My animation project. FINALLY finished. check it out!

So today I presented my boards for visual development. I did not sleep last night. It was a ton of fun. (not) Honestly, I really did enjoy putting the whole thing together, but...I just wasn't anticipating how much time it really was going to take. It was insane. My room is trashed now, but I believe I've turned in some pretty quality work. I mean, it's clearly not perfect, but I think I can safely put myself among the better projects turned in for class.

The only disappointment is the fact that it all ended so...quickly. Like, our teacher told us that we needed to put the title of our theme in one corner, and then our name and student ID in another corner, and I guess in my brain that translated to a need to keep things separated meaning that he was likely going to collect them for further perusal. Well...that didn't happen. We all brought in our art stuff posted on boards, we put the boards up around the room, we presented our boards and sort of talked about them...and then class was over. It was really anticlimactic. It like, I just spent the past week of my life stressing and slaving over this stuff and in the end...it was done in about an hour and some change. Oh well. I guess that's what the industry is really going to be like, right? Slave away at something that someone may only look at for a few seconds.

I'll be posting my finished character designs over at my dA. I'm really quite proud of them, especially in comparison to the first run they went through. I mean, I look at my earlier stuff and...I'm just floored. I distinctly remember thinking that I had done quality work with them all on the first try. I did a second run of them and thought those were pretty good too. But looking back, it's SOOOO obvious that I was but a fledgling. I'm still a fledgling, but man...the improvement is evident.

This is a momentous occasion seeing as I've been in bed no earlier than 2AM for the past week and a half. Figured I'd celebrate by posting! YAAAAAAY!

So, it's the damnedest thing. I stumbled upon Return of the Jedi a few nights ago while working on stuff and watching it brought back fond memories of my first real encounter with the Star Wars series and the obsession that followed. It was my first ^___^ This led me to the realization that, seeing as I had no concept of this fandom thing at that time, I never explored the Star Wars fandom at ALL. Like...AT ALL. This is funny because technically, this was the first series I ever wrote fanfic for, even though I didn't know what fanfiction was at the time. I rewrote the ending of one of the SW novels to better fit my liking ^__^.

I think this is why I love fanfic so much. For as long as I can remember, I always would create scenarios for my favorite characters in my favorite whatever of the time. I used to get myself to go to sleep by plotting alternate endings to movies that I had seen and stuff like that. It never even occurred to me to write the stuff down, and then I discovered that there were all of these people doing that and putting their ideas out there for everyone to see. I mean, even badfic is wonderful in a sense, just in that it is a person putting their imagination out there for everyone's perusal. Oh man...I can't even really explain it.

So, I'm sure you can imagine my shock and dismay when I realized that I had never invested much time into seeking out SW fanfic. When I discovered fanfiction I was under the impression that it only happened for anime...go fig. But yeah...I've been poking around looking for good SW fanfic, preferably Luke-centric with lots of Force stuff, but really what I want to find is something that deals with Luke and Leia as twins. I mean seriously. Twins already have this amazing connection that science can't really explain IRL. So, in all logic, Force sensitive twins should just be...on a totally different level. That's what I always thought anyway. Jacen and Jaina (Han and Leia's twins) totally got that going.

Anyway, yes. I have revealed a new level of geekdom. My friends must be so proud. Sleepy time! ^__^

So here's how this is going to go, I shall inform you of all the things that you should be informed of and then proceed to, temporarily, remove myself from the universe. Y'all ready for this?

( Here we go! )

And happy to be even though I already miss my fam. It makes me so sad to know that there are so many people out there who don't enjoy spending time with their families. I mean, it's the reason that I love the holiday season. Having the opportunity to see everyone because, whether this is good or bad, we never get a chance to do it otherwise. Holidays are the times that we get to set aside for each other...It always makes me so happy ^______^

Unfortunately, since this particular one comes so close to the end of the semester, the break means that I am grossly behind on a lot of stuff right now. This next week is going to be a massive game of catch-up DX. The plus side tho...WE'RE GOING TO DREAMWORKS TOMORROW!!! I'm SO excited. We get to go see the VisDev Dept. at the Dreamworks studio. Concept art in progress, the various steps in the process...basically it's going to be my first glimpse into the world that I'm hoping to enter. This is so intense.

