knowledge

I used to think money gives people power, but now I know...
It's knowledge about money that gives you power,
and knowledge about money is the knowledge about people and trade.

給御

要買sai的話, 需要paypal. 你需要先在https://www.paypal.com/上有個帳號, 然後放進你的信用卡或是銀行帳號. 大概需要3-4 天確認.

然後去https://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/purchase.php
或是日文的: https://www.systemax.jp/ja/sai/purchase.php

按了以後, 選擇同意 他們的同意書, 然後就付費, 他們會主動領你到paypal網上, 登入付費, paypal會主動轉換你的NT到日元. 然後他們會e-mail給你3個號碼, 一個連結取下載, 最後一個編號是Sai裡面才有的, 他們會給你圖示看, 你打開sai取得號碼以後就可以下載.

下載長期帳號編號到sai的資料夾裡面, 然後抓它來打開sai 就可以. 如果不是馬上見效, sai重新裝了再試應該就會出現正式的編號:

I bought Sai

http://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/

I gave them the money they deserve, it's reasonable price too.

It's not hard to fall in love with a program so light and so efficient, and allows you to rotate your canvas so easily like you are rotating paper, with the color palette like Painter... a perfect light program.

I decided I will stick with my plan of using Sai to lineart all my animation sequence in psd files, that's the only way to get any decent lineart.

Edit: No, wait, I am going to lineart and color all of my animation layers except the background in Sai. ha ha ha. (because it can actually color pretty well) Now I am grinning like CD.

sai 買下來了, 因為crack不是很好用, 老是不成功, 雖然可以一直跑trial, 還是討厭時間到的心情, 想想也該把該給的錢給這些辛苦的程式設計家和公司, 讓他們能夠發展更好的程式.
Good job, systemax. :P 你們在防盜, 設計, 構思上都讓我覺得花這50美金很划算~XD 用sai來畫動畫才漂亮啊~~~

Publishing biz

When a young adult just entered into the professional field... or the field that person dreamed about going into. There will always be some degree of shock, "this is not what I imagined it to be."

The idealistic side of the field will get shuttered within 1-2 years.


It's a norm.

After the shock, people chose different routes.

I happen to be one of those who wants to make a difference.... but before you step into any muddy battle field, it's better to learn about it. @_@ So I searched Amazon, the biggest internet bookstore on the planet for a book on publishing. lol~

and got this: Publishing for PRofit by Thomas Woll

I learned sooo much from this book, and learned about the mistakes others made from this book as well, in fact, this books' mentioned many common problems amongst the publishers even I have seen with my own eyes. Including my own.

"One of the reasons many new publishers jumped into publishing is that they think they can make a difference."
(True.... that was the reason why I wanted to do it as well. And... That's the reason why Challenger exists too.)

"Without defining your niche as a publisher, and try to do all things, you will just end up being nothing."
(I can count a couple of publishers trying to do all things and screw up everything)

Right now I am trying to answer this.... semi-worksheet this guy has pulled off... doing budgeting, thinking about mission statement. (Finally learned that... mission statement is the company's to-do-list for that year. lol I thought it was a vision statement or something. )

"Keep the staff lean....... some publishers will think staffing experienced old pros and a lot of people will speed up the production work. But reality is usually the opposite, professionals who worked at the big companies will be used to having a lot more people and higher budget; salesmen will over sell and cause the company problems due to desperation. And over staffing can blow your expanses. However, there's a stage where you can be under-staffed, you will need to hire more people."
(I can count a few publishers who did over-staff, understaffed, and recall companies I worked for that had hired the so called pro but aren't really good for the production.)

According to this book.... I still need to make a contract for myself and my work even if the company is mine.... because you never know when your company will be bought up. (a natural happening in business...)


I get stuck just on the first few chapters, because without thinking more and answer the questions this book asked about, and go to execute it, I can not go further in reading. Or else my brain will go hay-wire.
I even did some marketing research because of this book's questions... OTL

There's that many solid points on dos and don'ts. This guy is speaking on solid experience, gosh, it will be a while before I can chew through this brick.



There's something to watch out on even 100% copyright contract is the authors' too... it's whether the publisher is the claimant of your copyright, or just the owner of exclusive rights, and whether the author was filed as author, or worker for hire. If the publishers is your copyright claimant, according to law, the work is theres, doesn't matter who get the credit., but usually a contract needs to accompany that claim.

And... the publishers usually files the copyright information for the author, it's the author's rights and responsibility to check up on that. If they want to make sure they retain the copyright to themselves still.

