In addition to WIP screencap, I bring you what I hope will become a regular feature here on Ayarane Project: Instant Ramen LIVE! Click on the screencap to go see the archived video. :D pardon the preroll ads -_-;
With Blastoise’s transmigration, he now has the ability to livestream the contents of his desktop without horrendous input lag. What this means for you is that… well, recall that others had the ability to “sit in” on Blastoise to watch me draw (via VNC) but even then it was laggy and I could only hold one other person at a time. Now the dude can stream to my Justin.tv channel and many can watch if they want to see the sausage being made. :)
You may want to follow me on Twitter if you want to know when I’m about to stream. But, Justin.tv auto-archives all streams for a little while after the fact– they used to do it indefinitely but the archived stuff only lasts a few days now. Worst-case, I’ll just have to do a local recording and upload that to YouTube manually. One way or another, these will be available somewhere for later viewing if you can’t catch the live show.
This first attempt has no sound– all I was running was just Pandora’s Christmas music anyhow. But in future sessions, presuming this draws in some sort of an audience, I’ll turn on the audio so I can pick select doods to call in on Skype for sass and lulz.
I need to not torpedo my own (extremely self-serving by virtue of being of my own creation) OTP for others’ amusement and go back to when I would shamelessly draw Hikaru and Numair fluffy happytimes. On the other hands, scenes like the above are stupidly funny. Oh well. One of these days! :P
Holy Prinny on a Geo Block, dood! It’s a Snowscheme WIP!
Our opening act is Haruko, Spoony and Aries (sans fake Santa beard, he only puts it on for the guild open house) boozing it up for some drunk caroling. :D This will also have the honor of being the first Instant Ramen Sketchbook done via Blastoise’s rebuilt body. Wee~
It’s a widely known truth that I draw much, much better at night… but the unfortunate side effect of Blastoise being VERY efficient with his cooling measures is that it causes the room temperature to drop about 10 degrees. Considering that it’s already pushing low 40s in Fontana around midnight… uh, yeah, that means my office is hovering in the low-to-mid-30s. For the most part I don’t mind, but my hands do! I’ll just have to make myself start earlier.
In other Ramen-related news… it occurs to me that Blastoise is now awesome to the point that I could live-stream the drawing sessions. (Another reason I should do this earlier in the day! Or failing that, Justin.tv DOES auto-archive streams for later viewing…) As is, he barely uses up a quarter of his total oomph with Painter, so I don’t think the tools needed to stream his primary monitor should slow him down… On top of that, there could be opportunity for some sass and lulz via Skype. See where I’m going with this? :)
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Seeing as I have just been handed peanut butter and honey sammiches and hot chocolate, I’ll probably be awake a little while longer. Too cold to stay here, though… I think this calls for midnight Disgaea 4 Item World shenanigans. >:D
Yes, doods, Denlan’s FE Bromide! Go go not-so-messy wireframe phase! Officially, his final body armor is the Ozzie Pants (which, if you recall, is a pair of goofy boxers). Unlike the original, they are not worn on your head, nor do they slap you with Derpface– I mean confusion. BUUUUUT… rather than just have Denlan run around in his boxers, which would be funny and totally like him, I got a better idea: more bad cosplay! Because, you know, Ragnarok TWILIGHT is all about the “cosplay = ultimate gear” thing. In this case, he gets to dress up as Kyle from Lunar 1. The price is that you can’t see the Ozzie Pants, and it made me consider changing out the Ozzie Pants for something else… but since Denlan and Chelsea are a thing, it makes sense that they would have matching armor (Flea Vest for Chelsea), plus we changed the Flea Vest from a bra to cute pink pajamas anyway. Thus, the Ozzie Pants stays, even if you can’t see them.
The next two FE Bromides (hell, let’s just make this Bromide month ’cause I can’t think of a theme for September, Ramen-wise) are for Celina and Rineas. Yes, more Aeth characters, for the lulz. I already know Celina’s has her cosplaying as Jean (Lunar 2). Rineas, on the other hand… I think I was going to stick him as Wiseman (.hack) but I’m kinda-sorta playing with him as Lunar 1!Ghaleon (specifically, in his Magic Guild robes), since I’m already neck-deep in this theme of Aeth’s doods as Lunar characters. XD
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Speaking of arts… do you watch NSFW? (Which you should because it is awesome, especially if you like, oh, Beavis and Butthead) Specifically, did you see the most recent episode, from Dragon*Con? About halfway in, right before the Dating Game bit, Brian flashed this thing I did on the side screen. Instant Ramen in the wild, doods! You can see the episode streamed again tonight at 7pm PT on TWiT
…or if you’re impatient you can just watch the YouTube version below. (My doodle shows up around 33:10)
I’m (very slowly) working on a piece for the upcoming 100th episode, which (provided the schedule doesn’t get screwed with) looks like it will be November 1. I know that my artwork only shows up for a few seconds every time, but behind the scenes they are greatly amusing to a lot of people and I’d like to think that I’m piling up influence bling that I can cash out later on. >:D In any case, it would be awesome if the Ep. 100 piece rocked faces off so much that I could, oh, have prints sent to the hosts and to the TWiT Brickhouse, yes? Maybe? Cookies? Since I’ve refilled my Magic Coin Block, this is doable… :D
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LOOT ALERT. I’ve said for awhile that I was going to get an HD capture box so I can, among other things, redo my .hack playthrough (preferably livestreamed, but at least extended-play YouTubes), and now it’s FINALLY HAPPENING. And because we loot so much from Amazon, I went ahead and activated Amazon Prime– if anything, it also gets us access to their video streaming library, so mother and Evil Stepfather can use that all they want. By Thursday, I should have the Hauppauge HD-PVR, the freaking Excalibur of the livestreamer/YouTube capture kings! Yes!
…oh, in addition to that, also looting a foot-activated air pump for my giant blue Gopher ball (which will be replacing my slowly-falling-apart office chair, because this “falling asleep at the keyboard” thing needs to stop), a PS3 component cable for the capture box (it doesn’t take HDMI, bah) and a bigger MS Pro Duo stick for my PSP so I can cram more downloaded games on it. Like, you know… Dissidia 012… >_>;
I’ll be picking up a 3DS– I’ve meant to, even before the announcement of the price drop. Basically, I’m just waiting on its port of Tales of the Abyss so I can swoop in and get both at once. I could get the 3DS now, but I’m already going to be busy with other stuff so it’s… not so smart to pile on even more.
