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Digging through /w/ on 4chan today, found a few nice Code Geass caps from the new OP that started with episode 13. Picked out a few to trace, first up was Anya. Not my favourite character of the series by any means, but I thought this one was worth tracing anyway.
Yes, lack of 4:3 and 5:4 ratios this time. Combination of laziness and widescreen source. Who doesn’t have a widescreen these days anyway?
Ok, first thing’s first, there’s a new season coming up, and that means summer anime. Usually a good thing. Only nearly everything this upcoming season is guaranteed to suck. It’s either mystery/supernatural genres, or stonking great tits and a plot if you’re lucky. So I’ll be more focused on clearing my backlog of stuff.
That said, there are some gems this season. Continue reading ‘Upcoming Summer Stuff, and Lucky Star - wait, what?’
So I guess with the new season a few weeks in, I should post some thoughts on what I’ve seen so far. Let’s get the regular Studio DEEN abortion out of the way first.
Vampire Knight: I think I said this one would be a hit and a miss. Turns out whoever was shooting was blind, deaf and dumb, because it was a huge miss. The animation isn’t bad, and the hair is way too detailed (DEEN seem to have a habit of this, see Shion no Ou), but I think this says it best:
[it’s] aimed squarely at the creepy yaoi fangirl demographic
Now, with that out of the way, the stuff that doesn’t suck. And I’m pleased to report that if you steer clear of the obvious bad shows (To-LOVE-Ru and Kanokon, I’m looking at you!) there’s a lot of good coming out of this season.
Continue reading ‘Spring 08: The Good, The Bad and the DEEN’
I swear one of these days I’m going to go postal on whoever had the bright idea of inventing the DMCA. It does absolutely nothing to protect copyright, but does plenty to kill the honest work of open source projects. Like CoreAVC for Linux, for example. This project did not borrow or steal any code - you still required a copy of CoreAVC to run it. Yet we must constantly be in a think-of-the-children mindset when it comes to copyright, and it’s really starting to piss me off something chronic.
If copyright holders are so worried about their rights that they think tying the hands of honest customers is the way to go, then in my opinion, they don’t deserve copyright.
Update: It seems CoreCodec have realised the error of their ways, and I applaud them for vowing to work more closely with the open source community. That said, this highlights the fundamental flaws with the DMCA - it’s a shoot first, ask questions later policy which is so open to abuse it isn’t funny.
So apparently putting Lightbox and K2 in the same Wordpress install is like putting a baby in a rhinoceros enclosure. Turns out it doesn’t quite play nicely with K2’s Javascript functions. Grabbed (and slightly modified) another Lightbox plugin, and this one seems to work. Touch wood.
Anyway, new trace. Long overdue, this time it’s Blair from Soul Eater. Who can resist catgirls?
The first trace in a while I’ve done pretty much exclusively in Illustrator. Discovered a few neat tricks (notably Live Paint) that speed up the process tenfold in Illustrator CS3.
So I’ve created my own variation on /b/’s rule 34. Mine goes something like this: if it exists, there’s a caramelldansen of it.
The final subbed episodes of Spice and Wolf and Shigofumi being released overnight reminded me that it’s about time for another anime-related post. And that is what’s coming up next season. And it’s a biggun!
Update: I’ve dug up a few of the PV’s on Youtube and added them to the post.
Continue reading ‘Spring ‘08 Anime’
So I’ve been waiting for this little game on the Wii called Super Smash Bros. Brawl. You may have heard of it. And being an Australian, I’m left with the choice of waiting six months while everyone else tells me how awesome it is, or I could go the filthy, filthy pirate method. I opted for the latter.
Now this is the first dual layer game for the Wii. And as a result, many people are having trouble even reading the original disc. The Wii is even more particular about burnable discs, so I tried to find a decent brand to burn my copy. For some reason, I had this idea that Imation were a fairly reliable brand, so I picked up a pack of 10 for $30 from Officeworks. Not a great price, but I’ve seen worse.
After patching the game to run as well as possible on a PAL machine thanks to a few people over at GBAtemp, I burnt it and waited the forty-five minutes it takes for a dual layer disc. Popped it straight in the Wii, and, oh noes. “Unable to read disc”. For what it’s worth, this is the same error many people have been getting with the pressed retail discs, so it wasn’t necessarially my modchip or even the discs.
Continue reading ‘Wii, Brawl and filthy, filthy lasers’
So my 360 arrived this morning, and I’m still nowhere near finishing Kingdom Hearts 2. I blame the goddamn Demyx battle and goddamn Timeless River. Quick time events get me in the angry dome.
Anyway, I’ve gone ahead and created myself one of these newfangled gamer tags, which you can see over to the right. Feel free to go ahead and add PantsOfPie. PiePants was taken.
I’ll most likely be buried deep in Forza Motorsport 2 for the next few days.
I think I’ll set myself a goal for this weekend. I need to try and finish Kingdom Hearts 2 before Super Smash Bros Brawl comes out (9th March), and before my Xbox 360 arrives (probably 5th or 6th March, depending on how generous Australia Post are feeling).
I have a feeling that could be a little tricky considering how I’m only at Mulan’s world as it is.