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Random update for stuff.

That Inquisitor pic took alot out of me considering it was the most longest worked on piece ever.

I'm at that point right now where i'm inspired but i don't have as much time as i can to update here because i'm dedicating my fridays working on my animation reel, then the other work i'm doing at college.

I had some financial issues with the college but I believe the matter is resolved.

- CAPSTONE -

i'm in the 15th week or so of my CAPSTONE course, halfway there and I dunno if I'll get it done at all, but I WILL finish it even if I graduate. Then I'll work on my postponed reel. the original one that is more suited to the high school havoc fanbase. hmmm, I dont think i've mentioned it here, but i had to postpone my original capstone idea and START OVER with a different concept that would make more sense to people who dont follow high school havoc. I somewhat caught up to where i'm usually supposed to be and i put my original idea on hold, but once i finish with this new animation, i am going back to the old idea, the reel with the character voices and all that. THREE high school havoc animations will be done in about two years.

- OTHER WORK -

My time is limited because I've also been working on another animation for another class. i have an illustration course and for our first project, we had to make an Einstein animation with Einstein and an assistant in some shape or form relating with the theory of relativity. I've finished the animation but decided to add a little twist to the ending. that involves a certain annoying song and dance that people may know and hate.

I'm putting together the finishing touches for the second version of this einstein animation and will put it up soon.

Speaking of movies, I've finished up my anime Expo caramelldansen Mix for this year:

[link]

The problem was that I didn't get as many groups of people as I could and only got like 3 groups doing the caramelldansen, but at least its something.

- Anime -

been following up on some animes lately, like bleach, been checking out some funimation videos on youtube and saw some vic mignogna funimation panels. i gotta say that dude i wouldn't mind hanging out for a day. XD Him, Caitlin Glass, Laura Bailey etc. heh. So out of nowhere I decide to check out Ouran host club since CG and Vic voice it and I'm not afraid to admit that that show is fucking awesome! XD I could do without the shameless shojou fanservice with the twincest twins, but Tamaki is a friggin tool and he's hysterical!! Mahahahaha. Found another favorite anime.

- HIGH SCHOOL HAVOC -

I more or less decided on officially putting "Chapter 1" of high School Havoc to rest now with PAGE 11. I've already begun drawing up pages for the next 6 pages as the unofficial CHAPTER 2 that will involve the characters Sarah, Jenna, Martin, Amy, Grandpa taking in more of the story and of course even MORE outrageous costumes from Melanie. the first couple of pages are all planned out. I think I'm going to work on putting together the webcomic site up first on smackjeeves before working on Chapter 2. good thing to know is that HSH will be better and more funnier than ever.


- AniRichie



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WEBCOMIC STATUS [UPDATE: November 6]



UPDATES: MONDAY, FRIDAY 2:00 PST
WEBCOMIC PROGRESS SO FAR: Ch 8: Stranded DONE

- CHAPTER EIGHT ENDS, CHAPTER NINE WILL BEGIN STARTING ON NOVEMBER 16 MONDAY AND ACTUALLY WRAPS UP VOLUME 1 FOR AFTERMATH. IT DOESN'T GO INTO EPISODE TWO, BUT VOLUME TWO OF EPISODE 1, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. :3

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UPDATES: WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY 2:00PST
WEBCOMIC COMPLETED PAGES PROGRESS SO FAR: Ch 10: Festival Frenzy COMPLETE

CHAPTER 10 STILL GOING ON, BUT I DUNNO I'LL GET OFF MY LAZY ASS AND MAKE PAGES FOR CHAPTER 11 AND END THIS VOLUME BUT I'M TOO LAZY.


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UPDATES: N/A

I'M GOING TO RELAUNCH THIS COMIC LATER AS SOON AS I HAVE A GOOD AMOUNT OF PAGES. IN OTHER NEWS, EXPECT MORE HSH PAGES TO BE COMING IN ON DA SINCE IM NOW IN SCHOOL AND DO THESE PAGES IN CLASS. SO EXPECT MORE CRAZINESS.


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COMMISSION/REQUESTS:
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4.
5.

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ARCHIVED Art (LOOK HERE FOR A LIST OF ALL MY PAST ART:
>>[link] 2006<<
>>[link] 2007<<
>>[link] 2008<<

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TRADES/CONTEST:
- None

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LINKS:
[link] My Forums: AniRichie
[link] GSG BTS EPISODE ONE
[link] GSG BTS EPISODE THREE
[link] High School Havoc Webcomic
[link] Fan Fiction.Net TRINO
[link] TRINO FaceBook
[link] TRINO's MySpace
[link] TRINO YouTube Account
[link] Xenolegacy Forums
[link] Anime Expo 2008 Cosplay Pictures

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2009 ART

General Art:
[link] Ecorche Study I Front
[link] Ecorche Study II Back/Upclose
[link] Pokemon Type Meme
[link] OC Meme: TRINO

Requests, Trades, Comissions
[link] Request: Crystalla Divinoa
[link] GiftArt: Water Dancer
[link] Request: ArchNemisisGravity
[link] Request: Judith Chibi

