Updates of Everything

Haven't updated in a while, so here's what's happening now.  I'm a bit behind on everything because life keeps getting in the way.  I can't really work in the morning or daytime cause my mom's always home and I'm too tired at night to do anything either.  BACKGROUNDS AREN'T EVEN DONE YET.  Man, I have SO much work to do. XD

I've been wanting to bring back the idea of Basilisk Radio, which will be a series of recordings related to my projects, such as voice acting samples, bloopers/outtakes from script readings, audio-only episodes (like film noir/radio dramas), original music, and other stuff. ;P  IT'S GONNA ROCK.

One thing I want to do now is collect some classical music to which the copyrights have expired so I can use it in the show.  For those who don't know, I will be uploading this to deviantart in the film category, and music that you don't have a license to use or didn't compose yourself isn't allowed.

Before I get even more distracted, I'll go continue to work now. XD Until next time!

I made my own peg bar.

I've always wanted a peg bar, but the only place I could find one was online, and I'm not paying 7 bucks for shipping when it doesn't even weigh anything.  Since I have some extra clay and decent sculpting skills, I decided to make my own. XD  Yay for frugality!

I started off with a punched paper for reference, a flat surface, and an X-Acto knife.

I kneaded some clay, stretched it out, flattened it with a rolling pin, and then used a ruler to guide the knife along the edge.


Now it looks somewhat straighter. XD  I shaped the registration pegs at this point and smoothed them out with my clay tool.  I kept them separate for now because it will be easier to sand them if needed and glue them on.  Time to bake this sucker!


It's out of the oven now (as you can see, I burned it slightly XD), and I sanded it a good amount.  I marked where the pegs will go by placing the paper on top and aligning the holes on the bar.  Then I glued it with super glue, cause any other glue I've used on clay dried up and broke the sculpture. :<


There she is... And working like a charm!  For something homemade, I guess. XD

GtM Cast List Up

I am pleased to announce that I've chosen voice actors to play as Giovanni and Strider.  Drumroll please...

Playing as Giovanni will be Neil Alexander! (Redd on VAA)

Playing as Strider will be Jack Mace! (PwnageSniper on VAA)

Thank you very much to everyone who auditioned: HeadlessChicken, Mr. Jay, GEXROX, Stephan, Blueman39, Klemens, HaggisPasty, Jevaque60, BOWIEtheHERO, and Newrikey!  I'm glad you all had interest in my project, and good luck to everyone in future projects!

Universal Studios!!! 8D

Hey everybody!  This isn't GtM related, but... I need to post it somewhere.  Yesterday, I went to Universal Studios with my mom and aunt.  I didn't get pictures of the whole trip but I took some near the end.  The really fun stuff was the Studio Tour: I've been on it a zillion times but they keep adding new stuff to see.  Like the new King Kong thing - MAN that was cool!  It was also really awesome seeing the original Bates Motel and the spooky house on the hill in person.  Oh, and I went on the Simpsons ride for the first time. XD That was the single greatest moment of my life. O.O  It was AMAZING.  Go ride it first chance you get.  Now: PHOTOS!  Click to make them bigger!

Hey look it's Bart.  Hi Bart!

I got to take a picture of the Warner Brothers and ABC studios!

And WB's famous water tower! XD Look look, there it is!

Me and my aunt.  I look like such a dork...

 Me and my aunt again.  Yes, I do have an Angry Beavers shirt on. XD

Citywalk in the evening!  Ate at Wolfgang Puck's too.  LOVED it!

And now, Citywalk at night.  This is what Sonnet City (where Gio & co. live) looks like in my head.

Down towards the bottom center, you can see my mom waving ;p

The sign over Gamestop!

Hard Rock Cafe's chandelier! O.O

That's the floor directly beneath the chandelier.

Hard Rock Cafe's giant guitar, all lit up.

 So yep, that was our trip.  See you guys later!

Planning Drawings! O.O

The first episode's backgrounds should be all done by the time casting is over.  In the meantime, I'm working on planning drawings, which are thumbnails of the key poses, extremes, and in-betweens that are used to plan a scene instead of that pose-to-pose technique (which is NOT fun).  After that, I do several straight-ahead runs of rough animation.

I've decided to nix the storyboards from now on since I'm the only person planning scenes and movement; it's not like I have a whole animation team to send a storyboard off to.  It'll save me a lot of time and money (I'm looking at YOU, Kinko's).

MUSIC!

Happy Birthday to me!

I level up today at 11:45 PM.  I'll be 20!
Anyways, GtM news.  The backgrounds aren't finished, but I want to hire voice actors already!!!  I need to ink and color the official pictures of the characters for a visual reference (they're just sketches now).  I think I'll still have to wait until all of the backgrounds for the first two episodes are done.

Edit (5-21): Official character art was finished several days ago, and the backgrounds for the first episode are about halfway done.  A few are completely finished, but many of them are line drawings almost ready to be colored.

Quick Update

I had Lasik exactly one month ago.  And I STILL haven't drawn a comic about it.  If I can still remember what it was like, I'll do so!

Because it took a while to recover from the surgery, I'm behind on my cartoon.  Roy's still working on backgrounds, and I'm still practicing Ghosteh's voice and doing some sound editing.  I have a lot of new ideas for more episodes though. =D  Time to go buy coffee and get started on the animation...