Hello Folks
Been a long time since I last posted anything, anyways,my website hasn't been updated in ages, and I haven't even started a 2nd episode of TICTTAS or anything.
Been a long and very busy year at my workplace, lot's of things have happened, people come, people gone, and I am now the longest serving employee at my workplace(3 1/2 years), with about 7 weeks of leave saved up :P. I swear I'm not a workaholic.
Anyways, I've got plans and stuff to continue a few projects I've let fall to the side, among them is Sandhurst Academy, I'm still considering whether to do a 2nd TICTTAS ep, and the one constant I am proud to say is my story writing. At this point I have filled two and a half little books full of writing. Though I do occaisionally hit little hurdles, my main advantage with my current story is I only write a couple of pages a night, which lets me think about what direction I'm taking it.
I'm not gonna lie, its pretty crappy at the moment, disjointed, and a bit flat, but this is the first draft, after which I will be writing a hopefully vastly superior 2nd draft, with a bit more subtlety to the characters, and a whole lot more depth. Part of this first draft is getting a feel for how I want each of the main characters to be portrayed, also a feel for the world, and how the powers the characters have work. there's a lot of unwritten backstory to a lot of characters, which means they already have a sense of depth as well. I'm aiming for each character to have some form of backstory to get their motivations, personal opinions and the like across.
For Sandhurst Academy, its gonna become a slice of life comic to a degree, and I've already written a bit of a script for the next chapter. My plans with it is to write each chapter as a sort of standalone story, each one will introduce new characters and hopefully expand the world a bit. I'm also considering abit of a redraw of the earlier pages to bring them in line with my current drawing ability, but we will see. But basically the idea now is not to jump in and go nuts, but to be a bit more methodical.
I've also recently taken up playing Minecraft, and am considering creating a youtube series based of that, partly due to Mojang giving their explicit approval for this sort of thing. It will be a standard survival random map, and will involce me building stuff, possibly from my Realm storyline. But we will see where that one goes, I'm thinking of creaating anew channel for this one, to allow it to be fully legit while the other one can be my abrigening series place.
Main reason for the Let's play series, is from a techincal and editing perspective its very straight forward and easy, unlike and abridged show, and can legitametly be used for making money, something I hope to never see from abridgering.
I have another idea of narrating my comics, or at least voice acting them to a degree, sorta like an animated comic thing. Which I may do for the Realm, but may do for Sandhurst Academy first(though more then liekly it will be pretty bad at least at the start)
On the anime side, I've been a bit lax lately, but I was quite impressed with legend of the Legendary heroes of legndariness(though not so much with its name :P) Good action, and a surprising story so far, I've even taken the effort to avoid tvtropes on this one as well. though I may have seen an Amv which may have ruined a few scenes for me.
Also saw broken Blade, and have to honestly say its one of the best looking anime I've seen to date. Voice acting was a bit enh, but at the same time I was glad to see Sentai Filmworks getting this one. Competition is never a bad thing. Story was a bit all over the place as well, but considering they basically adapted what should've been a 26 episode series into a six episode ova you win some lose some.
other than that, I've been watching Rosario Vampire, which while not quite up to par with the manga, honestly made me laugh quite a bit, because of its stupid fun :)
On the drawing side of things, I haven't done much recently really, partly due to not having an appropriate place to do it at home, although I have been told by my mother when my sister moves out finally(she's living here and in another town at the same time), I can claim that room. Basically I'm planning on setting up a bit of an art studio, with the idea that it be quiet and out of the way, probably without a computer in it as well, to force me to concentrate. Computer's are bad at keeping you focused.
On that note, yes I do still live my parents, but when the house has close to 12 big rooms, a pool house, and an acre block can ya really blame me? Plus I don't like the idea of paying money to someone else for renting, when I can just pay mum and dad money, it helps them a little, and seeing as I'm sort've the last one to leave the nest so to speak, allows me to help them with things as well. Though admittedly I'm not the most proactive house mate.
I'm also putting myself on a sort of diet I guess, basically I will avoid having takeaway for lunch, for the next month at least, perhaps indefinitely, instead eating packaged meals, or bakery products from the work freezer. This is mainly due to the fact that in the last couple of weeks I estimate I went to KFC at least ten times. And its put a bit of weight onto me, which I don't really want, though it does keep me warm in winter :P
Anywho, sayonara folks, have a good one, hopefully my next post will be full of good news of projects starting and going along swimmingly :)
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Sunday, September 04, 2011
Sandhurst Returns
Heya Folks
As I said in my previous post, Sandhurst Academy has now had an updated page. I'll be trying to do more updates a week, probably gallery entries or something, but expect a definite update on the comic every Sunday for the forseeable future. We'll hopefully see it move to a bi-weekly update once I get back into the swing of things, and eventually a tri-weekly update.
Other then that, have a new phone...as in I actually have a working mobile phone now. This is a big deal seeing as I haven't had a working mobile for nearly 2 years. Pretty cool being able to text people again.
I also went to the celebration of the name change of the company I work for, which was pretty dang exiting to see all the people down in the Melbourne place I've never met before. Got to go to the top floor of the Eureka tower and everything which was pretty cool, if a little scary for someone like me who hates heights.
My anime and manga collection is on a continual rise at the moment, I've nearly used up all the space I have currently available so I'm doing well :P
Anywho that'll be enough, be sure to check the comic if you want, or yerknow, wait till next Sunday when another page will be up, so you can read two at the same time instead of one or something :P Or not, your choices as everything is.
Oh and as I like to pretend I say a lot, "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine." Damm coke machine.....
Sayonara folks!
