Hi y'all! It's me again, and I've decided that majoring in an artistic field was probably the best decision I have ever made...in my life! Now, I'm not exactly a fantastic artist or anything, I have my days when I draw decently and then other days when my stuff comes out looking like I was on acid or something. Anyway, that didn't stop me from majoring in Graphic Design...it's not exactly what I want to be in (I actually would prefer computer graphics, buuuut my college doesn't offer it, but I might decide to major in it somewhere else once I finish my Graphic Design stuff...we'll see), but it's still artistic, which is a plus for me! Anyway, while working on that major, I have decided to get my certificate in animation, that's right, animation!
First off, I'd like to brag up my animation teacher. He's also my adviser and might I say, he is one of the most interesting people I've ever met, but not in a bad way! He's one of those teachers, that on the first day of class, said to us "We're going to do some really boring stuff, so if you get bored, I fully promote that you doodle in your notes. It won't make me angry. Actually, I'd almost prefer to see you guys doodling in there!" AAAAAND for next Christmas break (2012) he's going to be taking art students to London for a motion graphics convention thing (I'm totally planning on going! London, here I come!)
Well, for our first animation assignment, we were told to create a story, only using still images. What I mean is, we had to make a two minute video, telling a story, but it had to be all done in still photos. So what did yours truely decide to make a two minute story about? Pirates vs Ninjas, baby! That's right, cuz I'm a BAMF like that lol Luckily for me, I have a handful of friends who love me dearly and were more than willing to dress up as Ninjas, Pirates, and little old ladies for me!
Ugh, well I WAS going to make this post incredibly long and I was going to grace you with many beautiful pictures of the process of my video being made....but the more I'm writing right now, the less motivated I feel to keep going...so here's the final product for my class. Be warned, none of the audio belongs to me! I snagged it offa youtube, which is why some of it really sucks....just thought I'd let y'all know XD
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Disgaea, The Game Series that Kills Brain Cells
Okay, so assuming that there are people who actually might read my blog and assuming they play video games...Here's my next post: A lovely tale of love, comedy, and bitter hatred! No seriously. This is what I feel when I play any of the games from the Disgaea series. For those of you who aren't aware of Disgaea
vvvvvv this is it
she's a relentless and narcissistic tyrant who's in charge of the Prinny's. After the rumored "OverLord's death" she basically just claims the title for herself and rules with the poor Prinny's with an iron fist. Well, one fateful night she freaks out and demands to know who stole her panties...really, I'm serious. Apparently they're a huge deal and rumors start circulating that if a person wears them over their head, the world will explode. I have yet to figure out if that's really why they were stolen, but who knows, it's rare that anything makes sense in this game.
to find and retrieve the almighty panties and return them from whence they came. Little to these exploding bastards know, though, what they get themselves into. As it turns out the Phantom Thief (couldn't find a good picture of him, but he looks like a warthog) took them. Why you may ask? Because he steals rare things! Rare things that have nothing to do with anything. And...no I don't know why these panties are "rare" and why this man-pig-man-thing decided to steal them but he did nonetheless and we have to get them back! 
Oh yeah, did I mention that you start the game off with 1000 lives and that throughout your first playthrough, you'll probably use all of them up? :) Yeah...This is where the "frustration" comes from!
But why do I love this game?! Well, mostly because of the ridiculous jokes behind it. I mean, c'mon, how can you read the plot of the game and NOT be humored by it. The game's also extremely crude and there's a lot of undertoned sexual jokes. I tend to forget how raunchy the game can get sometimes, then I'll read a bio of the shark monster which reads (be aware it's kinda taken out of context cuz I don't member word for word what it said but it was something like this): The most hansom shark under the sea. Hey baby, ya got some shark in you...Do you want some?
omg...lolz
*sigh* but yes, for those of you who have a PSP, it's a game I highly recommend. Even if you haven't played the original Disgaea games, this one's worth playing. It'll probably piss you off sometimes...more like ALL THE TIME, but it's running a race. It's painful doing it, but when you cross the finish line, the feeling you get it magical! It'll make you see unicorns and rainbows in your dreams! Or maybe that was just me X3X buuut that's all the time I have for today! Have a good day! XD
Off topic - I want to end on a very happy note:
ahahahahahaha...HAHAHAHAHAH...hehehehe...*sigh*
vvvvvv this is it
Well, it's at least a picture of the second game, but if you're a gamer, you should recognize the art and some of the characters. They happen to be the biggest thing that NIS America prides itself on.
