Two good news

Ok so, i'm still in the middle of being caught up in a whirlpool of deadlines, HOWEVER, thankfully, due to my INCREDIBLE procrastination skills and VERY short attention span i was able to start up a vlog on youtube ^ ^. The video is below:



Something else more important:

I decided to make another movie as soon as i have the opportunity. Currently I am in process of finding actors and anyone who is willing to help with the filming ^ ^. Here is the synopsis of the upcoming 30min film: (in weird hurried grammar)

One of the main characters of the film is a bisexual guy with memory loss and narcolepsy. He is not bothered with loss of memories and detachment from the world, and lives the moments of his life of which he is aware with confidence and quite indifference. However the film will not actually explain this until the very end of the film, and the viewer will think that the episodic nature of the film is the technique used, and not what’s actually happening from the protagonist’s eyes, since he will not show any signs of surprise or dislike towards the discontinuous nature of his life. He works as a freelance graphic artist and does random odd jobs, kinda. Not actually employed, in every episode he finds himself doing something different. Due to memory loss doesn’t really remember his childhood and past.

Another main character is a troubled girl who often falls into depression. She does her best to go through life with indifference and complete normality, with the aim to not let anything extremely horrible or extremely great to happen, and live a plain but content life. She is honest with people and doesn’t hesitate to show her often anti-social nature.

Naturally the two meet and befriend each other, albeit after a long time. At first, the girl is unwilling to break out of her goal for extraordinary normality and fall for a guy, while the guy tries to keep his indifference to such affairs because he won’t remember any of it anyway and will not bear attachment. But as they find something special in each other, special because they both have nothing special, the guy tries and remembers her and find himself for the first time attached to something, and the girl for the first time dreams and wants something more than monotone contentment.

But before this happens they both go through affairs with other partners (the guy with another guy, and the girl with some random boring guy looking for easy sex), and go on with their lives as they always would, until by chance the two meet again. Albeit their encounters don’t last long at all, they ignite their curiosity. They will keep drifting toward and away from each other until eventually there is a happy ending and the film ends at their last encounter which seems like it will not end.

Been busy lately - Yonkomas 5,6 and 7

Due to midterms and a whole bunch of deadlines to meet I haven't had much time to post, much less draw daily. But here are 3 yonkomas which i posted on dannychoo.com before but had not posted here. As soon as the exams are over and i complete all my papers i will go back to blogging regularly ^ ^. And i have also made a new film which i will be posting later as well.
Love this one due to its randomness. The ending comment is the perfect description. I think up this sorta things all the time, but because there are so many i forget all of them. And randomness and nonsense are my favorite type of humor ^ ^. The influence of Cromartie High is obvious in the last panel ^ ^
Ok so this one is about your standars in a way too, but for ladies, and with lots of satire.
This one is probably my favorite so far ^ ^. Absolute 132% best-quality nonsense, its like o-toro of tuna. Dont remember how otoro is written so screw it lol. This yonkoma teaches people to look at things differently. Life will surely be more enjoyable that way ^ ^.

Anyway i'm done for now here. I have one more yonkoma ready but wont be posting that now ^ ^. Hopefully i will get done with schoolwork as soon as possible..

Yonkoma 4 - Dreams. Comes with thoughts on life...

So here is the fourth 4koma. This one is about being picky in relationships. I certainly can say that i am. The few times when i described by expectations for a girlfriend i was told every time that they are a bit high, if not nearly impossible to reach. Well its possible, its just that the chances are small of me finding someone like that and then being liked in return. But then again, one could follow the philosophy of "all or nothing"... Maybe thats why i am single lol

Anyway, about the production of this 4koma. This one took a whole big chunk of my time, which it shouldnt have. The reason is my love of details and perfection. Which i might amply say i did not even get close to achieving. This was worsened by the fact that i drew this directly on the computer, without drawing it on paper first. That sorta method makes it easier to get carried away with unnecessary detail (mostly via Ctrl+Z). But i am pretty happy about how it looks, except for panel 4. Panel 3 i should change i think. That balerina pose is beautiful, but it doesnt quite carry out the message it originally intended to [the panel].

I am getting more and more into owarai. I want to understand comedy better. I like making people laugh, and i often do so with my friends. But i cant make myself cheer up and be a fun person when i am not in a good mood (which is often). If i am down, or tired, all i come up with are cynical and mean jokes which only i can enjoy, which i do hardly. So im thinking maybe i should be a more cheerful person? This dillema is quite depressing. Orz

Yonkoma 3 - Friendship

So here is the 3rd 4koma. Very nice i think, better than the second one. This one took a while to to edit actually. Maybe i have better eye now, after doing the previous ones, after a very very long break from any sort of work with images. Moreover i am using Fireworks MX because i dont own Photoshop Orz. PS would make this so much easier and nicer. Well i am saving up and soon i will buy CS3 or maybe CS4. Anyone tried both and have seen a great difference? The latest version I worked on was CS2. I dont want to switch to CS in Flash tho. Learning action script 3 will be a pain in the ass. AS2 should be enough. Plus there are tons of veteran designer using AS1 right?

Back to talking about the 4koma. The idea for this one came to me at work while i was talking to one of my co-workers. It was gonna be red ranger and turtle ranger at first, but when i was coloring it in, i decided i wanted to keep it B&W, so i made him grey ranger. Just thinking about it makes me crack up lol.

Yonkoma 2 - Discovery

So here is the second 4koma, called Discovery. It's kinda about that activity that many young little fellas indulge in lol. I don't think this is nearly as interesting or funny as the first one, but it still makes me chuckle, especially the closing line. It's even better when that line in isolated. Imaging changing in a fitting room in some store, and then hearin "It's sticky afterall, huh?" from the next room? Makes your imagination tickle, ne?

For this one i used a 0.05 Prismacolor Fine Line Marker (in bold, for irony). Thus the line are way clearer and more accurate compared to the first one. I can even make it look like it was inked, if i try really hard, but since this is a gag 4koma i didn't really want to. I want to get an actual ink-pen some day.
I really prefer drawing on paper rather than on the computer. However i do all the tones and text bubbles on the computer. Right now i don't have photoshop, so i have to use Fireworks, which obviously makes it way way more time-taking. I am saving up for a better video-camera at the moment, and the next purchase after that will be photoshop. WOOHOO!

Yonkoma 1 - Dreams

Here is another 4koma ^ ^. I drew this one at home and had plenty of time (as opposed to when i try to draw in 15 minutes for my classmates in school), and resources (ruler, paper). I had the idea of saying "I want to become a giant robot" when i grow up for a long time, although my original idea was slightly different (i want to become a high-class prostitute lol). The guy who tells him to give up is a combination of Sexy commando, Vegeta and of course Freddie Mercury. I didn't mean to do that, but it somehow just sprang from my mind ^ ^. Anyway, thats it for now.

Don't give up kids!

I don't know

I bought this thing yesterday. I don't know why...