Monday, May 29, 2006

Finally..



After much stress, and yelling at That Guy for inviting me into a Skype Chat, I completed page 1. Click the picture for full view. I want a new scanner, but Dad says he never has problems with his. WELL I HAVE PROBLEM WITH MINE! We have the same type of scanners, BTW.

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Progress Update

Still nothing as of yet on Random-Stupidness. Same goes for Trumpet Pond.

I'm drawing a gift art for a friend of mine. I won't say who it is, and I won't release the picture of it until they recieve it by snail mail.

The script for Ernie Seekers Story #2 is still being written. As I'm typing this, I finished the script for the first two pages.

What Goes on in My Crazy Little Mind, my book that's way better than your book is still being written.

Now reviews for other crap!

Steve Shafer's Rice Meter toon is very creepy.

What the fudge has happened to the Porple Montage Podcast? It hasn't updated in forever.

Kill Cabin looks "nightmaregasmic".

The School Show Starring School is apparently being renamed EmTV. I like the old name better, but OH WELL!


BrooksTV Dailies are funny as usual. I always like the original magna, but not the TV super sayin(sp?) crap.


Jeremy The Exterminator still hasn't updated on anything yet. OH HOW WILL JEREMY SURVIVE THE INSANE ASYLUM?? I MAY NEVER KNOW SINCE THE CREATOR IS SICK ALL THE TIME!! :(

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Okay, I'm annoyed.

What is with almost everyone on PMS wanting their own domain name all of a sudden? They already have a subdomain with PorpleMontage, so there's no point in even bothering Mr.Porple if you're just going to be there for a month and then completly abandon your site. Apparently, NO ONE can read one of the rules for joing.

Your Porplemontage Studios site must be the primary place on the Internet for your series. Any other instances of your series on the Internet should be secondary, such as putting your cartoons on a Flash portal. For example, you cannot just copy your site from where it currently is and have both sites up. There's no point in us hosting your series if you do that, you're just stealing publicity. Your Porplemontage Studios site should be the main location for your series.

Yes, Mr.Kitty, I'm looking AT YOU!!1

It just makes me angry. Steve offered to host your site for free, and then you just go, "Well, I got a domain now. See ya!" and abandon him. Once you join the PMS family, you should stay with it. Why are people so ashamed to be a part of something all of a sudden. Putting the PMS logo on every page of your site is such a bother isn't it? Oh, the ads! You can't live with those. Those help pay them, and as much as I hate them, I'm willing to put them on my site. Steve gave you that site, so is it THAT much of a trouble to give a little thanks back?



Here's a screenshot I took with different colored checkmarks to show what I mean. And those green ones are growing. If you were to take away the ones that either had a domain name or hardly updated, this is what you'd be left with:

Doughboy Movies
Fett Fetterson Adventures
Random Toons
The Real Rubyrulez
BrooksTV
Inside the Box
Kitty Comic
Knock on Wood
The Ernie Seekers

So that's 4 webtoons and 5 webcomics. Do I seem to be the only one who's annoyed with this?

Nothing to Really Review Today..



Kitty Comic is starting to get a bit better in humor. I just hope it keeps going up from here.

Masso has announced a remake of Mind Crush Episode 1. I already like it as it is, but I just can't imagine how good the second one will be.



Alex and The Floating Cupcake seriously needs to stop using gradients. RESIZE YOUR COMIC PLZ.

Ernie Seekers Story #2 Plot

I think I now got the plot pat down. I stayed up untill 1 o' clock in the morning because I really wanted to get everything down. Here's what I got so far:

"The plot is Cheryl first meets Roy. The comic goes a few weeks forward to show them dating. Cheryl starts to not see her friends less and less until Shelby has it. Her anger gets in the way of her hippie-ness and she beats the crap out of Roy.
I becomes worse. Cheryl starts skipping school, failing classes, and doing who knows what. The the worst happens. She secretly goes off and marries him. Shelby must get rid of him, so she and Breeze head off to the heart of Africa, according to her plan. Breeze kills a giraffe.

Note to Self:
Brittany, do NOT make this one an angsty drama llama story. Add emotion, yes, but not alot of crap. Put in some funnies, violence, or whatever kids these days like."


Sooooo...like, hate, what? COMMENTS PLZ.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Random-Stupidness, Ernie Seekers Story #2, Brooks TV Strip for May 24th!, and PIRATES!



First, I'm happy to annoucne that Trumpet Pond will be held back, but for a good reason! I'm going to just take what Trumpet Pond's old name was (Random-Stupidness) and make a mini test series on it. Many details of the normal Brittany will be
removed (Fingers, Shirt Design, BEWBZ) to practice basic Tweening and Frame-By-Frame. This was a doodle I did on to get a basic idea of what I'm wanting.

