Request

Hi everyone. I'm in severe need of help, so I'd thought I'd ask a simple question.

I am currently looking for a great easy-to-use utility to create 3D models (both male and female, different sizes for different ages) that can be turned a full 360 degrees, have it's parts bent in many different ways, and allow multiple camera angles for viewing them.

Currently, I have my eyes set on Poser, but if any of you know a different program that is free of charge simliar to Poser that works on Mac OS X and does not contain any viruses and spyware, that would be excellent, because I could use it for great anatomy refrences.

FAQ: Episode Tsu

NOTE: Like before, none of the questions/answers I write are not intended to be offensive or harm anyone's feelings. If I do, I'm sorry.

Hello SJTB readers, I'm back once again to awnser some more made-up questions some of you may have. Most of it is about deviantART, along with other things, so let's get cracking.

Why do you like drawing anime pictures?

I just love Japanese and Japanese-styled media/artwork. Nuff said.

Why is the rate at which you submit artwork much, much less than last year?

For those of you that ask this simple question, let me sum it up for you. Would you like me to create one good image every few days, or spam my gallery with a bunch of royal s*it? Art takes time to create, especially with anatomy. (For some reason, some of the people I've met care about nothing but the anatomy. But of course, that's my personal opinion. *insert some stupid happy expression here*

Do you accept requests, art trades, and commissions?

Yes, yes, and no. While I do like drawing pictures for my friends and loyal fans, my current skill level prevents me for doing something "decent" without people saying "OMG the anatomy and perspectives are wrong, my eyes are bleeding!" *insert stupid smirk here*

Also, not to mention I have other things to do besides drawing. It's true I have a lot of ideas, but it's just I have to put an awful lot of effort into trying to get the anatomy as impressive as possible. (Remember kids, everyone cares about nothing but anatomy! (and for those of you who do just rate a picture based on it's anatomy, remember to also say your opinions on the other things in the picture, not just the anatomy, as that isn't the only thing to care about.))

Sorry for going off topic, but yes, Requests and Art Trades are open if anyone is interested, But remember, there are rules and guidelines to these, which can be found on my main deviantART profile page. As for commissions, I cannot do them because I don't have my own Credit Card, or a valid Paypal account. But if you're dying to give me one, you can always donate some points or give me a gift subscription, or if all else fails, just ask for a request, because with that you'll save a couple bucks for other uses.

Any new concepts you want to try out soon?

Aside from the other thousand thing I would love to draw, Jenosa Arma from Scurge: Hive. Don't ask why. I just adore her design. (although it looks a bit complex, but hopefully I'll work it out. Another thing that is also in my agenda is a request for my dear mother, and also an art trade for a friend of mine.

Is there anyone you've met online that you would conceder "mortal enemies".

If you must know this, people that strictly hate me in any way, shape, or form.

What happened to that stamp you uploaded on DA?

I took it down because people were getting pissed off at it. It was intended to tell people that the artists with the stamp placed on their profile had fairly great works, but not enough comments from visitors, thus requesting more commenters in general. *like around 20 or 30 per deviation, no matter who is pictured in the drawing.)

What do you conceder the "true meaning" of friends on deviantART?

Both people watching each other. Not one watching the other or vice versa, both watching each other. Even if you dislike the person's artwork, you can always cancel out receiving updates on the person's artwork, or his/her journal updates.

If I need to add anymore questions, I shall.

Super Mario World Hack: Mario & Luigi DOS remake

Hi everyone, I'd just thought I'd drop in and mention something real quick about a brand-new Super Mario World hack that I submitted onto SMW Central a few days ago. Unlike the previous time, the hack has been successfully accepted and the IPS patch can now be downloaded from the site.

