Gregor-Lives

Hey there guys and ladies! just an update on what's going on with me!

I've just recently moved  into my school dorms because I was accepted into an RA position!

For whichever reason my schools internet does not take well to Deviant art so it very rarely displays the pages correctly or in anything resembling a legible format. So that can effect my ability to  respond and post to you guys.

The other thing is that RA training is very VERY time and energy consuming so that's also going to affect my ability to post stuff for you guys.

I owe some prizes and I'll work on them as soon as I can!

thanks for understanding and remember   is still looking for contestants!  Its a great story and a great environment so feel free to pitch in!

Edit:   Hey there fellow deviants!  I'm just updating my journal to say that I'm going to be participating in the Xyphoid Process OCT being hosted on our very own Bwarchtor! ===> .   It's being hosted by the lovely, talented and 50 million more times organized than me !    If you ever wanted to join in on an OCT now's the time to do it!  Granite is an extremely attentive and motivated artist with a knack for storytelling and exciting plots so this OCT is bound to be a great one!

This tourney will be for both Visual and written media (in separate brackets) and has only Just launched so you have ample to time to complete an audition!

Even if you're not sure  about entering I would encourage you mention it in your next journal!  We're trying to spread word of this one as far and wide as possible to make this tourney as BIG as possible.

That's all for now!   GregorLives OUT!

and remember!            

BE THERE BE THERE BE THEREEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
   




Hello my fellow Deviants.

Looks like it's time for a new journal.  SO. Let's see whats up.

1.  School -
I've just completed my second year at the School of Visual Arts.  I'm fairly pleased with the results but I still have a ways to go before I'm hire-able.  I completed animating my 2nd year film and intend to fully color it before posting it online so that's something to look forward to.  I'm also happy to say that I was accepted for an RA position at the school so I'll be living in the dorms for free and organizing lots of events and outings so I'm pretty excited.  Tomorrow the school has a trip scheduled to Medieval Times for senior week!

Earlier in the year I bought a board game "Shadows over Camelot" because I'm on a never ending Arthurian bender.  It's a fun fucking game.

2. Summer -  
I'm back to work in NJ for the summer living back with my family and trying to save up as much as I can.  Hopefully I wont get as many closing hours as I did last summer so I'll have more time to focus on personal projects.  So far the only outings I have planned are to the Steampunk Worlds Fair and maybe an outing to the beach.           

3. Projects/To-Do List

- Animation Coloring and posting

- Finish Chapter 2 of TTORC and start making a schedule to adhere too (I'll never finish this thing otherwise)

- Buy and read through a "Grammar for Dummies" book to try and figure this here proper English shit out.

- Draw up all those prizes I owe people. (hopefully I can remember everyone I owe stuff too)

- Participate in the upcoming  Xyphoid Process OCT on bwarchtor. (?)

- Mervie Mouse Show with my buddy Mike.


I think that's about it for now.  Fuck I'm boring.

Hello' fellow deviants.

It's been quite some time hasn't it?   Haven't been much in the mood to to update my journal lately I haven't really seen the point. Who the hell would read it?   Been pretty busy on my front.  Last semester started, proceeded, and ended mediocre-ly as per the previous 4 years status quo.  Patterns repeated, lessons left unlearned, ego inflated and deflated, freakouts calmed, hopes created and brought back down to reality.  Minor improvements have been made although not enough to get me a job yet.  That goal is still a long, long way off. if it to be claimable at all.  

I finally finished my "Cryptic Hymn" prizes with mixed results.  have been reminded of several more prizes that I now owe to other OCT winners that need to be created. (I'll  probably list them later).   still needs to be hosted and an experienced 3rd judge to be found.  Yet again another OCT I've made seems to go fairly unused.  Entries are late, if entered at all, and the site suffers from general lack of activity.  ts quite possible that i might retire from running it at this tourneys end.  I just don't feel the love for it like I use to and don't spend the time it requires to be a properly manned site.  My personal projects are once again abandoned for a while while I deal with my poor work ethic for school.  It really is a bit frightening,  having spent this long and recognizing that in a mere 2 years I will be expected to be good enough to be hired by a company to animate or storyboard or illustrate. And I'm not nearly ready.  And I'm not ready. Pathetic for a 23 year old.

Perhaps this is why I like writing for Daniel so much whenever I find the time to do so.  For fear of not completing his story anyway I have to say that despite his weak earlier representations and origin story he really is just a manifestation of the fear of failure. or perhaps the idea of my own failings.  He isn't brilliant.  He's capable and hard working but when the means to achieve a bright future were taken from him he descended and resigned himself to the bottom rung.  He could survive there despite the leaching of his brother of Daniels income but Daniel felt that he would never achieve higher.  That any hope of a better life was gone and survival through the grind was his highest he could strive for.  It killed him.  In a few short years he was dead to the world. Though he took some pride in his work he was little more then a golem performing a task without purpose or meaning.  It's then that Lillian enters the scene.  She is hope.  An Idiolized individual based on a first love interest who, after having taken an interest in Daniel for whichever reasons (ones I feel are best left ambiguous) breaths new life into him.  Through a series of mistakes Daniel looses her and believes her gone forever.  It is at this point Daniel is first introduced to the good people of Bwarchtor and The Tower of Revival.  It is this lack of hope that serves as Daniels primary character flaw. It fuels his sociopathic behavior and draws him ever more into his past life's previous form of Avon Rast.  Even in the actual TTOR he was willing to accept someone he knew not to be her as a substitute.  Not for lack of love for her but simply as a lack of ever seeing her again.
  
Daniel believes that he has gone as far as he ever will and that when you live on the bottom rung with no prospects of rising there really is no point in giving a solitary fuck about anyone else even in regards to others lives.  In TTOR Contingency I wish to convey that his only chance of saving his humanity and identity rest solely on the idea that he regain his hope for a better, happier existence and adjust his behavior accordingly to strive for that new future.  Strangely enough this will never, EVER result in his reuniting with Lillian.  She is simply the goal for which he can look towards and find strength and meaning to continue going forward.  Perhaps this says too much about me but  She isn't, and never will be, something to be achieved.  Lillian was originally supposed to have several segments in TTORC depicting her and Daniel and her final moments before her murder.  Instead I'm opting to leave her character depictions solely as idolized and  rose-lensed  descriptions and memories told and remembered by Daniel.              

Regardless she is gone and in many ways as irrelevant as never have existed all.  

I've rambled now and forgotten my original purpose for this post or why I felt inclined to talk about Daniel so much.

It grows late and I grow tired.

I have one now.  Feel free to take a look at it here gregorlives.blogspot.com/

It has and will have a decent amount of things that I don't post on DA. Right now it features some stages of developing of my art pieces for DA , a comic jam done with my buddy mike, and a good majority of the the animations I made this past year.      check it out!

Still hosting Codeword Davian on Bwarchtor

1: CD Meme
2: GraniteClaws WOTM Prize

Cryptic Hymn OCT
3: 2nd Round winners OC lineart -
  kegisak   
  NobleKatana
  Kenmdrt
  Checkz3

4: 3rd place colored sketch iNSOMN14
5: 2nd place colored sketch solemnwar
6: 1st place colored drawing Mel-The-4th

7: TTORC C2 page 6 - In Progress

8: New Animated banner for OCT Followers