I feel like a kid again.
June Photoshoots
Ruth and I wanted to do a photoshoot for the longest time and we finally gone through with it.
The White Rabbit and The Mad Hatter
Location: our garden
Photographer: Ruth and my sister
Models: myself and my little sister
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Paper Dress
The White Rabbit
Cosplay
Valentine’s
DeviantArt ID
This is me. The real me, without the makeup, and without the dress-ups.
There’s nothing wrong with dressing up and wanting to look pretty. And the photoshoots go on… tomorrow at Almost Bride Open Shoot, La Mesa Eco Park.
- Hsiao
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Almost Bride Preview
It was my first open model shoot, so I was too shy to pose and it was kind of hard moving around in a dress with a train, and the hair and make-up made me look different. But overall, it was a fun experience.
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Project 365 Floods
I reached about 215 of my Project 365. I’m extra creative lately so lotsa artworks. And I got a white pages (it’s like yellow pages, but with white paper) and doodled my heart out. For full views, visit my DeviantArt.
Living Paintings
Who Drew the Line
White Pages
I love making lists, it’s like my own brand of OCD.
And I also love blogging, obviously, and I also like reading my old blog posts and I stumbled upon an old blog post, way back July 2008, about the things that I wanted to do after thesis and as I was going over them, I realized that some of the things that I am doing or that I have done since then matches with the list, even though I haven’t seen the list for a long while. So that means that I have accomplished some things, after all.
Oh and recently I have this obsession with “Alice in Wonderland”, I thought at first that it’s because of a project, but turns out I had been wanting to do an Alice photoshoot since last year. Wow it took me a year to realize that, though we still haven’t gotten around to doing our fullblown Alice photoshoot, for one thing, we didn’t have an Alice at our last photoshoot, we only had the White Rabbit and Mad Hatter.
1. Oh, the first item on my list last year, (oh yeah, before I forget, the link to The List), is Second Life, well, I stopped playing Second Life now, though I don’t really know why, oh, maybe because my character is dirt poor and can’t afford anything, though the last that I left her is in a place filled with freebies. So no, Raney and I did not accomplish our dream to be pimps. Yeah, that was our Second Life master plan.
2. Second on our list, the Web 2.0 app idea, oh, our prof loved it, we actually got one of the highest marks in the class and was voted in the Best Business Idea and Best Presentation categories. Yeah, we were pretty awesome.
3. Casual games, oh, if you read my previous posts, yeah, I am very much into casual games. I even managed to sneak my name into the credits of two casual games in the market. Well, that’s because of my job and all, and I also have a few personal project games done and lying around. Another awesome!
4. I failed the NaNoWriMo and the Script Frenzy, but I’m still writing. No luck on getting published though, so not so awesome.
5. Production Studio thing, well, that went nowhere. We still meet up almost every week though, but no, we didn’t really talk about actually doing the whole Production Studio plan, mostly we just bitch or rave about our day jobs.
6. Yeah, multimedia encillada, is prolly still in the microwave, it still needs a few minutes to heat up.
7. Comics, well, what comics? I don’t even have my own character.
8. Photoshoot! Yes, we have photoshoots! And we looove it!
9. The Alice shoot. Already talked about up there. We prolly going to do it again, this time around with Alice and the red Queen of Hearts. I dragged Frances and Ruth into it too.
Last year’s White Rabbit:
This year’s White Rabbit:
10. Study?! I have had enough of studying! But seriously, I’m prolly not going to study again for a while.
11. Cosplay! Yessh. Now, this I did. Oh and here’s a new list of cosplayables:
Suiseiseki from Rozen Maiden
Lebreau from FFXIII
Shen Hua from Black Lagoon
12. Resumes? Well, I’m already working now, and I love my company, so I don’t need to find a new one.
13. eBooks, and the rather big pile of traditonal books on our bookshelves that I still haven’t gotten around to reading.
14. Now, this I did. I watched tons of series and movies, and now that I ran out of them, I don’t know what to do anymore. Ahaha.
