Hello again!
I've already been back since monday this week but I was so busy, that I totally forgot to update. So here I am again. Back in my apartment, alone, and a little depressed. Today (actually yesterday) I had the first exam of a quite few I have to take this semester and guess what? Yep, I totally misjudged the enormity of the learning matter. So anyway, bottom line is, that I totally screwed up and I have to take it again somewhen in november.
This totally screws up my motivation and everything but it's definitly all my fault. First I missjudged the time I still had till the test, then I missjudged the enormity of the matter and in the end I just read books.
Bad, I know. *sigh*
Anyway, enough of the gloom. I want to tell you about the two new authors I'm currently reading. Since "Twilight" - the movie by Stephanie Meyers is coming out somewhen in december I really wanted to read the book before the movie was out - so I bought it (the book) and read it all in one day. I wasn't too sure if I'll like the genre as it's paranormal ficton for young adults. I'm normally the adult-genre reader - But In The End: This series is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay amazing and totally captivating. I couldn't keep down the book long enough to eat a proper meal. It's really great and I hope the movie is going to be as great - cause, it's definitly a home dvd buy! YES!
After finishing up the first book, I looked around and it's actually an amazing quadrilogie. I totally buyed those books right then and when I came back home on monday I had four shiny new books here. YAY \o/. I've actually been only skipping through the other three books and I definitly want to read them full as soon as I have my tests finished up. But I've also been reading some strange critics about those other three. Presumable the fourth book was diffrent and hence not quite liked. I prefer to form my own opinion so I'm definitly going to read it. Right now I can't affort the time to read *sigh* ;_; A sad fact!
While browsing through Amazon I also found another series by an author named P.C. Cast, and her daughter Kirsten Cast named "The House of Night" - a vampire school series for young adults about a kickass girl names Zoey Redbird, who is thourouly disgusted with her no-caring mother and step-loser dad, till in the blink of an eye her whole life changes, as a vampyre tracker marked her as one of the night creatures. Zoey is thrown into a world of pagan rites, gifts granted by the vampyre queen Nyx herself and schemeing old adults.
An amazing new book series is thrown at us with currently four books out, though there is bound to be more to come. I googled up the authors: P.C. Cast is actually quite known for her reenditions of some popular heroic saga material mixed up with modern 21th centuary women at Berkleys (one of my favourite book publishers) and I'm currently buying those books - can't resist. Her daughter is a Biology student, author, poetist and journalist. Amazing!
But there goes one of my ideas for a book. +sigh+ Too bad, I didn't start working on my scripts earlier. Anyway.
Please check out these amazing authors if I love vampire fiction. You're bound to be captivated!
Sore ja! That's it from me for today. I'm going to finish up a new PV now and then it's time for bed. Oyasumi!
Finally my book arrived. I've been waiting an additional week for it to get here and I'm very pleased to finally have it in my hands. I've been reading it twice since tuesday last week. It concluded a lot of open storyline and opened up some new stuff and introduced new characters. I hardly can wait for the next book "Dark Slider" somewhen next year. Hopefully Feehan will revail soon who's starring the next book. I've got a lot of interesting ideas, but it's always nice to have it confirmed.
As always the release is available through Mognet's torrent page. Feel free to leave comments!
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.
Itadakimaaaaaaaaaaaasu!
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:
What video am I currently working on?
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...
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.
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...
I 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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Hey everyone!