#68 - Just a couple of thoughts while procrastinating on a final economics paper.

Here's how I'm going to go about making my moolah in life.

First off, I'll establish a name for myself in the art world. We'll start with commissions and the Artist Alley at Anime Central, and take it from there. I've got a few ideas that will certainly (hopefully?) be popular with the American otaku fanbase.

In the meantime, I'll be working on my writing and my music. Both of these will be initially self-published and self-recorded, and marketed through my personal website/deviantArt/LiveJournal/MySpace/whatever I can find, as well as pimped out to review sites and other such places. By this point, theoretically speaking, I'll have a sizable enough fanbase that I can make a decent profit off what I do. This, in turn, may spur a publishing company and/or a recording studio to take me under their wing and officially release my stuff, which will hopefully mean a wider audience and moar proffitz that I can then put towards various things (maintaining a decent living environment for myself, supporting my parents and buying them that house on the beach that they've always wanted, collecting as many books as I can).

Am I crazy for starting out by doing nearly everything myself? Oh, fuck yes. But the risk of failure for me is three times higher than normal, and I'll be damned if I'm putting such a fragile fate into the gigantic, groping hands of a third party. I want my life, my dreams, my desires right here where I can see it and mold it with my own painfully short fingers. And if that means doing nearly everything myself, so be it. I don't entirely know what I'm getting myself into with something like this, but I know it's something that I'm going to do or die trying. I'm excited and scared to be starting on this, and starting soon with the coming of summer break. At the very least, I hope to be making a living from my art, enough so that I can live comfortably and be able to produce my writing and music as well later.

-Reileen
white tiles without foundation, silent temple bells

#69 - Aha. This is post number sixty-nine. Hur hur.

You ever notice that, no matter how much you believe that something you're showing off is crap, you still feel disappointed when you don't get (m)any compliments on it?

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Shiroko's gonna have to go from the "Now Three" animation, assuming I still decide to attempt to continue to animate that thing. One of the problems brought up when I showed the prototype first half of the animation as my final project in ANI240 is that no one could decipher what her role was supposed to be in the context of the story. Not that I blamed them - I've had her character concept since January or February of this year, and I still have no idea what she's doing in the animation. Which, you know, is probably a very good sign that she doesn't belong. I think that's just as well, though: the story of Now Three truly has nothing to do with her - she was simply there because she could be. But now she won't be. (Instead, she'll star in a number of original CGs and will probably become my mascot of sorts. She's just too adorable to leave hanging.)

One more final to go. Let's see how badly I botch that one.

-Reileen
the same rain that draws you near me