15. TShirt design for the ARTWORK Tshirt Design competition. Now, this I did, and lookie me with my shirt in the display in Trinoma:
16. Portfolio… well, I have a new project now, which is called Project 365, but with drawings instead of photographs, and I have about 200 more artworks to add to my portfolio, which, well… I haven’t compiled yet. But I will… soon…
17. Dream of Doll. They’re bloody expensive. I spent my money on better things, like wigs and board games, lol.
18. Novels, well, like I said, I’m still writing.
19. Yeah, I finished my thesis and graduated too.
20. Yeah, and finished all my assignments too.
21. I haven’t leeched on any of Liyan’s events. I really should, lol.
22. Yeah, yeah, still writing, writing, chic lits and all.
23. I never even gotten aroudn to making a scrapbook for myself and my college “memories”.
24. AVP making, well, I haven’t been offered any of those jobs.
25. Oh, about that job offer, well I rejected that one and took up another one.
26. Indie short film well, haven’t done that either, but we did document our paper dress making, which will make a pretty cute music video.
Well, that’s it of the list.
I talked about making games in my last blog post. I have been using the free trial of Unity game engine. But now 30 days is up, so no more game making for me.
What have I done…?
About 3 finished “games” (I didn’t finish the “Rain Rain Go Away” one, ‘coz it was so sunny last week), some terrain experiments (I tried to make an “Alice in Wonderland” setting, wherein the settings for each of the chapters are connected).
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Screenies of Wonderland:
Programs used: Unity game engine, Blender and Photoshop.
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During those 30 days, I also went to a beach, attended a fashion show, attended a toy convention, had a photoshoot, and yeah, work on Mondays to Fridays, finished watching “Dollhouse” and “Kuroshitsuji”. So considering that I also did all those and managed to fit in game making, well, it’s pretty awesome.
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Right now, I’m remaking the Alice in Wonderland environment in Blender (I tried Modo the other day, and I gave up. My laptop chokes.) So far I’ve got these…
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More screenies:
It will make sense.
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Other game ideas that popped into my head:
London Bridge is Falling Down
I doodled this is Flash a while ago. I am still in the “Kuroshitshuji” withdrawal phase, and the last scene of the anime is London bridge, well, sort of falling down, and Sebastian in a boat with a Ophelia-like Ciel. So, yeah, the game is avoid bricks falling on top of you. Pretty simple.
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Well, I have another idea forming in my head right now, I’ll prolly talk about it some other time though, when it’s more formed.
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Well… sigh… bye bye… Unity.
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*wonders if Unity will run in her EEE PC*
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The other game idea that I was talking about:
Yes, there always has to be a picture that goes with the idea.
It’s called Seek-And-Paint!
Used an old line art I did for the line art Seek-and-Find game, Kromatika. Visit our game development blog!
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Or relatively close to what they call “games”.
At work, I’ve been exposed to AAA games, and heard the artists point out their buildings being blown up in game trailers, but I don’t know, I have never really been into those type of games. I’m not into shooters, zombies, space stuff or soldiers, I do play racing games though, but mostly I crash my cars (so yeah, “Burn Out”). Instead I’m more into “flOw” (this really pretty game made by Jenova Chen, nope, unfortunately, I’m not related to him), and my current inspiration, Tale of Tales, who made games like “The Graveyard” and “The Path”. I’m more into game as an art form. A quote from Jenova Chen’s website that caught my eye:
One of his greatest dreams is to bring the best messages to the video game world. Like what Hayao Miyazaki did to anime, Jenova wants to be one of the heroes who can turn video games into a form of art and play that can be appreciated and enjoyed by every human being.
and from Tale of Tales:
The purpose of Tale of Tales is to create elegant and emotionally rich interactive entertainment. We explicitly want to cater to people who are not enchanted by most contemporary computer games, or who wouldn’t mind more variety in their gameplay experiences. For this purpose, all of our products feature innovative forms of interaction, engaging poetic narratives and simple controls.
Yeah, I’m into that, but I’m obviously I’m very far off, but yeah, that is my personal goal, and not make games that make millions.
Before I move on to “showcasing” my stuff, please do visit Jenova Chen and Tale of Tales‘ websites and check out their pretty pretty games.
So, yeah, with that introduction in mind, I present to you my “games”.
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I used Unity3D game engine, which is a really artist friendly game engine. Though I am a programmer and not an artist. Nevertheless it’s an awesome game engine, you have to check it out! They give away 30 day trials. And that’s how I made my games, I still have 8 days left. So I hope to make a few more so-called games, before my trial ends. I provided links to my games, ‘coz the Unity3D game engine is so amazing, it even allows you to build web player versions of your games (also Windows and MAC standalones, Wii and iPhone!). I was so giddy after I installed it, I even took screenshots!
