Friday, May 31, 2013

Team Prime 2.0 Toy Collection COMPLETE!




I did it! Not only did I finally get a Beast Hunters Voyager Class Ultra Magnus toy through Amazon (thanks to my mom) after desperately looking for it (and the Voyager Class Shockwave figure as well) in many stores, but I was, at long last, able to complete the ENTIRE TF PRIME AUTOBOT COLLECTION! Team Prime is now complete!
However, having dealt with some updated changes for Optimus (now "robust" and totally "rad" (in the words of Miko) with a little help from the last remaining energy of the Forge of Solus Prime) and Bumblebee (coated with a black and yellow paint job as of Episode 53: "Darkmount, NV"), all I need now is a BLUE REPAINT OF A DELUXE CLASS SMOKESCREEN FIGURE! That is if Hasbro CAN MAKE IT before TF: Prime wraps up by the end of this year. Just hope that the tiny Cyberverse figure is not the only toy version for the blue Smokescreen (which was paired with the Sky Claw ship) that I bought from Target.

Saturday, May 18, 2013

During the Project Predacon episode debut,... A new Transformers: Prime - Beast Hunters Opening!



Click on this link for a first look at this newly-updated opening of Transformers: Prime - Beast Hunters following the major Autobot victory in the previous episode "Rebellion" from last month!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lHnD5V_cLOc

Saturday, May 11, 2013

NOVA Spring Semester 2013 is Finished!


It is done! I have completed my spring semester at NOVA Loudon Campus this year!
So far, my overall grades in English 112 (Parra), History 101 (Porter), and Biology 101 (class (Glick) and lab (Marino)) were A (98), A (90), and B (88)!



Monday, February 25, 2013

The 2013 Academy Award Winners!

The winners of my "favorite categories" at the 85th Academy Awards ceremony from last night are...!


Best Picture
  • Amour
  • Argo
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Django Unchained
  • Les Misérables
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Zero Dark Thirty


Best Director
  • Amour (Michael Haneke)
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
  • Life of Pi (Ang Lee)
  • Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
  • Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)


Best Actor
  • Silver Linings Playbook (Bradley Cooper)
  • Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis)
  • Les Misérables (Hugh Jackman)
  • The Master (Joaquin Phoenix)
  • Flight (Denzel Washington)


Best Actress
  • Zero Dark Thirty (Jessica Chastain)
  • Silver Linings Playbook (Jennifer Lawrence)
  • Amour (Emmanuelle Riva)
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild (Quvenzhané Wallis)
  • The Impossible (Naomi Watts)


Best Supporting Actor
  • Argo (Alan Arkin)
  • Silver Linings Playbook (Robert De Niro)
  • The Master (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
  • Lincoln (Tommy Lee Jones)
  • Django Unchained (Christoph Waltz)


Best Supporting Actress
  • The Master (Amy Adams)
  • Lincoln (Sally Field)
  • Les Misérables (Anne Hathaway)
  • The Sessions (Helen Hunt)
  • Silver Linings Playbook (Jacki Weaver)


Best Original Screenplay
  • Amour
  • Django Unchained
  • Flight
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • Zero Dark Thirty


Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Argo
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Silver Linings Playbook


Best Animated Film
  • Brave (Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman)
  • Frankenweenie (Tim Burton)
  • ParaNorman (Sam Fell and Chris Butler)
  • The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Peter Lord)
  • Wreck-It Ralph (Rich Moore)


Best Production Design
  • Anna Karenina
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Les Misérables
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln


Best Costume Design
  • Anna Karenina
  • Les Misérables
  • Lincoln
  • Mirror Mirror
  • Snow White and the Huntsman


Best Cinematography
  • Anna Karenina
  • Django Unchained
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Skyfall


Best Film Editing
  • Argo
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Zero Dark Thirty


Best Makeup
  • Hitchcock
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Les Misérables


Best Original Score
  • Anna Karenina (Dario Marianelli)
  • Argo (Alexandre Desplat)
  • Life of Pi (Mychael Danna)
  • Lincoln (John Williams)
  • Skyfall (Thomas Newman)


Best Original Song
  • Chasing Ice ("Before My Time")
  • Ted ("Everybody Needs a Best Friend")
  • Life of Pi ("Pi's Lullaby")
  • Skyfall ("Skyfall")
  • Les Misérables ("Suddenly")


Best Visual Effects
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Life of Pi
  • Marvel's The Avengers
  • Prometheus
  • Snow White and the Huntsman


Best Sound Mixing
  • Argo
  • Les Misérables
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Skyfall


Best Sound Editing
  • Argo
  • Django Unchained
  • Life of Pi
  • Skyfall
  • Zero Dark Thirty

Thursday, January 10, 2013

The 2013 Oscar Nominations Are In!



For my favorite Oscar categories only...

