Monday, March 22, 2010

TOGAINU NO CHI ANIME ANNOUNCED

MA KIRJUTAN NÜÜD CAPS LOCKIGA SELLE ENTRY, SEST MA OLEN SEDA UUDIST KOGU OMA ELU OODANUD. OLGU, TEGELIKULT 12,5% OMA ELUST, AGA KEDA SEE HUVITAB.

ON ÜLEVAL KA OFFICIAL LEHEKÜLG————- http://www.togainu.tv/


HUVITAV MIS ROUTE´I NAD VALIVAD~ LOODAN, ET MINGI SHIKI ROUTE´I, SEST SHIKI ON SEAL KÕIGE LAHEDAM TEGELANE. JA TEGELIKULT HUVITAV KAS SEE TULEB TV ANIME VÕI MINGI OVA, AGA KUNA SEE SAIT LÕPPEB .TV-GA, SIIS MA KARDAN, ET SEE TULEB TV ANIMU, NII ET EI TEA KUI PALJU BL-I NAD SISSE JÄTAVAD. TEGELIKULT ERITI VAHET EI OLE, SEST SEE ON ILMA BL-ITA KA LAHE. SAMAS SHIKI ROUTE´DE JUURES ANNAB SEE BL PLOTILE MIDAGI JUURDE (STOCKHOLMI SÜNDROOM JA WHATNOT).

PEAKS TEGELIKULT SELLE VISUAL NOVELI UUESTI KÄSILE VÕTMA JA KÕIK ENDINGUD LÄBI TEGEMA.

Kurat, caps lockiga kirjutatud teksti on nii nõme lugeda :< Peaks nüüd üldse maha rahunema ja siia midagi normaalset kirjutama, mitte mingit caps lockiga kirjutatud ramblingut, aga na ja es geht for the time being.

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Faylan and Itoukanako joins Animelo 2010!

And again, 2 new artists joins this year’s Animelo.

Faylan

Hmm…So Faylan returns this year. Well i missed Mind as Judgement last year but i doubt she will sing it again this year T_T. But we have got Errand this year so its still ok with me. And mayb one of her new song from her album. Somehow…Minorin’s Paradise Lost still makes me feel that it sounds like Errand… And of course for more live Yuri toks :D .

Look forward to: Errand, Mind as Judgement

Itokanako

Itokanako, i think i only know F.F.D as her only song i know. Sadly but yes i m not so much interested in her. So…

Look forward to: Nil.

Hopefully we will see Hocchan joining :D .

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Friday, March 19, 2010

Gojou Mayumi - Yume ni EERU! PATISHIEERU

「夢にエール!パティシエール♪」 BY 五條真由美 作詞:青木久美子 作曲:渡部チェル

ふわふわふんわり 甘くてとろけちゃう
fuwafuwa fu’nwari amakute toroke chau
幸せをあげるよ 夢色のパティシエール!!
shiawase wo ageru yo yume iro no PATISHIEERU!!
(いちごフレジェ & フランボワーズ
ichigo FUREJE & FURANBOWAAZU
はぴはぴマカロン、はぴねす made go!)
hapi hapi MAKARON hapinesu made go!

チャンスの扉 開けた時から気分↑↑
CHANSU no tobira aketa toki kara kibun joujou
ようこそ スイーツの王国へ
youkoso SUIITSU no oukoku he
初めはね、ヘタッピでも メゲズに日々精進!
hajime wa ne HETAPPI demo MEGEZU ni hibi shoujin!
「負けるな! あたし」
makeru na! atashi

いつもみんなに助けられてた ありがとうね
itsumo minna ni tasukerareteta arigatou ne
そのたびガンバル気になる
sono tabi GANBARU ki ni naru
ハートがね、喜ぶと 不思議なチカラをね
HAATO ga ne yorokobu to fushigi na CHIKARA wo ne
感じてしまう!
kanjite shimau!

