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I have only one final and one essay left.
The final is entirely online, and the essay only has to be two pages.
I'm almost done.
So I have an essay due at 11pm tonight, which involves me seeing a play.
…A play which I was unable to go to until 2pm this afternoon.
Assuming it’s three hours at most and I actually want to eat something for dinner, that’s five to six hours to write this thing, give or take.
On the bright side, I got Paint Tool Sai to work on my mac with pen pressure!
…Not that that has anything to do with my animatic, but hey.
Oh, well what do you know, my audio recordings are awful and I’m gonna have to use computer voices again.
For the record grammar’s about the only thing I can do in Japanese (and even then maybe on an elementary level at best), my vocabulary retention is absolutely terrible.
You wouldn’t know I took classes, I’ve lost so much of even the really basic stuff.
もう何も言えない (mou nanimo ienai, can’t say anything) could work. In that case, since it’s a verb that describes a physical action on the speaker’s part, you can add the suffixes 〜しまう (~shimau) or 〜ちゃう (~chau) to imply completeness and unfortunateness, if you want, with the first being more formal than the second.
In that case, the sentence would be either もう何も言えなくてしまう (mou nanimo ienakuteshimau) or もう何も言えなくちゃう (mou nanimo ienakuchau), both meaning “I can’t say anything at all” and, though it might not show up in a translation, implies that the situation isn’t a good one. And, from there, what I said about particles still stands, but it is getting rather complicated XD
In the end, what matters is who’s saying and who they’re saying it to (though since it’s about not saying anything, I suppose it might be thinking? Or telepathy, I dunno), as well as what you want the english translation to be. If you’d rather they say “my voice is gone” than “I can’t say anything” or vice-versa, then that answers what base phrase you wanna go with XD The rest is up to how the character speaks, or thinks, or whatever, especially if they’re not talking with somebody else. If they’re speaking to their superior (and don’t have the type of personality where they eschew authority) or someone of a similar position, they’d go more polite rather than less, most likely. English doesn’t have politeness levels to nearly the same extent as Japanese, so it can get confusing. : P
But again, it’ all situational. Just go with whatever you think works best! : )
Anyone here know how to speak/write Japanese? I need a small sentence translated for my comic - something like “We can’t speak anymore” or “Our voices are gone!” written in Japanese, with Kanji where appropriate?
Can anyone help me out?
For “our voices are gone,” you can go with as little as 声がない (koe ga nai, “there is no voice”), and since Japanese is all about implication you don’t necessarily need to go further than that. There’s a few ways to imply completion and unfortunateness in Japanese verb conjugation, but I’m fairly sure they don’t work well with non-active verbs, so it might be best to keep it simple.
EDIT: You can add some emphasis to the end, if you want, with particles like さ (sa - emphasis, but really informal) or よ (yo - emphasis, implying the revelation of new information to the listener). の (no) can also be used as a sort of softer emphasis at the end (and is generally considered more feminine than さ or よ, at least in that regard), but can also either imply a question or be used outright as an informal question mark.
And my 700th post was about me writing essays.
Truly this is my greatest achievement.
So last night I walked downstairs and
Christmas tree?!
We have a real Christmas tree in our living room. At this very moment. In real life.
Oh yeah also got to see Rebellion Story in theaters last night.
Rebellion Story, man.
I already knew what was going to happen but it was nice to see it in full on a giant screen. (Yes, I liked it. I have quite a few feelings on it that’ll either end up in art, fics, or a giant post at some point, I’m sure. I sure do love character analysis.)
I’m so happy that I can understand all of the (incredibly large amounts of) SnK stuff on my dash now.
For those who were wondering, yes, I did read all of Shingeki no Kyojin.
Well, I’ll post the animatic assuming you guys don’t mind my extremely hastily-drawn panels and inconsistent shading because I’m just trying a bunch of different things to see what works.
Also haha, turns out it’s individual checks on our progress so far, not a class-wide thing. This makes things a lot less stressful.
Well, at least I get to practice drawing panels really really fast. I spent way too much time on panels with the last one.
And unless I end up hating it, I’ll totally post the animatic up here when its done~
Guess who’s gonna be storyboarding all night wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Welp, it’s finally happening. I’m finally starting to read Shingeki no Kyoujin.
Still in chapter one at the moment (and I’m really busy right now, so things’ll probably go pretty slow), but it’s started differently than how I thought it would with my extremely limited knowledge of the whole thing. …This is a good thing, by the way.
I guess, in the end, I feel like I just get my ideas out closer to how I imagine them when I’m writing, rather than drawing.
I love drawing. I love writing, but I also love drawing. I know I have a long way to go in both aspects.
But when I write, even though I know I’m far from perfect, I still feel like I’m at least scratching the surface of what I’m trying to express. It’s far less so with my drawings, where I’m constantly dissatisfied. Nothing I draw, no stylistic elements I adopt, seem to match how I envision things.
Just for the record, the thing that got me thinking about dot eyes again was the fact that I was looking at Journey screencaps again earlier.
Thanks, anon :)
I’ve been doodling a lot today trying dot eyes again, and I definitely don’t dislike the results? I guess I just feel kinda uncertain. Because of course after doodling for an hour I see some reblogged art on my dash of some art with extremely similar results to what I was getting… (A far more successful artist, too.) Not to mention I stopped using dot eyes last time because I wanted a change? I don’t want to come off like I’m copying, and I don’t want to come off as wishy-washy or as a hypocrite either, but I just feel like there’s something missing from how I’m drawing things as of now, I guess, and I feel like trying dot eyes again, now that my style has kinda simplified as a whole, might help things.
…maybe I should try dot eyes again? Combine the general simplification I’ve been doing with that, see what happens. I dunno. I’m just brainstorming here. I feel completely lost.
For the curious, I guess. Lots has happened. Sorry I haven’t really posted anything for a while : ( Also, vagueblogging I guess?