For those of you who haven't, check out M-Bot by MindChamber and drop him some feedback. I'd say it was a pretty edgy expirement for flash, and the guy keeps on pushing the boundaries on the standards we can expect from NG. He may be right with flash's future being steeped in 3D, even with programs like Swift 3D (as seen in this impressive Star Wars themed Madness Day flash) make that capability not-so far off.

My mind has been on 3D a lot lately; currently typing this on break from my Maya Rendering II class. Our mid-term this semester is rendering two character heads. Our final? Finish our mid-term character's body. Like I said in my last news post, if I got a C for this final from the same professor I have for BOTH of my 3D classes this semester, I'm a little nervous. I just gotta go above and beyond my expectations for myself, and do my best.

While I put my Lady Noir short on the backburner until I get caught up with my assignments, (which there are a fuckton. Haven't had to work this hard in a long time.) RedHarvest had convinced me to do the credits sequence for the collaboration instead, and I agreed. I'm thinking of using some Massive Attack, and I'm likely going to go for "Black Milk"

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Idk...I'm determined to use Massive Attack...most likely something off of Mezzanine.

Meanwhile I'm getting a whole mess of inspiration to dish out more and more work on NG; the best way to get better at any creative project is to just do the damned thing...and I need practice if I'm going to be the 2% of animators that make it big in the world. That means I gotta dish out 10,000 hours into animation to become an expert (That's 3 hours devoted to it every day for 10 years.)

One goal I thought up is to strive for pumping out an animation monthly. Whenever I tell people about my NG account to classmates, I hate that I have to tack on, "But I only got like four or five flashes." The best way to fix that is to just start pumping them out. Lord knows I don't have a shortage of ideas.

Meanwhile, by ways of suggestion from Tom's News Post regarding the new Writing Forums, I gave it a shot, because I'm genuinely excited for the release of the Literature Portal (or Writing Portal as I'm beginning to see it called). After posting up song lyrics I wrote roughly a year ago, the feedback is intensely good! I may never return to the degenerative smorgasbord of retards that is the General BBS seldom if not ever, because I feel like I can relate to the Writing community more.

On an unrelated note completely, my favorite leather jacket got damaged, so I went up to Hobby Lobby, bought an array of sewing needles, black thread, and a thimble, and I repaired it myself for under $5 for a pretty damn good job for a first try, if I do say so myself. I was so stoked, I got the NG patch I had won from the 3rd Annual NG Idol Photoshop Contest and sewed it to the right shoulder, and it too came out looking great. It's only a matter of time where I'll find myself watching something I can multitask to and sew the MindChamber patch I also got on the left shoulder.

(Now I'm on the hunt for an American Flag, Texas Flag, subdued reversed American flag, and St. Andrew's Cross Scottish flag to deck out the sleeves even more. What would be ideal is if the American Flags were straight up black and white...or even sicker, a black and white Texas flag. :D)

All in all, I've been the busiest I've ever been in a while...and a cute classmate of mine has convinced me to dish out the $10 to attend my first Comic-Con in the area, where Adam West will be in attendance. I don't know what to expect, so I'm just going to go as myself...I'm not into the cosplay thing...

.......though Stormtrooper armor would be pretty sweet.....

Film at Eleven

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