My dream 磨けば光る宝物
My dream migakeba hikaru takara mono
Fairy チカラ貸して!
Fairy CHIKARA kashite!
(シフォン、セ・シボン、ジュレ、ボンジュール、
SHIFON SE. SHIBON JURE BONJUURU
はつらつフルーツ、らぶりー made go!)
hatsuratsu FURUUTSU raburii made go!

泣きたくなっても 笑顔になれる魔法
nakitaku natte mo egao ni nareru mahou
「美味しい!」を創るって 思いっきり楽しいね
oishii! wo tsukuru’tte omoikkiri tanoshii ne
ふわふわふんわり 甘くてとろけちゃう
fuwafuwa fu’nwari amakute toroke chau
幸せをあげるよ 夢色のパティシエール!!
shiawase wo ageru yo yume iro no PATISHIEERU!!

予習、復習、自主トレ、特訓 ヘコタレちゃう
yoshuu fukushuu jishu TORE tokkun HEKOTARE chau
でも、でも、スイーツはダイスキ!
demo demo SUIITSU wa DAISUKI!
ガンバリを重ねれば 至福のミルクレープ
GANBARI wo kasanereba shifuku no MIRU KUREEPU
完成させる!
kansei saseru!

My wish 未来のサポーターだよね
My wish mirai no SAPOOTAA da yo ne
Merci 現在のあたし!
Merci ima no atashi!
(スフレ、ガナッシュ、バニラ、ミルフィーユ、
SUFURE GANASSHU BANIRA MIRUFIIYU
はればれメレンゲ、ふぁんしー made go!)
harebare MERENGE fuanshii made go!

大切なのは大好きの真ん中
taisetsu na no wa daisuki no mannaka
「嬉しい!」を創り出す 才能の種がある
ureshii! wo tsukuri dasu sainou no tane ga aru
くるくるくるりん 元気を巻き込んで
kurukuru kururi’n genki wo maki ko’n de
ファンタジスタになれる 誰でもが プルミエール!
FANTAJI SUTA ni nareru dare demo ga PURUMIEERU!

きらきらきらりん ちっちゃな羽ひろげ
kirakira kirari’n chicchana hane hiroge
スイーツの奇跡をふりまくの エスプリーズ♪
SUIITSU no kiseki wo furi maku no ESUPURIIZU

泣きたくなっても 笑顔になれる魔法
nakitaku natte mo egao ni nareru mahou
「美味しい!」を創るって 思いっきり楽しいね
oishii! wo tsukuru’tte omoikkiri tanoshii ne
ふわふわふんわり 甘くてとろけちゃう
fuwafuwa fu’nwari amakute toroke chau
幸せをあげるよ 夢色のパティシエール!!
shiawase wo ageru yo yume iro no PATISHIEERU!!
(いちごフレジェ & フランボワーズ
ichigo FUREJE & FURANBOWAAZU
はぴはぴマカロン、fun fun)
hapi hapi MAKARON fun fun
夢にエール!
yume ni EERU!

[Via http://singalonglyrics.wordpress.com]

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Critique of My Crappy Art: Part One

So….I finally have some of my art on my computer. Let it be known that I’m incredibly lazy, and it usually shows in may artwork. I’m going to break down my artwork one piece at a time, although I might do 2 or 3 pieces per post. The first piece will be something I did wayyyyy back in high school.

I would like to point out that this piece of shit was made in high school, and that’s why it looks so shitty….well, one of the reasons. To be perfectly honest, this looks a lot crappier on my computer than in real life. In real life, it’s a lot brighter and less shitty.

First a little about the picture in question:

  • The size is 28 by 22 inches. It’s a decent size, but at the same time, not huge.
  • I used a combo of pen and ink and watercolor pencil. Water color Pencil was interesting, you draw with it and then use water to create a wash over the image….it was pretty cool, and it was easy to get pretty cool color mixes.
  • I kind of used this piece to try out different pen and ink techniques (pointillism, cross hatching, etc.)
  • There’s no name….it’s a picture I found on Google.
  • I didn’t use a grid.
  • Lloyd Banks is the man.

