Dancing Monkeys and cute Baseballplayers

Right!
Time for a new post.
I've been really busy the last days trying to get a lot of work done, not only for HelloFansubs but Mognet too - but I'll tell you all about Mognet at some other time.
Right now, it's time for my update on Hello!Fansubs for which I did two new songs. \o/ YAY! (two less to do off of my to-do-list).
Anyway. Since the release of °C-ute's latest single DVD "Temari no Uta II" was delayed for two (?) weeks I decided to work on some other stuff meanwhile. I already had some lines for the latest BerryZ Koubou single "YUKE! YUKE! Monkey Dance" done but wasn't finished with it yet. To make a long story short - I needed about 72 hours total work time to finish up yuke yuke which I split up across about 2 weeks, because I had some work for the magazine to do (as you can read in previous posts). So after Drazic told me 'what I was working on' (which was a quiz that only he answered) I decided to make an endspurt with the project and get it done as soon as I can.
I needed 2 more days of working nearly 8 hours to get it finished but I think the end product exeeds all expectations. With the help of fellow asscalc-mate Meitei I was able to pull of some really awesome effects like clipped \K effects and individual start/end/fade and shake options - which is awesome. I did learn some new stuff while working on this so I'm really happy about how this went.
The end product was well recived though people tend to be sparse with comments. But fellow typesetters who commented on it were really astonished and happy to see such a good outcome. And I totally agree with some, that this video might just be my best - so far.The other song I was working was the Rakuten Eagles support theme by °C-ute, which was released late march. I was thinking along the lines of: "to make c-ute fans happy since latest single won't be out for another two weeks at least". Unlike yuke yuke this video went fairly fast. I only needed one forenoon to get it out and it had some nice effects. I drew two parts of the official logo by the team the "E" and the "S" as shapes and let them fly. I also used stars and baseballs in it. Generelly I tried to keep the theme of the song in mind and the predecessor with GAM and what effects we used there. This wasn't as hard and therefore not really worth talking about though I was happy when I finished it. One less video to work on. Next will probably be the new °C-ute song which will be out next week.
As always I included pictures. The files are available in both Xvid and H254 encodes on the Hello!Online board tracker.

Well, that's it for now! See you again next time.

ps: I finally had time again to clean my flat. Goooooood, I'm so happy!

spaghetti esagerato

My headache is gone. YES!!! \o/
Today I wrote 8 pages for that magazine. One about AnCafe, °C-ute and Berryz Kobo. Also one about various artists in hello!Project which turned out to be 5 pages long. HELLOOOOOOOOOO~! That's way too much. I've been researching for it for like 2 hours. Way too long if you ask me - but who asks?
Anyway! Since I've been working on this stuff since I woke up (around 4pm) I was now hungry as hell so I set off to find something suitable in my kitchen.
As I already knew: nothing was there to it spot on, so I had to cook something. Well, shit. What did I still have?

I still had a few pieced of Schwarwälder bacon, which is a little salty and tart in flavor. I also had white mushroom, leftover zucchini and spring onions which I chopped and stir-fryed. After that I added some whipped cream (the normal one, not the sweet one, and still liquid) and soft cheese to get the sauce and cooked everything till the soft cheese melted. Now add some salt, pepper and italian spices and you're set.Itadakimaaaaaaaaaaaasu!
And I tell you one thing - that bacon tastes awesome in cream sauce!

Okay! Back to writing those left over articles! see ya!

Headache of hell!

Yesterday was hell. I was having one headache of hell all day and it hasn't lessend even yet. I even too two aspirin but it didn't help. Oh well. Wasn't able to finish one thing so I'm going to bed now. Hopefully tomorrow it'll be better?

Oh yes, before I forget it.
The day before yesterday a girlfriend was over and we were watching TV, talking and cooking.
We named this for the color it turned out - Yellow Greenish Food!
Basically it's rise which I dyed yellow with curry powder, chicken, zucchini, bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, yellow pepper and spices. We spiced everything with soy sauce, water and sour sweet sauce, salt, pepper, curry powder and italian spices (already mixed up) and cooked everything for about 20 minutes (till the rice was done).
it turned out really yummi.After we were done we decided to also put in two tomatoes since they were fresh and suited us. The endproduct looks something like this:

Damnit all to hell!

Okay, this day was like shit!
I was productive like hell, I just couldn't finish one thing. You don't know what I mean? Lemme explain!

