There. Done.

So happy to finally have this thing up on the internet, although now we definitely know it's something on my computer's end (uploaded the site from another computer in the same house just fine); if anyone knows what would cause a Mac to not be able to connect to ftp servers constantly, let me know. It's the same problem that I had a year ago...

I should only use this for art stuff, I know, but I just found out about this today, and I'm pretty pissed about it.

So they're rebooting yet another horror franchise from the 80's, and they're doing it ALL WRONG.

Personally, I liked the reboot of Halloween that Rob Zombie did. Sure, it was only a two-parter (so far; if you see ads for an unnamed picture labeled as "Rob Zombie's first foray into murder mystery" coming out for September 2010, there's Halloween 3 for ya, and it'll probably suck ass), but he did a pretty decent job making Michael a brutal killer... Well, in the first part, anyway; the second part was set up more to allude to the other movies from the original series (the hospital in 2 and the pumpkinheads in 3 (when what's-her-face is having that weird dream when she's in a glass coffin)) and to show that people in horror movies are fucking idiots who'll pick fights with seven-foot-tall crazy-looking homeless men without thinking, "This fucker could turn my head around backwards on my neck without even trying." And to sort of set up a third part, maybe.

But the franchise that they're bringing back incorrectly is Nightmare on Elm Street.

Normally, I'd be excited by this. However, the first credit I saw on the screen was "Produced by Michael Bay".

Oh god.

I also noticed that Freddy's NOT BEING PLAYED BY ROBERT ENGLUND. Instead the guy who did Rorschach's voice is playing him. This might not be terrible, but it's not like Englund's dead or anything; I'm sure he'd be more than willing to take up the role of his favorite character again. I mean, Freddy and Englund are always going to be the same person to me, and I feel like Haley's portrayal of the character won't stack up to the original.

There's also the way they appear to be portraying Kreuger in the movie. In the trailer, he appears to be somewhat confused about why the townsfolk deem it necessary to chase him into a warehouse and burn him to death, saying he didn't do anything wrong. I seriously hope that this means that he's so insane that he doesn't deem kidnapping and murdering children as being a bad thing; otherwise, they will have COMPLETELY fucked up his character. The original Freddy, in life, was a psychopathic child murderer who only managed to live on after death by making a deal with evil spirits; if they decide to make him an innocent scapegoat for a different person and his only reason for coming back in dreams is vengeance against those who killed him, they will have successfully killed all that Freddy was in the original movies. He also seems a lot more serious, which he was in the first NoES (and the second one, but that one doesn't count since it was less of a NoES movie and more of a way for the cast and crew to admit their homosexuality; if you've ever seen it, you'll understand what I mean), but what made him so memorable was everything after that point, when he was quirky and witty and creative with his kills, using people's biggest fears to kill them in the most ridiculous ways possible while always maintaining a small bit of the element of the warehouse in which he was murdered. This looks like he's just waiting for people to fall asleep, then luring their unconscious minds into his warehouse and killing them. No creativity, no delving into the deepest part of their minds to see what they fear most and then bringing that to life in the most absurd, over-the-top way possible. Just pulling them into his warehouse, chasing them for a while, then stabbing them with his hand-o'-knives, resulting in irl damage.

I also expect Freddy to explode at least once. Otherwise it isn't a Michael Bay film... Why the hell would anyone give Bay rights to this movie? He should really stick to ruining our childhood cartoons with racism and inability to write a story (which I fear will somehow worm their way into this movie, too).

Hmm... I wonder... If Bay's racism makes its way into this movie, and Freddy actually does get creative with his kills, what would be the most racist ways to kill minority characters with their fears? Answer this question, and win... a drawing of it, maybe. I don't know.

Wish I could change the mood thing, but it's being stupid, so it remains at Tired... although I am feeling that way; that'll happen at quarter to three in the morning. I'm freezing...

