Narnia and comic ideas

I can't wait until December ^^ Finally, the Chronicles of Narnia will be adapted into a movie. You can see the new trailer when Star Wars comes out.
It's funny. I never realized until high school that Narnia was a book based on Christianity. You would think I would have noticed after the children were called "Son of Adam or daughter of Eve." Plus, the climatic Aslan scene in the book...geez I'm so clueless lol.
Despite all the religion embedded in the text, I still love the books. The cast and props looks great although I thought Lucy would be blonde? All I'm asking is that they sell Susan's bow in the Noble Collections catalogue. Anyway they already sell Harry Potter wands! Oh also the Harry Potter Goblet of Fire trailer premiered. Wow it looks fantastic. I still have no idea how they are going to fit the whole book into a movie.

I finished my Keenswim sketch. All I have left to do is color it and hopefully more people will visit my comic. hmm I've been thinking about what my next comic should be. I know DayDream isn't even half way done, but I think for the next comic I will need sometime to research and set up backgrounds. I might even use real watercolors. So here are some of my ideas:

1. Teenage boy that can manipulate fire from a psychic institute finds out he has a little sister. He runs away and hides to take care of her. He enrolls in a boarding school a meets a girl that could make him feel normal again.

2. Chinese themed comic that I may still need to think through. It involves a a stubborn prince, a girl who runs like the wind, a sweet and clueless warrior, and a paralyzed and barren girl (I feel bad for her). This was originally two seperate stories, but I might combine them together.

3. Smaller comic about a shy teacher and student who falls in love with her. She knows it is wrong, but is age really a factor in love? ( This may be a little too freaky lol)

4. Or finally the comic based on Bless Me Ultima...sort of dealing with spiritual witchcraft and sacrifices.

Darn I have too many ideas!!!

No comic this week.

Way too much to do. Finals are this week, which means the comic will take a one week break. I will update twice next week to start up my summer comic plan. Hooray!

Now I must weep in the sorrow that is finals.

My visit to Robischon!

I had a great time visiting Robischon Gallery Wednesday. The artwork was simply amazing and the picture above just doesn't do it justice. Stefan Kleinschuster's Rubric III (2004) and all of his works in this exhibition are made up of patches and "nebulas" of oil paint. Stefan was there and explained he wanted to leave on the canvas the same swirls you find when mixing a palette. In all of his works, his main tool isn't a paintbrush, but a palette knife. He considers his works "magnificent failures", but I simply think it is gorgeous.

I heard he might do a drawing class sometime next summer. I'm definitely signing up.

Sniffles

Cough..cough...

Ugh...it's almost finals and I have a crappy cold. Colorado has been weird lately. What happened to the 70 degree weather?

One more week of my first year in college. I wish I was healthy. Need chicken soup...need cure for cold....

Cough...comic updated....cough

Oh yeah...isn't May Asian Heritage month? Well, I guess hooray for Asians! Now I want to watch Avatar: The Last Airbender lol and Kung Fu Hustle.

This must be the most boring post ever...oh well I'm grumpy and sick.

Zombie Woman

These last few weeks have been a complete pain. I'm just such a procrastinator and all of my projects are gaining up one me. Need sleep ~.~But, I always have room for my interests. Muwahhaa!

My former professor Stefan Kleinschuster is opening a new exhibit at the Robischon Gallery! Some of his new pieces are online and look spectacular. Hopefully, I will have him as a teacher again in the near future.
http://www.robischongallery.com

Also, when I was still apart of The Manga Academy, I had a really nice TA named Rivkah. She always helped out and had really beautiful art. She won the Digital Manga contest and got picked up by Tokyopop. It's amazing to be published by a mainstream manga publisher. Rivkah is one of those type of people who was born with artistic ability. She only started drawing manga in 2003 and now look where she is headed.

