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Battling General Malaise (the boss)

Wed Nov 25, 2009, 8:51 PM
I dunno what the problem is, but I just came out of a brief phase of being tired and overwhelmed. I guess I need to be on a team to function properly. I started setting new goals, and fortunately, it's working. Pepping me up a bit. I was sick last weekend while ~KatherineHawke attended ~Frozen-Water and ~Caresse-par-la-lumie's wedding. That sucked. She's now sick, and that sucks too. But after getting better, I started feeling pretty good about stuff. I've got a few days off and I'm going to work my ass off to get some cool stuff done.

  • Mood: Zeal
  • Listening to: whatever I can catch.
  • Reading: How to Write a Masters Thesis
  • Watching: Angelic Layer
  • Playing: BORDERLANDS
  • Eating: solid rocket boosters
  • Drinking: LOX and Hydrazine

APPARENTLY...

Tue Oct 13, 2009, 2:56 PM
My site has been down for like the whole mod. that's awesome. I think the company I have hosting it went under and never told me. Thats even more awesommer. and so until that's fixed, I'm the usual drab DA journal skin. bleh.

Where to begin.

I'm on break, after the end of Module 4 at Guildhall. I intended to do several things over my break, and while I think I still have plenty of time to do them, I feel like an ass for wasting today. I felt like I was cleaning just to NOT work on my computer yesterday. Which is perhaos what I need for a while. Mod 4 was supposed to be one of the hardest ones, but I managed my time well and had some time to relax during finals and only stress about the finals themselves rather than finals, finals, DFS, TGP and a host of other junk.

So. I planned to work on some environment art pieces, namely some bits of wood and some rocks of varying sizes, because that's stuff that I can use in other projects. I also planned to work out my entire MIT project structure, which should help me manage my time wisely over the next 3 mods. I'm hoping that I can keep things low key enough that I can find time to do some Portfolio items WHILE I'm working on MIT. crazy me.

But I've been lazy. We drove to arkansas over the weekend and went diamond mining, which was fun as hell. Then on monday, I felt like crap, so I just cleaned the apt and did the dishes and laundry and bathroom and stuff.

So today I spend most of the day working out my MIT stuff, wishing I could draw for it, BUT I CAN'T. Its not because I can't think or anything, I have to wait till I have my research done before I get to jump into the project proper.

One might wonder what the heck I've been doing on it then. Well, I've worked it out, and since my MIT is on how to make a game LOOK epic, I get to focus this upcoming mod on making the GAME. I'm working in Unity3d which is the best engine EV4R, and so I'm basically coding and whiteboxing this next mod. I'm partially done with a cheap little click-game where you click on bouncing spheres that ricochet around the screen for points. I've coded all this stuff myself, which is what I'm really proud of.

Elsenews, I'll be posting the 3d of Hank soon. And whatever else I've collected this mod and forgotten to upload. It won't be much though. Most of the stuff was for TGP, which was things like barrels and crates and cactus and junk. Pretty good work, but not terribly interesting and not in a format easily shown.

Hmm. Feel like there's more I should write about. can't remember. Oh. Just designed a simple little card game that I might release for free somehow. Its like tic-tac-toe with numbers. Think of that card game in FFIIV and on PlayOnline. Its like that but much simpler. as in you can actually play it with cards. Very interesting tactical choices.

OH. GRR. WHY ARE THERE NO GAMES I'M INTERESTED IN ON PS3.

And for anyone wondering what to get me for my birthday on nov3, See the following amazon wishlist: [link]

And a special thank-you to everyone who's been watching and faving while I've been a remiss and lazy workaholic.

  • Mood: Zeal
  • Listening to: Yoshida Bros
  • Reading: Your Brain, a User's Guide
  • Watching: FMA again
  • Playing: my stupid little clickit game
  • Eating: solid rocket boosters
  • Drinking: LOX and Hydrazine

Look, and update. wow.

Journal Entry: Wed Jul 22, 2009, 11:15 AM


Since I've been MIA for a while, I decided I'd actually write a decent, rambling, ranting, raving ...ravaging... roaring... rowdy... rumbling.... .... journal.

What's been up, arc?
I'm so glad you asked. I'm on break right now, which in the language of the workoholic means I have an entire month to get what I want to do done. I'm working on entry materials for pretty much every Directed Focus Study area (aside from animation). Its a lot of work, but some of it overlaps, which is cool. I'm also working on 2 video games right now, and I'm Lead Artist on both, though one doesn't have any artists except me >_>...

I haven't signed any NDAs on this stuff, but I don't think the guys would appreciate me blabbing about everything about all the projects. I can safely say that one is a magnet based 2d sidescroller, for which I am doing an elaborate setup of making 3d art and rendering it to 2d to use in the engine. The other is Starshade Valley, a little more public. Its about space cowboys fighting hordes of dark matter Shades. Its in 3d, using the Unreal 3 engine, which gives me migraines, but has a lot of potential. The setting is just tech-y enough not to turn me off, which is perfect. I wouldn't have picked cowboys, but I think we did a good job of taking the concept to a place where we're all comfortable.



