Project Natas.

Check these out first if your reading this for the first time.
Day One: http://profkayton.blogspot.com/2008/08/long-thoughts-into-tiny-font-xd.html
Day Two: http://profkayton.blogspot.com/2008/08/musical-advice.html

Day 3 of Kates career Journal
PROJECT NATAS.
Project natas is the scary project I started in e-media and chemistry sort of. After long conversations with V about God, and having to draw up an e-media project, I stumbled upon drawing some weird things in Spanish while JC wasn’t accompaning me. These creatures I had drawn, were remniscent of clowns and skeletons. I kept drawing them, differently, until I decided they were project natas. The original picture for e-media (if you’ve seen it, the hand grabbing the flower) was supposed to be panned out more, and if it was fully done as an animation (I didn’t get that far) you would have seen the man picking up the flower turn into this clown skeleton-like creature. I’m not too sure on how to explain it, because I started it, but currently have no hook or middle or ending.

~~~Okay because Word was gay and turned me off after I wrote two paragraphs here, I’ll try to explain. How is a cup a cup? How did we give it that name, and is that the ALL-knowing word for cup? When we look at a small container that can hold liquid, why cannot we call it a made up name like, an emryl? Or something weird that we decide to call it. Because God had given us the free will (but still strict enough) to know what that container will be called. The name-er of the cup had chosen that name on his own, but God knew that what we would choose. If, in fact the namer had said ‘this will be called an emryl’, God would have known. IF in fact God did not know we said that, we would prove god wrong. And that’s impossible. Right?
We Live our lives bound to what’s what. We live in the world we live in, despite if we know it is a reality, a fabrication, or all screwy compared to the perfection; because perfection doesn’t exist. We don’t know if what we’re doing is the right thing, but it seems to keep the earth moving, and that’s what matters to those who take life simplistically. Those however, try to figure out our world might be left in a stump on reality.

Another example would be such like this. You try to say hello to someone who doesn’t know your language, nor do you know his or hers. This would seem to prove problematic as we both have words for a ‘hello’. The universal language however is sign language, body language, etc. If you waved your hand at said person, they would instantly know that that’s a ‘hello’ and wave back. However. if they had a poking motion for a 'hello' driven into their brains, they would have practically no idea what your talking about.
My point is, we don’t exactly know what life we’re living. We don’t know if this is reality, if we live in a fabrication where everything god speaks of is to be fed to us for understanding and survival, or this is LIFE. But those people who spend there lives trying to figure it out, will die and you know the first words out of their mouth when they die? “ah. Should have checked that in my calculations.” And that’s that.

You cannot prove God wrong. Right?

Taking that idea, I formed portions of the natas story. First I must explain a large portion of the plot device, ever heard of a term known as dogma? Good because I didn’t either when I first learned of it. But when you’ve watched the movie Dogma as many times as I, you develop an understanding, even if im not extremely knowledgable on the ways of the catholics. BASICALLY, in most teachings, god is infoulable. Aka, he cannot be proven wrong. Its why hes god. (yes im refering god as a guy get over it.) In the movie dogma, two angels were condemned by god to live in a world between hell and Heaven for eternity for there wrongdoing. Earth.God had told them they were not allowed in hevan. The plot of the story was that these two men were going to pass through an arch at a catholic church that during that day of celebration, the arch would wipe all of your sins. Therefore…after the men passed through the arch and were killed, they had a clean slate and would go to heaven Since god had already condemned them from Heaven, such would defeat god. Thus turning the world into irreversable peril and basically life would go BACKWARDS and come to not exist. After watching this movie enough times, I decided to go get the real meaning (wikipedia ftw). And so wiki tells me that its the “established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization, thought to be authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from.” ‘You cannot prove god wrong.’ Therefore. Saying that a cup was a emyrl in this world AND PROVING IT, could cause dogma. But no one can prove that a cup is an emryl so that’s that. In my story however, logic isn’t present. Well. It is, but its more of a parallel world.

Instead of Satan being a rebel angel as found out by the movie dogma (yay for movies teaching me the bible), satan in Project natas was a man NAMED natas on earth. God only had a handful of people on earth to begin with, and chose natas to play the ‘role’ of an opposite of God. Natas was asked to choose his own name, his name backwards, satan. When I say role, natas comes to learn from god, that In several failures of trying to create a utopian world, this world would be taught ‘good’ and ‘bad’. Going into detail, god states that a whole world of perfect people who were all the same never. Did. Anything. Therefore the perfect world plummetted. There was one sound. One job. One this one that. Nothing past that perfect part got done. (in perspective, if in our world the best paying job is the perfect job, then everyone would be a doctor. How are you a doctor in a world where all your patients are also doctors? The overload of doctors leads to no money being created. Those who are doctors aren’t getting paid for there service because no one is using it, and in return those who are hurt don’t go to doctors because THEY are the perfect doctors.) Another example is yes, fairly oddparents, where timmy wishes for everyone to be the same, and they all end up looking exactly the same gray little blobs.

