Hummm....

I saw the trailer for The Desolation of Smaug...it was EPIC EPIC EPIC EPIC...but I have one note...

This man. Doesn't he look like William Turner from Pirates of the Caribbean?

I know, it's a horrible screenshot, but the video was going to fast, and any other time I paused it, he was making a stupid face because he was talking.

Well, Captain Jack Sparrow is there too...so...

Anyway, onto other things, it looks like we are going to see waaaaaaay more Elves. Which is awesome, because I really enjoyed the Elves in the LoTR movies. Their outfits are amazing!

Then, the colors are INCREDIBLE! The browns and the blues (did you see those butterflies?!) The greens are awesome...overwhelmingly awesome colors...

And of course, Thorin is there. So...will we have him smile at all? I noticed that about Sir Guy of Gisborne as well. Those characters DO NOT SMILE. Okay, so Guy smiles sometimes...but it's more of  a haha, I win, you are all going to die at the Sheriffs hand and yada yada. I am better than all of you.

It's actually more of a smirk than anything...a smirk. Not a smile. BUT that wasn't the point...

Then, there is the dragon. We didn't see much, but the animation looks pretty epic. The animation in all of this trailer looked epic. It was epic in the first Hobbit movie. The orcs never looked better...The hedgehog that Radagast saved was epic. And it just keeps getting better.

But I have seen Computer Generated dragons before. Once, actually.

John Hurt voiced the dragon on Merin. 

The animation on that show wasn't very great in the begining, but as the series progressed, it got better. So, I believe that the animation--in this movie rather than in a show-- is going to be epic.

Other things...There are a ton of new locations, and the camera angles are incredible.

I believe I have said enough.

Oh yay.

~Natsu~

Apparently it is Thursday ^.^

Okkaayyyy, so I should be looking for a topic to do my Research Paper on...but I thought, I'll just take a second to blog. (Don't tell anyone, it's a secret! ~wink~)

 Anyway, I've bit a bit confused with my week as you could tell by the post title. I thought it was Tuesday or something...My computer has troubles changing the dates and times so that it constantly messing up...I don't know why it does that, but it has since I bought it. Curious.

 There is this blog I follow called "Clueless Freshman." It's probably--no--it is my favorite blog that I am currently following. I do enjoy "Big Screen Animation" though. I am such an animation freak...Anyway, back to the topic. She posts the most fantastical pictures! (Some are just plain hilarious...Like this one--I laughed so hard at it, for some reason. Heh. I still am.)

It's not my work, but I found it on her blog. Hehe. Love it. Had to share.

 A lot of them are from things like Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit...(Which I watched on Sunday and LOVED the heck out of it...more to come on that I believe ^.^) Some are Harry Potter and the like. I read it all the time. So here, if you wanna check it out, is the link. I hope she doesn't mind that I mentioned it. I think she'd like to know that I love her blog. Heh.

 Then there is the problem of other funny things that my sister sends to me...

Like this:

I laughed ridiculously hard at this one. I guess its that funny or I am easy to make laugh. LOL

This one only makes sense if you know who Uther is...He is Arthur's dad--the king--on BBC's Merlin.  A show I have mentioned...lots and lots of times...But it's not on the telly anymore...not until May...When SYFY announced that it wouldn't be back till May and "you are now watching Robot Combat League," I basically died. My sister fell from the chair and looked like this:

'Nuff said. We weren't happy that day..Two months ago..

Alright, I gotta go, I still haven't found a topic...Wish me luck!

Heh.

~natsu

Well...I'm back.

 Hello,

 I thought I would leave the blogging world for a little bit to see if when I returned, something new might have happened. Results: well, nothing happened. I became bored of the real world and decided to come back. AND HERE I am.

Thank you, thank you.

The remainder of this post will be a piece of my mind. That piece being what I thought about a movie I had seen on Saturday.

That movie is called....THE CAT RETURNS! YAY!

 
The Cat Returns is a Ghibli film (of course ^.^) directed by Hiroyuki Morita of Studio Ghibli.

 The story follows a teenage girl--voiced by Anne Hathaway in the English Dub--who ends up going to the Cat Kingdom. I will keep this short because I don't wanna spoil it for those who haven't--but want to--see this film.

