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my 17th birtday. woopwoopwoop.
also, made a deviantart profile today. CHECK IT OUT.
There you will find a couple of concept sketches for my upcoming game. its gonna be epic.

Bad news: As precious few of you may know, my computer crashed while i was working on my two movies, and now the computer's impossible to turn onDONT PANIC! DO NOT FREAKIN PANIC!!!and the computer's stuck in a reboot loop.

Good news: The good news is, the computer guy's coming tomorrow to fix it up and reconstruct my files. I did not want too many people aware of this catastrophe because i thought they'd panic.

Great news: In my almost month now of spare time, i've organized a collaboration that will make a game for BiH. It will have platforming and shooting elements and even though its only in conception i'm sure it'll KICK ASS. I'll be doing the art, concept, animation (the usual), Noxac will be doing the programming, and Gravey will be doing the music.

Iffy news: If the files on my two movies aren't retrieved, there's a good chance they're toast, so.... YEAH. But hey, there's gonna be a kickass game to look forward to!

History of BiH:

I found the first drawing i ever made of Beauty is Humanity. It started when i was bored at summer camp last year and i drew it as a joke that i could show to my friends, but they said it was actually amazing and suggested i make a flash out of it. When i got home i started immediately but got bored with it quickly and stopped at the chimp stage. What? I have ADHD, or so i'm told. Doctors tend to overdiagnose these things. Anyways, school rolled around and before i knew it it was time to make another flash for the PTA Reflections competition for the theme "beauty is...". I was originally going to do another generic "alphie" toon, but while standing out it the cold waiting to be picked up i remembered the picture i had drawn that summer and started over the animation from scratch. I finished around thanksgiving and posted it on youtube. The initial response was disappointing as usual. During the new year, however, i posted it on NG and the response was the best i'd ever gotten. Now, i just found out that my vid only made it to PTA state level before being overshadowed by some video about smiles. Such is life.

so, yeah. waitin awn mah computahh.... doopadoop.

Anyway, yeah. Here's the first picture i ever drew that had to do with BiH.

That's right. Check it out here.

Also, two more episodes have been started immediately. Each one will introduce a new character, but they will be non-canon to each other. They will be worked on simultaneously, which is a totally new challenge for me. After that, the series will continue with the assumption that they have already met.

One new character is Brian Albertson. He is a 21st century Gadgetron employee, and as everyone in the 21st century was, he is very secular and spoiled rotten.

The other new character is Meredith the Beetcropper. She is a 7th century beet-farming serf, and as everyone in the 7th century was, she is extremely pious and uneducated.

As you can imagine, the two would HATE each other because of conflicting ideals, and Xleek, being the straight man, would get annoyed with their constant squabbling.

Sexual relationships will not be an issue, just saying. Brian will not touch Meredith because she never bathes, and Meredith will not touch Brian because he is a sinner.

Anyway, yeah. Realistically, this megaproject should be done within five months, no more.

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this below me is brian.

Yes, this is the evolutionary process that takes place in Human Ages, as seen in the montage told by some wacky futurist.

We eventually try to escape the confines of our galaxy, a feat that would take a planet-sized space vessel and 50 generations at least. Since the process of evolution is too slow, we engineer ourselves to become more adaptable to space travel. The result is Homo extraterrestrialis.

As intergalactic travel becomes easier, we once more engineer ourselves to become even more adaptable, just for the hell of it, resulting in Homo Grisus. At this point they have developed time-traveling technology that they can use to study their distant ancestors, (us) and we commonly mistake them for literal "aliens".

FALSE.

In other news, Human Ages is coming along perfectly. As mentioned before, I would expect it out by this saturday at the latest.
Also, i recently contacted someone from a seemingly perfect animation university and showed her my vids! Things are looking on the up and up!

Also: coolest space shot evar.

I'm back on track. So far the movie's coming along really nicely...

I'd expect it out by late may at most.

And that's not even the best part! I got someone to make a custom audio soundtrack for me!

Also, I'm going to the dominican republic for spring break tomorrow. That'll be fun.

:D
Beauty is Humanity. IMPORTANT.

Oh yeah, i'm also a bit concerned that my man Alphie isn't getting enough attention. So look at his movies. And hell, while you're at it, check out my art piece.

oh, and i made a new custom header. Awesome.

cool.

...So......... yeah.

1002010 A.D.

Lots 'o' purple, lots 'o' curves.

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Ah myes, and i found a music talent willing to create music for me.

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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention: the stories won't just be about Xleek's adventures, there will also be two additional characters introduced as he assembles a small posse: one's very secular and one's very faithful, and when the two meet... UH OH! I SMELL A SITCOM!

...Actually, more of a historical satire, but something along those lines.

"Human Ages-prologue" is coming along really well, it's going to be humorous and provocative as well. I expected it to be done by early april, but it looks like my progress may be hampered, not completely stopped, mind you, but hampered. Expect it during may at the latest.

Here's the original:

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...and here's the original WOW for reflections video that won National.

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Xleek, our new hero, is a former stock market investor who lost millions in the stock market crash of 1002008 A.D. He is in desparate need of cash and is willing to do anything to redeem himself.

Yep. Yesterday we did all the voicing over for the story, and at 903 frames so far.

All the voice recordings have been imported, so now it's just a matter of time before it's done. I'd give it the beginning of April at most.

WATCH THE ORIGINAL

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WATCH PART 2!

wow. it's been over a year since i posted part 1 of Alphie's story in November of 2008, and now part 2 is finally out. I worked on it on and off for over a year, and eventually ended up cutting the end off and adding it to part 3, which is now halfway done.

In other news, as I'm sure some of you know, Beauty is Humanity became a big success and I decided to make a series out of it. The prologue's getting there! Here's a screenshot.

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I have confirmed the episode layout (or the settings anyway).
1: 1002010 A.D. (999986 P.A.E.)
2: 12010 B.C.
3: 932 B.C.
4: 742 A.D
5: 1453 A.D.
6: 1695 A.D.
7: 1901 A.D.
8: 1959 A.D.
9: 2011 A.D.
10: 2049 A.D. (25 P.A.E.)
11: 2067 A.D. (43 P.A.E.)
12: 2853 A.D. (829 P.A.E)
13: 14010 A.D. (11986 P.A.E.)
wow! 13 episodes is a lot :) these date settings may change around due to laziness or a better

This is true, I am currently working on making my first awarded flash ever, "Beauty Is Humanity", into a series.

Many people wanted to see more of this, so since I can't make it into a game, I'll do what I do best: add a storyline, some interesting characters, and eventually make a bunch of 1-2-minute-long episodes out of this.

It will focus on one of the time-traveling Grey people, a race of humans that have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to adapt to space life. He is a part of a scientific experiment that allows him to travel back in time, study his ancestors (modern man), blend in, gather data, and move on to the next tier of intelligent advancement.

So far the first 30 seconds is done on the prologue.

In the meantime, though, I have been punished, so I will have to work on this in secret. It'll take a while, and the Alphie project has been put on hold once more...

VIEW THE ORIGINAL HERE.

anyone who guesses the significance of these symbols gets a jelly bean X3

could someone tell me what it takes to get frontpaged?

you, know, besides it having to be really good.

Like, the number of views, votes, reviews, overall score, review score?

Because i got like really close this time.

WATCH THIS.
prepare to be inspired.

Cavemen and humans and numans oh my!