Dragon Warrior

Sounds like my kind of story. Hopefully some people sign up, eh? [b]Name:[/b] Roy Piper [b]Date of Birth/Age:[/b] August 23, 1938 A.D. - 18 years old. [b]Gender:[/b] Male [b]Occupation:[/b] High School Senior, paid under the table as mechanic assistant [b]Appearance:[/b] Roy is a young Caucasian male with dark brown hair that's usually slicked back with some form of grease or another. He's a decent medium build, but certainly not very intimidating by just his size. He's only around 5'10" and rarely hits the gym to build up any muscle. His clothing is typical of a rough teenager of the fifties, consisting of tight washed out blue jeans, a plain white tee, and his gang's signature black leather jacket. His shoes match the jacket, naturally. In fact, they're fine Italian leather, which he takes great pride in and can often be seen showing them off to the ladies. He has a scar near his wrist on his left arm from a small mistake while fixing a junked out car. His eyes are a dazzling blue and along with his trademark smirk, that duo is usually how he gets any girl to park. [b]Personality:[/b] Roy belongs to the greaser gang known as The Jackets. He is the self-proclaimed ladies' man of the group, although it's quite questionable considering most of the females flock to the gang leader Leo. Being best friends with Leo, Roy fancies himself second in command and because of this has grown a bit of an ego. This ego can often get him and his gang into rough and rugged situations, particularly with neighboring gangs. You could say he has a reputation for having quite a mouth on him, which often he gets punched in. Leo, despite leading The Jackets, is studious and therefore so are most of the other members, but Roy decides his studies rank low in his priorities. He spends most of his time fixing cars at a local shop, flirting with the girls down at the diner, or catching the latest Kirk Douglas flicks down at the drive-ins. He has a good life and a loving family, but he simply makes the wrong choices. He acts before he thinks, and is usually fairly stubborn and doesn't like getting told what to do. Not even Leo bothers commanding him anymore unless Roy's about to be beaten to a pulp. His cocky, rebellious attitude is surely going to get him into deep trouble someday. [b]Writing Snippet:[/b] â??Count your lucky stars there, Roy,â? said a young member of the Jackets as he helped up his comrade from the pavement. Once Roy was on his feet it was apparent that this younger fellow was also sufficiently shorter than most. Still, he acted tough for his size. â??If I didnâ??t see you gettinâ?? jumped ovaâ?? here youâ??d be dead meat, eh?â? â??Thatâ??s enough, Robbie,â? Leo said, pushing past the short loudmouth. The leader brushed Roy off violently like he was an old coat. â??Always gettinâ?? into trouble, eh, Roy?â? â??Hey, I didnâ??t need you fellas,â? Roy snapped back in his casual cocky attitude. â??I had â??em right where I wanted â??em.â? He wiped the blood from his nose with his jacket sleeve as the gang took in on a group laugh. â??Get a load of this guy,â? Robbie snickered to the others while jabbing a thumb in Royâ??s direction. â??He thinks heâ??s Rocky Marciano.â?* â??Thatâ??s right, Robbie Boy, crack one off on me, eh,â? Roy remarked. â??Least I donâ??t get pounded by my ten-year-old brother.â? Robbieâ??s smirk turned quickly to a grimace as the other boys switched to Royâ??s side. The short Jacket spun his head around to find the negative attention now on him. â??Hey, get bent, Roy Piper! You know Iâ??m sensitive about my height.â? â??What? You short, Thumbelina? I had no idea.â? The whole gang joined in laughing as Robbie attempted to shout over the commotion and regain some dignity. â??Cool it, Robbie,â? Leo commanded with authority. â??Roy, come with me.â? He putting an arm around his buddy and led him away from the band of laughing hyenas. â??So you know the Prom is this weekend.â? â??Yeah, of course. Itâ??ll be a kick. I had plans on takinâ?? Amy.â? â??Nah, nah, you canâ??t take Amy,â? Leo said, stopping to light a cigarette. Once he blew his first puff and let it settle, he answered Royâ??s silent quizzical expression. â??Sheâ??s going steady with Danny Baxter.â? â??Dan-Danny Baxter?â? Roy said in both surprise and disgust. â??That odd ball?â? â??â??Fraid so. But hey, listenâ??all hope isnâ??t lost. I met a couple gals down at Smokeyâ??s yesterday.â? â??Yeah?â? Roy didnâ??t sound too interested, at least according to his tone. He leaned against a fence and cleaned the dirt off his Italian leather shoes. â??Word from the bird is theyâ??re fast.â?** Leo winked. Roy looked up from his polish job. â??They want to meet you. Iâ??ll save the brunette for you. I know how you are, Roy.â? â??You really know how to razz my berries, Leo,â? Roy replied, chuckling almost so that no one could hear. â??But I donâ??t feel like gettinâ?? clutched here. You sure them girls ainâ??t bad news? I donâ??t want no fake outs.*** And sometimes you choose some real lookers. Note the sarcasm. They grody, Leo? Be honest.â? â??What are you, writing a book? Cool it, Roy. Geez. Jusâ?? wait and see, alright?â? Leo tossed his cigarette to the ground and fiddled with his jacket collar. â??Now câ??mon. Letâ??s cut out before they stop servinâ?? fries at the diner.â? Roy finished up the last bit of dirt on his shoe and followed his friend back to the group of rowdy boys. With his only concern being girls at the moment, he didnâ??t have much worry on his shoulders. That would soon change. *: Rocky Marciano was an Italian-American boxer and heavyweight champion from 1952 to 1956. **: To be fast means to be easy. ***: Getting clutched means to get rejected. Fake outs are bad dates. [b]Extras:[/b] Roy, being a teenager, hasn't really dealt with many weapons. He's shot a gun or two before with his father and he's most likely hit his brother with some blunt object, but his fists are his only offense when it comes to fighting on the streets with his gang. He hasn't really been provoked with any serious danger to call for a weapon. However, he knows cars and mechanics quite well. He's been working with different auto shops since he was eight. He certainly knows his way around an engine. --------------- I enjoy writing for this character. I can put my random 50's knowledge to good use now. :]

