Oh look, something I haven't made progress on for like five four years. At least this time I managed to get a section finished! Critique on writing technique before this gets posted to FF.net is always good although you guys hardly ever do it. :P

( Chapter 4: The part you've seen before )

( The part you haven't )

The next chapter is almost done too but it has a bit more work to go. Which hopefully means it'll be ready in like two weeks and not two years. ._.

I just found out the other day simhuman volunteers to let insects crawl all over her at the SF Zoo! She wasn't there when we visited last month but she can probably tell you the names of ( all these bugs! )

And we also went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium! By the way, there are a number of nice videos I took too at both the zoo and aquarium, but I'm kind of too lazy (and inconvenienced) to put them up on Youtube. Maybe later.

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A month ago we went to San Francisco Zoo and I never got around to posting pictures. So here they are because NO MORE CHRISTMAS CAROL POSTS. I could've posted probably twice as many pics as you see here, but I decided to just do the ones that best show off the 18X ZOOM on my shiny new PANASONIC LUMIX FZ-35. ::smug:: As always, images are available in MUCH BIGGER.

( Animal mug shots )

Christmas Carol opens this Friday. So go see it. In 3D. It may just be the best 3D you've seen this year or ever???

P.S. If you haven't replied to my email for this Sunday's viewing in SF... WHY HAVEN'T YOU? XO

YESSSSSSS the Japanese trailer is out. Now you guys can see how hilariously creepy the edit was. XD Although this is a very different cut from the rough teaser one I saw, it's still about the same in atmosphere, and represents the overall tone of the movie INFINITELY times better than the English trailers.

http://www.disney.co.jp/movies/christmas-carol/

It's interesting that the Japanese translation calls the spirits "dead ghosts". Not quite true, but spoooooky. Then again about half of the subtitles in that trailer were inaccurate. XP

Edit: Notice not a SINGLE "humbug" in that trailer

What do you know, they managed to make that second trailer after all! :D It's not significantly more respectable (more squeaky voice than the actual movie D:) but at least it shows more better-rendered scenes.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/achristmascarol/

MOVIE IS DONE.

Well at least the part we do is.

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Yaaaay, they finally put it online. I don't know why they finally decided to do it now - maybe because of D23 Expo? But we're scheduled to have a longer trailer out next week with Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, so this one is like virtually obsolete :P Though from what I've heard about the new trailer, it doesn't really paint the movie in a much more respectable light. JUST GO SEE IT OKAY I SWEAR IT'S NOT RIDICULOUS HIJINKS

At least now you can see for yourself how good the animation quality is! And personally I think this looks better than what I've seen in the theaters because the color timing has been kind of weird and blown out. These online clips are representative of the original color space from the images I've been seeing at work. :3

Wow, where'd this mofo come from in the Bay Area in September?? Peeked out the window just in time to catch a spectacular fork, that's when I knew I had to grab my new shiny PANASONIC LUMIX DMZ-FZ35. It took five minutes of video to bring you these screencaps of the one strike I waited long enough for:





It's no Extreme Instability but it's as good as it gets without moving to the midwest. By the way we're amazingly actually wrapping up at work so I shall be alive again in about a week. Now back to sleep!

(Yay, I get to use the weather tag! :D)

I didn't expect to feel so satisfied with a composition that I had to redesign and re-think several times over since that usually leads to stagnation, but then I drew a big black blob and suddenly it worked. Please feedback to how well it works, because I want it to have an emotional impact a little bit.

( 15 - The Devil (thumbnail) )

Heh, from this point on, I've got 4 more character cards, two of which I'll probably be doing next, and then all the rest are scenes from the last book. Maybe I subconsciously didn't want to get to them because they're not quite as ingrained into my HP-mindscape. :P

Wow, the internet will tell you everything.

( 09 - The Hermit (thumbnail) )

Work has been deadly hectic lately so it might take me a few extra days to build up the reserve of thumbnails again. Nonetheless I still have this one left:

( 05 - The Hierophant (thumbnail) )

11/22 cards posted, 2/22 in progress. Halfway done!

I would have saved this for tomorrow's schedule, but it's 10:30pm and I'm STILL sitting at work so I feel like producing something. Here's a LOT of rambling about a simple(?) card.

( 11 - Justice (thumbnail) )

A lot of fanartists, at least ones whom I've followed, tend to fall out of the habit as they "grow up". Spare time becomes short as careers take over, and/or original ideas dominate as personal skills (and business sense) develop. I think I'm uniquely in the position to turn out just the opposite of that - I have more personal time now that I'm making a living and not deluged with homework; I'm not doing actual art for my job so my creative energy isn't all spent; and I... never have original ideas. ._. Working on this project kind of makes me want to make a tarot deck that's original or at least public domain-themed that I'd be able to publish (AS IF I'D EVER FINISH EVEN ONE DECK AHAHA), but nothing inspires me nearly as much as a well-crafted pre-existing work. So um... I think my only hope is that one of you will write a really great story that I'd want to illustrate for. How's about dem old-time plans, ctrl_a? :P

78 pieces of fanart. I'm never going to finish it. But what if I do?

( 17 - The Star (thumbnail) )

Zzzzzz


I...I've been snuggling with... with... you??


I'm flying!


Is there a problem here?


Internet's been mostly down at home for the past couple of days (thank goodness for the workplace :P) so I've gotten a little more art done. Yay!

P.S. Finally upgraded my layout to S2, not that it matters. I wish it were a little more designed to my aesthetic tastes, but eh :effort:

Long anticipated by some at least one of you!

( 19 - The Sun (thumbnail) )

WHEEL

OF

FORTUNNNNNNEEE

( 10 - Wheel of Fortune (thumbnail) )

Hey you people who care, please go back to the comments section of the High Priestess entry and put in your opinion for which layout is better (and why). :3

( 00 - The Fool (thumbnail) )

10/22 cards done, 4/22 cards in progress, 6/22 cards posted!