This hack is a remake of Mike Wiering's "Mario & Luigi" game released for DOS operating systems in 1994, which was not licensed by Nintendo. The original game, plus this hack, is six levels long, with the fourth and fifth levels removed in some versions of the game. This hack is based on the original six level version that is available for download from multiple sites, recreated using Lunar Magic, a utility for creating hacks of Super Mario World. Since the original game itself used multiple features from Super Mario World, I decided to hack that game to make it as accurate to Mike Wiering's original game. But unfortunately, It's isn't an exact duplicate of the original game, as you can carry Koopas, there are no Poison mushrooms, and there is an overworld map that you can use to replay any of the levels you've completed. Rather than replaying the game again with faster speed and higher jump height when you complete the game for the first time, you are instead sent to a bonus area where you can hit message blocks that contain the game's credits.

But enough talk! Head over to SMW Central and download it now!

or... se a full run of the original DOS game by Mike himself.

Oh my god.

Really. I'm speechless. I got back from watching Toy Story 3, and it was DA BAWMB. I was nice to see after pretty much 11 years another film featuring Buzz, Woody and friends. It was exciting, but also epic as hell, especially about halfway through the movie when... I'm not going to spoil the movie for ya, but if you want to go see it, take my advice; you will love it, but be warned, make sure your kids (if you got some) are prepared for what happens in the last quarter of the film, things do get a bit serious.

As for what I think about the third entry in the Toy Story trilogy, it's a good sequel. Although my hands still set on Toy Story 2 as my favorite.

And now, let's break away from Toy Story and talk about a couple other things. As you may have noticed, I am now off from school for the rest of the summer, so that gives me much more time to work on artwork and other stuff and keep myself entertained. I got the pool open, but right now, my family is trying to clear up the pool so it's not green nor foggy. (I don't like pools when they're green, or foggy.) I'm currently working on something right now, and it will probably be done very soon, then after that, I would like to try a few art trades with a couple of my good friends, since I'd really be up to drawing one of their characters.

Updates for mid-June.

Hi SJTB readers. Good to be here. As usual, there's nothing going on, I'm just sitting in front of my Macintosh browsing the Internet, sipping on some Pepsi. Nothing all important. I'm just very bummed out with nothing to do. Tomorrow is my birthday, but I highly doubt it will cheer me up, since it just so happens to be on the last day of classes for me. After that day, I have to do three regions that fall on the same week, which means I have to study a lot. I hope that during the summer, I get to resolve a few friendships and improve on my artwork. Today I was browsing ebay for a couple of items for my birthday, but since my family's account was banned from the site, all because we refused to purchase an item we never received. In fact, the last special event where I actually got items from ebay (not counting last Christmas) was December 2008 for Christmas. (Which, ironically, is around the same time I got Jump Ultimate Stars, which I don't seem to be enjoying as much as I used to, probably because the fun factor died out since I played it so long. If they made a racing game featuring a similar roster, that would be something that would keep me occupied for a while.

If any of you out there happens to like or be a fan of my Aozora Jitsuwa series, I have created a entirely brand-spankin' new blog exclusively for the series. I was just founded last week, so there is only a single post, but feel free to check out how it's doing right now by going here.

If any of you are still wondering about what Kiora's quote "Use copy" meant all this time, forget it. I guess me just saying "I'm fine with the Japanese version that I burned to a disc and encased in an old DVD case with the RKS cover art" without realizing it was only intended for private use only got him upset at me.

Kiora's Words of Wisdom

NOTE: This blog entry is not an anti-Kiora post. I show great respect to Kiora, but it's just that I wanted to let everyone know about what was going on the past few days. Again, this is NOT a hate-Kiora post. This is also not meant to cause any rage to Kiora, or anyone else for that mater. I am not posting this to get help from the community in any way.

Hello everyone. Apparently I've gotten through another week of school, and believe it or not, that was the last week before regions, so I'm at least glad I only got a single full day left, then after that I just have to come back for three finals, and Sophomore year is finished, giving me two complete months of relaxation until September.

But the reason I'm here now, is that I finally got into contact with Kiora, well known for his Rosenkreuzstilette fanart and his RKS fan-fiction, Rosenkreuzstilette Unoffical Afterstory. He is also great friends with [erka:es], the original doujin circle behind Rosenkreuzstilette, which explains why a link to his website is present. Not to mention, Kiora is also on my list of "people from Pixiv that have to go to dA if they want to help out with our little situation" described on the previous post here on Super Justin: the Blog.