Oh, I doubt they'll give it up for good. They just said they're taking a break for a long while. Whether this'll actually happen or not, we'll find out. In the meantime, we'll have to cling to the successes of films by Pixar and possible other random animation that run along the lines of [i]The Emperor's New Groove.[/i]

Disney also has a knack for not sticking to the true story. I mean, in [i]Cinderella[/i] the Stepsisters chop off parts of their feet to fit in the shoe and get their eyes pecked out. As such, you'd probably leave out the inappropriate stuff of Red Riding Hood, haha. Still, Disney could drift far from the plot points and still keep the same story. They did with [i]Tangled[/i]. If any of you know the real story of Rapunzel, you'll realize this film was barely accurate. However, it still kept the basic idea of Rapunzel and I think that's all Disney really requires.

Oh, for sure. I can imagine of all the stories they could pursue, Red Riding Hood probably is not high on the list, if at all existent. I'm just saying in a wide view of the situation, stories like it are fair game... that is, if they were still doing fairy tales. I'm sad they won't. Disney is known for its films being magical. Does this mean we're doomed to nothing but Hannah Montana episodes on the big screen and cheap sequels that should never have been?

Well, considering that some of the Disney "princesses" weren't all actual princesses (such as Belle or Pocahontas), they can play with that term a lot. More or less when they said they wouldn't do any more princess films for a long time, they were referring to fairy tale stories all together. Even so, if they're stretching the term [i]princess[/i] this much, then there are plenty more stories where this could work such as Little Red Riding Hood. Any story that is fairy tale-esque with a strong female protagonist.

Yeah, I do love creepy music like that sometimes. I usually refer to it as "hauntingly beautiful." Conor Oberst with his Bright Eyes is a prime example, although his music is either a hit or miss with me.

[quote name='Soji47' timestamp='1293186536' post='703227'] [font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]I've got this thing for Claudio Sanchez, the lead vocalist for Coheed and Cambria, so naturally some of bands follow that trend. [/color][/font][list][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]Coheed and Cambria[/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]Shabutie[/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]Prize Fighter Inferno[/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]Minus the Bear[/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]Jacks Mannequin [/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]Muse[/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]Antsy Pants[/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground[/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]The Black Keys[/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]Michael Buble[/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]Frank Sinatra[/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]Placebo[/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]Joy Division[/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]She Wants Revenge[/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]David Bowie[/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]Queen[/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]DAFT PUNK[/color][/font][*][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]Arcade Fire[/color][/font][/list][font="Book Antiqua"][color="#0000ff"]Its not the complete list, but it probably consists of the grounds I listen to most frequently [/color][/font] [/quote] Way to be with Jack's Mannequin and Frank Sinatra. You have a lot of good ones on there. I just recently found Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground myself... what an odd sort of band... but that's what I like :]

I'm wondering if they'll portray all of Blackbeard's little signature details like a smoking beard. They already kind of did with one of the crew members of the Black Pearl back in the first film, so will they humor that concept again?

Yeah, Will and Elizabeth's story became dry by the second one and I certainly didn't watch for them after [i]Curse[/i]. I, too, am glad they won't return, but I guess Will technically could [spoiler]but only for a small time because he's busy with other stuff. Elizabeth can't 'cause she's on some island waiting around for ten years.[/spoiler]

Haha, if only that would work. Alas, it's fake moss. Real moss would just die over time. I also wanted to put more propellers on it to give the consideration that it might've been able to fly once :[ But darnit, those plane parts were expensive! I blew a good sixty to eighty bucks on that.

Yeah, part of my inspiration, as I said, was Hayao Miyazaki. I don't know if you've seen his film [i]Castle In The Sky[/i], but on the floating fortress it displays ancient technology that was lost and hasn't been used in decades. So it has become enveloped by nature like in the picture below... [center][img]http://www.digitalmediatree.com/library/image/88/robot_miyazaki.jpg[/img][/center] That was the idea I was going for. And if I was allowed to use more than one color than just the gray paint that I had to use on the wood, I could've made it look even more so. I kind of cheated by purposely not painting parts of the airplane pieces so the original color of them would show through the gray giving it some quality of deterioration. It did take a lot of time just figuring out where each individual piece would go. And I had plenty of more parts I could have added, but I think if I added too much it'd look cluttered. The empty spaces really help contrast the machinery growing from the structure as well as the moss and I needed that to have the piece look complete. It wasn't random placing at all.

Thank you. It was certainly my favorite to work with, and despite the limitations, I felt I had the most range to work with. I got to actually do my own style with it... sort of haha.

[center][img]http://i53.tinypic.com/33465fo.jpg[/img][/center] I guess as OtakuBoard's official pirate it's my duty to post this up. I'm surprised there hasn't been anything made for it yet. [i]On Stranger Tides[/i] is the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series. It took the creators a long while to figure out what plot to go with after coming up with several, and it took them even longer to decide that stuff involving outer space or sky pirates might be pushing it. Now I love sky pirates like the rest of us, but at least all the rest of the story elements have been believable thus far. [center][img]http://i55.tinypic.com/2vlkt5l.jpg[/img][/center] Having said that, the plot of the new one follows Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa once again as they hunt for the Fountain of Youth (as a team or not, I'm unsure). Either way, the main villain of this trilogy (yes, there will be three) is Blackbeard played by Ian McShane and his daughter Angelica played by the very foxy Penelope Cruz. They're all in search of this life-giving myth, so naturally you'll find plenty of betrayal and criss-crossing of sides and all that that we've come to expect of the Pirates movies. Oh, and there are zombies and mermaids. Fortunately we're not talking about Dawn of the Dead zombies. They look more like natives that haven't bathed in a while, so I like what they did. [center][img]http://i52.tinypic.com/2r55mht.jpg[/img][/center] Also, to clear up confusion on something I've been asked about a million times, Will and Elizabeth are not coming back for this trilogy. This is the Jack and Angelica love story. I could explain why in detail but it'd spoil some of the series for people. Then again, they shouldn't be reading this thread if they haven't seen the first three anyway. If you haven't watched the trailer, here it is for you. I watched it literally the second it premiered on Yahoo. I'm such a lamewad. [center][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR_9A-cUEJc[/media][/center]

Let's be frank here, folks. Being an art student can suck. I'm one of those average college students who attempt every creative major possible to avoid going to school for the career they really want to do, and then eventually fall safely into the niche of said career. So I've been a graphic design major, illustration major, music major, advertising major, culinary major... blah blah blah... I'm a theatre major now. But during my time of attending my school's arts program, I learned a very important lesson: art schools despise originality. That's not always the case. Just the schools like mine that are pretty stuck up about their pride in their program and insist you do it their way. So I left for a better time. However, I did gain some interesting art and I'm here to show you folks some of it. Pick it apart if you want... I would too. It was fun making it, but it's not my best work. And though the craft is a tad sketchy, the school actually graded me down for being too different from what everyone else was doing. Funny, right? [b][url="http://i55.tinypic.com/30to4co.jpg"]Graphic Design Composition 1[/url][/b] Basically for this one we had to create an image by taking several other images from the web and combining them. Most of the stuff in this piece isn't actually what it was used for, save maybe the tree or whales. For example, the lightning was not actually lightning but light taken from another image and extended. The smoke/mist around the forests and mountains were actually oceans I recolored and messed with. I got an A because my graphic design teacher was one of the only ones there that liked my work hah. [b][url="http://i54.tinypic.com/16k0qw9.jpg"]Graphic Design Composition 2[/url][/b] This one is the same project as the above one... but since my first composition was warm, I decided to take a cool approach. [b][url="http://i56.tinypic.com/34q4ndi.jpg"]Wood Extension[/url] [url="http://i53.tinypic.com/1qk1me.jpg"]Wood Extension (2)[/url][/b] Go ahead, laugh at the name; I did. We had to take a piece of wood we're given and "extend" it somehow. I chose to do mine a little more creatively. I made a frame out of mine and then photoshopped the rest of it. I hung it in the woods, so the winter forest is real. The summer picture within the frame represents the life we want, the beautiful summer, the gorgeous weather... and the winter outside the frame is the reality of the world. [b][url="http://i55.tinypic.com/21obms7.jpg"]Negative Space[/url] [url="http://i51.tinypic.com/2ahrvx4.jpg"]Negative Space (2)[/url] [url="http://i55.tinypic.com/5ye1hw.jpg"]Negative Space (3)[/url] [url="http://i52.tinypic.com/2zi99jr.jpg"]Negative Space (4)[/url][/b] This was a fun piece to do. Basically you have to build a structure out of cardboard to represent the negative space of an area. So we had to choose a spot in a building (mine being a window), then build my cardboard structure around that window filling the open air. Then for kicks the teacher also made us insert a body part to work around, mine being my shoulder. It looked pretty plain so I got crazy and built spikes coming out of it. Then I burnt the hell out of it to give it a decaying look. Hooray for creativity! [b][url="http://i51.tinypic.com/551bhi.jpg"]Planar Project[/url] [url="http://i54.tinypic.com/jim9tj.jpg"]Planar Project (2)[/url] [url="http://i51.tinypic.com/wrfitz.jpg"]Planar Project (3)[/url] [url="http://i51.tinypic.com/24edct2.jpg"]Planar Project (4)[/url] [url="http://i52.tinypic.com/amp4w2.jpg"]Planar Project (5)[/url] [url="http://i52.tinypic.com/dfj7mr.jpg"]Planar Project (6)[/url] [url="http://i54.tinypic.com/14iznma.jpg"]Planar Project (7)[/url][/b] My pride and joy of my art semesters at GVSU. We had to select an architect and a sculpture artist for this assignment and use them as an influence to make a structure that's an abstraction of normal architecture. I chose the artist Kris Kuksi (look him up!), so mine was a lot different than everyone else's where I had to add a bunch of tiny details to mine. I added moss and parts from model airplanes and such. I wanted my structure to have that feel of nature growing over an old mechanical past... kind of like lost, ancient technology. The teacher didn't know but this also came from my Hayao Miyazaki inspiration. I would have liked to do so much more with this but I was very limited with what I was allowed to do. I was already way overstepping the bounds of the project by using model airplane parts and such. We were only supposed to use the wood we were issued. I think those are the few that I think are at least worth showing haha. Some other projects weren't terribly interesting so I won't bother with them. I have more images of some of the 3D structures if someone wants to see a certain view of them I didn't show.

I like chibi-master's doodles. Boo is one attractive bunny, ya know :] Will that be something real? 'Cause I wouldn't mind seeing it hah.

Yeah, but even though animated films like "Pooh" are due to be released, Disney has announced that [i]Tangled[/i] will be the last of their fairy tale films for a long while. It's sad to think that we will never see an animated version of other Grimm stories, but hey... at least we've got Rapunzel. *perverted growl*

Not gonna liiiie... uuuhh... Rapunzel's a babe. Jus' throwin' that out there. Yep.

I don't know if it counts, but I'm particularly fond of the "antagonists" of Hayao Miyazaki's work. He says that in his stories none of the characters are [i]evil[/i], they're just misguided or something of the sort. My particular favorite example of this is the pirate gang from [b]Castle In The Sky[/b]. They're villains for a good portion and it's hilarious to have an old mother run a pirate crew filled with her complaining, whining sons. I mean, the comic relief is just too much. He seems to use pirates as the enemy a lot, particularly sky pirates are you can once again find in [b]Porco Rosso[/b] (another good example of villains I enjoy). I think I'm fond of villains who have humorous qualities and a deeper backstory than "I just want to blow the world up." Villains tend to have more to them than heroes anyway. And on a side note, Disney-wise Gaston kicks all villain ass.