Mainly writing this simply because my last journal update was from about over a year ago, which is pretty useless.

What have I been doing? Hmmmm...

Well, lot's of things.

I recently got back into the groove of regularly drawing. Still need to step it up though. Need to hit some life drawing classes, but I am being a lazy ass.

And that Animation short I started is sort of on hiatus because i'm unsure whether to develop my drawing skills or my animation skills right now.

It's one or the other. I'm not talented enough to focus on both and even if I was, i don't think splitting my creative energies over two fields is the best of ideas.
Also, it doesn't help that I am impatient. At least with a drawing, I can spend a day on it and get it done and maybe be happy with what I have done.
Animations are long. The end isn't always so clear in sight, even with a 30 second short.

Hmmmm

Dilemmas.

Herp Derp

I've always wanted to tell stories and I have respected people who can call themselves writers. It seems like such an easy thing to do. Open up MS Word then attack that keyboard, but it isn't easy to articulate all those thoughts that were bubbling around in your head so easily. At least  not for me anyway.

Recently, I've had some kind of epiphany which has caused me to re-discover that raw desire to draw and share these stories with people.

Yay.

I have a few stories planned, but the one that has been given the most fruition so far is a thing called 'Half-Way City (or Half-Way Tropolis. Not sure which I like better yet)

In short, its about a city where Angels & Demons use as a rendezvous point to do business in. The demon brings a contract with details on how they want to cause harm to a human and the angel chooses whether or not to sign this agreement.

The theme is all centered around making decisions, living with them and the concept of human life being dictated by unseen puppet masters.

I love to draw comics but I've found a new way of story telling. Please watch this short video comic I made for the website I write for:

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This is how I want to do these stories.

I'll need Voice Actors so get in touch with me if you'd like to work on this project.

It's nowhere near production yet, since I am currently in my end of year Animation project. For the next 8-9 weeks I will be face deep in animation work, but It will be good to have some VA acquaintances or anybody in general who might be interested in working on a web series with the intentions to become quite popular and maybe even picked up by a production company.

Wishful thinking? Maybe.

Aim high at all times

Set in London.

theres a boy (nameless for now, lets jus call him Andy) who has no interest in dance at all... in fact, he hates dance. he thinks its stupid, a waste of time, an that it cant get you anywhere. He hates loud music, hip hop, Singing, etc. He's one of those guys that is very narrow minded. Whats worse is that he's a geek, an kicks ass at maths. He lives with his mother, younger brother and older sister, who may be the reason for his feelings towards dance.

His older sister Aki, is one of the UK's best dancers. And she is the leader of the UK's best dance troupe. She's very talented in all dance styles and makes sick ass choreo.
Having such a famous sister, Andy is very well known. but the annoying thing is that, no1 knows him for who he is, but only as Aki's brother..'hey, your Aki's brother aint cha?' 'isnt that Aki's bro?' 'oi, say hi to Aki for me aite?' hearing stuff like that all the time got to Andy's head an pissed him off. An with that, he directed his anger towards the reason why no1 acknowleges him for who HE is, which is dance and his sister...

one day, Andy accidentally gets his sister into an accident. He was supposed to pick up his little brother from school, but he was too busy studying for the exam that he knows full well he's goin to pass. So, Aki, who only jus got her licence, goes to pick up her sister, but gets invloved in a violent road accident, gravely injuring her spine and her skull. (ouch)
She then ends up in a Coma. a very bad one, where the doctors dont know when she's going to wake up, or IF she even will wake up..
an with that, all the blame gets pointed at Andy. His mum nearly disowns him, and all of the dancers who found out what happened pointed the finger, and gave him the famous Naruto look, lol, the kinda look that jus says, your worthless.

With his sister in the hospital bed, her dance troupe breaks up. And all the best in the troupe go off to make there own groups, since they dont wanna move on without her and dont even know if she gonna survive the accident. So with guilt doing press ups on his shoulders, Andy decides to take up dance.. he starts watching videos, going to classes, recalling all the things his sister used to say, etc. Along with his friends, who have no experience in dance, they start dancing together and try to improve.

Okay, so theres the main storyline an concept. but as all good stories an anime have, its never that simple. And there has to be rivals, other characters, etc. This story isn't some magical anime journey where they go around the world an do backflips and randomly saving the planet from a group of terrorists who want to somehow use dance to take over the world. lol, its about life and dance. its gonna contain the struggles of learning, hitting walls, money to attend classes, injuries, exams, boys, girls, parents, school, failure, success, auditions, performing - the whole shebang. =] i want dancers to be able to relate to the story, an i want dancers to be able to talk about it. Andy is the main character, but again, like Naruto, there will be many characters that people will be able to relate to and like. =]

-SLUMKING-
This is my latest Manga Idea. litterally thought of it overnight, and instead of designing bundles of characters, 2 pages of the comic 1st and then designed the characters. doing it that way was weird but helped me develop ideas quicker. =]

Brief Story Description

These are my latest designs for a new storyline im coming up with called (For now..) SlumKing.

Story so far revolves around a city that has been isolated and put to use for a government solution to solve youth crime, called operation "SlumTrap". This City is home to all youth, wether they have been convicted of crimes or being in gangs or not, between the age of 13-19. So, a place full of kids and run by kids. "SlumTrap" has a promise, which is any gang or group from any district that takes over the whole city will be given freedom... however, the government knew that either no district would ever take over the whole town or the youth would get used to isolation and enjoy their freedom too much to want to come back to reality.

The city is split into 4 districts, North, East, South & West. Those districts are then split into 4 Quarters, which have specific names, and within those quarters are the slums.. the places where the kids live.

With Gangs in every part of town, trying to run, rule and take over areas to increase popularity, gain money, respect, etc and with there being no order, law, police force. The city is a very dangerous place.

But is there a bigger reason behind why the youth have been isolated in a city? left there to fight amongst each other? And with the rumours of special kids who have strange powers and have been nicknamed "Defects", there is definatly something bigger going on behind the scenes.

The main character (Wesly) in this story, weirdly lives with his Granpa, the only adult in the city that no one knows exists. Wesley himself is a defect and is much stonger than normal people. He seeks to find the truth as to why operation SlumTrap took place.

Mann. its been a bit of a struggle.

Jus came out of a phase wher I was gna either drop out of college to work (Part time job) an do sum art for my portfolio Uni application or to stay in college an struggle trhough A2 only to most likely get shitty grades. hmmm It was a struggle but in the end i decided to stay!

So for the last few weeks an many more weeks to follow, im on a Movin Up project! meaning catchin up wit coursework aswell as trying to become a better Artist!

...And im movin up in Final Fantasy 12 coz i bought it yesterday!!... hehe

Peace Out