As I said in my previous post, Sandhurst Academy has now had an updated page. I'll be trying to do more updates a week, probably gallery entries or something, but expect a definite update on the comic every Sunday for the forseeable future. We'll hopefully see it move to a bi-weekly update once I get back into the swing of things, and eventually a tri-weekly update.
Other then that, have a new phone...as in I actually have a working mobile phone now. This is a big deal seeing as I haven't had a working mobile for nearly 2 years. Pretty cool being able to text people again.
I also went to the celebration of the name change of the company I work for, which was pretty dang exiting to see all the people down in the Melbourne place I've never met before. Got to go to the top floor of the Eureka tower and everything which was pretty cool, if a little scary for someone like me who hates heights.
My anime and manga collection is on a continual rise at the moment, I've nearly used up all the space I have currently available so I'm doing well :P
Anywho that'll be enough, be sure to check the comic if you want, or yerknow, wait till next Sunday when another page will be up, so you can read two at the same time instead of one or something :P Or not, your choices as everything is.
Oh and as I like to pretend I say a lot, "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine." Damm coke machine.....
Sayonara folks!
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Time goes on
Heya
Been a while since the last post.
Anywho lot of things will be happening shortly.
One is Sandhurst will be getting a new website at some point, and the comic will also be continued from where it was left off. Probably going to be aiming for a once a week release until I get a buffer organised, then moving up to a biweekly update or even three updates a week(here's hoping) But I will be holding back on rushing into this one as I've taken a long break from drawing.
On other news, I've been terribly busy at work, calls are flying through, and I'm lucky if I get a moments peace to even think. But we are getting some new people so hopefully the pressure will ease off soon.
I've also started the first draft of my Realm storyline, staring the Eledor that this blog has been named after, and his sidekick Aeries(actually Aeries is the main character)
I've been writing one or two pages a night, before I go to sleep, and I have been managing this for the last 3 months now, without missing a single night. I'm impressed with myself even if no one else is :P
Other then that, I'm finding at present I don't have the energy or available time to continue TICTTAS(the abridged thingy), for now anyway, I may change my tune in the future, but I feel I need to focus on my writing and comic at present.
My brother got himself a girlfriend, and has now moved in with her, good on him I say :P. And my sister will finish her accounting course soon, and hopefully get herself a very nice job.
Now, as I tend to do, when watching a momentus event, such as a wedding of a cousin, I start to get a bit reflective and look at myself. Look at where I've gotten too, and what I've achieved. First thing I did was cut my hair, I'll probably grow it long again, but that will take months at least. Next thing I did was make the commitment to myself to continue my webcomic, and get a redesign of its website and new domain name organised for it.
But simply I realised if I want to do the things I want to do I have to get my act into gear, I've already been reducing my expenditure and saving a bit of money(kinda aiming to purchase a house when I can), but the added benefit is I have a lot of cash on hand if something happens, need a lot more though.
But anyway, just thought I'd mention stuff is happening again, and the return of a regularly updated Sandhurst Academy will be arriving by the end of this week.
Sayonara folks!
Been a while since the last post.
Anywho lot of things will be happening shortly.
One is Sandhurst will be getting a new website at some point, and the comic will also be continued from where it was left off. Probably going to be aiming for a once a week release until I get a buffer organised, then moving up to a biweekly update or even three updates a week(here's hoping) But I will be holding back on rushing into this one as I've taken a long break from drawing.
On other news, I've been terribly busy at work, calls are flying through, and I'm lucky if I get a moments peace to even think. But we are getting some new people so hopefully the pressure will ease off soon.
I've also started the first draft of my Realm storyline, staring the Eledor that this blog has been named after, and his sidekick Aeries(actually Aeries is the main character)
I've been writing one or two pages a night, before I go to sleep, and I have been managing this for the last 3 months now, without missing a single night. I'm impressed with myself even if no one else is :P
Other then that, I'm finding at present I don't have the energy or available time to continue TICTTAS(the abridged thingy), for now anyway, I may change my tune in the future, but I feel I need to focus on my writing and comic at present.
My brother got himself a girlfriend, and has now moved in with her, good on him I say :P. And my sister will finish her accounting course soon, and hopefully get herself a very nice job.
Now, as I tend to do, when watching a momentus event, such as a wedding of a cousin, I start to get a bit reflective and look at myself. Look at where I've gotten too, and what I've achieved. First thing I did was cut my hair, I'll probably grow it long again, but that will take months at least. Next thing I did was make the commitment to myself to continue my webcomic, and get a redesign of its website and new domain name organised for it.
But simply I realised if I want to do the things I want to do I have to get my act into gear, I've already been reducing my expenditure and saving a bit of money(kinda aiming to purchase a house when I can), but the added benefit is I have a lot of cash on hand if something happens, need a lot more though.
But anyway, just thought I'd mention stuff is happening again, and the return of a regularly updated Sandhurst Academy will be arriving by the end of this week.
Sayonara folks!
Sunday, January 09, 2011
And then there was one...uh wait...
Hello Peoples
I finally did it, the first episode of the Irresponsible Captain Tylor, The Abridged Series is up, or as I like to refer to it, TICTTAS Ep 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D7yOAotQ-E
Anyway the quality's a bit schwonky, but I've literally spent two years sitting on this one, and really wanted to get onto the next episode, something is better then nothing, and there can be no improvement without something awful coming first(depends on personally preference, its better then some I've seen, but a lot worse then others as well).
Aside from that my family suffered a loss, with the Matriarch of my mother's side of the family passing just a month or two ago. During the first holidays I've had in six months no less, so to be blunt, I didn't have a fun time of it, and neither did anyone else.
