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nadziejastar · 6 years ago

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Luna Diviner is only Saix's title in the English localization. In the original Japanese his title is Tsuki ni Mau Majin which translates to Demoniac Dancing in the Moon. Just something to keep in mind, but it does fit well with Axel being the Flurry of Dancing Flames.

Oooh, good catch. That is something I missed. It’s kind of like the Recusant’s Sigil. It’s not called that in the Japanese version, but it still fits pretty well. As for Saix, I like the Japanese one even better.

I mean, that title, though.

“Demoniac Dancing in the Moon”

demoniac:

of, like, or characteristic of a demon or demons.

a person believed to be possessed by an evil spirit.

Oh, but Saix was totally in control of himself the whole time. *eyeroll*

Anyways I really appreciate you pointing that out. It’s a really cool detail that I missed. They both refer to dancing in their titles. I just realized something totally awesome thanks to you and it happens to fit perfectly with the post I was actually working on. I’m pretty sure that both titles are a reference to Shiva.

Flurry of Dancing Flames seems like a reference to one of Shiva’s most famous depictions in a circle of flames known as “Lord of the Dance”. This dance is masculine and usually manifests anger. According to Hindu legend, Shiva almost caused the end of the universe by performing this flaming dance after his soon-to-be-wife committed suicide. Sati became engaged to Shiva, but when her father disapproved of their marriage, she threw herself into the flames, praying to one day be reborn as a daughter to a father she could respect.

When Sati self-immolated, Shiva couldn’t control his anger and pain. He covered his entire body with her ashes as a sign that she will be with him forever. He then went into meditation for many years, ignoring all his godly duties, causing imbalance in the world. It was not until Sati was reborn as the goddess Parvati that Shiva finally came out of meditation. So according to Hinduism, the dance of flames symbolizes the cosmic cycles of creation and destruction, as well as birth and death. Just like the Phoenix.

Saix has a weapon called Twilight. It is distinctly shaped like a trident. In Hinduism, it’s called the trishula. This is actually an unused palette swap of the one in-game. I think they went with the green one for a specific reason, but I don’t see the harm in analyzing this one, since it was fully rendered and all.

The weapon is emanating a white and violet aura. The violet-white aura combination is the display of all aura colors in perfect balance. This aura personality operates primarily from the Crown chakra. Typically, this color is ordained as a vessel or conduit to channel messages of sacred wisdom. It is present in people who proactively maintain communion with their Divine Source.

In Hinduism, the trident symbolizes control of the mind, intellect, and ego. It also represents the three aspects of consciousness—waking, dreaming and sleeping. In the human body, the trident ALSO represents the place where the main energy channels meet at the brow. The left and right channels are called Ida and Pingala. Their union symbolizes the union of Shiva and Shakti.

The Ida and Pingala represent the basic duality of existence. The left is Ida. It’s white, feminine, cold, and represents the moon. It impacts the right hemisphere of the brain, and it is symbolically represented by the feminine aspect of energy known as Shakti.

The right side is Pingala. It’s red, masculine, hot, and represents the sun. Not surprisingly, it is associated with Shiva and the left side of the brain. These energies rise up the body, until they reach the Third Eye chakra right in the middle of the brow. The Third Eye is the key. It connects with the highest chakra, the Crown chakra. This is the direct connection to the Higher Self, or the Spirit. The top two chakras are basically seen as the two representing higher consciousness. They’re the most spiritual chakras.

That’s why you’ll see the red dot, right in between the eyebrows. ॐ means the heart, body, and soul are connected. It is in essence the symbol of consciousness itself. The writers chose to place a Recusant’s Sigil directly over the ॐ. So, not only does Saix have an “X” on his literal third eye, but also on his weapon’s third eye too. That tells you all you need to know about whether Isa’s consciousness existed inside of his Nobody—and how Isa’s original personality had to be totally eradicated in order to create Saix.