So basically, god decided that this world needed the balance he was practicing. ‘good’ would be those who understood the rules written down by god and those who went above and beyond those rules to make things better for OTHERS. ‘bad’ would be those who went against the rules written by god and caused turmoil for other people. Good people were generous, bad people were selfish. We all know the difference between good and bad because we were taught it. And in this fresh starting earth, people began to learn the concept. As the placeholders of the concept, God stood at the top of ‘good’ while Natas stood at the bottom of ‘bad’. Natas was not chosen because he was a bad person, rather, he was chosen to be able to deal above average WITH bad people. So, once in a while, when the bible needed writing, the long written battle between God and Satan would ensue. Because even God created Satan (by both the bible and my story), God would always win. And this went on for YEARS. Two mellinia in fact. Secretly though, a bit of selfishness began to build inside natas. Living eternally in Gods shadow did suck just a bit. So he started working on a project. A project that in 2000 he would unveil in the notable mellinia fight. During the battle, Natas unveiled a mask, one to fit the size of his face, to God. God, believing Natas was trying to ‘spice up the fight’ began to play along to this ‘heated battle’ by taunting Natas. “whats a mask going to do to the great God?”. Natas placed the mask over his face. This transformed him into a comical looking skeletal body, and his still flesh-like fingers pierced into the skeletal body, pulling out his heart and holding it in his hand. God, by now completely confused, and did NOT KNOW what this was. God did not make it. This form allowed Natas to defeat god this time, because the form was invincible. God was infoulable. Beating god was unheard of. And here Natas did it. Therefore, Dogma occurred. Instead of reversing the world however, it merely struck a sudden change in Gods personality. Confiscating the mask from natas, God dissappeared for a year. The next year, Natas and God did battle once agan, but this time, god used the mask. The problem with the mask, Natas feared, was that it was imperfect. Used to power it were the souls of the underworld, those of the ‘bad’. Natas was able to wield it because he had lived in hell for 2 mellinia. He adapted, therefore the hate and the anger that was inside the mask could not reach him.

But god never had ‘bad’.

The power of the mask was too much for him, defeating natas easily and having god go on a bloodthirsty rampage. In september of 2001, god would land 4 planes to there impending doom. This was the START of what would be many crazed ordeals on earth. God would not put down the mask until he was pulled out of the skeletal state. Natas knew of its only true weakness, but was not able to find it when God himself used it. He would have to rely on those created by god during this time of turmoil to have to power to find it. And many masks later….he found the right one. But it was up to him to decide. Save the planet and defeat god himself? Or have god destroy the planet in his crazed wake……

Now im gonna pull an idea from my own portion of my story. In this version of our worlds events, 9/11 is caused by God. Obviously I don’t believe this. But, some people do. And this is what mocks it. The people, the taliban who DID do it believe that suicide bombings are ‘for allah.’ Usually stating that allah told them to do it. And then, this is also a mock on those who blame god for all there problems. Just as we go to god when we need help, anytime we are down on there luck, we blame him.

This is really where I am at. I have no clue how I should make the main character, or his personality. So I’d like some feedback from you. If the worlds creator was destroying the world, how would you take it if you were the ONLY one who could stop him?

Professor Kayton
X/K08

Musical advice.

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Day 2 of Kates Career Journal
Music and Advice

I originally tried thinking of topics I hadn’t discussed but I really pretty much got it all generally so I’m going to go into some more detail on certain subjects.

Soundtracks is a big thing for me. I’m not even adequetly allowed to judge good music because I listen to practically all of it, but I have absolutely no shyness in telling you if I don’t like something. Raps never been my forte, but I do have a couple of songs on my zune. I’m not fond of korean or chinese music, I don’t particularly like the languages so, (oh and a lot of chinese music proves the american stereotype of Ching chang wing wang) but yeah that’s about it for my hates.
I like mostly everything else, but soundtracks and songs are two very different things. Actually 3 things. You have (sometimes) in the gaming world:
-A theme song
-A Soundtrack (though this is more prone to movies than games but I wont throw it out)
-And Musical score.