On the website front, I'm gearing myself up for a productive couple of months(I actually have some pages that are nearly ready to be put on te website, but haven't got round to due to being busy(playing games)) and you'll probably be seeing some updates there at some point, in the next couple of months.
I'm also gearing up for a collaborative project with some friends, where I'm the artist to their writing and storyboarding. A few things we need to do before that one starts though, one of which is finalising some character designs.
Other then that, things seem to be moving pretty well, I'm feeling more and more confident in my job at present, I'm sorting fitting into the notch as the go to guy for a variety of issues(not a huge amount but some at least), and some difficult customers. And am nearing two years of employment with the company. So even if anything bad ever happens I have some pretty useful experience to get me another job, though I still feel I'm sorely lacking in the people skills department, despite my confidence on the phone.
Anyway I think that's a pretty good update, uh and if you want share that youtube link with your friends or something(If anyone other then me reads this that is.)
Sayonara Folks, and have a GREAT NEW YEAR!
I finally did it, the first episode of the Irresponsible Captain Tylor, The Abridged Series is up, or as I like to refer to it, TICTTAS Ep 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D7yOAotQ-E
Anyway the quality's a bit schwonky, but I've literally spent two years sitting on this one, and really wanted to get onto the next episode, something is better then nothing, and there can be no improvement without something awful coming first(depends on personally preference, its better then some I've seen, but a lot worse then others as well).
Aside from that my family suffered a loss, with the Matriarch of my mother's side of the family passing just a month or two ago. During the first holidays I've had in six months no less, so to be blunt, I didn't have a fun time of it, and neither did anyone else.
On the website front, I'm gearing myself up for a productive couple of months(I actually have some pages that are nearly ready to be put on te website, but haven't got round to due to being busy(playing games)) and you'll probably be seeing some updates there at some point, in the next couple of months.
I'm also gearing up for a collaborative project with some friends, where I'm the artist to their writing and storyboarding. A few things we need to do before that one starts though, one of which is finalising some character designs.
Other then that, things seem to be moving pretty well, I'm feeling more and more confident in my job at present, I'm sorting fitting into the notch as the go to guy for a variety of issues(not a huge amount but some at least), and some difficult customers. And am nearing two years of employment with the company. So even if anything bad ever happens I have some pretty useful experience to get me another job, though I still feel I'm sorely lacking in the people skills department, despite my confidence on the phone.
Anyway I think that's a pretty good update, uh and if you want share that youtube link with your friends or something(If anyone other then me reads this that is.)
Sayonara Folks, and have a GREAT NEW YEAR!
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Been a while
Hey guys
Been a while, I'll admit, anywho I'm expecting some holidays to be coming up, which I intend to spend a bit of time by catching up on the things I've been neglecting. Essentially at the moment I feel I've got into a bit of rythym at work and things seem to be working out pretty well. I think I'm pretty useful at the moment, so I'm pretty certain my job is pretty safe now.
Anyway I have been seriously neglecting my drawing, though I have been doing a drawing class, which is mainly just a refresher on proper drawing techniques then me learning anything new.
Expect some new pages for Sandhurst Academy to appear on my website in the next two months I won't promise frequent updates but a few should make their way up onto the website between now and the end of the year. And I'm also beginning to start drawing Children of Prometheus, at least the early roughs for some pages.
On the TICTTAS front, I'm almost considering dropping it in favor of a more serious series, which would lend itself better to parody, like Darker Than Black or even the Armitage movies. Might be fun who knows, I think I'll get one episode of TICTTAS done, see what and if the general response is, and maybe switch to something different. Anyway other then that, my time is being taken for organising a roleplaying game for my friends as well as my standard anime and manga viewing which I do a lot of.
And I bought an A3 capable scanner/printer/fax which means I can finally scan some of my larger pictures for web viewage. The other factors for a lack of activity is the acquisition of a new computer, as I slowly bring everything over to it. Plus I have two screens now. Which is actually really cool.
Anywho, expect some updates to my website in the next two months, inlcuding possibly some more details on the CoP comic I'm currently working on with two of my friends. I'm not going to say much about it, as it'll probably spoil it, other then it is based of a roleplaying game we are still currently playing.
Sayonara folks!
Been a while, I'll admit, anywho I'm expecting some holidays to be coming up, which I intend to spend a bit of time by catching up on the things I've been neglecting. Essentially at the moment I feel I've got into a bit of rythym at work and things seem to be working out pretty well. I think I'm pretty useful at the moment, so I'm pretty certain my job is pretty safe now.
Anyway I have been seriously neglecting my drawing, though I have been doing a drawing class, which is mainly just a refresher on proper drawing techniques then me learning anything new.
Expect some new pages for Sandhurst Academy to appear on my website in the next two months I won't promise frequent updates but a few should make their way up onto the website between now and the end of the year. And I'm also beginning to start drawing Children of Prometheus, at least the early roughs for some pages.
On the TICTTAS front, I'm almost considering dropping it in favor of a more serious series, which would lend itself better to parody, like Darker Than Black or even the Armitage movies. Might be fun who knows, I think I'll get one episode of TICTTAS done, see what and if the general response is, and maybe switch to something different. Anyway other then that, my time is being taken for organising a roleplaying game for my friends as well as my standard anime and manga viewing which I do a lot of.
And I bought an A3 capable scanner/printer/fax which means I can finally scan some of my larger pictures for web viewage. The other factors for a lack of activity is the acquisition of a new computer, as I slowly bring everything over to it. Plus I have two screens now. Which is actually really cool.
Anywho, expect some updates to my website in the next two months, inlcuding possibly some more details on the CoP comic I'm currently working on with two of my friends. I'm not going to say much about it, as it'll probably spoil it, other then it is based of a roleplaying game we are still currently playing.