In other news, the folks are coming down to Plano today, and I'm glad I'll get to see them for a bit. Been tough to keep in touch with everyone during school. Been tough to find time to upload the stuff I want to to DA, and I've primarily been working on things that wouldn't interest people too much, like parallax mapped dirt and stuff.

Also been trying to dig up more music to listen to, found some good stuff by Ayreon, Angelspit and others. My chair is falling apart.

Bought a new mouse. Lots of top notch gaming appliances now, an n52, lachesis mouse, g15 keyboard bleh. and all I play is dragonica. heh.

I'll be dumping more stuff up as I think of what I forgot of, so keep your eyes peeled. Peace, hominids.


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  • Mood: Zeal
  • Listening to: fort minor nstuff
  • Reading: 3dsmax scripting, shinto, extendscript
  • Watching: Shuffle! again
  • Playing: dragonica (Kirameki on Kaye)
  • Eating: solid rocket boosters
  • Drinking: LOX and Hydrazine

Good Lord, css.

Journal Entry: Mon May 25, 2009, 10:02 AM


Finding the selector for the deviant user id link was like trying to... well... find something well hidden. That being said, if you ever need to CSS style the usernames of deviants in your journal (such as ~KatherineHawke), here you are:

.journalbox div.text a

You may already know this, but it was hellish to try to find.

ANYway, you may notice that the journal is new. This is part of my new branding, as I've updated my site at [link] I'll be posting the new design here on DA for people to look at soon enough. I'll also be re-styling my wiki and the new forums at my site over the next while. Hopefully in a few months it'll all be coherent.

[edit]

Here it is:


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  • Mood: Joy
  • Listening to: the washing machine
  • Reading: snow crash again
  • Watching: naruto again
  • Playing: dark kingdom
  • Eating: nothing. D=

Holycrapthankyou.

Journal Entry: Tue May 12, 2009, 10:22 AM


Mkay. Crazy, Crazy day. I’m writing this journal in word, because I’m SURE it’ll take some time. I’m also sure it’ll get pretty stream-of-consciousness, so bear with me.
I’m writing this, primarily to thank all the people who made my Daily Deviation Possible.

THANKS EVERYONE!!
Alright, now on to what my Monday was like. Put your helmet on, because this will blow your mind, as Jimmy would say.
So here I am, sleeping. I wake up, take a shower. No milk for the cereal. Sigh. I get packed, moving my computer and electronics into my giant xps backpack and my side-bag. I saddle up, say goodbye to Liz, to trundle down my stairs and out to the car, where my window is rolled down. I look in the window, and my seat, and the arm of the door and everything are soaked. I find that I left my pullovers in the car, so I mop up as much as I can, realize I’m behind, and plopped into the moist seat. I’m damp by the time I get to class. Sigh. But, I get into class, and get set up, computer components everywhere. I work on tweaking a new piece of hardware to speed up my workflow while waiting for class. Then we found out the class is just a work day, giving me much needed time to work on Production Art for Devour. I have everything all cut up and set out by half way through the morning, no sweat. I chill for a while, chatting with classmates and laughing about some pretty funny jokes. Class is pulling to a close, so I check my email again, and I randomly glance at my DA page. For some odd reason, I seem to be 2000 pageviews higher than a couple of days ago. That’s weird. I wonder what my graph looks like.
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HOLYCRAP!
There can be only ONE thing that could have happened to cause this influx of viewers. I trot over to my latest deviation, AH + M. HOLYCRAPHOLYCRAP. HOLY

CRAP. I GOT A DD? I GOT A DD!
The power goes out.
[DO NOT WANT!] <- (translated from Chinese I ACTUALLY SCREAMED)
I laugh it off, and go outside to hang out, call Liz, tell her the news, and shoot off a quick email to tell my folks to check it out before closing my computer to save power. I eat lunch and go to class, and sure enough, class is canceled. But before we leave, we have Professor Walker come and look at our vehicles. Then, right as we finish up, the power comes back on and we have to actually do our presentations. Sigh. But we go out to dinner at Red Lobster and I run back to school to work on the finishing up of Devour. I talk to Tom for bit about tablet pcs while our installer builds, then I get cracking on my low-poly. Eventually, we have 5 copies burnt and a source disk, meaning that we are GOLD. Our Game Is Done.
So that’s where I’m at. I’m having finals, but I’ll be riding the high of that DD for a week at least.
THANKS EVERYONE!!


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  • Mood: Joy
  • Listening to: Daft Punk + Justice
  • Eating: Thermite and Plutonium Sammaches
  • Drinking: Hydrazine cola on the rocks (Ice 9, tyvm.)

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