So the other day, ShivaDF (also known as Puistink) suggested I try contacting Kiora, now that I knew how to send private messages on Pixiv, and simply wrote to Kiora a simple "Hello." and "How are you doing?" The next morning, I received his reply, and wasn't too pleased (and a bit confused) with what he said...

Yes, Kiora just flat out said he was angry about me using "copy" and that he didn't want to talk to me. For one thing, I couldn't tell what Kiora actually meant when he said "using copy", so I contacted him back asking what were his main intentions when he said that I was "using copy", and sure enough, I have yet to receive a reply back from him.

So I came down to three different solution as to what message Kiora was trying to get to me, but I'm only focused on one of them, the other two being my obsession of drawing fanart of characters I didn't design, and me using Copy & Paste in some instances for my art.

The main solution that I think fits best is the fact that the poses the characters strike in my art are mostly un-original. And if everyone should probably remember, anatomy and proportions are probably the absolute worst category I suffer in when it comes to art, so to help, someone over at Rockman Perfect Memories suggested I look at Posemanics for great anatomy refrences, so I followed his advice and went over to Posemaniacs for some guidance. Apparently, it helped, but for Kiora (and maybe a couple others), it seemed to upset him that I was copying off poses from a site that exists solely to help those who have trouble drawing the human body. But believe it or not, I don't copy the poses down precisely down to the last detail, as I don't trace the bodies on Posemaniacs, I instead try to make similar ones via pencil or on Photoshop.

So just to compare, here's the original pose I used for my recent Trauare Wrede fanart, comparing it to the original pose straight from Posemainacs.

As usual, if I get any update of any kind, it'll appear right here.

RKS: deviantART Improvement

Well, I'm back. and boy oh boy, do I have a lot to say. First off, it's official. I now have both Facebook and twitter accounts, so if you have one of those, feel free to add/follow me.

But enough talk, time to get serious.

Yes... I just referenced SonSon.

As you can tell, yes, this does have to do with Rosenkreuzstilette, and it's something that I

really have to mention. Now be warned, Super Justin is going to get a couple of quick mentions

here. But like before, its for important reasons.

This is sort of my own personal followup to a recent post written on Schwer and Schwer alike by an okay friend of mine named ViperAcidZX., were he said "I'm not seeing any improvements that's going to change deviantArt's already terrible reputation of "bad" Rosenkreuzstilette fan-art," and "I get the feeling that deviantArt is never going to have its share of quality fan-art for Rosenkreuzstilette as Pixiv."

Now to be fair, there are a few "good" images that pop up on the site every once in a while, not counting the ones I do, but unlike Pixiv (which, JTLYK, is an art-sharing site like dA, but it's all in Japanese.), it happens much more rarely. One of the main situations, is that many of the "good artists," (or as I like to call them, art gods) do not know about Rosenkreuzstilette and are simply unwilling to draw RKS fanart just for the heck of it. So from my own personal point of view, one of the best ways to help get RKS more well-known on dA and increase it's quality of decent/great fanart, is to get these "art gods" to draw Rosenkreuzstilette fanart. And it seems the only way to do that, is by a very hard task; commissioning them.

You heard me correctly, commissioning them. I have no ways of causing any struggle or hurt anyone's feelings, but apparently, that's only what they accept. They will not do requests, art trades, or collabs. Commissions are the only thing that will work. So if that's all they accept, then that's the only way to get these great artists to draw RKS fanart and help spread the word about my personal favorite doujin series. (And not to mention they're probably being watched by a ton of people, so hopefully the watchers of these "art gods" may also buy into it, and attempt some RKS fanart of their own as well. I can't guarantee they will be as good as what the original commissioned artist can make, but at least it'll maybe increase the overall RKS fanbase and it's popularity.) I'm not forcing anyone to commission these artists, so you do not have to take part here. I'm fine just doing it myself.

And now let's move on to the second way we can try to do to help improve deviantART's quality of RKS artwork: getting the Japanese responsible for making the great RKS artwork on Pixiv to come to deviantART and do the same there.

