Anyone having display problems with DeviantArt? Images won't load, whole pages will appear as just texts and take an awfully long time to connect. I've got fast internet connection, no problems with any of the other sites I visit. It's been about two weeks now and it's getting on my nerves.

Oh, and I just saw this cute little animated film. It will be on for a limited time on the web so watch it while you can.

http://almashortfilm.com/

I've changed his name from Oskar to "Mr. Peepers", because Peepers is cuter and he likes to sing "Peeper Peeper Peeper PEEP" back to me on occasion.

He's also become a bit bolder.....


Mr. Peepers checks out the biznez


Mr. Peepers heads Top-side!


What is up here!?


I see something delicious!


OMNOMNOM Eyebrow preening!!!

(PS pay no attention to the box of boxes behind me...it's recycling day!)

As you can see, the birdie is progressing slowly...he now obliges to climb onto my shoulder and fly to me, but he will NOT under any circumstances "step up" on to a finger...fingers are for nipping unless they have millet in them apparently...

I'm not quite sure how to train him to step up now, since I think my previous attempts have lead to his current finger rage....Any tips out there for finger taming an aggressive lil jerk? ;)

Also I was recently informed by a local bird-er that parrotlets are the pit bulls of the parrot world and are naturally very possessive and aggressive. OH JOY! Why no one mentioned this to us before I do not know...but I see how it can be true, because Peepers has apparently decided that he hates my dog Georgia and dive bombs her every chance he gets. He's got a serious pair of green balls on him. I just hope it does not end tragically...:(

In other news...the Christmas spirit is creeping in!! I crave Christmas cookies and trees and carols! I wish I had time to put up our tree...but with my freelance and shopping and visitors, and the fact that we'll be leaving in less then a week makes it seem a bit moot. I have settled for tuning my cable to the "sounds of the seasons" channel and eating a candy cane. But all of this holiday joy is not conducive to working..LOL..

HO HO HO EVERYBODY!

Talk about being MIA for a while!
For those of you who guessed "she must be busy", you win...er...something.
I want to apologise for anyone I haven't answered to, be it in comments or emails. I'm trying to catch up but I just feel exhausted these days.

Not that much happened when I think about it. I've been shuffled left and right on different projects, wherever help was needed. I wonder if I'll get credited for that. I guess it depends if my scenes actually survives until the end of the films.

Also being in a big drawing slump didn't help. Apart from day work, nothing else was being done. Creative juice and energy at an all time low. Thankfully, it's finally, slowly dissipating.
I have to thank the UrasawaXTezuka Pluto manga for that. After reading the first 5 volumes, I felt that storytelling need jolt awake.
Expect the finished Water Tribe notes in the near future. Just finishing it all up so I can finally move on.
Sorry Zhao, we'll have to say farewell very soon.
But first...



( More fun with toys! )

In case I disappear again for a long while, I want to wish you all the best of Holidays and New Year. Best wishes to everyone: health, stability, love, friendship and cheese.

Man, every december, I gotta give this another watch

I can't believe this is like 5 years old!!! Best thing I ever got

http://potterpuppetpals.com/pppstore/fun/emmyxmas.htm

New Alice in Wonderland trailer!!

Ah-HA! I knew it! I KNEW it was about Alice returning to Wonderland! So many people have been complaining that Alice is too old, that it looks too different from the original story. They never mentioned it specifically until now, but I had a feeling that it was meant to be sort of a sequel, a continuation of the story.

The whole 'Red Queen has taken over Wonderland' and dark and brooding scenery seems very much a mix of American McGee's Alice and The Looking Glass Wars (which makes me think about how Frank Beddor is gonna take this movie...Oooh, there goes any chance of his book making it to the cinemas any time soon).

