Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:00:26 -0500 http://blog.boogatech.com Last 10 updates for Blog on BoogaTech Blog Copyright © 2004-2009 Markham Carroll Content Management Express Alpha v0.4.1 (CMExpress.boogatech.com) http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=210 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=210 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:00:26 -0500 <script type="text/javascript" src="../includes/swfobject.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/v/bSEWJT0B_UY&hl=en_US&fs=1&", "flash_92436943", "568", "345", "8.0.0","flashcheck.swf", false,{ menu: "false", bgcolor: "#000000" }, false);</script> <div id="flash_92436943"> <p>Flash and JavaScript are required to view this element.</p></div> <p>I'm still working on the games whenever I can. Here's a list of what's left to finish in 60 Seconds to Deliver:</p> <ul> <li>Air attacks</li> <li>Ground attacks</li> <li>Enemies</li> <li>Building variety</li> <li>Game background</li> <li>Introduction cutscene animation</li> <li>End sequence and game over screen</li> <li>Difficulty levels</li> <li>Music</li> </ul> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=209 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=209 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:31:43 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=209'><img src='./images/thumbs/sketches_06012010-03022010_lg.jpg' alt='View Sketches - Janurary to Feb. 3, 2010' title='View Sketches - Janurary to Feb. 3, 2010' /></a> File Size: 384.57kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>A selection of gesture drawings from January and the beginning of February. I started with a micro-point Uniball and switched to a Pitt brush pen later on. Drawing time ranges from 30 seconds to 2 minutes.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=208 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=208 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:48:53 -0500 <script type="text/javascript" src="../includes/swfobject.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">swfobject.embedSWF("./images/dev/flicker_demo.swf", "flash_1721113473", "569", "830", "8.0.0","flashcheck.swf", false,{ menu: "false", bgcolor: "#000000" }, false);</script> <div id="flash_1721113473"> <p>Flash and JavaScript are required to view this element.</p></div> <p>This is a demonstration of a flicker modification I made to <a href="http://flixel.org/" title="http://flixel.org/">Flixel</a>. The direct link to the mod details and directions to apply the mod can be found <a href="http://flixel.org/forums/index.php?topic=691.0" title="http://flixel.org/forums/index.php?topic=691.0">here</a>.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=207 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=207 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:32:10 -0500 <div class="center"><img src="./images/news/20091205.png" class="noborder" alt="60 Seconds to Deliver" title="60 Seconds to Deliver" /></div> <p>Happy Day of the Ninja! Today's announcement is the revelation of my latest project, "60 Seconds to Deliver!" I started this at the beginning of my Thanksgiving break, and made quite a bit of progress just over the last week-and-a-half!</p> <p>This time I'm trying out the <a href="http://www.flixel.org" title="http://www.flixel.org">Flixel</a> engine for Flash, which allows me to quickly get a functioning prototype and put more focus on the visual design earlier on in the development process. At the rate this is going, I actually hope to have this finished in two or three weeks.</p> <p>Other projects, such as <a href="http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&t=botm" title="http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&t=botm">Brides of the Mertynn</a>, have not been abandoned, and will be returned to after this is finished.</p> <p>As for the last blog post, I forgot an explanatory <a href="http://chaosedge.wordpress.com/" title="http://chaosedge.wordpress.com/">link</a> or <a href="http://toucharcade.com/2009/11/11/indie-developers-band-against-edge-trademark-claims/" title="http://toucharcade.com/2009/11/11/indie-developers-band-against-edge-trademark-claims/">two</a>.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=206 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=206 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:27:56 -0500 <div class="center"><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o67/MCBooga/edgetech2.png" class="noborder" alt="Edge-Spanning Architecture of the Mertynn" title="Edge-Spanning Architecture of the Mertynn" /></div> <p>The image of BoogaTech has always been lacking a certain edge, which is why there has been a corporate decision to improve on the edginess of this company and change our name to "EdgeTech." This edgy step in the realm of edginess symbolizes the new path of this company to create edgy titles, provide gamers with the edge they need, and someday become masters of this "edge."</p> <p>Our second step is to rename the famous hit game that made us so awesome well-known and popular, "Bridges of the Mertynn," to "Edge-Spanning Architecture of the Mertynn."</p> <p>Other changes will include minor things such as renaming the Sandwich Shop Ninja's workplace, "Monorail Sandwiches," to "Monorail SandwEdges."</p>That is all. <br />EdgeTech http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=205 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=205 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:40:58 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=205'><img src='./images/thumbs/sketches_2009_sumfal.jpg' alt='View Sketches - Summer and Fall' title='View Sketches - Summer and Fall' /></a> File Size: 167.44kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>It's been a while since my last sketch book post, so here's a few sketches between August and now.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=204 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=204 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:11:50 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>So apparantly I had forgotten about the nasty message the last file version of <a href="?c=21" title="?c=21">The Sandwich Shop Ninja</a> gives when it detects that it's not on the right server, and it had been giving that message ever since I merged the TSSN website with the main BoogaTech website. It should be playing correctly now.</p> <p><a href="http://blog.boogatech.com/?t=botm" title="http://blog.boogatech.com/?t=botm">Bridges of the Mertynn</a> has been coming along gradually in the free time I've had alongside school. <a href="http://blog.boogatech.com/?c=199" title="http://blog.boogatech.com/?c=199">The List</a> has been updating as I progress, and I'm getting closer to getting the game engine finished so that I can start getting levels and tile sets done.</p> <p>I'll probably take a break from working on Bridges in November so that I can get something out for the International Day of the Ninja on December 5th.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=199 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=199 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:02:18 -0400 <div class="center"><img src="./images/news/20090806-1.png" class="noborder" alt="Bridges of the Mertynn" title="Bridges of the Mertynn" /></div> <p>This is a sort of progress list of things that need to be done before I can work on releasing "Bridges of the Mertynn." The items will be color-coded as to their completion, and this list will be updated regularly.</p> <p><span class="b"><span class="u">Programming:</span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="color:#fa801b">Menu screen</span></li> <li><span style="color:#7dd117">Game engine</span></li> <li><span style="color:#7dd117">"Challenge Mode"</span></li> <li><span style="color:#1b96fa">Level encoder/decoder</span></li> <li><span style="color:#7dd117">Level editor</span></li> <li><span style="color:#fa801b">Level editor main menu functions</span></li> <li><span style="color:#fa1b26">User-made-level browser</span> (9/18)</li> <li><span style="color:#1b96fa">Doors, levers, linkage system</span></li> <li><span style="color:#1b96fa">Tiles, basic and puzzle: 1 - 61</span> (10/21)</li> <li><span style="color:#fa1b26">Other puzzle tiles: 62 & 63</span> (10/3)</li> <li><span style="color:#fa1b26">Other puzzle tiles: 64</span> (10/3)</li> <li>High score/level submission scripts</p></li> <p> </ul> <p><span class="b"><span class="u">Tile Sets:</span></span></p> <ul> <li>Tile set 1: <span style="color:#fa801b">tiles</span> - <span style="color:#7dd117">sides</span> - <span style="color:#1b96fa">backgrounds</span> (8/15)</li> <li>Tile set 2: tiles - sides - backgrounds</li> <li>Tile set 3: tiles - sides - backgrounds</li> <li>Tile set 4: tiles - sides - backgrounds</li> <li>Tile set 5: tiles - sides - backgrounds</li> <li>Tile set 6: tiles - sides - backgrounds</li> <li>Tile set 7: tiles - sides - backgrounds</li> <li>Tile set 8: tiles - sides - backgrounds</li> </ul> <p><span class="b"><span class="u">Player:</span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="color:#7dd117">Walk cycle animations</span> (8/15)</li> <li>Death animation</li> <li>Turning animations</li> <li>Misc animations</li> </ul> <p><span class="b"><span class="u">Other Graphics:</span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="color:#fa801b">Menu GUI</span></li> <li><span style="color:#fa801b">Menu background</span> (10/5)</li> <li><span style="color:#1b96fa">Level editor GUI</span> (10/10)</li> <li><span style="color:#fa1b26">Game GUI</span></li> </ul> <p><span class="b"><span class="u">Levels:</span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="color:#1b96fa">Tutorial levels</span></li> <li><span style="color:#fa1b26">Chapter 1 levels</span></li> <li><span style="color:#fa1b26">Chapter 1 cutscenes</span></li> <li>Chapter 2 levels</li> <li>Chapter 2 cutscenes</li> <li>Chapter 3 levels</li> <li>Chapter 3 cutscenes</li> <li>Chapter 4 levels</li> <li>Chapter 4 cutscenes</li> </ul> <p><span class="b"><span class="u">Music:</span></span></p> <ul> <li>Menu</li> <li><span style="color:#1b96fa">Track 1</span> ?</li> <li>Track 2</li> <li>Track 3</li> <li>Track 4</li> <li>Track 5</li> <li>Sound effects</li> </ul> <p><span class="b"><span class="u">Server Side:</span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="color:#7dd117">Database updates</span></li> <li>User groups</li> <li>User permissions</li> <li>Various category updates</li> <li>Level decoder</li> <li>Level preview image generator</li> <li>Level/score validator</li> <li>Level database website</li> <li><span style="color:#1b96fa">CMExpress installation script</span> (9/25)</li> <li><span style="color:#fa1b26">CMExpress template system rewrite</span> (9/28)</li> </ul> <p>Legend: <br /><span style="color:#fa1b26">Started</span> <br /><span style="color:#fa801b">In progress</span> <br /><span style="color:#7dd117">Mostly done</span> <br /><span style="color:#1b96fa">Finished</span></p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=203 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=203 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:09:00 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=203'><img src='./images/thumbs/sunstory_concept.jpg' alt='View Character Concept Art' title='View Character Concept Art' /></a> File Size: 75.39kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>This is some concept art for a voluntary project some people in the BYU Animation Club are working on. We don't have much decided at the moment, but the plan is to make a collaborative comic where we switch off making pages for. The story is about a little girl who finds out she has powers or something, and these shadow monsters are after that power. She is protected by a guardian, a shape-shifting star whose planets' life was destroyed by the shadows.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=202 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=202 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:54:38 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=202'><img src='./images/thumbs/do_bandshirt_sm.png' alt='View Band Spirit' title='View Band Spirit' /></a> File Size: 130.35kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Tee shirt design for the Del Oro High School Marching Band. The theme for this year's field show was "The Congo," and I was shown various elements they wanted to incorporate in the design.</p> <p>Statue "Freedom Spirit" by Stacey Kitchell (along with various band-related 'props') used as reference.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=201 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=201 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:20:41 -0400 <script type="text/javascript" src="../includes/swfobject.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/v/rRa2Q1Dt7ac&hl=en&fs=1&", "flash_456078706", "568", "345", "8.0.0","flashcheck.swf", false,{ menu: "false", bgcolor: "#000000" }, false);</script> <div id="flash_456078706"> <p>Flash and JavaScript are required to view this element.</p></div> <p>I wanted to show this video a week and a half ago, but a few things came up, such as moving to a new apartment for school, working on other small projects that needed to be done, and dealing with video codec issues.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=200 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=200 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:06:21 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=200'><img src='./images/thumbs/bridges_of_the_mertynn-1024.jpg' alt='View Canyon Bridge' title='View Canyon Bridge' /></a> File Size: 332.18kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Concept art for "<a href="http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&t=botm" title="Bridges of the Mertynn">Bridges of the Mertynn</a>"</p> <p>Watercolor on resume paper.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=198 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=198 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:54:14 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>I've been quiet since returning from Comic Con late July, but that doesn't mean I haven't been doing anything. The last two weeks were spent working over the database and admin panel for the backend systems of this website. I managed to cut out over 1200 lines of old, redundant code. I also made it so that some pages will display any tags a content item has if I want them to (see bottom right of this post).</p> <p>Also dependent on the updates to the site is "Bridges of the Mertynn." CMExpress, the system that keeps this site running, will be used to develop the website and database that will store the user-made levels and high scores. There's still a lot of work to be done, but for your benefit and my own, I am working on a list of things to be done and will be posting that shortly.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=197 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=197 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:31:30 -0400 <div class="center"><img src="./images/news/20090717-1.png" class="noborder" alt="Guess which one of these is a real sandwich shop!" title="Guess which one of these is a real sandwich shop!" /></div> <p>So I found out why I get so many people coming here looking for sandwich shops. It turns out that The Sandwich Shop Ninja is currently the second result when you search for "sandwich shop" on Google. I guess Google thinks animated ninjas who happen to own sandwich shops are more relevant to people looking for sandwich shops, maybe to <span class="i">eat</span> at, than Subway and a dozen more actual, real sandwich shops?