FanArt
[link] Final Fantasy 4
[link] FFX Tidus
[link] FF7 Tifa

Golden Sun Generations Art:
[link] GSG Ep2: Agendas
[link] GSG E3: Smothering
[link] GSG Ep I: Chapter 7 Cover
[link] FINAL DESIGN: Natalie T.
[link] GSG EPIII: Chapter 9 Page 237
[link] GSG EpII: Inquisitor I
[link] GSG EpIII: Inquisitor II
[link] GSG EP3: Chapter 9 Cover
[link] GSG EpIII: Miyuki

High School Havoc Comic and Art:
[link] HSH: Valkyries Team
[link] HSH 001: Meet Melanie
[link] HSH 002: The Disguise
[link] HSH 003: Culture
[link] HSH 004: Weird Girl
[link] HSH 005: VALKYRIE
[link] HSH 006: The Team
[link] HSH 007: Alone
[link] HSH 008: Grandpa
[link] HSH 009: Telephone
[link] HSH 010: Experiment
[link] HSH Friends Group I
[link] HSH Friends Group II

Original Characters:
[link] GSG Ep3: Happy New Year Year
[link] Original: Marina
[link] Original: Red Head
[link] Original: Red Head II
[link] Original: Jessie -Ep2-
[link] Original: VALKYRIE Melanie


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(I just realized that this was an edited journal and the notification didn't go out. ::head/wall:: )

As of this point, I've reached the home stretch. I've been working on my art seriously for the past four years. This reason for this journal is to look back on my webcomics and reflecting. I've been drawing for over 16 years and decided on majoring in animation for my degree, but as for a side hobby I've been writing and drawing up stories and webcomics and recently I've been told that in the business people will be looking for people who are talented in not just any one aspect like rigging, character designing, etc but be diverse in many fields. I consider myself a mere beginner in animation and getting more experience as I work with the animation program I'm using and learning to animate, but I'm proud that I have something else to fall back on practicing character design, working with personal deadlines for comic work, and using different techniques to better myself.

I did a thirty seven page chapter in a span of two weeks. And believe me when I say just doing 3 pages takes work. It takes about the whole day to do. And the more and more I write and make comic pages the more I'm beginning to see that I'm finally getting my stories across.

My COLLOSSO story was started on January in 2007, before that I've been doing concept art and preparing myself for it. This is one of the first designs of the COLLOSSO characters Nov 2005:



Compare that to the more recent picture of them done around March:



I'm pretty surprised at how far I've come along from the first pic and what's crazy is that I've never noticed me improving at all. I've just been subconsciously been getting better and better without realizing it and I'm one of those guys who always thinks I'm never going to get better, but now I'm beginning to see it come together and I'm happy.

Back to the comic, I'm reaching the end of COLLOSSO Volume/Book 6 and started the last chapter (11). Pretty good to say that from the first few pages I've come along as well:

First Page (2007): Latest Pages (2009)



GSG COLLOSSO ends on page 304 and then I would have finished a whole book. Probably the one reason why I'm reflecting is the fact that my art has come a long way but the sole reason to why I am proud is the fact that for this project: I have never given up on it and I'm proud to how its flourished. Seriously, I'm pretty surprised that I've been able to dedicate myself to one project and stick with it even when I considered quitting because no one bothered reading it, questioning my art whether it was good or not, or other things, but yet here I am, still talking about it after two years and 270 pages completed, AND I'M STILL LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING ON IT.

Not only that, I haven't mentioned the other webcomic I'm doing GSG AFTERMATH. And that one too I'm doing alongside COLLOSSO with the same amount of work, sweat, blood, and tears too. Its my least developed story, I think because one of the reasons to why I did COLLOSSO over Aftermath first was to draw my friends OC's in my style and make them part of the story and I have been doing that.

Alexis White - Minerva - Nerin and Kazuma - Kosera

Cause of you guys I've been able to keep this story going as far as it has been going as well.

Aftermaths story is just starting to pick up after 8 or so chapters since I've been devoting my attention to the other story, but this story too has been a fun and will be an interesting story and I'm glad to be working on it as well.

Call me insane but I wanted more and developed a third concept in the form of High School Havoc. this one is in its infant stages and I'm just starting on it, but as of right now I'm having a blast with it too and I've adapted high School Havoc as part of my animation reel, my serious one, the one I'm looking for a job with and that project I'm loving it more and more the more I make new pages. This project is a veer away from the fantasy type stories I've been writing over the years and its an awesome change of pace. The characters already, I feel are already enjoyable and I've done my best to make them likable and realistic. The concept too also has a special place in my heart after following a tragedy that occurred a long while back but I will never forget so making this comic too has more meaning for me.


Back to COLLOSSO, I'm looking forward to ending the story once the last page is posted on Smackjeeves and putting behind one aspect of my progress as an artist and looking forward to my next project.