Sayonara folks!
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Election time
Hey people's
It's election time in Australia, and that means practically nothing to me, but above and beyond...I'm really sad, as my favourite character in Bleach may have just been killed off :( SAD FACE, this is where Orihime would be awesome to appear...but I'll have to wait till next week to find out...
Anywho, got a new comic in the works to run concurrently with Sandhurst, labelled Children of Prometheus, or as I abbreviate it, CoP. Following the adventures of a rag tag bunch of guys and gals, as they do stuff. It's a superhero comic, but done in a style similar to Heroes, but a heck of a lot less cryptic...well at first at any rate.
Anywho I should have a new Sandhurst page up this weekend, most likely Sunday, as I delve into the wonders of a noir styled comic.
Sayonara folks!
It's election time in Australia, and that means practically nothing to me, but above and beyond...I'm really sad, as my favourite character in Bleach may have just been killed off :( SAD FACE, this is where Orihime would be awesome to appear...but I'll have to wait till next week to find out...
Anywho, got a new comic in the works to run concurrently with Sandhurst, labelled Children of Prometheus, or as I abbreviate it, CoP. Following the adventures of a rag tag bunch of guys and gals, as they do stuff. It's a superhero comic, but done in a style similar to Heroes, but a heck of a lot less cryptic...well at first at any rate.
Anywho I should have a new Sandhurst page up this weekend, most likely Sunday, as I delve into the wonders of a noir styled comic.
Sayonara folks!
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Onwards and Upwards
Heya Folks,
Been a real quiet week at work so far, maybe its waiting around a corner to ambush us, but at the moment, its looking okay. As long as nothing bad happens, and I keep on top of things, I think things will be fine(fingers crossed).
Anywho on other more fun things, uhrmmmm, hmmm, oh yeah did you see those two pages I put up, wait already mentioned them, uhrrmmm, well...I'm going into money saving mode at the moment, I'm gonna be holding off on large spending sprees for a little, as I'm trying to build up some cash, to do what with I'm not to sure to be honest, but having a bit of cash on hand is always pretty nice.
Another thing I'm planning on doing is getting a debit card, earning money is nice and all but when you can't pay for things online it tends to suck a little, especially when the things you want, can only be bought online.
Hmmm, other then that, I really need to upgrade the old bombshell I have of a computer, I've managed to extend its lifetime somewhat, by replacing some parts here and there, but when its still operating on a single core processor, it tends to you know be not...so...good...yeah...
Although I definitely like Windows 7, much quicker, then my old slowly dieing XP, and my work computer which operates on Vista, plus has a broken screen...yes anyway.
Anywho, so things seem to be okay, but I'm gonna be super vigilant for a good long while, to hopefully catch anything before it becomes a major issue. And here I thought I was pretty good at the whole customer service rep, BB tech thing, ah well, ya snooze ya get fired from a large cannon into the stratosphere where you fall down and burn up in the atmosphere, before smacking into the ocean at terminal velocity, and well you know, smeer into nothing.
On that note,
Sayonara folks!
Been a real quiet week at work so far, maybe its waiting around a corner to ambush us, but at the moment, its looking okay. As long as nothing bad happens, and I keep on top of things, I think things will be fine(fingers crossed).
Anywho on other more fun things, uhrmmmm, hmmm, oh yeah did you see those two pages I put up, wait already mentioned them, uhrrmmm, well...I'm going into money saving mode at the moment, I'm gonna be holding off on large spending sprees for a little, as I'm trying to build up some cash, to do what with I'm not to sure to be honest, but having a bit of cash on hand is always pretty nice.
Another thing I'm planning on doing is getting a debit card, earning money is nice and all but when you can't pay for things online it tends to suck a little, especially when the things you want, can only be bought online.
Hmmm, other then that, I really need to upgrade the old bombshell I have of a computer, I've managed to extend its lifetime somewhat, by replacing some parts here and there, but when its still operating on a single core processor, it tends to you know be not...so...good...yeah...
Although I definitely like Windows 7, much quicker, then my old slowly dieing XP, and my work computer which operates on Vista, plus has a broken screen...yes anyway.
Anywho, so things seem to be okay, but I'm gonna be super vigilant for a good long while, to hopefully catch anything before it becomes a major issue. And here I thought I was pretty good at the whole customer service rep, BB tech thing, ah well, ya snooze ya get fired from a large cannon into the stratosphere where you fall down and burn up in the atmosphere, before smacking into the ocean at terminal velocity, and well you know, smeer into nothing.
On that note,
Sayonara folks!
Monday, May 31, 2010
Bleh
Heya Folks
We've finally got everything back in order, and now I'm standing on a precarious edge at work. To be honest I had a sinking feeling that something like this was happening, just didn't realize it'd be as bad as it was...
And well, if I don't improve, I'll probably be looking for another job at some point...
Bit of an eye opening really...
Sayonara folks
We've finally got everything back in order, and now I'm standing on a precarious edge at work. To be honest I had a sinking feeling that something like this was happening, just didn't realize it'd be as bad as it was...
And well, if I don't improve, I'll probably be looking for another job at some point...
Bit of an eye opening really...
Sayonara folks
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Pages 27-28
Heya folks
Next two pages of Sandhurst Acdemy are up and ready for viewing, so feel free, to go check them out.
http://www.guardianuniverse.com/comics/SHAc/SHAC_027.html
Sayonara folks
Next two pages of Sandhurst Acdemy are up and ready for viewing, so feel free, to go check them out.
http://www.guardianuniverse.com/comics/SHAc/SHAC_027.html
Sayonara folks
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Good news everyone!