Which one of the 2012 movies will win an Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year? Will it be...?
  • Amour (5 nominations)
  • Argo (7 nominations)
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild (4 nominations)
  • Django Unchained (5 nominations)
  • Les Misérables (8 nominations)
  • Life of Pi (11 nominations)
  • Lincoln (12 nominations)
  • Silver Linings Playbook (8 nominations)
  • Zero Dark Thirty (5 nominations)


Best Director?
  • Amour (Michael Haneke)
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
  • Life of Pi (Ang Lee)
  • Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
  • Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)

Best Actor?
  • Silver Linings Playbook (Bradley Cooper)
  • Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis)
  • Les Misérables (Hugh Jackman)
  • The Master (Joaquin Phoenix)
  • Flight (Denzel Washington)

Best Actress?
  • Zero Dark Thirty (Jessica Chastain)
  • Silver Linings Playbook (Jennifer Lawrence)
  • Amour (Emmanuelle Riva)
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild (Quvenzhané Wallis)
  • The Impossible (Naomi Watts)

Best Supporting Actor?
  • Argo (Alan Arkin)
  • Silver Linings Playbook (Robert De Niro)
  • The Master (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
  • Lincoln (Tommy Lee Jones)
  • Django Unchained (Christoph Waltz)

Best Supporting Actress?
  • The Master (Amy Adams)
  • Lincoln (Sally Field)
  • Les Misérables (Anne Hathaway)
  • The Sessions (Helen Hunt)
  • Silver Linings Playbook (Jacki Weaver)

Best Original Screenplay?
  • Amour
  • Django Unchained
  • Flight
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • Zero Dark Thirty

Best Adapted Screenplay?
  • Argo
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Silver Linings Playbook

Best Animated Film?
  • Brave (Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman)
  • Frankenweenie (Tim Burton)
  • ParaNorman (Sam Fell and Chris Butler)
  • The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Peter Lord)
  • Wreck-It Ralph (Rich Moore)

Best Art Direction?
  • Anna Karenina
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Les Misérables
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln

Best Costume Design?
  • Anna Karenina
  • Les Misérables
  • Lincoln
  • Mirror Mirror
  • Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Cinematography?
  • Anna Karenina
  • Django Unchained
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Skyfall

Best Film Editing?
  • Argo
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Zero Dark Thirty

Best Makeup?
  • Hitchcock
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Les Misérables

Best Original Score?
  • Anna Karenina (Dario Marianelli)
  • Argo (Alexandre Desplat)
  • Life of Pi (Mychael Danna)
  • Lincoln (John Williams)
  • Skyfall (Thomas Newman)

Best Original Song?
  • Chasing Ice ("Before My Time")
  • Ted ("Everybody Needs a Best Friend")
  • Life of Pi ("Pi's Lullaby")
  • Skyfall ("Skyfall")
  • Les Misérables ("Suddenly")

Best Visual Effects?
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Life of Pi
  • Marvel's The Avengers
  • Prometheus
  • Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Sound Mixing?
  • Argo
  • Les Misérables
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Skyfall

Best Sound Editing?
  • Argo
  • Django Unchained
  • Life of Pi
  • Skyfall
  • Zero Dark Thirty




Tune in to find out during ABC's 85th Annual Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, February 24th. Hosted by Family Guy and Ted's Seth MacFarlane!

Sunday, December 23, 2012

The Mayans Are WRONG! So Relieved That We're STILL ALIVE After 12/21/2012!


As of today, 2 days since the predicted date of the Mayans' so-called "End of the World" event, most of the entire population on this very planet STILL LIVE! No earthquakes or tectonic plate-shifting, no giant tsunamis, and no volcanic eruptions or giant meteors were ever present! It's a good thing that 2012, a 2009 blockbuster disaster film by ID4 Roland Emmerich, did not end up as being a "true story"! Or else we might've been completely stuck listening to those silly superstitions about facing the catastrophic armageddon!
Sorry, Charlie Frost (Woody Harrelson)! I guess YOU WERE WRONG! Just like what the Mayans think!

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Blog 08 Assignment

One of the most interesting things I learned about digital art, is that it takes a little practice and experience to get used to the kind of program that uses the digital art techniques to create a perfect artwork project. There are a few things that I have not yet experienced in digital art when I took this class; such as when I have never used Adobe After Effects, which is a more helpful program in editing the videos. Digital art is the most creative thing for me to do, which will help me accomplish my art skills. I also learned that there are many artists who also use the digital art programs for their own creative works. For example, Ron Borresen was an illustrator who knows how to use Painter and Photoshop to create the uniquely drawn cartoon characters.
I believe that I will continue to work with digital art. It all depends on if I am advised to create something that requires some visually and realistic details to impress those who knew much about the Adobe application programs. As much as I am very skilled in handling the computer art stuff, I might sometimes find it as a hard-working process which usually takes the amount of time to get it completely done prior to the confirmed deadlines. Just like how it is very difficult for me to render a video completely and check to see how much data storage there is for a rendered video to fit in any folder or random location of the desktop.
Photoshop is pretty much my favorite program I use this semester. I have been using Photoshop many times since I took a computer class in my summer school, and I had never gotten tired of using it. It never takes a very long time for me to get my assignment work completed like After Effects, which is takes a longer process for the videos to get loaded up. I find that photo-editing program as a "fun way" for me to play with the art tools to alter the details or make up something from what I imagined. In fact, I wouldn't have to worry about creating digital comics on Illustrator based on the amount of details, the way the storyline is handled, and the how much time the process will take; just as long as I work with a program that is much easier for my artistic skills and will not worn me out.