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I think the biggest hurdle with the YouTube pilot is me. Because we got shot down by two "big" companies I got discouraged at first, but then just super nitpicky about everything I was making. So it's more of a "I need to make something good enough to impress myself" or simply "allow myself to make it regardless" type situation. Right now I just don't really care and I'm so drained from work I barely have time for fun, much less such a big project. At any rate, here's some examples of the basic frames I did for the animatics. (Fun fact, Odin was in the original pitch, but I can't find a picture of his character at the moment.) For the 2014 pitch I hand drew everything in pencil, went over the sketches in ink, scanned them in and turned them into simple vectors in Illustrator. Example below: Here's a screencap of the private forum my friend and I were using to post and discuss everything. It shows our second story, the super villain one. Example shot from that story's animatic: Another thing we were doing was making a machinima. Here's a test shot turned into a gif:

It gets tiring, but I live by myself and live decently. A big pro of my current job is spending money. I go fucking bonkers on groceries. Back in 2009 I was homeless and eating dumpster food. And 2010-2015 I was living paycheck to paycheck, praying I'd have enough money to buy shitty, cheap food or that I'd get something decent at the food bank. I love grocery shopping now. And, if nothing else, I can treat my buddies and cover food/tickets when we do actually go out.

If you don't want to make your own Tso sauce, you can get some premade stuff. House of Tsang is a good one that's available in a lot of places, even Wal-Mart. Iron Chef is great, too, but harder to find in some parts of the country.

Oh it's amazing. My culinary background is a combination of traditional Jing cuisine and Southern US cuisine, which is why I got into Fusion cuisine. I love combining stuff like that. Have you tried adding basil to your sauce? A pinch of sugar is always good, too. Lots of spice mixes and premade sauces have sugar in them. You can also try brown sugar. I recommend using a dark brown sugar, though, because it has more molasses in it.

I work 60-80 hours in a given week, depending on which location I'm at. Standard week is always under 70 hours, though. When I was fresh out of college I was working just shy of 80 hours every week at just one job. The only two things I hate about work hours is 1.) Not being off when most of my friends are. A lot of them work during the day, 9-5 type deals, so they have the night off every night, so to speak. By the time I'm off, they're heading in for the night. and 2.) It's stopping me from getting a puppy. Sure I could hire a dog sitter or get people to help out, but that's too cumbersome and needlessly expensive since I'd need it 5-6 days a week. It's why I only have my betta fish atm, but I really want a dog, too.

Oo gurl, I make my own Tso sauce and mix it in with some tomato sauce and tomato mush from the blender. Shit is bombastic. What's in your sauce?

I don't know how much content you're expected to write, but $50 seems like nothing.

Do you fuck with the war?

Don't recalling beating either game, but I got 3D Blast and my Genesis in the game room.

Not really what you're asking for but here go!

It was 105° outside and the A/C was broken at work so we subsisted off of giant fans. Didn't work out. Also was 2-for-1 night at the buffet so got swarmed, too.

Wall of text inc: To be perfectly honest, it's not fulfilling anymore. I got into art for the wrong reason in the first place. because it got me attention as a kid when nothing else did. Like, I was the kid in school that would pretend to shade a picture I had been done with weeks ago, just in the hopes someone would look at it and talk to me or tell me something positive. After I graduated from art school and realized, "oh, this is a terrible degree. I've wasted my time and money," I started learning to cook and rolled with that as a career. Tried to keep art as a hobby, but occasionally some of my art got stolen and reposted, even saw one picture on a fan-made shirt on a band's website. Did what I could to stop the theft, but it's near impossible to track down every instance of that stuff. I also found myself posting paintings I had worked on for days get no attention (likes, comments, shares, tags, notes, etc.) and I'd turn around and see a single mom post a picture from her kid's coloring book that she colored in and that shit got tons of attention. Like I said, I was in it for the wrong reason so I got discouraged. And after I saw that posting my stuff netted me nothing but someone stealing it got them everything, I just quit sharing for a few years entirely. Last big art project I worked on was in 2014 when I made a pilot episode for a ninja comedy cartoon a friend and I had been working on. We were talking with Cartoon Hangover (Adventure Time, Bee & Puppycat, Bravest Warriors, Fairly Oddparents, etc.) for about 6 months, and I mean constant correspondence, to make the pilot. As an aside, we also talked with [adult swim] long ago, like 2008, and we sent an official pilot but it was rejected (was really bad). Got to talk to Doc Hammer and the 70/30 (Archer, Sealab, Frisky Dingo) guys so that was cool. Anyways, once we submitted the pilot package, they replied back in 5 minutes, told us it was too long and not kid friendly. That wasn't particularly true since we were working on a PG-13 cartoon and the pilot document was 73 pages long, 1 picture per page. So basically they didn't read it. Supposed to be making another pilot to upload direct to YouTube but I'm having a hard time convincing myself to produce it.

I didn't actually do anything. Looks like someone else added a bit of code. In place of the normal code [img=URL] It's this instead [img=URL]

Most I ever spent on a Lyft was like $20 to get to North Vegas.

This is the best news I've gotten in ages.

Yea that was cringey. But I mean you're still cringey now.

A lot of them did for awhile. My best friend still does from time to time.

Not quite. The first name most of them knew me by was the gamertag "Naomiiiiiiiiiii" So I figure that's why.

In the gaming groups I don't think anyone even calls me by my screen name anymore. So it's pretty public knowledge that my name is Naomi.

The tap water out here is absolutely vile tasting. Bless them for trying, though. All my water comes from bottles or the water coolers at work. Krogers sells 32 packs of water for hella cheap, though, so I can usually get 128 bottles of water for ~$7.

Back when I got my first job and way before I learned how to cook, I would be at work 12-16 hours a day, 6 days a week. Was making more money than a kid should be for what I did. I got off work a couple hours before everything started closing for the night so I would swing by the gas station on the way home and grab the biggest ICEE cup they had, filled it up, and snagged a half dozen, creme-filled, chocolate glazed Krispy Kreme donuts. Then I'd come home, order 2 medium pizzas, a 2 liter of soda, and cheesy bread. While I waited I polished off the donuts and ICEE, and once the pizza got there, I'd devour the bread and one of the pizzas and just chug that soda. Slowly ate half of the second pizza and saved the rest for breakfast. I did that every night for about a month until I discovered a Chinese restaurant that did these massive $2 lunchboxes. I digress. Do you, boo boo. Get cha grub on. And lemme get a Gardetto pls.