OceansAndrew

RD project is done.
At least the music and stuff, we still need to get the logistics and stuff set.
We'll be having a release party for it at MAGfest (magfest.org) in January, and that should be cool. I am flying all the way out to the east coast (first time there), and will get to meet a ton of cool people in person. Pretty exciting. :-D
Work has been good, and I got to do the artwork for an online slot machine. It's just fruit and stuff, but you know i'm pushing for the next one to be pirate's gold or something cool like that. Working with TV stuff is cool, doing spinoff sites for big shows like Dancing with the Stars, Survivor (my fav), and lots of sports ones (not my fav).

PVP Season 3 for WoW started yesterday and I cashed in and got a ton of new gear for my Paladin. Not quite "Decked", but doing much better.
I rolled on a new server with some coworkers and though our guild is tremendously sad (every PVP server sterotype rolled into a 90-person dysfunctional mess), there are 4 or 5 cool people, and we have a good pvp team.
Also, I'm going to rocking out with Nate, Disa, and Mel with some rock band. I'm going to drum the hell out of that game. I have that strange disease that inhibits my guitar heroing because I try to play it like a real guitar, but the rock band drums are close enough to real drumming, and I am enough of a drumming n00b, that it'll work great for me.

Artwise, who even knows what's going on. I've been spending all my free time doing music that I need an excuse to draw.
I blame working so much on it, but at least I can eat now.
You can't see my ribs anymore, so that's good news.
Anyways, not going to write anymore until next year so lets have a good new year everyone!

...at my job!
It's been pretty sweet, I love working on websites and creating stuff. The pay is ok, the coworkers are fantastic, etc.
Been working on a project to remix the entire Radical Dreamers soundtrack with some other people; I started out as just the guy doing the website and providing the forum. Some people dropped out, so I took a song and remixed it. More people dropped out, so I remixed a second song. Now, i am remixing a third and fourth, and if someone said i'd be doing a fifth, i'd just shrug. I am not even a huge fan of the soundtrack. It's by Yasunori Mitsuda, who is  one of my favorite game composers, but he totally phoned this soundtrack in. There are about 5 good tracks on the album, and those were all snatched up right away. Then the rest of the soundtrack is him basically digging though his "unfinished ideas" folder full of midis and wanking them a bit.
If anything though, having to do all these songs has improved me a lot as a remixer. I am going to feel really dumb though if 1/3 of the entire project is going to be stamped with my name though -_-

Been busy with work; I got a new job that's pretty awesome. Lot of one-shot design stuff so I have a lot of chances of mixing it up, and a lot of helping people out with code. Maybe a bit too much helping people with code, but my coworkers are all great and that makes a huge difference.

I've been starting up some drawings while i wait on my remix submission's status for overclocked remix, including fanart fridays.

i've been writing music as fast as I can. I'm working on a project with my Maxchange homies to make an rpg using the rpgmaker 2k3 program, and i'll be doing a good chunk, if not all of the music for it.

some of my favorites thus far include:

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all of them were made on garageband 2.0, with help from my 12 year old midi program, a saxophone, a guitar, some drumming by jazzy, and a lot of sleepless nights where i was in the zone and didnt want to lose what I had going.

I hope you guys like them.

2005 was pretty sweet, here's my recap:

I got a house, *and* a nintendo DS, all in one year! *sniff* What a country..

Several of my friends all got married, Jeff, Jaime, and Chadam, and Chadam had a baby (though he looks kinda like me... no, just kidding .

I finally started making some decent recordings with my computer, and have gotten comfortable with the whole process. Here's a recent song I wrote and recorded. All the keyboard and saxophone is me!  ( >_> )/  www.oceansend.com/5502/rockp3/…

Most of the art I did was in the "practice" vein, and though I didn't have much finished output, it was a good year for growth.

I spent a lot of time playing world of warcraft, and played it pretty much exclusivly, with a minor pit stop into Y's ark of napathasomething (it was ok, and difficult to find out what to do next), and a bigger dip into Dragon Quest 8 and Mario Kart DS.

but i think 2006 is going to be way better:

Work looks to be picking up with a whole variety of new projects, as 2005 was pretty much just working for three
www.evanslarson.com
www.whathappensnow.com
www.vitalitystpaul.com

Coming up I have a lot more stuff, as well as some print design and some newsletter stuff. Not terribly glamourous, but it pays the bills and my coworkers are awesome.

I have been commissioned to do a ton of saxophone songs, and will be posting those as well as some rock stuff as I finish recording it. I'll be posting the links here in journal entries as well as on my homepage. I might even do some cover stuff as well, we'll see.

Speaking of my homepage, i've spuced up the front a little bit with some cute icons, as well as update infoz inside it. Check it out at www.oceansend.com .

For art, I plan on rejoining the maxchange and doing warcraft commissions as well, and trying some new stuff as well. I want 2006 to be a big portfolio year, and I've alreayd hit the ground running, so let's hope I can keep up.

With all this extra stuff i'm adding on, something has to go, and i think all this drawing and music will be cutting into vidoe game time. I'm somewhat disappointed, but i'll still be able to raid twice a week with my guild, and pvp now and again, so it'll work out I think. I have one Tier 1 60 priest, a 55 rogue, and a 39 (and staying there for pvp) mage, so I think a little bit of a break is in order.

anyways, I hope everyone had a great 2005, and that 2006 is even better. I am really looking forward to it.

-Andrew