Time for me to rip it apart:

Okay, I’m going to pick out a few sections that are wrong and color code them so you know what I’m talking about.

BLUE: In these two areas, the perspective is completely off. In the top blue section, the screens on the side are drawn at a higher level than the screens in the front. Also, they aren’t parallel with the line of the roof/floor. Basically, I completely ignored the rules of one or two point perspective. The door on the bottom looks completely fucked up. The perspective all over is pretty bad, but then again, I did this in high school, where I really sucked at art.

RED: The shadows and values here weren’t really that bad in the corner there, but the plants (which you could barely see in the photo version) have no value, and are actually way too bright. All over this picture, the values are off, and there isn’t enough contrast, although in real life, the picture looks ten times better. I should rephrase: The values are too inconsistent. Sometimes I have values, sometimes I don’t.

GREEN: Just look how sloppy this is. I was running out of time, and so I had to rush through this part. There’s also no value in the trees. The overall craftsmanship is pretty bad overall, in my opinion.

LIGHT BLUE: Again, craftsmanship and perspective were pretty shitty here. It’s just too scribbly, and the back corner of the roof is too low compared to the front (or the front is too high). Let me use a picture or two to explain:

Get it? (I created this using paint…..good thing I don’t have a Mac!)

PINK: I actually like this section. Probably the only part I can actually say I like. I also love the bushes, even though they don’t look like bushes at all. They look fucking cool though.

So chances are that pretty much anyone can draw something like this. It’s really nothing special, but I’m not just going to show my good stuff (although truthfully, it really does look a lot better in real life, it’s brighter, there’s WAY more detail…..etc). Next peice will be something I actually like:

Okay, even though this wasn’t really hard to do, I love it. Skulls are pretty easy to draw, and this is only in pencil (I think?). I mean, there’s really nothing special about this…it’s only like, a 5 minute sketch, but for some reason I love it. Maybe I just like skulls, but there isn’t much I can crtitque about it….or is there???

Wait, let me go over stuff about this really quick:

  1. It’s a 5-10 minute sketch of a skull that was sitting in the class.
  2. Was done in Drawing I (freshman level art).
  3. Pencil on drawing paper.
  4. The piece was 18-24 inches (all drawings are going to be 18-24 pretty much)

For a 5-10 minute sketch, it’s pretty good. I want to say it was ten minutes, because I was able to do a background. but I will say that if I were to do it again, I would add more contrast (darker darks and lighter lights). However, with pencil, you can only go so dark, it’s easier to get darker with charcoal. I might also clean it up a bit, but I kind of like the sketchy feel of it (I LOVE sketchy images, so you’re going to see a lot of my stuff with sketchyness. Example? This:

As usual, this looks better in real life. The contrast is better. Some of the darks in the fact are lost when I took the picture, but  love this, in fact, it’s one of my favorite profiles. I probably have better looking ones, but this is my favorite. It might appear that the face looks all fucked up (the eyes look odd, and the lip look a bit low), but the model in question had a FUCKED UP FACE. She was an old, saggy bag, and this looks almost exactly like her (I think this was a 15 minute drawing). If you could see the model, you’d agree with me. But notice the sketchyness arond her shirt and other areas of her face. I hate doing smooth shading. I mean, sometimes I’ll do it, but for the most part, I like how this looks more.

  • 18-24 inches.
  • Charcoal on drawing paper.

Critique?

There’s still plenty wrong with this profile, and I’ll point it out now:

  • Her hair. There’s nowhere near enough value, although that’s only in this version. In real life her hair is about as dark as the shirt….I don’t know why it didn’t show up like that when I took the picture. I could have used darker darks I guess, but in real life, it actually looks pretty good to me. I’m going to try and take another picture.