Today I woke up really late - it was like 11:30am and I had my aunt over, so we cooked something, talked a little and I was already working on something which lastet till now. I'm currently working for a print magazine publishing news about japanese artists from various genres. I love the work but it's kinda hard if you have to finish like over 40 written articles and check them on being up-to-date, grammar, writing and so on. So I'm saying. since I woke up I edited 16 articles by writers of the online magazine - I'm also working for - which are also helping out at the print magazine, and I also wrote 3 myself today to get some of my workload done.
it's after 11pm now, I've been working on this for more than 10 hours, and we're still short like half of the articles we have to do. isn't that just frustrating? I also still need to write 6 pages about hello!project (which is okay, but will still need some time) and an article about AnCafe. I'M just happy I finished the Arashi, hide and YUI article today! I also edited my RAIN article which was hell. Have you ever tried to edit your own work after you had to edit it a month ago? I mean... it was this 51 lines article which I had to shorten to 41 lines. I wrote that one like a month ago and I had problems then too, because I had more information than I had the space to write! AAAARGH! And I still need to do fansub work today!
Double AAAARGH!

Gotta go. need to finish stuff!
Btw. Drazic recognised on what I'm working right now so I have to hurry up and finish it!
laters~

What am I working on?

Question for you all (at least those, that are interested...)What video am I currently working on?

if you guess right, you'll see it soon ;)


okay, you'll see it soon anyway... waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah~

EVA 1.0 and Colorful Rainbows

Today I'm happy to tell you about my latest works released, or tbr.

Yesterday Mognet released my karaoke for Utada Hikaru's "Beautiful World", a song i really love and at the same time the theme song to Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:序 , Evangerion Shin Gekijōban: Jo). We actually had everything done by the end of march but waited for the DVD to be released. As it turned out there is no DVD release of this song as of yet, which is why we had to release this crappy TV-Rip. *shudders* Please bear with us. I sincerly hope that this song will one time be released as a DVD and therefor I'm waiting to re-release this (huh, already talking about a release when this was just released yesterday). Anyway, there is a little thing in this video that I totally screwed up and only saw after we released it - the in-video typesetting says "Evangelion shin gekijoban: tsuide", which is wrong. I sincerly apologies for not noticing earlier on.
The effects itself are really great. I used a miniature earth to fly behind some parts of the video and made a kind of wave effect for another, and some other effects you'll discover when watching the video. I hope you'll all like it. Here's the picture:But since I'm always a busy-tomo I finished some longstanding projects for ya all to see in the next few days/weeks. This one is going to be released later today...
7 nin Matsuri - "Summer Reggae Rainbow" is the last missing video from the Morning Musume. 2001 shuffle units. Some people asked last year if and when we'll release this but we've been too busy to do it last year and releasing it in winter would have been wrong. I hope you all won't die from anticipation, but here it is:Thanks go to LAILU for his outstanding timing skills in this one. He made some of the nifty effects possible by timing the script accordingly. I held the effects a little subdued due to the colorful color sheme used in this video. I don't thing I really have to tell you more. Please enjoy.

Both videos are available through Mognets Torrent page.

or so I thought...

... or so I thought...

Pirates, Milk tea and Bonds!

What do you get if you combine lovely pirates, a tea cup full of milk tea and the bonds of a women to her beloved and the eternal thanks for being able to enjoy them?
... God, that was turgid talk.

Nevertheless, that's what the three new releases for Hello!Fansubs are about. Right after I came back from Frankfurt I worked on new videos to get some off of my to-do list (which is still awefully long *sigh*). The first to be released is the pirate song: "Hyokkori Hyoutan-jima" by Kusumi Koharu, Mitsui Aika, Junjun, Linlin. from the Morning Musume Concert Tour 2008 Haru ~Single Daizenshuu!!~. It's actually one of my favourites since in the original version Yaguchi looked really lovely. The PV of this song was released a long while ago by someone else, but since I didn't really like the effect then I asked if I could release this version instead. Obviously it was okay.
The second song to be released was the latest Single Release by Matsuura Aya - kizuna. For obvious reasons I had to do it myself (see my german pv groups name). It turned out quite lovely - at least that's what I think. The pv is rather boring, the song itself is very strong. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did.
The last one to be released last week was a re-edition by H!F. The video was first released by Gakisan-Fan. We from H!F asked him if it's okay to work on that song again and make a better karaoke for the song. Unfortunately I had time most of the song new as to fit my effect ideas. For the first effect I used little falling stars shaped as the headlights behind the girls on the stage. The second effect is a lemon falling down and breaking apart into lemon slices. I looks really nice and not too overpowered. We also used the same coloring as the girls wear in their costumes. I really love this song. Performes was the song "Lemon Iro to Milk Tea" by Niigaki Risa, Kamei Eri, Michishige Sayumi, Tanaka Reina, Kusumi Koharu at the Morning Musume Concert Tour 2006 Haru ~Rainbow Seven~.
Guess that's it for now. I caught up on all the done releases in the english scene. YAAAAAAAAY!!
No back to getting some new stuff done. Keep coming back!

