Wednesday, April 6, 2005

   I've been here this long!
Man I can't believe I have been here for a little over a year and a half (19 months to be specific) and in those months I’ve met a lot of great people, and made several friends. Not to mention the 30 pictures, 2 wallpapers and 1 Greeting card I have posted.
Thanks Chie, Nits, Hardcore Otaku and everyone on the Otaku for all the support! ^_^
LOL I was just thinking of the reason I joined the Otaku in the first place, the short version of the story is that I joined to submit a picture, but the long version starts in 2000 when I had a dream about a vary powerful gundam named Rx-189 Mk-3 “Shadow” The next day I decided to draw it on the computer using Microsoft Paint (Yes Ms paint the painting program that comes with every windows computer.) 3 years later I finished the picture.
A few weeks later, while searching for anime sites I found the Otaku and saw the fan art section, I registered that day and submitted the picture the next, and that’s the story why I joined the Otaku.
Your probably wondering why it took 3 years to paint the head of the gundam well I had to draw and shade pixel by pixel (sigh) talk about patience!
Well talk to ya all later.
Have fun and be safe


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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

   Does Cartoon Network hate M.S. Gundam?
I'm just venting some steem here so bare with me.

Back in 2001 Cartoon Network aired Mobile Suit Gundam, the first of the many gundam series. Needless to say I was varry happy untill, september 11 when the Twin Towers were destroyed. now they still played gundam that week, but next Monday guess what... Gundam? No. Dragon Ball Z! they never even finished the series and there were only 10 eps left! About 2 weeks later i went to my local anime store to look for some anime muisc CDs and I asked the Manager of the store if he knew what happend to M.S. Gundam, he said "Because of the war It was canalled, they said it was too Violent, and so replaced it with DBZ" Right... DBZ less violent than M.S. Gundam is that a joke because i'm not laughing. \_/ <-- mad face There have been many other occurrences but this is the one that makes me mad.

Anyway that was way too long of a rant, sorry about that.
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Saturday, March 26, 2005

   Umm...
Well sorry I havent posted here in a while, the past week and a half I've been sick. On the other hand though I have Great news if you have not hurd it yet. On April 14 a new anime will be released to theaters in Japan and the U.S. the name is Appleseed and its from the maker of Ghost in the Shell, and is the first anime to be fully 3d thats right 3d If you wish to know more about this anime movie go to www.a-seed.jp/en.html Any way I'm sill working on paiting about 5 pictures right know, though how many I will post I don't know, but two are a given. Well talk to you all later.
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Saturday, February 19, 2005

The rewriten Part of the story
Chie I also made a few changes to the prolog, mostly grammar though.

U.C. 50, on the dark side of the moon near Lunar Military Base 117 “Kubasa”, an alien machine was found; it’s robotic human like shape was 18 meters tall and looked like it was wearing ancient Samurai armor. From this machine two prototypes were built, their codenames where Rx-189 Mk2 “Loki” and Rx-189 Mk3 “Shadow” But only after a few months the artifact and the two prototypes disappeared and all memory of them erased. Almost two decades later, using the little data that was left scientists from the colonies L3 finished building M.S.-05 the first “Zaku” Mobile Suit.

Four centuries later in U.C. 0479, “one month after the Great War”, because of massive damage caused by mobile suits and gundams, the Earth Sphere ordered all mobile suits including the gundams to be destroyed, to prevent another war that might destroy the earth.

The year is now U.C. 0489; all battles are now fought in a fighting competition called “Rumbling” with strict rules, and pilot five-meter tall mechs called scoobies. Though most of the mobile suits and gundams were destroyed a few survived and were used by outlaws and gangs, and there were few who would stand against them. After five years of turmoil, a secret government called, G.D.A.M. finished their search for the prototype called “Shadow”.


Episode 1

Hi, I’m Bit Winner


Old Tokyo in the Shenjuku Battle Arena, a two on one Scoobie battle is underway, between Allan and Jack Race, of team Wolf against Bit winner. A missile fired from Bit’s crimson red S.V. (Scoobie) hits its mark on Allen’s light gray S.V. causing the S.V. to malfunction. Allen yells out in frustration and pounds his fits onto the control panel.
Bit pulling up beside him says mockingly “Better luck next time, Allen.”
Allen getting out of the cockpit exclaims, “I’ll get you Bit Winner!”
Bit’s S.V. A.I named ZERO whispers loudly ennuf that Allen could hear “I doubt that.”
Bit laughs and says, “You got that right. We can beat you any day Allen.”
ZERO shouts “Warning, missile lock-on! It’s behind us.”
Bit looks at the rear monitor and pilots the S.V. to the right, between two destroyed buildings. The missile narrowly misses Bit’s S.V, and crashes into the ground and explodes creating a cloud of dust.
Bit letting out a sigh of relief “That was way too close. Hey ZERO Activate the O.C. (Optical Camouflage)”
“Rodger. Activating now.”
Then the Scoobie Bit and ZERO are in almost completely disappear, only leaving a slight rippled outline.
Jack Race over the radio says “Nice move Bit. But I won’t miss next time.”
Bit sneaking up on Jack from behind stats “There won’t be a next time.”
Jack questions, “What do you mean?”
Bit rushing forward “Just look behind you and find out!”
Jack turning his head exclaims “What!”
Jack starts to turn around his S.V. but it’s too late, Bit hits him with his drill causing a command system freeze.
An air horn can be herd throughout the battlefield, signifying that the battle is over. The robotic judge states “Fight 10569, Bit Winner Vs Team Wolf. Winner,” then the judge points his left arm towards Bit, and announces “Bit Winner!”
Jack still inside his Scoobie “I can’t believe we lost! Oh well that was a good mach anyway.”
Bit opening the cockpit and laying his right arm on the outside of the hatch remarks, “Not really, you two are only worth 15,000Ny(Neo Yen).” After yawning bit continues saying “Normally I wouldn’t fight class B fighters, but I needed some easy money to get a new hoverboard.”
The Race brothers angrily shout “What!”
Bit “Anyway, I think you guys should change your name. How about Team “Slow Turtles” or “Fuzzy Pandas”?”