</p> <p>So if you came here looking for a place to eat, uh... sorry? I don't even have any ninja sandwich recipes or anything, but I guess I could list a few sandwiches I like at various places:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Quiznos - Baja Chicken</p></li> <li> <p>Togos - Chipotle Roast Beef</p></li> <li> <p>Subway's a little different. I don't get any particular sandwich. I get a ham and bacon with pepper-jack cheese and cucumber. Lettuce is pointless on any sandwich, as it's basically just a solid green form of water. Unless it's spring mix or Romain lettuce, then it actually tastes like something besides water.</p></li> </ul> <p>Don't buy those sandwiches on the Amtrak trains. They're way overpriced, and taste disgusting.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=196 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=196 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:25:05 -0400 <div class="center"><img src="./images/news/20090714-1.png" class="noborder" alt="Bridges of the Mertynn" title="Bridges of the Mertynn" /></div> <p>Still making progress on my game project. The graphics are turning out nicely, though what you see is scaled down to about 75% so that it will fit in this little box thing. Drawing all those trees and grass is surprisingly time-consuming, though. It's definitely easier to draw them from a side-on perspective rather than a top-down.</p> <p>Next week is the San Diego Comic-Con. This will be the second time I've gone. I leave early Thursday morning for an 11-hour drive, check in to the hotel, and hopefully get on the tram going towards the convention center and not the one that's going to the Mexico border.</p> <p>Last month's search engine queries were unfortunately more of the same, for the most part. Just lost people looking for sandwitches, sandwishes, and a "ninjasandwich" stood out from the countless people on the search for sub shop designs.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=195 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=195 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:15:00 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=195'><img src='./images/thumbs/tesn-1.jpg' alt='View The Elementary School Ninja' title='View The Elementary School Ninja' /></a> File Size: 164.77kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Could this be a start of a new spin-off series of the ninja in his younger years?</p> <p>No.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=194 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=194 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:38:41 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>Various changes to the website coding have been made, and The Sandwich Shop Ninja website is now fully integrated with the CMExpress system that the majority of my website runs on. There are a few things missing that require more changes in CMEx before they can be reimplemented, but those are very minor. The RSS feeds now decode properly, and this should be the last time everything since 2004 is marked "new" in Google Reader.</p> <p>The next news entry will be an update on the next TSSN episode's progress, though the <a href="http://blog.boogatech.com" title="http://blog.boogatech.com">blog</a> will keep updating on a more frequent basis.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=193 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=193 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:25:46 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>The first episode of The Sandwich Shop Ninja can now be seen on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4kPf5dIS14" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4kPf5dIS14">YouTube in a high-definition format</a>.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=192 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=192 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:13:24 -0400 <div class="center"><img src="./images/news/20090610-1.png" class="noborder" alt="The Sandwich Shop Utah" title="The Sandwich Shop Utah" /></div> <p>So I guess someone came here looking for "the sandwich shop Utah" for some reason. I don't know how someone could employ an entire state to work in a sandwich shop, but whatever.</p> <p>Progress on the game has gotten a bit slow as I try to get some of the graphics done and try to figure out a style that works. I tried to fake perspective on the cliff edges and pillars, but it doesn't look very good, and to make it look good would take a few months of drawing every pillar and edge at multiple angles. <br /></p><img src="./images/news/20090610-2.png" class="noborder" alt="Terrestrial-Based Game With Tiles That Fall When You Stop On Them Too Much - now with more visual representation of the new, terrestrial based setting!" title="Terrestrial-Based Game With Tiles That Fall When You Stop On Them Too Much - now with more visual representation of the new, terrestrial based setting!" /> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=191 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=191 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:25:16 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=191'><img src='./images/thumbs/20090603h.jpg' alt='View Lightning' title='View Lightning' /></a> File Size: 101.85kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>There was a really cool lightning storm going on tonight.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=190 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=190 Tue, 19 May 2009 18:08:33 -0400 <script type="text/javascript" src="../includes/swfobject.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/v/XYJTq6sCBKI&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&ap=%2526fmt%3D18", "flash_477168032", "568", "345", "8.0.0","flashcheck.swf", false,{ menu: "false", bgcolor: "#000000" }, false);</script> <div id="flash_477168032"> <p>Flash and JavaScript are required to view this element.</p></div> <p>Recently I've been working on a new game on my own. In heart, it's a remake of <a href="?p=9&c=6" title="Outer-Space Game With Tiles That Fall When You Step On Them Too Much">OSGWTTFWYSOTTM</a> with more puzzle-type elements, a story mode, and a level editor that will allow people to upload their personalized levels to an online database for people to browse and play. I've been calling it "Terrestrial-Based Game With Tiles That Fall When You Step On Them Too Much" since it will be based on land instead of outer space, but that's just the working title and will change when I think of something better.</p> <p>Once I get everything finished and working, the next thing will be to figure out how <a href="http://www.flashgamesponsorship.com/" title="http://www.flashgamesponsorship.com/">Flash game licensing deals</a> and <a href="http://www.mochiads.com" title="http://www.mochiads.com">MochiAds</a> work so that I can <span class="s">sell out</span> make money and keep doing this stuff at the same time.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=189 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=189 Sat, 02 May 2009 12:55:37 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>Finals are over again, I've moved back to California and got most of everything set up again, and the game graphics project is finally done. Things will be picking back up again, and I'll post a link to the game when it's finally released.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=188 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=188 Sat, 02 May 2009 05:10:50 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=188'><img src='./images/thumbs/timelapse_ut-ca.jpg' alt='View Time-Lapse Video: Utah to California' title='View Time-Lapse Video: Utah to California' /></a> File Size: 18.17mb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEfsgChFnaE&fmt=18" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEfsgChFnaE&fmt=18">Low-bandwidth YouTube version</a></p> <p>I recorded my trip from Utah to California taking one picture every 10-11 seconds, minus about an hour of travel before Winnamucca when I could change the battery. There are about 2970 pictures in all, played at 24 frames-per-second.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=187 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=187 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:39:13 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=187'><img src='./images/thumbs/20090401.jpg' alt='View March Sketches' title='View March Sketches' /></a> File Size: 456.53kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>I had to turn in my sketchbook today, so I made sure to scan in some of the things I've drawn last month. I think I went to the Hogle Zoo three times last month, and those sketches turned out more interesting than the rest.</p> <p>The Hogle Zoo has a great variety of animals to draw, possibly greater than the three zoos that I've been to recently in northern California combined. The Sacramento Zoo, however, still wins at having the most billions of lemurs.</p> <p><img src="./images/hyrax.jpg" alt="More hardcore than Edward" title="Yes, he is eying up your neck. Through the internet." class="left" /> This guy, however, freaks me out. See those teeth? Those sharp and pointy teeth? He sits up on this rock looking down on everyone who passes his domicile, his beady little eyes watching with the utmost disdain, patiently waiting for his chance to strike. The plaque on the wall claimed that this guy's closest relative is the elephant. This is a horrible case of misinformation, as it doesn't take a scientist to tell you that this guy's closest relative is Dracula. If there wasn't a half-inch pane of glass separating him from us, he'd surely be leaping neck-to-neck as he feeds upon the blood of the living. His name? The Hyrax. A name surely derived by the sound his victims make as he sinks his teeth into their necks.</p> <p>The game graphics project is down to the last two items.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=186 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=186 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:12:38 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>And here are the weird search engine queries from February:</p> <ul> <li> <p><span class="b">"number one thing that makes a sandwich shop fail"</span> - It is a statistically provable fact that all failed sandwich shops did not have a ninja employed at the time of failing.</p></li> <li> <p><span class="b">"have you seen a ninja sandwich"</span> - Here's a hint: if you start choking while eating a sandwich, it is possible that you are eating a "ninja sandwich." However, most sandwiches lack the physical and mental capacities, let alone a long enough lifespan, to train to be a ninja. Also, a sandwich-related death could be a result of the well-known Ninja bacteria known as "Salmonella," rather than the sandwich itself.</p></li> <li> <p><span class="b">"sandwich shop captain pirate"</span> - This will also make your sandwich shop fail.</p></li> </ul> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=185 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=185 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:40:10 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>Three things remaining on the list of things to do for the game graphics project! Animating explosions is fun.</p> <p>Also dealt with another minor crisis where I had to re-attach the connector jack to my laptop's power adapter. Again. I've lost track of the number of times I've had to do this now. This time, however, the cord also started breaking off from the power 'brick', so I had to break that open as well. It has a nice, shiny coat of duct-tape now.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=184 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=184 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:22:28 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=184'><img src='./images/thumbs/20090304.jpg' alt='View Sketchbook Pages: Gestural Drawings' title='View Sketchbook Pages: Gestural Drawings' /></a> File Size: 153.81kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>These are some of the better sketches I did this last week. My application for the animation program is due April 1st, which is less than four weeks away.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=182 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=182 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:00:29 -0500 <img src="./images/progress_1.png" class="noborder" alt="The Sandwich Shop Ninja Episode Progress" title="The Sandwich Shop Ninja Episode Progress" /> <p>I hope to get started up again on the next episode in April, and created a new progress bar to help me figure out how much I have left to do. There's still a lot left to do.</p> <p>As for the game graphics project, last week I completed one of the five remaining chunks of work I need to do. That leaves 4 things to do. It's looking really cool so far, and I can't wait to show what to show what we've done!</p> <p>As for other things, the animation portfolio deadline is coming up. Less than six weeks to go. I also saw Coraline a few weeks ago, and it was really good. There were quite a few parents who thought it would have been a good movie to take their small children to. I'll bet those children had some amazing nightmares that night.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=175 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=175 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:07:41 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=175'><img src='./images/thumbs/mayan1024.jpg' alt='View Mayan Scene' title='View Mayan Scene' /></a> File Size: 98.25kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>I've had this sitting on my hard drive since December 2007. This was made for an illustration class for a story about a Mayan princess. It's theoretically unfinished, since there were supposed to be people in the background which never got put in.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=174 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=174 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:03:55 -0500 <p style='margin-top:0'>It's been a while since I've listed any of the weird ones I've gotten. Here are the best for December and January:</p> <ul> <li> <p>"Sketches of commandos"</p></li> <li> <p>"ninja shirt turtle"</p></li> <li> <p>"desktop background sandwich"</p></li> <li> <p>About 19 different variations on "how to start a sandwich shop." <a href="http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=149" title="How to Design a Sandwich Shop">I wonder why...</a></p></li> </ul> <p>...and I can already tell that February is going to be an interesting month. All this, combined with the strange group of advertisers in those boxes lately, makes me think I may need to re-evaluate who I think my target audience is. Jewelry and beads? On a site about animation and ninjas? There was even an ad for some online occult surplus store a few days ago. Yes, I'm serious.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=173 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=173 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:28:09 -0500 <p style='margin-top:0'>The index page redesign has been successfully switched over. There's still some re-categorizing to do, and anyone who bothered to subscribe to the old RSS may need to unsubscribe and resubscribe to the desired one. Each page generates its own RSS now, so you can keep track on as little or as much as you want. Those interested on just the basic updates related to the main content of this site will probably want to subscribe to the 'News' page, and those interested in all updates may want to check out the new <a href="http://blog.boogatech.com" title="blog.boogatech.com">blog section</a>.</p> <p>The next set of website-structure updates won't come for a while. The administration panel I use to upload stuff and manage content, pages, and other settings needs to be overhauled first (again...), and I have more important things to finish up before I take on that task.