I am going to continue on with COLLOSSO and start anew with it as I write Volume/Book 7. One of the reasons to why I'm doing this is to finish this story arc, but see how I'll improve as an artist once I finish this story at long last. I made an animation about a year ago which is an actual trailer for Volume 7 that I have never shown anyone and once CHAPTER 10 is over I will upload it and show everyone that.

I already can't help myself as I'm looking forward to start outlining the first couple of chapters and begin illustrating the first battle onhand.


Here's a question though that I want an opinion, should I refer the first chapter as CHAPTER 1 of the new book or continue on from the old volume and make it Chapter 12? volume 6 counts as 11 chapters and i should just continue on from there or make a sperate webcomic page and start anew with chapter 1 and so on. O_O I'm leaning forward to the latter but it'll require me to code the whole site again with new material. Argh, can't decide. XD

Well anyways, the first chapter I still look forward to work with since its the second round and begins the competition with Tasha Minigan facing Kazuma Takahashi on a field situated in the air on high balance beams tied to the ground.

I'll end here since this is probably the longest journal I've ever written but yeah, I'm actually proud of myself for dedicating myself to a project for this long and it has allowed me to improve tenfold even though I keep doubting myself and I look forward to see where I'm at 2 or 3 years from now.

Oh and I'm wondering if anyone would like to put their website on my LINKS page. If anyone has a website, comic site I'll be glad to advertise and put you on there. also too would anyone be interested in putting up banners showing my webcomic sites. I've already made the buttons for them:








- AniRichie



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WEBCOMIC STATUS [UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 24]



UPDATES: MONDAY, FRIDAY 2:00 PST
WEBCOMIC PROGRESS SO FAR: Ch 8: Stranded DONE

- CHAPTER EIGHT NOW IN PROGRESS.

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UPDATES: WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY 2:00PST
WEBCOMIC COMPLETED PAGES PROGRESS SO FAR: Ch 10: Festival Frenzy COMPLETE

I HAVE FINISHED THE 37 PAGE CHAPTER 10 AND IT IS NOW BEING POSTED ON THE WEBCOMIC SITE. MY SHORTEST TIME OF DOING A CHAPTER TOO. TWO WEEKS AND TWO DAYS.


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UPDATES: N/A

I'M GOING TO RELAUNCH THIS COMIC LATER AS SOON AS I HAVE A GOOD AMOUNT OF PAGES. IN OTHER NEWS, EXPECT MORE HSH PAGES TO BE COMING IN ON DA SINCE IM NOW IN SCHOOL AND DO THESE PAGES IN CLASS. SO EXPECT MORE CRAZINESS.


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COMMISSION/REQUESTS:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

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ARCHIVED Art (LOOK HERE FOR A LIST OF ALL MY PAST ART:
>>[link] 2006<<
>>[link] 2007<<
>>[link] 2008<<

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Upcoming Art List (subject to change without notice):
- FF Portrait: Maria
- FF Portrait: Terra
- GSG EP2: Inquisitor II


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TRADES/CONTEST:
- None

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LINKS:
[link] My Forums: AniRichie
[link] GSG BTS EPISODE ONE
[link] GSG BTS EPISODE THREE
[link] High School Havoc Webcomic
[link] Fan Fiction.Net TRINO
[link] TRINO FaceBook
[link] TRINO's MySpace
[link] TRINO YouTube Account
[link] Xenolegacy Forums
[link] Anime Expo 2008 Cosplay Pictures

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2009 ART

General Art:
[link] Ecorche Study I Front
[link] Ecorche Study II Back/Upclose
[link] Pokemon Type Meme
[link] OC Meme: TRINO

Requests, Trades, Comissions
[link] Request: Crystalla Divinoa
[link] GiftArt: Water Dancer
[link] Request: ArchNemisisGravity
[link] Request: Judith Chibi

FanArt
[link] Final Fantasy 4
[link] FFX Tidus
[link] FF7 Tifa

Golden Sun Generations Art:
[link] GSG Ep2: Agendas
[link] GSG E3: Smothering
[link] GSG Ep I: Chapter 7 Cover
[link] FINAL DESIGN: Natalie T.
[link] GSG EPIII: Chapter 9 Page 237
[link] GSG EpII: Inquisitor I
[link] GSG EP3: Chapter 9 Cover

High School Havoc Comic and Art:
[link] HSH: Valkyries Team
[link] HSH 001: Meet Melanie
[link] HSH 002: The Disguise
[link] HSH 003: Culture
[link] HSH 004: Weird Girl
[link] HSH 005: VALKYRIE
[link] HSH 006: The Team
[link] HSH 007: Alone
[link] HSH 008: Grandpa
[link] HSH 009: Telephone
[link] HSH Friends Group I
[link] HSH Friends Group II

Original Characters:
[link] GSG Ep3: Happy New Year Year
[link] Original: Marina
[link] Original: Red Head
[link] Original: Red Head II
[link] Original: Jessie -Ep2-
[link] Original: VALKYRIE Melanie


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My Other Account:


Friends:



Clubs: