Costume Progress
Double Snow Day
Foam Video on YouTube
Halloween
Art Feature



Well hi freaks! Time to update this journal madness thing. As you can see, I changed the format of this thing a bit and added anchors so you've got some more navigational control. Blame my web design class.

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Costume Progress


Thaaaaat's right. If you haven't been keeping up with my UStream or Flickr gallery, I've been hard at work with my latest Pokemon costume project, a Groudon head (apparently named Fred). It's been a lot of fun working with him so far and I make progress every Saturday. Make sure you watch my page for the broadcast schedule. Next project is a commissioned Charizard head which will be the subject of my much needed moving jaw and head building tutorial.

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Double Snow Day

Weeee! Snnoooow! Colorado's got lots of it, though it's practically all gone now. A good foot and a half in some places. It was enough to cancel school for two days which is super crazy because it's so rare that the school is ever shut down. On top of this we have Institute Day (which is like a teacher work day) so no class for me on Monday either! One would think that I have enough time with all this to get work done but oooh no. I never have time to do anything, don't get your hopes up. Those notes and comments have only gone up from the last journal. I'll get to some tonight but it's so hard struggling through them all.

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Foam Video on YouTube

And now the big announcement of the week, I have a new YouTube video up! This was all recorded back in September after Nan Desu Kan before I moved out of the dorms but I held off uploading it for a month because of the daunting evil task of throwing subtitles in there. *shivers* That process is entirely too difficult to get through... however it's my own fault for making the video too long and too awesome. If you're looking to be entertained for 10 minutes spare some time and watch: CanineHybrid's YouTube

Video Features:
<-lol, they're kissing XD

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Halloween

Of course Halloween. Oh joyus Halloween. I'd like to say it's my favorite holiday, but it turns out not near as cool as it could have been with each passing year... *sigh* Well we started off the evening with my Saturday UStream session, not working on costumes this time, but participating in the spirit of the holiday by carving pumpkins!

UStream Guests:


However, nothing really went to plan. Typical.

Friday night Ani was hanging out for a bit and Rey and Sorin came up. We all went to Safeway looking for pumpkins (Ani pimped out as Team Magma and I as Charizard) but they fail at life and didn't have any. We bought Underworld: Rise of the Lycans for our movie night and then headed over to King Soopers. Luckily they had pumpkins.

Saturday we got up a bit late but got the UStream going. We sat down to gut the pumpkins and designed our patterns. We were waiting for my sister to come down from Boulder but due to fail planning and the fact that I didn't have a printer, our pumpkin carving started so late that we didn't finish. We also had a pretty awesome set-up on the porch thanks to Sorin's fog machines, blacklight, and creepy dead dude but we only had 5 trick-or-treater groups the whole night. Wah?! Why? Where was everyone? It wasn't even COLD this year compared to most.
We caught the last failing hour of a party we were invited to by .

Overall it could have been much better, but I think it was a step up on the fun scale from last year. Next year, I'm DEFINITELY entering a costume contest. I would love some compensation for all the hard work and money I put into my costumes

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Art Feature

This month's art feature goes to a bunch of people instead of focusing on one gallery, and the theme is "art for me" simply because I've gotten so much all of a sudden. A lot of the drawings are what Ani and I have received over the last few days due to the AWESOME Foam Video on YouTube. I was so not expecting all of this! Thanks to everyone; you get some major awesome points. I'll of course get around to making individual comments as soon as I find the time. I absolutely love each one of them!

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Well that's it for this thing. I'm gonna go watch the first Underworld movie due to watching the third one for Halloween. Then sleep. Mmm, sleep.

Psss, this is still going on:



PEACE YO, FO SHIZZLE! :U
-Riley

So it's been a month since my last journal here on DA... so much has happened in that time, where do I even begin!? Oh yeah, here seems like a good place to start: LiveJournal Entry: Covering The Entire Freaking Month of September. I don't want DA to turn into my blog so I keep my more personal updates and stories separate on LJ.

I've got plenty of unnecessary stress surrounding my life right now so I apologize for being very behind in my little virtual world. Unfortunately the real world takes top priority :>



So like, what's going on dawg?