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=172 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=172 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:22:10 -0500 <p style='margin-top:0'>Things have been quiet here lately. Along with school, I've still been working on the one project with an independent game developer, though it should be nearing completion soon. I've also been making significant changes to the website coding over the past six months, and I've got enough completed of the index page that I'll be able to switch that over this weekend.</p> <p>Though my class schedule this semester is way less stressful than last semester, I still have to prepare for the portfolio deadline on April 1st for the animation program. If I get progress on the Sandwich Shop Ninja episode at some point, great. I have a lot of work to do, unfortunately, and it may have to wait a bit more. At the very least, I'll drop a link to the game when it's finally released.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=150 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=150 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:28:11 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=150'><img src='./images/thumbs/dotn2008.jpg' alt='View Happy Day of the Ninja!' title='View Happy Day of the Ninja!' /></a> File Size: 468.71kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Happy 6th Annual Day of the Ninja, everyone!</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=149 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=149 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:49:16 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>So, you want to start your own sandwich shop? Well, you've certainly come to the right place. Maybe. I don't know. You're the one thinking <span class="i">"Oh, hey, I want to know how to start a sandwich shop! This place titled 'The Sandwich Shop Ninja' might be a good place to look! Surely this is the best and most relevant source of information,"</span> not me.</p> <p>Anyways, this is the best and most relevant source of information on starting a sandwich shop. The best one in the <span class="i">world</span>. There are many things you will want to think about as you design and start up your very own sandwich shop. Some things are important to think about, some crucial, some vital, and some will leave you bleeding in a dark alley in Chicago if you don't think as carefully as necessary so you'd better think very, very, very, <span class="i">very</span> carefully about everything here. You don't like bleeding, do you? Exactly. <br /></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold; font-size: 120%;">Location</span></p> <p>The first thing to do is rent, buy, or get a lease on a location. Location is everything, except for the things that it is not. There are good locations, and then there are bad locations. Here are a few examples of good and bad locations:</p> <ul> <li> <p><span class="b">The corner of two busy streets</span> - Good location. Busy streets mean many customers.</p></li> <li> <p><span class="b">The mall's food court</span> - Good location. Malls are always full of potential customers. Even during a zombie apocalypse, be it the survivors hiding in the mall, or the zombies that come in when some fool thinks its safe to go outside. Zombies love sandwiches. <span class="i">Brain</span> sandwiches.</p></li> <li> <p><span class="b">The bad part of town</span> - Good location. Thugs, gangsters, mafia hit-men, mimes, and other various no-good-doers all love sandwiches.</p></li> <li> <p><span class="b">The moon</span> - good location. It is a known fact that astronauts enjoy eating delicious sandwiches.</p></li> <li> <p><span class="b">Just Down the Street and Around the Corner</span> - the ultimate location. Anyone can find this place from <span class="i">anywhere</span>. If someone gives you the greatest sandwich of your life and you ask him where he got it, odd are he will say "just down the street and around the corner." You will follow his directions, and you will find it. <span class="i">Every single time.</span></p></li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold; font-size: 120%;">Employees</span></p> <p>After you have chosen a location, you will need to hire employees.</p> <p>Most restaurants will do good to hire a ninja, and only one ninja. Although it would seem otherwise, efficiency and productivity decrease as the number of ninjas are severely decreased due to what is known as the Exponential Ninja Factor (ENF). If you manage to perpetuate a rivalry between the two, you may be able to avoid any ENF impacts; however, unless both ninjas are evenly equipped and skilled, you run risks of loosing an employee. Contracts with ninjas must be considered carefully. A ninja will hold his or her end of the contract with the utmost honor, even to the extent of loss of life. In fact, it is unknown if any ninja has ever survived a breach of contract. It is also important to take note that the same holds true for employers of ninjas: statistics show that out of all employers who had failed to hold their end of a contract with a ninja, 100% had met an untimely demise. <br />While one ninja can handle most of the workload, you will still need additional employees. Once you have hired a ninja, you will need to acquire a Ninja Ally Compatibility Table. Certain types of employees can cause disastrous results when mixed with ninjas. The NACT tends to vary between ninja clans and families, though there are a few incompatible types that are common between all. Namely: dark wizards, zombies, Michael Dudikoff, and pirates. They all mix badly with ninjas, but pirates most of all. Your sandwich shop will have a severe impact on the neighborhood's levels of swashbuckling and scurvy epidemics.</p> <p>After procuring your NACT, there are a few area-specific positions you will want to have filled. Most cases deal with areas that contain larger demographics of unruly people. If you are located in one of these areas (ie: "Bad Part of Town" location), you may want to hire a polar bouncer. Nobody messes with a bouncer who is also a polar bear. <br /></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold; font-size: 120%;">The Other Stuff</span></p> <p>Then after you do some other stuff and get customers and all, you reap the rewards of capitalism. Congratulations, you have successfully gone from "sticking it to the man" to "the man it is being stuck to." Don't ask what "it" is. You don't want to know. Or maybe you should, since you'd have already stuck some of it.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold; font-size: 120%;">Recap</span></p> <p>In conclusion, the steps to sandwich shop success are:</p> <ol> <li> <p>Choose a location</p></li> <li> <p>Hire a ninja</p></li> <li> <p>???</p></li> <li> <p>Profit</p></li> </ol> <p>Thank you for reading, and join us later on for "Extra-Extra-Extra-Extra-Large Tee Shirts" and "Endangered Species: The Oboe Cat."</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=148 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=148 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:05:43 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>There's been a huge lapse in updates lately. Most of that is due to finding out how much time 15 credit-hours take up (18 credits if you count the artistic anatomy class that I'm 'auditing' so that I don't have to do the homework). I think the amount of time I spend on campus during the week is more than what I actually spend awake in my apartment. I realize now that 1 credit-hour is the equivalent of about 3 real-time hours. I don't remember it being this bad last semester, though. Maybe the more credit hours you take, the longer they are in real-time?</p> <p>I hope to see more free time when I finish up a project next week with an independent game developer, though most of that time will probably go to studying for classes. I'd be sure to at least have something up for December 5th, the International Day of the Ninja.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=131 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=131 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:25:04 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=131'><img src='./images/thumbs/5mps.jpg' alt='View Time-Lapse Video: 5 Miles-per-Second' title='View Time-Lapse Video: 5 Miles-per-Second' /></a> Duration: 1 minute, 8 seconds<br />File Size: 9.49mb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>I've reconsidered the current need for large file uploads. I'll figure that out after the rest of the site is working off the new website system I'm programming. For now I'll just be using a workaround for uploading the occasional file larger than 8 megabytes.</p> <p>This is a time-lapse video of part of my trip from California to Utah, compiled from 2036 pictures from a digital camera mounted on the passenger-side sun visor of my car. It isn't the entire trip, since my camera's batteries kept dieing and the camera's power jack input doesn't seem to work at all. Batteries are a pain to change when the battery compartment is covered by one of the zip ties holding the camera in place.</p> <p>The next time I try this I will be mounting my tripod to a part of the car and sticking the camera on that. I don't know why I didn't think of it the first time through. Also, I'll need more batteries.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=129 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=129 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:21:50 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>I've moved back to Utah and school has started up again. The apartment's internet has started working, which is good. Aside from school, I've been working on a freelancing project, so I won't have much to post for a few weeks. I have a few things, but I made a few major changes to my website's coding and I have yet to find what sorts of bugs that has sprung up. I've already fixed enough so that all the old stuff still works, it's just adding new content like this post that will be affected by the changes.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=127 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=127 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:15:37 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=127'><img src='./images/thumbs/speed_dragon.jpg' alt='View Pilatus: Mountain of Dragons' title='View Pilatus: Mountain of Dragons' /></a> File Size: 115.7kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>This is a 1-hour speed paint done in Photoshop inspired by Steven Reineke's "Pilatus: Mountain of Dragons." I don't have as much experience using Photoshop as I'd like to have.</p> <p>Here is a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVpqmXv8PEA" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVpqmXv8PEA">time-lapse video</a> of the image being created.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=126 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=126 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:27:40 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=126'><img src='./images/thumbs/sketches_2008_mayjune.jpg' alt='View Sketch Book Collage - June' title='View Sketch Book Collage - June' /></a> File Size: 1.04mb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Some of the better drawings from my sketchbook from last month. Most are from a weekly drawing session in Sacramento that I have been going to.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=125 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=125 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:20:44 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=125'><img src='./images/thumbs/dblogo_a.jpg' alt='View Corporate Logo Design' title='View Corporate Logo Design' /></a> File Size: 46.18kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>This was from a project at the web design firm I was working at. This was one of the rejected designs, as it was "too cartoony." The client eventually went with a crappy logo with stock photos slapped in. Apparently that was what they had wanted, even though they had specifically asked for something "cartoony."</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=124 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=124 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:14:16 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>So it's been two months since the last update. The background for section 9 is almost done, though that project has been put on hold due to actual paying jobs. Along with two freelance jobs I picked up, I also got a job at a local web design firm that had recently incorporated. That lasted for three weeks. Then I got laid off. I won't go into detail about it, but I imagine there's at least one Dilbert strip that applies for what happened.</p> <p>As for the other two projects, one will be completed hopefully sometime in August. The other is a shorter, more local project in which I have to get dome by the end of next week.</p> <p>The next update will hopefully be not too long after the end of next week after I finish the smaller project and update my portfolio.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=122 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=122 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:44:35 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>So school is out for me, I'm back in California, and I'm looking for a job. I finally got access to the CD's I needed to fix my computer and upgrade back to Windows XP, so things should be running efficiently again. We might finally start seeing updates on the progress meter for the next Sandwich Shop Ninja episode in a week or two.</p> <p>No interesting search queries for this month, unfortunately. Just the same old stuff from the last few months. Its kinda funny how many people end up here looking for <a href="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com" title="sandwiches">sandwich shops</a>, though.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=121 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=121 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:29:17 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=121'><img src='./images/thumbs/d17_character_designs.jpg' alt='View Sketch Book Page: Character Designs' title='View Sketch Book Page: Character Designs' /></a> File Size: 194.44kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>A year ago I wrote this short story in a creative writing class, and ever since I've felt an itch to get it out in some form or another. For a while I was thinking of animating it, but I think it would work better as a comic. Today I tried getting some character ideas on paper. I first tried the "Sandwich Shop Ninja" style, and that didn't really work the way I wanted it to. Then I tried a more realistic style, and liked it even though I got the arm proportions way off even when I tried correcting one of them.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=120 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=120 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:45:47 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=120'><img src='./images/thumbs/d16_gestures_20080416.jpg' alt='View Sketch Book Collage - Gesture Drawings' title='View Sketch Book Collage - Gesture Drawings' /></a> File Size: 219.38kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Pages from my last weekly gesture drawing session at school this semester.