So I guess if animation fails me (I hope not ><) then I could always try to be published or keep up my webcomic thing. I guess the art industry really relys on luck, talent, and being sweet. Best of luck Rivkah ^^
http://rivkah.com/

On a separate note: Keenspace is hosting this summer exhibit of webcomics called KeenSwim to help advertise for the lesser known comics (like mine ><). So I will be submiting a color page with the characters from DayDream as soon as I can. hmmm I hope I don't have to put Winsor in a bikini...that would be too brutal lol.

Well it's going to be late...

I won't be able to post the color comic until Wednesday at the latest. But I do have to say, it looks really neat ^^.

I've been so busy with my business proposal on printmaking, my sculpture project, and my kinship project that it would be impossible to upload my comic today. Ugh, I really want to get my comic rolling.

So bare with me. Finals are coming soon and all I can think about is my comic. XD

UPDATE:

Well, I finished it sooner than I thought. Go check out the image ^^ It is really awesome. I hope people won't mistaken Sierra as Mary Jane lol. Now off to bed!

The Finale

I finally put the last of The Animation Show 2005 pictures up. I used magical chalk the day before. As you can see, I was quite giddy after seeing The Animation Show.

If you haven't seen The Animation Show yet, I insist you go see it pronto at the nearest theater. I don't think you can get the same effects of the show if you see it on dvd. In Don Hertzfeldt's The Meaning of Life, the galaxy scene sparkled and bounced back and forth on the theater's walls. I don't think you can experience this unless you have a projector at home.

So go I say.

And of course, I must thank The Animation Show crew for putting together a spectacular show this year. Also, The Starz Filmcenter for bringing the show to Denver.

I simply pranced outside the theater after the show. My eyes were gushing with pure joy! And also tried to hop like a bunny. 

The looming screen before the show. By the time 7:15 rolled along, the theater was almost full. 

Chalk work before the opening. I did 5 or so around the campus.The magical chalk hypnotized some pedestrians. 

Very Tired, but still warm and fuzzy

Here's My Animation Show review: Click the title above!
It's hard to review such a wonderful collection of short films. I loved it all, I can't wait until next year or at least until the dvd comes out ^^

Well, I have gotten a few comments amazingly on my Avatar: The Last Airbender post. My gosh how did you people find this blog lol? It's a great show and thanks for the comments.
http://hbthingy.blogspot.com/2005/03/avatar-last-airbender.html#comments

There will probably be one more post to finalize my experience helping out the Animation Show. Soon, this blog will go back to me ranting and trying to direct you to my webcomic.
http://manganese.keenspace.com
I'm so shameful lol.

Now I need to go to sleep...hopefully not during class lol.

Animation Show results

Great show, but how many people showed up?

Well, the 7:15 show crowd didn't sell out, but it was almost filled. Amazingly there were more woman than men in the theater. lol at the end of the program, I clapped and people did as well.

So I guess the promotion was a success. The program will continue throughout the week, and I'm going to see it again today. I'll report on that screening.

I'll post my review and pictures on Monday. I have way too much homework lol.

Congrats to my sister! She passed and will get her masters in English! Hoooray!

Animation Show Tonight!

Yay! The day has finally come! now I can leap like a crazy woman. I'm a little mad that our Denver newspapers did write their own reviews. Denver Post used a review from The New York Times while Rocky Mountain News only wrote a little blurb about it. Hopefully the Westword will write an original review ><. I guess at least I don't have any spoilers ^^. I did a few last flyer stops such as The CU Computer Animation lab and also used magical chalk to annonce the glory of The Animation Show to pedestrians. I'll post some more pictures of the premiere tonight! I'm so pressed for time lately. My college projects have piled up on me. Arghh! So I'm working furiously on them right now so I can enjoy The Animation Show. And as I am complaining my poor older sister is going through her thesis. She has to justify her paper in front of a panel of professors tonight. Best of Luck! You can read her rantings at her blog: http://whoknowswhocares.blogspot.com

Gosh I'm just so excited!