The Ernie Seekers comic strips will be held off, but also for a good reason. Because of what happened to me today, I've gotten a big boost of inspiration in the wierdest way ever to start on Story #2. And the perfect idea for it, too. Scripts and little stuff soon.



The new Brooks TV pun on recent forum events had me Loller-burgerkinging. That picture Tyler drew still cracks me up.



As for Pirates, I don't know what to make of it. It highly reminds me of Inside the Box. I'll have to see some more strips before I decide on this one if I like it or not.

Progress of other Cartoons! :D

Totally Kewliez, yes?

Inside the Box's new story arc seems interesting, and now it's more than just a guy in a box. I really hope to see what happens next. :D


W00T!

Forum Stage episode 3 is almost done, according to Mr.Idiot. I really want to see these designs in action.


Mega-Detailness!

BrooksTV Big Episode #1 Mega Doomed is now up to page 13. I just can't express how much I love this comic. It's highly detailed and has great plots. I really suggest checking it out the most.

I'll post progress of my own stuff soon. I promise..

Monday, May 22, 2006

Artist Review: MidnightFury



Art Gallery
Writing Gallery
MLP Gallery: Can’t give it out. DA Note her art gallery for it.

Midnightfury has been one of my best friends for over a year now, so I figured why not write up a nice review of her art? Well, here we go!

Midnightfury is what I consider a very popular anthro artist (Seeing as how she has over 30,000 page views on her DA Account. I struggled just to get 2,000 on my MarzipanHomestar one, gah!), but that’s not all she draws. She also has great My Little Pony artwork, and is very skillful in both traditional and digital mediums. Not only that, but she’s an excellent writer.

All this and no “professional” art training classes at all. Yes, she’s progressed from crayon drawings to lovely colored pencils and Open Canvas pictures. The thing I like best of her characters is the anatomy. I don’t care if she says she messes up. This girl gets it right everytime.

I enjoy her fantasy writings, too. I recommend you reading her short story Dark Delusions (Unless you’re really young or can’t take adult situations well; Also, her site with it is dead, so I can’t give you a link. :( ). It is based in the world of Furcadia (www.furcadia.com), a world where furres live happily, well most of them do. An evil Lord threatens to take over the land, and Mephis is the only one who can stop it. I won’t give out any other than that, but the story has many unique characters, and I would send her a DA note and ask her to give it to you. Once again, it’s not recommended for small children or people with sensitive stomachs.

My most favorite character of all of hers, besides her fursona, is Macy. I’m not really sure why I do, but I like her the most because of her innocence child-like look to her. No that doesn’t make me a child molester. >:( As of writing this, I don’t know much of Macy.

Her commission prices are fairly cheap compared to someone like Ulario. Her commission info is in a link of her DA journal. If I had the money on me, I would defiantly buy one right away.

I also like her personality. She’s sweet and very kind, now matter what The Horde says of her. (“The Horde” is a nickname which MF gave a bunch of trolls.) She even had the kindness to draw something for me for free (which was originally going to be a commission) and sent it to me, along with a letter of thanks since I sent her a mattress. Her family was effected by Katrina, but I don’t want to go off topic here.

Overall, I highly recommend checking her gallery out. It’s really worth a view!

Comic Review: Kitty Comic

I have to be honest with you guys. I don’t really like Kitty Comic. It’s just blah. I just don’t like the art style or how the panels are drawn. LINE TOOL IS THE REASON STRAIT PANELS EXSIST! Basically it’s just these stick figure cats with giant heads that do stuff. You can only tell the difference by the color of their heads. The main character is Kitty, the white one, and his ‘friend’ is uhh…I forgot his name. The gray one. And the pink one is Amy. There’s also stick guy, the stick figure that has been USED OVER AND OVER FROM TIME AND TIME AGAIN! Sorry. Kitty is just the main character, the dude. He’s just there just because. Gray kitty is there to be annoyed and curse.

What really annoys me about this series is most of the comics don’t even make sense. I mean, my stepmom thinks my comics don’t make sense, she should read some of these. Look:



See what I mean? Everything about this series is bothering me. The ‘art’ style is just stick figures with big heads. The backgrounds are bad, and it’s immature. Not in immature as for little kids, but immature as in potty mouths. If he wants my fandom, he needs to work on his comic more and curse less. There’s no need to say the F word 5 times in a row. In a nice way, it needs improvement.

