Camp

This sucks. My parents have sent me off to camp because they think I have some problems that are yet to be resolved. All current projects are on hold because of this camp stay, due to unparalleled lack of free time. If you wish to contact me, leave me a comment on the blog so that I may check it whenever I gain access to a computer terminal (Mondays - 30 minutes free during computer lab time, or math, usually arbitrarily low amounts of computer time.) Alternatively, you may mail me a letter directed to “Saimon Ma” at Eckerd Academy at Brooksville, FL. For some dumb reason, I can’t get the address of this place right now, so google that, or follow the link: http://www.eckerdacademy.org/Brooksville/index.html and work from there. I apologize in advance.

I might have to stay for a duration longer than four months if extremely unfortunate, or 1-2 months if I’m extremely lucky. The rest is gray- But I WILL resume my projects, especially as character artist / concept artist / programmer / co-director of Twilight. To Kristen, Atlantiza, Serithnal, Reiku, Ito_Makoto, and Divinewind, please wait for me.

“There is nothing more powerful than a heart on fire!” - from someone I don’t remember. If you find out who it is, please tell me.

Where I’ve been


Picture of me sleeping at computer desk

Overworking and sleeping. Here’s a photo. Be back in a few.

American History Project

Me and some classmates made a video for American History. This is how the finished version looks like. There’s a bunch of boring parts and some interesting ones as well, but it was my first endeavor into Premiere and After Effects.


Online Videos by Veoh.com

Here’s another video I worked on - only editing and special effects though.


Online Videos by Veoh.com

On the fragile state of hard drives.

After an entire day of fiddling around, trying to get XP / Vista dual-boot to work, I’ve managed to make another hard drive unbootable. Upon reformat, however, the data on my main and backup project drives were rendered unaccessible as well… I’ve tried many things, even data recovery software, but i couldn’t get the files back. This means I’m going to have to start almost every digital file on Twilight from scratch, but I don’t mind. The techniques I learned on the first go aren’t going away ;) Anyways, I have no intention of dropping this project, and will proceed heavy work sometimes around the clock once summer starts and school ends, again. I leveled up, too.

Here’s a new design for Michiru, utilizing some of the extra skill and technical refinements I’ve gained over the practice obtained these two months.

michiru_concepts_small

Today’s Portfolio Review: Repercussions

Today, a teacher and an administrator from an art school came to visit my art class (Well, art program from a university, but then the details are foggy to me, and I prefer to abbreviate it as ‘art school’). After being picked up by one of my classmates, they entered the class and began their presentation while partially informing the class of the positives about going to their particular institution after graduation. I was looking up anatomical references at the time.

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4koma for school

4koma

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The flow of events: I signed up for the school newspaper next year. They asked me to do a comic strip (well, two, but I’m still working on the second one) for them. I agreed to do these strips, and did one yesterday. I finished, and decided to post it here, since the girl’s design is loosely based off of Nagisa. (Since I am too lazy to come up with new character designs for something small like this.)

Twilight ~The Dawn of Memories~ Update 01: New Name, Script Updates, and Screenshots!

Alpha Build Demo

There is no official place to post these damned Twilight ~The Dawn of Memories~ (Formerly named Chisan no Yume Project) updates yet. I’ve already posted on the Lemmasoft Forums Thread , since I hoped this screenshot would help build anticipation for this tremendous project, but it might be necessary for me to purchase a domain in the future - or somewhere along those lines. Meanwhile, major updates will be transferred by us to Sho to announce on Moetaku.

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Aznunit.com Up Again, Recovering From Server Migration

Due to server migration, Aznunit was temporarily down - It’s fixed now, but the blog is still being worked on. Expect me to get it back up soon.