Crazy week, but Animation Show almost here!

Soon it will all be worth it. I never knew putting up flyers would be such a hard job....especially when your doing it by yourself.

So far I have put up posters on 25 boards, and I will soon put some in the computer animation building. As the comic says, I have been having problems of people either putting their stuff over the posters or the posters just simply vanish. It is quite a mystery.

I can't wait! Next week the Animation Show comes! Hopefully, I helped get some info out there.

And yes, I did cut my hair...so I guess my profile picture isn't really me anymore. I hope this cutting hair thing will lead to my Animation Show guys to cut their hair lol.

Wrote a little comic about my adventure! Click on it to make it easier to read.

Close up of the poster after it ripped apart the other competition :p It used it's samurai skills! 

While putting up flyers in the Plaza building, I had an odd feeling that I was in Color Theory class with Color-Aid. The squares are haunting me I tell you! 

I put posters anf lyers on the four sides. However, as of recent those other pesky promotion people are covering my stuff. Curse them! 

Superman must have been in a rush to see The Animation Show. 

I often had to dangle the poster to fit on the board. It was so brave. 

Spring break craziness!

My spring break this year seems more like a day than a week.

Phew, a lot of homework to do, art projects, and promotion work to get done. Colorado's weather is not being very nice to me either.

I managed to stop by a couple more places to hang posters for The Animation Show.

All C's Collectibles....I managed to put a poster up on their soda machine.
Buy Me Anime....left a lot there.
Gimmie Anime....a whole lot there lol.

So hopefully maybe some anime fans will come and visit the show.
Sunday or Tuesday I will be probably doing the whole campus. My gosh, it's going to be a long week.

I inked a couple of pages for my comic, but I really have been adding more pages than inking. Now I really know why I like drawing rather than inking.

Day 1 of Extreme Flyering

Well...I guess it's not that extreme. I think Friday was a success!
Here are the places I managed to get into:

The Market
Starbucks ^^
Big Dog textbooks
The Egg Shells and Incredibles Cafe
Wahoo Tacos
Sugar Beat Cafe
Pharmaca: The Integrated Pharmacy
Common Grounds
Tattered Cover
Meininger's :Art supply store
Comic Book Store....darn I'm forgetting their name right now. They were really nice too!

Denver is tricky. Your not allowed to hang posters on polls and most of the surrounding places are really chic and don't allow posters. Our city amazingly is pretty clean. This promotion would probably be easier in a college town.

Next week I'll hang some more in other bookstores and anime stores.
Most of the main promotion will be two weeks before the opening at The University of Colorado at Denver. I will flyer all of the buildings and place flyers on food court tables. Also the handy chalk will be needed on the sidewalks.

Enjoy the pictures!

Colorado loves putting flyers on benches. This was at the Egg Cafe. 

Wow these pictures aren't very organized. This is the screen. It will be gleaming with pure bliss when April 8th rolls around. 

I was very pleased that I got a poster in a Starbucks. Take that Corporate America! 

Took this picture last month while watching the French Animation showcase at The Starz Film Center. Hopefully, I can fill up these seats for all 14 showings. 

I found this Renoir wall painting while I was putting up flyers. I was amazed by their large hats.  

What is more peaceful and full of zen than watching The Animation Show? Definitely not Atkins that's for sure. 

It's weird the only place I could find to set down some flyers in Wahoo Tacos was next to the "Drunkard: Bar Life" magazine. Rob would be proud lol. 

Operation Flyer My Butt-Off

Well, tomorrow begins the day when I will start promoting for The Animation Show. It will be madness, pure insanity, and busing...lots of busing.

Sadly, I have no crew to help me out except my family lol, which have already done a fabulous job at their workplace.

I've started dropping flyers in some places already (these are probably the weirdest places to flyer in Animation Show history).

