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It's probably ages since I last updated my dA ANYTHING, really XD.

I'm not gonna give you a wall post of what I've been doing in my life or why I haven't been around here. Instead, I'm gonna tell you where most of my focus has gone to:

I have been making comics weekly and posting them on Tapastic. I went there after the mangamagazine.net/inkblazers.net shutdown. "Through Crestan Eyes" is on indefinite hiatus while I'm working primarily on "Undying Happiness" (It's a series now!). If you want to read any of my comics, they're all on Tapastic.

READ MY MAIN COMIC SERIES "UNDYING HAPPINESS"

OR VISIT MY TAPASTIC PAGE AND READ MY OTHER STORIES.

Thanks for reading! I'll probably post another update here in another year, LOL.
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I haven't updated this journal in more than a year. In fact, I have been absent from deviantArt for a while, and I apologise that.

But WHOA. I was a day late to find out that I have a second Daily Deviation after many years: zelkats.deviantart.com/art/Per…! Makes me ashamed for not being active.. Thank you so much, ry-spirit.deviantart.com/ for the recommendation and thank you all for the kind comments and liking my work, everyone.. T_T You gave me a surprisingly pleasant way to end the year :heart:

I owe you guys a bit of an update on... my artistic life and stuff. Turns out I'll be staying in Japan a little while longer after I graduate in spring! :D I got a job offer from Konami, which gets me nervous, but at the very least I won't be pressured to work on big titles or anything like it. I'll start small. I'll work at a subsidiary company first before I climb the ladder!

I've spent the most of 2013 planning a webcomic, which started around the middle of the year. But it's going slow (updated once a week), and I'm putting the blame on my want to colour the whole damn thing, ahahaha T_T... I'll probably have to cut corners and switch to black and white soon to lessen the workload.

Do read it! And if you'd like to support it, you can join mangamagazine.net and add it to your favourites. It's all free! :D

www.mangamagazine.net/manga-an…

Have a great year, everyone! :glomp:
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Okay. It's been so darn long since my last update so, there's probably no point in giving any excuses. I feel like a complete butt head for leaving this gallery alone for so long XD;

I'm sure I owe you guys some explanation of what I've been doing for an entire year. So here are some art-related highlights of my sad journey this year:

1) Remember I talked about applying for animation jobs at some of my dream studios? Well, that didn't go so well XD.. The furthest I've gone, though, was a job interview by BONES! It was reaaaally nerve-wrecking. Only 12 applicants were selected for the interviews and exams and I was the only foreigner. The pressure was so intense and I screwed my Japanese up XD... So that didn't go well either. At least I got to look around the BONES building for a bit.

2) Remember I talked about planning and directing an animation short for my graduation project with fellow classmate and artist Namaste43 blog.naver.com/namaste43 ?

It's done (in February 2012) and you can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdY8jn…

And two months ago, I found out that my lecturers submitted my animation to the ASIA GRAPH 2012 in Tokyo competition without my knowledge and it actually won first prize under Division III: Student under Age 25--- public subscription for Animation! The name of my team is Studio i2 and it should be here somewhere in this list: www.asiagraph.jp/index.html

3) Even though I did a graduation project, I didn't exactly leave the college. I sort of graduated and decided to extend my studies in a different program, but in the same college. Hahaha. Ha. Yes. Just for another two years. Or one. Since this term is going to end in a few months.

4) After so, so long! I finished another one-shot manga! It's called 'Faerie Gari'. It's been forever since I finished Puppet Eyes for MICC. My storytelling and comicking skills were pretty rusty but I tried. I recently joined Manga Magazine.net and uploaded it there.

So here's the link if you want to read it: www.mangamagazine.net/manga-an…

I showed it to the assistant editor-in-chief of Dengeki Comic Japan and he pointed out some legit mistakes about my manga. So. I'm not quite ready to make to get somewhere in the comic industry in Japan, so I really need to work harder! >XD

5) Faerie Gari was October's one shot of the month in Manga Magazine! And I was promoted to Featured Artist in November! It was a pretty great boost for my want to create more comics. I'm seriously planning a serialization and upload it on MM.net and Smackjeeves. Again, it will take time, as I have to create more illustrations for my portfolio. I may have to get an illustrator job to attain a work Visa and remain in Japan a little longer, so... commence busy times!

