The "I start grad school tomorrow" Plush-a-thon!

Greetings intewebs, its another lovely day to sew like a crazy person! YAAAAAAAAAAY!

So yeah the one-man-monster-machine is ready to plushify, I've got a commission or two on the block to finish and a bunch of partially or mostly sewn things to stuff. Should be a fun day of squishy goodness.

So I'm off to clear off my sewing desk, I'll be back with updates soon!

12:30 PM: Ok so I have 6 Turtlebugs and a Rhino all at the mostly finished stage. I just need to stuff them and Top stitch the  Turtlebug shells, I suppose its time to actually use my new sewing machine (dun dun dun)

I'm off to grab myself some lunch, and last min supplies to finish an Owl Commission for my pal Matt.

3:45 PM Done with stuffing the rhino, and been stuffing bugs. Got the last materials for making this owl too. Dinosaur Bandana has been on and rockin since lunch.

5:30 Half a dozen Turtlebugs stuffed. Ready to be shelled.  Setting up the sewing machine to work on those and the Owl after Dinner.

7:20 Finally got my sewing machine set up, also had to do some other stuff around the house... I can't help but think I won't have the time to do all of the sewing I wanted to do before I gotta crash since I can has my first day of grad school tomorrow morning.  Also I left this window open while I got a call from a friend, and now its almost 8... I fail so hard.

Final Cut "pro" is the bane of my existence

And now that I have my registration codes back for it, I'm reminded of that fact. See, I finally get FCP working again and its giving me this total Bullcrap claim that it doesn't recognize the framerate or file type of my video files from my Kodak Playsport. Which is freaking stupid, it shoots with a standard codec, in MOV, and I've ran 720p 60FPS videos on my FCp before.

So that's it, I'm done, I don't care anymore. I'm just exporting all my timeline data for projects I want to keep and putting Premier CS5 on my computer.

Screw you FCP, you won't be missed.

Lets give it up for the new year.

Hey all, Happy Freaking New Year! yeah, its 9 days late, I don't care.

So far I've kicked off my year with a Bang, and it hasn't slowed down. Been to the SD Zoo with the fam, got a ton of great pics that will soon transform into glorious Digital Illustrations along the lines of my Red and Giant Pandas. I've had an epic day at Disneyland with my pals Brandon, Chris and Grant(video of said day to follow).  My Dad found my final cut stuff, so I can FINALLY get back to work on a bunch of videos I had in the works. And perhaps its due time I started my Video Review series I've been meaning to get going.

Also while I'm here, I made a couple new VooDoods right before 2010 ended, I'm gonna do some more once I crank through a couple commissions I gotta finish.(I'll also add some new stuff to my etsy too.)

Oh, and I totally start Grad School in 8 days! Yaaaaaay! Its crazy how I still don't know much anything about what it's going to be like, but I'm Super Stoked nonetheless.

I'm not particularly looking forward to the whole "waking up @ 5:30 AM for work" thing tomorrow. but its my last full week there, what with starting grad school, so I can tough it out.

Anywho, that will do for this update.

-MadArtisan

Put that new monster fur to use, oh and MERRY CHRISTMAS

There's a whole lot more pics over @ the Mad Artisan Labs Facebook page, check them out there.

This batch of Zippermouth Nomsters were made as part of my gifts for relatives. I gave a Cuponk Game to each of my Aunts/Uncles and their Families, the Nomsters serve as ball holders for their extra Cuponk Balls.

I Absolutely love this fur. It took me a bit of time to get used to working with it, but now that I kinda have the hang of it I'm super excited to do more with it. It looks super cool and seams blend exceptionally well between two pieces of the fur. I think for now I'll stick to using it only as an element, rather than the primary fabric on my characters, but I do love using it and plan on using it more. Expect a ton of new character designs the revolve around using this fur as a design element in the near future.

There's only one more sleep 'till Christmas, and I intend to get to that.

-MadArtisan

Not quite Singin' in the Rain

ya know its ironic that I last posted about how wonderfully pleasant and warm the typical Californian December was. Considering that not long after it started raining... and its been rainging for just about a week. (albeit its supposed to clear up tomorrow...and start again right after Christmas, whee.)

Now, I do enjoy the occasional rain its a nice change and all kinds of good stuff, but its rather hindering out here. particularly since it leads to pretty much everyone driving the speed of smell, and its left me being a bit of a shut-in. Particularly with the flooding that happens on the main roads out of my suburban housing area. Hell even the mailman is taking his time in this weather... our mail didn't come until after 4 pm. Which was particularly disappointing because that is how long I had to wait to see the Saddest paycheck I have yet received from LEUSD since I started working for them. Those factors coupled with an ear infection (and turns out some crazy bad earwax buildup) leaving me rather deaf-ish had put me in quite the grumpy mood. Fortunately I bought this awesome earwax remover and ear cleaner kit and it fixed me right up. Now I totally have like super hearing and its great.

Its Christmas in California, and its hard to ignore that it feels like summer all the time.

As I write this its still 70 something outside, twas maybe low 80s max today, and ya know what? I love it. I truly enjoy the fact that it really doesn't hit supa-cold winter weather for more than a few weeks out here, I'm kinda at a point where its hard to imagine it any other way. By the way this post's title comes from a Jack's Mannequin song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzg2iZoUFeo&feature=related

Anywho a bunch of stuff's happened since I last posted here, where to begin...  (read after the jump)

Super News Update!

Well, October's long-past, and a whole bunch of things have happened.

The vendor fair was pretty unsuccessful (one plushie, and one tote bag sold...sigh)

I've made a few new plushies since then, I have a bunch of sewn, but yet to be stuffed too.

My sewing machine broke, so I replaced it with a new fancy one that I still don't understand all the functions on yet...because its fancy.

I got to use my Disneyland Pass once in October, my buddy Grant and I were there for like two and a half hours, we rode 7 rides. I suppose I should mention it was on a Wednesday.

That same day I picked up my Diploma from UCI, tis a pretty cool feeling.

Saw Megamind last night, it was an Amazingly Awesome display of Super-Greatness! (That's a future DVD Box quote right there, I can see it now..."Amazingly Awesome display of Super-Greatness!"- Nate Little, Suburban Renaissance Man) and I only watched it in 2D on a normal screen. I can't wait to see it again, hopefully in IMAX 3D, which I'm sure is totally gonna be worth it.

I unfortunately due to some weird Standardized Testing Thing and then a Holiday and Furlough day between this week and last mean I'm losing some 28 hours of potential work/pay this month as an AVID tutor, while the loss of monies is sad, it frees me up to have another Adventure in the land of Dizz-Knee. Which should open up the opportunity for me to go twice this month, thus making up for my lack of using my pass in September.

Not only did I easiy get my Grad School application in to CGU on time, but I just got a letter from them today...

I was ACCEPTED!!!!!!!!!! 

Yeah, that's right.

Starting in January, I will be a MFA Student at Claremont Graduate University! 

I am Super Stoked! XDDDD

After visiting there this summer I was convinced it was pretty much perfect for me, and I can't wait to get cracking on working on all kinds of ridiculous-awesome stuff.

With that I figure I'm good for this blog post.

I'll upload the new plush pics in the next couple days.

-MadArtisan