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Art-wise (since there should be some update about art on my devART page, methinks), I'm going to start working on the animation I've been working on since March again. I want to have it done before Halloween weekend, since I plan on going to Oneonta to visit again and I want to show the finished project to Professor Cui (or Jian, to those of you who I don't know exclusively via the internet). It's almost finished, maybe... 70-80% done at this point. I should be able to finish it by then, hopefully; it's a LOT of work, but it's the best piece of animation I've done to date (not hard to beat a lot of my other stuff, but this outdoes it by leaps and bounds). I've learned a lot by working on it, and I've gotten faster, too; I can animate a full minute's worth of animation in a day (as opposed to, say, three years ago, when it'd take me that long to animate about a second or two of 'difficult' animation, ie. animation that involved any sort of real movement), and it's not super-simple animation, either. I hope I finish it soon; I'm really excited to present it to the world in its final, completed state.
As far as what I was talking about in my last journal, the animation parodying the ad for FF: The Crystal Bearers is on hold, as is another project I wanted to start working on this weekend. It's a shame, but it's beyond my control; I'll just have to wait until later. But it'll give me more time to work on my current animation. I'm also delving back into digital painting, since I haven't done that in a while. I've started working on a piece similar to this one, as well as a large piece featuring 2008 Zix in a way that makes me sad that I'm not using that as my insert character's design anymore. I'm also considering starting to work on an ending to Chapter 1 of Bored Index again, but the way I want to do it, it could take months, even years to make it. I really want to, though, all because of one song on the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack that has nothing at all to do with Bored Index directly. It's weird, but if I go through with it, in time, it'll all make sense. For now, just ignore it; I'm just a ranting madman, since it's now three AM and I'm exhausted.


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Alright, that's enough out of me for one night; I can tell when I'm going on and on about nothing only because it's late and I'm bored and need to type to keep myself awake. It's bedtime for me. See you in your nightmares, kiddies~...

EDIT:

"In an interview, producer Brad Fuller initially explained that they are following the same line they did with their Friday the 13th remake, by abandoning the things that made the character less scary—the film's antagonist, Freddy Krueger, will not be "cracking jokes" as had become a staple of his character in later films—and focusing more on trying to craft a "horrifying movie"."
-Wikipedia

...Motherfu-

ANOTHER EDIT:

Apparently they're also remaking Child's Play (a movie I've never seen because the idea of an inanimate object suddenly becoming animated and murdering people is still a terrifying concept to me), but they're doing it right. In that case, taking away the humor is actually a good idea, and that's what they're doing. They're even using animatronics as opposed to CGI, which is kind of a weird thought in this day and age, but if they can make it work, then more power to 'em. I might actually see this, despite how fucking scary it might be. Nightmare, I probably won't see.

I just saw the trailer for Final Fantasy: The Crystal Bearers... and I think I have to spoof it. The game looks pretty not good in that it looks like they just tried to lump a ton of shit together into a Wii game that would be awesome separate but combined will probably suck. Like there's something that looks like it could be a ripoff of Blitzball, only it's played on grass instead of underwater (I think we call that 'soccer', but then there's possibly a variation on that game involving riding on chocobos (choco-polo?), which sounds awesome only because anything featuring chocobos is automatically considered awesome by the internet. So keep on the lookout for that; I want to do it sort of like an Awesome cartoon since no one's done one of those in a LONG time, and because the way I wrote up the script for it is a lot like an Egoraptor cartoon (I even threw in a Girlchan reference because it totally fits). If you haven't seen it, check out the trailer here:

[link]

Nothing else on Destructoid really tickled my fancy since I don't have any real consoles :'(... But whatever; I'm still too busy SRing for shiny mudkipz to care about other games right now anyway.

In other junk, I've been finally putting together a website for myself. It only took me, what, three years?... Yeah, I think I was gonna launch my website on my twentieth birthday, but it had a bunch of problems because I didn't know what the hell I was doing... But that's all in the past now. I'm working on a huge web portfolio for myself, NOT done in Flash! What a concept; I'm not working with Flash at all on this site (except for where I NEED it, like, you know, in the 'Animation' part of the portfolio). I've already laid out the whole site in Photoshop, and now I'm Dreamweavering it up (stfu, Shira, I don't remember anything about HTML since I haven't designed a website in a year, so yes, I'm a bitch)... and in doing so, I'm realizing how little I really know about web design. Probably because I was an ass and decided that instead of taking notes and paying attention to my professor, I'd instead do everything my way in Flash, which all wound up being totally fucked up in the end anyway... I am slowly learning, though; by looking at 's website's source (her site is [link] by the way), I managed to figure out how to do a lot of what I want to do with my site (I only borrowed from there because her site does a lot of what I want my site to do).

So that's what I did with my day today... Oh, and I photographed/scanned a TON of old sketches I've been meaning to get on the computer for literally years now, so expect a massive influx of shit from me again (91 files comprised of my best sketches from the past four years). That'll be happening soon, and you guys will be getting more than anyone who goes to my site when it comes online.

He's lying to us!
I love this game more than I should, and the fact that the main character has the same name as me... well, that just makes it that much creepier...

Also, layer_embedded#t=26"new 2D Sonic game, anyone?

Not much going on art-wise; I'm busy working on an online portfolio for myself, so that's taking up a lot of my art time. I'll definitely link to it when I'm done with it.

There. Now all my disgusting artwork from my early days at college are on display for all to see. Look upon it and feel better about yourself as an artist.