Okay, enough about that let’s get this show started. Finally!
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The White Rabbit
The blurb: Help the White Rabbit reach the Queen’s garden before time run out!
The first game I ever made alone! Part of my “Alice in Wonderland” obsession. Have you seen my White Rabbit photoshoot pictures? Well, it’s all over this game.
Play the game ‘ere: The White Rabbit
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1000 Paper Cranes
The blurb: An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who catches a thousand origami cranes will be granted a which by a crane.
Thank you, Gina for testing this game out (she actually caught a thousand+, so I owe her Ferrero). I posted this on the Unity3D forum, and thank you people there for the comments, and hoepfuly the number of views of the forum post = number of plays. So about this game: Gina, Liyan and my officemate Chris all have a origami obsession. Gina even makes papercranes that are connected together. While my personal origami obsession is also paper cranes, I even want to make a paper dress that is inspired by paper cranes. So I tried making 1000 papercranes using white pages, and I’m only about 10 or 20 papercranes into it, so yeah, digital papercranes seem easier. I made a papercrane model in Blender and cloned it about a thousand times for the game (using a couple of lines of code, so yeah, definitely easier that folding).
It’s a game made for its prettiness, so here are some artsy fartsy screenies:
Valley of Cranes
Fly into the Sun
Play the game ‘ere: 1000 Papercranes
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Teru Teru Bozu
The blurb: Teru-teru-bōzu, teru bōzu, Ashita tenki ni shite o-kure, Itsuka no yume no sora no yō ni, Haretara kin no suzu ageyo (Teru-teru-bozu, teru bozu, Do make tomorrow a sunny day, Like the sky in a dream sometime, If it’s sunny, I’ll give you a golden bell)
This is is so-called game, since it’s not really one. It’s like a painting that you can walk around in.
It has been raining for the past weeks, and I really want next weekend, so I made a Teru Teru Bozu model in Blender and placed it in a scene in Unity3D Game Engine.
I made it my wallpaper, so that the rain will go away. Oh, it even sings (I recorded myself singing the Teru Teru Bozu song. I found the lyrics on Wikipedia and the tune of YouTube). Oh, i made this yersterday, and true enough, today is a sunny sunny day.
Play the game ‘ere: Teru Teru Bozu
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So far that’s it. The current game that I’m working on is called “Rain Rain Go Away”. It’s not yet finished but here is a progress report plus some screenies.
Rain Rain Go Away
The blurb: Shoot raindrops with your umbrella gun!
Concept:
Screenshots from the Game Engine:
This game will feature me singing “Rain Rain Go Away”, and saying “Bang” when you shoot. Ahaha. Today is such a sunny day, so I might continue this game when it seems more appropriate.
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So far that’s it! Thanks for reading. I really hope you try my games. By the way, Cartoon Network’s Fusion Fall is also made using Unity3D, so if you downloaded the Unity plugin, you can also play that, along with the Axe Chocolate Man game (okay, it’s called the “Axe Dark Temptations” game).
Thanks once again.
Which means the summer is almost over. Though TECHNICALLY, I no longer have summer *sobs*. But that’s okay (says begrudgingly). What have I been up to (this summer)?
I am proud to say that I got to go swimming! Despite the whole no summer thing. ‘coz there’s always weekends (and the pool next to our house).
I got to go to the beach! Matabungkay Resort, Batangas with my high school friends:
I went COSPLAYING (which I have talked about in my previous posts):
Me as Chii
Me as Misa
Me as Hachi, my little sister as Nana
Me as Chii again
No, I don’t look good as a blonde.
Sorry for the crappy picture quality, I should really get myself a camera.
I went artsy fartsy and made this little things:
The cutout ribbon and fork.
The top hat.
The ring I had my sister make for me. She ripped the butterfly off a fluffy ballpen and stuck it to some copperwire.
The dress I had my sister make for me, for my Chii cosplay.
The paper dress!!! Made out of yellow pages! A spontaneous collaboration with my sister.
Paper dress #2! To cope with my Alice obsession. It’s the white rabbit. White pages this time, which was unfortunately prone to sweat, so it was falling apart even then.
Paper crane for my artsy fartsy game.
