kauvara

Hey, so i've been missing in action as far as deviantart goes. Most of my artwork is severely outdated and i'm not really proud of most of it anymore.

So...I've decided to revamp my deviantart to show off my current senior film! This is a really shitty way to back my work up, but i'm thinking this will be backup V.3, in case the universe explodes and all i have left is the internet. So, for those of you who have nothing better to do, and for my own personal amusement, I'll begin journaling my ventures into senior thesis land!

9/3. . . so yeah...school started yesterday, and I already feel severely behind. I only half a third of my storyboards done, and my cave layouts SUCK. What do i have so far? A handful of concept art and the beginnings of character maquettes. I also have my synopsis and treatment which i will post soon.

I got my terabyte hardrive in today, so i will back everything up tomorow. HUZZAH! So tomorow I'll post up my sketches, my character designs, and other tidbits i feel are amusing from the preproduction process. Tonight all my page has to look forward to is my treatment. Whoot!

JOKE OF THE DAY:
Why did the chicken cross the playground? TO GET TO THE OTHER SLIDE!!! bwahahahahahaha

yay for journal updates. Its so embarassing when you see a journal that's months old whining and ranting about god knows what, heh.

so yeah, miniwave of new stuff to put up *shrug*, stuff that's scannable anyhow. Upcoming will be photographs,
that's right, i can now do traditional photography! whooo. I really enjoyed it, despite all my grumbling >.< But then again i grumble voraciously when something cuts into my animation time heh.

speaking of which, i hope you all check out "isaac explains," an animation i finnished recently. Well, i say finnished, i meant that its a pencil test. However, for some reason the amazing folks here at devart keep placing him into scraps, so i gave up trying to find a suitable category for him. I was under impression that he was an animation, but pencil tests apparently are scraps *shrugs* so much for hard work heh.

I finnished the school year off with a bang. Presented some nice work for Film and Animation, and did well in my other subjects. I really need to get a move on about posting my bigger artwork here (stuff that can't be scanned), but yeah. Updated journal entry that'll prolly sit here for a whole lotta months.

Well, unfortunatly this year round I don't have much to contribute in the way of deviantart apreciation day. I don't really go on the forums, and i'm too sluggish to participate in the contests. I don't think i'm at that level where i can just scribble something onto a piece of paper and have it be simpley AMAZING or popular enough (there are specific kinds of art that become popular on DA mind you like exquisitly drawn characters which i SUCK at) to be even noticed in a contest.

that however does not mean i do not apreciate deviantart. quite the contrary, the very concept behind deviantart is brilliant. A place to get my artwork critiqued in an organized fashion that doesn't take on a forum format? bring it on! and i love how the staff is working to make this a better community, so, round of applause to staff! whoo!! I think however that there is a specific point in one's deviantart career when they can truly apreciate deviantart. Its when they become popular enough that they can get at least 10 comments per deviation, and when they can update on a regular basis. Not SO much that you start getting rude messages and the like,  but enough that you can feel welcome putting your art up on deviantart. I'm far from there yet, having 11 commnets per deviation the most that i've ever gotten (according to the fascinating stats feature). But...i thinkat some point i will get there, heh.

I also find it fascinating how deviant art...with its millions of members, has its own style. Deviantart seems to have taken a powerful hold on the digital art world, and i find that if a popular deviant comes up with a new spiffy character or creature *design*, then they are assuredly to be showered with roses and champagne. The slight tilt towards the asian style of art displayed on a global level is also very intruiging. To me all these things are commonplace, and yet when i show this site to art teachers and other traditional artists they are absolutly amazed.

But i digress. You really don't need me to go on and on about all the wonderful things here on DA that i really like, etc..etc..

suffice it to say, that DA is a very successful and ingenious website, and that i'm grateful for its existance.

zomg! 5000? when did this happen!? huzzah!

I'd like to thank all of you and the color orange. whOot!

So yesterday, i had quite an adventure with my jew friend laurie.

we get to center city at about 8 am, to work on Portraits of Sari, and independant film (check out the website! is very cool AJFLSKJFLSKDJFDSLKFJSLDK). So we're working on it from 8 am till 6pm...and i don't get a break. My job is to make our cramped little studio to look like different dorm rooms! only problem is...i had very little to work with...but that's besides the point. Otherwise i was the production assistant. So we get done at around 6...and me and laurie decide that we're going to visit our friends who live in the city. They live...kinda far away in a southerly direction. They told us to take the subway. Granted, i've never used to the subway before, but laurie called and figured things out, so down we go. We get our tokens, go the wrong directoin a couple of times, and finally get on our subway. We were told to go northbound...which made no sense seeing as they live south of philly...after checking on a few maps we realize that hey, we're going the wrong direction. -____-
So we switch subways...much to the disapointment of my wallet. We finally get to the station we need to...and lo and behold its another 12 blocks. YAY time....

we finally meet up with friends..its fun, we talked, then at around 8:30 we go for pizza. My mother calls, bitches at me to get home by 10:17...at that point its 9. Its dark, its raining, and i have to get to suburban station to catch a train back...so it means we have to get to a station BY 9:40 at the latest. Whaboy...i call a few cab services, all of them don't work...so its back to the subway for me and my jewfriend!!!

so we're underground, i'm pretty scared, and to top it all off a really really angry looking man was walking around spitting and cursing off at everything. So naturally, he walks up to us to start making conversation -____-  I try to ignore him, and then of course my friend answers back. Rule number one when talking to strangers...if they are cursing off spitting and smoking....you pretend you're from another country!  So after a few footsomps later i get my friend to realize that she should stop...of coures the guy is a bit pissed off at me for it. He gets up in my face and tells me that i can trust him, that i should never be afraid of him yadda yadda. That's where russian comes in handy...i tell you....so i pretended i was from another country and he walked away.

now...you know how in books there's this phrase "every minute felt like forever" ? well...that's pretty much  it. I swear a long time went by..so i check the clock...only 2 minutes passed. Wait..look again...another minute.

when finally the subway came i was releaved to see that it was chalk full of people. So we get to city hall station, which was one station closer to my train station. I get out, ask a bunch of people where the subway concourse connected to the regional rail..of course nobody knew..and one old couple told us to follow them cuz they knew where they were going.

I knew we shouldv'e gone in the other direction....

so we end up walking 5 blocks underground to get to a totally different train station . GAH!!!!

at least we made it JUST on time to catch the train to get home by !10"17...

i must say, it was quite a catharsis sitting on my familiar train...i felt very happy. See...a few days before i was feeling kinda irritated and yucky...
just comes to show how much of a massachist i am. I'm never truly happy until i'm totally stressed out.