Anyway, I should get to that homework I'm supposed to be doing, so that I will do. Later peeps!

ETA/edit/update:
what the heck does ETA mean anyway? I always thought it was Estimated Time of Arrival, but everyone seems to use it to mean "edit" or "addendum" or something. Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know that I just finally broke down and pre-ordered Re:ChoM(as I like to call it) Apparently it will be out on Tuesday. WEEE!

P.S.
Went and asked Wiki about this ETA business(for Wiki is wise and knows all) aaaand..."Edited to add"...whatever happened to simply going "edit" or "update"? Guess I'm just not in the know...

Lulz! I'm posting from my phone at the airport. I mentioned here that I'm going home for the Thanksgiving holiday, yes? Well, I am now waiting for that to actally happen. Flight is apparently delayed by like half an hour, and I'm already here two hrs early, so...might as well waste some time on LJ!

So, here's the scoop: I'm curently sitting in a row of seats somehow surrounded on both sides by Japanese people! I am amused. It's just like the last time I traveled, only I don't have my jadie with me ;__; I will admit that I miss Japan now, but still in the I'm glad I did it and there are lot's of great memories kind of way as opposed to the I desperately want to return kind of way. I mean, I do wanna go back someday, but uhhh...I'll stop there.

What else...oh! Blitz! It's officially a soap opera now. I'm not sure how I fee about that, but I'm just gonna keep on trucking to the end and hope people will stick with me. Considering some of the fic out there that is grossly popular...I don't think I have anything to worry about really.

Wow...that was a lot of phone typing. I think I'm gonna pull my laptop now and entertain myself ^__^

In California. Who'd of thunk it right? Well, it was admittedly in a hockey rink, and it really is available all year, but it was fun! We went for one of my best friend's birthdays. It was super cool. We also had this vegan icecream cake that was so ridiculously tasty. I mean, it totally didn't taste vegan at all. I was amazed. Not the biggest fan of straight chocolate, but eating that cake seriously was like chowing down on some high quality truffles or something. I can at least appreciate the value in that.

Going home in a couple of days for Thanksgiving, and loving the holiday stuff that is already in full swing. I do wish they would wait until after Thanksgiving before officially calling Santa in and starting the Christmas carols, but what can I say? I love it! And from there, I've got not much more to report. I'm sentences away from a completed blitz chap and hope to finish it by tomorrow and then...it's late and I want to sleep...so I shall. XD

Went out for Halloween (FUN!) XD
Got pretty depressed afterwards (NOT SO FUN!) DX
Obama won (YES!) XD
Prop 8 passed (NO!) DX

I was gonna try to do a fun little list of yays and boos, but then I realized...I'm too tired for that, so, the straight forward approach it is!

Anyway, I'm really tired and I have HW to do, so I'll make this short and sweet. Working on Blitz. This chapter is...weird. I don't know if I like it, esp after how much I like the previous chap. I did finally make some continuity corrections in chapter 11 that I'd been putting off for like...EVER.

I think the biggest thing that has happened in my fandom life since last I posted is my purchase of the season 1 and 2 boxsets of (are you ready for this?) seaQuest DSV THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Was anyone else like totally obsessed with this show back in the day? I bought crappy VCDs of it on ebay a while back, but not all of the disks worked. With this, I've been able to watch every episode in beautiful DVD quality and let me tell you... I LOVE THIS EFFING SHOW!!!!!