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=119 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=119 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:43:19 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=119'><img src='./images/thumbs/final_anim.jpg' alt='View Intro to Animation: Final Project' title='View Intro to Animation: Final Project' /></a> Duration: 11 seconds<br />File Size: 948.61kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>My final project for my Intro. to Animation class in its infinite-looping glory! The character is Cosmo, the school's mascot. <br /></p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=117 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=117 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:11:33 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=117'><img src='./images/thumbs/d13_timelapse1.jpg' alt='View Time lapse Video 1' title='View Time lapse Video 1' /></a> Duration: 7 seconds<br />File Size: 1.29mb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Time lapse video taken with my digital camera and a home-made intervalometer.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=118 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=118 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:55:51 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=118'><img src='./images/thumbs/d13_timelapse2.jpg' alt='View Time lapse Video 2' title='View Time lapse Video 2' /></a> Duration: 2 seconds<br />File Size: 307.97kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Time lapse video taken with my digital camera and a home-made intervalometer. <br /></p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=116 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=116 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:52:13 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>Quicktime movies now display properly, so the flour sack animation can be viewed now. My final for the intro to animation class is due Tuesday, so I'll upload it then or when I finish it on Monday. The other two animations for that class will be uploaded after I fix a few frames, which will be Wednesday or Thursday. There's a few other things I want to post, but I probably won't get around to them until finals are over.</p> <p>I also made a control panel page for the website. It doesn't affect anything you see, but it makes posting and editing much more easier for me.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=114 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=114 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:07:43 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=114'><img src='./images/thumbs/floursack_thumb.jpg' alt='View A Jumping Flour Sack' title='View A Jumping Flour Sack' /></a> Duration: 6 seconds<br />File Size: 8.64mb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>A jumping flour sack pencil test from my Intro. to Animation class. I used this one in the portfolio I submitted in my application for the animation program at the university I go to.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=113 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=113 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:16:57 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>Finals are coming up real soon, and the portfolio needed to apply for the animation program has been submitted. I am currently modifying the content page to allow Quicktime .mov files to be displayed so that I can upload some of the pencil tests from my Intro. to Animation class.</p> <p>The search queries for March were a little disappointing. Some semi-interesting ones were "sandwıch shop" and "designing a sandwich shop." I don't know how the first even worked with those funky characters, and the second <a href="http://www.boogatech.com/content.php?id=105" title="sandwich shop design">has already been discussed</a>.</p> <p>After some thought, I will be adjusting the advertising on this website. The Project Wonderful ads have been pretty decent, but the Google Adsense ones haven't provided any benefit. The Google Ads will disappear, but I may place more PW ones. 2.45 cents/day <span class="i">is</span> much better than nothing, and it does add up over a long amount of time, but it is only a very small fraction of what it costs to run this site.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=111 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=111 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:47:57 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>I updated the <a href="http://www.thesandwichshopninja" title="ninjas">Sandwich Shop Ninja</a> website with a new layout.</p> <p>I have also added advertising spots on both this page and the Sandwich Shop Ninja one. Although I'd like to have the site ad-free, it still costs money to keep running. I at least have some control over what sites advertise on the <a href="http://www.projectwonderful.com" title="http://www.projectwonderful.com">Project Wonderful</a> ads, and there are no pop-ups, though I can't check every detail about the sites that advertise here.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=110 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=110 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:05:16 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>I guess the least I can do is upload a few sketches on occasion. I have to get my portfolio presentable for my application to get into the animation program before the 1st of April. The competition is intense, as there are, on average, 200 people applying for a program that only accepts 25 each year.</p> <p>Best search engine queries of Feburary:</p> <ul> <li> <p><span class="b">futuristic things</span> - I keep getting this one at least once every few months. Clearly this site needs more futuristic things, and that will be resolved some time in the future.</p></li> <li> <p><span class="b">games you step on</span> - what?</p></li> </ul> <p>I found an <a href="http://tigsource.com/articles/2008/03/02/video-game-name-generator-competition" title="http://tigsource.com/articles/2008/03/02/video-game-name-generator-competition">interesting competition</a> running on one of the sites I check out every now and then. Basically you take a random name from a generator and create a game based on that. There are no prizes, but seeing the wacky ideas and concepts that everyone comes up with is worth it. I got the randomized video game title "Galactic Kangaroo Fiasco." I'm not sure how far I'll get in programming this before the competition is over, but I'll probably work on it off-and-on throughout the year. The world will see the Galactic Kangaroo Fiasco and learn to fear the creatures of <span class="i">down under</span>. Even when I get free time, the next episode of <a href="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com" title="ninjas">The Sandwich Shop Ninja</a> will have a higher priority. I seriously need to get that thing done. Here's a brief story concept:</p> <p><img src="./images/dev/gkf01.jpg" width="326" height="205" class="right" alt="Galactic Kangaroo Fiasco" title="Galactic Kangaroo Fiasco" /></p> <p>"You return to your home planet Austrialeraan of the Down Underian System for a barbie with your mates, only to find your home planet in ruins! Mad as a cut snake, you grab your trusty boomer- ang, head out of your ship, and begin your search for the fruit loop responsible. You gaze into the great expanse of the outback and pause as a mob of roo's stare right back at you. <span class="i">They know something you don't...</span>"</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=109 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=109 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:16:16 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=109'><img src='./images/thumbs/sketchbook_011.jpg' alt='View Sketch Book Page - Creature Things' title='View Sketch Book Page - Creature Things' /></a> File Size: 178.6kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Various creatures that don't really exist, like a six-legged mountain deer-thing that eats twigs and leaves, a creepy gnomeish thing, and some other thing. <br /></p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=108 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=108 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:10:41 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=108'><img src='./images/thumbs/sketchbook_010.jpg' alt='View Sketch Book Page - Even More Hands' title='View Sketch Book Page - Even More Hands' /></a> File Size: 230.29kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>They are my own.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=107 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=107 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:01:35 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=107'><img src='./images/thumbs/sketchbook_009.jpg' alt='View Sketch Book Page - More Hands' title='View Sketch Book Page - More Hands' /></a> File Size: 262.01kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>They are not yours.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=106 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=106 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:59:22 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=106'><img src='./images/thumbs/sketchbook_008.jpg' alt='View Sketch Book Page - Hands' title='View Sketch Book Page - Hands' /></a> File Size: 221.3kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>These hands are small, I know.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=105 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=105 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:56:00 -0500 <p style='margin-top:0'>Another month has gone by, and I have collected a few more search engine queries that people have entered and somehow referred to my website.</p> <ul> <li> <p><span class="b">down to the village with a boomstick in his hand</span> - I know what this would link to, but why would anyone search for this?</p></li> <li> <p><span class="b">How to design a sandwich shop</span> - This is a good question. How would one go about designing a sandwich shop? Fortunately for that one random person, I can help!</p> <p>The first thing you want to do is find a good available location to start up. The next thing would be supplies. These would be as many sharp utensils you can find. You will need a variety of knives for cutting meat, vegetables, bread, pirates, and other things.</p> <p>You will also want to hire employees. You should only need one ninja. Hiring more than one is usually to your disadvantage as if they work together the "inverse ninja law" comes into effect, decreasing productive output. One way of countering this is to create a rivalry between multiple ninjas, though you may have to hire often as this may end in bloody results. It is also a bad idea to offend the ninja workers union. Any affiliation with pirates will terminate any contracts or agreements that you have made with any hired ninjas along with your life.</p> <p>In conclusion, we have the following steps to success:</p> <ol> <li> <p>Lease store location.</p></li> <li> <p>Hire a ninja.</p></li> <li> <p>????</p></li> <li> <p>Profit.</p></li> </ol> <p>...and there we have it, "how to design a sandwich shop!" Join us next time for "Common Mixups: Mustard Sauce and Mustard Gas!"</p></li> </ul> <p>Work on the next episode of <a href="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com" title="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com">The Sandwich Shop Ninja</a> has been very slow. I've been spending most of my time between classes doing reading for those classes. This week I get to read a 300 page book for History, to an essay on it, <span class="i">and</span> read a chapter out of two different text books for the same class! Yay! I haven't checked the syllabuses for my other classes yet, but I imagine I have reading from their respective textbooks as well. Just like last week.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=104 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=104 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:00:01 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=104'><img src='./images/thumbs/tssn_bg_thumb.jpg' alt='View Day of the Ninja Wallpaper' title='View Day of the Ninja Wallpaper' /></a> File Size: 1.17mb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>...and here is the wallpaper that I tried to finish by the 5th of December, but lost due to a program crash. Or, maybe the Sandwich Shop Ninja, being a ninja by nature, knew that nobody would be expect this to appear today? Probably. Ninjas are sneaky like that.</p> <p>You can click the image above to download a Zip Archive containing all the files, or choose your desired resolution below <span class="i">(Right click and select "Save As")</span>: <br /><a href="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1024_720.png" title="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1024_720.png">1024 x 720</a> (<a href="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1024_720b.png" title="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1024_720b.png">adjusted</a>) <br /><a href="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1280_800.png" title="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1280_800.png">1280 x 800</a> <br /><a href="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1280_1024.png" title="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1280_1024.png">1280 x 1024</a> (<a href="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1280_1024b.png" title="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1280_1024b.png">adjusted</a>) <br /><a href="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1440_900.png" title="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1440_900.png">1440 x 900</a> <br /><a href="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1600_1200.png" title="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1600_1200.png">1600 x 1200</a> (<a href="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1600_1200b.png" title="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1600_1200b.png">adjusted</a>) <br /><a href="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1680_1050.png" title="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1680_1050.png">1680 x 1050</a> <br /><a href="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1920_1200.png" title="./wallpaper/tssn_bg_1920_1200.png">1920 x 1200</a></p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=103 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=103 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:51:45 -0500 <p style='margin-top:0'>Happy 2008 everyone. I've got everything hooked up in my new dorm room, ready to get back to work on animation, as long as school doesn't bog me down too much.</p> <p>The new <a href="http://portfolio.boogatech.com" title="http://portfolio.boogatech.com">portfolio</a> is up, and is much better than the last one. I am still available for any freelancing work.</p> <p>Hopefully I'll be able to start working on the <a href="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com" title="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com">Sandwich Shop Ninja</a> episode on Monday.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=102 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=102 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:24:17 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=102'><img src='./images/thumbs/aileengift.jpg' alt='View Oboe Cat' title='View Oboe Cat' /></a> File Size: 88.61kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>This was a Christmas gift for my little sister. She loves cats and plays the oboe, and wears a beret for some reason.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=101 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=101 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:58:01 -0500 <p style='margin-top:0'>This will be my last post of 2007. My next post will be some time in January, when I get moved into the dorms at BYU.