Screenie of the Game Engine I used to finish my one day game (finish a game in one day personal challenge). So yeah, this game is finished. Though it needs a bit of tweaking. And it mostly features my face in all the Menus and stuff, so yeah, will still think about uploading it. Oh it’s a webgame. So if I’m nice, you’d prolly get to play with it. It’s a maze game, with no map, so g’luck. Again, it’s fartsy.
Speaking of fartsy, when I was in Matabungkay, all I can think of while I was dreaming is how to have a fashion shoot in the low tide. The beach during the afternoons is soooper low tide, which isn’t very good for swimming, but imagine walking water (or where it’s supposed to be), and it’s littered with corals and starfishies and other creatures. Or a furniture shoot, imagine putting a pretty chair and setting up a water proof camera, and wait till the tide comes in. Fartsy. Fartsy.
Spontaneous outing with my family! I was supposed to be at work, but how dare they go without me? Ahaha.
Baking with Hachi and Nana!
Ingredients : butter!
Graham cracker crumbs. Not! Nana (my little sister) doesn’t like graham crackers. I love this shot, but the file got corrupted. Boohoo… Really really need to get a camera.
Mix graham cracker crumbs and butter and pat them down into a pie tin or in our case, some really cute glasses.
Next, mix some gelatin, sugar in boiling water.
Beat the cream cheese and then pour the gelatin mixture in, and BEAT SOME MORE!
Now we pour our cheesecake mixture in pretty goblets. And then put those in a fridge and wait.
While we wait…
We watch some gawk at Dmitri (from “Anastasia”) este watch some TV.
We peel some kiwi…
… wash some dishes…
… stamp out some apples…
… and then watch those apples bob up and down in salt water.
And then we top those cheesecakes with those cute fruits and we are done!
We did good, Nana!
Now, bottoms up!
Last picture in this set. Paper dress #3! Hachi’s apron!
Yeah, that’s about it. Again, I really really should get a camera. Since I’m such a camwhore.
Oh, some of those pictures were edited and are on my DeviantArt page : http://deadpoetz.deviantart.com.
Yeah, that’s it.
DawnGeorginaMaggie
I just watched “Gossip Girl” and “17 Again”, and Michelle Trachtenberg was in them, and I remembered Dawn! In the first part of GG, Georgina was really like Dawn, all nice and all. While in “17 Again”, she was like bitch Georgina. Ooh, can’t wait for the next ep of GG, since “the bitch is back”!
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(nice Georgina)
(Zac Efron’s daughter in “17 Again”, Maggie)
AngelBooth
And then after that, I watched “Bones”, which stars David Boreanaz, and it was kind of hard to imagine that he used to be Angel. But I love him as Booth in “Bones” as much as I loved him as the hottie vampire. Booth and Brennan is love!
Before:
(soooo hot *drool*)
After:
(still cute, but more funny than cute)
WillowLily
And of course, who can forget, the adorable Lily Aldrin, played by Willow este Alyson Hannigan. Why was she missing in the previous HIMYM eps? Turns out she just gave birth to a baby girl 
with Alexis Denisof (who was Wesley in “Buffy” and had a tinny bit role in HIMYM as Robin’s workmate). Lily, when are you going to be back? Ted is finally meeting his yellow umbrella girl, you have to be back for that!
Before:
(she was so young then!)
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SpikePiccolo
While Spike… well, I don’t really want to talk about it. I mean, “Dragon Ball Evolution”, the most fail movie I have watched recently. He was Piccolo! Oh, and he was also in the awfully boring “P.S. I Love You”.
Before:
(lovable, especially when he sings the in musical episode)
After:
(awful…)
My Plurker friends had been talking about a new series “Dollhouse”, which Eliza Dushku stars in. Haven’t watched it yet, though.
While, Buffy, well, she is rumored to be pregnant, according my gossip following friend.
After I started this post, I saw another related blog post, check it out: http://thegreatromance.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/where-are-they-now/
Well, that’s about it! Can’t wait for the return of Alyson Hannigan on HIMYM.
Update:
After writing this post before, I started watching “Dollhouse” and finished it two days later. I love the series. They are all so adorable. Eliza Dushku is officially my girl crush.
Favorite line: “I’m not broken.”
Also hearts Victor, and actually all of them, aside from Millie at the FBI guy. Definitely hearts the house.
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‘coz it’s all that I know.
