My heart's just not into the Madness series as I had once thought. Although I'm enticed by the cash-prizes, I got two weeks to work on this thing, and I haven't even drawn a single frame.

Moreover, my brother, who's an audio engineer, agreed to help me out with the audio file as much as he could by next friday. I just feel like I should've been preparing for longer if I was serious about entering Madness Day.

All I can think about is refining the story on Dick Neck; balancing the ratio of epicness, with good storytelling, structure, character development, action, and comedy.... I want to do all of those things to the Saga...

Yet, here comes Madness Day, here comes Halloween, I agreed to make an Awesome short, and Adam (hogabeast) and I have a great idea for a Star Fox short to knock out before I work on all that.

...By rushing in these two weeks for Madness Day...am I overloading myself? If I can make the Dick Neck sequel as good as I envision, it very well may be an easy Month winner....or even Month runner-up.

I want to make a Madness short...at least one. I need the cash to buy new tires on the bike so I don't skid on a wet-surface and die. But I'm just...tired, I guess.

Got Storyboarding homework...rendering with Maya tomorrow morning. I need to stop fucking around on the internet and get to work on this flash. If I could knock out that Warhammer 40,000 short in less than 48 hours, why can't I structure a simple Madness music video in two weeks?

...or thirteen days...

...twelve...

Fuck....No Film at Eleven yet, until I know I'm doin' it.

It's an original music-video flash, animated by myself, written by me, but featuring the music of my good friend, Thomas, and Adam (the mind behind "Rorschach's End") may help out with the singing.

In other news; all I needed was a new metal washer between the bolt on the bike and the back of the bitch-seat on the V-Star, and it's nice and secure. Now all I need is a bitch!

Starcraft matches between the three of us are getting more hardcore the more we play...Can't wait for Starcraft 2!

Also, the Warhammer 40K Collab is coming soon...hopefully before my Madness Day entry... and perhaps after a quick Halloween short, I'll get to work on both Dick Neck sequels.

...and I still got homework to do for Storyboarding...I love that I'm busy!

Film at Eleven!

Go ahead and relive the magic of Watchmen in the touching scene where Rorschach meets his demise in Rorschach's End.

In other news, I've been doing pretty decently a week and a half in at this new Community College.

I got
-Basic Graphic Design
-Storyboarding
-Rendering and Animating with Maya I
-and Intro to Computer Graphics.

All of them are prerequisites for a certificate program specializing in 3D and Game Animation. I can take what I learn from these classes and hopefully dish out better flashes here.

I also just recently bought a bitch-seat for the V-Star, so that's pretty awesome! I'm having difficulty understanding why it doesn't quite want to latch on in the back, but I'm sure it's no big deal, unless the chick riding with falls off because of it. (Great lol's to be held then, matey!)

Looking forward to trying new drinks this weekend. Also, my crew and I have been getting back into Starcraft, for lack of a better term "training" for Starcraft 2.

Also, there's two sequels in writing, and I just about have the full cast ready to rock...expect them more sooner than later.

EDIT: Holy shit, do you see the prizes Tom has set up for Madness Day!? I better hustle!

Film at Eleven! ...or at least on the 22nd!

Jellyous?

Well, this weekend's been fun. The bike is running better than ever since I got the battery replaced, and I've been talking to long-time friends again whom I haven't seen in years.

I also, stupidly I'll admit, I thought it would be a good idea to go swimming for a couple of hours in the cloudless heat of the day. Not only is my face, chest, back, arms, and stomach completely red-pink, but I do believe I have tiny blisters dotted across my shoulder length.

It hurts to move.

Gotta work on the flash...I've neglected touching it up at all for the past four days, and I can already feel Poozy's glare on my charred hide.

It's the twelfth...soon it'll reach the two-month mark if it hasn't already.

Gotta Hustle. Film at Eleven.

Art Portal's up, and it's totally cool! It has a bit of a problematic system, what-with-the Jenga like Scouting system...and before they took it down, they had an option in the left of the art for you to jump to more artwork by the same artist...I kinda miss that...but I digress; I'm sure that in time it'll be tweaked and messed with until it's...at least better.

The bike run fine! In one weekend of driving from Farmers Branch to McKinney and back, I've overcome my pants-shitting fear of being dragged beneath a truck's front bumper, and I've become more confident in riding a motorcycle...can't let my guard down, though, so I gotta keep a little fear along for the ride.

Poozy isn't being secretive about the collaborated Dick Neck project anymore, so that indicates it's nearing go-time. Gotta work double-time on DNO, before the joke completely dies...at least squeeze this in while it's still warmish...Jesus, this should've been done weeks ago.

No more distractions. Sinitech and I were working towards creating an "Awesometech 2" song for the Audio Portal, but that'll definitely have to wait. I was also going to submit newer work specifically for the Art Portal, and that'll have to wait too.

I've had my fun...I've slacked off far too much. It's time to work.

Film at Eleven.

The beast will soon be born...just got a new talent on board for the project!

In other news, check out my bike!

Now that I've gotten acclimated to riding it, I can focus on the flash again.

FILM AT ELEVEN!

...and the beginning of a Texas summer over here. I'm not really looking forward to it; our last winter, I spent most of the time outside in a t-shirt. That should be a huge red-flag that this summer heat-wave is going to be nothing short of crispifying.

By this time, I should have been making the final touches on a brand new flash project, that seemed to have sprout out of the ground in-between my own to-do list of animations. I'm just saying, for the handful of people that know to expect it, it'll be a week or so late...

...but, due to the opportunity this project is presenting me, and the big names that are collaborating with it, I refuse to cut corners on it's development like I did numerous times with Zone of the Awesome. Also, it was my intention to introduce my own style of animation in "Testing the Headset" (which hasn't been worked on since I started with this new flash) but it's looking like you'll get to see how my style kinda looks like even sooner.

I'm very excited for this project's completion. So far, it's the best animation I've made!

Also, the reason WHY it's late...in the past week, all of a sudden coming out of FUCKING NOWHERE, my oldest brother Joey sold the title of his 2002 Yamaha V-Star Classic 650cc cruiser to me...and just like that, by the next day, we're looking into Rider Safety Courses, Bike insurance, the whole thing.

This. Is. AWESOME. (holy shit) :D

In addition, just yesterday I spent 12 hours in a classroom in DFW to finally get a concealed hand-guns license. All sorts of shit is happening at once, and they're all awesome!

...But it's making me cautious, for some reason. Not to say that it's too good to be true, (I'm only using my gun as a last resort, and I know for a fact the bike runs fine) but I'm just keeping my guard up in case something comes along that fucks up this huge streak of fortune...whether it's a big accident on the road now that I'm on a bike, or if it's something else with the family, or even a woman.

Now that I have a set of wheels again, animation school up at Quad C is looking more and more likely.

I can't fucking wait for the Fall. Somehow I knew this year would turn out alright...

Film at Eleven.

UPDATE: I made a decent rap song this time! Check out Wingman vs. Fat Friend, vote honestly, and drop a review!

Sinitech and I have the intention to make another rap song in the future. There's a rumor floating around that even Elios will partake with us...oooohh! But first thing's first; I gotta finish this flash project (which is overdue)

UPDATE UPDATE: OMFG, I won the 4th Annual NG Idol in Photoshop! Thanks judges! There were absurdly good Photoshops up against me, I was almost certain I couldn't win...I'm honestly surprised!

With my confidence kinda knocked up a notch, you can bet your ass I'll make it difficult to win next year, so let's get to practicing, Photoshoppers! ;D

Get to watchin' Operation Neptune 2 and leave constructive feedback for the Author! Double-Time!

But shhhh....it's a secret...