I also gotta say I'm starting to really like Johnny Depp's Hatter, and I'm hoping there IS a romance between him and Alice. You know me, I would probably ship them either way. XD And I noticed Hatter's bowtie IS like a moodring. At 0:22 see how it brightens up when he sees Alice. I also like the first glance of the March Hare, just his one line had me giggling. Hell there's a lotta gags in the trailer that had me laughing. Especially the pig. And I really love the image of Alice in her armor. Oh and Hatter vs the Knave of Hearts? Yaaaah I can already tell fangirls are gonna go crazy over Hatter. Even I have to admit he looks pretty dashing. And OMG was that the Jabberwock at the end?

I just kinda wished they focused a bit more on Alice herself, considering that, you know, she's the CENTRAL CHARACTER! Give her a bit more dialogue or something! I know they're using Johnny to sell this movie but give Mia a chance, man.

Freaking excited for this movie now. o_o

WOW

So, last night I had a weeeird dream that a pipe had burst and was flooding our apartment and we had to put all of our stuff in storage while they fixed it. Then this morning, Matthew and I got up early to go to a doctors appointment, and we stepped out of out front door...into a HUGE puddle of water! There was a literal WATERFALL coming out of the ceiling in the hallway and running down the wall our living room shares with the hall. It was INSANE...apparently there was a BURST PIPE in the floor above us. It's just sheer luck that it didn't run into our apartment, we rescheduled our appointments so we could stay home and check everything over.

Obviously this means I am psychic.

I also dreamt I went to a Waffle House, so I'm looking forward to that coming true too...

In other news, Randy Owens watches me work....

( OLD PEOPLE )

Song:
http://www.myspace.com/daisydaresyoumusic
"Number One Enemy"

Introducing Volume Three of my Doodles sketchbook series!



Thirty-four pages, 8.5" x 11", full color, just in time for the holidays! And for those interested, here's here's my storefront, with volumes one and two still available for purchase.

Huzzah!

Has anyone on here completed Little Rocket Man achievment on HL2? How do you get through the last of a car chase?? FUCKING GNOME WON'T STAY IN THE CAR AND THE FUCKING COPTER SHOOTS IT AWAY FROM YOU SLDKFJSLKFJKLSDFJKL

( 2pic )

oh also!! Princess and the Frog is pretty old school Disney style and I liked it a lot so you should see it too.

So...I saw Frog... and I'm still making my mind up about it,,, HOWEVER....

( Heres to the new generation of Disney Princesses! )

( Some doodles )


I love this song so much! aaahhh I can't wait for this album. Thanks b0bbarker

( Princess And The Frog Spoilers! How did you like it? )

What did you think of the movie!

Is it possible to love an appliance? Because I think I do....


My parents got us a portable dishwasher for Christmas this year, and we ran it for the first time last night. OH MY GOD HOW DID I EVER LIVE WITHOUT IT?! It is AMAZING! I don't think our dishes have ever been cleaner...I want to wash everything I own now... And it was only $100 off of craigslist (best site EVER!) You know your old when a dishwasher and a roomba (which my parents got us last year) are some of the most precious things you own.. ;)

In other news I'm slowly getting excited about Christmas...mainly for the loooong vacation! I've also been dreaming of Christmas cookies...I've been entertaining thoughts of making some to bring to my parent's house for Christmas (in lieu of gifts since my family has agreed to have a low-key Xmas this year). Of course this all assumes that I will find some free time with my freelance...but I thought I'd ask you guys!


What are your FAVORITE Holiday cookies, (or cookies in general)...I have been craving the old fashioned sugar cookies that we used to make when I was little, cutting them with my grandma's cookie cutters and decorating them with colored chocolate chips and colored sugar...OMG NOM NOM NOM

yay xD

I believe this is the opening for Demo Solly update, no?