Now that was something that I had repeatedly mentioned on deviantART several times. And the reason was that the majority of Pixiv's selection of Rosenkreuzstilette fanart is (again, no offense) much better than a handful of the artwork the English side of the fanbase could make. And just to further my point, take a look at this brutal and epic fanart of Freudia Neuwahl that's currently available for view only on Pixiv.

Now tell me, Would you like this, alongside a great number of amazing Rosenkreuzstilette artwork done by the people over at Pixiv without deviantART accounts, to be uploaded somewhare onto deviantART so that it's much simpler to find and view them in English? Well, that's one goal I want to accomplish in my life. Well, we already got Hissatsukunn, Dolis Warmind's designer onto deviantART, and he uploaded a great number of his fantastic works, but that's not enough. We need a greater amount of Rosenkreuzstilette artwork done by the people that live in the same region RKS originated. So I'm asking this. If any of you have Pixiv accounts, or have contact information of the users, please try to get in touch with these Japanese RKS artists and invite them onto deviantART so we, the English fans, can experience these great works of art and help out on improving the popularity of the series, as well as the quality of good fan-art on dA. (The one that's most wanted right at this moment is WOMI, the series' offical artist, illustrator, spriter, and character designer, but I'd like the entire pack. (zaku6 and Shizuku, just to name a few of them.)) Like with the commissions, I'm not forcing anyone to help out or join dA, but one very simple thing you can do to help out on deviantART, incase you haven't already, is to remove your Super Justin "fanart" if it's still up. All content containing Super Justin MUST go first before the Japanese can get to dA. So I'll say this one more time. If you ever drew/made something that contains any of my rejects of a characters (the blue-haired myself for example), or my lame RKS censorship BS, GET IT OFF AS SOON AS YOU CAN. The amount of SJ "fanart" has declined over the past few days, but I would like it all gone.

Unfortunately, with every great thing that happens, there are expected consequences.

The first of these, is that it may be difficult for the Japanese to browse, comment, and submit artwork onto deviantART, as the site isn't, and will never be in Japanese. Second, I should take the time to mention, there are loads of pure adult material over at Pixiv, which dA doesn't allow. So they may get into trouble or get banned if they attempt to submit those without realizing that content like that is prohibited on dA but not on Pixiv. Nudity or erotic poses are fine, but anything that's severe adult content cannot be uploaded.

Feel free to do whatever you like to help out. If I need to update/make changes to this post, I'll do so.

New Aozora Jitsuwa concept artwork

Well, here it is. Designed by one of my good friends on deviantART, here is official concept artwork of Keisha from my series, Aozora Jitsuwa.

SJB Review: Jump Ultimate Stars

Well, the time has finally come. Time to review with my most honest thoughts, a game that has been in my possession for almost a year and a half. What is this game? Well, I'm proud to present, the Japanese-only crossover fighting game, Jump Ultimate Stars.

Well, interesting to say, I have never played this game's predecessor, Jump Super Stars, as I was told the second game had much more features to offer. And believe it or not, despite there being no official English release, I found this game on the shelves of an American store.

So now we move onto the game itself. Before starting, I should mention this game was made by the big mother-you know what of videogames, Nintendo. Yes. Nintendo, the same exact company that made Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda worked on this game, But they only published it. The real developers were Ganbarion, more famous for the boat-load of their many One Piece games.

And, we get to what the game actually contains. As stated by the back of the game's package, it has 41 Weekly Shonen Jump series and a total of over 300 characters. At first, I can guarantee you would probably be thinking that this game has over 300 playable characters. But unfortunately, only 27 of these represented series actually contain at least one playable character, and if you were to add all of then up, the game has only around 50 characters you can actually control. I consider that a major disappointment, seeing as only one-sixth of the characters can be controlled by the player. (Nearly) Everyone else only appears as "Support characters" that you can call in for a short time to assist you during battle. At least you can play as classic Jump heroes like Goku, Ichigo, Luffy, and the dreaded Naruto. At least the good thing is, you can have everyone beat the living s#$@ out of Naruto, and enjoy it 100% of the time.

