CIAG 4koma: It’s Reimu.
July 16, 2010
Oh how soon we forget.
I told you I’d keep making these. But I have more real posts coming soon. WATCH YOUR BACK.
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CIAG 4koma: “Hi, I’m Tewi.”
July 10, 2010
She’s serious.
Yay, another post. Maybe next time I’ll post something full of thought and inspiration that moves millions. Or just more threats and insults. You never know where my creative process will go…
CIAG 4koma: HEY SAKUYA!
July 6, 2010
So until I can give updates about my next project, I’m going to start posting create.swf comics. I’m hoping it inspires me to get some stuff done and hopefully start drawing real ones.
Problem is, when I do comics they turn out like this:
I look forward to your correspondence.
K-ON! Opening, Top Gear Version
May 16, 2010
Ha ha! I made a video! It’s not Touhou, though.
This is my first anime parody video thing ever. I’m curious on how it will be received. It’s not as random as you think, as some time ago somebody on Nico Nico Douga made a TOP GEAR version of the K-ON! opening. It inspired me to make the opposite as I don’t think I would have ever have thought to combine the two, though deep in my mind I DID want to make a Top Gear intro using Touhou stuff. That would have been a bit harder, as I would have had to do all of the animation myself too. Anyway, if any of you have seen or know where I can video that video (The Top Gear guys in the K-ON! opening one) please, please please let me know!
This video wasn’t too hard, just time consuming. Rendering all the raws, finding the clips I wanted, learning new software… The Yui “no no no” park was rotoscoped using the new Rotobrush on After Effects CS5. It was amazing at first, but then it soon dipped into endless frustration. I’ve done rotoscoping professionally for years, and I could have done all 38 frames in Photoshop faster than I ended up doing with the automatic software. The problems ended up being my computer is slow and old, and that I was using an MP4. Maybe it will be better when I get a new computer sometimes soon
ANYWAY, this was a blast to make. I had so much fun watching it come together. The only problem I can see happening now is copyright issues. On Youtube I’ve successfully put off the warnings by writing a paragraph on fair use, and sometimes I get lucky with the music and an iTunes ad appears. (this being on other channels I run for companies or individuals) I have no idea what will happen on Nico Nico Douga, though. I’m hoping that this video will take off. I’d like to start getting more support from the Japanese community and hopefully collaborate with others here in Japan. I also will do anything in my power to promote Top Gear in Japan like this. It’s such an amazing show…
That being said, another video is on the way. I half started it a few months ago. It’s going to take a bit of time to do, as it has a lot of hand drawn animation. i won’t give away too much, but let’s just say it’s a parody of a certain short, spicy 1999 anime OP and it’s going to star one of my favorite tiny characters from Touhou.
I’ll be posting updates on it as I go via my Twitter and my Facebook.
I’ll try to post here more often too!
And then… there was a word. The Strongest Word.
January 17, 2010
Ha ha ha! I made a blog post!
Actually, I’ve been working on a big one for a few days. It’s taking me awhile because it deals with a certain subject matter that can stoke some fires. And I don’t want to present an idea that isn’t my true vision, so I’m rethinking a lot of it. It’s just a silly idea for a movie. I’ll try to make something of it and post it soon.
Meanwhile, this is something I made awhile ago. It started on Twitter where we were trying to impress each other with words we can look up on google, because actually knowing something is really lame when you have Google as a best friend. Anyway. A quick look on Wikipedia eventually brought me to the list of longest words in English. Naturally, I had to find a way to adapt the longest and somehow tweet it. This was NOT easy.
The scientific name for Titin isn’t really a real word. It’s a technical term that just lists all of the amino acids that make up this polymer. But it is a word. And at 189,819 letters, it is the strongest word. But how does the strongest Tweeter tweet the strongest word? Well, I thought for a bit…
If I actually tweeted the whole thing it would take 1356 tweets. That would be stupid.
I could link to the site about it, but that would be easy.
I could link to a page that actually has the whole word, but that would be simple.
(actually, finding a page that had the whole thing took awhile.)
I could make a image of Cirno saying the word. Yeah, that would be epic.
Download the FULL SIZE version here. Be warned, it’s 7 MB.
This took forever to format in a way that made Photoshop not crash. What I ended up doing was finding a site that had it, copy it into a Word document (The one word is more than 20 pages in this font), format it, make it into a PDF, and then make a super long Photoshop file that my computer cold barely handle and just paste the pages in. This whole process took over an hour.
Even an HTML page with JUST THE WORD is 64 kb. Crazy!
When I was younger I might have tried to do something crazy like memorize this. I use to do stuff like that. Yes, I was the lamest kid ever.
Anyway, I’ll try to post here more often. I’m trying to organize everything so I can write even MORE. Like another blog more. Yes, I know. Sounds stupid given my track record. But if you ever come here and there aren’t many updates, you can always find out what I’m doing on Twitter.
Wa ha haa!
October 22, 2009
I warned you that I would take over the world! This is my starting point!
And none of you can stop me!
Tree Planting! Now with 30% more roots!
October 8, 2009
I’m “branching out” a lot lately. I’m helping a bunch of people behind the scenes and starting to take up more things now that I have the time. Good things will come for those who wait, but some of the current fruits of my labor can be seen now!
And they are also good things!
First off, I am now a regular writer for Anime Diet. I’m still in my testing phase but plan to be a major contributor. This will not affect this blog whatsoever, as what I write there will be almost solely commentary. I’ll still write a bit of that here, but this site will mostly be updates and other personal ramblings. I had been looking for a way to start doing more in-depth fandom content with a bit more of a wider audience, and they had just advertised that they were looking for writers. Bam.
