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• 1986-01-22
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• 2005-06-07
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• Animation student and freelance artist.
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• Eh, just call me Lou.

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• My first anime love was Sailor Moon...le sigh.
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• [Manga] Saiyuki, Mars, Alichino, The Tarot Cafe, Bleach...[Anime] Fullmetal Alchemist, Fruits Basket, anything Miyazaki.
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• I'd like to go into animation, or film pre-production..doing storyboards and the like.
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• Drawing, design, acting as the voice of reason...the usual.




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Thursday, November 3, 2005

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Sometimes this site can be a little frustrating...The lovely snow fox was kind enough to let me color her piece of linework, Divine Comedia...and I tried submitting it two days ago, and it hasn't gone through. I'm assuming somebody rejected it, even though I clearly referenced snow fox as the original creator. I just tried to post it again, so we'll see.

Random Rant

There are actually a few things about this site that bother me...and most of them have to do with the individualistic attitude of MyO.

If you add a popularity ranking, you're going to get people doing what they can to drag others down (which I've seen too often).

If you don't give people the option to reply to comments (and have those replies seen by the commentators), you lose one of the most important attributes of a community: effective communication. Private messaging doesn't cut it, I'm sorry.

If you force artwork to go through screening before submission, you're making it more difficult and time-consuming to share art and collaborate with others. Art trades are a great way to get people with different talents to come together in a community, but with the current system, you risk your piece being rejected just because the entire piece doesn't belong to you.

In other words...

I think the popularity ranking and the rating of artwork should be taken away...it only promotes selfish behavior in those too immature to care about the success of others.

I think we should have a way of knowing when somebody adds us as a friend or comments on our work, as well as a way to reply to them...that way we can thank them or visit their site and add them as a friend too.

I think the screening process should be taken away, or loosened. Instead, the moderators should focus their energy on actually responding to the community's concerns. If somebody reports stolen artwork, the moderators can investigate quicker. Also, it will give people a chance to share their work more easily.

End Rant


Not everything about this site is negative, though...I've met a handful of awesome people, and I always enjoy seeing updates from them. People like ChaosButterfly, snow fox, AceGallagher, spacecowboytv, and Summoner Rekka. What makes an awesome MyO friend? Great attitudes. And maturity...Maturity helps. Thanks for being awesome!

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I really didn't mean for this post to get so involved. Thanks for your patience, if you actually read it all ^_^;. Have a great rest of the week!
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