Thanks for the zbrush help, guys!! I still don't know what I'm doing, but less so



Look at my dragon!! ;__; He is so cool. He looks like a solid... thing.
This makes me so hyped. I want to sculpt life size dragons and life sized crazy stuff AND MAKE MOVIE SPECIAL EFFECTS STUFF LIKE MASKS AND BODY PUPPETS
That stuff requires tons of patience though, right? Like, ACTUAL sculpting and crafting. I bet I wouldn't be able to get half as good results with real clay. Siiigh!


song I love lately
What the what what imeem merged into myspace and myspace didn't even take any of imeems features, which is basically like myspace deleting imeem.
I'm so mad!

also have another song I love
http://emmy.eviltrailmix.com/fyfedangerfield_walkintheroom.mp3

I am so frustrated with zbrush

It feels like it could be an AMAZING program if I could just figure it OUT.
I really like how the tools feel, but the technical aspect is so frustrating. I want it to work like clay, but the program works like a program. How do you even save?? I tried to save something, but it duplicated it on the screen and I don't even know what it did or why it did that! It said it saved, so I exited and came back but the thing did not save at all! So I lost my project

Also, when I sculpt a sphere thingy, you can't push it out too far otherwise the mesh gets all choppy, so I go to add another sphere thing on top of it, like glopping on more clay, right? No! It doesn't let me edit this new sphere at all. I can't even rotate anything or anything



I have NO idea what I am doing! See how it gets pixelly the farther a shape is pushed? why :(


What is the best way to learn about zbrush? Most tutorials I find will tell you to do things (hit this, press that, push this) but won't even tell you *why* you're doing things, like what you're doing as you're doing it. So frustrating!

I just want a tutorial that is like "Now we are going to do this, and I will tell you why so you understand!"

I should just... get some clay :(

Last night I went to see Princess and the Frog at the Disney Studios. And OMG I loved it. I laughed, I cried, I ship Tiana and Naveen like crazy. They are now the hottest Disney couple. And Dr. Facilier is hot, I think it has something to do with his Keith David voice, mmmmm. I love that man's evil laugh. And I LOVE Charlotte, I'm so glad they actually gave her some character as opposed to just being a spoiled rich kid (and the animation on her was LOL).

I kinda wish though the event had taken place at the El Capitan (which is now being taken over by Disney's Christmas Carol). The Studios was a nice place but it didn't have that grand overall look and feeling of the El Cap, like at the Enchanted event (best damn event ever). The best part was Brian bought me The Art of the Princess and the Frog book, EEEEEE! I must learn how to draw these characters, especially Charlotte.

Oh and I woke up this morning and it was pouring rain, YAY! First time in ages! I must go find a Princess and the Frog icon now. Either Tiana or Facilier. <3

I had my first ever cavity filled this morning and now half my face is numb! It's so WEIRD!! I would SWEAR that half my tongue and the lower half of my face was swollen (even though it's not)..I keep poking at it to make sure it's there...so odd! I wish it would wear off because I'm getting hungry, but I can't eat until I know where my tongue is again least I chew it with my sammich...



I'm so sad I ruined my thirty year streak of never having a cavity..shame on me! It wasn't as terrible as I thought it was going to be but I'd rather not go through that again....

In other news, Matthew and I got new phones yesterday (our Christmas presents to each other LOL!). The plan was originally to get iphones, but ALAS they are expensive! I can't ever see a point in my life where paying $200/mo for a phone would be OK. Esp. for service that is less then stellar by many accounts! O.o so we stuck with Verizon and got Droids!! OMG THEY ARE SO COOL! Plus they were having a buy one/get one, so I got my lil wee Eris for FREE!



I am so in love it's not even funny. I spent all night downloading apps and games and browsing the internet and being a geek! I think a smart phone might just change my life y'all...

And now I'm playing around with the idea of getting an ipod nano...I might not be able to afford the seamlessly integrated life style that an iphone would provide, but a cut teensy lil ipod that could easily talk with my Imac would do very nicely...plus my Zen kinda weighs a million pounds.. ;)

HO HO spending money I don't really have! The holidays are truly here!