It’s things like this that make me SO annoyed with the terrible retconning. And why I don’t think the direction they took Saix in KH3 is the slightest bit convincing. It’s not like I can just NOT notice stuff like this, LOL. The message is loud and clear. Saix is mind-controlled. Cut off from his very Spirit.

Even the name “Twilight” fits this idea perfectly. It’s defined as “a period or state of obscurity, ambiguity, or gradual decline.” It really does irritate me that they put all of this cool symbolism in, only to have it be thrown away. I bet the writers were very upset, after they put so much effort in to make everything meaningful.

Anyways, Parvati is the wife of the Hindu Shiva. She is the Hindu goddess of fertility, love, beauty, marriage, children, and devotion. She is gentle and nurturing. As stated, she is also the reincarnation of Shiva’s first wife Sati.

Shiva and Parvati merge together and exist as the same being called Ardhanarishvara. It is depicted as half-male and half-female, equally split down the middle. Ardhanarishvara represents the synthesis of the masculine and feminine energies of the universe and illustrates how the female principle is inseparable from the male principle.

And Parvati actually has her own dance, like Shiva does. And it’s the opposite of Shiva’s dance. It expresses happiness and is filled with grace and beauty. She is believed to have danced in response to the male energy of the dance performed by Shiva. The two dances symbolize the cycles of creation and destruction, birth and death.

However, some Hindu stories present alternate aspects of Parvati. Shakti is pure energy; untamed, unchecked and chaotic. There are some ferocious and violent aspects of Shakti. This is symbolized by the goddess Kali, known as the black goddess. Parvati transforms into Kali, initially at the request of Shiva, to destroy an asura. Basically a demon. Even after destroying the demon, Kali’s wrath could not be controlled. It turns her into a dark, blood-thirsty, goddess of death.

She is often portrayed dancing on top of her husband, Shiva, who lies prostrate beneath her. Many of those portrayals depict her sticking out her tongue, which some say is an indication of her surprise and embarrassment at discovering that she is actually trampling on her husband. According to the stories, Shiva appeared as a crying baby to stop Kali’s rage. The cries of the baby raised the maternal instinct of Kali who changes back to her gentle form as Parvati. So, even a goddess of love like Parvati has a possessed demonic dance.

Thanks to this realization I had about Kali, I remembered that one of Xaldin’s weapons is named Asura. After that I took a closer look at everyone’s weapons again, and I think I finally realize the FULL meaning of them now. It ALL makes sense. I don’t know how it took me so long to see it. And I’m gonna have to make a post about that now, too.

#kh #kh meta #anti-kh3 #h saix #kh isa #kingdom hearts meta #kingdom hearts 358/2 days #akusai #leaisa #kh isalea #kingdom hearts

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scarlettlawyer · 5 years ago

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Part 13 of my reaction/commentary to the Phantoms & Mirages Saga, the fanfic series by @renegadewangs

(Chasing Phantoms): Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

(Haunted Specters): Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6

(Vanquishing Mirages): Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9

Vanquishing Mirages / Lifting Spirits: Part 10

Lifting Spirits: Part 11 Part 12

OH BOY we actually made it. Are we actually here? At the Lifting Spirits ending?! :O

It only took thirteen posts and thousands upon thousands upon thousands of words and a couple of AUs and fun off-topic detours but WE DID IT. But it was the journey that counts, not necessarily the destination, no? XD

It was only the three of them- Simon, Athena and Bobby himself who were visiting Lex. There were very few other people who would bother to pay their respects, Bobby supposed.

[…]

The ambassador was probably the only other person who’d visit the grave with honest intent.

I don’t… necessarily think that’s true, to be honest.

I have some thoughts about this that I won’t go into, but, there were many people deeply upset by the fake verdict in-universe.

Lifting Spirits, Chapter 18

ascending.

I can’t it’s so much, the sweetness the…

”His identity was mine up until two months ago and it’ll continue to be mine whenever my uncle deems it time to take me out for some exercise.”

PALAENO OUT HERE GONNA TAKE LEX FOR WALKS LIKE A HECKIN’ DOG LOL? I love it.

