Hey there, I'll be heading down to ACEN this weekend with my friends. For those who don't know, ACEN is the major Anime convention that occurs in the Midwest near Chicago. It will hopefully be a blast and I will attempt to take pictures and what not. I know some more popular/famous Deviants will be there like , so it will be cool to meet them and anyone else that from around here. I will just be enjoying the con and blowing my life savings on manga I can't read and plushies. Maybe I may just run into you there...

On my art stuffs, I have been pretty involved in a studio class creating still lives and what not. Therefore, my energy is being spent there, but I will try to upload a few sketches I've made; namely a few based off the MMO Mabinogi (Which I have been playing too much of o.O).

See you later.

Hey Peoples,
last weekend I stayed up for 30 hours in a Game Jam session hosted by my university and companies such as Midway and Microsoft. The premise was to have small teams of three or four students to build their own game from scratch in XNA under 30 hours following a specific theme. This Game Jam's theme was "Green Gaming" and I worked with two other buddies on "Recycle Dash." I did all the drawings and animations and my teammates did all the programing.

Recycle Dash is basically a catch and drop-off game where an evil villain is dropping trash from the sky (too much captain planet on the brain) and its your job to protect the environment by collecting the garbage and holding off the wave of trash by depositing it all into a magic recycle bin that defies all known physics.

After many hours of tireless work, sleep deprivation, and pizza raiding, we completed our project and were judge by the panel. We unfortunately got the "almost won a prize" award making us around 4th place. The games that beat us involved an alien space ship killing hippies, a fighting game between a lumberjack and a tree, and a strategy game that displayed a flying nude nature spirit.

All in all it was fun.
I'll be uploading some of the thing I've made for you guys to see.
Ciao.

I'm nearly done the quarter and I've been loving my animation class. I've made a few neat things and I'll try to upload them as I get the chance. I've already put up my chicken smash flip book which also made a decent avatar (the old one was getting a bit dusty). I have another hand drawn animation some where that needs a nice clean up before submitting. There is also my super top secret project, but that will have to wait...

Anyway, I think I'll take aim at some serious flash game making. I've learned plenty from using "Game Maker 7" and it should only be a few steps to convert that knowledge into actual work. I'll let you know how that goes.

Later.

It seems odd to start a new years notice 14 days after the fact, but I'll ignore that for now.

So... Happy New Year!

With that out of the way, I've been back in school in already and have been working on some class projects. I'm officially in my first "animation" class, so I hope to upload some of the things I've made. I will try and post up screenies of a recent game I've made through "Game Maker 7." It's basic stuff, but hey, its what I've been doing. I've bought a few books and will attempt to improve my anime drawing skills over the next following months. I'll try and post a few sketch pads on my scraps when I get a chance. Also, still no scanner (I'm working on that now since I have a few bucks!) so what ever I do make will only be uploaded in mass.

See you guys around.

I had been making my usual rounds around the net when I found something truly tragic. Reuben Kee, a video game music remixer from ocremix.org has died in a terrible accident. I never knew the person personally, but I had always listened to the best music there was on that website. I clicked a link to Kee's work and I discovered he had done some of my most favorite songs I listened to in the past.

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It's just so tragic for someone to die, in their prime and with so much talent. Kee will live on in his music. Yet this is what it got me thinking, when things are said and done, and we are taken from this world, how will people remember us? I'd like to think I have a long future ahead of me to accomplish many "great things," but that may not be the case. I'm just thinking of what can be done now, how can I make today better. How will people remember me, or us?

It's just so hard to put such things into prospective, I'm not sure if I'm even doing Reuban Kee justice for mentioning him here in this context. But I thought I should at least share these thoughts I have, and maybe spread appreciation around for those of us who are alive and those who have died. We may not all have the luxury to live until we are of old age, so make every day the best you can.