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08/24/04 Sound mixing day 3 is where it's at. This is sort of the boring build-up to the more important day 4. 08/22/04 W00t! 2 articles in one day. Sound mixing day 2 is up. Technically it's no longer the same day, but I haven't slept yet. 08/21/04 New programming article, the first in a series on GBA sound. I've been meaning to do this for about half a year, and with the new compo starting up at GBADev, I figure it's as good a time as any to get it done. 06/28/04 New picture! And not bad at all for how long it's been since I drew. Well I did try to a couple of weeks ago, but the computer locked up cause I got tired of it and left it open for several days^^' This picture is extra cool though, because it was inspired by a long chain of events. First, I saw a picture by Bakenius at Oekaki Central that had a cool forest background, so I decided to draw a huge tree in a forest. Then I got to thinking how cool the mana tree in Secret of Mana is, so I listened to some music from it. One of the songs reminded me of the ending song from Castlevania 4, which reminded me of the cool scene with Dracula's castle collapsing while that song was on, so I decided to draw a castle. Then I couldn't figure out how to make it look good, so I used a snowglobe I have as a reference. Of course a castle isn't worth anything unless you have a warrior to challenge it, so I drew a dude with hair somewhere half way between Goku from DBZ and Crono from Chrono Trigger, and with Frog's cape^__^ I still haven't figured out how I knew not to make the sun round, but I think it was a good decision. Makes it look hazy like the end of the world is coming. Or something. I think I'm gonna do a manga starring him, even if he is a combination of commonly used character ideas. Sometimes those are the coolest, you know? I probably won't have much time for it, but hopefully I can get some nice action going for a while anyway. 05/26/04 3 new pictures today. One average model and one extra pretty one, and one quick one. Unfortunately, I have moved away from home and have neither a tablet or a scanner, so not many pictures 04/18/04 One old picture, which I forgot to upload after drawing, and one new, extra-cute model picture, which is my first use of shi-painter, which is now my favorite thing. Must draw more so I can use it again^^ Although I've been wanting more and more to do another realism-style picture, so I may not get to use the super-pretty pen tool much. I've heard SP has much nicer blending than the old oekaki though, and it does seem to in just the bit of lighting I did in that picture, so I should be able to beat my old realisms out of the water with the next one^^ The eternal question though: what to draw? Cute japanese girls are always the most fun, but I should probably try something else at least once^^' 03/21/04 I actually drew something! Nothing too spectacular, but still, it's a start on getting my drawing abilities revived. Although this week was spring break, and now it's back to homework land, so I may not draw again for a while. Unless I happen to run into a programming slump, that's usually when I'm at my best for drawing^_^ 03/09/04 New version of Quither uploaded to the programming section. Added support for raw data output, chopped the giant main function into a bunch of smaller ones, although I don't think it actually helps the readability of the source very much, and replaced the windows LoadImage function with my own bitmap loader, so the source should be fully portable now. Still no pictures. I've pretty busy with classes lately, so I don't have as much time as I'd like for programming, which means no time at all for drawing. 01/19/04 What on earth? The programming section has finally gotten an update! A tool for converting bitmaps to 8x8 tiles, each using one of 16 palettes of 15 colors each, useful for displaying high color images on 16-color tile layers in GBA games. 01/13/04 Another solids-only picture, which I drew a couple of days after the last one, but forgot to upload. I'm also working on a programming article on sound mixer writing, so hopefully that will be done sometime soon. 01/09/04 Picture^_^ Not much else to report, since the last update was only 2 days ago. 01/07/04 2 new pictures, one pretty old one that I never got around to uploading, which was a collaboration with KarissaEB, and one new one, which I think turned out so-so. Big improvement over the last one, but still a long way to go. I guess that's about it, other than RPG ramblings, which I've been trying to keep confined to my LJ, so I'll write in there sometime soon. 12/07/04 Realism Attempt #D, best yet. Still needs a little sharper shading, so I'll try to remedy that next time. Though I probably won't be doing anymore realism for a while, because for one thing, I haven't done full cel style in ages (except for a small, scribbly doodle-kaki I did the other day, but it still had a watercolor BG), and for another, I'm back into working on the RPG more than drawing. 