Done! Its finally done! I am finished! Work Complete! Mission Accomplished!

Behold!

Its taken me damned near forever; about a year if you include the planning, but I have finally finished my Animation. This piece represents my final assessment for this year and, indeed, the first 3D animation I have ever produced that isn't just a technical exercise.

We had to plan the whole thing from scratch, brainstorming ideas, etc. I started with he usual arrogance of having an idea 'fully formed' in my head, with the intention of just refining it and moving strait on. We were required to create a number of other ideas anyway and it was while doing this that I realised my original idea wasn't so fully formed as I had though. To begin with the dwarf animation was actually one of those ideas I’d made to fill space in my sketchbook, but it turned out to be a strong idea with potential.

We went through the whole development process (something I usually loath) but it was somehow more worthwhile than in the past - I felt I was getting somewhere and that there was in fact development to be done. After 12 weeks of this we started work on the actual animating.
Sort of.

The first 8 weeks of it was spent rigging the damned model - it was such a steep learning curve for me, but I got there in the end. Weight painting (where the joints of the characters skeleton are told which parts of the body their supposed to exert influence over) is a term you'll come to spit if you ever have a go at this sort of thing yourself.

I think I'll cut off there – I could talk about this all day, so if anyone’s interested in how it was made or anything else, do drop me a note!
I have been pretty dwarf centric for this whole year, but now that this is finished I can become obsessed with something else. Something new to make an animation of. Something like Darastrix, perhaps?

I've got the whole things rendered out now! I'm just re-rendering a few shots here and there to give them better lighting, then its just a case of putting them together in premiere~ :D I still have a spot of 2D to do (blood, mostly) but I dont see that taking very long

In the meantime, I only realised the other day that I hadn't uploaded our last assesment animation anywhere! I have now rectified this. This animation doesn't contain any anrrative or anything; infact its not really an animation at all - it was our group modeling assesment. Part of it was to create a self portrait, so you can marvel at my flowing locks of poly hair. I bear precious little resemblance to the glassy eyed bust in this video, by the way - I look less like I have radiation sickness in real life.

Anyway, here is the link - Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/ox2kn1g40fQ

I've actually started animating 8D
I've got 24 seconds finnished and rendered out - I'm well chuffed :D What I've got so far is in slow motion however, so the amount of movement is fairly limited - their are 4 characters in the scene though. The real test will come from the second half of the animation, which I haven't started yet - It'll playback at ordinary speed so any errors will stick out a mile.
I'll have plenty of time to rudement on it and fix things though - I had budgeted for it to take weeks for me to get this much done and its only taken me three days XD Thiers still time for the realtime section to bone me in the ass, of course.

I have been without internet of any kind for the best part of four months now! Its been ridiculous! Which means no-one will have heard my other big news that I have moved house for a second time! We're living in a much larger place now without a shower ajoining the bed. The Living room looks like the bridge of the starship enterprise, with a grand total of three monitors and a TV lined up against the window, plus a light box stuck in between them.
So, um; yeah.
University has been quite the ball buster this year - I'm currently in the proccess of creating my first proper 3D animation. I hope to upload some works in progress soon! But you wont have long to wait for the finnished article anyway - its due in four or five weeks!
I feel like I've drawn hardly anything at all lateley; its been University work and sleep most days. once the summer holidays roll in then I'll pick it up again. I'm also thinking of trying to model a darastrix in 3D over the summer too, and maybe do it over livestream! :o Keep your fingers crossed!
Anyway, I hope everyones been fine while I've been away :)
Ta ta!

Hello everyone; its been quite some time. There is an explanation.

Several months ago two people whom I trusted entirely and loved more fully that I every thought I could love betrayed me in the most monstrous fashion. Without warning, explanation or second chances I was shunned, pushed away and ignored. I felt as though a hole had been ripped through my chest; my entire life had revolved around these people. Their disgusting actions poisoned everything; everything I did, everything I saw - my every memory looped back to these individuals in some way or another. For the first few months I was rendered incapable of doing most things and it is only through medical help that I have been able to recover myself.

Things are better now; I've met new people and have even fallen in love again, but I am still tortured at nights my by memories those debased creatures. I'm sorry to all of the people who worried about me while I was gone, but I wish to thank them as well. The people I know well, the people I know less so, and even complete strangers who left messages and well wishes; thank you. I shall be gradually re-emerging into online activity and I have a few things to upload when I get them together. I hope we call all get along again.

What they did was despicable. I loved them unconditionally and in return they destroyed me. Its a wonder that I got over it at all. I can never forgive them.

During quiet moments at work I've been watching 'Undercover Boss USA', the American version of a British programme by the same name. Neither programme makes for great telly, but it highlights to me how different, and how strange US television is. The US programme is so formulaic and so predictable that I could chop and change different scenes from different episodes and have trouble noticing the difference.

Each episode has began by profiling the company owner as a model American citizen, followed by a montage of clips showing him having trouble getting to grips with his new job. It then goes on about how 'devoted and hardworking' his staff are before cutting to somewhere else where the workers and conditions don't meet his standards. The show ends with him spending time in a third place where he is pleased once more and finally it cuts to him revealing his identity to those he met.

Unlike the British version that (if only barely) stuck to the point of the show - finding out what's wrong with the company - the American version strays very little from the script described above. Additionaly, most of the programme appears to be filler; about a third of the it is made of clips showing what is still to come in the programme. The board room scene at the end was shown right at the start, and again about two or three times afterwards.

This isn't the only programme exported from America that I've seen following this same formula. The general impression we are given of American TV over here is that its utter pish. It would be unwise to believe everything I see from this small snapshot filtered out of the USA, however, so I invite any of my American watchers to defend their nations television - or to vindicate my earlier statements.

lets discuss!

(I must let it be known that I don't really like either version of the programme XD It almost as formulaic and just seems to be trying to leapfrog off the success of 'Undercover Millionaire', which I never liked a great deal either.)

I went to the Cinema last night with my sister to see two very awosme films!

The first one we had planned to see for a while - it was the restored version of Metropolis. It was greally great! I had never seen a silent movie before, but this was really good. This and the fact it was black and white allowed for a whole array of filming techniques that you couldn't pull off these days. It felt very artistic, and because you could sort of see the flesh and bones of how they made it all, you could really apriciate all the effort that went in to making it. I'de recommend anyone to go see it~

the second film we went to see was more of a spontanious decision - it was a late night showing of 'Brasil'. This movie was very strange indeed XD awsome, though. Its set in a dystopian future where paperwork entangles every aspect of society. The emence feeling of the frustration and pointlessness of beurocracy really comes through in it - something that chimes well with me, since red tape is a cardenal hatred of mine. Although thourogly depressing, I would also recoment it to anyone who gets the chance to see it ^^

The porn account Lives!

 NaughtyMorg

I went with that name in the end *nods*
I've made three characters especialy for this account named Sarah, Stuart and Clair. You shall see them around on your visit I'm sure~

So yeah, hope you like it :D

Hey there!
This is really for those of you interested in my adult work - better cover your eyes otherwise *nods*
I've been planning to create an Alternate account where I shall be uploading purly adult images. I've never really had a problem intermingling them here, but I always feel silly if I suddenly get the urge to produce alot and have it drown out the proper stuff in my gallery XD
I shant be removing what I've already uploaded, so your favs should be safe. Also, account registration is now back online, I've noticed, so I might have this new account up and running within the next week. I'll make another journal to announce it - thiers a fair bit of material I've made especialy for the 'launch', so keep your eyes peeled~

Finaly, I've not quite decided on what I want to call this new porn oriented account. I want 'Morg' to be in there, and for it to sound cheeky or something XD
Any suggestions?

I thought I'de give this journal game a try! you type your answers into urban dictionary and see what you get~


1.) Your name?

Simon

A Sexy Beast. One with a huge cock, and gigantic balls. Known for being sweet and gentle when it comes to women. The females dig Simon. Often used to describe a good friend.Describes a friend that wouldn't leave other friends if they had a flat tire. Hung Like a Dragon. Used to describe someone that needs a smart,intellectual, and beautiful women in their life.

I aprove these messages.


2.) Your age?

22

The age after 21 where you realize you still have another 3 years to get your shit together


3.) Favourite animal?

Dragon

Possibly the best mythical creature known to this day.


4.) What should you be doing?

Nothing

Actually means "something," but is used when you don't feel like explaining.


5.) Favorite color?

Red

a communist


6.) Birthplace?

Scotland

Jesus: But Father you have created this wonderous land with beautiful scenery and natural wonders, why are you so generous to these people?
God: Yes my Son! But wait untill you see the Neighbours I am giving them!


7.) Month of your birth?

December

A shitty month to be a pine tree.


9.) One of your nicknames?

Morgoth

The god of the Peens. He who rules with the mighty peen-hammer.


10.) Tag Three people:

NO!

Hey guys!
I'm back home in Scotland again after a wonderful, month long holiday to England. I never really anounced my departure properly, but oh well XD
I spent a fantastic time with Syrus and Fiereci and I'm missing them already.
Annoyingly I have to return to work today, imediatly afer my return, and its set to be a busy day too, so I wont be broken back in easily. I detest my job.
So yeah; if anyone was wonderig why I hadn't really done anything for a whole month, there is your explanation!

I thought it deserved an anouncement XD What do yous think?

My Grampa got out of hospital today - hurray! It turns out that rasied levels of potasium in his body caused the heart attack because he was taking too many of a certain pill from his medication. Hopefuly he shall be more vigilent about such things in the future.
He is looking well, and although breathless, he is walking stronger now than from before he had the attack. My Granny is overjoyed to see him again and I hope he stays out of the hospital for a good long while.

On a different tact, I hate drawing windows and shop signs. In the recent Darastrix page I just left them blank, but I dont think its a good effect. In pages before this where shops were visable I put names and logos etc on them all, but I found it oddly difficult to come up with them and it slowed me down a great deal. basicly, it was too much effort for too little return. The windows, however, have always been the same - black lifeless gaps in the masonry.
Does anyone have any suggestions here? How to make a window look like a window? Quick ways to suggest shop-ness? Anything at all that might help me improve on those fields, or even links to those who do it well so I may follow thier example.

Thanks in advance!

My Grampa has had another Heart Attack and is in Hospital. Things were looking very bad this morning, but he seems to be improving. Me and my sister went to visit him and he was alert and good humoured, so I'm hoping he will become well enough to leave eventually.

Ah-ha!
My feet did not loose thier grip on the ground and send me falling into the sky afterall!
Its been very difficult, but I have finnished my Animation for University at long last; here it is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcadnEhmY2U
Now, the cameras a little shaky, some might say 'extreamly', but I think it came out ok~ The Hammy voice acting is by a good friend of mine and the poem is all of my own creation! The closing line came out less grim and more smarmy than intended, but I was in no position to split hairs XD
So there you have it; more tentacle animations from yours truly.

Now that I have all that out of the way I should be able to continue updating Darastrix reliably! I kind of vanished without warning, which isn't really fair for those on the edge of thier seat wanting to know what horrors befell Jack on his visit to the toilet.
The next page will be up on monday; make a date. *nods*

Thats all from me, really~ Good day!

I've been too ambitious with my stop frame animation and have been going about it wrong from the start. Everything is too stiff and difficult to move, its all top heavy and moves of its own acord because all I have to anchor it to the ground is more plastercene and I have a headache!!
I am incredibly demoralised right now. I feel like I could do this no problem if I was in the right enviroment, namly my old college with its good equipment and suportive classmates/lecturers. I have to get 15 seconds of animation complete by tuesday and I've been working for 4 hours now, stoping and starting ebcause of problems, and I've created a grand total of 0.25 of a second.
I wish I'de done cutout animation instead.

The other day I bought Final Fantasy XIII! I did this becasue I thought maybe the series could redeem itself from its past follys.
I've played it for under an hour and so far and only one character has not made my teeth itch with annoyance. I thought the arogantly barren female lead was annoing when I seen her, and rather liked the black comic relief character that tagged along with her, but once it cut to the other group - ugh; you'd understand if you seen it.
Some 12 year old is behind baricades at the front line, firing a gun and rather than crapping his pants over the horrors of war, he's lieing back and moaning about wanting to take a nap in the most infuriatingly casual way. Not to mention the bizar tendancy for japanese characters to go 'wha!?' all the time. The arsehole in charge here then declairs himself a hero and prodeces to give guns to small children. Then we are then expected to feel sad about the death of some minor character we just met, despite every death so far being treated like a game.
And whats with all the smiling!? Decades ago they put Fluride in the water in Britian to sparkle up peoples teeth - I wonder of the people of Final Fantasy XIII lace thier water with prosac, because it certainly seems that way. Nothing seems to bother anyone for more than about 10 seconds before thier whooping and giggling once again.

ARG.

I shouldn't be annoyed really - I suppose I have an attachment to the series XD Final Fantasy IX was my most favorite game for a very long time and remains a favorite to this day. VIII and VII were good too; I blame the advent of audio dialogue - at least in the past we could imagine voices that didn't make hairs grow out the rear of your eyeballs.

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Commisions are still open! Full colour Character commisions £10 + £5 per additional character.

I've hit the 70 page mark in Darastrix! For some reason this feels like more of a milestone than 50 did... XD
Anyway; just 30 more pages and I'll have hit 100. Ever since I started making this comic I've always said that I'de make a physicaly printed version of it upon reaching 100, so the countdown begins until that moment! :D
How many people reckon they would be interested?

Otherwise I've been keeping quite well. I'm doing some actual animating at my animation course, currently! We're experimenting with different techniques at the moment but in one more week we're splitting from our group to make our own final animation using what we've learned.

I hope you are all doing great as well! Thankyou and goodnight ^^

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Commisions are still open! Full colour Character commisions £10 + £5 per additional character.

Its my Birthday today ^^
I'm going to do my best to enjoy it :D
I'm writing this in a very tired state at 1:30AM in anticiapation of not having much time when the day begins proper XD
Have a nice day everyone else, too!

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£10 Full Colour Charcter Commisions!

1: orona (Complete)
2: Gargami (Complete)
3: Teika (Complete)
4: orona (Complete)
5: Nidonocu (Complete)
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(I'm willing to do adult commisions too, if You would like)

AaHAHAHahahAHahA!

God damn, I'm glad thats over for a little while.
For those unaware, I ahve been rushed off my feet trying to meet university deadlines and getting very stressed over uncertainties and conspiring circumstances.
Well, the deadlines for everything were met today and I am free until late January!
The fruits of my labour include two videos. I've only upload one so far, because the second one involves my Aunt who I'm sure will want to check before allowing me to upload it.
The first Video is a Documentary that myself and my group worked very hard on. We were hugly fortunate to meet the man involved because he carries the whole film, to be honest XD

Now that University is out of the way I'll be able to resume work on my Comic and on the Commisions I've had put on hold. (Namely yours, Nidonocu) I hope you enjoy the documentary!

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£10 Full Colour Charcter Commisions!

1: orona (Complete)
2: Gargami (Complete)
3: Teika (Complete)
4: orona (Complete)
5:
6:
7:
8:
9:
10:

(I'm willing to do adult commisions too, if You would like)

Hey there everyone~
The monitor for my computer is really really bad (its actually an old bargain flatscreen TV the size of a postage stamp). The colours are awful and its really small, so I'm thinking of getting myself a new one.

I was to push the boat out and get myself something special that is suited well for doing digital art on. The problem is that I know nothing about computer monitors ^^;

Could anyone here suggest the sorts of things I'de be looking for in a good PC monitor? I'de be very grateful if you could.

In other news, The website that i host Darastrix on seems to be broken at the moment and I can only hope it comes back online before monday.

Also, Commisions are still running if you want one~

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£10 Full Colour Charcter Commisions!

1: orona (Complete)
2: Gargami (Complete)
3: Teika (Complete)
4: orona (Complete)
5:
6:
7:
8:
9:
10:

(I'm willing to do adult commisions too, if You would like)

I'm opening up 10 Commisions places this time to get a nice backlog I can work through. The truth is I rather need some money right now XD
Also, I've upped the price of commisions slightly from $10 to £10 because I rather underestimated the exchange rate last time.
I hope this doesn't put you off, though, I promis to deliver on every penny spent XD

I'll draw almost anything you want me to! :)

1: orona (complete)
2: Gargami (complete)
3: Teika (complete)
4: orona (complete)
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(If you want an adult picture then there are a few things I wont want to draw, but ask for anything you want - I'll let you know if I dont want to do it XD)

I am opening up 5 spaces for $10, single character full colour commisions ^^ Note me if your interested :D

1: frysco (finnished)
2: blueskydragonFX (finnished)
3: AnthonyWilde (finnished)
4: Kana (finished)
5: AnthonyWilde (finished)

Woo!
For those unaware, I have been on holiday the past few weeks to the Netherlands and England!
I had a really fantastic time and I did lots of cool things with two very special people whome I've been missing dearly every moment since my return~
Myself and my hubby Syrus did jet our way by means of Ryanair over and above the wonderfuly flat nation of Holland to land in Dusseldorf, land of beer and angry airport scanner attendants. From there we met the fantastic Sky and drove our merry way back to Breda in the south of Holland where we spent a fantastic week and a half!
We did all sorts of fun things, such as cycling to Belgium, painting Skys new room, accidently wandering into the red light district in Amsterdam (only ony noticing halfway down XD) and we ate Tapas in Utrecht! Thier were many other awsome things besides that, but I could sit here and talk about them all day XD
After that we went to England and met up with my old and dear freind, mister Arrow at Alton Towers! They place was jammed packed and it rained alot, so we only got on 3 rides, but it was still great fun! A day or so later we fooled around in a big inflaitable garden pool of Syrus' and Arrow split his head open on a pita-bread of supernatural hardness. It was all great fun and I wish it hadn't needed to end~
But I'm back now and things are returning to normal; except work, that seems to be getting quieter.
Thats al from me! Hope yous had a ncie summertime as well; Thankyou and goodnight! ^^

[EDIT] Oh yeah! The food in Holland is AMAZING! You can get an entire litre of yogurt for less than 20p!!!

my lovely Syrus was very kind enough to create a wikifur article for my comic, Darastrix.
Go Look!

Also, for those who dont know, I'm in Holland right now and I'm having an awseome good time 8D