I dunno

Yep.

ASSIGNMENT 01: 3 Writers & 3 Stories Part

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Pronounnced GUN-DUM Double-OH) is a fantastic series by Sunrise. Assuming you're not familiar with the brand Gundam, Gundam is essentially about war and it's politics and these wars are fought in mobile suits. The faction that the main story usually follows use specially designed mobile suits called Gundams.
This particular Gundam series has the four main Gundam pilots facing off against the whole world and challenging it. The claim to use their Gundams to eradicate war or anyone or anything that promotes war in their Armed Interventions.

Because of the political nature of the series, the dialogue and arguments had in the series are not of the simple of mind. In my opinion, this is one of the more "realistic" Gundam series... Until the Season Season and the movie roll around, then it get's a little far-fetched... Just a little...

ASSIGNMENT 01: 3 Writers & 3 Stories Part 2

A recent story I really like is from the recent 2010-2011 Japanese Tokusatsu, Kamen Rider OOO.


Kamen Rider (Pronounced COMMON Rider) is a show about masked superheroes that has been going on for 40 years, even this year's Kamen Rider Fourze was based upon that fact. Needless to say, every year there has been a new Kamen Rider.


The iteration of Kamen Rider OOO tells the story of Hino Eiji, typically a modern-day nomad, enjoying the journey and helping random people, but he has no dreams and desires of his own. He takes jobs on occasion to earn money for food and his beloved next day's underwear. Of course the part time job he takes at the Kougami Museum throws Eiji into the 800 year old struggle for the Cell and Core Medals, the source of power in the series, against the animal-based Greeed monsters. During that incident, he meets the Bird-Type Greed, Ankh who was revived only as an arm for some unexplained reason. Ankh takes advantage of the naivety of Eiji and gives him the OOO Driver belt to become Kamen Rider OOO. Eiji takes advantage of this opportunity to use this power to save lives.


My favorite part about this show is that it deeply analyzes the aspect of human desire, where is stems from, and how it changes the world.


Kamen Rider OOO is written by Yasuko Kobayashi, known for the screenplays of Seijuu Sentai Gingaman, Mirai Sentai Timeranger, Kamen Rider Ryuki, Kamen Rider Den-O, and Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. Her first project was known as Tokusou Robo Janperson where she was a sub-writer (episode 40 only).

ASSIGNMENT 01: 3 Writers & 3 Stories Part 1

This particular video showcases an anniversary game.

One particular story I like is that of the Mega Man Battle Network series.

"The series is set in the year 200X; the Internet has become integrated with almost every piece of electronic equipment in existence (from TVs to ovens). In fact, it's become so complicated that special programs called Net Navigators are needed to efficiently process all of the data. Net Navigators (NetNavis for short) are stored in hand-held devices called Personal Terminals (PET). These devices act as phones, pagers, instant messengers, news beams, and hacking devices all rolled into one, essentially making them portable computers. The main characters of the series are a fifth-grader named Lan Hikari, and his NetNavi best friend MegaMan.EXE. Although MegaMan.EXE has no body (unless the PET device itself counts), he can wander around in cyberspace and explore computer systems as if they were alternate worlds. Together, Lan and MegaMan.EXE  cooperate to fight off hackers and viruses"

http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Mega_Man_Battle_Network_%28series%29


The story spans across 6 main games and 3 spinoff games.

My favorite part about the series is that even though there's all this fantasy, nonsense, clear impossibility of so many different aspects, there's this sense of realism somewhere in there. Even through all this cartoon animated fighting, it gives you that sense that JUST MAYBE, this could be real someday.

Producer,and co-creator of Mega Man, Keiji Inafune and Director, Masahiro Yasuma worked very hard on this saying creating the game and the story was a very difficult task.

Keiji Inafune's  education is unknown to me at the moment, but he started working for Capcom in 1987 searching for a job as an illustrator at age 22. He assisted in the development of Mega Man and as a result became known at the father of Mega Man. He worked at Capcom for 23 years and the left to create two new companies; Comcept and Intercept, both established in December 2010.

And I honestly cannot find any information on Masahiro Yasuma other than the fact that he work for a handful of Mega Man games.

The Mega Man Anniversary Collection for GameCube I have has a video interview with Keiji and his final quote is "Always follow your dreams and never give up. Keep fighting and surely you will achieve your goal."

ASSIGNMENT 02

There's no more time anymore. None at all. You wake up, go to class, get homework, and then right after you get the foolish idea of going back home to sleep or the smart idea of go and do your homework. Regardless of your choice, there's always more homework for you to finish. When the time comes that you finish it, you suddenly have more homework. Like, I get that college is a LOT of work, but I barely have enough time to do my laundry. I'd rather not got to class in underwear I've been wearing for the past 3 days. And the homework takes forever, honestly, I feel like I've given homework as if other classes don't exist. Getting this work done and then trying to make it good enough for my portfolio is already a hassle enough. I've lowered my class number to four a week, it's a little better, but of course the fact that they are most certainly getting harder is not helping. And then jobs, need one, but already know that once I have one, school will take over, the job will take over, have them balanced out but have no time for anything else. Really, it's a pain in the butt. No time for anything. My sleeping schedule is so messed up that I even end up oversleeping and missing class because of working on other work so hard. My body certainly appreciates the extra sleep, but my grades certainly don't. All this work, no play is really getting to me. I'm not going crazy yet, so that's a good thing. My life could certainly do without the stress, but I guess in the end it'll be all worth it. I guess when you think about it, working in the real world of animation may not be much different, but it will become a welcome change. Working on movies and cartoons to make a deadline, it'll be difficult; no question. I just hope school becomes a good warm-up for the crunch time that is to come. All those sleepless nights and worn out days will probably become even worse than they are now. Then again, at least I'll be working on something I enjoy. That's one thing I very grateful about. Even though school is just a pain, in the meantime I get to work on the things that motivate, inspire, and make me draw and create like there's no tomorrow. I love what I do.