 I have to say, however, it was really, really good! As it would seem, The Baron--who was my favorite character in this movie, of course...Cuz, come on, he's a cat, he has a suit, and well, he had a British voice. I learned that Cary Elwes (during lots of bonus footage) doesn't actually speak normally with an accent. That made it so much cooler. But I have gotten off track, if you can follow where I left of, kudos :)--was also in Whisper of the Heart. ~deep breath~ His full name is Baron Humbert von Gikkingen...

 I find myself preferring Ghibli animation/films over Disney's older ones such as Cinderella. Even the older ones from Ghibli--examples being Princess Mononoke and Castle in the Sky--look amazing! The way that they do animation in Japan is--to me--quite different from how we do it here in America. And maybe, just a tad better. But I am not bashing Avatar..No way.

 Examples being, they use brighter colors when coloring their images/character/backgrounds in. Everything is brighter and cleaner looking. With Studio Ghibli, their scenery is just amazing! This is because they have such talented staff. Talents in painting with oil and such. It's amazing what they can do.

 Ah, well, I must go now. I am in the middle of a book called Defiance. Not to be mistaken for that show on SYFY or the video game. I'll probably post something about it. When I finish it's 70 some chapters... ~wink~

Until then, enjoy.
Natsu

Kung Fu Panda 2. My thoughts :O)

 It was a complete coincidence that I got the chance to watch Kung Fu Panda 2 a few days after I mentioned it. Last night actually. It was really REALLY good. Usually the second movies aren't as great as the originals. Few exceptions being, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, The Starwars movies, Toy Story 2, etc, I know there are more. But those are movies that I think that are good. It's only my opinion.

  Now I thought that Kung Fu Panda 2 was AMAZING! The original Kung Fu Panda was great. It's like the BEST animated movie created by Dreamworks about kung fu-ing animals! But then I saw the second. I know I am kinda late...Because it has been around for some time...Nonetheless, it's really good. The actors did a really good job with their characters and the animation was beautiful. The story was GREAT. The humor was right on. It was the kind of humor you would expect from Jack Black. :O) And we got to find out (spoiler alert) what happened to Po's real parents! I loved how Shen used his tail feathers like you would use a fan. That villain was completely perfect.  Anyway, I thought it was "Severely Cool."

Dennis Haysbert also did a really good job voicing his character. The one thought that came to mind was, "that's the Allstate guy!" Now that's a Nerdy story, but it's a story :O)

 My MOST favorite character was Master Shifu. The BEST thing he said in that movie that wasn't serious to the point where you want to go and clean something, was:

Shifu: "Po, the day you were chosen as Dragon Warrior... was the worst day of my life. By far. Nothing else came close. It was the worst, mostpainful, mind-destroying, horrible moment--"

Po: "Okay!..."

Shifu: "--I had ever experienced. (shivers) But once I realized the problem not you, but within me, I found inner peace and was able to harness the flow of the universe."

—While speaking to Po in the Dragon Grotto, Kung Fu Panda 2


                ( Thanks--KungFuPandaWiki/Shifu)
Later days,

Natsu ^^ 

PS: Madagascar 3 opens today! 

(UPDATED August 26, 2012)

Only the begining....

 So I decided to draw Prince Naveen in his frog form. From Disneys'  The Princess and The Frog. This should be fun. I'll tell you how it goes. :)

Haha. I Love the look on his froggy face.

~Natsu

A Lion King Drawing.

HAH! You see? The title rhymed!

I know I spend most of my time on here posting pictures. Not really typing up great posts about the world and stuff. I don't really know enough of what people really want to read to make a huge post...But I like to show everyone the drawings I do....

 Trying to decide if I should go out for an Animation career or a Photography career...But I also love animals. SO! Here is a photograph of an animated animal! Took me about 2 hours. Surprisingly, the eyes turned out really nice. The eyes always look real stupid when I try to do 'em. Haha.

My next victim of drawing will be Basil from Disney's "The Great Mouse Detective." And When that is finished, (and if it presentable) I will post it. :)

Tada! It was really light when I scanned it, so I tweaked the contrast a bit.

Hope you can tell who it is. I know there are some pictures that you look at and you can't tell in the least who it is. Then someone has to tell you. Then you are like, "oh....--"

~Natsu