:/ ....might never find out

...so yeah

I really don't know what went wrong, but nothings been delivered to me from the Comiket Volunteer Committee.. No postcard, no results package. Appearantly if I didnt recieve the postcard I was to send a notification within ten days or forget about it.
-_-

Still trying though. You must be bored to hell with this stuff unless you have plans to go...
I swear though, next time: Online Registration. And I'll make sure to stay in Japan til I get everything settled.

sigh. Well I guess I can go back to blogging normally. Maybe news will pop up.
Thus ends the tale of a small circle that never was.

I need to find better friends/associates to help me with this registration crap.
My relatives and such were not much help at all. Geeze.


On a brighter note, I can start playing Pokemon Heart Gold again soon. I just stopped playing for a while...just cause. Also we ordered Silver for my brother so we can play together.

Also been playing Need For Speed Underground 2 for Gamecube on the wii. Something made me go out and by Need for Speed Carbon for the wii. Pretty cool game, territory nabbing by winning races. Also has police chases (lota fun) and this crew member system. yeah I know OLD GAME, but new for me cause I just bought it. It was actually still 30 bucks used. What I really wanted was Need For Speed Most Wanted for GC, but unfortunately GAMESTOP had rid of their Gamecube section entirely leaving me no option but to find it online in the future if I still want it.

But yeah. o_-
Still working on the freelance project.
And the Touhou books I might not get to sell at Winter comiket. Sigh. ANyways.

here's a picture of Youmu I drew to break this wall of text:

Anyways, I'll be going down to Ft. Lauderdale tomorrow to hang out with my friend who'll most likely be graduating from AIFL this quarter.

...Besides that I dont have much to inspire me anymore.

:/

I've been using that emote alot. it's pretty much describes how I feel now.

The weathers gotten nice and a tad bit cooler here in Florida, but might just be the effects of Hurricane...Ida? was it? passing by going up the gulf. No storm here, just lots of wind.

boring.

:/

k the end, cya next time~

update~

Ahhh
Some of you have seen my demo reel on youtube.
Thanks for the many comments

however that was NOt the final version-
you can watch the "complete and graded and hopefully will get me out of college"
version at my website- Kxela.com. Just follow the links. It's the first and bigger video in quick time format. If your connection is good it should play nicely and in Decent quality.


....oh.
well you've heard it now. I'm done with my demo.
All I have to do is make DVD's of it to send to companies and stuff I guess.

meaning I have more time to...OMG.. "draw"

Seriously, this last several months I'v been INKING every frame of my minute and a half
animation (counting....several hundred drawings)....
Literally Tracing all those drawings you've ALREADY drawn once? yeah it was a pain... but I got it done.

ANyways I've touched my sketchbook a few days ago for the first time in God knows when...
I've got a commission and drawings and *gasp* Comic pages I can finally get to again.

...But I'm guilty of wasting my time on other things.
Such as- Learning to play the guitar again. I never stuck to it long enough to get "good".
I took my first lessons in highschool- an elective class. Then took private lessons in Washington which only lasted three months cause I had to move.
And after we moved here... like a year ago some damn theives broke into our home and stole a bunch of stuff- including my electric guitar. ;_; .... I've never missed it so much. Luckily those fags decided one E-guitar and one Bass was enough, they didnt steal my poor acoustic guitar. Sigh, they looked good next to each other. But my Acoustic is my favorite. So I've been playing that everyday little bit by bit- guess that enough, within a week my fingers are starting to harden up :3 I sped through the guitar lesson books- I've learned a ton within this time frame.

........
but yeah, just a little.
...iwannabuyanotherelectricguitarlolololol

Watching K-On has nothing to do with this. <- lie


ahem anyways.

