Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
the animated series 1:56 PM
I really need to get back to animating. I'm way behind on this stuff.
Second desktop has fried. Time to look into getting another desktop. Something cheap.
Second desktop has fried. Time to look into getting another desktop. Something cheap.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
projecting projects 1:44 PM
The more things I finish the more things I have to do. It's a never ending cycle, I guess. Of course I could just stop doing things, but what would be the fun in that?
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
with a week between us 12:02 PM
It's been a week since doing OtakuHELL at AnimeFEST. And I'm actually surprised that I only came out of it with an aggravated sprained ankle. No con cooties, even. And I recovered from the show fatigue pretty fast. It took me a week to recover from the A-Kon show.
I wanted to mention this. One of the great things about doing a show at AnimeFEST is the audience. I really don't know why, but whenever we do OtakuHELL as AnimeFEST the response we get is overwhelming enthusiasm. People get up and dance and sing along and pretty much just join in on the goofy fun. We get some of that at AKon, but not quite as much as we get at AnimeFEST. We certainly didn't get it at OhayoCon. I have no idea what we do to get this kind of uninhibited reaction. Maybe it's because we're unfazed by it, or because we're tired and running ourselves unfiltered. Don't misunderstand. We're trying to put on a show, to entertain them, and they let us. But also, it's like they're joining us. They're a part of the show, too. Something odd and wonderful happens, and I wish I could understand how it happens.
A moment I'll remember and cherish: I'm showing the classic Sid Davis short Live and Learn. I've shown it a bajillion times, but it's one of my favorites. And it's always fun to shout at. Nothing like watching kids being put in to peril over and over again. Sid Davis shamelessly shows us the evils of playing with matches, running with scissors, and wants you to know that you will shoot yourself in the eye with that BB gun. Near the end of the short one of the delinquents decides to hop over a fence and promptly falls over a cliff side. His more sensible buddies runs off to find a cop. Luckily the policeman has a coil of rope with him and proceeds to repel down the side of the cliff to rescue the kid. As the cop is playing out the rope, Bruce starts to sing the Indiana Jones theme. Da-da-da, Da-da-Da-Da! AND THE WHOLE CROWD STARTED SINGING ALONG. For the duration of the rope wielding cop sequence the audience sang the Indiana Jones theme as loudly and passionately as they could.
Now, I've probably played Live and Learn at about every OtakuHELL I've ever done. And this was the first time this ever happened.
I wanted to mention this. One of the great things about doing a show at AnimeFEST is the audience. I really don't know why, but whenever we do OtakuHELL as AnimeFEST the response we get is overwhelming enthusiasm. People get up and dance and sing along and pretty much just join in on the goofy fun. We get some of that at AKon, but not quite as much as we get at AnimeFEST. We certainly didn't get it at OhayoCon. I have no idea what we do to get this kind of uninhibited reaction. Maybe it's because we're unfazed by it, or because we're tired and running ourselves unfiltered. Don't misunderstand. We're trying to put on a show, to entertain them, and they let us. But also, it's like they're joining us. They're a part of the show, too. Something odd and wonderful happens, and I wish I could understand how it happens.
A moment I'll remember and cherish: I'm showing the classic Sid Davis short Live and Learn. I've shown it a bajillion times, but it's one of my favorites. And it's always fun to shout at. Nothing like watching kids being put in to peril over and over again. Sid Davis shamelessly shows us the evils of playing with matches, running with scissors, and wants you to know that you will shoot yourself in the eye with that BB gun. Near the end of the short one of the delinquents decides to hop over a fence and promptly falls over a cliff side. His more sensible buddies runs off to find a cop. Luckily the policeman has a coil of rope with him and proceeds to repel down the side of the cliff to rescue the kid. As the cop is playing out the rope, Bruce starts to sing the Indiana Jones theme. Da-da-da, Da-da-Da-Da! AND THE WHOLE CROWD STARTED SINGING ALONG. For the duration of the rope wielding cop sequence the audience sang the Indiana Jones theme as loudly and passionately as they could.
Now, I've probably played Live and Learn at about every OtakuHELL I've ever done. And this was the first time this ever happened.
pgzine words 8:46 AM
Stubbornly, sporadically, Psychommu Gaijin continues to be an old fashioned print zine. We admit, in the age of WiFi and Twitter that the anime fanzine is no longer needed. But then, anime fandom is no longer needed, either. Anime fandom has become a pointless and outdated community that has lost it's purpose. 20 years ago anime fans organized to watch and share VHS tapes of anime, these days you can watch it streamed on the interweb mere hours after it broadcasts in Japan. It's the 21st Century, and there's no place for these things in this brave new world.