The reason why this post is about Disgaea is because I'm currently playing one of the many spin-offs that came out for the PSP: Prinny 2.
What the hell is a Prinny?
Good question! They showed up in the original Disgaea and after that, it was just fate waiting to happen. Not only do these exploding penguins (yes, they're exploding penguins) show up a million times within a single sitting of playing the game and not only has NIS made the pathetic creature their mascot (kinda) but now they have their own game! Two of them, in fact, and just like the many Disgaea games before it, I ended up violently hating the game by the time I finished it...but for some reason, for the first time while playing the game series, it made me want to play it...over and over again. I had no idea such masochistic behavior was even possible, but it was like... stabbing myself in the foot. At first I cried out in utter pain and distress, but after the the torment faded, I realized "hey, this isn't so bad"...so I stab myself in the foot again....and then again...and then again until finally the whole foot just fell off. Okay, that might have been a disturbing metaphor. Let me replace "foot" with "brain" and it'll make much more sense because clearly, after playing the game, a person loses a large portion of their brain cells due to the idiocy...or lack of oxygen to the brain that the game creates.
After I finally finished the first game for the fifth or sixth time and was content on how much time I spent obsessing over it, I was finally able to convince myself to put the damn thing away and considered it one of my "have played til the end and have no intention of ever really playing it again." Well, apparently fate wasn't happy with me for doing that.
Literally two weeks after I put away the first Prinny game, I discovered the horror which called itself: Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood!
It happened while I was innocently strolling through the Mall of America with a handful of my friends. As we rounded a corner, we broke off into two groups; one group ventured over to some clothing store while the rest of us were magnetically drawn to the Gamestop that was across the aisle.
Now imagine this
*Poor innocent girl, strolling through Gamestop. She stops to scour over the PSP games. "Oh look! It's the new Blazblue game! I need to buy that yet!" Keeps lookings....
...
...
...
She gets to the "P" section of the games.
...
...
"......omg"
Needless to say... I then spent some of my vacation money on a game that I knew would continue to take its toll on my poor body. Seriously...I already lost one foot because of this damn game, no doubt I'll be confined to a wheel chair once I'm finished with the second.
And as expected...the second game is just like the first, amazingly difficult and frustrating, but enjoyable at the same time. There's no way that contradictory statement should be allowed to exist. That's why I'm now questioning my sanity.
So I should probably explain what the game's about, to give you guys an idea of what's going on. Now I coooould explain the first game to you, but I'm kinda short on time so I'll just jump to the second game (the two stories don't really have anything to do with one another anyway).
Sooo you got this demon named Etna:
she's a relentless and narcissistic tyrant who's in charge of the Prinny's. After the rumored "OverLord's death" she basically just claims the title for herself and rules with the poor Prinny's with an iron fist. Well, one fateful night she freaks out and demands to know who stole her panties...really, I'm serious. Apparently they're a huge deal and rumors start circulating that if a person wears them over their head, the world will explode. I have yet to figure out if that's really why they were stolen, but who knows, it's rare that anything makes sense in this game.So it's up the the Prinny's:
to find and retrieve the almighty panties and return them from whence they came. Little to these exploding bastards know, though, what they get themselves into. As it turns out the Phantom Thief (couldn't find a good picture of him, but he looks like a warthog) took them. Why you may ask? Because he steals rare things! Rare things that have nothing to do with anything. And...no I don't know why these panties are "rare" and why this man-pig-man-thing decided to steal them but he did nonetheless and we have to get them back! The game play is different from what we're used to seeing in the Disgaea games. The Prinny games are 2D side-scrollers (like the Sega's Sonic, or Mario), which is really cool, buuuut it makes the game difficult at times because it makes dodging enemies nigh impossible. Here's some pictures for you to see!
Oh yeah, did I mention that you start the game off with 1000 lives and that throughout your first playthrough, you'll probably use all of them up? :) Yeah...This is where the "frustration" comes from!