On a side note, when I was thinking about making my own separate review blog I purchased itsmyrevolution.com. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it yet. It may become a future blog or part of another project someday. I have a habit of grabbing amazing untaken domain names and selling them, so it may go that way too. It’s a Chokotto Sister reference, for those who don’t get it.
Next on the list is that I’m narrowing down a name for my circle. I plan to be producing high-quality projects in the next few years and hope to have other members eventually join. The real goal here is to hopefully make it a subsidiary of my main studio. If I eventually come to the point where my fan work and original doujin projects have to potential to be my full time job or support a potential original industry project, I’ll just fold them all together to improve my chances. If not, I can keep them separate and continue as I have. I keep my hobbies from my professional life separate for a reason, and up until a year ago I would have never even dreamed of doing fan projects again. But lately I’ve started to shift and split my focus. I’m starting to meet with all the right people, I’m starting to focus my life better, if not broader. I’m not a moron, though. I’m not trying to work IN the industry here, I plan to work with it. I have too many years of Japanese lessons to go before any of that could possibly not happen.
So hopefully all of you are part of the ground roots of something big. Either a big load of fun, or something that goes beyond being in the fandom to being part of it in a big way. Only time will tell.
Either way, I’m enjoying things as they are.
The next few weeks are going to be full of ups and downs. I still need to finish my post from the last trip to Tokyo and start posting music reviews. I have a certain order that I want to do them, that’s why it’s taken me so long to post one. I’m not sure what video or music project I’m going to tackle next, but it seems that every time I start to work on a Vocaloid project something comes up and I need the Mac side of my computers. I had already started another Fensler GI JOE parody, but I’d rather not work on it until I get another kind of video done. I guess we’ll see!
Cirno is a Genius - Motorcycle
September 21, 2009
Yep, another G.I. Joe PSA parody. I actually had this near finished a few months ago, but I didn’t like the mouths or the lip sync so I put it on the backburner until I had the time. I re-did a few things, got some new backgrounds and such. I tried to use my own photos this time, but they just didn’t work out. I still like the challenge of finding stuff on Google that works, though.
I don’t want to be known as somebody who just does G.I. Joe PSA parodies, so it’ll be awhile before I post another one. Hopefully that will give me the drive to make more videos, as I already have another PSA half done. And I could not stop laughing while making it… trust me, it’ll be worth the wait.
Things have been crazy lately and nobody would believe me if I told you even half of what has been going on! Silver Week has been a rebirth of sorts and I’m hoping that I can continue on this path. Unfortunately given my track record I can make no promises 
To be honest I thought about making this a daily blog thing a la walfas, but since I’ve become so active on Twitter it seems kinda silly. I can try and start using some of my ideas I had and start posting more, but we’ll see!
Until next time!
#itscirnotime and Cirno Day!
September 9, 2009
It’s ⑨/⑨/⑨! and you know what that means!
IT MEANS EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING AND FOREVER. TWICE.
This is the first time I’m mentioning this, but I had originally planned this huge collaboration… but the person who I was working with backed out about 4 weeks ago. I’m not going to mention them here because I have so much respect for them and the fact that they even considered working with me blew my mind. The only reason I’m mentioning this is that I have a whole bunch of pre-made graphics that you’ll be seeing soon. Once I get some big projects done, and I mean 100k youtube views and Nico Nico Douga Charts huge, maybe I’ll be able to form my own circle once I have the clout.
I guess my main contribution to Cirno day is the #itscirnotime tag on Twitter. I bought the http://www.itscirnotime.com domain, which currently just goes to a search for the tag on Twitter. Trust me, I have more plans for that. If you follow me, you’ll know that the whole thing was created in an instant and kinda took off from there. Next is to do something with it.
People are begging me for content, and that’s great. I have a lot of stuff planned, but I’ve been saying that forever. The one cool part is that one of my big jobs is over. I started another part-time teaching job that’s an extra day, but that shouldn’t change much. If I go to teaching full time I’ll have plenty of extra time next year too.
But yeah. If you’re on twitter one of our goals is to get a Cirno tag on the Twitter Trending Topics today. Let’s go for it!
It’s Cirno Time!
In Tokyo~
August 2, 2009
I will be in Tokyo all week. Well, Tokyo and Yokohama. I have a few updates ready, but things like the music reviews will wait until after I get back.
All of my stuff is still packed up from my recent move. Once I get my desktop back up I will finish a video or two, hopefully.
So yeah. I’m updating my Twitter with pics and stuff. I’m also taking picture requests, so anything you want to see just let me know. I will be in Akihabara several times this week as well. Tomorrow I’m helping a non Touhou/Anime friend go computer shopping, so I won’t be able to hit up any anime stuff… except maybe the Saki Taco Stand.
It’s fun having free time. But it’s also weird… when I’m sitting working on a project I’m on a computer constantly and have time to post like 200 tweets or keep up AIM conversations… but I’m super busy, haha. Thank goodness for the iPhone.
Also, I have a account on Nico Nico Douga. You can find it here.
That’s all for now. Will do a big update with all the stuff I get and post my music review when I scan all the cover art. Though I might be sparse with the Touhou stuff… I’m looking to get some killer headphones, like some Stax…. And I really need clothes. But I will get something. Maybe just Hatsune Miku stuff at least.
Yeah!