Now, we go onto the game's main story. From all the information I'm aware of, from my first playthrough (be warned, I am going to spoil a bit of the plot here), there is a land far away in space, known as the Jump World, where all the characters and their respective series' universes reside, until a mysterious character, later revealed near the end of the game as Dr. Mashirito, the evil mad scientist of Akira Toriyama's Dr. Slump, has shot all of the series deep into space, and sent the Jump World plummeting down a black hole (the Jump Blackhole to be precise.). Five lucky survivors, which consist of Son Goku (Dragon Ball), Gintoki Sakata (Gin Tama), Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece), Toru Muhyo (Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation), and *sigh...* Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto), jump out of the Jump World as it is sucked into the black hole. The Jump Pirate (the name I give to the floating pirate head, the mascot of Weekly Shonen Jump) finds these five characters, and sends them to Earth (and a nearby asteroid) to train for their big adventure. As you advance further through the game, you'll encounter other worlds (located in the Jump Space, Jump Galaxy, and Jump Blackhole), recruit other characters that decide to help you on your journey, and soon, face the dreaded Doctor.

The gameplay first begins with you assembling a deck made up of "koma" (the Japanese word for Panel.), which is generally the team you will bring into the different battles, which consist of Battle (the characters you control), Support (the characters you can summon to assist you), and Help (characters that "attach" to Battle Komas to boost their power or give them new abilities, like a triple jump or wall jump. After your team is ready, your are sent into a page of Weekly Shonen Jump to fight one to three other teams that have one simple goal: Making sure you don't come out alive. If you win (in Story mode, that is), you will receive additional Komas and gems (the general currency of the game, consisting of Rubies, Topazes, Emeralds, Sapphires, Amethysts, and Diamonds, the last 3 being harder to find than the first.), which you use to upgrade the characters you receive, unlocking new Support and Battle Komas, as well as a couple other bonus content here and there, stuff you can (hopefully) enjoy, even without understanding Japanese.

Now comes the flaws. Yea, Every game is bound to have some sort of minor/major flaws, and this definitely has a few. Obviously, the game does not exist in any language other than Japanese (although I heard an un-official English translation patch was released a while ago), you probably have a bit of trouble navigating through the menus and beating the different missions without using a online walkthrough. But after a while, you'll begin to get used to the menus, you can get through them with little to no problem. Second, is the fighting themselves. I must ask this, Why doesn't this game have combo attacks that involve multiple pushes of the buttons to perform different attacks? I don't know why this game would lack a common feature in fighting games, but I have absolutely nothing to do about it. I can't really find anything else that pisses me off for now, so I'll stop here. (other than the fact I must address there are no alternative colors when two players control the same character.)

In conclusion, I don't recommended Jump Ultimate Stars that much to anyone that doesn't like Shonen Jump and/or fighting games in general, but if you can somehow find a copy of it, whenever it be online or in a retail store, I'd say check out. Otherwise, stay away.

Jump Ultimate Stars receives a 8.7/10.

JTLYK...

Hello everyone. Just thought I should mention, I do have plans to create Facebook and Twitter accounts. I don't know why, I'm guessing since a few amount of my friends have accounts on those sites, I thought I should join them, and all the other many users that are on the site. Once I do so, links to them will pop up in the Links section. on the right.

An epic flash game that you all should check out.

Since one of my favorite internet idols mentioned this on his website, I should take the time to tell you about the absolutely epic Super Mario Bros. Crossover flash game created by Exploding-Rabbit.

What is this, you ask? Well, if you have ever played the original Super Mario Bros. or any of its ports, this should be a no brainer. This flash game is a near-perfect replica of Nintendo's flagship game, except this version throws in five additional playable characters form The Legend of Zelda, Contra, Castlevania, Mega Man, and Metroid, which all play like the games they originated from, but adjusted very slightly to fit the Mario style.

I'm not going to discuss this game any further, so you can head over to Newgrounds and give it a shot, or visit the official page for more information.