Latest Mognet Releases (June '08)

Right before I went on hiatus and before we went officially on break for July Mognet release some of my new works. Here's a summary:

First on our list of new releases is my personal favourite. Natsukawa Rimi - nada sou sou is one awesome song and was also her work that made her really popular. Right about now it's one of the standart songs for karaoke machines. The song is a little diffrent than others since it's ryukyuu singing style with a little pop-influence. You still shouldn't miss out on it.The next video release I actually made like 8 months before we released it. Kumama had some problems encoding it and then it was forgotten. Luckily in the end we were able to release it - which I'll be eternally grateful for. We actually released the normal and the DanceShot version of this song. I know it was already relaesed by H!F - but, strange as it is, I was actually way before that finished with mine - we just hadn't encoded it then. I'm taking about °C-ute - Tokaikko Junjou...

And here's the last one before I was away. It's actually the first of our Summer Song theme. We're going to release more in the upcoming 2 months - but here it is: Ai Otsuka - SmilyI really had lots of fun working on this one. Some said the font choice for the translation is a little odd, but you'd have to take a close look on the t-shirt Ai is wearing. It's actually the same font!! Oh well.

That's it. As always you're able to get the releases on Mognet's tracker site and maybe stop by at our page. Kumama and Stilzkin worked some wonders on the new page. We also have a new forum board and blog function on the site, which are awesome. Take a look and maybe leave a comment?
See ya in the next post!!!

Hello!Fansubs (May '08)

Okay, I'm really behind things. This is an update on H!F releases done in May (two months ago). Personally I'm and Elder Club fan - any Hello!Project fan knows what I mean - and I really loved the Winter 08 concert they did. Due to that we worked on two performances of the tour. Both were released in May.
Here they are:
The first one we released was the Elder Club 2008 version of "Joshikashi Monogatari", which are actually a few lines for each member of the group. It's pretty nice to have an elder version of that song.The other release is also from the same concert, but a much older song. The original version was released 1999 by T&C Bomber (another long forgotten Band). "ENDLESS LOVE ~I Love You More~" was performed by Maeda Yuki, Inaba Atsuko, Miyoshi Erika and Okada Yui. Inaba Atsuko is the only original band member still left from T&C Bomber. She's currently a soloist and MC for H!P. The video effect idea came from the star shower at the beginning seen on the TV-Screens in the background. I actually used small hearts. Something you'll problably not see is that the effect alone cost me 6 hours to make since it's a lot of diffrent layers on top of the other to generate that small strip of white to move around. I definitly won't do an effect like that again - YEECH! Other than that, please enjoy!
As always, these releases are available on the Hello!Online Tracker site. You'll probably have to register to get them.

HaroRangers - 2nd release

It's been some time since I released something for HaroRangers, but right before I left they released one of my works. This one being of one of my favourite Johnny's Associates Bands and a really awesome song.SMAP - Dangan Fighter is a little slow in coming. The video is held in grey colors at the beginning and chances to colors in the middle. I tried to go with the scheme and had grey primary colors and only a color highlight.
I acutally liked it a lot.

お久し振りです。 (ohisashiburi desu!)

お久し振りです!!!

Ohisashiburi desu! Long time no see. Sorry, that - again - I wasn't able to update this blog. Here now is a brief summarise about what happend and what didn't happen.

* ) Been on hiatus since late may and wasn't able to finish one thing I had planned. Obviously I wasn't able to pass my test, which results in me doing all my tests in october again. I also wasn't able to work on my paper - which should actually be done till august 7th. Well, now. Things don't always work like you want them to. *sigh*
* ) Was at an internship at a publishing company in Frankfurt on the Main in July. It's been fun, but I didn't learn much new. Basically I was writing stories for two of their magazines. Oh well. I'm happy I was able to go there - though it was really expensive *shudders*At least I was able to visit an old friend near Koblenz. Wonderful scenery around there... Really! I've never seen the Main River before.
* ) Since I wasn't at home and I currently don't have a laptop (which broke down late June) I was able to read a lot of books. While being in Frankfurt I was able to finish 9 books. YAY for me!
* ) My Grandmother was treated for spine problems and had to undergo an surgery. Everything was fine but I never prayed as much as I did on that day - I swear to God.
* ) My Account on YouTube was deleted. Since then I wasn't able to write anything on this blog as I had lots to do... which results in me not updating and writing on my latest works - going to remedy that now.

Okay. That's it for short.
Going to talk on some other things now...

Here's a picture from my work station at the publishing agency - unspectacular, but at least it had internet and I could stay longer than I had too.

addendum

Some time ago I wrote about being praised for one of my works - which was Naruto Shippuuden's latest Opening (at that time) "Ikimono-gakari - Blue Bird". I said, I'd upload a cut for you to see for yourself... so here it is: