Vision Riders Entertainment Blog - Life

Rumors of My Demise Have Been Slightly Exaggerated

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:43:39 -0700

No, I'm not dead ~~just pining for the fjords~~. I've busy as of late with "real life": helping family move, getting ready to move myself, all kinds of stuff like that. Don't know when Swordmaster Odyssey will return, but I am working on other stuff that will hopefully be ready to share in another month or two.

As for Sketchbook Monday, I'll try to get back on top of that next week.

An Apology

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:28:42 -0700

I'm so sorry! I keep promising things that I am unable to deliver on. I said I would have some Adventurer's Guide entries up by now, but so far I haven't even gotten around to drafting them. I'm such a horrible person!

For the past week or two I've been storming through the second draft of Under a Different Moon, that is, Iccari's story. You may remember Iccari from some of the many Sketchbook Monday entries in which he has appeared. It is rare for me to keep up such an extended session of creativity and, as I near the end of the second draft, I fear it will go out again before I finish. Please understand my predicament. I still plan on getting a page up this week, but if it doesn't happen, at least it won't be due to my own laziness for a change.

Thank you for your understanding (or your lack thereof as the case may be). I really am sorry.

In the meantime, how about taking a minute to vote in the annual character poll?

Vacation Time Over! Boo!

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:45:59 -0700

Just got back in town a little bit ago; had a great time. It was nice to be able to meet with relatives that I haven't seen in ages.

Anyway, it's back to work for me on Monday. Or Tuesday. It depends on how tired I am. I'll definantly get some work done on AetherFall then, but Swordmaster Odyssey will likely be up in the air for awhile (I need to order more paper, you see).

Vacation Time! Woohoo!

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:05:19 -0700

Leaving on a trip tomorrow; be back next week. Meant to get an Adventurer's Guide entry up, but it never happened. Sorry about that. I'll try and get one up when I get back.

Lamenting Off Days

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:07:44 -0700

I hate "off days". Days when no matter how hard you try everything you draw seems off, your heart just can't get into it, and all you can see is the mistakes you're making. It's all the more annoying when you're just a moderatly-skilled artist like me and your work is sloppy enough begin with. XD

Hopefully insperation strikes me soon, because I really want Swordmaster Odyssey to look its best when it resumes on Friday.

On Vacation Still!

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:35:40 -0700

No Sketchbook Monday today. Sorry. Maybe next week.

Maybe.

Monitor Woes

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:27:09 -0700

I ended up having to replace my 19" CRT display (the screen was turning yellow) with an old 17" one that I had lying around. Losing two inches may not seem like much, but... My goodness, everything is so small now! I'd take my resolution down, but Photoshop is hard to operate (for me, at least) at anything under 1280x960.

However, more importantly, this aged moniter has an awkward distortion issue. If I have a bunch of squares on the screen that are all the same size, the ones in the middle will be thinner than those on the sides. I can even drag things around the screen and watch them "magically" resize themselves!

...Yeah, this is going to be a problem. XD

I have a two moniter setup, so I may just switch them around and use this one as my secondary moniter, and the other one to do the bulk of my work in. Granted, it's not like the other one is in that great shape, either. :/

Silly Houston

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:53:42 -0700

It was in the 70s and 80s yesterday, but now it's snowing. Go figure.

...And now my front yard is a post card! XD

I'M BAAA~CK!

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:03:08 -0700

We have internet again, so all two of you worried about me can calm down. Hurricane Ike did some major damage to our neighborhood, but our house came through just fine. Our lawn? Not so much so. :/

SMOdyssey should resume next week if all goes as planned.

Hurricane Ike

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:23:42 -0700

Yet another major storm is making a beeline for the Gulf coast. Just a head's up that if the storm keeps up its current path and significantly strengthens over the week, there likely won't be an update this Friday seeing as we'll be busy bracing for impact--or making a run for it.

Batten Down the Hatches, Me Maties!

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:13:06 -0700

Tropical Storm Edouard will likely hit us down this way as a hurricane early tomorrow morning, so we may be a bit late with updates this week depending on how much we have to clean up afterwards and whether or not we lose power.

Defeated~!

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:04:39 -0700

I once took great pride in the fact that, although the animation is taking forever~ I'd never missed a Swordmaster Odyssey update. Sigh...

The simple upgrade that I mentioned a couple posts or so back should have taken only an afternoon or so. Yet, in the end, it wasted a week of my life, cost me over $200 more than it should have, and took the life of an innocent hard drive. Bah...

I backed up the important stuff (namely all the stuff for the company), but at the very moment that I realized the little diodes on the bottom of the drive had snapped off, images flashed through my mind of all the stuff I had somehow managed to forget! Unless I want to pay for a hard drive recovery--or go through the trouble of hunting down the exact same make/model/date hard drive and swap out the chip boards--it's likely gone forever, along with a bunch of other stuff that got lost in the transition. Alas! What a fate to befall me!

What's worse is that with all that time I spent getting stuff together, there was no way for me to do last week's page, let alone upload it. Hopefully, I'll be able to pull together this week's. I make no promises. (The irony here is that I said that last week's update would be up without a doubt, while I didn't see myself doing a Sketchbook Monday. Guess which one made it and which one didn't!)

Sorry for not letting everyone know sooner--it's been a stressful couple of weeks.

I Have Met the Enemy, and He is My Stomach

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:36:47 -0700

So, I was sick Friday and Saturday so... Now I'm behind.

Have no idea when the chapter 2 download pack will come out at this point, but between prolonged eons spent lying awake in bed I managed to toy around with a few ideas I've been wanting to test out. Not completely satisfied with the results, so I'm not sure if anything will ever become of it, but perhaps I'll eventually show the results of my mad experiments here on the blog...

Great Scot!

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:06:18 -0700

There happens to be a stretch of Interstate 10 in West Texas where the speed limit is 80 mph (about 130 kph). I happened to drive across part of it some months back. Do you know how tempting it is to press the accelerator down just a little bit more to bump your speed up to 88 mph? Just to, y'know, see what happens...