We just buried him in the backyard.
He had fang marks around his neck.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
It's finally over
Today is a great day for me, i am finally done with my internship, and so, with college too.
I had an awfully bad presentation, but now it's over and i have a 15/20 grade on my internship.
I am tired and will now pass out!
I had an awfully bad presentation, but now it's over and i have a 15/20 grade on my internship.
I am tired and will now pass out!
Monday, July 27, 2009
Highlander - the search for vengeance
just a cool anime movie i saw recently on TV.
actually found all of it uploaded on Youtube, made a playlist for it.
It caught my attention instantly cause i recognized the art as being from the same guys who did "Vampire hunter D: bloodlust", and possibly "Ninja scroll". The quality of the art and animation alone make me want to watch anything these people do.
Sorry i haven't been posting much, but I'm finishing up my internship. it all ends on Thursday.
actually found all of it uploaded on Youtube, made a playlist for it.
It caught my attention instantly cause i recognized the art as being from the same guys who did "Vampire hunter D: bloodlust", and possibly "Ninja scroll". The quality of the art and animation alone make me want to watch anything these people do.
Sorry i haven't been posting much, but I'm finishing up my internship. it all ends on Thursday.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Katie & Dana
Katie is kinda like the Spongebob to Dana's Squidward. She means well, but it's generally related to things Dana'd rather not be a part of...and ironically jealous if Katie ever decided to leave her out. I guess it's like, you don't know what you've got til it's gone. Or something.
Monday, July 20, 2009
P.E.R.L. v1.0
Finally completed my first version of Perl
Perl is a character that exists in Pizzacat's Proxy's universe.
Background story
Before growing/cloning artificial humans was perfected, scientists had a test stage where they experimented with actual people.
Perl was one of those people. she was a 14 year old homeless girl, one of many homeless people who were abducted for these experiments. Perl doesn't remember who she was before they started experimenting on her, but she was a somewhat successful experiment, in the sense she survived the operations and implants.
the scientists weren't happy with the test subjects though, cause they were still relatively fragile, they wanted more powerful and resistant soldiers. they tried to use Perl for spying and scouting instead with an experimental power source they found on a remote planet.
The military weren't impressed and rejected the entirePerl project, and so all the units were deactivated and stored in a giant freezer along with hundreds of other subjects.
Ages later, when Proxy made her escape from the facility, among the chaos, she saw Perl's stasis unit, Feeling sorry for the young girl, she took her with herself.
Abilities
Perl's an infiltration and scouting unit, as such, she has great mobility and is very fast, her boots were designed to use her specific power source and reduce the effect gravity has on her.
Perl uses an early version of the nanomachines that were later used on Proxy, but Perl's has a secondary role:
Perl has the ability to cloak, the nanomachines allow her to form small hexagonal plates on her skin, sort of like scales, which allow her to change color or even let light thought her making her invisible.
Even though she was designed to scout and infiltrate, Perl is capable or attacking with a pressure spike installed in her forearms. the arm has to be perfectly straight to use the pressured attack, and the build up of pressure used to hurt Perl, that has been solved when Proxy made her arm and shoulder armor that helped her brace for the pressure/impact and disperse the pain.
Even though meant to b a superior human being, she's much weaker and fragile than Proxy.
Personality
Being taken at a very young age, and possibly the youngest test subject used in the project, Perl was very affected by the experience and made her very timid. She's very shy and looks to proxy for protection, even though Perl is technically much older than Proxy, she developed a big sis lil sis relationship with her and loves being with her.
The "trauma" from the scientific facility made her get stuck on a young mindset, her mental age is about 16-17. possibly because also her body stopped evolving/growing and is stuck at the same age.
Perl is a character that exists in Pizzacat's Proxy's universe.Background story
Before growing/cloning artificial humans was perfected, scientists had a test stage where they experimented with actual people.
Perl was one of those people. she was a 14 year old homeless girl, one of many homeless people who were abducted for these experiments. Perl doesn't remember who she was before they started experimenting on her, but she was a somewhat successful experiment, in the sense she survived the operations and implants.
the scientists weren't happy with the test subjects though, cause they were still relatively fragile, they wanted more powerful and resistant soldiers. they tried to use Perl for spying and scouting instead with an experimental power source they found on a remote planet.
The military weren't impressed and rejected the entirePerl project, and so all the units were deactivated and stored in a giant freezer along with hundreds of other subjects.
Ages later, when Proxy made her escape from the facility, among the chaos, she saw Perl's stasis unit, Feeling sorry for the young girl, she took her with herself.
Abilities
Perl's an infiltration and scouting unit, as such, she has great mobility and is very fast, her boots were designed to use her specific power source and reduce the effect gravity has on her.
Perl uses an early version of the nanomachines that were later used on Proxy, but Perl's has a secondary role:
Perl has the ability to cloak, the nanomachines allow her to form small hexagonal plates on her skin, sort of like scales, which allow her to change color or even let light thought her making her invisible.Even though she was designed to scout and infiltrate, Perl is capable or attacking with a pressure spike installed in her forearms. the arm has to be perfectly straight to use the pressured attack, and the build up of pressure used to hurt Perl, that has been solved when Proxy made her arm and shoulder armor that helped her brace for the pressure/impact and disperse the pain.
Even though meant to b a superior human being, she's much weaker and fragile than Proxy.
Personality
Being taken at a very young age, and possibly the youngest test subject used in the project, Perl was very affected by the experience and made her very timid. She's very shy and looks to proxy for protection, even though Perl is technically much older than Proxy, she developed a big sis lil sis relationship with her and loves being with her.
The "trauma" from the scientific facility made her get stuck on a young mindset, her mental age is about 16-17. possibly because also her body stopped evolving/growing and is stuck at the same age.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Burn baby burn!
Lower right hand corner. The picture is blurry because I cannot find my camera. Anyway, as you can see the graphics card is completely blue except for the bottom right corner. The plastic is completely gone on this top and bottom layer so it must have been pretty hot! Additionally the motherboard took damage as well. Luckily nothing else was burned.
In more exciting news!
After many months I finally have my degree! sweet. Now to find a job and apply for grad school...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Taking a break between reports
I'm currently correcting my internship reports, i have to turn these in by the end of this week so i can schedule the presentation this month.
I'm not allowed to post here when I'm depressed, and boy do i hate myself lately, but no one else is doing anything, so I'll just try to not go emo and post about something i been thinking about lately.
I've been wondering what make a character good and what doesn't.
Good character, how to:
First of all, i believe that a character being good or not is a subjective matter, some people have very low standards and will pretty much settle with anything that looks visually decent.
Personally, i think only an idiot would make a character with a design, give it a job, list of likes and dislikes, and call it done, and then claim he has more than 200 characters. If anything that's making extras (the blank people in the background in movies), not characters.
By watching Linkara's reviews of new and old comic, I've come to realize why i like or dislike some characters. Linkara tends to bring up simple points and subjects like: how to properly tell a story, what the hell is a plot, how to not fuck up a character's background, how to give a character motivation, etc. Usually these are basic subjects that every comic writer should know, but oddly a lot of professionals fail at. I've learned a few things from his reviews but i'm sure i've forgotten most of it already.
I tried to compile a list of things in my head a good character should have, although some aspects are optional, some are a must.
Background and motivation
It's important to have your character have a backstory, but that backstory needs to fit who the character is. For example, a character that spend his childhood eating mud and getting kicked in the nuts shouldn't b a optimistic and brilliant scientist for the heck of it. Sure sometimes a person with a certain childhood grows up to become something unexpected, but stretching that too far will just not seem reasonably believable to the reader and unable to relate to the character at all.
There's the other thing though, motivation. What does the character aspire for? does he have a dream? what's his goal in life? a good motivation could justify more than half of the background. Let's take the kid that eats mud and enjoys ball kicks, let's say one day he meets a scientist that feels pity for him and invents a cup to protect his balls and a machine to turn mud into chocolate, the kid could b so marveled by how the scientist made his life so much more awesome that he might want to become a scientist himself to bring that joy to other. still a crappy background, but u could make sense out of it and there's now a reason the kid would become a scientist.
The "that person who helped/saved me when i was a kid was a so when i grow up I'll b a " motivation seems way overused though. another classic background motivation/background is the "this was the dream of that person i loved, so I'll fulfill it!" one is really popular among anime, and if u ask me, not that original either, but heh, whatever works. One character that makes no sense to me is Sasuke from Naruto, worse character in the manga/anime. and it's easy to tell if your character is bad based on how many thing your character has in common with Sasuke.
I also don't get when the background and motivation don't seem to match. Like a girl who had a rough childhood and was molested, and now she wants to become a porn star? i predict little to no character growth there. Again, Sasuke seems retarded in his goals. he seems to want to do what makes less sense possible.
