MerelyCubed

Hi everyone, long time no see, eh?

Well I've been slowly kinda coming back in the past few months, participating in chat events, pixelling from time to time, eventually made for my 100 themes challenge list you can see on my page. The latter couldn't have been possible without an anonymous lovely deviant who offered me a sub so I can see said list, so I send all my love to you, whoever you are

2012 hasn't been the bestest of years for me. To be fair, it was the worst ever.
Around march, I started to feel quite down, kind of stopped going to school, went into so much procrastination I actually couldn't give in all of my work in time, failed a few of my finals, got a caring suggestion to go "see someone" from one of my teachers. When school was finally over, I came back home for three days and then we moved into an other house. It was quite difficult as I had always known the old house and I loved it.
Summer wasn't completely bad though. One week after moving, I participated in a 48 hours film project and made this movie. I had a lot of fun. The most fun I had in months, actually. I catched up with my best friend IRL as we could only talk over the phone when I was in Belgium, even though he visited me in february. We had fun every time we would see each other, we celebrated his birthday like we would eavery year for as long as I can remember, by going to the movies and watch the latest Pixar. We met multiple times.
At the very end of august, I went back to Belgium to resit my finals, got them right this time and finally got my photographer diploma. I started looking for jobs around my hometown and in Paris where I would stay with my best friend, welcomed the lovely Kyramy for a couple weeks and then decided to create my own business as it seemed I was not going to find anything.
As things were starting to feel good again, on october 6 I lost my best friend because he decided he couldn't live after breaking up with the love of his life. It was a heartbreaking period, and if I didn't have my family and friends at the time, I would have ended the same. I so wish he told me more about what it made him really feel and if I had found a job in Paris, we would have been sharing an appartment, and I could have been closer to him. Since then, not a single day has passed without me thinking about him, feeling sad, mad, down and crying in my bed, in my car, on my bike.

On the other hand, I created my own business in january. You can check my website, even though it's in french, there are a few pictures up there and they speak more than words. This is going pretty good so far, I'm confident. I got a few missions (including this week, I'm off for five days to film a theater festival!) and I can finally buy the gear I've always dreamed of (thank you, bank loan).

I am trying to be back in the pixelling business, but I am starting with one hell of a piece. It won't be finished before a few weeks
You can check this WIP snapshot (it also is on my profile, on the left, just scroll down a bit, it updates automatically every time I work on it!)

Anyway, I'm slowly feeling better everyday, I want to do more things, so stay tuned.

I love you all <3

First of all, thank you to all the people that went to see my little emote movie! Oddly enough, with only a hundred views, I made it to the "popular videos in the photomanipulation category in the last 24 hours". Not that it changed a lot of things, but it still made me happy

And most of all, thank you so much to the anonymous person who offered me a 3 months premium sub! Thank you so much
Now, I shall get back to pixelling a lot, right?

I'll do as soon as next week, when my finals are over. As I am studying photography, my finals consist in making pictures and presenting them like an exhibition to a handful of museum directors, journalists and photographers that come and give us points based on the pictures and a small talk with us.

Here is one of the pictures I took for my series:



You can see more, and behind the scenes on my (french but-with-a-poor-translate-option-on-the-right) blog.

Have a nice day! I'm heading back to the studio to take a couple more pictures

And thank you again anonymous person!

Hi there! I've been wanting to do something for quite a while, a movie with emotes. Like, live actions and pixels together. A few months back, I did this picture for a project in my photographic school. The teacher asked me if I found the "pixeled smiley" online, to which I replied "no, I did it myself". I then proceeded to show him my dA gallery and my work there. Very intrigued with it, he said "I see you also have animated emotes... I know you love movie making, why don't you make it an animation?" To which I replied "sure!" and I was all like "challenge accepted" inside. Then I realised the amount of work this meant and was more like "Oh god, why?". But I managed to do this, here is the result:

Meet Twelf

I hope you'll enjoy it!

I got a Daily Deviation today on
Thank you to stuck-in-suburbia, Kerubimu, Nee-to, Quolia, IceXDragon, spring-sky and pixiepot for suggesting it and Krissi001 for featuring it

I am very pleased with that and it's an awesome way to start the day!

I will extend this emote someday, to make it look like what I first had in mind

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I won the Emote Monthly Themed Contest of January with the same piece, I'm very happy about that too indeed

Two awesome entries from this contest:


by otohime0394

and

by Ricsmond



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And because some self promotion never hurts,
if you play and like minecraft, drop by my youtube channel
I review the latest additions to the game before the official releases, and from time to time there are adventures or let's play videos

Also check my photography account on dA, tbfdm

Thank you!

Rules

1. You must post the rules.
2. Each person must post 5 things about themselves in their journal
3. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and create eleven new questions for the people you tag to answer.
4. You have to choose 11 people to tag and post their icons on your journal.
5. Go to their page and tell them you have tagged them.
6. No tag backs
7. No stuff in the tagging section about "you're tagged if you're reading this". You legimately have to tag 11 people.
Here are the questions I had to answer.   These are for reading purposes only.  DO NOT ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS.

5 Things

1. I am a guy.
2. MerelyCubed is not my first dA account.
3. I've been on dA for almost six years now.
4. I do Minecraft videos on youtube.
5. I'm glad I've been tagged only once.

11 Questions for Me

1. y =CubicInsanity no love Kristen? ;~;
Because she's mean.

2. What's your favorite scent? Mine's the smell of victory.
I have no idea, I don't have a nose ;~;

3. If you could be any kind of tree, how tall would you grow?
5'2".

4. OH NO! A robber is trying to attack you in the safety of your office cubical. What ordinary office supply item would you improvise as a weapon?!
My keyboard.

5. The answer to this question is purple. Answer now.
Oran- oh. Purple.

6. I don't like this game, we should play something else. Suggestions?
"Tie up the robber to the office table with cables". It's a board game.

7. Artsy question: Your top 2 tools of the trade are what? (It could be a digital program, a tool you use--online or off, a reference, a physical item such as a certain paintbrush, anything.)
Photoshop and any camera.

8. Fartsy question: If someone were to loudly pass gas while sitting immediately in front of you in a public place, what would you do?
I wouldn't notice. No nose. And I have no ears either.

9. We're not even to 11 yet. Uhm. Hm. OH, I KNOW, CLICHE QUESTION GO: If you could have any one super power, what would you be and how did you obtain it? (IE: Spide-y web-slinging powers by getting bitten by a radioactive spider.)
The ability to change time perception. I would get it from falling into a staircase in a building of Saint-Petersburg.

10. What's your favorite TV Commercial Jingle? Mine's Tumtumtumtumtummmmmmmsssss.
"Mercurochrome, le pansement des héros". French commercial from when I was a kid.

11. Last question. Yay! How are you celebrating?.
By realising I still have to invent 11 questions.

11 Questions from Me

1. What is your worst nightmare?

2. Write the first five words that go through your mind.

3. BOO! Did I scare you?

4. If you had to choose between eating a thousand elephants or one spider, would you wonder how you got to have to make this choice?

5. What do the two oceans say to each other?

6. What is your oldest memory?

7. Would you go to the moon?

8. You can't look at ANY watch, digital clock, phone, or anything. You can't ask ANYONE. What time is it right now?

9. Now check. What time is it?

10. Did you know you couldn't lick your elbow?

11. Did you try?

Tagging people

1. Banjelerp -- Because she's a cube and she likes being tagged.
2. Kyramy -- Because she's short.
3. Synfull -- Because Aston asked for it.
4. Kahall -- Because he's a bro.
4. MooseBoots -- Because I can.
11. tbfdm -- Because that's easy