And now, a FAN COMIC!:

Cartoon Review: The School Show Starring School/Rant of Cartoons These Days




Matt Wilson, even though some claim he’s a jerk (I never even talked to him, so I don’t know.), is completely right. Every show now is being set in school. Before I knew of TSSSS, I was watching Disney Channel, and then they were all like, “OFGM, NEW SHOWZ!!1 It’s called The Emperor’s New School!” I snapped. Not only was it a bastardized so called “cartoon” but it just took my favorite Disney Movie ever and butt raped it.

Are cartoonists so unoriginal these days that they have to slap some stupid characters in school? I didn’t even bother to watch My Gym Partner’s A Monkey, because I knew it already sucked. I refuse to watch any of the newer episodes of Ed, Edd, & Eddy because it’s now set in school. I’m really sure children want to go home after a rough day of learning, homework, and mean teachers, and turn on their TV’s to watch the same exact thing happen to a cartoon. How can this be interesting? How can this appeal to kids? How can it even appeal to ANYBODY? Oh yeah, those 500-pound fan boys who dream of hitting a Power Puff Girl every night, my bad.

Not only this, but now they must cancel the GOOD shows? What, Dexter’s Lab isn’t good anymore since the majority of the plots don’t take place in school? Johnny Bravo’s too sexist? Explain this to me Cartoon Network. Before you know it, it’ll be called Cartoon Schoolwork, where we’ll show crappy reruns of cartoons with stupid children in schools! HOW FUN! A constant reminder of YOUR horrible life!

This leads me into my review. If you survived those three paragraphs, congratulations! When I first heard of Bonus Stage’s canceling, I thought I couldn’t live anymore. Seriously. Call me a nerd or a person who needs to get out more, but it just seemed only yesterday that I first discovered Bonus Stage, and then it was ripped away from me. I wondered what Matt Wilson was up to, if anything else, next. I was surfing around the Bonus Stage Wiki, and then came upon Matt’s Newer Couch Slave site. I then was happy. It may have been the end of Bonus Stage, but not the end of Matt Wilson! I read all the descriptions for upcoming series, and The School Show Starring School was the one that caught me the most. I was able to say (well, more like think), “F*ck Bonus Stage! The School Show Starring School!” Bonus Stage was getting more repetitive for my tastes. Joel would throw in a witty remark, Phil would whine in a weird pose, Joel will insult him and throw in a reference, all around some story. It was it’s time to die. Though I’ll miss it, Matt now has more freedom without the burden of people on his back, forcing him to stay up until 4A.M. with coffee just to make another episode to get them to shut up. And then they complain if the episode isn’t as good as the last, boo-hoo. Download Flash yourself and make something better, you prick.

As the title suggests, it is placed in school. Now why am I liking this show if it’s placed in school? It follows a totally different storyline with much more unique characters. The school shows today just basically add something to make it different. “Let’s throw some animals in a school! It’d be so cool! I rymed, I’m so FUNNY!”

TSSSS follows the main character Emiko, as she controls the story anyway she wants to. If they’re something she doesn’t like, she’ll do it her way. She doesn’t follow what the school administrators tell her what to do. It doesn’t mean she’s all “Mean and Bad Rule Breaker!”. It means if she has a test she is going to fail, she’ll say “Screw it!” and go eat a hamburger instead. Her wild and crazy imagination that none of the other students seem to have gets in the way of normalcy. But she still is just a girl after all. She likes ponies and tea parties and GIRLY STUFF! Well, actually, I don’t know if she likes that stuff….because she’s not my character. BUT ANYWAY..

Her best friends are Tischelle and Phara. I don’t really have a lot to say about those crazy dudes, but I will say this is one of the most original series pitches I’ve seen since, I don’t know, Rocko’s Modern Life? They also got crazy cooky backs that are all bendy. FUN! And I especially like their unique names. Why settle for something like “Sarah” or “John”? Why not EMIKO! It looks sorta like ESKIMO!! EXCLAMATIONS!!!

Basically, I’m very excited to see how this series will come out. If it does get on Cartoon Network, hopefully then they’d get some more original shows to finally start to climb themselves out of that slime hole they let themselves get into. Right now, they’re on a tiny thread and hanging on with Lazlo, Foster’s, and Grim. If they were to reject TSSSS, I’ll be ultra super MAD! I’d probably go into my room and cry. Then ask myself, “What would Emiko do?” and go eat a hamburger or fail a test.

New Journal-Ness!

This is a Production Journal/Review Blog. My Journal for my Emo Angsty Life is right here: Cleeek

I'll post some stuff later on.