Personality
In general, the personality can b drawn from the character's background and motivation, or at least part of it.
A personality, seriously, a personality is a must, don't b a Sasuke, he makes Naruto seem likable, and that's a fucking achievement. It really seems weird that almost any other character in Naruto is way more interesting than Sasuke and yet Sasuke is a main character. I wouldn't say the character has to b likable, but have a personality, any, just not god damn blank.
A Gary Stu, This is very very important in my opinion. a Gary Stu, or Mary Sue for females, is a character is is just too god dammed perfect, and has little to no flaws. An example would b a Brain surgeon that is a black belt in 4 different martial arts and a 5 star chef, and he's popular as fuck and everyone likes him for no valid reason. These characters are bad because no one can relate to them and everyone ends up hating them.
Honestly, the design is what should come after all this, but never is.
Conclusion?
In the end, if you have all of these aspects polished, will your character b good? Hard to say. people judge by appearance too much, and the character could b only as good as the story he's involved in.
Why bother? well, if anything, just so u don't only say something like "my character is a dragon/wolf wizard that does some delicious pies" when people ask u about ur character.
I'm not allowed to post here when I'm depressed, and boy do i hate myself lately, but no one else is doing anything, so I'll just try to not go emo and post about something i been thinking about lately.
I've been wondering what make a character good and what doesn't.
Good character, how to:
First of all, i believe that a character being good or not is a subjective matter, some people have very low standards and will pretty much settle with anything that looks visually decent.
Personally, i think only an idiot would make a character with a design, give it a job, list of likes and dislikes, and call it done, and then claim he has more than 200 characters. If anything that's making extras (the blank people in the background in movies), not characters.
By watching Linkara's reviews of new and old comic, I've come to realize why i like or dislike some characters. Linkara tends to bring up simple points and subjects like: how to properly tell a story, what the hell is a plot, how to not fuck up a character's background, how to give a character motivation, etc. Usually these are basic subjects that every comic writer should know, but oddly a lot of professionals fail at. I've learned a few things from his reviews but i'm sure i've forgotten most of it already.
I tried to compile a list of things in my head a good character should have, although some aspects are optional, some are a must.
Background and motivation
It's important to have your character have a backstory, but that backstory needs to fit who the character is. For example, a character that spend his childhood eating mud and getting kicked in the nuts shouldn't b a optimistic and brilliant scientist for the heck of it. Sure sometimes a person with a certain childhood grows up to become something unexpected, but stretching that too far will just not seem reasonably believable to the reader and unable to relate to the character at all.
There's the other thing though, motivation. What does the character aspire for? does he have a dream? what's his goal in life? a good motivation could justify more than half of the background. Let's take the kid that eats mud and enjoys ball kicks, let's say one day he meets a scientist that feels pity for him and invents a cup to protect his balls and a machine to turn mud into chocolate, the kid could b so marveled by how the scientist made his life so much more awesome that he might want to become a scientist himself to bring that joy to other. still a crappy background, but u could make sense out of it and there's now a reason the kid would become a scientist.
The "that person who helped/saved me when i was a kid was a
I also don't get when the background and motivation don't seem to match. Like a girl who had a rough childhood and was molested, and now she wants to become a porn star? i predict little to no character growth there. Again, Sasuke seems retarded in his goals. he seems to want to do what makes less sense possible.
Personality
In general, the personality can b drawn from the character's background and motivation, or at least part of it.
A personality, seriously, a personality is a must, don't b a Sasuke, he makes Naruto seem likable, and that's a fucking achievement. It really seems weird that almost any other character in Naruto is way more interesting than Sasuke and yet Sasuke is a main character. I wouldn't say the character has to b likable, but have a personality, any, just not god damn blank.
A Gary Stu, This is very very important in my opinion. a Gary Stu, or Mary Sue for females, is a character is is just too god dammed perfect, and has little to no flaws. An example would b a Brain surgeon that is a black belt in 4 different martial arts and a 5 star chef, and he's popular as fuck and everyone likes him for no valid reason. These characters are bad because no one can relate to them and everyone ends up hating them.
Honestly, the design is what should come after all this, but never is.
Conclusion?
In the end, if you have all of these aspects polished, will your character b good? Hard to say. people judge by appearance too much, and the character could b only as good as the story he's involved in.
Why bother? well, if anything, just so u don't only say something like "my character is a dragon/wolf wizard that does some delicious pies" when people ask u about ur character.
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