But why do I love this game?! Well, mostly because of the ridiculous jokes behind it. I mean, c'mon, how can you read the plot of the game and NOT be humored by it. The game's also extremely crude and there's a lot of undertoned sexual jokes. I tend to forget how raunchy the game can get sometimes, then I'll read a bio of the shark monster which reads (be aware it's kinda taken out of context cuz I don't member word for word what it said but it was something like this): The most hansom shark under the sea. Hey baby, ya got some shark in you...Do you want some?
omg...lolz*sigh* but yes, for those of you who have a PSP, it's a game I highly recommend. Even if you haven't played the original Disgaea games, this one's worth playing. It'll probably piss you off sometimes...more like ALL THE TIME, but it's running a race. It's painful doing it, but when you cross the finish line, the feeling you get it magical! It'll make you see unicorns and rainbows in your dreams! Or maybe that was just me X3X buuut that's all the time I have for today! Have a good day! XD
Off topic - I want to end on a very happy note:
ahahahahahaha...HAHAHAHAHAH...hehehehe...*sigh*
Thursday, September 8, 2011
I Put the "OC" back in "OCD"
Hey, look at this! It's my first post! Woot!
Well, I figured a perfect way to start off my blog is to impart unto the beautiful and complicated story of how the name Omicas Castle came to be XD It obviously has no relation to my legitimate name (Jessica Stoltz) and once it was birthed, it was a name that I decided to utilize multiple times throughout my lifetime, especially since it's such a unique title that I don't have to worry about "this name has already been used" issues when creating accounts or blogs or stuff. It's pretty nice.
OMG get on with the story!
Okay, okay! I'm getting there T_T
First off, I want to point out, I'm a fairly huge gamer. Lessee, I own a Wii, PS2, Sega, PSP, Xbox 360, (hopefully a PS3 soon), 2 Gameboy Advances, and some other things...but anyway this story begins once upon a time when I was playing a game called Suikoden III (which, may I point out, is a fantabulous game. If you've never played it, go out and buy it, like, NOW, DO IT NOW, RIGHT NOW!...ehehe) but anyway...
Throughout the entire game, you jump between four different characters. One of them is a young man named Thomas. He's one of those "extremely kind-but super gullible and gets walked all over" kinda people. The government he's associated with decides that they're going to make him the main man or mayor or something important to a small village that's located virtually in the middle of nowhere. It's really a pitiful situation cuz when he gets there, he finds a total of maybe 30 (?) occupants in this tiny village and they all practically molest him since he's their new leader and Thomas is all like WTFWATISDISSHIT?! (oh yeah, btw, I will probably swear frequently throughout my posts, you have been warned!) Anywho, he decides that he's going to turn this village into a thriving, bustling town that the other people of the country would like to visit, buuuuuut before we can even THINK about improving the town, the local klutz of a policewoman (who sports heavy bodice armor accompanied by a short, checkered schoolgirl skirt and a spear three times her height) points out that If we're gonna be super kick ass and show these people how friggin BAMF we are, we first need a name for the castle that you inherited through shady negotiations. Great, I have to name a castle...what does a person name a castle?
Now is also a good time for me to point out that I watch a lot of anime and read a lot of manga AAAAND that the first anime that forever ruined the rest of my innocent life was Knight Hunters (Or by it's more amazing name "Weiss Kreuz"). This anime is also where my first "anime crush" stemmed. He was a fairly emo character named Omi Tsukiyomi (I may have butchered that name lol) ...you see where this is going?
After watching Weiss, I had made it a habit of using Omi's name in video games and the such so I decided Omi Castle! I will claim this land in the name of Omiland and I will dub this castle Omi Castle! Bwahaha!* But then my next problem arose...
*flashback many many years ago*
Ummmm.... soooo does it add "Castle" at the end of the name automatically...or do I have to put "Castle" in the name myself *ponders a few moments* I'll just go ahead and add it *It ended up only being able to fit Omicas* Omicas....I guess it's okay. No one would probably get that it's supposed to be a CASTLE tho... *Time passes and we jump to Thomas talking to his creepy stalker wom-- I mean, police woman.
WARNING: the following conversation has been taken WAAAAAAAY outta context)
Thomas: This is great, whateverthehellhernamewas, we've really taken our first real step to building this dinky little town into a great nation what will take over the rest of the continent and we will rule with an iron fist!