Imo a theme song isn’t needed, but most likely does make it easier to some gamers to reference games using there theme song (as addresssed last essay, I can say ‘WH-HI!~~” and someone like Mal or Ashly would know what i'm referencing.) A musical score however, is critical. The mood is set by the music, which has the general ‘happy sad angsty anxious nervous devious etc etc..” emotions to set songs. That SOMETIMES is a good thing, but it all depends on the series. In Naruto (first arc), Toshiro Matsuda has themes for many themes, and while they are insanely repetitive, you hum along when theres a fighting scene, or you hum to the funeral of the 3rd hokage. It actually was WEIRD when they added completely new music to Shippuden, because you expect gaaras death to have at least some ‘sadness and sorrow’ in it.

Anime and games, even though they are thrown into the same category A LOT of times, do not work on the same music as you’d think. Games cannot have changing theme songs every 15 hours, because in games, you have to keep music going for 40+ hours. I’ll cite my sources here, watching nobou uematsus biography taught me that, that games arent movies with 1-2 hours worth of music plus 5-6 theme songs. Unless you’re making a high school musical game, theme songs aren’t awfully intertwined.

Excellent examples of musical score is obviously Nobou Uematsu, some of my other favorites include Pokemon (if a song from one of the games you havent played in like 4 years pops into your head during the middle of chemistry, I’ll deem that music pretty good. But I still don’t know why I would have the goldenrod city theme in my head during chemistry………) Some very powerful scores have to be the God of War score. Nothing is better than fighting mythological monsters with a kick ass rock-God score going in the background.

Once again, I have no background in music. I can play like 6 notes to a theme of anything on the piano and clearly guitar hero or drum master don’t count. From this I’ll jump into my next matter. I need some help.

I am an extremely stubborn person, I won’t admit help from people, because I have a large ego. At least that’s what I THINK I am. I’ve been proven otherwise though. My neighbor says im very caring to little stevie and more patient than any teenager she knows. Of course I don’t believe my 55 year old neighbor has many teenager friends…unless you count her 2 30+ years old daughters who still act like teenagers. I know I need help, but usually I’m more critical about the help than getting help from it. I’ll most likely never ask a person I know on how to draw. When you draw since 3rd grade spending more years asking for help and getting it thrown in your face or told to ‘trace’, you don’t want help from people. But I know I need it.

In my art skills I need to improve on the 3 Ps:
Proportion
Perspective
And Pretty outfits XD

As for proportion I am a lot better than what I was, but I still draw the head first and foremost than anything, which is a VERY difficult habit to break. Next comes perspective, which ties a lot into proportions, but basically, most of my drawings are very simplistic (character + flat bg) or no BG. So I need to work on that as well, and finally, for lack of a letter P, Pretty outfits.
I am god awful at designing outfits. I base everyone on what I wear, tshirts and jeans. Or baggy jeans. Sometimes they have excessive pockets. Really there isn’t much variation in my outfits. But I need to work on them dearly because even I am sick of jean/tshirt people. Some good examples of good outfit desiging has to be top of my list, Soul calibur. I buy the game to look at the people, not for there realism but the intricate and differing outfits. I mean, in this latest incarnation SC4, the spectrum is very wide:
-Siegfried is wearing an all crystal(or ice) looking armor
-Yun seong is a pirate this time around :\
- to defeat the point of soul calibur (of which in many fans eyes is a boob game; every woman has a skimpy outfit) they go ahead and make Hilde, the princess in all armor .
- Tira is on the lines of a crazed circus performer
-and Zasalamel is like the game version of moses. But black. I don’t know XD
EDIT: okay he looks more like Samuel Jackson as a bad guy in white robes. OXTOPUS?

And even though they could have been like ‘samurai era’ and made them all samurai, they chose not to and broaden there horizons. What fascinates me even more is how these characters live in the 16th century world and really all fit in. Amazing.
As for bad clothing design, one word tetsuya, you’ve got to stop with the madman zippers and excessive pockets. And fishnet. On guys. While this DIDN’T bother me originally, either his characters look like japanese boybands(the prince in ff13versus) or rejects (tidus ? I love tidus but his outfit is a bit silly.) Then comes vaan. Whoever decided on vaan is either gay, in love with gays, or Sai. Its probably Sai.

I’ll need help with the writing as I stated in Day one, I know for a fact im not a writer, so bear with me. And the musical score portions most likely need to be addressed by someone in I don’t know, orchestra? Or Piano for those portions. But really, I don’t think anyone wants a game with sonic disney music in japanese being played on rock band…..wait. o___o SONIC CAN’T WAIT TO BE FAST!? NANDE? 100% on expert. lol.

-Professor Kayton
X/K08