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Time for another update. This time, question and answers style!
Why do you not update very often?
To simply put it: Life happens and priorities. People I care about come first, and those who need support.
What happened to you over the past few years?
I had graduated Spring 2013 and took another year for repeat, finishing off finally in Spring 2014 making it four years in total of animation school (mind you my last year wasn't animation related since I specialized in Lighting and Compositing) So therefore school had to be finished, plus working part time job.
And now, ironically enough, since getting a full time job last fall 2014, it's even more challenging than before. Last summer was a nightmare and a half with personal things that I would rather not get into.
But with this job I have now, we are working 5 days a week, 6 days if overtime, anywhere between 8 to 12 hours a day. Right now we are on 9 hours a day 5 days a week, and if you add on travel time, there's almost 3 hours as well taken up per day.
So really time management and prioritizing things was a key for surviving, and trying to do my own stuff on weekends (plus I was still working part time for the first two months of my new job on weekends).
It's slowly getting there, and I learned patience and gratitude for things that are under appreciated these days.
But to be fair, I get alot of headaches and grow fatigue (not as much as when I started) and adjusting to this schedule was not easy. Not eating right, sleep schedule weird, etc. But somehow I am managing much better even with commuting. (I do need to figure out a good diet though)
I try not be stressed out, but if I am, I don't like showing it. I do some yoga and excersise to help, and for some reason chocolate always makes me feel better.
Are you on any social media/blogs?
Twitter: No.
LinkedIn: I have an account but don't use it and didn't need it. Very over rated website. So don't bother looking for me.
Facebook: Only for family and friends, and to post random pictures of birds, chipmunks and snow.
Tumblr: I used to have a blogging/random crap account, but I haven't touched it in over a year and I frankly don't have time for it. I did also have at least two drawing/art blogs I used to post on during school, but those days are done and I'll probably never touch it again.
That's it.
Are you still doing fanart?
Yes, but it's slow. I'm actually going to do a complete overhaul of ALL my characters for ALL series like I mentioned in my last journal. And now I have a week vacation I'll be sitting down and organizing things. I'll put up another entry with changes, things coming up, planned stuff by the end of this week.
I'm also cleaning up my gallery and putting a lot in scraps. I figured, I may as well start fresh again. I might actually do some "draw this again" things and see how much I've improved over the course of a couple years.
How often do you draw?
Depends on my mood, and my schedule. I try to draw at work during breaks as much as I can, but it's not any of my own stories or fanart related, it's mostly just animals or people drawing for practice purposes. I'll doodle on the train to and from work sometimes. But mostly the weekends now are my art days, and I want to focus on my cartoons as well. I used to be able to draw once a day, and I'm trying to do that again even with a busy schedule.
Like I said, juggling things is fun.
Are you going to do those Cartoon Series of your OCs again?
I might. Last year and this year it was put on hold. But thanks to drawing my regular cartoons (on my wordpress) my style has improved, and I'm much more confident with it. I might start it again in 2016 and do it monthly base.
Where do you work and live?
Sorry but I'm not answering that.
I can say that I am a 3D Stereo Compositor, working on feature films in the 3D process stage of post production.
What films have you worked on??
Er, well, I can't say them until they are released, sorry, due to privacy and contract reasons. But I'll mention them in the future!
I did get to work on Insurgent, and got a little bit for one of the Ant Man trailers.
There we go, life in a nutshell.
I don't speak often and kind of private myself, but it's only fair considering how patient you guys are, to update this. I don't even update my Facebook. I only tell people things if they ask, and even then it's subtle answers.
I understand that some of you are busy and going through things as well, as it is tough times out there. I hope everything turns out well for the best for all my friends, family, and my watchers.
Stay tuned for some stuff.
Cheers!
Why do you not update very often?
To simply put it: Life happens and priorities. People I care about come first, and those who need support.
What happened to you over the past few years?
I had graduated Spring 2013 and took another year for repeat, finishing off finally in Spring 2014 making it four years in total of animation school (mind you my last year wasn't animation related since I specialized in Lighting and Compositing) So therefore school had to be finished, plus working part time job.
And now, ironically enough, since getting a full time job last fall 2014, it's even more challenging than before. Last summer was a nightmare and a half with personal things that I would rather not get into.
But with this job I have now, we are working 5 days a week, 6 days if overtime, anywhere between 8 to 12 hours a day. Right now we are on 9 hours a day 5 days a week, and if you add on travel time, there's almost 3 hours as well taken up per day.
So really time management and prioritizing things was a key for surviving, and trying to do my own stuff on weekends (plus I was still working part time for the first two months of my new job on weekends).
It's slowly getting there, and I learned patience and gratitude for things that are under appreciated these days.
But to be fair, I get alot of headaches and grow fatigue (not as much as when I started) and adjusting to this schedule was not easy. Not eating right, sleep schedule weird, etc. But somehow I am managing much better even with commuting. (I do need to figure out a good diet though)
I try not be stressed out, but if I am, I don't like showing it. I do some yoga and excersise to help, and for some reason chocolate always makes me feel better.
Are you on any social media/blogs?
Twitter: No.
LinkedIn: I have an account but don't use it and didn't need it. Very over rated website. So don't bother looking for me.
