salamandersoup
01 June 2009 @ 06:46 pm
SO MUCH BLOOD ART

SRSLY )And uh, with regards to my last flocked post - mission pretty much accomplished. :33333

- I'm so bad at updating this thang regularly.
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salamandersoup
29 April 2009 @ 11:00 pm
BANANAPHONE
boop boop ba doop a doop


I finished it. I actually finished something I started! :O Thank you deviantart for the pseudo- thumbnails. I spare your flists grudgingly. And because the files were yet to be tainted with my neglect and horrible organizational skills, I made a walkthrough too.

   




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salamandersoup
25 April 2009 @ 04:51 pm
Conceptart.org's weekly character design contests sound like they'd be a lot of fun, but idk if I can meet the deadlines each week. Like this Joan or Arc one, it's due tomorrow, and this is as far as I've gotten. It's ... not even vaguely "Joan of Arc"-y at all. x|

And I'm thinking it would be awesome to make a Second Life account. Does anyone play it? I have a feeling there are many lols to be had in that game.

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salamandersoup
02 April 2009 @ 12:18 pm
No seriously, check me out. AH'M ON THE TEEVEE, Y'ALL. And no, I did not draw that blue dinosaur, but I DID use a fancy Cintiq to make what's on the monitor behind me. I have bad posture. :| ETA: Also, I make some retarded  awesome faces.




I'm hope sick today, but on the plus side, this gives me time to FINALLY work on commissions.

 
 
salamandersoup
31 March 2009 @ 01:32 pm
Rorschach


It's snowing. :|

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salamandersoup
20 March 2009 @ 11:05 pm
I need a new icon purely to express my  love for for SkyVu. So every Friday is party/ping-pong tournament day, and this one was Mexican themed so I brought a pinata, and GUESS WHAT. Wendell Luebbe, the Art Director for "The Road to El Dorado" was there. And he is awesome. And can bash the hell out of a pinata.

And I would post a whole ton of new art, but .. it's all for a secret project. :C

Mm, also, I'm re-reading Sorcerer's Stone and realizing I have drawn very little from it. Now I can't work on commissions at the computer lab tomorrow, but I CAN do regular drawings, so if there's anything you want to suggest for me to draw from SS, go right ahead. x)
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salamandersoup
05 March 2009 @ 12:43 pm
Hooo, I have an animation internship interview innnn 1.5 hours. I hope I don't get lost driving there, because it's out in a weird area I've never been to. Deep breaths. 8I My stomach's getting all gurgly.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. :D

ETA: I have just been informed there will be victory cake. I am serious.
 
 
salamandersoup
27 February 2009 @ 05:16 pm
So as part of my finishing at MCC reward to myself, I downloaded Steam and bought The Orange Box. :DDDD I have three guest passes now, so whoever wants one, speak up, and you can play TF2 with me. It's only good for three days once you activate it, so time yourself wisely.

A post-quarter art dump will commence once I find out what my grades are.
 
 
salamandersoup
22 February 2009 @ 08:46 pm
My storyboard project is due on Tuesday aaaand it looks like I'm just now doing it. x|| All that I have ready to print are the character sheets, and maybe I can finish the backgrounds tonight. AND LOLOL Tealin, I just realized one of the poses looks like that one Lupin you drew way back, because of the hand. :||| I'm adding that to my "to fix by Tuesday" list.

yeah, I'm reusing that title again, WHAT OF IT )
I did freaking ALL of these today, so my hand is in like a premanent claw position right now. 8| can't stop. background time.


On a completely self-indulgent note, I want to go shopping so bad. I cleaned out my dresser/closet and got rid of a ton of old crap, and realized that I don't have much to actually wear now. Maybe my reward for finishing this stupid project can be spending a ridiculous amount of money on new clothes. It doesn't help that Buckle now has things organized by outfit .. or that some of those shirts are crazy expensive.

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salamandersoup
20 February 2009 @ 12:15 am
You guys want some music? :D This is for [info]michechan , but I figured other people would be interested, too.

MEWZICK )
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salamandersoup
11 February 2009 @ 07:52 pm


OH MY. There is a new animation studio in Omaha. *IS AQUIVER*

Story Time - Ok, so on Friday I saw Coraline (in 3D!) and it was beautiful and now I want every movie to be in 3D, I don't even care how stupid the glasses look. But one of the guys who worked on the movie (Ben Vu) was there! There was a crap ton of people, so I didn't get to see him then - but on Tuesday he came to my storyboarding class and talked about making the movie, and showed up secret footages from the pre-vis department at Laika Entertainment. :DD AND AND I held in my actual hands real drawings by Henry Selick and the tiny Coraline model the artists used to gadge proportions. And I saw an animatic drawn by Vera Brosgol where young-Spink-and-Forcible were doing their acrobat thing and character designs by Chris Appelhans. IT. WAS. EPIC. Vu also showed us a few glimpses of new stuff he's working at his brand new studio in Bellevue (like ... a 20 minute drive from my house 8|||) and said he was looking for people. Looking for people, you guys. /end story

Coincidentally, one of our assignments in Projects Development class is to make a website for ourselves, so check this out:

Tadaaa! MECHASHIVA It took me wayyy too long to get the Lightbox script to work. I know the info page is weird, and there's not a ton of art up yet ... aaand the extras page doesn't even exist yet, but it's a start! I want to send this to him in less than a week, so be my beta-testers plz? :3

mm oh yeah, a few drawings too )
 
 
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salamandersoup
25 January 2009 @ 11:29 pm
More spam for your flists. :D But I really wanted to share this with people - hopefully you guys remember Pottercast? The HP podcast through the Leaky Cauldron website? Well, the people who made that (Melissa Anelli, John Noe, etc.) made a health/diet/exercise version called Fitting It In, and it's the most fabulous thing ever. It's basically encouraging members to fit healthy choices into their lives without being nazi about it. And what's more, it's crawling with Potter fans, so bonus there. x) I've got an account there, so you guys should all join up and add me. I'm going to start updating my blog thing there tomorrow - it serves as a food tracker and exercise log, and the more people who join, the more accountable you are and the more encouragement you have.

SO DO IT. :D

Also chek out their YouTube channel - and yes, once I have the means, I will totally be doing vlogs, too. :DDD

 
 
salamandersoup
25 January 2009 @ 10:44 pm
mcgonagall bust - she has a creepy smile in this one )

and some profile practice )

I tried installing my crack version of Photoshop CS on my new computer, but it's not recognizing the activation code any more. :C So I'm packing in as much painting as I can in the 28 day trial period. *this might be a thinly veiled plea for anyone with a copy of PhoSho to share in exchange for freeee arrrt?*

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salamandersoup
25 January 2009 @ 02:10 pm
omfg my neighbor's house just caught on fire a little bit, and there were 6 children under the age of 10 packed into our den and crying because they thought their house was going to explode. 8C Everything's ok, nothing's damaged except for part of their furnace and a sock that somehow got stuck inside it. But wow. ADVENTURE.
 
 
salamandersoup
24 January 2009 @ 11:28 pm
THAT ONE PHOTO MEME )

Well that was fun. Art tomorrow. And hey, how long does it take for you H_E app to get posted? I think I closed my browser window before it finished posting all the way, and I'm thinking about resubmitting, but I don't want to bombard them with apps.


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salamandersoup
21 January 2009 @ 12:16 am
HEYYYY this is me pimping [info]hogwarts_elite . It's awesome and you all should apply and we can be awesome together, in an awesome sort of way.

- So I watched Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" for the first time in class tonight, and whoah. That was crazy. If any of you guys have seen it, maybe you can explain something to me - Ok, is it his dead wife he throws off the tower, or is a dummy wearing her clothes, or what? Everything else made sense in a ridiculous kind of way, but I'm hung up on this point. Also, looming nuns apparantly lead to death. Know this.

- Tomorrow I'll post my sweet model for 3D class - I screwed the blend shapes up and part of his head exploded, but the original model is still intact. And I've also got my first official environment concept art to show you too. :000
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salamandersoup
20 January 2009 @ 01:20 pm
I finally worked myself up to complete a [info]hogwarts_elite  sorting application. 8||| I'm deathly afraid of being Squib'd, so if any of you guys have the time, would you pleasepleaseplease read this and tell me if there's anything to improve on? As you read it, do you get a strong sense of personality, and does anything seem forced? I tried to be as honest as possible, and some of those questions were tricky.

- also that photo meme, YEAH. I thought I lost my camera, but it was just buried under a pile of clothes xDD. Only one photo left to take for that.

- I order a new $1500 computer today. Wait, that's not right. I ordered a $1500 computer today. That's better. 3-5 business days, and it will be minnne. :D No more waiting all day for a single page to load! So now I'll have a gorgeous beast of a machine, but I will be poor.


01. Name: Leah
02. How did you find out about Hogwarts Elite? Browsing around [info]lunylucy 's and [info]buttfacemakani 's user info. I've actually been lurking around and observing the whole hogwarts/sorting elite community for quite some time now, but wanted to wait until I was sure I wanted to join.
03. What made you start reading the Harry Potter series? This is kind of weird - my mom bought my brother the CoS book when it first came out, and I read a little bit of it and was like "What the crap is this?" and so I avoided the whole thing for a while. Then it started getting a little media attention, and a few of my friends started reading it, so I caved, read the first one, and liked it.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure! )
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salamandersoup
11 January 2009 @ 12:52 am
from [info]binsybaby 

1. Ask me to take pictures of any aspect of my life you're curious about.
2. Leave your requests as comments to this entry. One request per person.
3. Please look at the previous requests as to not do repeats.
4. I'll snap the pictures and post them.

This may or may not be a good idea, aheh. :||||


- I painted this at school on Thursday, but on the Mac, the grayish cloud/halo blended in a LOT more smoothly with the white background. URR. And it's a monstrous file size. www.mechashiva.com/beast.png

- I TF2'd for like two hours today, half of it spent just as a Medic. xDDD 2Fort is the best map for being killed by spies, I learned.



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salamandersoup
03 January 2009 @ 12:19 am
I might have stolen this from [info]heymadeleine 
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salamandersoup
01 January 2009 @ 12:58 pm
Happy New Year, f'list! :D Hope everyone had a fun night. Last night Annie and Kim K came over and we watched Kill Bill - ha, and the night before at Karri's house, we all played The LIttle Mermaid game. YESSS.
 


I'm also almost done with commissions. :O Here's a WIP of one that should be done in a few hours, and then I'll get crackin on the rest.
 
So, mm, as far as resolutions go:
- be less of a blob
- eat healthier (i'm going to try and cut out soda 8|)
- draw EVARRYY DAYY.
- be more organized
- stop biting fingernails :(
- be better at art
- get a website up (I already paid for the domain name, so I might as well use it xD)

ALSOOO I'm going to back through my LJ archive and organize it a little better, which probably means flocking some things and deleting a few old drawings, so if you want to save things, you'll have to race me. x)
 
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