What the fuck? This looks like a completely different picture…look:

The one on the left is the first picture I took. The second one  looks wider for some reason….I guess I just suck at taking pictures…..but yeah…anyway. I’m going to end this with some notes I took in figure drawing, that were supposed to be about the facial structure of a person (where to place eyes/nose/etc). For me, these are actually pretty good notes:

You think those are bad (the notes)? You should see my actual notebook. Every page has an anime doodle (I literally just opened to a random page and found 3 anime faces, with another on the previous page. You would think that with all of the anime I draw instead of taking notes, that I’d be at least somewhat decent at drawing anime figures. Given time, I could actually do a good job. I could probably even do artwork for a manga (given time…lots of time..personally, I could probably draw the faces pretty well (these obviously don’t count), but the figures are….well, I suck at figure drawing, as you’ll find out soon enough). Also, look at the BOOBS. BOOBS is the only word where you could turn every part of every letter into a boob. You can’t turn every part of every letter from the word FIRETRUCK into a firetruck, can you? (while having it still be legible). One more reason why boobs rock.

Well that’s it. I’ll try and do better next time….maybe I’ll even draw some manga or something. I’ll probably throw up some of my paintings (one of which is actually cool and has a picture that actually came out good).

[Via http://glothelegend.wordpress.com]

Friday, March 12, 2010

Feature this week

This week with new feature video from Karasz!

1 girl 2 problem

featuring our lovely Sekai from school day anime and other characters from TF2, L4D, Mario and more. Please watch it and you will know the story!! its really fun ^_^

Preview:

VIDEO:

GALLERY UPDATE:

Long awaited Rokiahi~ but its just a drawing LOL. i may need to update Rokiahi when i’ve time. Visit Gallery for the picture~

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Baka To Test To Shoukanjuu 10

The stage is set for an epic showdown!

So with his sister now back in the house, Akihisas mornings are a little more “interesting”…

Later at school, it’s business as usual for Class F:

This of course, allows Akihisa to take another shot a Minami’s poor boobs:

And of course business as usual means more Hideyoshi-service!!

However, business as usual seems to rather annoy Yuuko, who makes her appearance just to spite her brother and class F:

You know I thought I could like Yuuko, but as the series goes on I’m becoming more and more convinced that she’s just a bitch, and nothing more. Oh well, there’s always Minami!

Anyway, Himeji is mulling over how to deliver her love-letter to Akihisa. At first, she asks Minami, but that fails (Minami thinks she’s exchanging nasty pics of Akihisa with her). Next, she asks Yuuji, however Shouko show’s up at just the right time……….to misunderstand.

Finally, she tries to hand the letter attached to a gift directly to Akihisa. However, she chooses the wrong gift…

Of course, this causes Akihisa to run for the hills! He finds a hiding place however, it was already occupied…

Finally, Himeji decides to just leave it in his shoe locker. However upon opening the locker, she and Minami discover…

This angers them both, particularly Minami:

FEAR the Tsundere!!

Meanwhile, Akihisa is running errands for Ironman, which includes carrying boxes of mock-tests into the teachers-only locker. However being Akihisa, he trips and spills all the papers all over the floor. He contemplates taking one for himself, however his cooler head prevails:

Meanwhile, Himeji discovers she lost her precious love-letter. Also, everyone else seems to have lost something as well:

It turns out when Akihisa tripped and fell, he mixed up Himejis letter with the mock tests. And because he ruined the boxes dropping them, he uses the “desks” from Class F as new boxes, which contained everyone’s belongings. So now everyone’s items are now locked inside the safe. After realizing this, they decide to:

However, they can’t come up with an effective way to get in. It is at this moment that a mysterious person offers his help:

Nemoto tells them that if they get the key for the safe, he will take care of the password. However, the key is in the teachers-office, guarded by Ironman of course. Using as Akihisa as bait though, the key is acquired.

With the key located, Nemoto reveals that he took a video of Ironman imputing the password earlier, so with that, they gain access into the vault. Everyone get’s their belongings back safe and sound.

Meanwhile, Nemoto seems to be very interested in the mock tests themselves, and intends to steel one for himself. The rest of the gang all protest this, however Nemoto shrewdly flips this on them:

The gang is forced to let Nemoto get away, and Nemoto mocks them for not taking tests for themselves. He say’s that their idiots in every way and that’s the reason they’re in Class F. Nemoto has managed to really get under Akihisas skin.

