Join for FREE | Take the Tour Lost Password?
[x]

deviantART

 
About Me Member Illustrator C.R. Majors31/Female/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 6 Years
Needs Premium Membership
Statistics 159 Deviations
1,859 Comments
122,698 Pageviews

Still alive, convention prep and Astro Boy

Sun Nov 1, 2009, 12:54 PM
Life feels like it's been something of a struggle lately. I'm still not as healthy as I should be, but dammit I'm trying. I think life is just too stressful and my work schedule is just too weird for me to feel like I'm ever really caught up, anymore.

Getting ready for Izumicon these days... Or well, as best I can. The convention will be in Midwest City, Oklahoma running from November 13-15. I'll be in artist alley with my fiance, as per usual, selling art prints, badges and doing commissions. =SilverPhantom, I'll have to let you know how it goes this year as compared to last year. Same hotel and convention building, though hopefully better organized this time.

And as is my usual habit when I see a movie I really dig, I'm going to encourage anyone even remotely interested in it to go see Astro Boy. Now, I'm not real familiar with the source material; I'm admitting that up front right now. I'm gettin' to be an old codger, but even the original stuff is a little too dated for me to get into. Still, the Imagi movie is fun, entertaining and just plain cute. I'm a complete and total sucker for anything that delves into sentient robots trying to discover who and what they are, seeking their humanity and all that good stuff. I'd really like to go see it again one more time in theaters before it's through with its big screen run and I'll definitely buy the movie when it comes out on DVD. The reason I'm recommending this movie is that, unfortunately, it's really not doing well right now. According to one of the major tracking websites, it's only made back about 1/6 or so of its production budget. This saddens me a great deal. I believe the movie deserves better. I don't know whether it's just because the movie was a non-summer, non-holiday season release or whether people just don't care because it's not Pixar or Dreamworks, but man... It bums me out. And I'm all for supporting Imagi as an animation studio because they're giving us Gatchaman next year. Part of my childhood involved watching a lot of G-Force, which was one of the syndicated versions of that old school anime, so I really want Imagi to stay afloat and continue to produce movies.

That's it for now, folks. Stay frosty.

  • Mood: Distracted
  • Listening to: Astro Boy Score
  • Reading: Sir Thursday
  • Drinking: AriZona Green Tea

deviantID

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Oklahoma
  • Interests: Anime, comics, art, drawing, writing, role playing, chatting
  • Favourite movie: Brotherhood of the Wolf, The Iron Giant, I Robot, Incredibles, Transformers
  • Favourite band or musician: Way, WAY too many to name here!
  • Favourite genre of music: Christian Rock/Alt/Punk, J-pop/rock, Rock, Pop, Alt, Techno, 80's/early 90's
  • Favourite artist: J.Axer, Long Vo, Mark Brooks, Makotron, Guido Guidi, Jack Lawrence, EJ Su, Nick Roche
  • Favourite poet or writer: Elaine Cunningham, Robert Sawyer, JK Rowling
  • Operating System: Windows XP, 384 megs of RAM with a 1 GHz processor
  • MP3 player of choice: Winamp at home, iPod Shuffle on the go!
  • Wallpaper of choice: Transformers, preferably of the Autobot persuasion!
  • Favourite game: Suikoden 3, Final Fantasy 7/9, Mega Man/MMX/CM, the Jak games, Shadow of the Colossus, Guitar Hero
  • Favourite gaming platform: Playstation 2 and Dreamcast
  • Favourite cartoon character: Ratchet (ALL of them), Tracks, Red Alert, Nightscream, Tunnel Rat, Jak, Brainiac 5, Salome, Landis
  • Personal Quote: "Hope for the best, prepare for the worst."
  • Tools of the Trade: Non-photo Blue, Graphite, Pigma pens, Copic/Prisma markers/pencils, Photoshop, Painter, Acrylics

deviantART Community Board

[x]

Comments


:iconanakhasilver:
I saw you at Izumi. :3 I wanted to buy the Demyx pic, but at the same time, I had gifts to buy from other fandoms.

(I was the random Vexen with the button-upcoat, who kept fangirling the Sailor Moon art next to you.)

--
"The memory's wiles are cruel. In its silence, we forget. And in its perversion, it binds our hearts firmly." ~ Vexen, Chain of Memories
:iconsu-jung:
Hiii! It was nice to meet you at Izumi Con!
:iconlaurekakitsune:
Helllooo~ Hope me and my friends weren't too incredibly annoying to sit next to all weekend. :D
:iconbokuman:
thank u for the watch! :D :iconbokuman: :D

--
COMMISSIONS! [link]
:iconravenshield:
So hey, wow, I just read this amazing article in a very intelligent, Science-filled, magazine that said YOU WERE AWESOME.

Nothing could ever be more correct. C :

<3!

--
Technology. Making better, better. Onwards, upwards - any way, but backwards. Tapping Progress on the shoulder and saying "More Forwards please!"
:iconhurtmysternum:
lulz, I remember you from Izumicon~!

still have your card :dygel:

--
Don't believe in yourself! Believe in me who believes in you!


Yours is a drill that will pierce the heavens!!!
:iconhybridyuki:
Hiya, I was rummaging through my favoirtes and noticed I faved some of your stuff. Dunno why I never watched you, you got great suff going on here. Love the detail work. :+devwatch: added.

--
Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal...
- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Tomb"

I'm offering $5 watercolor commissions and selling stuff CHEAP![link]

:iconemotigirl369:
Ur TF art ROX but I prefer ur sigma 6 art in a way ^^

TF's AWESOME but Bumblebee's my fav

--
I LOOOOVE BLEACH!!
Clubs:

~WeLoveDP ~KnucklesFanClub77 ~teentitans *Tokka-Fans-United ~Bleach-Fanatics09 ~KnucklesxRougeFans ~xxxJinxedxxx ~ProtectGwenClub ~renji-x-rukia ~Anime-Manga-Artists ~TheBankaiBrigade
:iconnospareparts:
Whenever you get back on please check my note I sent you.

It would especially mean something to me and the girl mentioned as shortly she may be thrown from her residence.

Thanks

--Alex

--
_

Transformers will return after these messages.
[link]

Site Map