Thursday, March 28, 2013

WonderCon this Weekend!

This weekend, I'll be attending WonderCon at Anaheim!
I have my three day badge all set, ready to go! This weekend's gonna rock!
I'll, of course, bring my Nintendo 3DS for the trillions of street tags I'll probably receive.

So, umm, I can't think of a clever way to end this post, so here, enjoy this.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Flipnotin' for the Last Time

Recently, I've been working on a few things with Flipnote Studio.
Regarding the YouTube video, it's been delayed so many times. I really really really really hate delaying these things, but since I can't work on it now, Flipnote Studio has been takin' my unresting urge to animate instead.
And I've got to say, it feels good to be back animating on the little app. I feel like that's all I've been talking about these last fews posts, so I'll try to move on to something else...but that'll be for the next post.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

New Satellite Blog

Doji Pocket's Notes

I started a mini satellite blog on Hatena! It kind of gives me a reason to continue visiting Hatena. This blog has no specific topic, so it's a "whatever" blog.
Most likely, I'll still use this blog more though, but I'll try not to completely abandon this new blog though.

Hopefully.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Flipnote Studio 3D

About a year ago, Nintendo announced "Flipnote Memo," which is the 3D counterpart for "Flipnote Studio."
One year later, Nintendo finally shed some light on the app. Now called "Flipnote Studio 3D," the animation application returns and is coming soon to the Nintendo 3DS this summer.
How this is relevant is 1) I got my start in animating on Flipnote Studio and 2) I own a 3DS, have been waiting for this announcement for, like, ever. I guess you can say...I'll be a 3D animator.

Any who, I bring this up because I was a frequent user of its online community, Flipnote Hatena. I've been posting for about three years, gained a little popularity, and slowly stopped posting. With the new 3D app, a new online community will launch, but sadly, Flipnote Hatena will shut down on May 31st. The Flipnote Studio app will still be around, of course, but its online community will close.
Even though everything here might sound irrelevant to this blog, I had my first start with an audience with Hatena. It's like kind of my first everything involving animation.

It's sad knowing Flipnote Hatena has a due date.

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Poster Colorized

From the previous post: http://dojipocket.blogspot.com/2013/01/movie-poster-designing.html
My main influences in designing movie posters would definitely be the Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Back to the Future movie posters.

*edit: I fixed really small details, but mainly it's a better quality now.

Friday, March 8, 2013

Flashimation

Hopefully, this weekend is the weekend I'll finally get my own PC. How is this relevant to the main topic of this blog? Thanks for asking! How thoughtful of you guys!
If I get my own PC, I'll be able to have programs.
If I have programs, one of them is definitely Adobe Flash.
If one of them is Flash, I'll finally have an easier access to work on animated videos!
I've been itching to animate for awhile, and the only time I would be able is to go over to my dad's place for the weekend.
I'll be able to work on things at a quicker pace, so I can post more YouTube vids!
I'm just glad I'll be able to have a better access to animate.

In other news, about that Doodle for Google contest, I'm going to try and go for it.

Saturday, March 2, 2013

What a Year!

This was true during the first month of the year. My dad gave me and my brother an Xbox 360 last Christmas, and ever since we downloaded Minecraft on it, I've been on that like super glue.
Around late January or early February was when I started to get away from the Xbox.
Nonetheless, it's a purty kewl system.
This time, when I drew this comic strip, I used Flash to draw it all out and exported the image as a jpg format, meaning I can draw more natural-looking smoother lines and the pictures will come out better than when I used Paint.
On a side note, I was planning to start an animated video today for YouTube (the big hype is that this will be the first animation I'll post on YouTube), I still need a mic to record the audio first because, well, try watching a video with bad lip sync. It ain't pretty.
On another side note, this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfzNEmqeIWo