Timelapse - VY1 Mizki

Yup, I finally got off my butt and recorded a new timelapse!





REALLY proud of this one, and it's getting some great response, too!

Mini comic WIP

Decided to start making little TrickSong comics to get some use out of Sophie and others before I work on the comic itself.

The first one I'm making is about our main 3 watching a video I saw as a kid, showing their reactions. I'll leave it to your imagination what happens, but it's something I can't see kids watching until they're at least 15 nowadays (I was 8 or 9 at the time).

Character birthdays

When I had the idea for TrickSong, I wanted it to be on the same kind of level as Fairly Oddparents and SpongeBob, or other shows on Nick that can  have some kinda of narrative progression, but for the most part you can watch any ep whenever you want and not miss much. Unfortunately for me, I love progression of time, so for some of it, there'll be characters aging and heading to the bigger schools and all that.

So here's some ages I've got so far. The story starts in September 2010, so that was my reference point :3 Also gonna add ages at the beginning of the story too.

• Sophie - September 1999 (11)
• Hannah - March 2001 (9)
• Brett - January 2000 (10)
• Summer - August 2000 (10)
• Teddy - November 2003 (6)

They're the main ones so far, hopefully I'll have a better grasp at characters aging now X3

And for those who don't/wanna know who Teddy is, he's Hannah's little brother :)

Ain't he cute? X3

Cosplay and all that

Been on a high with my eventual future cosplay the past week or so. So much, in fact, that yesterday I did this.

Might or might not be obvious, depending on what you're into, but I wanna cosplay as Rin Kagamine from Vocaloid! :D

Boredom does strange things. Strange things like making a Rin bow out of paper and clipping it to your head ^^;

And then I posed in my White Mage jacket a bit (not the full cosplay, didn't wanna go the whole hog).

Not much else other than that. I gotta sketch more and all the usual stuff. I'll probably post something a bit more useful next time...if I'm lucky.

Texture/style playabout

I'm a bit texture happy lately (and lacking in posts here. Whoops). Don't think I'll post this on dA, it only took an hour or so to finish. When I wear my two silver clips when I'm going out, I feel way more confident, so I wanted to doodle something and had this in my head. Kinda went for a more angular style, which I like, it's a nice change.

Need some advice about talking on camera

Okay, so I've got nearly everything I need for my video, except the main thing - the actual voiceover / video footage. And this is where I've got stuck, too. While I've recorded a few audio bits in the past, I've never appeared on video before, and I can't seen to do it. I set up my camera, postision it right, sit in the right place, but I can't get myself to talk. I'm getting that with recording the audio too, it's like I can't talk at a regular sound level when I'm not talking to anyone and I don't know why.

So I was wonder, to you guys who appear on camera or record voiceover for reviews, vlogs, podcasts, etc., how do you do it when there are always people in the house / your house is directly connected to next door? This has been bugging me for the longest time, and it's what's stopping me getting further with this.

Would having someone in the house read the script make it easier? Would having someone in the room to 'talk to' while looking at the camera work?

I'm also debating whether to actually appear on video or just use cartoon drawing of myself instead.

From my (eventually) upcoming video

Gah, last minute post today o.o Maybe this once a day thing wasn't such a great idea, I think I'm gonna ditch it now since I've posted once a day for at least a week, which is a pretty good start.

So with this video, I'm gonna fill some parts with drawings. Here's the first one that I finished today, I've got another one that follows straight after but it's not done yet.

I took out one of the biggest clues about it ;3 But yeah, it is kind of a hint as well. Too lazy for celshading on a throwaway pic I won't post anywhere (except here :P).

That's it for today. Went out again with my family, which takes a load out of my day. I really enjoy it tho' :)

Blog recommendations + more updates

Spent most of today trying to figure out how best to get my webcam videos working with my video editor to actually make some videos (the ones that aren't vlogs, at least. They'll be waaaay easier to make). I finally figured it out, but it involved recording the footage with the program I got with my webcam, putting it in one editor, converting it to DV-AVI then importing it to my main video editor to use.

...Yeah, my editors hate me.

But anyways, onto better stuff - blog recommendations! :D Mainly a couple of blogs I look at frequently on blogger.

John K Stuff
Atop the Fourth Wall
Masablog
PhotoShop Disasters

They're the main four I go to on blogger, one of these days I'll make a list of all the stuff like I visit, that'll be fun X3

Quick, use the backup!

Tried using my sister's camcorder to record direct to the computer ready for some videos. That really didn't go well, no program would read it or didn't have the option to capture it. So, less professional as it looks, I'm gonna have to use my webcam for it, which doesn't look too bad during the day but is still a little grainy. It'll do until I can find a better option. At least it's a higher quality webcam :)

As for the first video I'm gonna do, it's about something I've loved for a very long time (my first 'fandom', in fact, although fandom for me back then consisted of talking to friends at school excitedly about it). I'd love to make it a series of videos, and what I'm working on is the introduction. Here's hoping! I'm open to guesses for what I'm doing (unless I already told you ;P), it's not like I'm very quiet on the matter ^^;

A little clue - I've been raiding my collection and grabbing scans off the net for the past 2 days while scripting it ;D

Stranger things have happened

Okay, for those who know me, they know I have a thing against skirts. Not by any fault of their own, I just do. Well today I finally said enough is enough.