...
thats all.
I'll be opening commissions up again soon, so
if you want- start thinking of what.

k cya!

hey! wanna have your art in a NY gallery? + VN pro

APW gallery in New York is doing a "call for submissions" event
called "Sketch it out" Which is asking any and all artist around the world
to participate. Whats cool about this?- Sign up, and you're guarenteed 5 pieces
into the gallery for the event. ^^ I thought about it a bit then I was like,
"why shouldn't I?" It's a great chance to have your art seen, in a gallery no less o.o

Well the sign up price is $50 for 5 pieces max, the deadline is the 28th.
EDIT: You can also put your 5 pieces up to sell at the gallery too :D So your work wont just be for show ^^
go here for details:
http://apwarts.com/Callforsubmission.html

...there's actually a laundry list of contests I've built up to enter..wahhh


other news:
I have been working on a (kinetic) Visual Novel! I'm making "Can't just Add Water" (thats the short story I wrote, You've seen my Allison character in my gallery) in to a visual novel~ well, actually I'm almost done! Just a few more sprites to spice it up, couple back grounds and the CG's. i got all the coding and typing crap done ^^
If you're a good friend of mine I may share a WIP.... or I'll post some WIP images up soon.


I have 4 weeks left in the quarter, My demo is right about finished being animated. Once I finish that I'll post a rough animation video here or on youtube and then start on the inking and coloring and effects and whatever else.

XD

Oh, I'm going to megacon! Coming? Comment! See you there!!

January so far...

SO. its already getting to the third week of January, and what have I been doing?

...nothing really -3- well, I have been working on things inch by inch but yeah.

as title says, I bought an ipod touch like a week (...last tuesday) ago. It's pretty awesome and the first 'real' ipod (with a screen) that I've bought ever. Cause I've only bought the shuffle gen1 and gen2 (after my first broke, getting a new one was probably cheaper). But yeah I put much music and videos and pictures and art and animations on it so I can show it off to people- which is Essentially (the excuse as to) why I got it, cause people want to see my animation work and I always need to forward them to my youtube account (which I need to update by the way)...so yeah thats the fun I've been having.


OH RIGHT hahaha- SCHOOL STARTED AGAIN
taking the 2/4 classes remaining to graduate.
...wow, if all goes well I graduate this summer @_@
anyways-

Mondays I have this advertising observation class with an awesome teacher I've had couple times before, easy class. any hey! there are two monday holidays this quarter- like today!

Tuesdays- ah, now this I need to get off my ass and start working. Portfolio development class- aka make your DEMO REEL class. I have my storyboards done for what I'm gonna do (may or maynot change it). But its gonna be a cool short with skating in it Ima gonna make it really smooth as possible.

and I have my commission set of four to do, my second one is about finished sketched ^^ I'm having fun with these. So no commissions til I'm done with this.

and uhhhh
Megacon's out of artist alley tables ;_; i have not learned my lesson. Maybe I can get someone to share again. Will pay~
Chris has been calling me during work. If you're reading this Chris, I'll call you back soon. I'm not trying to avoid your calls. I sorta kinda want to go to megacon if possible.

...is that it? yeah. i cant think of anything more to write.

Oh I got this Kanji studying DS software. Its pretty awesome. I've learned quite a bit already. BUt I've been slacking this week. Cause my brother took my DS. But I havent tried getting it back cause I'm playing with the apps I downloaded for the itouch XD;;

nkay thats all, have a good one folks.

2008 closing

I've finished my classes for this year!! ^_^ WHich means I have only 2 quarters left til graduation. I took my print portfolio class this quarter, next quarter (actually, from now) I need to work on my demo reel.

I was complimented on my logo's graphic design. Because I made a nice logo all my presentational stuff like resumes, biz card came out nice. maybe I should look in to honing my graphics skills.

-3- Lost invisible update 2. 3 more pages til I switch back to NC. going smoothly I guess.

I got lotsa art I wanna make this winter break. Mizucon is right around the corner too. man even without school I'm buzy~

Looking for jobs. I dunno if I'm staying in the US or going to Japan after graduation. Japan sounds great, but I wonder about the pay from animation jobs. SUddenly...actually, I take that back. Man my student loans starting to hurt me X.x
If I can work in the US or here in FL for a little before going to Japan it might actually help my chances of getting hired over there. cause no one wants a fresh graduate without experience from another country? ...I'll have to find a job one place or another.

