add in music I have to export the video, and then import it with the sound effects and add the music in, and if I wanted all of that to add in actual sound effects(like footsteps or a gun shot or something), I'd have to repeat the process again. This has a bad effect on the quality of the video, though it still comes out fairly reasonable, only picking up a few artifacts in the video normally. I think I need to upgrade to a better video editing program, or try and use flash(though I'm not to keen on that idea).
Page 14 of Sandhurst Academy is in the works and will be ready on Sunday, for viewing, as long as nothing bad happens(like some serious problem, arm breakage or stuck in bed illness). The new page will be introducing those who were talking in the last panel.
Works been going fine, though Thursday especially was a big pain, I was the only one out of our three person website team, in on the day, I had to take calls, one from an irate customer, I also took a call from a director, of the company I am subcontracted by, which was a little worrisome. And today, we had something like 30 to forty expression of interests come in, which I had to email out an info pack to, and also record that an expression of interest was put in, on our record keeping site thing. Also my speed for producing websites has slowed down considerably, mainly due to custom content, of which I am unfamiliar with becoming a bigger part of some of the sites I have worked on, its getting kind of frustrating compared to me first couple of weeks, I've only managed one or two websites a week. Can't wait when I get some customers who don't want tonnes of extras tacked onto their website. I prefer leaping into simpler websites, getting them done, as fast as I can, while maintaining a decent level of quality, and getting them out to the client, rather then spending hours on trying to figure out a simple way of implementing, what should be a simple gallery to set-up, may come from my inexperience with things like javascript(the most I do on my website, is alter a premade script which controls the buttons on my comic pages), but I believe once we have a couple of difficult ones we should be able to burn through the next lot more easily. As a group the team I'm a part of, is improving bit by bit. With me being added we have someone, who has a little knowledge(and surprisingly enough some experience) with how to make flash images and animations, though I have lost 80% of the knowledge I gained from my IT Multimedia course, due to a year of staying away from flash.
Another thing on the website front(my website not my job), I may be adding embedded youtube videos to a new section, these will be what I put up on my youtube account, but we'll see about that, also I'm planning on drawing and colouring one character portrait a week, but again, we'll see how that one pans out, the next character to be drawn will probably be Jessica(Kyosuke girl body). I really need to get a good reference picture for what will be the main character of my comic, for the next copuple of years.
Anywhoisit, that about covers it for now.
Sayonara folks!
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Sleepless nights, and sleep filled days
Not really but anyway, two weeks in and I seem to be going pretty good at my job. My direct superior seems happy with my work output and the quality of my work. So far I've only been creating websites, and doing domain transfers and other complicated net type junk. Soon I'll be programming blackberry things, as in I follow a list of instructions to set one up, without actual programming involved.
Toughest thing is the last two hours of the day at the moment, I pull my school thing, where I start looking at the clock every five or so minutes, of course I've found the best way to eat up time is to busy myself with work.
I have a phone...that is still in its box, a laptop with a broken screen that took half of the first day to setup as we could only use one quarter of the screen, and somehow its ability to switch to another monitor had been switched off, plus I have a wireless keyboard and mouse. So far I think I've completely finished three websites, though one was more, "yeah, give it here and we'll finish it on our own"(meaning the client finished it themselves) The next required me to go through about eight or so minor changes that took several hours, until they were finally satisfied, and the latest one they took one look at it and went "yep, put er up!" which made me exceptionally pleased with myself.
I have another eight or so websites all waiting for feedback, and or more content, one wanted a six page website, and only gave me a single picture of their front page and a map of where their place is, not a lot to go on, unless they want me to start making things up about them :P.
On the comic and drawing front, I'm slowly moving to the main storyline of the comic, at the moment, its introducing the main character somewhat, and explaining the situation he finds himself in, for pretty much the rest of the comic. I've found I have some problems with proper pacing and the flow is somewhat off especially in the earlier pages, I think I'm starting to get more of a flow happening now, key word is think. This week I have something of a breather in that the next two pages don't require much in the way of my efforts for drawing them. I'm still planning eventually on fixing the Sandhurst Academy portion of the site to make it more user friendly, easier to navigate between pages that sort of thing. Plus a colour job I think suits the comic. I've also bought a bunch expensive colouring pens, and so far have coloured in three drawings, one a full body picture of an angry Dao wielding Eledor, another of a ninja girl named Motoko, and another of Emily, Eledor's daughter, a lot younger then what I normally write her as.
On the games front, I've bought World of Warcraft again...yeah I know, but to be fair, nothing else is all that interesting at the moment that my computer has any chance of running, i can't be bothered buying a PS3 or Xbox 360, and no new decent storyline games have come out recently on the Wii. I finally hit lvl 70 with my Pally though.
And I think that covers my lot in life at the moment, if you got through all that, good for you, help yourself to the non-existent buffet or something :P
Anywho Sayonara folks!
Toughest thing is the last two hours of the day at the moment, I pull my school thing, where I start looking at the clock every five or so minutes, of course I've found the best way to eat up time is to busy myself with work.
I have a phone...that is still in its box, a laptop with a broken screen that took half of the first day to setup as we could only use one quarter of the screen, and somehow its ability to switch to another monitor had been switched off, plus I have a wireless keyboard and mouse. So far I think I've completely finished three websites, though one was more, "yeah, give it here and we'll finish it on our own"(meaning the client finished it themselves) The next required me to go through about eight or so minor changes that took several hours, until they were finally satisfied, and the latest one they took one look at it and went "yep, put er up!" which made me exceptionally pleased with myself.
I have another eight or so websites all waiting for feedback, and or more content, one wanted a six page website, and only gave me a single picture of their front page and a map of where their place is, not a lot to go on, unless they want me to start making things up about them :P.
On the comic and drawing front, I'm slowly moving to the main storyline of the comic, at the moment, its introducing the main character somewhat, and explaining the situation he finds himself in, for pretty much the rest of the comic. I've found I have some problems with proper pacing and the flow is somewhat off especially in the earlier pages, I think I'm starting to get more of a flow happening now, key word is think. This week I have something of a breather in that the next two pages don't require much in the way of my efforts for drawing them. I'm still planning eventually on fixing the Sandhurst Academy portion of the site to make it more user friendly, easier to navigate between pages that sort of thing. Plus a colour job I think suits the comic. I've also bought a bunch expensive colouring pens, and so far have coloured in three drawings, one a full body picture of an angry Dao wielding Eledor, another of a ninja girl named Motoko, and another of Emily, Eledor's daughter, a lot younger then what I normally write her as.
On the games front, I've bought World of Warcraft again...yeah I know, but to be fair, nothing else is all that interesting at the moment that my computer has any chance of running, i can't be bothered buying a PS3 or Xbox 360, and no new decent storyline games have come out recently on the Wii. I finally hit lvl 70 with my Pally though.
And I think that covers my lot in life at the moment, if you got through all that, good for you, help yourself to the non-existent buffet or something :P
Anywho Sayonara folks!
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Growing up one step at a time
I am now employed, full time as a web developer, thingy, And my first day is tomorrow...gonna be a huge change of pace, hope I'm up to it.
I've managed to maintain a steady output of comic pages so far, we'll see how working affects my usually fairly slack lifestyle, but I'm hoping it'll focus me somewhat, and encourage me to get into drawing more, rather then just reading other people's work.
It's interesting this idea that starting tomorrow, I'll be a professional worker, working fulltime at a job for the first time in my life, strangely so soon after I turned 21 on the 1st of January. In Australia at any rate, at the age of eighteen you have all the rights of an adult, but its still customary to treat turning 21 as a big deal, in my case it kinda was.
Of course to go with this, just before I start work, my left elbow decides to get infected, get filled with fluid and become all but unusable for the week just before I start work. Its starting to get under control, but the strangest thing about the whole thing is, I don't remember banging it, or doing anything that would cause it to get infected in the way it did...
Another thing I've been struggling to change is my sleeping habits, which since I finished Tafe spiralled ever worse and worse, to the point I didn't feel right going to bed till 3 am, and getting up at 12, on the surface it looks like I was just being lazy, but in reality I was fairly sleep deprived despite this, with occasional alnighters reading manga online. I must say its pretty much to a normal, bed by 11, though I force myself to get up at 6:30 to make sure I can have a shower before I go. So maybe I'll soon be going to be bed at 10:30 from now on.
I still owe my dad a website, but I'm hoping after I get some professional experience, ie make a website at work, that I'll be to able leap into and get it done.
So basically, starting soon, I'm gonna be a relatively independent adult, which is a strange concept, when you've spent most of your life living in a house where most things are provided for you.
Oh and I'm still a massive pepsi max addict, can't really drink tea in this heat...blurg....
And now I've started doing some short roleplaying again, this time using the gurps system, of course my cool character, got hit by a spell which makes him smell like fecal matter for the next month or so...damn you Lewis :P
Anyways, its bloody hot here, I think we've had something like 40 degree Celsius days for the last week, which is so much fun...not..
Well that's it from me, sayonara folks!
I've managed to maintain a steady output of comic pages so far, we'll see how working affects my usually fairly slack lifestyle, but I'm hoping it'll focus me somewhat, and encourage me to get into drawing more, rather then just reading other people's work.
It's interesting this idea that starting tomorrow, I'll be a professional worker, working fulltime at a job for the first time in my life, strangely so soon after I turned 21 on the 1st of January. In Australia at any rate, at the age of eighteen you have all the rights of an adult, but its still customary to treat turning 21 as a big deal, in my case it kinda was.
Of course to go with this, just before I start work, my left elbow decides to get infected, get filled with fluid and become all but unusable for the week just before I start work. Its starting to get under control, but the strangest thing about the whole thing is, I don't remember banging it, or doing anything that would cause it to get infected in the way it did...
Another thing I've been struggling to change is my sleeping habits, which since I finished Tafe spiralled ever worse and worse, to the point I didn't feel right going to bed till 3 am, and getting up at 12, on the surface it looks like I was just being lazy, but in reality I was fairly sleep deprived despite this, with occasional alnighters reading manga online. I must say its pretty much to a normal, bed by 11, though I force myself to get up at 6:30 to make sure I can have a shower before I go. So maybe I'll soon be going to be bed at 10:30 from now on.
I still owe my dad a website, but I'm hoping after I get some professional experience, ie make a website at work, that I'll be to able leap into and get it done.
So basically, starting soon, I'm gonna be a relatively independent adult, which is a strange concept, when you've spent most of your life living in a house where most things are provided for you.
Oh and I'm still a massive pepsi max addict, can't really drink tea in this heat...blurg....
And now I've started doing some short roleplaying again, this time using the gurps system, of course my cool character, got hit by a spell which makes him smell like fecal matter for the next month or so...damn you Lewis :P
Anyways, its bloody hot here, I think we've had something like 40 degree Celsius days for the last week, which is so much fun...not..
Well that's it from me, sayonara folks!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
A pale moon rises
Heya folks
Okay the first two pages have gone up with nary a hitch, though the image quality for page 2 is admittedly a bit poor, I'll try and get a better version up at some point. Just gotta make sure I don't get lazy when it comes to drawing or my art will drop in quality.
At the moment I'm aiming at one page a week, until I get a decent buffer up, then I'll start putting more up a week. I've done some rearranging of the website, and am in the process of creating a new look for the Sandhurst Academy section of the website, including a bio section and a gallery.
So at the moment, I'm lagging a bit behind in my comic making, but I should be able to keep up with the current rate, until I start getting the hang of budgeting my time, and drawing faster.
As for getting a job, well let's say I have no drive, or am too scared to make the jump into job applying I'm 21 and never seriously went for job interviews in my life, plus I'm shy, which you know "really" helps when it comes to showing myself as a confident and capable individual.
At the moment I'm hoping for a web development job, but I'll settle for retail, just gotta get that old resume written up, and my hair...cut...*sniff*
Blarg!
Anywho go check out my website, and keep coming back each Sunday evening to read Sandhurst Academy!
Sayonara Folks!
Okay the first two pages have gone up with nary a hitch, though the image quality for page 2 is admittedly a bit poor, I'll try and get a better version up at some point. Just gotta make sure I don't get lazy when it comes to drawing or my art will drop in quality.