While this was a suitable alternative to execution, in a way it felt like they were cheating.

Okay I really liked this line on first read honestly because. Yes.

Like, this ties in a huge amount to what I said in the last post. It… DID kind of feel like cheating to me back then? In the sense that this is such a wonderful, happy ending for everyone to the extent that it almost felt like it shouldn’t be possible given the past and the characters involved. It felt like a bit of a meta line? And I really don’t know if it was intended as such, that’s just how I interpreted/read it!

And these are the EXACT lines wherein, tied with the open acknowledgement of the inability to please everyone discussed in the last post, seriously made me embrace and adore this ending one thousand percent.

The “cheating” comment seriously resonated with me and just, by alluding to it feeling like cheating… to just embrace it… The open acknowledgement goes such a huge way. There doesn’t need to be any internal sense of dissonance whatsoever if the story is right there with you in terms of self-awareness.

By saying “not everyone can be satisfied with the ending” in and of itself allows me to be fully satisfied, and to no longer have to worry about the fact that it can’t please everyone, since the story is already aware of this and having pointed out that pleasing everyone isn’t possible anyway.

Mind you, my perspective now is somewhat more akin to hissing “no it’s not cheating back off this beautiful ending is 100% earned and righteous shhhhh”.

I… am really rendered speechless with some of the wonderfulness of this ending… And I’d actually... forgotten a lot of wonderful details too? Because I’d only read it through once before, and the fact that rereading the series to do these reviews has taken some time means the largest gap of time had passed between the first and second reading when it came to these last few chapters (making my memory of them the least fresh before reading through a second time). So the entire time prior to actually reading them once again, I’d been entirely going off memory of my first reading from like… a few months ago now, when discussing things with my friend(s) and thinking up scenarios. So, some things were like reading afresh and they just kinda outright killed me (in a good way) as if it was better than I had even remembered it being. Two examples of this are, 1. I could not recall with certainty an instance of Lex referring to Palaeno as “uncle”, and while reading through Lifting Spirits, noticed that even after the surgery he was still just referring to him as “ambassador”. Which, made me wonder if he had… So, suffice it to say… Reading this ending and seeing how he continuously refers to him as “uncle” & “my uncle” SO many times in such a short timespan, blows me away, and WOW!! WARMTH & LOVELY EMOTIONS ABOUND. 2. THIS IS KIND OF SKIPPING AHEAD TO THE LAST CHAPTER I GUESS BUT SIMON OUTRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGES THEM AS FRIENDS!!!!!!!! PLEASE I DIE OF WARMTH. I did NOT remember that, it is so… casually acknowledged!!! Like yes, yes, it is clear as DAY that, by the end, there is friendship among the trio, but it is casually verbalised by Simon like that and oh my goodness.

Lifting Spirits, Chapter 19

I will have to say that for the Lifting Spirits ending, I was way, way more invested in the themes of family and family dynamics instead of the shipping side of things. But SHIPPERS GOTTA SHIP and I respect that XD

Things spiraled out of control further and further.

Alexander… Luster Jr

Not with someone else, only Benny. …For now, anyway.

…AND HOW MANY NEW PEOPLE IS HE PLANNING ON MEETING WHEN ON HOUSE ARREST, EXACTLY?!

Lifting Spirits, Chapter 20

Really love the parallels vs differences between Benny and Lex illustrated so clearly in this chapter.

He didn’t want her to die. It seemed unfair of her to have to die while he got a second chance at living.

OH MY GOD? I Had TOTALLY FORGOTTEN THAT THIS GETS ADDRESSED/MENTIONED IN THE ENDING WHEN I’VE SPENT THE LAST FEW WEEKS/MONTHS ECHOING THIS EXACT SAME SENTIMENT!!!!

WILD that I had forgotten about this being brought up directly in the text considering how much I’ve been “”complaining”” about this EXACT “double standard”.

