OMG I've got like a million messages to write and all but I had to put together a bunch from the
AMAZING weekend that me and my buddies had going down to LA and attending Anime Expo for the very first time. It was an amazing line up of days on end of endless handshaking, picture taking and autograph signing. I still can't believe how suprised everyone can be when I appear in front of them to say hi. I have so many people to thank and I will not be where I am if it weren't for the fans.
I sincerely apologize for not being at my table on Thurs or Fri. I had work on Thurs and could only leave for the con to start on Fri. And on Fri my prints didn't get delivered til later in the afternoon. I had no idea that there would be so many people when I arrived in the alley and was told that there were people looking for me. Let alone to an empty table. I didn't have many prints, and when those enevitably ran out. Free high fives!!
I catologued as much as I could, but I was wholely not prepared for the endless explosion that was this weekend. My friends and I constantly reciting to ourselves. "OMG this weekend is awesome and we've barely even started!!!!"

Faye Mata who dug up an old design of mine. I was comepletely blown away that anyone remembered it. Also Dustin De Leon AKA ~
TheLinKueiNinja as Ryu hayabusa (he's a devoted ninja guy and very cool to hang with) at the official Dead Fantasy Gathering @ 9am Friday.

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Rinoa07 with and excellent pair of wings handmade out of paper (so cool!) as well as the weapons Silent Tear and Vanishing Star with belt. Such a sweet Rinoa, she looks like her too!

Yaay for Angels!!

~
A--y--a as Kasumi. She's soo cool too hang with. Can't wait to meetup again next year!

Surrounded By Awesomness

Must have my coffee

Also add Lady Tenkage (Samantha) and XTifa Lockheart (Melissa) from Cosplay.com I must thank Samantha personally for arranging the DF shoot and gathering so many people.

Happy Customers

Faye Again as girl Vaporeon (As you can tell she likes blue)

A Big Fan

Tenkage as Cissnei

Another fan

Dudes from Fanime who recorded and have the current YT vids up. Many high-fives were had.


Nice & smart dude

This girl was soooo cuute!!! SHe was too shy to come to my table herself so she had her friend come up to get my autograph for her. I wrote for her to come and say hi. She's like a real life Hinata, sooo adorable! Please come by again next year! I don't bite!

Awesome RUDE. In charge and in spirit!

Ross Douglas from Gamer Tonight. Awesome Aussie! Stop killing Kangaroos!!!!! (PS hope you're feeling better) Seriously tho, keep up the great work, and we both have got a long way to go! Let's both do our best!

Very Happy Naruto Cosplaying fan

More dudes & more High fives

Another fan on Day 3

Ooh Cute Dress!

The very talented =
orange-lotus
Stark and Ichigo are big fans LOL

Meredith Sweet ~
the-sweet interviewd me for the gaming blog
[link] It was awesome. She is an excellent journalist!

Another happy customer, asked alot of good questions

Me and my buddy Dar with the infamous Markman of Tekken SD. He later bought us all dinner. Awesome guy,

I met ~
Erina in Anime Boston. She does some great work!

More Fans, and a tired me

Cute Tifa

I had fun talking to these two, lots of smart questions!

Tenkage again this time as Ayame from Tenchu. Game needs more respect!

It's great to meet all sorts of people!

I very enthusiastic fan, gave us lots of feedback.

Cool Dude

She was so happy to see me!

I spent a lot of time with ~
ShaneNewville sharing techniques. It was a blast. He's got a lot of promise so keep an eye out!

The other agent from gamingdead.com. Came by to say hi.

Melissa again and her uber cool boyfriend. Best Zack Evar!! He should've been in the shoot.

She was very cool

So was he

The guy from above who was dress as BOTH master chief AND Old Snake. Genious Idea!!

This is Brandon who helped with the pre premiere at AB. He was also here and will be at Otakon

The Talented ~
Orenji-kun sans his girlfriend. Ultra cool dude. We can never find time to hang both being uberly buisy and all. I'd wish we coulda spent some time chilling since his energy is just plain contagious

I spent FOREVER coming the crowds with with my baggy old eyes for these two!! DA Superstars =
Akusesu and ~
the-sushi-monster SOOOOOOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!! And Aku especially! OMG, a living anime character! Like wow! One day she'll be a character in my original series to come. How can't she be? I mean how often do you meet someone so enrgetic! Day 4 of the CON where everyone else is down and out Aku is still going hard! Also ~
the-sushi-monster was such a sweetheart! Has the sweetest smile! Also could so easily translate into a character for one of my movies.

She was very inquisitive and had a lot of good questions/theories

Dude was suped!

Sweet girls

Outside at the FF gathering

Bad Dudes

Sunday there was a Final Fantasy Gathering which I went to take pictures of and then someone shouted for a group of Dead Fantasy. Half the crowd had confused looks on their faces, then after somone said "WHERE"S MONTY OUM!" and I walked up and joined them. Even more people were confused! LOL. Also the particular Tifa directly to my left was uber sweet. And afterwards when I gave her my last remaining print that I kept aside she got even cuter when thanking me!
I wasn't able to get a pic myself since as you can see I'm holding my camera, but thanks to ~
swtazngal I can now cherish this one.
These are only some of the pics, and there were many more at the con, so many that some slipped my camera. But again I extend my thanks to everyone who came by or stopped me in the middle of a hallway to say hi.

And closed off the trip with a visit to MTV Studios to sit in on invisible walls airing this friday. The three of us in the middle is myself and crew Dara Hoy and Ron Soeum. Far Right is The great Shane Satterfield and the HIGHLY entertaining and truly honorable Marcus Beer of Gametrailers and AnnoyedGamer.com. If only I could've spent more time, for there were so many conversaions to be had. But alas the magic had to end as I had work the next morning.
We headed back to Santa clara and at 2:00 in the morning decided we need to play some more tekken 6 at my studio.

After it all I'm a tad sad. I don't get out much, and diving back into my hole again to get these promised videos done is harder than ever. It's something my friends got used to years ago. I would just dissapear and not hang out anymore, but come back fierce months later with something new. It gets harder the more people I meet, even more so now with all the great firends I've made. I have to do it tho otherwise I wouldn't be able to live with myself.
FAQ
Q: What Program(s) do you use?
A: In order of priority:
- Poser 7 - Rendering, Animating, Rigging
- Director MX - Compositing
- Maya - Modeling
- Particle Illusion - Particle effects
- Adobe Premiere - Timeline, Syncing final output
- Xnview - Image Conversion
Q:Why did you make Mastercheif a girl?
A: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NO MORE HALOID QUESTIONSQ: Since DF III won't come out for a while, does that mean it's gonna be 1,000 times better than Dead Fantasy II?
A: It's taking long not because it's gonna be a huge movie. It's because my new job is keeping me really REALLY buisy. I try to find whatever time I can, but even that is pushing it.
Q: Where did you get the FF models?
A: Out of respect to those who originally extracted them I can't say.
Q: Did you get my dressphere design?
A: The contest was over in June
Q: Do you take requests/commissions?
A: NO, I have hundreds of movies that I want to make, and each one takes months. It’s not about money, and even if it was, I can’t force myself to make a movie that doesn’t make itself.
Q: What's the song that plays in Dead Fantasy?
A: Dead Fantasy I – Rob Dougan
- Chateau – Matrix OST
A: Dead Fantasy II – Brian Tyler
- Togue – Fast & the Furious 3 OST
- Downtown Tokyo Chase – Fast & the Furious 3 OST
- Rooftop Chase – WAR OST
- Showdown – WAR OST
Q: What College did you go to?
A: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I'm a highschool dropout! (ahem... stay in school kids)
Q: Did you make Dead Fantasy?
A: Yes?
Q: Where can I download Your Movies?
A:
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I'm on fire baby!!! BURN YOUNG MAN, BURN!!!!!!!
I'm curious though about one thing: Does the Final Fantasy VII timeline take place during or after Advent Children?
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My strength comes from training not from some curse in my BLOOD!
I just saw your Dead Fantasy 4 thing from Fanime 2009. It was AWESOME! I loved it! Awesome surprise ending!
I know you're busy and all, but I'm gonna go nuts if I don't get an answer; did you turn Cloud into a girl like Master Chief in Haloid, or not? I seriously couldn't tell.
Signed, your biggest fan(s) at the Monster Factory!
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We are the Monster Factory...
[link]
YOU ROCK!
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~Theres always darkness before dawn.~
~So remember~
~No matter how bad it gets~
~It will get better~
but anyways I love your work and keep up the amazing job!
cant wait to see whats next
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~Theres always darkness before dawn.~
~So remember~
~No matter how bad it gets~
~It will get better~
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hahaha...good one
On the side note: Did you get me anything?
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Ruling Germany: 3,000,000 marks
Raising a Nazi army: 50,000 marks
Converting people to his ideas: 20,000 marks
Hitler 'mysteriously' ending up in the same bed with Himmler: priceless~
Yea I'll be back for her b-day
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Less is more...
But if less is more, imagine how much more more would be.
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~* I love BUNNIES*~
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~* I love BUNNIES*~
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I've been known to make a few beats and baps. Checkm':
[link]
let me just say that your sneak peaks at the expo got me hooked!
can't wait to see the full version!
congrats
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- What is 'art'?
- It's everything you want it to be.
GO TIFA!!!
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Innocence Hatsudou! + Lenalee to Allen: "When you close your eyes and think about the world, what do you see?"
ALLEN KUN!!!!!!
XD kya ~ kya! *faints at Allen's SMEXY HOT Glory*
ALLEN AND LENALEE!!!!!!
I agree!!! Dont let Tifa DIE!!!! I mean, I agree with suzunaunlimited. Either let Cloud beat the crap outta those ninja's and the leader and let CloudxTifa fight side by side and have love prevail or have Tidus do the favor and repay Cloud for saving Yuna. TIFA'S AWESOME!!! Please... okay no more bugging you... AWESOME VIDS!!! You have a GREAT GREAT GREAT Talent... you need to go and give your ideas to Japan or something... its just amazing! I watch your Dead Fantasy movies 1-5 at Fanime Con on a Big screen and I LOVED IT all!! I also watched Haloid there too. I 'm so pumped to see Dead Fantasy 6... Tifa!!! Tifa needs to prevail, and CloudxTifa love prevails! TIFA'S AWESOME!!! Please... okay no more bugging you... AWESOME VIDS!!! You have a GREAT GREAT GREAT Talent... you need to go and give your ideas to Japan or something... its just amazing! I watch your Dead Fantasy movies 1-5 at Fanime Con on a Big screen.
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Innocence Hatsudou! + Lenalee to Allen: "When you close your eyes and think about the world, what do you see?"
ALLEN KUN!!!!!!
XD kya ~ kya! *faints at Allen's SMEXY HOT Glory*
ALLEN AND LENALEE!!!!!!
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I will love you like no other. I have died a thousand tiny deaths and everytime I died I thought of you. *Dawn
There'll be another next year and I'd be honored if you'd join!
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Less is more...
But if less is more, imagine how much more more would be.
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It's the way, that he makes you feel
It's the way, that he kisses you
It's the way, that he makes you
f a l l . i n . l o v e.
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Some things just exist whether you believe in them or not................
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