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I got Pokemon Y on Christmas which is later than I would've typically gotten a Pokemon game. It's worth noting that I've only made it up to Arti's gym in Pokemon White2. And in Y, I've just beat the second gym leader and stopped after that. Simply put, I've just lost interest in the Pokemon games and overall, I'm just losing interest in the franchise in general. Even the anime is boring me and at this point, I'm just keeping up with new Pokemon anime-related news from Pokemore's Twitter feed. I still will draw the characters and probably think of backstories for them but overall, I'm done.
I'm also taking a break from Nintendo as a whole. When Zelda Wii U comes out, I may consider getting it though first off I don't even have a WiiU. Right now, I'm mainly a pc gamer and I have Steam and I'm being exposed to games that I never got into or never would've gotten into. I've played Fallout: New Vegas, Rust, Minecraft and started playing Just Cause 2 and I'm glad to be exposed to new stuff.
I'm also kind of getting bored of drawing Misty and forget about doing ideas involving her. I felt they've all been done and I've just simply lost interest.
In the past 6-8 months I've discovered a new love of technology and programming. I'm also investing more time into serious painting, and money into music production equipment.
One of my goals is that once I figure out how to paint backgrounds, I'll do a guide and try to break it down to the core principles and that's the same with the Pokemon art tutorials. So often people are taught to draw with symbols and not shapes and forms. If you learn to draw in symbols, you'll only be able to draw from one view and not use what you learn to draw in multiple views.
Sadly, the more I've learned, the less confidence I feel in what I do.
I know I'm crazy for this but
I want to produce an anime.
Moreso an ova sort of like what they did with Pokemon BW2 where I take some crucial parts of my Night Troupe story and make them into legit anime. I used to think it was absurd to attempt something so hard but I saw this guy on Youtube by the name of Klfiretears and he managed to make some cool stuff, albeit it looked tedious. However the edge he didn't have that I do have is that I know how to use 3d animation software which could enable me to rotoscope an animated body.
Man I'm crazy.
Possible Youtube video tutorials coming up
While images can teach you a lot, sometimes videos are effective in ways that images miss.
Right now I have a video where I did a drawing exercise and I will commentate over it, explaining what I do in the process. I'm hoping that this can complement the future image-based tutorials I have planned because I think I can get these video tutorials out sooner.
maybe I'll livestream a painting session tonight
I've got an account on Justin.tv and I know how to get the broadcasting software I have to stream through it, the only problem is that Justin.tv requires you to have a membership to comment in the chat. The solution would be using a chat widget on my Deviantart page.
I intend on getting my Twitch tv account set up to do streaming because that site is more popular
I'll update this entry if I have enough energy to stream/paint after this Google groups meeting involving a 3d role model of mine who helps provide the juice for me to keep on truckin.
The new imageboard is now live
At http://pokeimg.booru.org/
I will be in the process of uploading pictures from the zips I had on my MediaFire.
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I think it was the fact that Gen V was such a short and quick gen that it and Gen 6 kind of blur together. I mean it felt like Hoenn and Sinnoh went on a really long time, especially when they were originally going on.
As for the Pokemon anime in general, well, it is what it is. Ash's character should have been retired at the end of DP, if the writers actually let him win a league and challenge Cynthia back then. I think the problem is now is that all the new female companions feel like "repeats" of previous female companions now. Iris was largely a dragon type version of Misty, and now Serena feels like a mix of May and Dawn into one character.
It's kind of funny in a way. Back in 2003-2004 many people correctly predicted that Misty would never return to the anime as a main character, and that the original trio would never be reunited. Looking back at it now 12 years later, its so amusing all those people turned out to be right. It's kind of hilarious that people tried to make such a big deal out of Misty back then, even though she stayed gone ever since 2002, and her cameos stopped entirely by 2005...only three years later. The writers really weren't kidding when they said they would be getting rid of Misty for good.
I haven't watched the anime in full since DP ended either, but that's because I feel like I've seen enough of it now that it was a good place to stop. Even though I might like some of the newer characters in the show like Cilan, Clemont and Bonnie....I just can't emotionally invest myself in characters like I used to...so its not a big deal for me. Although it makes me wish these characters all existed earlier in the series...like if they got rid of Brock after the end of Johto and Cilan was there in Hoenn and Clemont was there in DP...would have been cool.
As for the Pokemon anime in general, well, it is what it is. Ash's character should have been retired at the end of DP, if the writers actually let him win a league and challenge Cynthia back then. I think the problem is now is that all the new female companions feel like "repeats" of previous female companions now. Iris was largely a dragon type version of Misty, and now Serena feels like a mix of May and Dawn into one character.
It's kind of funny in a way. Back in 2003-2004 many people correctly predicted that Misty would never return to the anime as a main character, and that the original trio would never be reunited. Looking back at it now 12 years later, its so amusing all those people turned out to be right. It's kind of hilarious that people tried to make such a big deal out of Misty back then, even though she stayed gone ever since 2002, and her cameos stopped entirely by 2005...only three years later. The writers really weren't kidding when they said they would be getting rid of Misty for good.
I haven't watched the anime in full since DP ended either, but that's because I feel like I've seen enough of it now that it was a good place to stop. Even though I might like some of the newer characters in the show like Cilan, Clemont and Bonnie....I just can't emotionally invest myself in characters like I used to...so its not a big deal for me. Although it makes me wish these characters all existed earlier in the series...like if they got rid of Brock after the end of Johto and Cilan was there in Hoenn and Clemont was there in DP...would have been cool.