</p> <p>Search engine string on the month: "futuristic stuff." Similar to futuristic things and futuristic items. <br /></p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=100 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=100 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 05:09:06 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=100'><img src='./images/thumbs/buzz_final.jpg' alt='View Gautama Buzz' title='View Gautama Buzz' /></a> File Size: 344.2kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>A Christmas gift for my father: a caricature of his cat, Buzz.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=99 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=99 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:37:28 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=99'><img src='./images/thumbs/lightpole.jpg' alt='View Light Pole' title='View Light Pole' /></a> File Size: 42.38kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Part of the scenery for the final in my Intro to 3D Animation class. Final render coming when I fix the lighting and can let the computer sit and render for a day.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=98 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=98 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:24:47 -0500 <p style='margin-top:0'>...and then things went wrong. I got halfway done with the wallpaper, and then Flash crashed. I didn't have time to redo it, so I worked on my final projects for school. The illustration is mostly done, just missing a few background characters that I didn't do to save time and get it printed before it was due. The 3D Maya class final is... well, the last day we couldn't do anything because the school decided to turn off the license server, so the lab computers couldn't even load Maya. My tablet PC had Maya, and could render, but a single frame took 45 minutes to render.</p> <p><img src="./images/crack.jpg" class="right" alt="BATTLE DAMAGE!" title="BATTLE DAMAGE!" />Then, somehow, my tablet PC ended up with a huge gash in the bottom, and cracks around the battery compartment. The screen is okay, except for the known dirt-inside-the-screen problem that had been gradually coming back, but the main hardware section bends along the middle. I'm not sure how this could have happened as the largest crack looks like somebody tried to impale it with a lead pipe, or something. The computer seems to function properly for now, but I can't back up anything or turn it on due to another problem entirely: the power adapter broke again. It seems the wire used in it just isn't fit for transportation, as it keeps breaking apart. I'll be able to fix it quickly, and I'll have things backed up before Wednesday.</p> <p>Now if the laptop ends up dead? I have experience with getting files of dead hard drives that have had their casing opened up leaving the platters exposed to the unsterilized, dust-filled air. I still have my old Wacom tablet, which will be slower to work with, but will suffice until I can afford a replacement.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=97 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=97 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:47:55 -0500 <p style='margin-top:0'><span class="s">I also forgot to mention, the "Ninja Skills" T-Shirt Survey is still going on. Filling it out will allow you to see a preview of the "next episode," so if you want to see that any time soon, you can fill out the survey. Otherwise,</span> I plan on publicly showing the preview when the episode gets closer to completion.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=96 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=96 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:35:45 -0500 <p style='margin-top:0'>It's been a while since the last update, with seeming inactivity. I've got a few things that I've been working on, such as the last illustration for a class, a quick run cycle I started last week, a portfolio redesign, and a desktop wallpaper for December 5th, the <a href="http://www.dayoftheninja.com/" title="http://www.dayoftheninja.com/">Day of the Ninja</a>.</p> <p>That's right, this Wednesday is the 5th annual celebration of <a href="http://www.dayoftheninja.com/" title="http://www.dayoftheninja.com/">Day of the Ninja</a>! Its the day to be sneaky, quiet, and dress in black! To celebrate, I will be uploading a <a href="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com" title="ninjas">Sandwich Shop Ninja</a>-themed desktop wallpaper.</p> <p>Last month's search queries were more of the same from October, but the one new one makes up for the lack of variation. Last months weirdest search engine query goes to "hold your wee for a wii." I have no clue as to how this phrase in a search engine returned to any of my websites. Also, don't drink too much water, people. You'll die a painful death.</p> <p>As for when I think things will get finished, wallpaper on Wednesday, illustration by the end of this week, portfolio probably by the end of next week, along with the run-cycle test animation. I'll probably be busy on things before Christmas, and after I'll be packing to go to Utah in January. I haven't had a chance to work on the "next episode" since mid-October, and I can't say when it will be done, but I hope to get working on it again soon.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=95 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=95 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:31:10 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=95'><img src='./images/thumbs/bijet.png' alt='View Peregrine Falcon' title='View Peregrine Falcon' /></a> File Size: 983.04kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Jet-propelled biplanes would be awesome.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=94 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=94 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:23:06 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=94'><img src='./images/thumbs/coyote.jpg' alt='View Plotting Coyote' title='View Plotting Coyote' /></a> File Size: 214.5kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Another Illustration class project.</p> <p>Coyote, the trickster, is plotting to steal some fire from the fire spirits and give it to the humans. To do so, coyote needs to convince a few other animals to help him out.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=93 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=93 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:13:08 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>The power adapter's been repaired, and I'm currently working on a piece for a Halloween-themed animation competition. Hopefully I can get it done. There's still a lot to do this next week.</p> <p>I've gotten some interesting keywords that refer to my website. Sometimes I'm not sure what these people are actually looking for, but I'll comment on a few:</p> <ul> <li> <p><span class="u">mp3 player with am radio</span> - Good luck, it's hard finding one of these with FM radio, let alone AM. If you're high-tech enough for an mp3 player, what do you want with AM radio, anyways? Do you want to connect rabbit-ear antennae to your high-definition television, too?</p></li> <li> <p><span class="u">ninja no yes shirt</span> - What? Make up your mind! Do you want a shirt, or not? Are you looking for a ninja's opinion on shirts? Whether or not ninjas wear shirts? Do you not want ninjas, but you do want shirts? Person no yes find what they were looking for?</p></li> <li> <p><span class="u">tablet functionality stops working</span> - I can relate.</p></li> <li> <p><span class="u">t-shirt sub shop</span> - Those mist be some fibrous sub sandwiches.</p></li> <li> <p><span class="u">sandwich shop</span> - If the first result for <a href="http://www.thesandwichshopninja" title="http://www.thesandwichshopninja">sandwich shop</a> on Google ever refers to The Sandwich Shop Ninja, that would be awesome. Oddly enough, it's already floating around <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=sandwich+shop&hl=en&start=10&sa=N" title="http://www.google.com/search?q=sandwich+shop&hl=en&start=10&sa=N">the second page</a>.</p></li> <li> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">pirates and sociology</span> - Hahahahaha. Wow. This makes me want to finish that sociology animation just to see what wacky things Google chooses to refer people here for. Then we can all learn about the social nature of pirates and ninjas, and the mor(t)al conflicts that arise between the two.</p></li> </ul> <p>That's all for now, hopefully some more strange and bizarre search keywords will pop up for next month!</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=92 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=92 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:02:04 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>This week's post title comes from a spam email I got.</p> <p>I still haven't gotten any work done on the next TSSN episode. What's worse, my tablet PC's power adapter finally gave out, and now I can't access my homework. I still have my old Wacom tablet attached to my PC, so I can still work on things not on the laptop. I just won't be able to draw straight lines as easily.</p> <p>If anyone has any freelancing projects available, please drop me a line.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=91 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=91 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:32:54 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=91'><img src='./images/thumbs/socthumb.jpg' alt='View Sociology of Ninjas and Pirates' title='View Sociology of Ninjas and Pirates' /></a> Duration: 18 seconds<br />File Size: 150.8kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Last year I had a sociology class, and I made an animation to go with the oral presentation. The animation itself is in various states of incompletion, but I still got an "A" on the project. I don't know if ever get around to finishing it, but here's the most complete portion. <br /></p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=89 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=89 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:04:20 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=89'><img src='./images/thumbs/dalit.jpg' alt='View Dalit' title='View Dalit' /></a> File Size: 453.17kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>The first finished project for my Illustration class. We were given some articles to create an illustration for. I picked one titled "Dalit," which delved into India's class structure and how it has been effected by the modernization and technological boom that India has been experiencing.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=88 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=88 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:13:03 -0400 <div class="center"><img src="./images/anim_status2.png" alt="" class="noborder" /></div> <p>...and the animation for section 7 is finished! I will get started on section 8 soon. This section will take a while to complete. This will be the most complex scene in the movie. After this section, all the other sections should be technically easier to complete.</p> <p><span class="s">The Sandwich Shop Ninja T-Shirt survey is still going on, so if you're interested, please fill it out. As an incentive, once you fill it out you will be able to view a short preview of the next episode of <a href="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com" title="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com">The Sandwich Shop Ninja</a>!</span></p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=87 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=87 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:08 -0400 <img src="./images/tssn_prev_a.png" class="left" alt="" /> <p>Sorry about the lack of updates.</p> <p>Comic-Con was pretty fun, met some cool people there. I'll have to do better planning beforehand next time.</p> <p>Progress on the next episode of <a href="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com" title="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com">The Sandwich Shop Ninja</a> has gotten nowhere. I finished the back ground for the current scene, then Flash crashed and I had to redo it. I took a week in between to work on something else, but didn't get the time to finish that, either. Work at my other job takes up a lot of time and school starts up again next week, so it will be interesting to see if I can get anything done.</p> <p>Hopefully I will get it done this year. September would be preferable.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=86 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=86 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:20:00 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>Not much to report this week. I'm still working on the background for Section 7. I leave for San Diego Comic-Con tomorrow, and won't be back until Saturday.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=85 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=85 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:41:47 -0400 <div class="center"><img src="./images/anim_status1.png" alt="" class="noborder" /></div> <p>I thought I'd add an image to help show where I'm at with the episode. It does not include things like sound effects and music, which will be done after all the coloring is done.</p> <p>I finished the animation for Section 6, and am now working on the background for Section 7. Section 8 is going to be a long and difficult scene to do, which is why the storyboard isn't done for it. I know where I want to go with it, it's just that huge parts of it have to be done before I can even start thinking of how the character animation will go.</p> <p>San Diego Comic-Con is next week. I'll be there Thursday and Friday, so my next update will probably be next Wednesday.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=84 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=84 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:52:13 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>And the promised weekly update continues! I completed the core animation for section 5 on Monday, and started work on 6 of about 12. I didn't make as much progress as I'd have liked to, since I had to book a flight and hotel for San Diego. That was a nightmare and a half (theres a 70-mile difference between SAN and SNA...). That's all over and done with, so now I have a week and a half to get as much animation done as I can before the convention.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=83 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=83 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:46:46 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'><img src="./images/tssn_prev_s5-1.jpg" class="left" alt="" /></p> <p>I've devised a sort of work-around with the tablet, allowing me to continue progress with the next episode of <a href="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.url" title="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.url">The Sandwich Shop Ninja</a>. If I send the laptop into standby before shutting the lid when I need to leave the tablet for any amount of time, the tablet part keeps working. Otherwise, shutting the lid while the laptop's still on, even for a split second, will stop the tablet from working and require me to restart the laptop.</p> <p>The current schedule: most animation done before San Diego Comic Con, full animation released near the end of August. I'm still on the accursed Section 5, but I'm hoping to finish it off tomorrow. The next few sections should be less painful to get through.