Avatar Love!

Over the weekend I borrowed the Avatar series off my friend. And I must say...IT WAS SO AWESOME!

It took me a while to get into it, as the first few episodes were a bit slow (also it reminded me of english dubbed in the beginning ><) But as you watch more of it, it seriously gets addictive! I think what makes this show really good is that it had a good balance of everything. Captivating storyline, likeable characters, action packed animation and light hearted humor. I found it really interesting that each character had their own hidden turmoil, which kinda made it much more deeper and complex than I had imagined. Their struggles reflected a lot on life and some things I've experienced, so yeah I found that really cool :) It was also surprisingly funny! Or maybe I just have a immature sense of humor :P But yeh, some of the stuff the characters say are hilarious! Kinda reminded me of The Weekenders. Witty light sarcasm bits. I think my favorite character has got to be Sokka. He's so dorky with his lame one liners. He's so cool in my eyes *_*

Another thing that really caught my eye was the animation. Although it uses a lot of anime elements, I'm so glad they didn't use cute anime chibi expressions!!!! I think the one thing that annoys me about anime is that when they make expressions, the face is so exaggerated that they lose their noses, eye pupils and proportions. It's cute and funny sometimes but it doesn't really make the animation unique or artistically creative in my opinion. I must sound like a nerd analysing stuff like that lol, but yeh I'm SO glad avatar didn't do that :) And the fight scenes were absolutely epic. The animation was so smooth and so much detail was put into it (particularly the final fight scene)

Yes, overall I loved it lol. It really inspires me to draw again. Hopefully one day I'll have the oppurtunity to draw characters for something just as great as this series. For now maybe fanart will do hehe

Ahhh I wrote heaps for once and it sounds like a review kinda! But I'm so glad I spent 2 days straight watching it. It was so worth it :D:D:D:D

Finished

HOORAH I finished the IOU booklet after 3 months she celebrated her b'day. Kudos to JD and Jordan for helping me :) My binding was pretty fail. Had to tape it twice because I didn't do it properly >< BUT lukily the birthday girl isn't a design student lol. ALSO some of the pics were pixeled :(:(

I've still got one last part of the present to do. I'm not sure when she'll get this lol, as I want to make this one the best that I can! (Plus it's the first time I've ever drawn on sneakers ^^)

Besides delayed presents, still working on my Oziental Gourmet Food designs. Not exactly the most exciting brief, but gotta do what I can I guess :)

PLUS, 3 weeks(?) til UNI STARTS ;__;