My memory must be SO bad I genuinely thought that Mirage didn’t even get any mention anywhere in the ending, and that after Lex’s meeting with her in the prison she promptly Disappears never to be mentioned again in Lifting Spirits, which felt INCREDIBLY unjust and to do her character a severe disservice. Once again I am a FOOL. A FOOL. That’s my entire Phantoms and Mirages reading experience let’s just be clear: me just, fumbling around blindly and making a fool of myself xDD

I actually think this being brought up directly in the text is the precise thing which planted this thought in my head in the first place too, and then I just, forgot that it was brought up in-story and started going around thinking it was my Own Original Sentiment, pffffff. THAT’S UH. A BIT OF A RUNNING THEME ABOUT THINGS FROM THE ENDING ACTUALLY. This is what I get for reading the ending Once and then needing to go off of memory alone for the next few months: suddenly it starts seeming like my ideas are Totally Original, Not Drawn From Direct Textual Hints/Discussion Or Anything. LOL.

Lifting Spirits, Chapter 21

“Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do!”

I have no clue if this was intentionally meant to echo one of the Phantom’s statements in Chasing Phantoms, but I found myself noticing it, at least on second readthrough, nonetheless!

“It would be best if you wipe that smirk off your face and hold your tongue, Bobby, as I’m quite certain your assumptions won’t sit well with me.”

Benny is right there? He’s right th

Hhhhhh I guess Benny is ok with the lack of openness then? dfhjbdfjfdkjb but Bobby’s RIGHT and Lex is a LIAR~

“I feel it is our duty as your friends to rub it in. Thirty eight years old, wasn’t it?”

“as your friends” once again, I’m ascending

Simon decided to tune out the remainder of the argument. Much as he believed Bobby had a point- the Jammin’ Ninja really was worthless against an opponent as grand as the Steel Samurai- he had no interest in partaking in the discussion.

SDKJNFDNJLFSDKJ

The former spy dropped himself back in his chair to return his attention to the watch he was constructing.

The

Former

Spy

: D (I misremembered the “former” part being way earlier in the narrative… and was kinda “huh!” whenever the narrative would still refer to him as “spy” long after the surgery on this readthrough… This is an example of my oversimplification of the distinctions the text makes between Lex and the phantom; in reality, there was still a transition involved, and things/characterisation wasn’t as clear-cut as I’d remembered it being in a “before vs after the surgery” sense. The subtle changes are… super great).

Okay, so for this ending (and the plot of Lifting Spirits), there was ONE thing that slightly nagged at me. Ultimately, I couldn’t be happier with how things turned out. But one thing that did strike me is that the Phantoms and Mirages narrative very clearly frames the phantom’s lack of emotions – their impairment as a result of the bone sliver – as a disability. Through the removal of the bone sliver, this disability is ultimately “cured”, and Lex is given the opportunity to become a “real” and good person.

In real life, in the vast majority of cases, there is no ready cure for disabilities, and a person’s disability cannot be readily separated meaningfully from who they are. It is something with them their whole life. It could be said that the disability itself is being kicked aside in this narrative instead of being accepted. (But, of course, given the context, it’s pretty understandable). There’s the slight potential for things to go awry if you warp some kind of message out of the narrative somehow such as “oh, it’s okay, if you’re disabled you can still have a happy ending… You just need to “cure” your disability first!” but that is obviously an extremely unfair and uncharitable reading.

I think it’s important to clarify that the Phantom’s lack of emotions – his disability in and of itself is not what made him a bad person (obviously), it was his actions. And I think that the narrative does make that pretty clear.

But the thing is,

It’s NOT actually the case that Lex gets suddenly magically “cured” of everything. That’s not the case at all! He must continue to struggle and to strive – he may not be emotionless anymore, but now he has to deal with the opposite, which is a sort of handicap all on its own. There are lasting repercussions from the bone sliver in the sense that now he must learn to deal with the intensity of what he is feeling. With that in mind, to frame it in terms of a “disability being kicked aside” is a pretty incorrect reading.