With the reawakening of this fandom comes the reintroduction to the ELF phenomenon. ELF, for those of you who don't know, stands for Evil Lucas Fanfic meaning fiction that is focused on bad things that happen to Lucs. If you don't understand from there well...you should probably skip to the next paragraph. But yeah, I remember my first introduction to ELF fics and how confused I was over what the heck ELF meant. It's great tho. Fandom lingo always makes me giggle like the fangirl I am. the things people like to do to that poor kid. So far he's been poisoned, shot, crushed, kidnapped, stumbled upon his dead mother in a bath tub, and also ended up with cancer...with a whole lot of other really bad things tossed into that one for flavor. It's such a small fandom, but I don't care. I love it, and I'm more than happy to take a break from KH to humor the seaQuest nerd in me that has awoken from her long slumber.

That being said, I dunno. Wait, "Iunno" Where the HELL did that come from?! I mean, honestly, net speak...I can't hate on it too hard, since I tend to speak...verbally...in netspeak at times. But I can't help but wonder what is going to happen to the English language after a generation or two of this intense and intentional degradation.

I'd also like to report that I have discovered a few things that are caps worth, so there is your warning. *clears throat*

FALL OUT BOY HAS A NEW ALBUM COMING OUT ON DECEMBER 16TH!!!!!!!! THEIR NEW SINGLE "I DON'T CARE" IS THE MOST FABULOUS SONG EVAAAAARRR!!!!! I AM OBSESSED WITH LADY GAGA'S SONG "POKER FACE" AND THE VIDEO FOR IT TOOOOOOOO!!!!! I REALLY LIKE BRITTNEY SPEAR'S NEW SONG "WOMANIZERRRRR"!!!! MY SPOON IS TOO BIG!

My word, it's been too long, I can't keep up...too much in my head to talk about so...I'll probably take the rest over to dA since it's art related. WEE!

P.S.
THE CLEANING LADY BROKE MY EFFING SCALE! DX

OMG, I accidentally caught like a minute of broadcast TV today, and what to my wandering eyes should appear? A Yes on Prop 8 ad arguing that voters should vote yes on prop 8 because if they don't, children would be taught about gay marriage in school...

WHAT?! I fail to see the problem with that.

Of course, as an individual who is vehemently against prop 8, that would make sense, but it's just so funny the duality that exists in the people of this state. To someone, that is a perfectly sound and logical argument.

On a random side not, why does disk 2 of the Avatar Book 3 box set have an advertisement...for the Avatar Book 3 Boxset? The world makes no sense. And ppl wonder why I avoid ppl so often...

Is it a little known fact? I don't know. beckychan knows this because we were in HS together...roochipoochi know this too for the same reason...

In my own round about way, I'm trying to get to the point, that being, I actually attended Math/Science/Technology magnet schools for the better part of my primary education(that being Middle School and HS) this fact crops up occasionally, usually in the form of random things I remember from the math classes I semi-geeked out over during that time.

Of course this relates to fanfiction in some way...

So, It has come to my attention that Blitz is behaving in much the same way as the graph of a hyperbola. Assuming the end of the story is the X axis and the chapters are the distance TO the X-axis...it would seem that the closer to the end I get, the smaller the chapters become...but it feels like I'm just never ACTUALLY gonna get there. (For those who were wondering, the graph of a hyperbola is this line that approaches another line [the X or y axis] until infinity, always getting closer, but never touching or intersecting)

I don't know why I felt the need to share that. Likely because it's really late at night and I should be sleeping...

but while I'm at it, I'll rec a fic! WEEEE

Rituals. I'm really diggin it so far.

Well, it was a good idea I think...the whole prose week thing, but in the end, I don't lead a life that is conducive for that to have actually happened the way I wanted to do it. I can say that from the little bit of prosing that I did manage to do, I learned a lot about ways to go about writing without things getting boring or too weird. I also think that my typing has improved over the past week...that could just be my imagination. In the end, I think that it was a good idea. I was entertained by it and I think a bunch of other ppl were too. I think it would be cool to make this an annual thing, like...I don't know...it would be cool.

In the mean time, let it be known that I am sick and missed class today (which makes me sad) aand...I did some small coloring while I was in the worst of the illness...because that is the most I can manage I guess. WEE!