I promised a couple of friends I'd post photos, so here they are! Lame quality, but I lost my camera USB cable so I had to record a video on my webcam then nab screencaps from it in a video editor ^^;

Ta-daa!

Little curtsy X3

Spin~

Pose!

This'll probably be my only post today, I've been out all day and sorting this is the first thing I've had chance to do on my computer. Will hopefully post something more interesting tomorrow, like whether I'm gonna be able to record that video I wanted to do or not (still a secret. shhh.)

Remakes

So recently I've been remaking old pictures that I really liked, thought had a lot of potential, but I either didn't have the skills to pull it off or I didn't put the effort in to really make it work. It also gave me the chance to work with new styles and refine older styles.

Here's some remakes I've done over the past year.

Original (Flash file)

Remake

Original

Remake

Original

Remake

Original

Remake

In general, all the remakes I've done so far have either improve composition/angles, more detail in both the drawing and the colouring and more context with the subject matter than the originals.

Original story project

Decided to write some more info about what I'm planning (if all goes well), based on responses I've had since I posted it last night (I got a lot, too. Awesome!)

Okay, so there's a few rules for suggesting stories.

• Stories can be in any medium - animation, fiction, webcomic, audioplay, any medium you can think of
• They can be popular or obscure, by yourself, a friend or someone who's work you admire (or don't like). Good or bad, if there's enough material to provide analysis or opinions, then it's all good
• Stories can be one-shot and self-contained, but if they are on-going, having enough material to have the characters and story properly established is far more preferable, as it gives more to work with
• Writing a short explaination of why you like or dislike the story when suggesting one (writing, characters, art, etc.) help to add an initial opinion and give me a brief idea of what it is like before I read it. I can't read/watch all suggestions (slow reader, heheh), so adding this'd help a lot
• Tho' I will try and read fiction, webcomics, animations and audioplays would be preferred if they're long. As I said, I'm a slow reader, so spending a long time reading something only for it not to work out wouldn't work too well
• I will include material from the stories in the posts (pictures, comic pages, text, etc) for analysis and  purposes. If the original creators have any issue with this, I'm willing to discuss it with them (but it is allowed under fair use)
• Recommendations can be sent to my email (angelbless1(AT)gmail(DOT)com) or by note on deviantART

I think that's it for the rules and such. If anyone's got any ideas for rules or suggestions for what I could look at (or a name for this series), let me know! :D

Sketch time~

Time for a mini sketch dump!

So a while ago (last October, wow o.o) I posted this pic of Sophie and Trick in Cloud Land.

I decided to go back to it and start working on locations, characters and the like. I didn't get too far with locations, but I got designs for the little cloud people :)

The one of the left is like the king and the one on the right is an ordinary cloud person.

And of course, the 'real world' needed more characters, and I tend to work in a 'two girls to one' group scenario, so they match up with Sophie, Hannah and Brett.

(keep in mind these names may change, depending)

On the left is Summer, half a year younger than Sophie but she has a 'childish and mature' attitude. She acts like what Sophie does is silly but still has those kid moments herself, such as liking attention on her when she thinks she deserves it.

In the middle (and looking teeny in that pic XD) is Zack, who likes playing football at breaktimes and gets kind of annoyed when Sophie and her group play in an area that they could use to expand their pitch area.

On the right is Suzanne, who likes to note take (mentally and literally) about people, picking up on strange aspects of their personality and is perceptive to changes in attitude and such. She's not so much Zack's friend, but she's a close friend of Summer's.

With three characters' names starting with 's', I think I should consider a name change for one of those two ^^; Which sucks 'cause I like both of them.

And finally, after some talking with Xanthera, we got some more ideas for places Sophie could have adventures. One idea was an Atlantis kind of place, so I doodled a mermaid Sophie as a practise, since I think it'll be one of the first places she goes to.

I'm not gonna reveal all the story ideas here, just the ones that I wanna hint at so I can show drawings from it. I've got a loooot of doodles no one's gonna see until it's in comic form >:D

Yo!

Well, uni's passed and I figured it was time I made a proper blog for all my work to go on (tried before in the past, but let's not talk about that ;P). Hopefully it'll lead to more sketchdumps, more plushie attempts and hopefully some videos when I can figure how not to be awkward in front of a camera!

Soo...yeah, I miss casual blogging without thinking about who on my dA watchers list sees what I write, hopefully I'll be less conscious here and more free with my opinions here :)

So, in the meanwhile, here's pages from my upcoming webcomic that I'm sure a load of you have seen already, but I haven't got a sketchdump rounded up yet XP

...And now I'm wishing blogger's image system was this awesome when I was posting masses of sketches for uni XD

Right, time to get that sketchdump together! It'd be nice if I could post something every couple of days, even if it's what I'm up to. 'Til next time!