Well, obviously everything in my LiveJounral explains what's happened all last month. Highlights include NDK, finals week, and now moving. For the past few weeks I've been moving out of the Art Institute apartment dorms, "The Towers", into my own house. That's where I am currently typing this from and where I will be living for the next year. It's awesome, but kinda lonely. I need to rent out the two upstairs bedrooms. There's a chance that ~Susano-Reborn may stay with me next month but in the meantime I'm looking for people in the AIC/DU area that would be compatible and awesome enough to live in my house. For more info, just ask.



How come you haven't replied back to my messages yet?

Because I haven't had the chance to really delicate time to tend to those things in over two months. I'll be working on this now that I have internet at my new place which is ungodly beautiful... 20+ mbps/sec download, 3 mbps/sec upload <3 (vs the average 3 mbps/sec download, 0.1 mbps/sec upload at the Towers *shivers*)
I currently have 66 notes on DA (not to mention 1,831 messages and 899 deviations), 43 notes on YouTube (not to mention all the comments on my videos to reply to), and 1,463 emails on my yahoo. Add maybe a thousand more messages combing FA, SA, LJ, Facebook, etc. online communities I attempt to keep up with. Gmail I still can't access my account on so I have no idea how many costume quotes, etc messages on are there.
Yeah. You do not want to be me right now.



What are you planning on doing next?

Well right now I'm typing this journal and getting ready to tackle all the responsibilities that are asked of me with my primary focus on answering all those messages. I have a video almost ready for YouTube, just need to add subtitles, and another one about NDK is ready to be edited. I have plenty of things to upload to DA but I'm putting that on hold until I get more things out of the way... the last thing I need right now is more messages to answer :/



Any word on when you'll start doing UStream broadcasts again?

Yeah actually! This month I'm starting on the Groudon mask project for ~RektheArtist and the building process will be completely covered from start to finish on my UStream broadcast. Remember how awful and choppy the video was? Not an issue any longer! Thanks to my new internet, I will now be streaming to you live in high quality! Tested it out last night excited to see what the internet could handle: it's absolutely flawless. I have all the materials and measurements I need so I think I'll start streaming this coming Saturday: October 10, 2009.



What's your costume project queue look like right now?

I have to start on four projects this month...
-Groudon head for ~RektheArtist (ready to start Saturday)
-Charizard head for Marianne (just need a balacalva, checking the ski store tomorrow)
-Pair of ears for ~NightTwilightWolf (waiting for reference)
-Pair of handpaws for ~Michiru-Kaioh (waiting for payment)

I'm uh... reeeally tight on funds right now so my Shadow Lugia Pokemon costume will be pushed back. I hope to officially start working on the head late November but I probably can't buy the fabric until January (due to Christmas gift shopping)

I was hoping to officially start accepting head commissions in January 2010 but I might wait. Let me see how I can handle these few projects first with balancing school and life. So far I seem to suck at at. Commissions really aren't my thing right now <<



Anything else?

Working on a wiki-style page that will be a website resource for all things costume/fursuit-related. Still a major WIP, but it's getting there. That way you have easy reference to most questions I am asked (or you can ask new ones) and it'll be much easiest for me to simply point you to the page instead of having to answer everyone's question individually and spend several minutes if not hours typing up a single reply. Moving jaw tutorial can also begin being filmed next week since I have Groudon's head to use as my example. Groudon's head should also be finished by the end of this month if I take time to work on it every week. Lots more awesome things are on the way as usual! I'm striving to do all this more efficiently from now on and hopefully my progress pays off. I want to give you guys all the awesomeness that I can spare.



Till next time!

-Riley

Have a journal :3

So this month has been particularly interesting... Rocky Mountain Fur Con was awesome. If you want to read all about it and a few other things that happened these past few weeks, check out my LiveJournal.


Next weekend I'm going camping with ~Susano-Reborn!

The weekend after that is Nan Desu Kan :3 I was just confirmed for the cosplay competition so if you're gonna be there, I look forward to seeing ya! Of course we're all going as the Eeveelution group (minus Umbreon, Vaporeon, and Flareon) so we shouldn't be too hard to spot.

I'm also editing my next YouTube video so you'll finally get to see the full Leafeon costume and learn more about my 2010 Pokemon costume project if you don't know about it already. Other art-related madness includes me still having about 10 things to upload to DA after some editing and tweaks to a few things. Most of it is all things from school last quarter but with all the A-kon madness, I didn't have time to get around to it. So I might get something up tonight, depending how far I get with my painting assignment.

Man my life is as busy as ever... and it kinda sucks. <<

Oh and I still have over 50 DA notes to look through *is way behind once again*

So yeah. School started and all. Whoopie. Got some pretty good classes and I'm enjoying it enough. Love my new Motion Graphics teacher this time around <3

I have to order another new part for my sewing machine but as soon as I do, I should be back in business! And I need to fix the video setting on my camera. But once both those things are done, that means I can finally finish and take official pictures/video of my Leafeon costume. More art is seriously going to be on the way; but I'm at school right now and so I can't upload art right now. Also my modem hasn't come in the mail yet so I'm stuck on the school computers until that happens. Have currently 14 notes on dA and probably 50 on YouTube. STILL BEHIND!

So the biggest news is that I met another therian, ~Michiru-Kaioh. She's ~Ceil's new roomate and it's awesome how fast we hit it off. We're a lot alike and so she, Ani and I have formed a sort of pack now. Oh and I also made her a pair of awesome wolf ears so I'll be uploading those soon so you can see what they will look like if you buy a pair.


Last thing, Michi came up with this wolf pack quiz thing and she asked me to do it so here goes!


Start off with the basics...

What is your wolf name?: Riley/German shepherd dog

Fur color?: Tan and dark brown

Eye color?: Sapphire blue

Claw color?: Gray

Do you have a mate?: Yes

Who is your mate?: Taro <3

Have you imprinted on any one?: Besides Taro, I guess my brother Rey could count.

What is your wolf's theme song?: I suppose "The One Thing I Have Left" by Hawk Nelson would work nicely :3



Now for your pack...

How many pack members do you have?: In this specific pack, 3, but I belong to quite a few of them.

Who are they?: Ani, Michi, and myself.

What do they look like?: Ani is a canary yellow and royal blue dhole (of awesomeness) and Michi is a teal and white wolf.

Who is the leader of your pack?: It varies, often I am the leader but a lot of times where it's neutral.

Who is the newest member of your pack?: Michi

Do you plan on getting more pack members?: Not quite sure. I can consider San part of the AiC pack but she's not a wolf per say.

What is your pack's theme song?: We probably should come up with one; Michi and I were going through a few songs but nothing's official yet.

What song would you say describes each of your pack members best?: Haven't picked out any yet. *needs go to through music badly*



Territory...

Where does your pack reside?: Colorado, specifically, the Art Institute

How far does your territory reach?: We don't have a really set territory. I guess it encompasses the Towers, the park, and the school.

Does your territory touch another pack's territory?: Yeah, I'm pretty sure it does. Again, we don't have any set boundaries because our territory is generally public property anyhow.

Cool, now I know all about your pack what will you do now?: Sit here in the computer lab attending to unimportant internet stuff :3

Now tag some other wolves! 8D Go head and do it if you're a wolf/canine/therian/have a pack

Well I need a new Journal. This'll do for now.

Quick things:

-Back from A-kon; had a blast. Our Eeveelution cosplay group won 1st place in the Hall Costume Contest Saturday and we got a shiny trophy to prove it. Working on typing up a long LiveJournal entry all about the trip complete with pictures :3

-School is over and I'm on summer break for 3 weeks (hooray) I just got my computer set back up with internet in my room so I'll be busy with notes and messages on DA and YouTube (got over 50 to check) Please be patient; I'm a month behind and getting to yours! Also going on vacation to Lake Powell like every year the last week of break so I will be disappearing then.

-Sorry for the UStream thing. I plan to reschedule it since I know you all want to see my completed Leafeon costume and learn about my Pokemon costume for next year. Please vote in my poll! [link]

-I do plan to upload things, I seriously got at least 10 things from last semester and this semester. I'll get something up today.

-My Leafeon work in progress pictures on Photobucket are going to be updated and completed later today [link]

-After being a computer bum today, I plan to do some work on my custom articulated costume tail prototype. You might see some of my progress on the UStream broadcast if I get far enough with it.

-Recently got into watching LOST, thanks to ~Vampire-knight-90 XD You Rock!


Now I'm off to bed at 5:46am! Yey!