A new piece of fanart

Well, it's time to make a post about one thing, my very own art, and this time, I've decided to showcase my recent and possibly most successful of all the ones I've done in my lifetime. And that would be: *drumroll*

This:

If anyone doesn't know who this is, this is Neku Sakuraba, the main protagonist from the 2007-08 RPG known as The World Ends with You. Shouldn't be any harder to explain than that.

What to expect from me in the future.

Hey. I just thought I should write some detailed info here, because I'm getting bored. If you are reading this, congrats, because I hardly get any views here.

Well, everyone should know I do have plans to create games. None of them, (and I repeat, none.) have gotten past the concept stage, so in other words, development hasn't started yet on any of them. So please do not jump on the ban-wagon until I provide some preview screenshots and videos.

I generally have plans to create original games (i.e. Aozora Jitsuwa) that are somewhat based on and will be treated as tributes to other games, like Super Mario and Mega Man.

Alongside that, I also would like to remake older games (mostly obscure puzzle games), such as Diamonds, Fire 'n Ice, Pajama Sam's Sock Works, Jumpman, and Armadillo. This series of fan- remakes will be titled the "REVIVAL!!" project, featuring new elements, new levels, and more. Just for the heck of it, here's a preview of the Diamonds remake, showing a sample sprite sheet.

And I should also mention, Since Pajama Sam's Sock Works is more of a little kid's game. (aimed at 3-8 year olds), I will be removing all references (but still give credit) to Humongous' different series. Instead, It'll be themed after my own series, Aozora Jitsuwa.

And since we're here, why not I show a preview of that game too?

Aside from the games, I also have plans to construct several of my own sites. One which will be an official Aozora Jitsuwa site, both in English and Japanese language, (I'll need some help with the Japanese, though!) a site where I'll provide in-depth information on all the games I happen to own or played in my lifetime, and a main HUB site that will link to those two sites, as well as this blog.

Well, that's all for now.

Some few words.

Hey everyone. I just thought I should write something decent on my blog. Normally, I don't write much here because this blog lacks the popularity of my deviantART account. I expect to maybe get some more comments and followers here once I make a game/upload something that's an actual video on Youtube. Regardless, It'll probably be a long time before this blog gets the same amount of attention as my dA.

First off, I e-mailed [erka:es], the doujin circle responsible for the Rosenkreuzstilette series, to see if I could get one last shot at apologizing to them. I didn't e-mail them through the site's "MAIL" section, I did it through the e-mail address attached in the manual attached to the game. As of this moment, they have yet to send a reply and/or accept the apology, but I'll give it a couple of weeks. And if they don't, I'll just have to throw in the towel and accept the fact [erka:es] does not like me, despite the fact I consider myself as a very big fan of their series, even though some would disagree. /(-_-)\

And now that we got that aside, let's move on. Well, Believe it or not, there is this one kid in my gym class who is a grade lower than me is pretty annoying towards me, and to this date, no matter what I try to do or say to him, I can't get him to act nicely or get a change in heart. And it's not just me, he refers to half of the students in his class as "stupid" or "idiots" and even told me "you need help" as if I'm a person with a very low I.Q.. Just to let you all know, I have great grades in my school, as I received a 95% average in my math class. So how can a person described as "retarded" get an average that high? And if that wasn't enough, this boy also thinks he can defeat me in a fight, even though he is smaller and much weaker than me. I'm not going to specify what his name, appearance and other stuff is like.

I'll conclude this update here.

For those of you concerned,...

No. I haven't given up drawing. It's just that as I have many other things I want to do besides draw fanart, I haven't been able to complete many in the past few weeks. To word it simply, I'm not stopping or quitting art, but I'm quite busy. At least some of you should be proud of the fact I'm not uploading something every day, which was one major problem that a good number had with me. Everything back then was rushed, making them look terrible. But now they're not as rushed as they were. I put a bit more time and effort in my artwork, which explains why everything looks more detailed and superior to my old stuff. I know by heart it will probably take a long time for me before I "nearly" perfect my art, but we'll see what happens.

And for the haters, please drop those grudges you may have against me. You have no reason to hate and/or ignore me anymore, even if you dislike my artwork. If you were a victim of my terrible troll-like attitude, I made a full-length apology a while ago stating my changes.