Bargain Bin Hunter: Toy Story 3

And now for something a little bit different.

Khatru 74!

Leah might look grumpy on the outside, but in her heart of hearts she's overjoyed that Khatru 74 has been posted to Shastrix!

So hey, remember last time, when I said I was starting a new project, and you'd see something about Neal Stephenson's Anathem soon? Turns out it might be about Toy Story 3 instead. Depends on which one gets filmed first. Look forward to that, I guess!

Khatru Remastered #1

Preee-senting, Khatru Remastered! The inks are inkier (actually there's ink period). The lines, straighter! The size, standardized!

More to follow!

Khatru 73! And a much longer blog post than usual!

Khatru 73 has been posted to Shastrix!

Google Sketchup is really a wonderful program, especially for someone who is terrible at drawing consistent perspective. This is the first time that House 4 actually looks like a real, livable space. To the right and slightly below, you can see the original depiction from Khatru #1. Wow. Just wow.

The only real art training I've ever had was in middle school, with creepy orange Mr. Bergmeier. He was the token probably-dangerous-pedophile teacher at that school. Anyway, I'm losing focus. Yeah, the last time I drew perspective was middle school. Now, with Google Sketchup, I don't have to worry about it! I can just position the camera where I want it, upload that view into Photoshop and trace over it! It's amazing!

Anyway, enough with the infomercial crap. What I have been doing: 

Well, work mostly. Besides that I've been working on getting some of my stories up to snuff (Older versions of several of my stories can be found here at the website I built for Khatru in one of my classes. I'm not sure how long that site will stay up, because I'm no longer a student). Eventually I plan to use Blurb to self-publish them in a book. I may sell them down the road, but that's in the future. 

The other major thing I've been working on is an evolution of my old reviews here. You may have noticed that  I haven't been doing much in the way of reviewing movies, books or music. Part of that is that I haven't really seen many movies lately that are worth commenting on. The other part is that I'm starting to plan out a series of video reviews. I have a couple of ideas for the different focuses the series will have (Bargain Bin Hunter, Big Screen Adaptations, etc) and hope to begin filming them soon. Look for the first one, on Neal Stephenson's book Anathem soon.