I said this in a previous post when I kind of touched on this kind of thing:

It’s just, the notion of a character actively striving to be good and overcoming themselves vs a sudden fix that gets externally applied

But another thing is… In my mind, I had exaggerated somewhat just how much of an effect this “sudden fix that gets externally applied” has as well. Lex must not only strive to overcome the extremity of the emotions he feels now, but there continues to be development throughout Lifting Spirits regarding how he interacts with the characters around him. It’s not like he gets the surgery and his characterisation/bonds with the others suddenly and abruptly jumps to where it was at the end and remains consistent through the whole fic; not at all. There CONTINUES to be development as he makes progress towards the point he’s at in the ending, even after the surgery.

Another thing about this ending is that it is so nice.

I think that Lifting Spirits, at its core, is a really beautiful story and concept. It really is. And part of why I had, perhaps, fought against or figured I wouldn’t find a good ending convincing is because I had convinced myself that it just wasn’t possible for the phantom as a character in general to ever achieve any kind of happy ending no matter what, EVEN IF I might like such a thing. I must make some clarification here, because other stories do offer a good kind of happy ending for them, but not in the same manner in which Lifting Spirits does, Lifting Spirits definitely feels like a different “kind” of good ending and a more “direct” good ending at that. I hope that makes some sense, because articulating the difference does seem kinda difficult.

Usually with favourite characters you want them to be happy, but with the phantom it had never been like that… I only ever wanted, or expected, angst or whatnot because… I simply did not think anything else was possible. And I was pretty content with that. But you… You…!

Anyway, there is another big aspect of the ending’s greatness that I want to talk about too. It’s kind of open-ended in the best possible way…

So many things happen that well and truly make it seem like the story is drawing to a close, and YET, simultaneously, there is very much this sense of new beginnings as well, and this ending works equally well regardless of whether there’s another instalment or not.

Something little like Simon getting his hair cut, or Bobby and Simon officially moving in with each other, are awesome things that feel very significant, that make you go “wow, we really are at the wholesome, satisfying, grand conclusion to it all huh? We’ve spent so much time with these characters, but now it’s finally time for them to go on their merry way, and continue to go on with their lives beyond the text written on the page.” They are CHANGES, changes to the “status quo”. You certainly get the impression that even if the story might be “over” for the reader, it certainly isn’t over for the characters – and that is the impression we would still get if there was absolutely nothing else written beyond Lifting Spirits – that their story would continue on regardless, and there would still be… adventure.

Because that’s another thing about the ending to Lifting Spirits. It closes off, and wraps everything up so very nicely. But at the same time, it remains poised, there is just this huge atmosphere of “stuff can still go DOWN” building. It’s the perfect ending where everything gets wrapped up but it is also the perfect set-up for anything to happen beyond the conclusion.

I sense this VERY STRONGLY in the segments where, for example, Benny considers how maybe he might need all the weapons and skills he has. Feels very “calm before the storm”.

Part of what’s so great about something like Simon getting a motorcycle is that the “the subway sucks” and “Simon trying to learn how to drive” subplot(s) have been present in the series from the very beginning. And finally, finally, after trying and failing at learning to drive regular cars, Simon has successfully escaped the subway at the very end.

We are given such hints on what could lie beyond, but also, from the way things are? There are a million different ways things COULD pan out in future, and the audience is only left to wonder.

We are given this strong hint that MAYBE… just maybe, this situation isn’t quite sustainable indefinitely. That perhaps, something’s gotta give at some point.

And that no matter what, the characters probably have some wild times ahead of them. Like that’s the thing: Even if Tracking Ghosts didn’t exist, I’d be left with the lasting impression that events of “Tracking Ghosts” length may still await the characters in the future.

But it’s all left so perfectly VAGUE. All left only in the realm of possibility.