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=82 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=82 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:11:30 -0400 <img src="./images/whytoshibawhy.jpg" alt="Always nice to see when you start up your tablet PC..." title="Always nice to see when you start up your tablet PC..." /> <p>When I got my tablet back, nice clean screen and all, I thought 'Hey, now that this is over, maybe this tablet experience won't be so bad after all.' Oh, man, was I wrong. I was <span class="i">so</span> wrong. I have a new, more <span class="i">wondrous</span> problem with my tablet, now! After running for a bit, the tablet part of the PC <span class="i">just stops working</span>, and the only way to get it working again is to <span class="i">restart the entire computer.</span></p> <p>Toshiba, I had one of your laptops years ago, and everything functioned perfectly at 8 years old. What happened? The whole "biometric thumb scanner" not working after turning the laptop into tablet mode was tolerable, , I could ignore that a small plastic piece would occasionally pop off when I turned the screen around, the dirt getting into the screen was tolerable to an extent, but the ceased function of the <span class="i">key defining feature of the tablet, of which I made the purchase for</span>? What the heck did you guys do?</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=81 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=81 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:16:03 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>I got my laptop back today and the screen is nice and clean! Hopefully this screen manifold won't screw up like the last one did.</p> <p>I also completed the new site design! Well, almost. All that is left is the RSS feed. The store and forum will be opened when the next episode of <a href="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com" title="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com">The Sandwich Shop Ninja</a> is finally complete. The demand for a forum is currently non-existent, so no point in rushing to complete the layout.</p> <p>My current goal is this: finish all animation before Comic-Con. This is going to be tough, as there is one <span class="i">hugely complex</span> scene that will take time to do, but will look really cool when it is finished. After Comic-Con, color and shade all frames, add sounds, compose music, and release.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=80 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=80 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:22:23 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=80'><img src='./images/thumbs/wormsmaps1.jpg' alt='View Worms Armageddon Map Pack 1' title='View Worms Armageddon Map Pack 1' /></a> File Size: 184.1kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>3 custom maps for Worms Armageddon. Two are TSSN themed, and the third is the old logo. I made these a few years ago, but never uploaded them here. Now that I have a working downloads section, I can.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=78 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=78 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:44:53 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>My tablet PC is in for repairs. The screen has accumulated so much dirt underneath the protective layer that it just needed to be cleaned out. I am really unhappy about this blatant design flaw Toshiba has seemingly chosen to ignore. From what I have heard from other users, the fix is only temporary. I will keep having to send it in to get it cleaned out. The warranty expires this year. I may have to resort to selling my current tablet PC and saving up for a new one.</p> <p>From my estimates, this will push the next episode clear into August. I guess I have time to do the redesign now instead of waiting until the next episode is done. I'll release it in the next few days. Probably won't get my laptop back until next Tuesday, anyway.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=77 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=77 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:28:22 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>Hello again. It's mid-June. The next episode has progressed very little. I am still unsuccessful in finding a different job. We still have not colonized the moon. Moon bases would be completely awesome. Why is everyone so against it?</p> <p>Next episode progress: 2/3rds complete of the animation of section 5 of a total of 12 sections. I'm going to try to get this one done this week. I'll be assembling a personal schedule of what I want to get done when, and posting more detailed information of when things might come out in the close future. This section of my website needs a change as well. The redesign will bring this out of it's Flash confines and into rich, search-engine-friendly HTML, add some RSS functionality, and a look based on the design of my <a href="http://portfolio.boogatech.com" title="http://portfolio.boogatech.com">portfolio</a>. I'm also sick of mucking around in SQL tables every time I screw up the post. I really need to program an edit function into the new design.</p> <p><span class="s">In the meantime, fill out the T-Shirt Survey and see a small preview of the next episode!</span></p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=76 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=76 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:48:01 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=76'><img src='./images/thumbs/gimpspeedpaint1.png' alt='View Speedpaint in GIMP' title='View Speedpaint in GIMP' /></a> File Size: 90.94kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>A speed paint done in GIMP. It took a little over an hour, but my attention was being shared with a show that was on and I am not used to GIMP's strange GUI.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=75 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=75 Tue, 22 May 2007 02:22:11 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=75'><img src='./images/thumbs/sketchbook_007.jpg' alt='View Sketch Book Page - Cute Fluffy Animals... In Space!' title='View Sketch Book Page - Cute Fluffy Animals... In Space!' /></a> File Size: 82.86kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>This twisted creation eats away at my soul every time it's disgusting visage graces my sight. I may loose my sanity and make an animation out of it. Even the act of drawing this in the first place put me in such a delirium that figured that by drawing a puke pail and an insulin shot would be enough to save me from this horror as it crawled forth from the graphite of my pencil. Clearly I should have drawn a shotgun instead.</p> <p>Why does such a deranged act against nature exist? Some guy wanted someone to illustrate a book and told me he didn't believe I could do "cute and fluffy." Well I sure showed him, huh?</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=74 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=74 Tue, 22 May 2007 01:51:31 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=74'><img src='./images/thumbs/perspectiveboxes.jpg' alt='View Perspective Drawing' title='View Perspective Drawing' /></a> File Size: 171.81kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>A perspective drawing of a room and some boxes. I had to edit the picture taken from a digital camera, so the shadows are a lot stronger than they really should be.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=73 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=73 Tue, 22 May 2007 01:49:38 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>My current job is driving me nuts, so I'm trying to beef up my <a href="http://portfolio.boogatech.com" title="http://portfolio.boogatech.com">portfolio</a> as much as possible. I've been meaning to upload some of the things I did for a college art class I took a year ago, but I don't have a scanner big enough to scan them in. I finally broke down and used my digital camera, which is why they don't have the best lighting possible. Along with those I uploaded a few pages of my sketchbook, which <span class="i">is</span> small enough to fit on my scanner.</p> <p>The next episode of The Sandwich Shop Ninja is still at where I left it a week ago, unfortunately. I upgraded the hard drives on my tower, and just made a clean install instead of straight-copying everything over. I do use my laptop for most of the work, but I lost a bit of time trying to find all my driver CD's.</p> <p>I spent last Thursday figuring out how to get a partition to run Fedora 5. I have mixed feelings about Linux. It's not very user-friendly, and my sound card is unsupported. I still haven't checked to see if I can get Wacom tablet support. Plus, there's not really much to do with it. Adobe doesn't seem to want to make their programs Linux compatible. If <a href="http://www.blender.org" title="http://www.blender.org">Blender</a> is any good, however, I'll probably use it for 3D stuff.</p> <p>I guess that's all for this week. I did see the new Shrek movie. I thought it was good. Nothing too <a href="http://www.ratatouille.com/" title="http://www.ratatouille.com/">incredible</a>, but it was entertaining.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=72 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=72 Tue, 22 May 2007 01:18:37 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=72'><img src='./images/thumbs/boxesandlight.jpg' alt='View Boxes and Light' title='View Boxes and Light' /></a> File Size: 263.61kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Still life of some boxes. I got bored, so I drew the lamp that was over them.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=71 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=71 Tue, 22 May 2007 01:16:28 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=71'><img src='./images/thumbs/boxesandbottles.jpg' alt='View Boxes and Bottles' title='View Boxes and Bottles' /></a> File Size: 136.22kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Still life of some boxes and bottles.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=70 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=70 Tue, 22 May 2007 01:13:40 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=70'><img src='./images/thumbs/bottles.jpg' alt='View Still Life - Bottles' title='View Still Life - Bottles' /></a> File Size: 147.23kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Still life of some bottles on cardboard boxes.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=69 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=69 Tue, 22 May 2007 01:11:15 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=69'><img src='./images/thumbs/gesture_001.jpg' alt='View Gestural Drawing' title='View Gestural Drawing' /></a> File Size: 117.14kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Still life gestural drawings.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=68 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=68 Mon, 21 May 2007 23:52:59 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=68'><img src='./images/thumbs/sketchbook_006.jpg' alt='View Sketch Book Page - Things?' title='View Sketch Book Page - Things?' /></a> File Size: 94.76kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>A lot of stuff going on here. A murderous toaster, Catoman and friends, and some creepy little guy with chicken wings or something.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=67 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=67 Mon, 21 May 2007 23:49:42 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=67'><img src='./images/thumbs/sketchbook_005.jpg' alt='View Sketch Book Page - Dragons' title='View Sketch Book Page - Dragons' /></a> File Size: 91.41kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Inspired by an orchestral piece, by Steven Reineke, inspired by a mountain in Switzerland.</p> <p>Those sock-puppet dragons are terribly fierce.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=66 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=66 Tue, 15 May 2007 01:40:14 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'><span class="s">The "Ninja Skills" T-Shirt Survey has been updated. It now has the final image designs, and as for an incentive to fill out the survey, you will be presented with a <span class="b">sneak preview</span> of the next episode of <a href="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com" title="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com">The Sandwich Shop Ninja</a>!</span></p> <p>When is the next episode finally going to get done? I'm hoping some time next month. School finals delayed things a bit, but now I don't have to worry about school for the next few months.</p> <p>Also coming up is a minor redesign for this main page. It will help any prospective employers to find my <a href="http://portfolio.boogatech.com" title="http://portfolio.boogatech.com">portfolio</a> easier.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=65 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=65 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:30:21 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'><span class="s">Now for your enjoyment, the "Ninja Skills" T-Shirt Survey is now online! Help me figure out what you want!</span></p> <p>I would also like to announce that <a href="http://thesandwichshopninja.com" title="http://thesandwichshopninja.com">The Sandwich Shop Ninja Home Page</a> has been redesigned!</p> <p>Now for an update on the next episode: things aren't moving as fast as I'd like, but I'm pretty optimistic about getting an animation festival-ready version done to turn in on the 9th of April, an then the full animation done around the end of April or early May. You won't be disappointed - this is looking to be the best animation I have done as of yet!</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=64 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=64 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:38:15 -0500 <p style='margin-top:0'><img src="./images/tssn_prev.jpg" class="left" alt="" />It's been a while since any updates. School has taken up a lot of my time, and when I'm not at school (or doing homework), I've been working on the next episode of <a href="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com" title="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com"> The Sandwich Shop Ninja</a>. It has to be done enough to submit to the animation festival at my school by the 6th of April, so expect to see it released some time mid-to-late April.</p> <p>Since I need to do a lot to get this finished in 7 weeks, I will be heavily limiting my Internet time until it's released. After this update, expect there to only be two more updates until the new toon is released. One will be a poll concerning a future TSSN shirt, and the other is a short animation that I already have done - I'm waiting on the update of another website to upload it here.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=62 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=62 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:30:07 -0500 <p style='margin-top:0'>Well, another year has come and gone. For the start of this year, the website has taken on a new look! Not only has the navigation been made easier to use, the <a href="?p=9" title="?p=9">Games</a> section now has a proper page! The Gallery page seems to have exploded for some reason, but that will be fixed today after I get some sleep. The blank bars will remain empty until I create enough content to put stuff on them. There is a plan for them, but they'll remain empty for now.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=61 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=61 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:41:17 -0500 <p style='margin-top:0'>I have been working on an improved website design that will be released next Monday to start off the new year!