I have not posted in my dream journal for ages, but that doesn’t mean that I stopped having dreams. I still have them, one every night. And sometimes, the dreams they are so real, that I thought that they are real. I don’t know, but, sometimes, I do wish that everything is just a dream, maybe then, if I make a mistake or if I do something stupid, then at least it’s just a dream, I’d just wake up, and it would unhappen (not a word, I know).
I like to get caught up in little hobbies, and spend all my time thinking about it, so I won’t have to think about anything else. I think I have my life compartmentalized, so that my focus is only on one thing at a time. And I get pretty consumed with that thing, and after a certain time, I move on, I think about another thing.
This post ends here.
Believe it or not, April is almost over. And I have done nothing productive.
I was supposed to do Script Frenzy with Ruth, but we haven’t had time to meet up or talk. And the month’s almost over, and I am only 6 pages down, out of 100! So well, either we cram like crazy or well, a repeat of NaNoWriMo fail. Anyways. I have an outline done, and some concept sketches, does that count?
I had been doing Project 365 since the start of the year, but since April, it had been a lull. After I got addicted to Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet (my little sister’s), I have stopped drawing traditional art. Unfortunately, my little sister got her tablet back, and my canvas had been empty ever since. I’m not worried though, there’s still a lot of time to make up for it. Though maybe, after 3 months, I have gotten a little tired of it…? No! I really must get back into it! Soon!
We actually had a week of break thanks to the Holy Week, and all I did was well… I went swimming once but I I realized that I’m not that big of a fan of swimming so, I camwhored instead. And that’s it! I slept a lot too!
It’s so weird, still working despite summer and all. But then, well, it officially hit me, in the real world, there are no summer vacations. Boo! But I guess, it’s fine too, since I get paid, ahaha.
Hmm… my first ever cosplay experience had me hooked. Now I understand how Em and Erin managed to churn out so many costumes a couple of months ago. Cosplaying is addictive! Dressing up and having people take pictures of you… It is heaven! Ahaha. So yeah, last Friday, I was having second thoughts about cosplaying again, because I still don’t have contacts, and not wearing my glasses leaves me blind- which means I can’t find cute cosplay guys, lol. But then, my little sister convinced me, not that I really needed that much convicing. Anyways, I posted some pictures of Chii before, so yeah, I’m doing Chii again. This Saturday. And I’m only doing my costume NOW. Ahaha. My mom will pull some miracles. Oh yeah, Em also recruited me in her Black Lagoon group. I agreed, though why is the character she gave me so sexy?! >.<
Oh the picture of Shen Hua from Black Lagoon:
Sigh… so sexy >.<
Anyways, Ruthieee Ruthieee Ruthieee: the screenie of the other FFXIII girl. Her name’s Lebreau. I love her name it’s so cute Oh and she has a butterfly tattoo at her back. Ruthieee, you can play her
Oh and finally, my Chii outfit:
It’s purple! Find me at the Shizen Orchestra, MOA, this Saturday.
So yeah, April is not meant for productivity (Script Frenzy fail, Project 365 lull), instead it is meant for Cosplaying, LOLs.
After I had so much fun cosplaying at Ozine Fest 2009, I am ready for more cosplay!
I started a blog entry some time ago before, but dunno why, I didn’t finish it, but it definitely has something to do with my DREAM COSPLAY LIST.
So first up on my list is… *drumroll*…
Paradise Kiss
The dress… *drool* … The hair and makeup… *drool* *drool*…
Oh and my dear Liyan can be George, my little sister can be Miwako, her purple wig can be worn on someone tall for Isabella, and my little sister’s friend, RJ, can be Arashi. And no, I haven’t asked them if they wanted to cosplay those yet.
FFXIII
My lil sis as Vanille and me as Lightning or vice versa (though I have to exercise and get rid of some tummy fats first >.<), and we’ll find some Hobo guy to play this one:
Chii
I had fun wearing Chii’s bakery uniform, but honestly speaking, it did not do Chii justice. So, other Chii outfits…
… though they may be a bit to revealing for me >.<. So I’ll probably stick to something else…
I love the coat .
Seems pretty easy to find… I think.
Oookaay… moving on from the Chii-ness.
Katara from Avatar
‘coz I have her hair. Though when I plurked this before, one of my friends said that I was not tan enough to play Katara. Oh well. And my lil sister as Toph, and anyone willing to burn their face, as Zuko.
Next up, for my little sister!
Nana
She got the clothes, the hair and definitely the stick-thin-ness. 
So far that’s it!