6) I'm about to finish another one-shot manga! Once I'm done, I'm going to upload it in January after translating it from Japanese to English.


Again, folks, sorry for disappearing yet again. Spank me and remind me to update a lot more often!
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Studying, putting my portfolio together, anime project planning, job hunting... You get the gist. I haven't had the luxury to update anything in my DA page for a while, and I would have, if I've planned my time properly.

Other than all that, life in Japan has basically been peaceful. People here have moved on and are now going about with their lives. My family believes that it's pretty much safe for me to stay a little longer now, which is good.

So what's up? I've been having a dilemma of whether or not I should work as an animator. Shortly after I started my second year in college, a teacher who currently works at Sunrise and does teaching part-time told us the harsh realities of starting out as an animator, and to be honest, I got really depressed at one point.

But since I've gotten this far, a little work experience shouldn't hurt. I've sent my application and portfolio to A-1 Pictures but haven't got a reply from them yet (and they haven't returned my portfolio. So I have to go through the trouble of making another one). Others who have already applied for A-1 have gotten letters from the company saying that they failed the elimination stage a few days after the application deadline. I've waited for almost a month so I still might have a chance with them (No news is good news). Production IG is my next target, and then BONES and Madhouse (once they start recruiting). They made animation series' that I basically grew up with, so I guess sacrificing my leisure time and social life to work with them for a few years doesn't sound too bad.


If you have been wondering what ever happened to my first anime project, well. It's up in youtube now!

WATCH "TO THE STARS" HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-UyXO…
(It's so unprofessional. It's embarrassing. Please be merciful when commenting, thank you 8D)

I'm gonna fix it up a little, insert english subtitles and submit it here in DA during the summer break.

And what have I got next? I'm directing another anime short again! It's for our graduation project. I just finished drawing the storyboard last week and we're gonna go through hell once again :D
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I'll be flying back to Japan tomorrow. With the recent earthquakes happening there, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scared. I'm feeling pretty torn about this. I want to finish what I started and continue on to my dream, but at the same time I would also like to stay with my family so I won't worry them to death.

I listened about the people in Japan who are carrying on with their lives and helping each other out, because that's their country and they're their people. It's the only comforting thing about Japan that's making me want to go back there, hang out with my friends and classmates, have a great time and pray that everything goes back to normal :)

I've been feeling pretty miserable because of all this. Feeling pretty horrible for the victims of the tsunami, and immensely afraid of the possible nuclear disaster. I was supposed to draw plenty of pictures, get new ideas for my next animation project but my mind's been blank. Thankfully, I had a good enough rest in Malaysia and I got to play with my two toddling nephews a lot. They're growing up so fast! And my third two-month old nephew is simply adorable. My family simply revived me.

After a lot of thought, I do want to go back to Japan. It's like a second home to me. I wonder if this is going to continue for a longer time. Going to Japan to work towards my ambitions and coming back to my country to spend time with my family and watching them grow. I'm having a lot of bittersweet feelings as I'm typing this.. TT__TT

On a less emotional note, once I go back to college in Kamata, I'll ask if it is alright to upload my animation short on the internet. I could have done it if it was shown at the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2011 already. But of course, the event was canceled shortly after the big quake.

In the meantime, I'm going to go ahead and make a 'director's cut' version of it. There are some things in the sound effects and music part that I'm fussy about and I'm going to fix them behind my team's back :XD: I'll post likely submit it here in this gallery.

If you have not seen the poster yet, here it is~
To The Stars -poster- by Zelkats

If you're wondering what is it about, well, let's just say it has something to do with not being able to see the stars (due to air pollution) and aiming high to reach for it. :)



Puppet Eyes

This manga was an entry for Kodansha's 2nd Morning International Manga Competition/M.I.M.C. (now known as Morning International Comic Competition/M.I.C.C.). It then became one of the runner ups in 2008. This gave me the real push to pursue my dream of telling people stories through my art and characters.

Puppet Eyes

You can read it in the M.I.M.C website
English | 日本語


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