Heya folks
I've sorted out the technical issues so there will be a double update of Sandhurst Academy this weekend, to make up for missing last week.
Sayonara folks!
I've sorted out the technical issues so there will be a double update of Sandhurst Academy this weekend, to make up for missing last week.
Sayonara folks!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
BWAG!
Heya Folks
Got some bad news on the comic front, due to some technical difficulties I'm having trouble getting the next page up :(, stupid old computer thingy, in desperate need of upgrade...Anywho, blah, actually a little frustrating as the next page is ready to go up, but gah...
SAD FACE :(
Sayonara Folks
Got some bad news on the comic front, due to some technical difficulties I'm having trouble getting the next page up :(, stupid old computer thingy, in desperate need of upgrade...Anywho, blah, actually a little frustrating as the next page is ready to go up, but gah...
SAD FACE :(
Sayonara Folks
Monday, May 17, 2010
And so we march on
Heya Folks
Page 26 of my comic is up now, so if you're interested you can go check, its apparantly not to bad, or so I've been told, much to my own surprise.
An update on Captain Tylor the Abridged Series, I screened it in front of a couple friends, and recieved something of a lukewarm reception(to say it lightly), so I'm redoing the first episode from scratch, I'm not planning to take nearly as long with it(probably a month so halfway through June), but its gonna be like twenty times betterer or something. Not that I have anything to show just yet, maybe I'll put up some sound tests for the different characters, or a meet the character thing.
So in other words regular weekly updates of my comic has started again, at the moment it will only be 1 a week, but eventually I'll move up to two a week, and hopefully eventually five a week. the pages on the whole aren't that complex and if I get my act into gear I can easily get a fair few done in a short period of time(maybe).
Anywhoisitanyway, I bought a new DS last week, and well haven't really done much with it yet, and I went and visited the old Melbourne Zoo, saw a bunch of animals, looked like a hippy nerd thing...or something and uh complained a lot about only having four hours of sleep. Then paid for everyone's tea at an expensive(maybe average priced) restaurant, which I do want to paid back on guys, $158 ain't anything to sniff at, *sniff, I would be less annoyed if we weren't only a short walk from McDonalds(cheap food FTW), but I digress.
I also bought a bunch of mangas and anime while visiting Borders.
I have to say my manga collection has effectively ballooned out into a massive monstrosity since I got my job, my Anime collection now includes
Complete Series:
Gundam Wing/Endless Waltz
Gundam Seed/Destiny
Big O
Claymore(may have a 2nd season out yet)
Ouran High School(same for this one)
.hack/sign
Sayuiki(haven't actually watched it yet
Disagea
Excel Saga
FMP/Fumoffu
Captain Tylor/OVA(this is what my abridged series will be based on)
Devil May Cry
School Rumble
Samurai Deeper Kyo(watched the first episode and haven't bothered with the rest)
Gundam 0083
Gundam 08th Team
As you can see I'm a bit of a Gundam Fan, when I was tossing up ideas when trying to decide what show to do an abridged Series on, I thought about doing Gundam Seed, or Wing, but people had already beat me to the punch, i settled for FMP, but just as I had finished a third of the first episode, I found someone had again beaten me to the punch, a little sad I switched to Captain Tylor, a series that I really do love, but I had lost my steam for a while, and work started tiring me out a heck of a lot. So nothing happened for a while, then I finally started work on it, and well yeah the result was less then stella, so back to the drawing board. I'm going to tightly script this one unlike my last attempt, where I was sorta coming up with it on the fly, and basically forgot the whole parody part of the concept of abridging.
Anywho that's enough from me...
Sayonara folks!
Page 26 of my comic is up now, so if you're interested you can go check, its apparantly not to bad, or so I've been told, much to my own surprise.
An update on Captain Tylor the Abridged Series, I screened it in front of a couple friends, and recieved something of a lukewarm reception(to say it lightly), so I'm redoing the first episode from scratch, I'm not planning to take nearly as long with it(probably a month so halfway through June), but its gonna be like twenty times betterer or something. Not that I have anything to show just yet, maybe I'll put up some sound tests for the different characters, or a meet the character thing.
So in other words regular weekly updates of my comic has started again, at the moment it will only be 1 a week, but eventually I'll move up to two a week, and hopefully eventually five a week. the pages on the whole aren't that complex and if I get my act into gear I can easily get a fair few done in a short period of time(maybe).
Anywhoisitanyway, I bought a new DS last week, and well haven't really done much with it yet, and I went and visited the old Melbourne Zoo, saw a bunch of animals, looked like a hippy nerd thing...or something and uh complained a lot about only having four hours of sleep. Then paid for everyone's tea at an expensive(maybe average priced) restaurant, which I do want to paid back on guys, $158 ain't anything to sniff at, *sniff, I would be less annoyed if we weren't only a short walk from McDonalds(cheap food FTW), but I digress.
I also bought a bunch of mangas and anime while visiting Borders.
