The hell did I never know about this thing?!



Kinda sexy.

mood: surprised tags: hellboy, movies, video

I always wanted to see Helmut Zemo face the people he's wronged over the years. But most of them seem to be dead. However, I think the kids are still alive. I always thought it would be an interesting story if his brainwashing had a negative effect on some of them that couldn't be fixed--they were traumatized, shunted from orphanage to foster home, never got adopted, ran away or were kicked out at eighteen; some became villains, or tortured heroes, etc. and eventually sought revenge on him for robbing them of their childhoods in a way their original abusive parents never could, by making them enjoy his special brand of abuse. So I drew some sketches.



More Underlords stuff.



More Cthulhu.

mood: bored tags: art, concept art, sketchbook

Realizing Scrounge was probably dead already in the smelting pool, Blaster went after his buddy anyway, and Cosmos and the others had to come after him and save his hide (video evidence of Cosmos' rampage through Darkmount is still used to scare Decepticon recruits).

-TF wiki



When the war began, Cosmos quickly joined the Autobots. Cosmos was present on the command bridge of Optimus Prime's ship as it was being readied to launch and intercept the All Spark and Megatron. Like many of his fellow Autobots, he abandoned the dying world in hopes of locating the All Spark somewhere in the vacuum.

-TF wiki

tags: transformers

Nominations are Best Picture, Film Editing, Visual Effects, Writing [Adapted Screenplay].

This film was one of the best of the year*, and I really hope it walks away with one Oscar. I know that there's no way in hell they'll give it Best Picture because it's SF and a crying woman with cancer wasn't in it, but it could definitely win one of the others, unless Avatar steals Visual Effects from it. Damn you, Avatar, I just don't get the hype for this movie (yes, special effects are ground-breaking and industry-shaking, blah blah blah, so were the effects for Transformers and it won squat in that department).

If it doesn't win, little Oliver will look as he does in my icon :(.

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*One day I'll gush properly about the technical and storytelling aspects that made it such a good movie, and why it's better than most special-effects movies that share its category, but not today.

mood: excited tags: movies

Dumbass city votes against more taxes....

...and now they've lost services.

COLORADO SPRINGS — This tax-averse city is about to learn what it looks and feels like when budget cuts slash services most Americans consider part of the urban fabric.

More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.

The parks department removed trash cans last week, replacing them with signs urging users to pack out their own litter.

Neighbors are encouraged to bring their own lawn mowers to local green spaces, because parks workers will mow them only once every two weeks. If that.

mood: giggly tags: america fuck yeah, news

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Yesterday I went and visited the gang at the comic shop for a few hours and tried to see if I could get my job back. I borrowed the Reign in Hell trade (shhh) because I've been wanting to read the whole thing for a while. I also borrowed Nomad: Girl Without a World #1, which is great and has an awesome cover, and the pilot for Demonic, which was also very good (the art was kinda meh). It's amazing, though, how made Kirkman has it--he gets to pilot five comic books and he's already a big name in the industry.

My buddy Sam-Sam has a writing class dedicated to comics, and she wants me to illustrate six pages of the 25-page story. I told her as long as I can use it for my portfolio, and she said that was fine. So next quarter I'll be doing that. Another guy who hangs around there is still working on getting his superhero-themed bar off the ground, and I'm really looking forward to that place opening up, even though I don't really drink. I just hope he hires someone to walk around in costume going, "Citizen, you've reached your limit." The hero could be named Buzz-kill or something.

mood: okay tags: comics, macro, update

Who knew that someone would care enough to make movie concept art of COSMOS?!

mood: excited tags: transformers

Man, I've been an asshole on ONTD today.  I think I'm just venting out my emotions/frustrations with school. I hate modeling, you guys. D:

mood: annoyed

Most of these are from middle 2007 to early 2008, I'd wager. I had recently gotten into the Transformers cartoon prior to the 2007 film since I was a GI JOE fan already (makes...sense, right?), but the film and subsequent fandom really got me energized to make media, which I came across not too long ago when I was browsing through an old Photobucket account.


I also found this old first draft of a picture I was working on in like 2007, but never improved and finished. Should do that one of these days.

mood: amused tags: art, icons, transformers

So my midterm for Advanced Modeling is a praying mantis.

I am actually terrible at modeling--I make the equivalent of stick figures.

This was the only marginally good thing I ever created. All hail Lord Tentacles!

 

mood: pensive tags: art, i suck, modeling, school

So apparently, as the Captain America movie draws closer, people are starting to cast the shit out of Baron Zemo, the 12th. What caught my eye was the constant choice of Ralph Fiennes amongst fans. You know, the Republican love interest in Maid in Manhattan? Also, apparently he's Lord Voldemort in the movies.

Personally, I think Ralph would work better as Helmut Zemo, but either way he looks the part:

I know I've been posting a lot about DVDs and shit, but given my schedule, I'm pretty much trapped in the apartment with cascades of portfolio homework, and DVDs to keep the place noisy. Before that, I was literally trapped in the apartment with nothing to do but watch DVDs. Proper cable or satellite is a no-go.

So it got to the point where I had to again re-watch something I've already seen in my collection, or bite the bullet and watch Jason X, a film I bought about six months ago but have been too scared to watch, given its status as Worst Jason Move Ever in the fandom.

I watched it, and the opening credits sequence was amazing. The opening was pretty cool, with lots of action and a neat heroine. The film continued, with some cool spaceship scenes, Jason killed people as he is wont to do, and before the end of the film I was thinking, This is actually pretty good! I don't know if I'm not the right kind of fan, or if my tastes are really really really bad, but this movie was way better than the remake. For one thing, the plot was fast, it wasn't bogged down by tedious sex scenes, and the characters were action heroes instead of stoners. Also, A MINORITY LIVES BY THE END HOLY HELL WTF. Then I watched the Director/Writer commentary, and their creative decisions were backed up by VALID POINTS.

I really don't get the hate for this film. In Jason Lives, he was resurrected by a lightning bolt. In The New Blood, he got his ass kicked by a telekinetic girl and her abusive zombie father. But in Jason X, the one where he goes into space, which is actually something that people do, the fans decide that the studio has gone to far.

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A while back there was a discussion on transficsation  about fanon in Transformers fic, and one example was Soundwave's loyalty to Megatron. Some argued that his loyalty was not actually canon. To which I say BULLSHIT, especially after watching and re-watching my new episodes. There are at least four examples in the series where Soundwave proves he is the anti-Starscream.

1. "More than Meets the Eye, part 2."

Soundwave warns Megatron when Starscream is about to shoot him in the back.

2. "Make Tracks." 

Soundwave, with Rumble, fly Megatron to safety after he's been compromised by Raoul.

3. "The Golden Lagoon." Soundwave reports to Megatron when Starscream makes Seaspray and Perceptor fight for the Decepticon's amusement.

4. Transformers: The Movie.

Soundwave goes back for Megatron when he's critically wounded.

Contrast that with: Starscream, who tries to become the new leader roughly every other episode; the Combaticons, who had to be put in Decepticon jail because even the Decepticons thought they were trouble, then went back to screwing over Megatron once they got out; the Triple-changers, who staged their own coup; Astrotrain, who put off reporting his findings to Megatron in order to gather worship from the natives, possibly cutting off much-needed support for when the Autobots inevitably arrived.

tags: movies, rant, reviews

 

mood: artistic tags: art, comics, concept art, lovecraft

I've been watching more of my Christmas DVDs, and just finished Friday the Thirteenth Part IV: The Final Chapter (yah hah) as well as the Part IV Director/Writer commentary and the accompanying fan commentary, which I watched twice because it was that awesome.

In addition to that, I'm almost done with my Transformers Season two part 1 DVDs. One thing I like about Season Two is Cosmos. One thing I dislike about Season Two is Cosmos showing up and not doing much besides Peter Lorre impressions. This poor guy seems to be the Meg Griffin of the Transformers world. He's Transformers' butt monkey. And just like I prove I'm not a Family Guy fan by feeling bad for Meg Griffin, I am likewise a huge Cosmos fan. I just wanna draw him in a cool picture or write a fanfic about him. Yes, he'd still be crash-landing everywhere and getting fucked up, but he'd be doing it as the *~ star~*. Also, I've developed a curious affinity for Carly. Poor girl never even got a last name, which is weird. I'm going to call her Carly Barton as an in-joke.

After watching the cartoon and trying to come to terms with Soundwave and other related characters shrinking down into tiny alt forms, I've finally figured out how to justify his weird size-altering transformations using Science!. Given that most of matter is empty space between molecules, one could assume that Soundwave is merely reducing the space between his molecules and therefore can shrink his size the way a human being can be crushed down by the pressures of the ocean, only much neater. Since Soundwave has a symbiotic connection to his cassettes, he can dictate this conversion with them while they are inside his chest compartment to avoid accidents. The only flaw in this theory (besides the fact that I am not a scientist and am basically spouting sci-fi babble right now) is that since they aren't losing any weight, just compressing themselves, they should be impossible to pick up by random human beings, unless they can also disperse "unnecessary" matter into the fanon subspace somehow.

Also, I found a ton of way cool TF drawing refs:

      

More can be found here for those interested in drawing schematics.

mood: geeky tags: friday the 13th, movies, transformers

Here's the short film that inspired District 9. Who knew?

mood: amused tags: video

 

mood: hungry tags: art, concept art, my comic, underlords

( Three more sketches behind cut )

Guess who's in art school right now? :)

mood: creative tags: art, comics, concept art, doctor fate

( Pics behind slash....I mean cut )

By the way, I've just finished registering for my last class, and it's Portfolio Prep I. Yippee!

mood: artistic tags: art, friday the 13, lovecraft