ASSIGNMENT 04 My Children's Book Story: 1st Draft

                  6 year old Keith and his Teddy Bear did everything together ever since he received him from his parents when he was just a baby; it was his first toy.  Baths, the playground, the supermarket, the two went everywhere and did everything together.

One day Keith was watching TV with his family.

“It’s almost time for bed Keith! Get yourself ready!” his Mom yelled from the kitchen, “Is you Teddy Bear going to sleep with you?”

Keith realized he had never given his Teddy Bear a name. He stared at his little friend and thought hard. He then came up with it.

“Your name is Daniel.” Keith said to his newly named friend.

Keith’s Mom had him in bed and all tucked in. She walked to the door and as her hand reached the light switch, Keith spoke up, “Please don’t turn off the lights mommy!” He squeezed Daniel tighter and tighter. “I don’t want the monsters to get me!”

His mom looked at him and smiled warmly. “No monster will hurt you honey.”  Keith forced a smile.

“And besides, if anything happens to my little baby boy, your friend will protect you.” She smiled and laughed.

“That’s right! Daniel will protect me! Because we’re gonna be best friends no matter what!” He gave the biggest smile and hugged his bear tighter than he ever hugged him before.

His mother laughed once again and flipped the light switch off. “Now go to sleep sweetie. Sweet dreams.” She slowly closed the door and waved to him.

“Good night mommy!” yelled Keith happily as he snuggled into his pillows and covers.

Keith hugged his friend tightly and smiled, eyes-closed, ready to go to dream land. “Good night buddy.” He whispered as he finally dozed off.

Keith kept hearing voices and rattling metal in his sleep and decided to sit up. He awoke to find himself chained to the floor with shackles inside of a metal cage. He looked around only to see he was in a very dark cave.

 “Hello?” Keith yelled into the darkness.

“Hello. You must be Keith.” responded a low raspy voice from behind him.

Keith spun around to see a little green troll-like creature staring at him with a menacing smile.

“I’ve finally captured you, young man.” He giggled maniacally.

“What do you want from me?!” asked Keith now completely terrified.

The troll creature laughed proudly, “What do I want? You precious dreams, that’s what. Your dreams have more power than any other human I’ve ever seen.”

“My… dreams?...” Keith, unsure what to do, began to cry.

“Yes, yes… It’s taken much too long and I would have you sooner if it weren’t for-“ 

The troll creature was interrupted by a different voice. A voice familiar to Keith, yet new at the same time.

“LET HIM GO, BUGLE!” yelled the voice. Out of the darkness ran Keith’s teddy bear. “You’ve crossed the line this time!”

Keith looked up in disbelief, tears still in his eyes. He gradually formed a smile. “You came for me… Daniel!”

The troll creature known as Bugle sneered in disappointment and then laughed, “Your name is Daniel now?”

Daniel smirked, “Yes it is! And it’s an awesome name! Now time to get you out of here Keith!”

The troll yelled violently, “Why do you always keep me from taking him!? Why!?”

Daniel smiled and held up the key for the cage and shackles. “It’s because we’re gonna be best friends no matter what!”

Daniel started running forward at Bugle and at that moment, Keith suddenly blacked out.

Keith shot up and looked around. He was comfortably in his bed and it was now morning.

“It must’ve been all a dream.” He whispered to himself. Daniel lay next to Keith unmoving. Keith picked up Daniel and gazed at the permanent smile upon his face.

“Keith! Time for breakfast!” called his Mom from downstairs.

“COMING MOM!!” Keith yelled. He turned back to face Daniel. “It may have been a dream, but thanks for everything.” He said warmly. He jumped out of bed and ran out the door.

Daniel sat up and looked at the open door and smiled. “Anytime buddy. Anytime.”

ASSIGNMENT 03 ONE TIME I....

Coming home and playing Jump Start First Grade on my Windows 98 was the highlight of my day when I was in kindergarten. You see, my parents always bought me the Jump Start game ahead of my grade so that I could learn more and be ahead of the game; you know, typical parent stuff, at least for me. I knew what I was doing for the most part, but then there was this one game in the cafeteria area and you would work with the lunch ladies to create the lunches for the day using this machine. It asked you to put in ¼ Tsp of Nutmeg, or maybe 2 cups of flour, but I didn’t know how to read a lot of that. Sometimes I’d get lucky and get it right, but if you got it wrong, oh man, that’s when the fun starts. You see, at home and at school, I was the Red Ranger. Now before you start giggling and laughing, you better watch yourself, this is no laughing matter. This was some serious stuff. So when you get that recipe wrong and a brown sludge monster comes out of that machine, you know it’s go time. I would step back and swing my Red Power Sword in his face and go “GET BACK! DIE MONSTER!!! <insert sound effects here>”. One day two of my cousins came over and I was showing them the game. They were both a little younger than me, but don’t be fooled, they were Rangers also. We purposely got the recipe wrong just so the three of us could destroy the monster once and for all. As it reared it’s ugly head, we jumped back and swung our swords and blasters and in all the confusion, I swung my sword too far and hit my lamp. I watched in slow motion as the bulb slowly blew to smithereens and the whole lamp fell to the ground. By the time it hit the ground, the room was dark except for the light coming from the monitor and the monster still on the screen. I don’t know what I was crying over more; the fact that I destroyed that lamp or that the monster had won this battle this day… But come tomorrow, oh man… He is done for…