Shojo Manga and LA Kimono Club

[aimeekitty]

stolen from scruffyrebel
Ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. (Or just something that would help you know me better) Ask away.

Police Hunting for Otaku ?
(look out, AJ! You'd be stopped!)

I'm rereading Mars manga over the past couple of weeks. It really endures as one of my favorite over-dramatic shojo titles. :) I'm also rewatching the Beauty and the Beast tv series. Yeay, girly crap!! It will tide me over until the next Tramps Like Us comes out (feb 5th!)

Also I just got Nana #8. I like where Nana's (Osaki) development is going, and Takumi is getting more interesting! I don't quite understand Nana (Osaki) completely yet, though, but it's kindof a good thing... I am intrigued by her. :)

I went to have lunch with Mitch in Little Tokyo yesterday, the sky looked like this and I saw my friend the orange tabby again.

Also I got this sweet note from the LA kimono club with a couple photos from New Years:

Comments

[miss-jane.livejournal.com]

Oops, that last comment was me. Sorry!

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

I'm taking a break right now due to the writer's strike and the holidays. My last job was on Futurama (which we completed).

[miss-jane.livejournal.com]

Breaks are good. I hope the writer's strike ends soon (and the writers get what they want!!!). I miss Heroes, badly.

I still haven't seen the Futurama movie but will probably bug my brother to lend it to me this weekend :).

[minuberry.livejournal.com]

How many dolls do you own?

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

if you mean Super Dollfie, I own 15. I'm probably going to sell a couple though in the next few months. I'm trying to cut down. :)

dolls in general? a lot amoung the few barbies and momokos and action figures, etc.....?

[supinternets.livejournal.com]

Mars is a wonderful manga.

This is not really an obvious question but, are you taking a break because of the writer's strike, or did you want to take one anyway? What are your thoughts on the strike?

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

It's both. Last year I really overdid it work-wise with the book and Futurama and everything. So, I am truely wanting to take a break.

I'd rather keep my thoughts on the strike private, but I will say, that I find it sad that artists get no risiduals at all. The artists often have as much of an effect on the final product and work just as hard as the writers do... but often the artists are seen more as simply cogs and have little power with unions or big companies (with some exceptions.) and with much of animation done overseas, I can't really see this changing soon in our favor.

Also, I guess you could say that it bothers me that no one seems to think about the far reaching effects of the writers strike. It's not just the writers who are effected. Everyone in the industry right now is hurting because of this. Often times any creative force (including writers) are not paid what they are due, so I'm not saying that they don't deserve what they are fighting for.

[supinternets.livejournal.com]

I am glad then that you wanted to take this break, and was not forced into it. Enjoy your time off~! :)

I understand wanting to keep your thoughts private. You being an animator was precisely why I wondered how you felt.

I do feel that the way all parties involved in a production are compensated has long been over due for some changes. A close personal friend of mine is a very talented, and hard working artist and I hate to seem him struggle to get by, while others are laughing all the way to the bank that are involved on his projects.

Hopefully both parties can compromise and end this strike soon so that everyone can pay their bills and feed their families.

[restless-wings.livejournal.com]

Ahhh! That makes me even more scared to go to Japan! A girl once told me that I'm too fat & tall to go to Japan, that I'd be stared at and criticized! And now I'd have my bag checked, and they'd see my pharmacy-in-a-bag and probably arrest me!

*crai!*

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

haha... you are worried too much. most people in japan are very polite and nice to tourists.

[fatima-icarus.livejournal.com]

I'd be doomed. LOL

[persoconchii.livejournal.com]

oooh, I has a question!
forgive the utter stupidity of it, but what exactly do you do as "Character Layout" person?

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

we basically do like key-frame animation. the major poses of a character, and then the inbetween poses are done overseas. does that make sense?

the more complex or unusual the action, the more poses we would do stateside. so like a cute dance, most of the drawings would be done here...
but a normal walk, most would be done overseas.

[persoconchii.livejournal.com]

Thats... a pretty cool sounding job! for some reason I thought the computers filled in in-between bits nowadays ^^;

Do you do all the characters in the scene at once, or do they get layered together from different people doing them?

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

its impossible for a computer to do inbetweens for handdrawn artwork.

though a lot of stuff that looks handdrawn now is actually done in flash. So it's hard for people to tell, I could see.

Each artist does the entire scene's keys, no matter what characters are in it. So if I have a scene with Leela, Fry and Bender, I do all three. typically they are drawn on a separate sheet of paper though, unless they are interacting closely.

[gogolotus.livejournal.com]

Hey Aimee! It was nice seeing you on New Years day! My mom and I both decided to join the kimono club btw xD

That kitty and the other black and white kitty that lives in that one boutique is so adooorable :3

Adding you~<3