Recording this audio I learned something I didn’t know before, that I hate Audacity. It’s a good, reliable system that’s rather easy to learn once it decides to work for you. But because my audio would just not pick up at certain times, recording was an absolute nightmare. Luckily I managed to figure it out and it was rather fun! My audio sounds infinitely better and you can actually understand what I’m saying. Unfortunately, because my script wouldn’t load because there’s no internet connection in the recording booth, and I had to make sure my audio was recording, it was more of a rant than a discussion, But, I tried to throw in what facts I did remember from the articles I had.
This took me too long. So I decided that I wanted to do pixel art but turns out pixel art is really, really hard. I thought it’d be relaxing and fun but nope. I was obsessing over every single little detail I thought may or may not be out of place. It was absolute hell honestly. But, other than that I now have a vague story idea of what this place is for my story! It’s instead one of the many openings my protagonist will find to the depth of hell, hidden in a place no one would expect. The ruins of an old Block Buster. There’s nothing indicating that in the image, I just thought it’d be funny.
So I learned a lot from my final video. The first one being that straight up half the second half of the video that I was so proud of was straight up removed???? I have no idea why, so I decided to go through the low key Herculean task of re editing everything that got deleted. This took a while, and on some sections I didn’t put as much work because I was sad that this happened. So some parts are weird but overall, my intro is the same because I didn’t want to record a new one. My process for the new beginning section was shot in the same location but I thought that the setting sunset would make a cool background! And it did, it was very pretty and overall I’m still rather happy about how it all turned out.
I want to be able to put just a bunch of cute drawing of myself or a character from things such as my stories or my campaigns as guides. They can direct and make little comments on some thing around the site as well. I’ll mostly use Canva and Abobe photoshop since I believe those would allow me the most freedom of expression.
This, for example, are from my personal story called Hellburn. The left is what I vaguely imagine Angelo looks like and the right is Oz. I didn’t draw them myself, I used an online art tool, but something in this cute style is what imagine.
So this music video is inspired by Jorge Rivera-Herrans Epic: The Musical, which is a concept album of a (hopefully) to be musical. I have been following the development for years now and in honor of the Vengeance Saga releasing I decided to record a music video on one of my favorites songs: Dangerous. This is basically a concept of me playing around with filming and editing just to get a feel for it, and despite the pain it brought me it really was fun to record and edit!
This is mostly me rambling about fanfiction with a friend on the phone, since fandom culture is something very important to me. I ramble about it for a while, and then a friend on call (who’s audio is somehow better than mine) rambles with me, it’s great.
The Favicon for my website was rather easy for me to construct. I didn’t really put much thought into it rather than just having my initials be the color. For now that is enough for me, since the majority of my time is going to be spent on my header. Speaking of my header, let’s get into it.
This is my header, or at least the extremely rough reference idea I have for it. When I say it is rough it is rough; it’s inspired by the 5th layer of a series I just recently discovered, Made in Abyss, which this layer is just before the 6th layer of the Abyss, a sort of turn back point before you go into the true horrors. I decided that I’d draw out one of the areas from my own personal story, Hellburn. It’s one of the layers of hell where my two protagonists, Oz and Angelo, find themselves on their journey. The blue part in the middle is the many souls they gaze on going up/down into another layer. The red is the lava that’ll also flow up/down, though that may change later depending on how I feel.
I originally drew out my reference on paper and then when I made all the changes I wanted to on paper, used Adobe Fresco to then draw it out. I’ve never been much of an artist before, especially not a digital one, so figuring out how to set even a reference layer was difficult, but I had fun with it. I’m doing this all from my phone as well rather than an Ipad with an apple pen or something along those lines; so that may change things though I’m certain it probably won’t. I feel like what I’ve learned is to not use color on your reference layer, because I had outlines to discern where the lava would flow from and by indicating what the lava was in red I basically got completely rid of those guiding lines. Another thing would be to definitely indicate with writing where you want things to be/the flow of the piece in general because I am certain I am going to forget if I’m not working on this constantly. Overall though I am excited to work on this piece, even though I can tell it’s going to be a challenge to get it to a place I like, I’m very excited.