I was satisfied to the extreme with the ending, I had to just take it and run at the time (of course I always planned on reading on), although back then to an extent I was outright BAFFLED at there still being this huge instalment to go. In the words of my friend, back then when I told her that Actually, there’s STILL even MORE to read:

Like, it truly felt like EVERYTHING had already been said and done. So how…?!

And since then, of course, I have not continued reading on as of yet, which has given me plenty of time to think.

And I have since realised that, as well and as thoroughly as Lifting Spirits DOES wrap everything up, there are still tiny, potentially loose threads. Tiny threads that could be unravelled until they could give way to all manner of things, scenarios, plots.

And that aside, there’s so much else that COULD happen as well. The Lifting Spirits ending is rife with potential. It is absolutely brimming with it.

And I also found myself realising that hey, there actually are things that haven’t been said and done yet. That there ARE little tiny things left nagging at me.

Tracking Ghosts contains a whole new threat, elaboration on Lex's emotional instability, road trips through Borginia, lots more 'Mirage' and Domestique LaSoote's backstory (oooh~). Also, the mother of all epilogues and a few more bonus chapters that take place afterwards.

Okay it is actually hilarious how little I remembered of all of this by the end. And that is to say: pretty much none of it. I straight-up forgot ALL of this being even mentioned in the Author’s Note at the end, and therefore have incorporated stuff like “road trips through Borginia” and “Mirage backstory” very VERY little in how I’ve thought about what to expect from Tracking Ghosts, at least in recent times, ahahahaha. Well I’ve got… quite a lot ahead of me, I’m sure.

I am certain that there’s so much more I could probably say about this series, I could continue to go on and on, but for now, there you have it, I think. I have not done this ending justice at all – it’s just so good it defies being done justice, and I don’t think I can fully articulate what I want to. But I’m content. Across so many posts, in thousands and thousands of words, I have already said quite a bit. XD

So now, all that’s left is to take that plunge and finally start to read Tracking Ghosts as I planned on doing once this series of posts was finished, huh? XD

I start my work week tomorrow, so it’s currently looking like… I will start reading it next weekend! It will have to be a weekend, sadly, as I can’t imagine starting and diving into something so huge when I have to try and focus on work/get sufficient sleep, lol.

OH I DON’T KNOW HOW TO END THIS POST-

Thank you, so much, for everything, and uh, apologies in advance for however much I might blow up your inbox/DMs/what have you when reading Tracking Ghosts. GENUINELY DON’T KNOW how much I will liveblog to you, if only a couple of things will slip through or if I’m just outright gonna go completely wild with it XD. IT WILL DEPEND ON THE STORY ITSELF AND HOW I’M FEELING I GUESS/my reactions.

These review posts have been… they’ve been really fun, I’ve enjoyed doing them a lot. They’ve been time consuming, but it was all 100% worth it and I’m very glad I set out to do them. I couldn’t not do them, really. I found myself realising that I just needed to tell you about the incredible journey/ride this series took me on one way or another – and, of course, I just have so many thoughts and so very many opinions about it. It lends itself so readily to analysis for me. But more than that, it feels like it SHOULD be analysed and subjected to analysis.

Talking with you is really great, and I hope to talk with you heaps more in future! Not just about your stories, just in general!

Thanks again, and I hope you have a great week! And then it will be TRACKING GHOSTS TIME.

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yieldingtides · 6 years ago

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Mentorship Notes Pt. 1

For those who don’t know, I’m currently in a mentorship class in school, where me and my peers work with a professional on the field for few weeks. And I got a chance to meet Chris Moeller for my first assignment. He made illustrations for magic the gathering, DC comics, and his own IP; through his own comics and tabletop games. Overall, he’s a neat dude (pretty much a bro to my professor. My experience was more relaxed than I expected). I’m gonna miss him...His last day in GR was yesterday with a short Q&A and a painting demo for a future art show I’m going to be part of next month. He gave advice about comic making, his painting methods, and composition in general so here’s the gist what I picked up or should be basic knowledge when completing artwork:

Composition, painting tips and art advice (can be applied for digital media too)

Please do preliminary and value studies before starting your final! After figuring the value (and/or the color choices) of the subject, it will be easier to make it into fruition than doing things off the wall. Decisions you made should be generally locked in before starting on canvas or paper, either traditional or digital means. And the medium you choose is also a factor. For watercolor, you have to plan many things ahead before starting while acrylic is more forgiving; you can correct mistakes later.

Try to sketch interesting things from life when you have the chance. The more you do it, the faster you get to translate bodies, interesting designs, or landscapes with simple strokes. He has two separate sketchbooks: One that is purposely for making life studies and another for made up imagery from his head.

Yellow and purple are considered neutral colors in temperature (compare to green/blue being cold and red/orange as warm). This goes back to color theory a bit. Consider the relationship to other colors on canvas and other elements to make spaces believable (ex. making a yellow scarf in shadow isn’t exactly a darker “yellow”. Environment dictates if it’s going to be warmer or cooler).

Not a lot of artists will voice on how they reached the final image and Chris believes it’s the hardest part in completing an artwork. He’s the type to fill up a canvas first with general shapes and defines it later with a smaller brush. But other artists will render a part fully first, then work on the next part till completion. All are just decisions made in the moment.

Work what works with you. Find artists that have a similar style to yours, and study techniques from said inspirations. See if it’s easy to attempt naturally and if it’s outside your current skill set or not really the type of techniques that will benefit from your natural preference, find something else.

Comic related stuff:

I asked this when talking about mainstream comics but in the 90′s you have to pre-plan your comic stories (pages, covers, etc) and present them to a publisher to start it or get rejected. Now, it’s easier (or harder) to get that kind of work shown on the internet. Connect with other artists by joining groups or have similar interest groups, and you can build from there. The goal is getting your work published (either by yourself or from someone) and put it in your portfolio to find more jobs.

He’s also the person that likes to be in the zone of things. He loves all stages of comic making since it allows his writing to be visualized. (from thumbnail, refining the final layout and painting his panels). There’s not a lot of comic painters out there (at least painters that use traditional mediums) but I think it gives a certain charm for his overall work than inking and coloring panels instead. That being said...

Traditional artists sometimes are able to sell original illustrations or pages made for the publication, therefore it’s kinda like a secondary income? That doesn’t happen with digital painters other than making prints but seriously having the original artwork being physical is worth it in the long run, I think.

More artists are trying to get their own IPs out there than working under a certain name (like DC or Marvel for example). Making your own ideas and being passionate about what you like to do will make your work better. If you want to see a story you like to read? Make it. A game you want to make but hasn’t attempted by your favorite creators? Make it. Generally, make the content you want to do despite the odds. “If you’re trying chase the trends happening at the time, it’s going to make you fail. And I hate failing. Work on the things you love and people will find you.”

I hope this stuff insights for anyone who is interested~ If you like to follow him on social media, he has an Instagram.

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roselovesanimation · 8 years ago

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Summary of Week - 19/3/17 - 24/3/17

Sunday: I worked the scenes I listed that I would be working on (Scene 1, Scene 4 (4 parts) and Scene 5). I decided to change background of Scene 4 as I didn’t like the pin board, it stood out too much and I wanted to add texture so I did that separate as I have moved things in After Effects and I didn’t know if they would move back if i changed the original photoshop file so that took a while to sort out. I also changed Scene 1 so Terry walks off shot but its a close up so I just mimic the action of her walking. I also animated Scene 4 Shot 9, which is Terry taking a book off a shelf and I’m happy with how that turned out. I just need to make her hula hoop (somehow???) and I’ll have done a lot more this week than I thought I would do and I’m really proud of that fact.