1. Micromedex (A drug index company where my father works)
2. Rose Medical Center (Where my mom is a nurse at)

And astonishingly people were really excited and interested! So I guess people in the medical profession love animation. Who knew? :p

Tomorrow I'll hit the surrounding stores on my campus, Larimer Square, 16th Street Mall, and Broadway street.

As for the campus itself, I will flyer immediately after Spring Break. This will allow the flyers to be left up for 2 weeks before the show begins. On campus, things get covered up very fast...so I'll have to wait to promote there.

I'll post pictures when available and leave comments if you want to ^^

FTP down

For some reason, I can't connect with FTP this week, so the comic will be up as soon as possible. Darn. It was a good one too lol.

Keenspace has been having some problems...so I bet it isn't just me.

Man, my FTP makes strange noises. It makes the "oh oh" noise when I make mistakes. It's laughing at me!

Avatar: The Last Airbender

I'm jealous lol. This show is the perfect mix of Asian culture and adventure. I'm just mad somebody beat me to it.

Avatar: The Last Airbender is about a journey of three kids that helps Aang fulfill his duties as an Avatar and stop the Fire Nation from taking over the world. However, the Avatar is just a 12 year-old boy who loves playing and riding various animals like Koi and penguins. He gains help from a girl named Katara, a waterbender, and her brother Sokka who is a goofball.

Prince Zuko is from the fire nation and is trying catch the Avatar to be accepted by his father. And man is this guy buff lol. He is aided by his Uncle who is calm and loves Asian food!

This show is amazing. It's not some pseudo anime and has unique qualities of it's own. the animation is beautiful and the choreagraphy is great. You can really tell they consulted with Chinese martial artists.

It is airing now at Nickelodoen on Fridays 8/7 c. Go see it and keep this show on the air because it is simply beautiful.

This would probably be my last post about my interests. In the next month, it shall focus solely on The Animation Show.

Crazy week already?

Well, I was right ^^. Ryan won Best Animation Short and Incredibles won Best Animated Feature, but Incredibles also won for Sound Editing!
Plus, Edna Mode made a little appearance that was just hilarious. I still can't get over the fact Brad Bird does her voice

Animation Show is constantly on my mind. When should I flyer? Where can I flyer? Will the show sell out?

I'm either going to start this weekend or next weekend. I just have too much homework. Also might do a risky move. I might flyer the campus two weeks before the show. People have a short attention span, and I'm worried if I put the flyers up now they will be covered.

All in all, I just can't wait. I get overly excited, and I hope I don't scare people away :p

Oscar Short Animation

Oscar nominations abound! I was lucky and had a chance to view some of these fine titles.

Nominated this year is Birthday Boy, Ryan, Lorenzo, Gopher Broke, and Guard Dog.
I didn't get to see Lorenzo or Guard Dog(Will be at the Animation Show ^^) yet, but the one's I did see were quite interesting.

Gopher Broke was a funny short to just giggle at. It had some great moments and timing.

Birthday Boy was bitterly mysterious and surprising. The ending sort of kicks you and makes you wonder. The animation was kind of awkward and may not win because of that.

Ryan.....well.... what an odd film. A documentary about Ryan Larkin, a former animator, that tries to depict the homeless and alcoholic animator. I was hoping that this film would be more revolutionary. Chris Landreth puts himself in the film way too much. It was more about him than Ryan Larkin. I like the destructive style, but it was just to confusing. I just hope I never become homeless like this guy lol.

I have seen clips of Guard Dog, and I really hope Bill Plymptom wins this one, but I have a feeling they're going to give it to Ryan. At least he will get some neat goodies to take home.

Animation World Magazine has a great article if your interested.
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2405

And of course we all know who is going to win Best Animation Feature ^^

Eat a wall

Emily Katrencik is doing an art piece right now that involves eating sheetrock between her studio and gallery. She is doing this for 41 days.

When I saw this, I thought...man this woman has integrity!

