JOURNAL: Chaos Angel (Dave Warren)

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  • Man... 2002-07-28 16:25:02 I finished Trigun today.

    ...Jesus.

    I honestly don't know what to say. I mean... damn. I never would have guessed on ep 1 that it would end up where it did.

    I loved it: creative character designs, especially the villians, a very interesting world setting, many highly memorable characters, nice development throughout of both the characters and the story, I loved how the series as a whole was very character-driven. However, I have so many questions after watching it...

    Definitely worth my $160. 
  • TRIGUN!!!! 2002-07-27 18:56:07 I GOT THE TRIGUN BOXSET TODAY!! WOOT!

    It was sitting on the shelf in Best Buy for $149.99. I decided to spend the extra 12 bucks and have it now instead of waiting a week to order it online. (Instant Gratification... ^_^)

    I have been wanting the Trigun boxset for, like, five or six months now, but kept putting it off because the money. Now, it'as MINE!! ALL MINE!!

    I may end up starving and homeless, but at least I'll have my anime!! (Actually, I'll most likely be fine, but I just always wanted to say that.) 
  • Ugh... 2002-07-25 23:46:26 Damn it all. I wanted to get that Harry Potter video finished for my sister's birthday (which is today, as I type this), but between not having enough time to work on it (I could only work on it when she wasn't home, for obvious reasons), and the problems my computer has had in past weeks, with the HD crash and the video card needing to be upgraded, I wasn't able to finish it.

    Oh, well. I think I'll keep the idea on hand for her next birthday. I was having trouble coming up with something good for the middle anyway, and who knows, maybe the second movie will have some choice scenes I can use.

    On a lighter note...

    I got a new video card today, a GeForce MX 400 that already kicks the CRAP out of my old Trident, which played HuffYuv clips choppily at best, and not at all once I upgraded to XP. Now, I am running the HuffYuv clips smooooooth. I think that, since I have the HD space and now the stronger video card, I will start working with uncompressed AVIs as my source clips.

    Uber-kwality!! Wooooot!!

    I'm happy, can ya tell?! 
  • I'm happy, sure, but also VERY nervous... 2002-07-15 10:46:04 I just got an e-mail from Matt Pyson,. who is co-coordinating the OPtakon 2002 AMV contest. He sent out a mass e-mail with the listing of the finalists that will be shown in the Otakon 2002 AMV Contest.

    I got in!!! Woot!!

    I'm VERY happy that the very first video I have ever entered into a contest got chosen for competition, not to mention that it's Otakon, one of the biggest cons in the country. Damn, now I REALLY wish I could go. But, to do that, I'd have to liquidate pretty much half of what I have been saving up for college next fall. How do people afford to go to multiple cons every year? AARRGGHH!!

    Anyway, when I looked over the rest of the list, I suddenly got very nervous. In addition to me, Dave "Chaos Angel" Warren, Guess who else I saw on the list of entrants?


    Aluminum Studios
    Doki Doki Productions
    Justin "ErMaC" Emerson
    Scott A Melzer & Richard Suchenski
    VicBond007 Productions
    Vlad G. Pohnert

    Dear God... I'm going up against the greats? ::whimpers:: Granted, I care more about getting my stuff shown and seeing how I do than actually winning, but, still... Best Part of Waking Up isn't exactly revolutionary, and it has quality issues both with image quality (Never again will I shrink down my source clips to 360 x 240...) and an editting glitch that I didn't learn how to fix until after I had already sent it off to Otakon. (I will not speak the glitch aloud here, because it embarasses the HELL out of me how simple it was to fix).

    I'm more nervous about Will and Tim than any of the others, though. Sure, they are all damn good at what they do and rock the boxers off me in almost every aspect, but Will is one of the people whose work first motivated me to make my own videos, and I consider him and Eric Jones to be my role models. As for Tim, well, everyone knows Tim rules the comedy category, and BPoWU is a comedy video if it's anything at all.

    Even though I don't really care whether or not I actually win, it still makes me nervous to be going up against such big-name edittors. Especially with a video that does not really represent my best work in terms of image quality and editting skill (THAT DAMN GLITCH!! I really don't know how they didn't catch it.).

    Still, if I had to make the choice again, I'd still send it off. I love this video with a passion, and I want to see how it does against others. Win or lose, I just want to see how it does.

    I'm still nervous, though.

    ::chews fingernails::

    On a different note, anyone want to pay for me to go to Otakon so I can be there for my video? Please?

    Hey, if you don't ask, you'll never know, eh?

    Ok, stop trying to mooch now.

    My stomache hurts...
     
  • 80 GB HARD DRIVE!! WOOOT!!! 2002-07-14 20:35:38 My old 20 GB HD crashed last week due to bad sectors, so I decided to replace it with a new one. I found an 80 GB HD on EBAY for $110. ::hugs it::

    I decidced not to put crappy Windows ME on the new drive, so I installed Windows XP. I'm getting used to the new layout.

    However, I soon grew pissed. I found that I could not simply drag programs over to the new drive off of the old one (I hooked it up as a slave, and ran a scan-disk to partion off the bad sectors). I successfully transferred all of my MP3s and videos, but I have to re-download and re-install all of my programs.

    Ick.

    Still, it's a way to get rid of programs I didn't want anymore but was too lazy to delete. Unfortunately, XP calls AVIs and MPEGS by different names, so the video I was working on must be re-started from scratch.

    Bitch.

    I am going to love the 80 GB of space, but re-installing everything is gonna suck ass. Oh, well.  
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