Doctor Who Mania

Yeah, so Saturday was the premiere of the 6th Series of Doctor Who. I watched it as my other good friends watched it and right after the episode I had the inspiration to do a project that I WILL try to carry out! For every episode of Doctor Who that comes out, I'll draw a poster for it and I'll finish just in time for the next episode! This way I'll get more fan-art done quickly instead of trying to linger on!

Here are some preview shots of it so far.

Prepared?

When kids are young, they usually will say many things of what they want to be for the future – most of them not knowing the true work done for that job, and almost all of them never truly developing the passion for that job.

Some kids do. Some kids grow up with the true passion to become a doctor, to become a scientist or a firefighter. I commend those kids who grew up, not caring about the hardships of their jobs – or the steps to take there.

Me on the other hand, I was one of those stupid, childish kids who grew up around a world greatly frowned upon by other parents – I fell in love with the media. It was any medium that told a story I was in love with – I love writing, I love drawing, acting… Though I felt bad about feeling truly passionate about these things because in the end – they were ultimately, useless.

So what if I have some great message I want to tell the world? It’s not like they’d care, the only people who would truly ever pay attention to my stories are the people who can see the message I was talking about in the first place. … In this world where Never Say Never is number 2 at the box office.

Not to say how I’m truly passionate about this stuff – am I lying to myself? I love movies yes, but I haven’t seen all the legendary ones, all the ones that might’ve truly mattered to the world. I’m not interested in reading Who Killed a Mockingbird when there are greater stories to me such as The Accidental Billionaires?

And if I kept hold with this silly, non-conventional idea of a job I want – how would I survive in the real world? For one thing that I never consider, is that racism in a way – still exists. I could never survive as an actor, no matter how passionate I am, due to the fact that I can’t do kung-fu or karate. We live in a society that separates into their own groups in movies, you have the White movie, you have the Black movie – and even if there’s a white guy in the black movie or vice versa, it’s still the black movie.

It’s those movies that win the day in the end. Not movies like AZNized.

And how foolish of me, to develop one other single talent that wouldn’t give me a steady job no matter what – wanting to be an Artist.

Such a wide variety of careers in there, such a dying culture, where has the recognition gone? No one can become as legendary as the greats – Da Vinci, Gogh – no one will be remembered.

I am an artist, what kind of artist am I? Do I tell the deep message through my art? Presumably not.

So where do I go from here? Do I take the incredibly doubtful path of the media-man? Or do I take the route of the normal man? Sitting in an office somewhere, crunching numbers and calling people to buy magazines…

Truly, life must be easy somewhere. But which life do you want? The easy life? Or the unpredictable?

All Sets Aside Banner

For the hell of it, I decided to work on a banner for my friend's band cause I kept thinking that their facebook page, well... Sucked. It's not that, good, I can certainly do better, but its good with what I had I guess. If you want your own custom banner for a band or something, go to the contact me page for information.

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My thoughts on Voice Acting - A Collection of Thoughts from a Kid Who's Never Voice Acted Before

One thing I've always wanted to do since I was a kid was to get into acting. It's a silly dream of course, it's unconventional, rather quite childish but there are the select few who keep this dream and bloom into something amazing. Over the years I've only gotten more interested in the way movie making works, I got into drawing, but only in the way to get an essential idea out for a movie, I started to watch movies and look for the scripts, and I know just about ABSOLUTELY nothing when it comes to really doing something like film making in ANYWAY - animated or not.

But here's something I wrote in a Skype chat about what it probably takes to being hired as a voice actor.

(Warning, what continues below may be insanely stupid)

I remember when I went to Shadocon at Vic's panel.
One of the guys asked him a question about him auditioning for Funimation and he's like, "I emailed the voice director a couple times and I haven't gotten a response." I forgot most of what Vic says, but the simple reason why is that - at most, you probably need to have more on your resume.
He says he was in High School drama for a number a years, and had a few classes but other than that he didn't really have a good resume on hand.

Now look at AJ Locasio, a break-out voice actor who's history contains of that and being in a HUGE number of roles for some college films which will work on a resume. And he also played an excellent Captain Jack.
But he got his job a little differently, he specifically auditioned for Marty Mcfly in the game and  all he did was send in a soundclip. Which, I guess in terms, is a little different than working OFFICIALLY for a VA company.
Which is essentially what Funimation does, they have their own voice actors for their properties.

So, maybe the guy at Shadocon was missing a voice reel or acting reel which by the way, everybody who wants to go into voice acting should have - or something else. And I know I'm sort of talking out of my ass with this, but the most important thing that every voice actor, even the internet voice actors say - it's still acting and its not failed acting, it's an entirely different performance.
You have to be able to emote REALLY well with your voice rather than your face.

More talking out of my ass: When I was watching the Social Network, I LOVED the acting - it was mainly facial expressions though - you had the way Jessie Eisenburg acted. Most people didn't like his method, sounding like a robot. I thought that was the point, it made him look more like he was trying to build a fort around him by sounding like an asshhole. But his facial expressions, very subtle at heart, were key to each of the performance
It wasn't just that, the way he moved, the body language - all excellently acted.
Then we have Andrew Garfield, who played Edguardo was really one of my favorites in the movie. Same deal, except the Andrew got to be a LOT more emotional with his role and handled it REALLY WELL.

But I'm not mentioning something too by the way, all of that, is due to GREAT direction but my main praise goes to the script, I read the script and it explains the scenes so perfectly, describes them - how the characters should look, what the music should sound like - a combination of all that makes something great.

 ... I got really far away from voice acting sorry.
Thing is, animation works on a different level and if Jessie Eisenburg was a VA and he acted like that, it wouldn't be that good. I know probably most of that made no sense.
Say what you will about Vic and other VA's, but the difference is that they know what it's like to be in the booth. I'm not talking about are they nice or not, but there's a significant difference between acting and voice acting in my opinion.

One important thing if you want to get into voice acting - learn to annunciate INSANELY well.

ANNOUNCEMENT- AZNized Starts Pre-Production!

So, for the first /official project of Sushi-Role Productions and Inky Panel Films - we have decided to greenlight AZNized. It's honestly a big production though so it probably won't see the light anytime soon. As of right now, the script is being written on, with me writing and all three of us (me, Justin, and Jordan) working on the story. It's of course, based off an original idea by me.

Pitch:

Derek Tucker's life seems to be going down-hill. He barely has any friends, people think he's a little tense, and his grades have gone down the toilet. But, this all changes when he saves the life of an old guru, Gyatsuu Chau and is given a gift that will surprise him the next morning.
What if, Derek Tucker never existed? What if instead, it was Derek Vo?
What if almost every Asian in his school participated in a secret tournament? A tournament, of who's the best Asian? So, what if he were to be a part of it?
Derek doesn't know anything about being popular or about kicking butt; he doesn't know how to excel in math, or anything! He's just some measly kid who can't put his life on the right track.
Or so he thinks...
As an Asian, he'd have to endure the harshest battles - being able to rock the piano, dance the dance, obliterate that math test, and pull off a Bruce Lee finish!

Will Derek succeed in keeping this new life? Or will his old nerdy habits come back to haunt him?

 Catch you guys next time!