Is it art? Of course it is, but will her stomach think so in the end?

http://lmakprojects.com/current_index.htm

Buzz Bunny revisited

Well one good thing that came out of all this mayhem...was the recognition on television of the animation community.

Amazingly, The Animation Show forum (I post daily on) got on the news twice. We are considered the outraged animation community I guess. I saw our forum on CBS Sunday Morning. It's quite amusing to see your forum on tv.

Also, new comic up ^^. I love this one!

Lately I have thinking about taking a hiatus on my comic on the month of April, but it seems instead my blog will be taking the break instead. For the month of April, all posts will be about me doing promotion and putting up flyers in Denver. I'm doing this to get people to the show and getting some Underground points for some cool stuff. Maybe finally I can get a t-shirt lol.

So look for that in April!

Are they Loonatics?

Controversy has arisen in the cartoon community. This yellow black character is not an illusion...yes, that is Bugs Bunny. Or shall I say "Buzz" Bunny?
WB has just licensed and is going to air this new show called Loonatics with the revamped Looney Tunes characters.

This is the last draw. I can handle the crappy Looney Tunes movies and even Baby Looney Tunes, but this is just sacrilegious. Baby Looney Tunes at least looked remotely liked the characters. Some say don't judge the show yet, but my gosh just look at it! I have doubt this revamp will be as enjoyable as Teen Titans or Duck Dodgers.

All I can say is thank God the Golden Collection is out.

To hear several more responses about this go to Cartoon Brew.

Arghhh!

I just hate it when I can't work on my comics or art because of school work...lots of school work. I have no idea what I should do when the Animation Show promotion comes around. I might have to put my webcomic on the side for a few weeks, but I hate doing that especially with the word "hiatus."

I updated today with an important comic I hope you enjoy ^^

Lately some great animation and manga news have been killing me.
1. Don's animation gallery opening in California with time lapse footage of MOL
2. Clamp's signing and talk show (really a killer)
3. Their concert with Ali Project and Maaya Sakamoto ><
4. Maaya Sakamoto coming to Texas ><

Ack! A concert with Ali Project and Maaya Sakamoto...my heart almost stopped with that one. I either need to quickly move to Japan or California.

Oh well at least my beautiful Clamp artbooks finally came. North side and South Side had to be printed especially in Japan to have the most premium color and it was well worth it. It is just too beautiful for words and in the back Clamp has some how-to's, which is awesome.

Back to homework...ughhh.

Happy Chinese New Year!

It's odd that this year new year falls on Ash Wednesday...very weird.

I hope this year won't turn out bad. Today I stabbed and scraped myself with sculpture picks and knives...ughh so unlucky lol

April must be a happy month...not only is The Animation Show coming to Denver, but my professor Stefan Kleinschuster is having another exhibition at the Robischon Gallery. He's has very colorful nudes that gives a feeling of body tissue and uses a palette knife to create patches of color in the figure. He is such an interesting and cynical character. I hope both shows don't overlap each other o.0

Valentine's also coming up......
May naked cupids help you and especially me lol

So beautiful...almost

Clamp's Tsubasa Chronicle is airing in April...sadly in Japan, but this awesome picture is enough for me. Although I do think Syaoran should be a little more scratched up and dirty. For goodness sake he's an archaeologist! Plus, it would have been a good contrast between him and Sakura. What am I saying I can't even paint like this nor draw like this.
Well, I can't wait the manga has gotten better for this series, but my true love is for Basara, which I hope someday it will get picked up for a series again.

Chinese New Year Wednesday and I didn't even post any pictures. Oh well at least I'll give out chocolate money to my friends.

New comic up tomorrow...not the greatest, but I'll keep trying.

Drool

Trailer for the Animation Show year 2. Everybody rejoice!

http://www.animationshow.com/screeningroom_thea_05.html

What a week!

Posted a new comic again. I think I finalized that the comic will update every Sunday. Why you may ask? Because of God of course ^^. Just kidding! My schedule just seems to work that way.

