Blather, rinse, repeat

My first animation, go me!

Actually, I did these a few weeks ago. They are very silly.

This one has sound and a cheesy retarded ending.


This one is without sound and actually is a bit better.

They're only about 19 frames, about 3 seconds each animation. No big, huge achievement or anything, just noodling around. Took me about five hours, yo. I'm slow at these things. What really sucks is that I was so into doing it, it wasn't until after the whole thing that I looked at the original sketch ( (here behind the cut): )
...and realized that his arm is on wrong. It doesn't even look attached, rather it looks like it belongs to someone crouching below him, out of the picture.

"Hey, watch the wind blow this feather off my finger!"
"Uhh, who are you and what are you doing down there?"

Which may explain the smile. Hee.

Or not.


In other news, I saw The Island today. I quite liked it, and not just because Ewan McGregor was in it. I mean, there were things he was in that I didn't like (*coughcough*AttackOfTheClones*Cough!*) But it was mostly exciting and interesting and lots of fun. I could, as usual, do with less drawn-out, pointless chase scenes. Man, I almsot feel insulted when movies have a long, pointless chase scene. To me, they're never exciting. And one of the ones in here was implausible to the point where I was sitting there going, "Oh, yeah right, whatever." But all in all, the movie was quite engaging. Kind of a mix between The Matrix and Final Fantasy VII. (In fact, one scene in there was disturbingly like a scene I wrote in my hugeass FFVII fic, the clone room scene in this chapter actually, complete with the cloning facility being in an underground silo, and the clones having accellerated growth and all of that. Not that my idea was original or anything. because I totally ripped it from a mental image I had from the book Coma.)

So, yes, I enjoyed the movie and I would see it again. Ewan McGregor does this eyebrow quirk that I love. He's such a joy to watch. And it's always good to see Steve Buscemi. Word to the native Long Islanders. ^_^

Well, back to feeding birds.

It's that time again, folks. Time for me to post crap sketches, and even crappier colored versions.

( Crap sketch )

Hand's way too small and I totally messed up, and can't seem to fix, that far eye. So, after about an hour of dicking with it and still not getting it right, I gave up.

Next I did the ( crappy colored version: )

As you can see, I can't be bothered to color inside the lines, either. Oh, and as far as drawing glass goes, that seems to be out of the question, too. (I mean, wtf? How the hell do you draw something you can see through? Damn, man.)

Anyway, this is a scene right out of the book, (the second one, in fact,) which is rare for me, as I usually draw things totally random. Unfortunately, it's one of my least favorite scenes I've ever written because it's so damned boring. But the sunroom (or the Glass House as it's called in the novel) figures big in book two. At least, I suspect that it will. I just wrote it in on a whim when I started because, well, I have a sunroom and I wanted to write about one. But now I think something big's going to go on in there, or at least around there.

As far as the second book goes, so far I don't like it save for one scene, and I'm already into the third chapter. That's pretty sad. I like it less than I liked the first book when I started that one. I've fixed up the first book a bit, tweaked it here and there, and gotten more comfortable with it, but I suspect that there's still much tweaking to come. I'm eager to start writing query letters, but I don't want to do a Stephen King or George Lucas and miss some vital thing that I'll be tempted to change later after people have already read the first version (provided, that is, that anyone reads it ever. Mind you, this is the book that even my Mom found too dull to get into in its first incarnation. I hope that it will be better by the time I'm done tweaking.)

I still don't know what the hell to call the series. I only know what I don't want to call it, and that's pretty much anything with the following phrases: "Legend Of," "War Of," "Sword Of," "Battles Of," or any of the following words: Time, blood, roses, love, hate, shattered, destiny, fate, or anything like that. Also I refuse to give the any of the titles the pattern of "___ of the ___" because then you just know it's going to be cheesy.

I don't yet have a title for the first book, either, but I'm sorry to say that the only thing I can think to name the second book is "The Weeping Woman." It could have been worse. It could have been "The Legend of the Weeping Woman", god help me. Oh, jeez. I really need to think of a new title. The Weeping Woman is pretty bad.

Oh, and the lead character, Leander, has gone from being a wandering hero to being a teacher of natural science who likes to travel during his vacations. Woot.