Monday: I came into Uni to do some animation. Nathan helped me fix 2 of my rigs slider controls as I didn’t have the compositions as frames!!! an easy fix yay!! and then Dec spent an hour of his time to help me animate a hula hoop as I wasn’t sure where to start. I made a new hula hoop with the shape tool as my drawing was bit derpy and then did it in stages in the composition with Terry rather than separate which made sense as I could match the timing up. To mask the shape of the hula hoop, it didn’t want to work so I googled it and found out I had to make it into a composition (https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/1041081) and then it was pretty simple. I also used this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VReRmmscZEE) as reference of how a person moves with a hula hoop.

Tuesday: I did more of my essay at home which was mainly typing up notes that stood out from the lectures we have had over the past few weeks.

Wednesday: In the morning I had a chat with Sarah about the trips I’m going on for Uni as I need to do two different presentations (she’s gonna do one and help me with my own one), so that’s something I need to start working on, so I did a quick powerpoint of some of my work so far which I will build upon. After this I had a quick Walk Cycle tutorial from Andrew, he helped me animate Mrs Drew walking in a cycle and it’s been so long since I did a walk cycle so I got a bit confused about parts of it but it worked in the end, I’ll post a video of the test in a separate post, it works but I’m not fully sure if I’ll have it in my animation or not but I appreciate Andrew taking the time to help me out. After this I worked on the main animation scenes compositions more, as I decided to blur a few of the backgrounds with the Gaussian Blur effect on an adjustment layer so that it adds a bit more depth of field to the scenes and I like how it looks tbh. I also added a slant effect to the trees in my animation and the bunting in the classroom in Scene 6. I also worked on Terry’s character animation in Shot 6 as well as doing Scene 9A and making Terry’s Dad blink (as I forgot to set it up in his composition when I did the blinking of the other characters). So it was another productive animation day. I haven’t sent off any of my animation to Daniel to code yet as I want to make sure all the shots I’ve done so far are perfect so I’ll sort that out soon. I have done 7 scenes so far (mostly complete) so I’m kinda halfway there omg????

Thursday: I worked on my Essay again, rewrote a bunch of things as they needed to be reworded to sound more academic and I will hopefully finish this at the weekend so I have time to make changes/cut it down more next week.

Friday: The Lecture in the morning was really good as all 3 guests had interesting things to talk about. In the afternoon I worked on a stop pose for Mrs Drew’s walk after the looped animation and also animated her moving across in Scene 4 and it works nicely so I decided to work on a Terry Walk Cycle using the same key poses as I feel like having a walk cycle in my animation would look nice and work well.. And then I had feedback with Sarah and animator/illustrator/writer Candy Guard who did one of the lectures this morning which was a nice time and I got to see work from fellow students Irene and Alex. After that I came back to the main room and worked on finishing Terry’s walk cycle with a stop pose and then created a loop animation for her and for Mrs Drew to be a waiting pose at the end of that scene when the audience interactivity starts. After all this, I realised Scene 4 was a lot more complex than I originally thought because of the amount of different animations and making sure they both work but I’m happy I spent this time working on it as it is worthwhile to put the effort in to achieve what you originally set out to do. I wrote a new to do list as so many things are going on omg, I also emailed Daniel at Lancaster Uni to ask him if he’s watched my Animatic and to let me know how he feels about making it interactive as he’s the only way that’s going to happen. I haven’t rendered any animation out properly yet, just tests, so hopefully I will render Scenes 1, 2, 3, 4 (all 4 parts), 5 (intro), 6 (2 parts) and 9A (11 scenes so far) soon into a whole new folder with separate sections for Interactive and Not so it’s easier to distinguish between what needs to be coded and not for Daniel.

I also need to start/finish making sound tracks for the background sound in each scene which I will work on once I’ve rendered parts of the animation that I need to do as I should have rendered things at the beginning of the week but I haven’t checked/finished most of it properly yet but I have animated what I wanted to animate this week so

Plan for the weekend: Finish essay and do more animation/finish off animations eg; S1: 3 background characters, S6: 2 background characters and EDIT S4 Hula Hoop animation.

Next Week: have things rendered (11 scenes) and work on S5: book, S8, maybe start S7 and S10 (intro) and I’ll be on schedule/kinda ahead.

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