Annie Awards tonight! Tomorrow they will post the winners. Darn I wish they showed this award show on tv.

Oscar nominees were also picked this week.

My pick of course for best animation movie is Incredibles.
For short animation I believe 'Ryan" will win because of its subject matter although it would be great if Bill Plymptom's "Guard Dog" wins.

Oh and have you seen Don Hertzfeldt's new hairdo!
http://bitterfilms.com/forum.html

His Sundance journal is fun and crazy, but I hope his magic voodoo powers aren't gone because he cut his hair.
I heard great things about his new film, 4 years in the making, "The Meaning of Life". I can't wait to see it at The Animation Show.

The colors!

Crazy groovy colors! I can't believe I finished this on the first week back to college. Sadly, this looks like marker more than watercolors, but I really like how the hair turned out. the brushstrokes really give it a dream like feel. Solid colors wouldn't look as groovy I think or maybe I'm just trying to please myself lol. Please keep reading my comic if anyone is out there! I'll do my best to keep it updated.
Oh and as Chinese New Year is coming around February 9th. I will post some food and traditions we have around Chinese new Year. It isn't much, but it is fun anyway. Everybody start getting your red envelopes out!

Phew!

I finally updated the comic with two more pages. Also now all of the pages have dropdown menus and pages in the dropdowns. It took a lot of work. -.-

I'll update one more comic for tomorrow since I delayed my updates way too much.
I'm still having trouble with parts of the website. I'll just keep trying!

The Animation Show's Underground is on it's way. I might be the captain for Colorado's promotion team, but we shall see.

There are two showings:

Denver Opening April 8th
Starz FilmCenter
900 Auraria Parkway 303/820-FILM (3456)

Boulder Opening April 21-22nd!
University of Colorado, International Film Series, Muenzinger AuditoriumColorado Blvd.
just west of Folsom Football Stadium303-492-1531

I'll try to help out in Boulder also, but I'm sure someone on campus is already on to it ^^

Also the lineup has just been announced! Hurray!
Check it out at:
http://www.animationshow.com

Tis all for now!

I'm so poor now!

I love Christmas. I finally have the chance to buy all the manga I can carry. I think I bought around 10 so far...which means $100! Now I know why artists are so poor ><....darn you manga obssession! Sorry I've been pretty lazy with my webcomic. The holidays have swept me away from my computer!! Although I'm pretty sure no one reads it....yet. So procrastination is allowed!

Oh I also wanted to add that this new picture above is from my spiffy new digital camera . So more pictures to come!

Tis there

My webcomic! Terrible resolution, but much better at the website: http://manganese.keenspace.com

Almost there ^^

This week has been a struggle. I have finals, but I really want to get started on my webcomic site. The agony! Well, I compromised and worked a little bit on it over the weekend. So a new page is up

Please bare with me...the comic gets better...at least I think so :p

Man, who knew websites had so much work in them. I need to make a banner, buttons, title image, and much more....yes more.

At least I figured out the beast known as the scanner.

If this comic gets successful , I'll probably make a tutorial in how to scan the darn thing. 300 dpi is very important and later softening the image really helps.

So definately more updates next week and shopping

Comic Semi-up

Okay finally Keenspace has set up the comic. Whooo hooo! However right now the page looks pretty pathetic. I really need to start fixing stuff up...adding buttons and all that jazz. The darn comic is not even centered lol. So I believe my comic "DayDream" will official be up around the holidays.

You can check out the progress here:
http://manganese.keenspace.com

Ack! Now back to homework and finals. ><

Keenspace delay

Well I decided to sign up to Keenspace and see how it goes. The only problem is I have to wait a minimum if seven days for processing. Ack! Oh well, I was hoping to set up the site this week, but I think for sure it will be ready during my Christmas break. I also have to figure out how to build the darn thing too.

Finals is coming up

Wish me luck!