At the moment I'm aiming at one page a week, until I get a decent buffer up, then I'll start putting more up a week. I've done some rearranging of the website, and am in the process of creating a new look for the Sandhurst Academy section of the website, including a bio section and a gallery.
So at the moment, I'm lagging a bit behind in my comic making, but I should be able to keep up with the current rate, until I start getting the hang of budgeting my time, and drawing faster.
As for getting a job, well let's say I have no drive, or am too scared to make the jump into job applying I'm 21 and never seriously went for job interviews in my life, plus I'm shy, which you know "really" helps when it comes to showing myself as a confident and capable individual.
At the moment I'm hoping for a web development job, but I'll settle for retail, just gotta get that old resume written up, and my hair...cut...*sniff*
Blarg!
Anywho go check out my website, and keep coming back each Sunday evening to read Sandhurst Academy!
Sayonara Folks!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Floating along at the speed of glue
Okay I've actually started doing the roughs for the first chapter of "Sandhurst Academy" though I'm thinking of changing the name to better reflect the story of the comic, I have fifteen days to get the comic ready for a proper launch, I still need to sort out my new site design for the Sandhurst Academy section, Probably something more traditional for webcomics, I still haven't decided on how many pages a week, or any of that stuff.
But yeah the start date for the comic is definitely the 1st of January which just also happens to be the time of my 21ist birthday, so I guess what better way to start the next stage of my life then with a serious attempt at a new comic, one which won't be going the way of my earlier failed attempts, Newstory, Tales, and what not.
Anywho expect some updates on my main website as I get closer to the launch date.
Sayonara folks
But yeah the start date for the comic is definitely the 1st of January which just also happens to be the time of my 21ist birthday, so I guess what better way to start the next stage of my life then with a serious attempt at a new comic, one which won't be going the way of my earlier failed attempts, Newstory, Tales, and what not.
Anywho expect some updates on my main website as I get closer to the launch date.
Sayonara folks
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Progress of sorts
Okay, I've been working on getting my drawing skills of late by drawing the main characters and drawing some locales.
So in other words I'm preparing for Sandhurst Academy to start hopefully sometime in Jabuary, I'll be creating a buffer, so I won't have horribly interrupted updates and I should hopefully be working by then so I'll have cash and some spare time away from worrying about Tafe to start improving the website.
I've got 2 1/2 weeks to go before Tafe ends, and like last year, I left a lot of work till the last minute...yes I never learn lessons...
Anywho I've begun plotting Sandhurst Academy, I'm finally heading towards a main character design I'm happy with, and then I need to work on the other character designs as well, and for a large cast as this one will soon have it'll take a bit of effort.
I'm planning maybe 28 chapters, with about 20 pages per chapter, sounds a lot, but I'm not planning on doing it in colour, and I'm planning on a consistant update flow, with having the weeks pages done on the weekend or something. I'm not going reveal to much about the plot but it will be containing humour, adult themes, action, maybe some romance, drama and will be geared towards people 15 and above at the very least.
Anywho at the moment I'm just doing some practise, some refinement of the setting and research(of sorts) into how other manga go about handling themes, by research I mean occcaisionally missing a night of sleep to finish a particularily good manga.
Manga I'm currently reading
Naruto
Bleach
Vagabond
Addicted to Curry
Ichigo 100%
Family Compo(its very strange)
Angel Heart
Claymore
Manga I really enjoyed
Mx0(ended suddenly though)
Pretty Face(also ended suddenly, same author to)
Inuyasha
Suzuka
II's
IO
Unbalance x Unbalance(actually a manwha)
I've gone off webcomics almost altogether at the moment, guess its cause I'm more interested in how professionals go about a lot of story themes at the moment, rather then the slow progression webcomics have, where they can spend a year on a single story arc, I've also gone of games to a degree, I spend most of my time reading manga, thinking about Sandhurst Academy and how to avoid doing homework...yeah not the best plan when I've got only two weeks left...
Anywho Sayonara Folks!
So in other words I'm preparing for Sandhurst Academy to start hopefully sometime in Jabuary, I'll be creating a buffer, so I won't have horribly interrupted updates and I should hopefully be working by then so I'll have cash and some spare time away from worrying about Tafe to start improving the website.