So Yuuji suggests revenge against Nemoto. How?

Because the time-limit restricting them to declare a summon battle has past, they decide to declare one on Nemoto and Class B. However, before they do, they decide to level the playing field a bit:

They break back into the vault, take all the mock tests, and pour them out all over the school for all the students. Because  of this, the teachers will no doubt use a whole new mock test, thus making the leaked version void. Nemotos plan is ruined, and to add a little insult to injury, Akihisa sticks a little present inside Nemotos shoe locker (see: Himejis cookies).

Alright, I’m glad we’re finally getting back to full-scale Summoning Wars! I liked the way they set this one up too, with Nemoto being the sleezball bad guy, and Akihisa being as cool as ever when it counts. I’m interested in seeing how this plays out, because unlike the battle with Class A, I really think they have a shot at beating Class B. Alright, I’m actually almost SURE that they will win, because this is anime after all!
As for the gags, yes it was more of the same this week. I know I’ve said that I’m not getting tired of the same old jokes, but I’m beginning to go back on that. I find myself laughing less and less. I mean sure, Yuuji getting poked in the eyes is funny as hell, but seeing it 5 weeks in a row, it’s starting to lose its luster to me. Luckily there’s only 3 more episodes to go, so hopefully things get much more interesting. I still love this series to death, but it’s going to have to do something new for me to consider it one of my all time favorites.

[Via http://joewii.wordpress.com]

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Ponyo Wallpaper & Review

As excited as I was about Miyazaki’s latest movie when it was first announced, I let it conjure in the back of my mind only vaguely knowing it had a goldfish like character adorable though it was. Anything by Miyazaki already has a pedestal in my book. No theaters by me was showing it for the US release sadly. By the time I got impatient enough to find a download of it online I was already pre-ordering the double-disk DVD on Amazon.

The more I learned and saw of Ponyo online the more eager I was to finally see this movie. A movie by Miyazaki inspired by Han Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid? That’s a win win situation! This wallpaper was on my desktop at work for months and I still like to use it on occasion. So after much waiting I received it on it’s release date and have since watched it twice, once with family and once with friends and now I can officially spaz over Ponyo.

This movie is beautiful and adorable! You cannot watch Ponyo and “not” feel happy in the eyes of these five year old characters and this charming port town and the magic of the sea. I found it odd that I heard people commented over the over-simple animation of Ponyo but I find it everything but in the effect. The animation of the ocean is stunning and the lack of detail of lighting and depth helps show the stunning creatures of the ocean that it all feels alive. I will quote from this article as I love how the movie is described though I do not agree with everything he says.

“The beginning of the film is inspired – utterly silent for nearly 30 minutes as the wonder of a lush undersea paradise unfolds before the viewer. Here especially but elsewhere in the film as well the warm and fuzzy feeling of hand-drawn animation is demonstrated to the fullest, and the screen looks like a living, breathing storybook. From clouds of jellyfish to monstrous fish forms to miniature character fish in dresses that look like 1920s Disney characters with black eyes and squeak like Mickey Mouse, the classic Western “The Little Mermaid” animation simply pales by visual comparison.”

I think I will cry when there are no more new Miyazaki movies, but I cherish each one and Ponyo is no different. The world’s he creates make me long to jump into them and live there. I love that Ponyo was traditionally created. I don’t think it’s an art form that should ever die and no 3d or action-packed movie can ever take its place. Some have complained that Ponyo is too simple of a story. In the behind the scenes, Miyazaki himself says he wanted to make a movie the five-year-olds stemming up around him could watch and enjoy that wasn’t Totoro. I think he did transcend audience groups and created a movie a five year old to a 85 year old could watch. Many of us are children at heart and I think this movie caters to that. Forget life, sit down and enjoy the experience!

[Via http://starinmypocket.wordpress.com]