It seems that if you put orange and black together, it automatically means "scary." Take Clu-2, the enemy from Tron Legacy. He's pretty scary, don't you think? But put yellow and white in, and it looks like candy corn. Who wears candy corn colors?!?!?

A Change in Plans

Come to my blogspot. No pink background, candy colored spots or cartoony text await you. In keeping up with Halloween, Cartoon-in-Training is going scary. There will be no humor whatsoever! At least, not so much of it.

Popular why?

What, exactly makes a success? How do things like the Super Mario Bros theme and Garfield become known worldwide, and how can certain web images be so popular?

What wall?

Have you noticed that there is a "wall" between us and the cartoon world? Sometimes a character will interact with an imaginary object in our world and respond to it. This is called "breaking the fourth wall," and it is handy to use in a cartoon series. To them, there are only three walls and the paper or screen is a window they can open anytime.

Halloween is coming! Call me crazy, call me morbid, but Halloween is one of my favorite times of year. There are some things that are a little too creepy and horrorific (try decaying zombies with parts missing) but I try to stay away from that. I was thinking about what to carve into my pumpkin this year. Any ideas?

Portals?

I just noticed that the font I selected for my blog looks strange whith letters in italics (slanted letters.) I also noticed that my blog is purple on my computer, but pink on the home computer. I hope I have not entered into another dimension!

Today was my birthday. Sure, I still had school while my brother and sister take Harvest Week off, but it was a good day. After my homework was done, we went to Taco Bell where we each got our own meal (I got a cheesy potato burrito.) We also to a new ice cream shop where they sold each scoop of ice cream for a dollar. Then I took my family on a tour of the campus at BYU-Idaho. We also went to CAL Ranch (an farming strore) and WalMart. Back at home we had white chocolate cake frosted with BYU's "Y." As for presents I got one video game, De Blob 2. I also got three books; Super Mario Series for Piano, The Everything Cartooning Book, and The Art of Epic Mickey. What a wonderful birthday!