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Wednesday, February 9, 2005

   New picture added
Ya I know, I posted the picture yesterday. Thats how lazy/buzy I am. Anyway the picture is of Batou and Togusa from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Speaking of GitS pictures does anyone know a web site where I can find some it took me 3 days to find the picture I used for referance for this picture!

Next picture (Hopefully) Will be of Master Chief John-117 from Halo 2.

Hav fun and be safe
^_^
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Wednesday, January 19, 2005

   Ghosts of sector 7
I'm paiting Batou and Togusa from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. It's going to be paited in a 3D reallistic anime style, like at the begining of the show. Also this picture will have a background. On an other note I would like to thank all my friends, for I most likely would not be paiting without your support, and adobe for making the best paiting program ever made.
Have fun and be safe ^_^
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Saturday, January 8, 2005

   Who let the Wolves out?
I have good news and even better news.
Due to many requests mainly from Demonshadowangel, I desided to draw Toboe! You read right Toboe! Now that was the good news, so whats better? I'm already finished drawing him ^_^ just some checking and rechecking to make shure he looks just right.
(I'm only checking because I don't want to be attacked by angry Toboe fangirls because I got some little thing wrong. @_@Oro?)
This was an easy picture to draw, only took about 20 hours. I love Adobe Photoshop, it makes soo many things a lot easyer. Hope you like the picture ^_^ Oh ya also my signiture is going to be in Japanese Katanaka style from now on.

Have fun and be safe
Rx198

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Wednesday, December 29, 2004

   A Late Gift
Well after many hours of work I finaly finished the picture of Kiba at 12:49 p.m. today YAY! ^_^
Now to finished the other picture. lol
Until next time have fun and be safe,
Rx189
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Thursday, December 23, 2004

   Wolves in Winter
I have some good news I'm almost done with the kiba picture, with any luck I will be finished befor January 1 yay! ^_^
Also I've been working on a gift for all my friends on the otaku, It's from .hack featureing Tsukasa, Mimiru, Bear, Silver Knight, Subaru, and takes place in Mac'Anul (The city with the water canals.) I have no idea when I will be finished, because this is a huge picture 2048 by 1536 pixels, but it on the otaku I have to shrink it to 1024 by 768 pixels just to get it in wallpaper form, then to get it in picture form I have to split it up in to two pictures, so this might take a while. Untill then have fun ^_^
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Monday, November 22, 2004

Halo 2 review
My apologies for not being on the Otaku for a week, but this review of halo 2 might make it worth it. (Most of the review is from the point of someone who played the first Halo.)

First off, what is Halo 2? I know most of you that have a Microsoft Xbox, know what Halo and Halo 2 is, but not everyone has an Xbox, or even a game system.
Halo 2 is the sequel to Halo: Combat Evolved, (The highest selling game on Xbox) a FPS (First Person Shooter) That takes place 500 years in the future, where you play as John-117 a 7ft. tall “Spartan” and fight a powerful fellowship of alien races known as the “Covenant” bent on mankind’s destruction. (If you want to see what John looks like go to my fan art page and look for ”Earth’s Last Hope”)

Does Halo 2 live up to the hype? I think halo 2 is about 90% of what its hyped up to be, in other words yes.
I have seen several reviews by Halo fans that Don’t like the game, But most of them where for some stupid reason most of the time it was because the pistol was redesigned and striped of its 2X sniper scope and lowing the killing power, you see in the first Halo the pistol was over powered 3 shots to the head of a shielded enemy would kill it. (For those of you that don’t play Halo, here is an analogy. The first pistol is to the new pistol like Wing 0’s buster rifle is to the head mounted Vulcans. As you can see there is a big difference.) I think this is a good change; it forces the player to think a bit more on what weapons he uses. Here is an example, in Halo 1 I basically only constantly* used 3 of 8 weapons available in the game, those weapons are the pistol, plasma pistol, and shotgun. In halo 2 I constantly use 11 of 14 weapons
*(I say constantly because there are other weapons I use, like the sniper rifle and rocket launcher, but you can’t use them through the entire game.)

Some of the cool new features of Halo 2 are
Duel-Wielding (Holding a gun in each hand.)
Boarding (Being able to take over an enemy vehicle and use it for your self.)
Playing online via Xbox Live

Now With D-W (duel-wielding), you just can’t pick up just any weapon in both hands, say the rocket launcher, sure it would be cool, but a tad bit too unrealistic, and unbalanced, what you can D-W are single handed weapons (here is the full list)

Plasma pistol (Covenant)

Plasma rifle (Covenant)

Needler (Covenant)

M6C pistol (Human)

M7 /Caseless Sub Machine Gun (Human)

When you D-W you can’t use grenades, but it’s worth it, most of the time.

As for boarding, lets just say it’s a real treat. If can imagine an Elite (Covent bad guy, for those who don’t play halo.) in a Ghost (a Covie hover craft.) tries to run you over but you doge, when he slows down to make another pass at you, you run and jump on the Ghost, and kick the Elite out and then run HIM over, how cool (or sometimes funny) is that!

I don’t have any thing to say about playing online because I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m sure it’s fun.

That’s all for now, but I might be posting more later.

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