</p> <p>I would also like to remind anyone still checking this page that Catoman is still accepting tech support "calls"! Record your 30-second tech support call in any common sound format, be it WAV, AIFF, or MP3, and send it to <a href="./catoman_contact.php" title="./catoman_contact.php">Catoman's e-mail address</a>!</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=60 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=60 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:32:26 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=60'><img src='./images/thumbs/bticon.jpg' alt='View TSSN Short: Customer Support' title='View TSSN Short: Customer Support' /></a> Duration: 1 minute, 0 seconds<br />File Size: 750.12kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>It's December 5th! Happy Day of the Ninja!</p> <p>The Sandwich Shop Ninja deals with many customers on a daily basis. Unfortunately, not all customers are pleasant to be around.</p> <p>More <a href="http://www.dayoftheninja.com/" title="http://www.dayoftheninja.com/">Day of the Ninja</a> info.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=59 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=59 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:45:47 -0500 <p style='margin-top:0'><a href="http://www.dayoftheninja.com" title="http://www.dayoftheninja.com"><img src="./images/dotn.png" class="left" alt="" /></a> This upcoming Tuesday is the annual <a href="http://www.dayoftheninja.com" title="http://www.dayoftheninja.com">Day of the Ninja</a>! To celebrate, there will be a new (but very short) Sandwich Shop Ninja toon being released that evening!</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=58 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=58 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:57:28 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=58'><img src='./images/thumbs/frosty.jpg' alt='View Down to the Village with a Boom-Stick in His Hand' title='View Down to the Village with a Boom-Stick in His Hand' /></a> File Size: 140.45kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Down to the village <br />With a boom-stick in his hand <br />Running here and there all around the square <br />Saying 'Catch me if you can!'</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=57 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=57 Sat, 25 Nov 2006 17:07:36 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=57'><img src='./images/thumbs/feild.jpg' alt='View Field' title='View Field' /></a> File Size: 466.63kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>The frost-covered field next door.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=56 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=56 Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:58:06 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=56'><img src='./images/thumbs/frost.jpg' alt='View Frost' title='View Frost' /></a> File Size: 346.15kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>The frost-covered field next door. <br /></p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=55 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=55 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:05:39 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=55'><img src='./images/thumbs/catoman_painting.jpg' alt='View Catoman' title='View Catoman' /></a> File Size: 129.56kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Catoman can explain everything. That's why he supports the tech here at BoogaTech. If your tech needs supported, give him a call - send your call recorded in mp3 format to <a href="./catoman_contact.php" title="./catoman_contact.php">this email address</a>!</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=54 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=54 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:30:56 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=54'><img src='./images/thumbs/catoman_sketches.jpg' alt='View Catoman Sketches 20 October 2006' title='View Catoman Sketches 20 October 2006' /></a> File Size: 104kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Concept sketches of Catoman.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=53 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=53 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:47:00 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=53'><img src='./images/thumbs/catoman_parts.jpg' alt='View Evolution of Catoman' title='View Evolution of Catoman' /></a> File Size: 59.88kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Catoman, who originally appeared as a character of my first Flash games back in 2003, has changed quite a bit these past few years. He may still appear in more games, and will appear in a website-exclusive series.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=51 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=51 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:41:25 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>The Altered Reality collab I helped out with is finally on the net! It features many different artists and their different styles in a sci-fi themed animation!</p> <p><a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/326282" title="http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/326282">Click here to view the Altered Reality collaboration</a> <br /></p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=50 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=50 Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:26:47 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=50'><img src='./images/thumbs/firework_whoosh.jpg' alt='View Fountain' title='View Fountain' /></a> File Size: 591.28kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>I'm putting this in the Traditional Art section until I code up a photography section.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=49 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=49 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 03:23:44 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>Well, my web host merged with another host, and the websites were moved to the new servers last week. I had to fix a few things, but the website seems functional again.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=48 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=48 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:20:34 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=48'><img src='./images/thumbs/ninjaChar.jpg' alt='View The Sandwich Shop Ninja' title='View The Sandwich Shop Ninja' /></a> File Size: 44.46kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Got bored, so I drew this. I want to animate something with him soon. I may just add an episode before the one I was working on and finish that one later.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=47 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=47 Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:57:57 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=47'><img src='./images/thumbs/altered_collab_parts.jpg' alt='View Altered Reality Collab Entry Updated' title='View Altered Reality Collab Entry Updated' /></a> Duration: 30 seconds<br />File Size: 597.51kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Since people dropped out of the collaboration I entered quite a while ago, I offered to do another piece for the collab. This file is both parts combined into one. The second half is the older half, which is why it doesn't look as good as the first half. I also don't have the original music file, so there's a small blip in the sound between parts.</p> <p><a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/326282" title="http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/326282">Follow this link</a> to see the complete collaboration.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=45 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=45 Fri, 12 May 2006 23:14:34 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=45'><img src='./images/thumbs/robotWalk.jpg' alt='View 3D Robot Walk Cycle' title='View 3D Robot Walk Cycle' /></a> File Size: 309.19kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>My first 3d walk cycle.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=44 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=44 Sun, 09 Apr 2006 20:33:37 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=44'><img src='./images/thumbs/carroll90_2_bg.jpg' alt='View Sketch Book Page - Button Boogie' title='View Sketch Book Page - Button Boogie' /></a> File Size: 90.67kb<br /> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=42 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=42 Sun, 09 Apr 2006 20:18:40 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=42'><img src='./images/thumbs/carroll90_3.jpg' alt='View Multimedia Project: Kitten Commandos' title='View Multimedia Project: Kitten Commandos' /></a> File Size: 320.33kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Also from the old files, is the third project from the Multimedia class I took. This is Kitten Commandos, quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever made, and am willing to upload to this website. Before anyone asks, no there will never be another "Kitten Commandos" episode.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=41 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=41 Sun, 09 Apr 2006 19:52:02 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=41'><img src='./images/thumbs/carroll90_2.jpg' alt='View Multimedia Project: Button Boogie' title='View Multimedia Project: Button Boogie' /></a> File Size: 63.23kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>This is another old file I found on my laptop's corrupted hard drive. This was the second project I did in a multimedia class I took fall of 2004. The point of this one was to experiment with button effects. Since it was October when we did this, it had to have a Halloween theme.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=40 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=40 Sun, 09 Apr 2006 19:40:49 -0400 <p style='margin-top:0'>I'll start off with the current schedule of what I hope to get done. I was unable to work on my current animation projects for an entire week due to school and work, so that will delay my previous estimations of by about a week or two, with the collaboration piece nearing completion this week, and "Can Story" being completed some where around the 17th of May. If I get the time, I might make the page I've been meaning to make for my 1988 Macintosh SE that now runs at 1.8 ghz. :D</p> <p>Now for the good thing. During last year, I lost most of my work when my laptop's hard drive kicked the bucket. Last month I had found the old hard drive and attempted to see if anything was recoverable. After failing to get the BIOS to even recognize the drive, I figured I might as well open up the thing and figure out what the cause of it's clinking noise was. Turns out, the cable I used to plug the drive into the motherboard was screwy, so I had ended up exposing the innards of my hard drive to the dusty air when it might have been working the entire time. I hooked the hard drive back up, booted up the system, and lo-and-behold, computer detected the hard drive. I downloaded a trial of <a href="http://www.getdata.com/" title="http://www.getdata.com/">GetData's "Recover My Files"</a> and waited to see if it could even find anything on the hard drive. Incredibly, I was able to get complete files off the hard drive that were intact and without corruption. I was able to copy the entire contents of My Documents over to the working drive, and now I have everything I had previously thought was gone forever! I'll upload a few things worth showing to the Animation Scraps section.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=39 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=39 Sun, 09 Apr 2006 19:01:53 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=39'><img src='./images/thumbs/carroll90_1.jpg' alt='View Multimedia Project: Flash Techniques' title='View Multimedia Project: Flash Techniques' /></a> File Size: 241.48kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>This is an old file I found on my laptop's corrupted hard drive. It was the first project I did in a multimedia class I took fall of 2004. This clip features a character called "Catoman," which also appears in my first games.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=38 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=38 Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:09:24 -0500 <p style='margin-top:0'>I was looking through some of my old backups, and just came to realize that yesterday, March 19th, was the Sandwich Shop Ninja's second birthday!</p> <p>As far as current projects go, I need to finish a school paper due Tuesday. I will then work on another piece for the Altered Reality collaboration I was in, since someone dropped out and they really want to get it done, and that should take one week, two weeks tops. After that, I'll work on finishing <span class="i">"Can Story,"</span> which is currently about 1/4th animated. I originally hoped to have it done by the end of this month, but now it's looking more like mid-April. After that, I will finally start working on the next episode of <span class="i"><a href="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com" title="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com">"The Sandwich Shop Ninja!"</a></span></p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=37 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=37 Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:28:06 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=37'><img src='./images/thumbs/can.jpg' alt='View Can' title='View Can' /></a> File Size: 256.51kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>This is a character I am using in an animation project for a class. The animation is due next week. I'm hoping to have it completely done and ready to upload before the end of the month. We'll see how well that goes.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=36 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=36 Sun, 05 Mar 2006 22:08:05 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=36'><img src='./images/thumbs/dodoobedoobot.jpg' alt='View Do-Doo-Be-Doo-Bot' title='View Do-Doo-Be-Doo-Bot' /></a> File Size: 112.63kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>On one of the pieces my friends and I were given for Jazz band this semester, someone had written "do-doo-be-doo-bot" under a difficult string of notes. Here is the Do-Doo-Be-Doo-Bot.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=35 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=35 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:12:18 -0500 <p style='margin-top:0'><a href="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com" title="http://www.thesandwichshopninja.com">The Sandwich Shop Ninja Website</a> is now open! It's not much now, as I don't plan on fleshing it out until after the next TSSN animation.</p> <p>There are a few things that are bugging my with the animation I was working on, so I'm going to take a break on that animation and work on some other animation projects. The next big animation I post will be whichever gets done first.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=34 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=34 Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:11:53 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=34'><img src='./images/thumbs/tssn_test_ssn_cycle_01.jpg' alt='View TSSN Sandwich Shop Ninja Walk Cycle Test' title='View TSSN Sandwich Shop Ninja Walk Cycle Test' /></a> File Size: 31.9kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>A frame-by-frame walk cycle.