I have to say my manga collection has effectively ballooned out into a massive monstrosity since I got my job, my Anime collection now includes
Complete Series:
Gundam Wing/Endless Waltz
Gundam Seed/Destiny
Big O
Claymore(may have a 2nd season out yet)
Ouran High School(same for this one)
.hack/sign
Sayuiki(haven't actually watched it yet
Disagea
Excel Saga
FMP/Fumoffu
Captain Tylor/OVA(this is what my abridged series will be based on)
Devil May Cry
School Rumble
Samurai Deeper Kyo(watched the first episode and haven't bothered with the rest)
Gundam 0083
Gundam 08th Team
As you can see I'm a bit of a Gundam Fan, when I was tossing up ideas when trying to decide what show to do an abridged Series on, I thought about doing Gundam Seed, or Wing, but people had already beat me to the punch, i settled for FMP, but just as I had finished a third of the first episode, I found someone had again beaten me to the punch, a little sad I switched to Captain Tylor, a series that I really do love, but I had lost my steam for a while, and work started tiring me out a heck of a lot. So nothing happened for a while, then I finally started work on it, and well yeah the result was less then stella, so back to the drawing board. I'm going to tightly script this one unlike my last attempt, where I was sorta coming up with it on the fly, and basically forgot the whole parody part of the concept of abridging.
Anywho that's enough from me...
Sayonara folks!
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
The Realm
Heya folks
Just thought I'd lay some ground work for what will be my next comic work after Sandhurst Academy comes to a close(when I get myself back into gear of course and Sandhurst Academy will actually have an end to it)
Anywho this work is one I've been working on for several years now, which Sandhurst Academy is meant mainly to be practice before I start this one.
The world of the Realm is located in a sort of mirrored Medieval Europe(so all the countries are back to front on the map) and is centered on the Chandrillan Empire, which was directly inspired by the late Byzantine Empire, which I started doing some reading on after I played Medieval Total War and found them to be my favorite team.
It focuses on the adventures of an atypical Knight and his idealistic squire as they journey across this vast country, encountering foes and allies as they go.
The atypical knight is named Eledor, a white haired somewhat mercenary, gruff, and distant veteran of a number of battles and wars. And his squire is named Aeries, who is a red haired idealistic individual who strives to change Eledor's attitude for the better and to help those in need around them whenever they can.
I'm not really going to reveal to much about them as of yet, as it could spoil the story, and we can't have that :)
Anywho other then that Sandhurst Academy will resume updating on Sunday the 16th of May I have got a number of pages done in advance, and should be able to produce them at a more steady rate, for now I will be sticking to one a week, but that number will go up as I do have some things I want to try in this odd and fairly quirky story I'm doing with it, and I don't plan on spending five years working on the one thing.
Captain Tylor the Abridgination, will be up by the end of this week, and if I don't get it done...I'll....uh...promise to get it done next week or something...yeah...
Other then that I'll possibly be posting up some character pictures I've been working on. And I've been racking up a few as I go along.
Anywhoisit that's enough from me, and stuff
Sayonara folks!
Just thought I'd lay some ground work for what will be my next comic work after Sandhurst Academy comes to a close(when I get myself back into gear of course and Sandhurst Academy will actually have an end to it)
Anywho this work is one I've been working on for several years now, which Sandhurst Academy is meant mainly to be practice before I start this one.
The world of the Realm is located in a sort of mirrored Medieval Europe(so all the countries are back to front on the map) and is centered on the Chandrillan Empire, which was directly inspired by the late Byzantine Empire, which I started doing some reading on after I played Medieval Total War and found them to be my favorite team.
It focuses on the adventures of an atypical Knight and his idealistic squire as they journey across this vast country, encountering foes and allies as they go.
The atypical knight is named Eledor, a white haired somewhat mercenary, gruff, and distant veteran of a number of battles and wars. And his squire is named Aeries, who is a red haired idealistic individual who strives to change Eledor's attitude for the better and to help those in need around them whenever they can.
I'm not really going to reveal to much about them as of yet, as it could spoil the story, and we can't have that :)
Anywho other then that Sandhurst Academy will resume updating on Sunday the 16th of May I have got a number of pages done in advance, and should be able to produce them at a more steady rate, for now I will be sticking to one a week, but that number will go up as I do have some things I want to try in this odd and fairly quirky story I'm doing with it, and I don't plan on spending five years working on the one thing.
Captain Tylor the Abridgination, will be up by the end of this week, and if I don't get it done...I'll....uh...promise to get it done next week or something...yeah...
Other then that I'll possibly be posting up some character pictures I've been working on. And I've been racking up a few as I go along.
Anywhoisit that's enough from me, and stuff
Sayonara folks!
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Well Hey and Stuff
Heya folks,
Well life continues on and stuff, jut did Relay for Life, and walked for about two or so hours straight, even managed to run 400 metres, before I fell over and died...
Well as you can see I got better, though my knees are going "OH MY GOD WHY DID YOU DO THAT TO US, NOW YOU WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO SIT CROSS-LEGGED WITHOUT IT HURTING!" and I'm like, "ow".
Anywho, I'm am gonna aim for getting the first episode of Captain Tylor the Abridged Series up by the end of April, what with it being the eighteenth that leaves me a few days to get it done, I just have the last two minutes to do, and it should hopefully be done! YAY done.
Once I get past that small hurdle I'll be on to the next couple of episodes, which are less introducing characters and background plot, and more me with a tonne of ideas to get them done. And maybe just maybe I'll be able to get these out faster then the first episode(ahem 1 year+)
On the Sandhurst Academy front, which also translates to website front, updates will be resuming soon, probably mid may, at the latest, and hopefully I'll be able to shell pages out a bit faster, then what I have been currently(ahem 4 months for 1 page)
Anywho other then that, hmm, my brother moved out, my sister is getting stressed at university, and I'm doing rather well at my job, I assume I am as they don't yell at me.
Other then that, um...uh...hmmm....ah....well this is awkward, oh wait, exchange student is now staying at the house I live in again, and I cleaned up my room, so its not so much a battlefield and mroe of a living area, though my bed is a little uninhabitable at the moment, what with junk piled up on it.
Uhrm, yeah...
Sayonara folks!