In fact... I found this contract here, that can be rewritten into a contract from author to publisher, granting the publishers the general rights to reproduce the work, while still retain their own rights, one can try their luck on this contract instead: Copyright Toolbox

I believe publishers who saw this, as long as the contract has a good standard... some might accept it.


Right now, my brief plan is to increase investment each year by a small margin, $1000 to 2000, 2000 to 3000, and make the goals to make them all back within a year, until the time I can manage more money and have more confidence. Slow growth is good growth. My big goal for now is 1 milion.

omg... wtf

i checked my manga with the new computer monitor... and wtf... everything is white washed, so white......!

OMG... this is the part where I absolutely hated digital medium, the ever changing colors on the monitors. No wonder some people said my manga had too much whites.

Terrible... bad bad NTCS.... bad.

Expanding...

After my complaint about the pre-school kids art class yesterday, I did sit down with my mom and talked about it.
She said a word of wisdom that struck me-
"Of course everyone would want a more straight forward job, but it's the difficult job that you get will give you growth as a person. And expand your inner capacity."

T_T (expand... expand... expand....)

After I think about the parents and the kids again... it's really only that few talkative parents that will be picky anyway, I can't ignore the majority of the parents that are nice to me and their kids.
They want the best for their kids, even if their methods I would question.
Some parents who are picky are purely insecure beings... this I know all too well from my parents' work. (they do consoling for parents daily)

Second day is a bit better than the first chaotic day...
the class was smaller, and I learned from my first day's mistake...

Finally I got a good feedback I was waiting for...
at least 1-2 kids liked taking my class, and two parents asked whether I teach long term.

Gerrrr

The sooner I can get to artistic task related job, the happier I will be. Kids are alright, but I don't like dealing with little kids parents, especially not Chinese parents. They just want to see a good report card, they don't care where their kids are actually at, we teachers have to put up a shiny result even if we have to lie for them.

"This is not school, but parents nursery." - My brother hit the nail home again.

I was tired, having this womanly monthly pain, and then I had to hear Sharron tell me how the parents called her up and said they liked the previous teacher better. Of course, all the new teachers ought to be picked on a little... Chinese people knew little grace, which makes the job that much more unpleasant during down time of my mood.

I want to get back to making Heart and Violet's story, and do my manga... get this weekend over with.

for curiousity and fun...

I tested my characters' personality with http://www.ipersonic.com/test.html

After testing about most of the major characters... I think i got the system figured out. lol
I got some surprises though...

Thinkers: (have the most of these, basically people who are hard to deal with)
Individual thinkers: Jeremy, Complex, Kolei, Sharon,

Dynamic thinker: Joseph (no wonder he's hard to deal with)

Groundbreaking thinker: (basically thinkers who social, doesn't like rules) Ben, Isaac,


Idealist: (all the nice guys and gals)
Harmony-seeking idealist: Faith, Iris, Lewis
Spontaneous idealist: Max



Realist: (all the nice working girls)

Social realist: Rose, Angel, Papa
Good natured realist: Mayshing Yeh (duh)




Doers: (all the action type guys and gals)

Individualistic doers: (basically action guys who doesn't talk) Heart, Chris, Mosa in 2M

Energetic Doers: Mosa, Morgan (new character, assigned to be Mosa's mom) Randy, TianSung,

Laid back doers: Elisa, Yuki, Renel

Sensitive doers: Tiana,

Awesome view on success and fame

http://blogs.discovery.com/mike_rowe_answers/2008/06/fame-earned-suc.html

I wish I have seen this point of view on fame and success earlier.

back from Florida

I haven't got the photo in yet....
but...

We went to Florida outpouring... the Christian healing service my mom is very into.

Then we went to The Sea World, saw some dophin and killer whale show and walked around all day seeing all the different shows; finally my parents decided to be generous and K-in 400 bucks for us to go to Disney World-Disney Hollywood.

What I got most out of was the car stunt show, how they modified their cars and the tricks they used and shared. There was fire, water, all sorts of intensive shots. It's a show not to miss. :)
Right, I saw some nice work-in-progress sketches in the Animation block too, those are nice to see.

I caught a cold from going in and out of air conditioned room and the steaming heat... X_X

And the storm weather is very consistent, hot in the morning with sunshine, and it definitely rain and storm in the afternoon... so most of our trips are... half a day. XD

To be honest I still wished we had gone to some kind of nature related places.... but we had no interest in the beaches, and what else is there in Florida but Disney??? X_X Disney almost practically owns the state! You can feel it the moment you arrive at the air port! XD

I took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test! "Wants interesting and exciting things to happen. A..." Click here to read the rest of the results.

Your Personality Type: The Good-natured Realist

Your Personality Type: The Good-natured Realist

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