Which is the whole point of doing this zine. And like us oldskool anime fans, it exists even if it no longer has a defining purpose.
Right now, the ground is shifting again. ADV is gone, drawn and quartered in to smaller companies created to avoid it's debts. Kodansha has decided not to renew it's licenses with TokyoPop. And Disney is about to run Naruto Shippuden on it's former Toon Disney channel. The bubble has burst. The future is unwritten. But in these pages we've written about the now and the recent now.
Which is the whole point of doing this zine. And like us oldskool anime fans, it exists even if it no longer has a defining purpose.
Right now, the ground is shifting again. ADV is gone, drawn and quartered in to smaller companies created to avoid it's debts. Kodansha has decided not to renew it's licenses with TokyoPop. And Disney is about to run Naruto Shippuden on it's former Toon Disney channel. The bubble has burst. The future is unwritten. But in these pages we've written about the now and the recent now.
it's all about the dying 8:09 AM
Watched a review for a Final Destination movie. I've never really watched any of the Final Destination movies, but what I get from the trailers and the review is that it's all about a group of good looking kids who somehow avoid dying in some spectacular death sequence and then spend the rest of the movie being killed one by one by some contrived setup. Which, well, it's interesting. Because, ultimately death is already stalking us all.
And faced with the revolution that you are about to die, what would happen? Do any of these characters re-examine their lives? Do any of them accept the inevitability of death? Embrace the coming of death? Or face it head on?
So, what if you approached a Roadrunner cartoon like that?
And faced with the revolution that you are about to die, what would happen? Do any of these characters re-examine their lives? Do any of them accept the inevitability of death? Embrace the coming of death? Or face it head on?
So, what if you approached a Roadrunner cartoon like that?
Friday, September 11, 2009
scene 193 9:27 AM
15 seconds.
10 frames a second = 150 frames.
Maybe I should go to 30 frames a second? Animate on ones? That only be 450 frames. Heck, why not.
Avidemux shows 359 frames. Hmmm. 24 frames a second? That'd be 380 frames.
Going somewhere, Solo? 1-47
-Tell Jabba I have his money 48-180
It's too late 181-226
You should've paid him when you had the chance 227-286
Jabba's put a price on your head so large... 289-359 (How large was it?) (It was SO LARGE...)
10 frames a second = 150 frames.
Maybe I should go to 30 frames a second? Animate on ones? That only be 450 frames. Heck, why not.
Avidemux shows 359 frames. Hmmm. 24 frames a second? That'd be 380 frames.
Going somewhere, Solo? 1-47
-Tell Jabba I have his money 48-180
It's too late 181-226
You should've paid him when you had the chance 227-286
Jabba's put a price on your head so large... 289-359 (How large was it?) (It was SO LARGE...)
how does that look? 8:15 AM
Crap. That's not what I wanted at all. I wanted an alpha channel. Damn.
...And that doesn't work for me. Back to the drawing board.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
a less labored day 1:57 PM
It was around 3:30am when we finally got back to the Edstead. I had dehydrated to the point where I had a headache and felt hungover, even though I hadn't gone to sleep yet. So, I drank a couple glasses of water and a couple of Acetaminophen and I crawled in to bed. But there was no sleeping in on the holiday. The cat being a cat had to wake me up before 8am. Stupid cat.
I did take advantage of the day off to relax, nap, play a video game and watch Finding Nemo on the Disney channel. Nice.
I'll get back to work some time this week.
I did take advantage of the day off to relax, nap, play a video game and watch Finding Nemo on the Disney channel. Nice.
I'll get back to work some time this week.
burning dan 9:26 AM
So, the show was Sunday night. I'd been pulling together clips for the last couple weeks and filled up a chunk of hard drive with encoded DV. I planned on authoring the DVDs of new stuff on Saturday. That didn't happen. Instead I spent Friday and Saturday drawing a thousand frames for an animated opening for the show. I got it finished Saturday night. It looked great on playback. And then I tried to encode it to DVD.
Yeah, that pretty much wasn't gonna work.
So, I regretfully gave up on it and moved on. Discs were burned. Gear was checked and packed. Candy was placed in the Jack-o-lantern. I've got the routine down.
When Ed got up we piled everything into the Ednaught and headed off to pick up Mila. Once we got to Mila's we piled everything into her Kia and went to AnimeFEST. Ed and Mila had checked out AnimeFEST on Saturday night and Mila thought the screen was a bit small in Panel Room 2. It turned out that Panel Room 2 was the same room we'd done HELL in last year.