Facebook: Only for family and friends, and to post random pictures of birds, chipmunks and snow.
Tumblr: I used to have a blogging/random crap account, but I haven't touched it in over a year and I frankly don't have time for it. I did also have at least two drawing/art blogs I used to post on during school, but those days are done and I'll probably never touch it again.
Wordpress: I have a cartoon blog! Check it out! (you can subscribe by email and don't have to sign up to see stuff)
That's it.
Are you still doing fanart?
Yes, but it's slow. I'm actually going to do a complete overhaul of ALL my characters for ALL series like I mentioned in my last journal. And now I have a week vacation I'll be sitting down and organizing things. I'll put up another entry with changes, things coming up, planned stuff by the end of this week.
I'm also cleaning up my gallery and putting a lot in scraps. I figured, I may as well start fresh again. I might actually do some "draw this again" things and see how much I've improved over the course of a couple years.
How often do you draw?
Depends on my mood, and my schedule. I try to draw at work during breaks as much as I can, but it's not any of my own stories or fanart related, it's mostly just animals or people drawing for practice purposes. I'll doodle on the train to and from work sometimes. But mostly the weekends now are my art days, and I want to focus on my cartoons as well. I used to be able to draw once a day, and I'm trying to do that again even with a busy schedule.
Like I said, juggling things is fun.
Are you going to do those Cartoon Series of your OCs again?
I might. Last year and this year it was put on hold. But thanks to drawing my regular cartoons (on my wordpress) my style has improved, and I'm much more confident with it. I might start it again in 2016 and do it monthly base.
Where do you work and live?
Sorry but I'm not answering that.
I can say that I am a 3D Stereo Compositor, working on feature films in the 3D process stage of post production.
What films have you worked on??
Er, well, I can't say them until they are released, sorry, due to privacy and contract reasons. But I'll mention them in the future!
I did get to work on Insurgent, and got a little bit for one of the Ant Man trailers.
There we go, life in a nutshell.
I don't speak often and kind of private myself, but it's only fair considering how patient you guys are, to update this. I don't even update my Facebook. I only tell people things if they ask, and even then it's subtle answers.
I understand that some of you are busy and going through things as well, as it is tough times out there. I hope everything turns out well for the best for all my friends, family, and my watchers.
Stay tuned for some stuff.
I'll get to replying to comments soon once I update with my art to come/changes list.
Cheers!
Okay I seriously suck at social media and DA!!
Honestly, WHAT is wrong with me and keeping up with the internet?!
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OKaaaayyyy so I meant to update this journal a billion years ago (actually in the summer but ya know) about my status on this site and fanart news but I ended up getting a new job and that's basically been my life for the past two months. Then before that, I went to India in July for a friend's wedding. And then in the Spring I was focusing on my home made card business (that has been on hold due to summer/fall things and will be back up by the winter season) . SO YEAH. OOPSLOLLIFE.
SO. I had a little 'thing' where I promised myself to upload somethin
End of 2018 + sharing a raffle
Hey all! How's 2018 treating you!
So I suck at updating and uploading on here. I'm sorry, I'm terrible with social media and as I mentioned in a previous journal, life got seriously in the way this year and was just generally rotten until a couple months ago when things picked up again. I'm in the middle of some freelancing and personal projects so I haven't gotten around to much fanart as I wanted to. I honestly had a list and everything for the summer to complete by now but... lost time. So yeah. Hopefully 2019 will be better for me for my online presence, I'll need it to advertise me and partner's productions we're working on on the side.
Update Journal
Since I haven't done a character/ fandom update in a while I figured this would be a good time to quickly write something up.
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Digimon.
Just to jog memory regarding my Digimon stuff:
http://fav.me/d9wy7fj
So last time was in 2016 apparantly, yikes.
Since then there has been some progress on our fanfic, and as well more stuff submitted (not a whole lot from me due to being so drained and working so much before) that is art related. Actual writing entries are still to come and edited fanfiction version of it but hopefully one-shots, art work, bios, outlines will do fine for everyone's curiousity. You can see them grouped all here (e
What a ride 2018..thanks..
2018 is coming out to be ... an interesting year, with lots of endless roller coaster rides and twists and turns.. to say the least.
I won't get into it, because it's frankly noone's business, but I no longer work where I used to and have more "time" - but most of it so far has been spent on personal projects for myself or between me and my partner (we co create things together, how cute..) projects we've been cooking up. Soon I'll have a new website up, as well as another devoted for our personal stuff.
As for the animation and film industry that I was once apart of... I have a spite towards it still, but, eventually will need the money, s
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Glad to hear things are going reasonably well (if chaotic while settling into job/s XD) 
Can relate to not having much time for other stuff outside of work (my full time job is homeschooling and I'm glad I don't have to commute for my part time one), hope you're able to find some not-so-tired time once yo're more settled, and yeh sort that diet out when you can, that's important (and tends to fall by wayside a lot because it's one of the easiest things to scrap unfortunately). Have fun 
Can relate to not having much time for other stuff outside of work (my full time job is homeschooling and I'm glad I don't have to commute for my part time one), hope you're able to find some not-so-tired time once yo're more settled, and yeh sort that diet out when you can, that's important (and tends to fall by wayside a lot because it's one of the easiest things to scrap unfortunately). Have fun