Well life continues on and stuff, jut did Relay for Life, and walked for about two or so hours straight, even managed to run 400 metres, before I fell over and died...
Well as you can see I got better, though my knees are going "OH MY GOD WHY DID YOU DO THAT TO US, NOW YOU WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO SIT CROSS-LEGGED WITHOUT IT HURTING!" and I'm like, "ow".
Anywho, I'm am gonna aim for getting the first episode of Captain Tylor the Abridged Series up by the end of April, what with it being the eighteenth that leaves me a few days to get it done, I just have the last two minutes to do, and it should hopefully be done! YAY done.
Once I get past that small hurdle I'll be on to the next couple of episodes, which are less introducing characters and background plot, and more me with a tonne of ideas to get them done. And maybe just maybe I'll be able to get these out faster then the first episode(ahem 1 year+)
On the Sandhurst Academy front, which also translates to website front, updates will be resuming soon, probably mid may, at the latest, and hopefully I'll be able to shell pages out a bit faster, then what I have been currently(ahem 4 months for 1 page)
Anywho other then that, hmm, my brother moved out, my sister is getting stressed at university, and I'm doing rather well at my job, I assume I am as they don't yell at me.
Other then that, um...uh...hmmm....ah....well this is awkward, oh wait, exchange student is now staying at the house I live in again, and I cleaned up my room, so its not so much a battlefield and mroe of a living area, though my bed is a little uninhabitable at the moment, what with junk piled up on it.
Uhrm, yeah...
Sayonara folks!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Klicking along
Hey People(If anyone still bothers to look here occasionally at any rate)
I'm alive and stuff, my computer decided to have something resembling a heart attack, just as my website may have been hacked at some point, which was intersting, as I wasn't sure if I could recover the entirety of my website for a little bit there. Oh well in the past now.
So long story short I'm now running Windows 7 off my old beast, I recovered most of the software I had initially on the machine, but still need to organise myself to install Microsoft Office back on it, from one of the old copies my Dad has lying around,(he has something like 3 or 4 copies, all apparantly legit with watermarks and fancy coloured discs and what not)
My abridged series thing has actually seen progress finally after a long period of stagnation, the first episode is looking at 6:35 atm, and will probably be extended another 2 or three minutes, but its very close, I just need to sort out why my voice recordings atm are coming across very quiet(could just because I'm trying not to be overheard while sounding like an idiot, I'm easily embarrassed)
Comic wise, I've been drawing pages, just not putting them up, as I'm trying to get back in the swing of things, and get a better handle on my character drawingness, and I think I've seem some improvement, plus I'm also working on including backgrounds into my drawings and stuff as for a while I was avoiding drawing them as much as possible.
Anywhosit Sayonara Folks!
I'm alive and stuff, my computer decided to have something resembling a heart attack, just as my website may have been hacked at some point, which was intersting, as I wasn't sure if I could recover the entirety of my website for a little bit there. Oh well in the past now.
So long story short I'm now running Windows 7 off my old beast, I recovered most of the software I had initially on the machine, but still need to organise myself to install Microsoft Office back on it, from one of the old copies my Dad has lying around,(he has something like 3 or 4 copies, all apparantly legit with watermarks and fancy coloured discs and what not)
My abridged series thing has actually seen progress finally after a long period of stagnation, the first episode is looking at 6:35 atm, and will probably be extended another 2 or three minutes, but its very close, I just need to sort out why my voice recordings atm are coming across very quiet(could just because I'm trying not to be overheard while sounding like an idiot, I'm easily embarrassed)
Comic wise, I've been drawing pages, just not putting them up, as I'm trying to get back in the swing of things, and get a better handle on my character drawingness, and I think I've seem some improvement, plus I'm also working on including backgrounds into my drawings and stuff as for a while I was avoiding drawing them as much as possible.
Anywhosit Sayonara Folks!
Friday, December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas and Stuff!
Hi people who may or may not read this thing that is known as a blog type thing, hmmm.
I recently updated my website, SHOCK! yes I updated my website finally after five months of waiting and guess what you get! A holiday themed colour picture done by yours truly, and two other picture things. WHOOOT!
Or not.
Anywho Updates a plenty will be occurring on the 1st of January, which just so happens to be my birthday, SHHHHH don't tell anyone ITS A SECRET! or not, anywho by updates, I mean my comic will return to its regular update schedule(a new page every weekend), at the moment I'm saying one page a week, however, if I can get my speed up well, it may be two to three pages per week.
Just gotta get back in the swing of things and all will be good. I've finally taken the effort to throw out a tonne of old books, both writing and school stuff, which I've kept for no apparently good reason, still got a tonne to get through, including a bunch of old toys and other things, but once I get all that done, MY CUPBOARD WILL BE MINE AGAIN!
In other more somber news, my dog has hit the 91 year mark, although I guess that could be seen as happy news, and my cat let a few off...and has a bad habit of missing a litter tray bigger then herself, which is sad for me cause I have to clean up the mess....
Hmmmm, on another note, my anime collection has grown so much that I can now make a massive line on the ground with it, and my manga collection occupies two shelves of my bookcase, cough* plus I bought some cough* deadpool comics(not really a fan of marvel stuff anymore) and some really expensive x-men comics, which all kinda sucked. Either were gory for the sake of gory, or just so over the top as to be ridiculous, in a way that wasn't funny or cool, or way too serious, without any real fun to it. American comics really seem to have gone the way of darker and edgier is better, way, and I'm frankly not a fan of that whole thing. Give me the variety manga and manwha gives and I'm a happy camper.