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=30 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=30 Wed, 04 Jan 2006 03:50:33 -0500 <p style='margin-top:0'>The <a href="?p=6" title="?p=6">links page</a> is now complete enough to open up to the Internet public! If the button below is still dulled out, you will need to clear your browser cache to click it or you can simply just click the link above in this news post.</p> <p>This is just the first of what I hope to be a productive year! I plan to start working harder to bring this website to life with more animations, pictures, and possibly even a game or two for you all to enjoy!</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=33 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=33 Sun, 25 Dec 2005 17:42:44 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=33'><img src='./images/thumbs/aileen_gift_2005_33.jpg' alt='View Catapult' title='View Catapult' /></a> File Size: 485.61kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>A Christmas present for my other sister. <br /></p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=32 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=32 Sun, 25 Dec 2005 17:41:04 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=32'><img src='./images/thumbs/emily_gift_2005.jpg' alt='View Spin' title='View Spin' /></a> File Size: 579.62kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>A Christmas present for my sister.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=31 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=31 Sun, 25 Dec 2005 17:39:05 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=31'><img src='./images/thumbs/joshua_gift_2005.jpg' alt='View The Race' title='View The Race' /></a> File Size: 358.27kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>A Christmas present for my brother.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=29 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=29 Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:39:03 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=29'><img src='./images/thumbs/tssn_intro_thumb.jpg' alt='View TSSN Intro Animation' title='View TSSN Intro Animation' /></a> Duration: 1 minute, 22 seconds<br />File Size: 556.19kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>This <span class="s">will</span> might be the introduction to new episodes of "The Sandwich Shop Ninja."</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=28 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=28 Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:30:37 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=28'><img src='./images/thumbs/cad_headphone_mp3.jpg' alt='View Combo MP3 Player AM/FM Radio' title='View Combo MP3 Player AM/FM Radio' /></a> File Size: 242.85kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>I was digging around my old backpack from high school yesterday, and found this. As an assignment in the Advanced Drafting class I took my senior year, we were told to design an MP3 player.</p> <p>This thing features MP3 playback, AM/FM radio, built-in headphones, easy-to-use buttons for use while wearing, and an extra headphone jack so a friend can listen too! A switch on the left side controls the power and mode. In radio mode, the Forward and Reverse buttons seek through stations, while Play switches between AM and FM. By pressing Stop and then any of the four buttons, you can switch to a saved favorite station.</p> <p>As for the quality of the image, I scanned in the printout I had of it. I don't know where the original AutoCAD file is, as it's on an unlabeled CD somewhere in my room.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=27 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=27 Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:19:15 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=27'><img src='./images/thumbs/dead_ringer.jpg' alt='View Dead Ringer' title='View Dead Ringer' /></a> File Size: 408.27kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Dead ringer. Get it?</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=26 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=26 Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:55:47 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=26'><img src='./images/thumbs/gestural_drawing_skull_10-26-2005.jpg' alt='View Gestural Drawing' title='View Gestural Drawing' /></a> File Size: 56.28kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Recently, in a drawing class I am taking, we did some gestural drawings of one of those life-size model skeletons. In the later ones, we were told to just focus on the head and were given about 1-2 minutes per drawing.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=25 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=25 Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:55:46 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=25'><img src='./images/thumbs/sketchbook_004.jpg' alt='View Sketch Book Page - Forgotten Guard' title='View Sketch Book Page - Forgotten Guard' /></a> File Size: 83.66kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Some sketches of a giant mechanical construct created by an ancient civilization that mysteriously disappeared over the course of time. And a sketch of some weird scientist guy.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=24 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=24 Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:55:45 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=24'><img src='./images/thumbs/sketchbook_003.jpg' alt='View Sketch Book Page - Some Mechanical Objects' title='View Sketch Book Page - Some Mechanical Objects' /></a> File Size: 142.98kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Some pneumatic cylinders, gears (I find they're harder to draw than they look), and some other stuff. There's also a bunch of writing that only I can read because, well, only I know the alphabet!</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=23 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=23 Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:55:44 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=23'><img src='./images/thumbs/sketchbook_002.jpg' alt='View Sketch Book Page - TSSN Sketches' title='View Sketch Book Page - TSSN Sketches' /></a> File Size: 71.12kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Concept sketches for the Sandwich Shop Ninja logo, as well as some sketches of the SSN, some guy with poofy hair, some guy with a buzz cut, and That Kid That Got Hit With A Sandwich! Oh, and at the bottom we see a Synj-esque character head. That guy's got a great character style.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=21 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=21 Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:31:15 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=21'><img src='./images/thumbs/subninja.jpg' alt='View The Sandwich Shop Ninja' title='View The Sandwich Shop Ninja' /></a> Duration: 2 minutes, 6 seconds<br />File Size: 1.27mb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Atarashii o tabemasu!</p> <p>The Sandwich Shop Ninja was released a year ago. Now that I know more about Flash and animation I went through it, updating parts, and properly synchronized the sound and made this updated version of "The Sandwich Shop Ninja." <br /></p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=22 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=22 Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:31:15 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=22'><img src='./images/thumbs/sketchbook_001.jpg' alt='View Sketch Book Page - Futuristic Stuff' title='View Sketch Book Page - Futuristic Stuff' /></a> File Size: 127.48kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Science fiction is a genre favorite of mine. I'd have to say I find Robert McCall's art a huge inspiration when I try to think of how futuristic worlds would look.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=20 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=20 Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:47:18 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=20'><img src='./images/thumbs/arcollab.jpg' alt='View Altered Reality Collab Entry' title='View Altered Reality Collab Entry' /></a> Duration: 15 seconds<br />File Size: 320.87kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>An entry for an animation collaboration with a group of around 20 people.</p> <p><a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/326282" title="http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/326282">Follow this link</a> to see the complete collaboration.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=19 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=19 Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:38:06 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=19'><img src='./images/thumbs/carroll71tutorial7.jpg' alt='View Watercolor Mountains' title='View Watercolor Mountains' /></a> File Size: 293.93kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>A piece done for my digital painting class. Corel Painter 9 does a spectacular job simulating watercolors. Too bad it's so difficult to get them to look the way you want.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=17 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=17 Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:18:12 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=17'><img src='./images/thumbs/theseeker.jpg' alt='View Seeker' title='View Seeker' /></a> File Size: 366.86kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>What is it looking for?</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=16 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=16 Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:59:42 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=16'><img src='./images/thumbs/carroll71tutorial6b.jpg' alt='View Tree' title='View Tree' /></a> File Size: 44.74kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>It's a tree. Corel Painter is an interesting program. It actually simulates the look of actual tools on many different kinds of paper and canvas.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=14 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=14 Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:16:06 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=14'><img src='./images/thumbs/booga_bg1full.jpg' alt='View Futuristic Background 1' title='View Futuristic Background 1' /></a> File Size: 127.13kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>A background to be used in a very short animated clip I'm working on. It's not much, it's for a collaboration with a group of people. I'll post it in the Miscellaneous Animations section when I finish it.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=13 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=13 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 03:42:47 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=13'><img src='./images/thumbs/ssn_concept.jpg' alt='View The Sandwich Shop Ninja' title='View The Sandwich Shop Ninja' /></a> File Size: 47.23kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Another concept picture of the new-style Sandwich Shop Ninja.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=11 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=11 Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:35:46 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=11'><img src='./images/thumbs/ninja_bg_2.jpg' alt='View The Sandwich Shop Ninja' title='View The Sandwich Shop Ninja' /></a> File Size: 63.35kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Recently I've been playing around with the idea of a different design to the Sandwich Shop Ninja character.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=8 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=8 Thu, 10 Mar 2005 03:10:08 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=8'><img src='./images/thumbs/totes.jpg' alt='View Tales of the Exhausted Student' title='View Tales of the Exhausted Student' /></a> Duration: 2 minutes, 22 seconds<br />File Size: 1.59mb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Every student feels like this at some point.</p> <p>This animation was a finalist in the 2005 Sierra College Scollies Animation Festival!</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=7 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=7 Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:46:44 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=7'><img src='./images/thumbs/g_bombattack.jpg' alt='View Bomb Attack' title='View Bomb Attack' /></a> File Size: 58.07kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Catoman and some friends join in a game where to win, you need to blast your friends to smithereens!</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=6 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=6 Wed, 22 Dec 2004 03:05:21 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=6'><img src='./images/thumbs/g_osgwttfwysottm.jpg' alt='View Outer-Space Game With Tiles That Fall When You Step On Them Too Much' title='View Outer-Space Game With Tiles That Fall When You Step On Them Too Much' /></a> File Size: 184.12kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>The object here is to step on tiles to gain as much points as possible before exiting the level. The problem is, if you step on a tile too much it will collapse leaving Catoman to fall into oblivion!</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=5 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=5 Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:30:20 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=5'><img src='./images/thumbs/waterdrop.jpg' alt='View Water Drop' title='View Water Drop' /></a> Duration: 3 seconds<br />File Size: 47.36kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>A small frame-by-frame water drop animation.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=4 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=4 Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:15:41 -0500 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=4'><img src='./images/thumbs/mcarroll_halloweenecard.jpg' alt='View Halloween eCard' title='View Halloween eCard' /></a> Duration: 3 minutes, 14 seconds<br />File Size: 1.06mb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>Happy Halloween!</p> <p>I tried to go for "creepy," but I think I ended up with more of "just plain weird."</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=3 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=3 Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:48:08 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=3'><img src='./images/thumbs/lipsynch.jpg' alt='View Animation Competition Entry: Lip Synching' title='View Animation Competition Entry: Lip Synching' /></a> Duration: 34 seconds<br />File Size: 496.63kb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>An entry for an animation competition.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=1 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=1 Tue, 07 Sep 2004 10:31:39 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=1'><img src='./images/thumbs/squirrels.jpg' alt='View Squirrels' title='View Squirrels' /></a> Duration: 1 minute, 25 seconds<br />File Size: 1.17mb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>All we really are is squirrels.</p> http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=2 http://blog.boogatech.com?p=16&c=2 Tue, 07 Sep 2004 10:31:39 -0400 <a href='http://blog.boogatech.com/?p=16&c=2'><img src='./images/thumbs/subninja.jpg' alt='View The Sandwich Shop Ninja' title='View The Sandwich Shop Ninja' /></a> Duration: 2 minutes, 15 seconds<br />File Size: 1.37mb<br /><p style='margin-top:0'>After the release of the updated version, I moved the original to the Animation Clips section.</p>