Whateverthehellhernamewas: Ikr?! This is, like, totally awesome, man! With a little more work, the name "OMICAS CASTLE" will be striking fear in the hearts of peasants everywhere!
Me: T_T ....wait
My Sister: LMFAO
And that's how the name Omicas Castle came to be. I guess thinking about it now, it wasn't really THAT funny of a story, but at the time it made me do a dramatic face palm while accusing myself of being a moron (I take my gaming srsly, man O^O) Ehehe, yeah, so you should be learning pretty quickly about me: I'm a pretty special person XD
Well, I figured a perfect way to start off my blog is to impart unto the beautiful and complicated story of how the name Omicas Castle came to be XD It obviously has no relation to my legitimate name (Jessica Stoltz) and once it was birthed, it was a name that I decided to utilize multiple times throughout my lifetime, especially since it's such a unique title that I don't have to worry about "this name has already been used" issues when creating accounts or blogs or stuff. It's pretty nice.
OMG get on with the story!
Okay, okay! I'm getting there T_T
First off, I want to point out, I'm a fairly huge gamer. Lessee, I own a Wii, PS2, Sega, PSP, Xbox 360, (hopefully a PS3 soon), 2 Gameboy Advances, and some other things...but anyway this story begins once upon a time when I was playing a game called Suikoden III (which, may I point out, is a fantabulous game. If you've never played it, go out and buy it, like, NOW, DO IT NOW, RIGHT NOW!...ehehe) but anyway...
Throughout the entire game, you jump between four different characters. One of them is a young man named Thomas. He's one of those "extremely kind-but super gullible and gets walked all over" kinda people. The government he's associated with decides that they're going to make him the main man or mayor or something important to a small village that's located virtually in the middle of nowhere. It's really a pitiful situation cuz when he gets there, he finds a total of maybe 30 (?) occupants in this tiny village and they all practically molest him since he's their new leader and Thomas is all like WTFWATISDISSHIT?! (oh yeah, btw, I will probably swear frequently throughout my posts, you have been warned!) Anywho, he decides that he's going to turn this village into a thriving, bustling town that the other people of the country would like to visit, buuuuuut before we can even THINK about improving the town, the local klutz of a policewoman (who sports heavy bodice armor accompanied by a short, checkered schoolgirl skirt and a spear three times her height) points out that If we're gonna be super kick ass and show these people how friggin BAMF we are, we first need a name for the castle that you inherited through shady negotiations. Great, I have to name a castle...what does a person name a castle?
Now is also a good time for me to point out that I watch a lot of anime and read a lot of manga AAAAND that the first anime that forever ruined the rest of my innocent life was Knight Hunters (Or by it's more amazing name "Weiss Kreuz"). This anime is also where my first "anime crush" stemmed. He was a fairly emo character named Omi Tsukiyomi (I may have butchered that name lol) ...you see where this is going?
After watching Weiss, I had made it a habit of using Omi's name in video games and the such so I decided Omi Castle! I will claim this land in the name of Omiland and I will dub this castle Omi Castle! Bwahaha!* But then my next problem arose...
*flashback many many years ago*
Ummmm.... soooo does it add "Castle" at the end of the name automatically...or do I have to put "Castle" in the name myself *ponders a few moments* I'll just go ahead and add it *It ended up only being able to fit Omicas* Omicas....I guess it's okay. No one would probably get that it's supposed to be a CASTLE tho... *Time passes and we jump to Thomas talking to his creepy stalker wom-- I mean, police woman.
WARNING: the following conversation has been taken WAAAAAAAY outta context)
Thomas: This is great, whateverthehellhernamewas, we've really taken our first real step to building this dinky little town into a great nation what will take over the rest of the continent and we will rule with an iron fist!
Whateverthehellhernamewas: Ikr?! This is, like, totally awesome, man! With a little more work, the name "OMICAS CASTLE" will be striking fear in the hearts of peasants everywhere!
Me: T_T ....wait
My Sister: LMFAO
And that's how the name Omicas Castle came to be. I guess thinking about it now, it wasn't really THAT funny of a story, but at the time it made me do a dramatic face palm while accusing myself of being a moron (I take my gaming srsly, man O^O) Ehehe, yeah, so you should be learning pretty quickly about me: I'm a pretty special person XD
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