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You're not the only kid who grew up this way.

So, I've found a way to gather up a bunch of my old articles and I'm thinking about how to organize them and keep them somewhere that's easier to find.

Ideas?

So, my last article went pretty well, I think. And given the responses I've received I've come up with a few ideas for the next one.

One of the first bits of feedback I got was that I should take a second look at One Piece since it's actually a good example of a shounen manga done right. Problem is, I already tried to do this and ended up dropping it after about 130 chapters. I was pretty bored by most of it, save for the exceptional Arlong Park arc (which made me bawl and was wonderful). ...

Well, that was surprising.

As some of you may know, I'm currently enrolled in an art college that emphasizes skills that are in high demand in the video game industry. Our instructors are industry professionals, some simply as artists and some within the game industry proper. A couple weeks ago my life drawing class was paid a visit by one of the instructors who is currently working in a developer studio. He had heard that some of us weren't completing our homework and he had some ...

As someone who loves to break down visuals to their core (and loves learning how to do it better) I have to give props to the folks at Dreamworks studios for their work on Madagascar 3. While the film overall is not something I would write home a bout (lots of jokes fall flat, too many tropes, can be downright annoying at times) the artists and animators never cease to amaze. I've been keeping a pretty sharp eye on the visual side of Dreamworks' films since the first Kung-Fu Panda film showed me ...