I bought Kakitorikun DS, a Kanji study game. waiting for it in the mail :3

well thats all for today I guess. Man I want more commissions.

Webcomic updation

-3- feeling a little better but still got coughs.

I updated Li today. For this sixth time this Year.
Man thats bad, 1 update a month, 6times for each comic.
where am I gonna go like that!?

Well as I posted I'm going to start update 5-5-5-5
meaning five Li pages, then 5 Nc pages, etc.

that way I'll have my mind on one story for long enough
before I switch instead of having to switch every page.
----
I've taken up using the nib/ink dip pen. It's pretty nice,
...well it comes out nice. Having to dip it every so often and
then needing to clean the pen before taking a rest is a bit
rough but its worth it. The Jerry's near our place sells manga
nibs, nib holders, comic ink, and that stuff, even copics :D <3

I have finals this-next week... for 3D dynamics, I've pretty much have about
70% of it done just gotta get the 30% of my scene done and spend a couple days
rendering. hope my computer holds up.

Mizucon is in few weeks! I need to do more fanart and make prints and buttonzzz X_x

December 2008~

Well I'm back to using this blog thing I guess,
new design, layout, awesome stuff.

I'm in my... 3rd before last quarter at AIFL,
I'm taking my portfolio preperation class and 3D dynamics and particles class.

So far, both have been pretty easy.
I really need to focus on making my demo reel, but i'm having a hard time
making a 30sec-1min story, cause I want my reel to have a story which is recommended.

all my stories end up coule minutes at least, the one I want to do-
I've storyboarded half of it and I can already tell its 2~4 minutes.ugh
but I think I can get rid of half of it and make it work.
...(i still want to make the entire story though...)

I've been wanting to draw STUFF, but I've had all this other STUFF to rearrange and organize that by the time i finish it's always already 2am when I want to start drawing. my hands dead by then. correction: my brains dead by then.

BUt I have been working on the animation that I made last quarter, which has been named "wings" til now, the official name is "Angel for a day" or "Angel Day". When I turned it in it lacked BGM, and only had tidbits of sound effects. Few days ago I did some sound hunting online and found the stuff I needed to finish that animation. I'm done with it completely as far as I can do in ToonBoom, all I need to do is make a youtube able video (youtube seems to hate quicktime animations, well actually, all programs besides quicktime seems to hate them, which is a pity cause quicktime renders so beautifully). ANyways, I finally got it made into a AVI, which I can put on a DVD... to show people who've been wanting to see my work. -3-
but now FLASH is being a pain, all the AVI renders for "Confidence" comes out pretty bad... I have to wait until school to use after affects or something to convert it to AVI nicely (...I'm downloading converts too, tonight).

so if this was all Blah Blah Blah to you fine, I'll get you to the visuals:

http://www.youtube.com/kxela

"confidence" and a Messed up version of "angel day" is there.

you can see the flash versions here:

http://www.kxelanimation.deviantart.com/

k, back to work

get back in shape entry

Well I got my laptop back, good shape.
School has begun again. I have 4 classes. 1 animation, 1 video, 1 storyboard, 1...painting. yeah.
I just posted my little short 3D animation I did last quarter in my first 3D animation class on Youtube. here's my page, this is my second vid

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Kxela

I have such a long to do list. No I dont. I just think I do.
1. update Li NOW!
2. Contest prize sketch for Luna
3. Update starvingartists...
4. update NC
5. draw some more stuff
6. separate comic project
7.....
I should really just get to work.
My friend and I paired up to buy paints last week. Oil paints. dang it was expensive... I better come out of that class with a hell of a good painting...
I gotta make a video for video class. in 10 weeks. yup.
Well I'm all worn out from work right now. I need a nap. cya