Unfortunately, unlike last year I didn't get the set up time I'd requested. This year there was some sorta Korean K-Drama video panel going on right up to 10pm and the start of our show. This resulted in the Korean K-Drama video panel having to put up with the extra traffic and the noise from the good sized crowd that was queuing up outside Panel Room 2. I'd like to apologize to the Korean video panel for all of that, but I'd also like to point out that if I'd gotten that half hour setup time before the show it could've easily been avoided.
And it was a good sized crowd that queued up. I started watching the hall for the Fire Marshal to show up. Despite being scheduled at 10pm on a Sunday night we'd outgrown another panel room. So much for a nice intimate show.
Other then S.R.O. and the lack of setup time there surprisingly were no real technical glitches. We ran through the new material, Katie had everybody dancing the Macarena and we ended the whole thing sometime after one in the morning. And we still had a good sized crowd when we finished. If only they'd all run this smoothly.
Let's see. I had Bruce, Katie, Ed, Mila, Avery and Steven Gonzales on the microphones mining the comedy gold. So, there was no shortage of riffing between the audience and the show. Lord knows my ears were ringing by the time we finished.
And that pretty much was how Hell Nurse Katie's 5th Hell went. Thanks to everybody who came to the show, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. And Thanks to Bruce, Ed, Mila, Avery, Steven and Katie for the help. I hope we can do it all again at YuleCon.
Yeah, that pretty much wasn't gonna work.
So, I regretfully gave up on it and moved on. Discs were burned. Gear was checked and packed. Candy was placed in the Jack-o-lantern. I've got the routine down.
When Ed got up we piled everything into the Ednaught and headed off to pick up Mila. Once we got to Mila's we piled everything into her Kia and went to AnimeFEST. Ed and Mila had checked out AnimeFEST on Saturday night and Mila thought the screen was a bit small in Panel Room 2. It turned out that Panel Room 2 was the same room we'd done HELL in last year.
Unfortunately, unlike last year I didn't get the set up time I'd requested. This year there was some sorta Korean K-Drama video panel going on right up to 10pm and the start of our show. This resulted in the Korean K-Drama video panel having to put up with the extra traffic and the noise from the good sized crowd that was queuing up outside Panel Room 2. I'd like to apologize to the Korean video panel for all of that, but I'd also like to point out that if I'd gotten that half hour setup time before the show it could've easily been avoided.
And it was a good sized crowd that queued up. I started watching the hall for the Fire Marshal to show up. Despite being scheduled at 10pm on a Sunday night we'd outgrown another panel room. So much for a nice intimate show.
Other then S.R.O. and the lack of setup time there surprisingly were no real technical glitches. We ran through the new material, Katie had everybody dancing the Macarena and we ended the whole thing sometime after one in the morning. And we still had a good sized crowd when we finished. If only they'd all run this smoothly.
Let's see. I had Bruce, Katie, Ed, Mila, Avery and Steven Gonzales on the microphones mining the comedy gold. So, there was no shortage of riffing between the audience and the show. Lord knows my ears were ringing by the time we finished.
And that pretty much was how Hell Nurse Katie's 5th Hell went. Thanks to everybody who came to the show, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. And Thanks to Bruce, Ed, Mila, Avery, Steven and Katie for the help. I hope we can do it all again at YuleCon.
Friday, September 04, 2009
save analog TV 8:41 AM
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Gundam Creator: "Video Games Are Evil" 7:47 AM
Gamasutra - News - CEDEC 09: Keynote - Gundam Creator: "Video Games Are Evil": "'I think that video games are evil,' says Tomino. '[Gaming] is not a type of activity that provides any support to our daily lives, and all these consoles are just consuming electricity! Let's say we have about three billion people on this planet wasting their time, bringing no productivity at all. Add 10 billion more people, and what would happen to our planet? Video games are assisting the death of our planet!'"
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
video flier...yay! 9:12 AM
OtakuHELL at AnimeFEST 2009 from tohoscope on Vimeo.
And it's what it is. Other then a few notes I made before hand I pretty much put this one together as I went. And it looks like it. I didn't have any real idea what I wanted to do or where I was going and I'm a bit frustrated by what I came up with. So the result is too unfocused. But, I'm out of time. This had to get done and posted.
Why this was any different from doing the video fliers for the May shows I'm not certain. I think most of my frustration is coming from the fact that this one didn't come together like previous video fliers. I think I could've done something more, but I can't think of what that could be.
It's my work methods. They're not serving me here.
