lauises!

lauises is currently a national serviceman. He is presently condemned to a sad and restrictive life and will only attain a little more freedom after March 2010. lauises is a fan of video games and will be attempting to maintain this blog with information about games he is watching out for and also reviews of games he's played. lauises will also reveal bits about his life here and there whenever he has time, which probably won't be very frequent.

God Knows..

Filed Under (Uncategorized) by lauises on 29-08-2008

No this has nothing to do with christianity.

Anyway if you saw my last post about Haruhi, and the last video of the song called God knows..

Well I just found something just as cool!

 

I’m so gonna get guitar hero cus of this.

The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi

Filed Under (Fun Stuff, Videos) by lauises on 28-08-2008

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This anime like..totally rocks? 

Its the kind that I like like gintama hahaha.

The main character is this girl who’s really bored with normal life (like me) and she forces only the weirdest or most random things to be allowed near her. When she jus arrived in the school she introduced herself like this.

 

“I’m not interested in ordinary people. If you came from outer space, or from the future, or you have a supernatural power, come to my place”

 

Basically the whole story is about how this group of friends she has, has to keep her having fun and entertained, otherwise the world may just end as they know it. Its quite a strange story but the quality of animation helps Suzumiya Haruhi pull it off in this anime! This is a highly recommended anime by me. Watch after prelims or something! 

This is Haruhi and shes quite a pretty character by anime standards. (Fine say I’m weird but its true!)

Haruhi

She had this ‘phase’ at the start of the series when she tied her hair differently everyday? Monday was let-down, Tuesday was one pony tail, Wednesday was 2 pigtails, Thursday was 3 and it only increases as the number of days go by. It was so cute la! And her hair was really long? If you know me well enough you’d know that I LOVE long hair! haha so fun..BACK TO THE TOPIC. Anyway Kyon, the male lead of this series commented on her hair one day. Just talked about how her was always different. The next day she chopped off her long hair!!! X( But she still looks real pretty =D

 

The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi is only about 14 episode long and is only one part of the longer manga series (9 novels). One of the weirdest things you will encounter when you watch it is that the episodes do not run in chronological order and can be very confusing! Its hard to watch it like…episode 1,2,3,4,5. The true chronological order is actually like, 2,3,5,10,13,14,4,7,6,8,1,12,11,9. 

 

She’s been one of the MOST cosplayed character these days and after you read this, you can probably recognise her if you go to cosplay events. 

Ok as usual I’m gonna end off with a couple of videos.

This is the dance scene at the ending song of Haruhi and its quite cute! The videos following it are different renditions. The second video is a cosplay version. The third and fourth videos…are super amusing and hilarious! hahaha

And last but DEFINITELY NOT LEAST is a song featured in episode 12 called “God Knows..” by ENOZ and it ROCKS!! I listened to it on repeat the whole day la haha. Hope I don’t get sick of it soon!

 

 

Machinima 1

Filed Under (Art, Fun Stuff, Videos) by lauises on 11-08-2008

Art coursework gonna take a turn into machinima and here are just some videos i’m gonna post to sorta “bookmark” them.

 

 

 

 

NSSCC 08

Filed Under (Uncategorized) by lauises on 28-07-2008

Hi friends. 

After a LOOONG break i shall update you about some facts of my life.

 

CT2: was quite an experience. i actually tried to study properly and am glad it paid off! Sorta.

got ACCDS for PMGpAE respectively. With little time left for Prelims and coursework…im very pretty stressed right now ><

I’m pretty sure quite abit of things happened but im jus gonna go on to…

 

NSSCC 08: Probably my LAST climbing comp as a VJ climber. We definitely did better last year. I got 3rd for individual. Had to beat aaron to do that. Feel kinda bad about it >< but i guess at least i didnt disappoint the others by at least getting 3rd.

We got 3rd for speed team. I would think that we had a chance at getting 1st and being the fastest team! but the chance would have been slim la. But we still pulled through so kudos to all my teammates! Antz,Dom and of course the invaluable Zeri.

For girls, xx got 3rd for indi and the girls team got 4th. Don’t blame yourselves girls! We all think you all did great and thats all that matters! I’m not exactly sure about how the difficulty went. Think leo got 2nd for his category. 

Due to time constraints i shall stop here. Videos for my indi climb and our team climbs are below.

I’m on the right for the first climb. Then i switch to the left.

Vj team on the right. Antz followed by Dom followed by me with Zeri as clipper!

 

Coursework 3

Filed Under (Uncategorized) by lauises on 12-06-2008

Well…slight progress here. A little worried about art presentation tomorrow =(

Dunno if I have enough. Well. Pretty sure I don’t have enough ><

Gonna try and draw some sketches too but uhh…don’t expect to see them here =D

Ugh…AHHH left one bloody week of ‘holidays’ left >< Hope I can study enough…

Especially ECONS!! Omg I totally dunno wads gonna happen.

Sianz…I’ll go stress about shorter term things like tomorrow now =(

Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Hou(Cannon)!

Filed Under (Fun Stuff, Videos) by lauises on 11-06-2008

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Anyone guess what this is yet? hahaha.

Comes from this awesome anime I’ve been watching called “Gintama”

Lets just copy from wikipedia,

“The story takes place in Edo, Japan, which has been taken over by aliens called Amanto since the late Edo period. The samurai of Japan have fallen, and the Amanto placed a ban on carrying swords in public. The story focuses on an eccentric samurai, Gintoki Sakata, his (partial) apprentice Shinpachi Shimura, and a teenage alien girl: Kagura. All three are “free-lancers” who search for work in order to pay the monthly rent, which usually goes unpaid anyway.”

GintokiSakata Gintoki

ShinpachiShimura Shinpach

Kagura and Sadaharu

Its SUPER random. Just check out some of the episode titles.

“Make Friends Who You Can Call By Nicknames Even When You’re Old Men.”

“When you’re tired eat something sour.”

“Dumplings that you’ve chewed and spit out aren’t dumplings anymore, you bastard!”

“You can just wash your armpits, just armpits.”

“Beware of the conveyor belt!”

“Although good things don’t happen consecutively, bad things do.”

“Stress can lead to baldness, but if you try not to be stressed then that will make you stressed, so there’s nothing we can do.”

“Please help by separating your trash.”

Totally love it. In fact, how about some videos!

For the Prince of Tennis fans. Yes you Cass.

For the OnePiece, Bleach, Dragonball fans.

This ending song of theirs is pretty nice.

Finally, the Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong HOU!

Well if you’re interested, go crunchyroll after midyears to watch it =D

 

Coursework 2

Filed Under (Art) by lauises on 11-06-2008

Heres some new progress.

Built up more of the body. 

Some Drama Shot.

And some facial expression.

Worried about how I’m going to make out the armored design I have in mind but i think can manage la. 

Coursework presentation on Friday. Hope I can get enough done by then ><.

Coursework 1

Filed Under (Art) by lauises on 06-06-2008

Well spent much of the day working on my coursework and playing games. (more of the latter)

Basically did a skeletal structure and built some mass with aluminium foil. Some proportions are wrong so I’m gonna have to make some amendments.

In any case got help with sculpting out the face but this will still be a rough base instead of final detailed form.

On a seperate note, Granny asked me if I wanted a drink to go with dinner. With my old maid gone and my Granny’s lack of awareness and english ability, I got some..

Drank it all though I thought it tasted kinda bad. Still prefer mountain dew haha.

I’m such a kid.

 

Coursework Initial Stages

Filed Under (Art) by lauises on 05-06-2008

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Hi friends. Just to keep me motivated on my coursework I’ll be posting beginning now.

I’ll be trying to sculpt some sort of a normal man transforming into an armored hero sort of character.

I’ll just show you the kind of materials and techniques I’m going to have to learn.

Note: Following pictures are from a tutorial found at ConceptArt.org

 

This is sorta a skeletal structure that’ll form the base of the thing you’re sculpting.

 

SkeletalStructureCA

Afterwhich, epoxy putty is applied onto the key joints to fix them in place. Epoxy putty is sorta like plasticine. It comes in 2 parts. The resin and the hardener. When mixed and kneaded together they’ll harden in about an hour or 2. During this time is can be sculpted and played with. After it hardens its like plastic hard but can still be filed and stuff.

SkeletalStructureBondCA

The figure will then be bulked up with more epoxy or alternatively with other materials like plasticine or clay.

ScappyBlocking

More putty is applied and sculpted with muscle contours in mind.

ScappyBlocking2

Texture is slowly created one by one with tools. (This is gonna be painful)

ScappyTexturing

But it looks hella good! More texturing and fine tuning of details is done for killer effects.

ScappyTexturing2

Paint will be applied layer-by-layer via airbrushing. Various colours will be used to create a more realistic effect rather than just one colour with tones. Final product….

Scappy

If only I could make something so awesome. If I can achieve HALF this quality I’ll be happy enough! Well wish me luck, I’ll be using the process and method to try and get my own sculpture done. Will post more about it!

Cutting The Red Ribbon

Filed Under (Uncategorized) by lauises on 02-06-2008

Whenever something new starts, people often cut red ribbons!

So i got a chiobu to help me cut ribbon for my new blog here.

To be honest i actually i nothing to blog about. In any case, current plans for this blog will be to record my art coursework progress as well as show you guys any amusing things i find around.

Beats copypasting youtube links over and over =D

Just to make things interesting, i might get random people to come post with me haha. We’ll see how this goes aight =)