11/27/03 Realism Attempt #C complete^^ The oekaki board somehow logged me out while I was drawing it though, so it died when I tried to send it. Luckily I print-screened it, but probably not many people will see it. Not much else to report. Going to my grandparents' house for dinner tomorrow. Work on the RPG is slow, as usual. I need a level-up in my tile drawing ability (that's what my siblings and I call it when you just go along slowly improving for a long time, and then all of a sudden something happens and you get a huge skill boost all at once), otherwise I'll never be happy enough to get anywhere. I think I might just settle for placeholder tiles so I can get some actual story done though. 11/20/03 Much new stuff, due to laziness when actually finishing it. #1, drawn shortly after the last update, #2, drawn a week or 2 after that, and #3, which is pretty recent, and was for a contest. Sadly, it only got second place. It seems like anything that involves other peoples' opinions of my work, I just can't make first place, but if it involves pure skill, I can. It's irritating. Except for the GBA demo, which did get first, but there wasn't really anything for it to compete against so I'll never know for sure how it would have done against some like last year's GBADev compo. 10/13/03 2 new piccies, Realism attempt #A, and realism attempt #B. The first one isn't that realistic (mostly due to the 10 minute grass cause I had to leave for class), and the second even has outlines cause I gave up. Prettier than it would have been if I'd kept trying to make it realistic though^_^ 09/21/03 First update in like forever, but it's a big one^_^ Most importantly, I've been working on my demo for the GBADev competition, which is of course complete, since the compo ended a few days ago. Download it here! And don't mind the corny name, I was in a hurry and couldn't think of anything else that would look acceptable on the cloudy background of the opening scene. Head on over to the programming section if you wanna download the source code to it. Next is this cool picture. Then there's the background image from the last scene in the demo, and the background music too. And last, a new MIDI. Still no name. I can't think of names for song to save my life. 07/18/03 Another update already^_^ Drew this shortly after the last update, but I decided to wait until today to update so I could talk about the martial arts clinic I went to today, but then I decided to write about it in my LiveJournal anyway. 07/18/03 Sorry for the delay in updates, I did draw another picture a week or 2 ago, but I forgot to upload it^^; New programming stuff too. I added the sound mixer, except for that darned music player is still incomplete, but I decided to upload it anyway for a guy at the GBADev forum. There's an article on making a C-buffer for software 3D engines (mainly focused on the GBA) too. Originally a post I wrote on the GBADev forum, but it was so long I decided to fix it up a little and call it an article. And last, but not... well I guess it IS least, added a little particle demo that I wrote in an hour or 2 a few months ago, just for the heck of it. 07/01/03 2 new pictures. One warmup, and one masterpiece^_^ And in programming news, my sound mixer works 100%. W00t! Not quite as fast as I'd hoped it to be (about 11% of the total CPU time), but still cool. Now if I can just get the music player for it working, then I can finally have something to update the programming section with^^ Now it's on to highly optimized assembly language tri-filler land~ Otherwise known as hell. But a good kind of hell. ^_^ 06/22/03 Ok, so I got my mouse working again and quit drawing for 3 weeks^_^; Well I did finally do another oekaki (check the Images page if you're wondering where I got the idea), and it was fun so I'll probably do another soon. But I have made quite a lot of progress on the demo I'm making for the GBADev competition, and quite a bit of RPG too, which I'll also enter in the compo, since you can enter a game, a demo, or both^^ I spent all day yesterday sifting bugs out of my sound mixer though, but it still doesn't work. To this day, I have yet to code a sound mixer that doesn't either make little click sounds every second or so, or occasionally lock up for no appearent reason. I have the inner loop down to a fine art, it's just the preparations that I have trouble with. 06/04/03 New oekaki, which I'll most likely do a mini-manga to show the whole story of^^ Aside from that, I have yet another cold. Seems like this makes about 5 or 6 viruses this year, and it's not even half over yet X_X Oh well, I opened up a can of whup-ass on it and pretty much killed it in 2 days. Now all I have to do is blow my nose every few minutes until all the remains are cleaned up. In programming news, my mouse still doesn't work, so not much progress. I'm pretty sure the serial port is dead, so I ordered a new one, which should be here any day. 05/29/03 Productive month^^ Actually more of just this week, since my programming computer's been out of commission. The new processor got here the day before yesterday though (right after I made that update), and it's up and running now (found the problem on the first try. Damn, I'm good^_^), except the mouse doesn't work. It's always had that problem though, so hopefully it'll come around soon. But anyway, the update. A high-speed, slightly messy oekaki. I'm starting to wonder if I should make seprate sections for oekaki and non-oekaki pictures. Seems like my best stuff lately is done in oekaki, but I can see myself doing mass quantities of doodling in the near future, so maybe I'll just make a non medium-specific doodle page. But I like having everything in one place, so I'm not sure what I'll do. Maybe I'll just put all that doodle energy into a mini-manga^^ 05/27/03 Golden Sun oekaki^^ And extra fun to draw too, since I didn't go crazy and work on it all day like I usually do. And between to the recent weekend/holiday preventing the arrival of my new processor, and this computer's disfunctional floppy drive, I still have no way to access my RPG files. I have a bunch of new tiles though, so it's not to bad. And I desprately need to make baddies and character battle sprites, so I think that'll be my project for today. 05/23/03 Finally a Photoshop picture instead of my recent strictly-oekaki drawing. However, there is still an oekaki too^_^ Unfortunately my programming computer has semi-died (caused errors constantly, so I tried to reinstall Windows, and now the installer causes errors...), so I haven't been able to work on the RPG much for the past week or so, but I think the problem is the cheap processor that's in it, so I bought a new Pentium 233 for it on EBay for $5.50^^ I think that as fast as the motherboard in it can handle, and it's an AT board, which means it's in an AT case, and all the P2/P3 MBs are ATX, so I'd have to buy a new case too if I wanted to make it any faster, and since I don't really need it any faster, I figured I'd just get an old CPU, since they're practically free. Hopefully it will be here in not too long so I can get back to work. I can still make tiles on this computer and design maps on paper (which actually seems to work better anyway) though, so I'm not totally disabled^^ 05/06/03 It's been longer than it seems since I last updated. Well I have 2 new oekakis this time. A semi-quickie and a deluxe model^^ In other news, there was a very tornadic storm the day before yesterday, which went north of here, but my mom, brother and self went out to chase it. Saw a few places where funnel clouds were trying to form, but no real tornadoes. When we got home we found out that there was one right where we were sitting, appearently a few minutes before we got there or we would have seen it. One of these days I'll see one for real, though hopefully from a safer distance than where we were this time^^; 04/16/03 New oekaki^^ I tried drawing this is Photoshop at first, but as usual it just didn't have a good feel to it, so I never finished the outlines. Then I did it as an oekaki and everything was fine. I think either I have to be forced to finish without much rest so I can't spend too long on one little thing, or drawing in a group is just more fun. 04/03/03 As usual, another oekaki, but I think I need to start drawing in Photoshop again so I can get this kind of quality without killing myself. But it's just so hard to keep working on a picture when you're not forced to sacrifice yourself to finish it as fast as possible so your brother and sister can have a turn with the computer^^; And I think I need to draw in oekaki resolution too. Well, I have another picture in mind, so we'll see how it goes. 03/29/03 Yet another new oekaki^^ Nothing too special about it, just doodling out of boredom. 03/20/03 2 new oekakis^_^ Delta and a temple, Delta in a forest. I've become an oekaki addict^^; Which is a good thing cause it's starting to revive my old drawing abilities again 03/05/03 Another new oekaki^^ And a very high quality one at that. Also, it's my dad's birtday today, so happy B, dad^_^ 01/27/03 New oekaki done at the Art Corner doodle board. I'm in the mood to do more too, so if you pray hard enough, maybe I'll come up with something in the next day or 2^^ 01/12/03 New acrylic painting uploaded, which is my first completed picture in months. Feels good to be back^^ 01/05/03 Months after my web site was deleted or something, I have revived it^^ And with a new, less pretty, but easier to deal with design. Soon this page will be filled with updates, rather than just a small block of text with a menu off to the side. But until then, go look at the other sections, which are much more interesting. |
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