On another, not Captain Tylor the abridged series episode 1, is still in the works, its about 75% complete, sadly it took me almost a year to get a 9 minute piece of thing to 75% completion. Anyway, I may or maynot have it complete before the 1st as well, we'll see ultimately.
Anywho that's enough of my annoying drivel and prattle, go have fun and stuff!
Sayonara Folks!
I recently updated my website, SHOCK! yes I updated my website finally after five months of waiting and guess what you get! A holiday themed colour picture done by yours truly, and two other picture things. WHOOOT!
Or not.
Anywho Updates a plenty will be occurring on the 1st of January, which just so happens to be my birthday, SHHHHH don't tell anyone ITS A SECRET! or not, anywho by updates, I mean my comic will return to its regular update schedule(a new page every weekend), at the moment I'm saying one page a week, however, if I can get my speed up well, it may be two to three pages per week.
Just gotta get back in the swing of things and all will be good. I've finally taken the effort to throw out a tonne of old books, both writing and school stuff, which I've kept for no apparently good reason, still got a tonne to get through, including a bunch of old toys and other things, but once I get all that done, MY CUPBOARD WILL BE MINE AGAIN!
In other more somber news, my dog has hit the 91 year mark, although I guess that could be seen as happy news, and my cat let a few off...and has a bad habit of missing a litter tray bigger then herself, which is sad for me cause I have to clean up the mess....
Hmmmm, on another note, my anime collection has grown so much that I can now make a massive line on the ground with it, and my manga collection occupies two shelves of my bookcase, cough* plus I bought some cough* deadpool comics(not really a fan of marvel stuff anymore) and some really expensive x-men comics, which all kinda sucked. Either were gory for the sake of gory, or just so over the top as to be ridiculous, in a way that wasn't funny or cool, or way too serious, without any real fun to it. American comics really seem to have gone the way of darker and edgier is better, way, and I'm frankly not a fan of that whole thing. Give me the variety manga and manwha gives and I'm a happy camper.
On another, not Captain Tylor the abridged series episode 1, is still in the works, its about 75% complete, sadly it took me almost a year to get a 9 minute piece of thing to 75% completion. Anyway, I may or maynot have it complete before the 1st as well, we'll see ultimately.
Anywho that's enough of my annoying drivel and prattle, go have fun and stuff!
Sayonara Folks!
Monday, August 17, 2009
BLARG! This is a random blurg.
I wake up in the morning, I go through the normal wake up cycle, then I get in my car and drive to work. I sit in front of my computer(broken laptop screen, and wireless keyboard and mouse, it adds character damnit!) and go through my email. I catch up on any work that came in while I was at home, sleeping or pretending to be awake, and then attempt to catch up on my over jobs. I go through two 1.25 litre bottles of pepsi max a day to keep me awake. If I'm lucky at lunch and the weather isn't wet, or too hot, I have a go at doing a short ten minute session on my current comic page or whatever else is on my mind. That or I just sit and rest, cause for the last forty minutes of my lunch I have been walking non-stop..., then I go back to work finish up the days work and go home. Then I come home sit kind of half awake half asleep and somehow in this state manage to stay up to twelve. Rinse and repeat.
That is pretty much a summary of my working week, the work's not hard it's not all that tiring and its only eight hours a day, but my habit of not being able to go to sleep till 12, thanks to bad habits, ingrained in me from Tafe, I'm trying to fix. I'm starting to get a bit more energy, and I will return soonish to weekly comicing, of course I owe close to ten or more comics, which will take me a while to catchup, but first I just gotta get this one page done, after that hurdle the rest will be easier as I get back into a routine. Same can be said for my adbridged pilot episode I've been half working on and off for the last couple of months. Inching my way along. Once I get the first one out, and see if people think I'm a weird sounding idiot guy, or actually have the occasionaly glimmer of humor, I'll see about putting out the next couple of ones. It's always hardest starting again, especially if you've taken a large break from doing something. My hobbies are the same, especially as I have more money then I am used to(I recently got a 20% raise too!), which I've been spending on manga and anime...
Man I haven't done one of these in ages! Whoo!
As proof I am still doing the drawingness, though to be fair this one is not as awesome as another one I did with Eledor center stage, with black fire around him(Unfortunately it's too big for my scanner... :(
Anywhoisit, I'm off, I guess I'll try updating here a bit more often, maybe with some new drawings and stuff, though I could always put them into my Gallery...meh anyway...
Sayonara folks!
That is pretty much a summary of my working week, the work's not hard it's not all that tiring and its only eight hours a day, but my habit of not being able to go to sleep till 12, thanks to bad habits, ingrained in me from Tafe, I'm trying to fix. I'm starting to get a bit more energy, and I will return soonish to weekly comicing, of course I owe close to ten or more comics, which will take me a while to catchup, but first I just gotta get this one page done, after that hurdle the rest will be easier as I get back into a routine. Same can be said for my adbridged pilot episode I've been half working on and off for the last couple of months. Inching my way along. Once I get the first one out, and see if people think I'm a weird sounding idiot guy, or actually have the occasionaly glimmer of humor, I'll see about putting out the next couple of ones. It's always hardest starting again, especially if you've taken a large break from doing something. My hobbies are the same, especially as I have more money then I am used to(I recently got a 20% raise too!), which I've been spending on manga and anime...
Man I haven't done one of these in ages! Whoo!
As proof I am still doing the drawingness, though to be fair this one is not as awesome as another one I did with Eledor center stage, with black fire around him(Unfortunately it's too big for my scanner... :(
Anywhoisit, I'm off, I guess I'll try updating here a bit more often, maybe with some new drawings and stuff, though I could always put them into my Gallery...meh anyway...
Sayonara folks!
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Hi
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!
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!
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!
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