Wow, it's been a long time since I've posted something new here. Well, I've finally gotten the majority of the nastiness of school done. I have one last class to finish up and then my BFA degree is finished. I had been so slammed by projects that I had little to no time to do anything else. But the big BFA show project turned out rather well. The online part can be found at http://www.evoentad.com/.

Now that school is basically over, things are starting to get back to abnormal again. I've got a new Beyond Neverwonder page going and should be posted later on tonight. I hope that I can keep on schedule. I'm sure it'll be a bit of a curve trying to get back into a pattern of doing the comic after having not done it for like 6 months. I'll try my best though.

:: crosses fingers ::

Posted by Tim at 10:39 AM | Permalink

I'm a day late for Christmas, but I was enjoying being lazy yesterday, so I'm using that as my good excuse. Hope everyone out there is having a wonderful holiday season.

Posted by Tim at 12:02 PM | Permalink

Greetings all! After working on this for the last month, I finally got the new redesign done.

I got AtomicFoxtail set up as an LLC a few months ago and hadn't had a chance to get the new version of the site done until now. I decided to consolidate things. I migrated things like design and publishing services under here now. It's all looking pretty good. I have a few things that I still need to finish up, but the main pieces are there.

And as you can see, I've resurrected the blog again. I probably won't use it too much, since I'm a total slacker, but it'll be here for general announcements. I have a couple things that I'm still developing, like the Design Blog and the Online Store, but the main site is ready to go.

And, so this entry isn't a total waste, today is World AIDS Day. In our efforts to help support the cause, we recommend that everyone go to Starbucks and help them celebrate World AIDS Day with (Product)RED. They're donating a chunk of each of their specialty (RED) drinks to the Global Fund. It's a great cause, so if you're Starbucks-Inclined or just want to help, hit up Starbucks and snag a drink. It's tasty and it's helping the world. What's better than that? :)

Posted by Tim at 2:43 PM | Permalink

It's been quite a while since I've had opportunity to post something here. To be honest, there's little on the AtomicFoxtail end of things to talk about. I've been relatively slammed with school stuffs and it's put comic-related stuff on hold again. I'm working to try and get my schedule working in such a way that I'll be able to keep up with comic updates, but priorities are what they are and school and work stuff come first, unfortunately. SOmeday, there will be a teacher out there that will actually understand that there are more things in people's lives than just their class. When you have 4 teachers and each teacher expects you to spend 40-60 hours a week on THEIR classes, you run out of time to do much of anything. After I killed myself back in the late 90s, slaving away for my employer only to have said employer treat me and my coworkers like garbage, I swore to myself that I was never going to kill myself for anything like that ever again. That includes school. But, that also means that if all the time I have gets used up on school and work, no comic will be happening.

In other news, there's a new webcomic out today that is exceptionally cool. It's called By Moon Alone and it's really good. Hai has done an excellent job with getting the beginnings of the story and the art is just wonderful. Click on the banner and take a look. It's definitely worth the read.

More when I have it. :)

Posted by Tim at 4:19 PM | Permalink

Life has been kinda funky since starting school again, so things have been kinda out of sorts...

Since things haven't been rather noteworthy around here, here's an iKit Shuffle for the month of October.

• It's been a rough month for drawing external stuff. All the drawing I've had time and energy for has been for classes, with a few rare exceptions. Most times I don't even have time to do "homework" because of how much time work takes up. As a result, poor Alice and the Neverwonder crew have been neglected. I really need to find time to get that going again.
• Got tired of all the channels disappearing on Comcast's Basic Cable TV lineup, so we got the DirecTV turned back on. It's nice having all the old channels back. And the TiVo. :)
• After getting said DirecTV turned back on, come to find out that they're trying to charge me for 7 Adult channel pay-per-view things that they say were done in 2000. Quite a feat considering that, 1) I don't use the Pay-Per-View, 2) I wasn't living in Utah in 2000 when they claim that they were done and 3) that my service at the Utah address was turned off in October 1999 and wasn't turned back on until 2003. I first called them on October 1st and today, October 31st, it's still not resolved. And I've spent at least 3 total hours on the phone on 3 different occasions to try and get this straightened out. I was assured by the last person that I talked to, a supervisor, that someone would call me back and tell me what the story was by the 30th. And it's now the 31st and no call. I get to play hardball with them now.
• I hate charcoal. Drawing in charcoal is icky.
• I like conte crayon. Much better for doing my figure drawings.
• I also hate oil paints. While they have their appeal at times, things the last few weeks have just been frustrating... like curdling White... it's not liking the turpentine that I've been using I suppose... but it's the same as everyone else, so I'm not sure what's up there.
• Today is my Dad's birthday and it's Halloween. The family is doing the usual setup, with Pirates of the Caribbean as the theme. Little bro is dressed up as Jack Sparrow and went to his Dance class dress up this morning. I'd love to have seen the reaction...
• Since is it my Dad's birthday and there's little time for cooking because of the festivities of the day, that means it's Brick Oven pizza night. Best pizza outside Chicago.
• And finally, got a copy of Mac OS X Leopard installed on the laptop. All in all, good stuff. There have been a few little glitchy things with 3rd party stuff, like having to do some manual configuration on my PHP installation and things like Xjournal not working (switched to iJournal, which I'm using right now), but the OS is really slick. Very nice.

I think that's it for now. More babbling when I have it.

Posted by Tim at 11:10 AM | Permalink