I've got 2 1/2 weeks to go before Tafe ends, and like last year, I left a lot of work till the last minute...yes I never learn lessons...
Anywho I've begun plotting Sandhurst Academy, I'm finally heading towards a main character design I'm happy with, and then I need to work on the other character designs as well, and for a large cast as this one will soon have it'll take a bit of effort.
I'm planning maybe 28 chapters, with about 20 pages per chapter, sounds a lot, but I'm not planning on doing it in colour, and I'm planning on a consistant update flow, with having the weeks pages done on the weekend or something. I'm not going reveal to much about the plot but it will be containing humour, adult themes, action, maybe some romance, drama and will be geared towards people 15 and above at the very least.
Anywho at the moment I'm just doing some practise, some refinement of the setting and research(of sorts) into how other manga go about handling themes, by research I mean occcaisionally missing a night of sleep to finish a particularily good manga.
Manga I'm currently reading
Naruto
Bleach
Vagabond
Addicted to Curry
Ichigo 100%
Family Compo(its very strange)
Angel Heart
Claymore
Manga I really enjoyed
Mx0(ended suddenly though)
Pretty Face(also ended suddenly, same author to)
Inuyasha
Suzuka
II's
IO
Unbalance x Unbalance(actually a manwha)
I've gone off webcomics almost altogether at the moment, guess its cause I'm more interested in how professionals go about a lot of story themes at the moment, rather then the slow progression webcomics have, where they can spend a year on a single story arc, I've also gone of games to a degree, I spend most of my time reading manga, thinking about Sandhurst Academy and how to avoid doing homework...yeah not the best plan when I've got only two weeks left...
Anywho Sayonara Folks!
Monday, October 13, 2008
Navigating on the seas of life
Hiya, haven't done much in the way of updating my site lately, been a bit busy all over the place, coming up with characters and deciding on character designs and storylines, while also taking the time to attempt to improve my drawing ability, while also pretending to do Tafe work, that I really should be doing...especially if I plan on getting a job, in web design or something similar.
So currently my focus is on getting Sandhurst academy...may need a different name, seems (noun) academy is quite frequently used on the interwebs.
The cast has already grown to close to twenty characters, though for the first chapter I'm only really focusing on three characters and I've started plotting out how I want to do the first chapter. I'm hoping I won't do a repeat of this year with Newstory, take so long to get new pages out that I lose the feel of the story and get sick of it, and when I do get it started, maybe in two months I'll keep to a fairly regular schedule per say. Not sure how much I want to do a week, probably will have a go at a couple of practice pages to see what speed I can produce them at.
Anywho the main character of the new comic, is named Kayden Yamada, an Australian born japanese boy, set in the fictional town of Sandhurst, which if you go look on maps, shouldn't really exist, and won't be given any firm geographic location, it's just an inland city near several lakes, though I'm gonna base it a little off my home town.
And that's it for revelations for the plot, as I draw satisfactory sketches I'll put them up on the website, at the moment I'm working on a group shot, which will feature five or more characters, needs plenty of work though still...
Anywhoist Inuyasha's quite a good manga!
Sayonara folks!
So currently my focus is on getting Sandhurst academy...may need a different name, seems (noun) academy is quite frequently used on the interwebs.
The cast has already grown to close to twenty characters, though for the first chapter I'm only really focusing on three characters and I've started plotting out how I want to do the first chapter. I'm hoping I won't do a repeat of this year with Newstory, take so long to get new pages out that I lose the feel of the story and get sick of it, and when I do get it started, maybe in two months I'll keep to a fairly regular schedule per say. Not sure how much I want to do a week, probably will have a go at a couple of practice pages to see what speed I can produce them at.
Anywho the main character of the new comic, is named Kayden Yamada, an Australian born japanese boy, set in the fictional town of Sandhurst, which if you go look on maps, shouldn't really exist, and won't be given any firm geographic location, it's just an inland city near several lakes, though I'm gonna base it a little off my home town.
And that's it for revelations for the plot, as I draw satisfactory sketches I'll put them up on the website, at the moment I'm working on a group shot, which will feature five or more characters, needs plenty of work though still...
Anywhoist Inuyasha's quite a good manga!
Sayonara folks!
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