ActionToonTV UStream Anime Algorithm Tutorial!! Yay!! Okay anime kids, I see some of you are now using Ustream kinda like me, so let me help you....

Okay kids,

I've noticed some of my fellow otaku have started your own Ustream anime channels that broadcast free anime. More power to you. Great idea. I wish you the best of luck....

BUT I've noticed a lot of these new channels seem to have dead air and no anime airing or playing live when I click on their channel...

DON'T DO THAT IF YOU CAN HELP IT!

You don't want dead air. Here's how you can set up a 24/7 broadcast algorithm on Ustream and a avoid dead airtime and lost ratings.....

Just go to you're "Dashboard" control panel

Click on "Videos" button and select YOUR channel.

Pick out the uploaded videos you've uploaded to your channel, or whatever videos you have.

Checkmark each video you want to air automatically when you're not around, individually one by one.

Click the menu of options for your videos...

Click "Make this video public" and enter the command

Congrats, you're videos will now play on your channel automatically in whatever order you selected them.

Just don't forget to un-select videos if you don't want them live anymore.....

[Happy Broadcasting!]

-JM

Got a Genealogy DNA Test from 23andMe. Here are my Ancestral results...

Maternal

Introduction

H dominates in Europe, reaching peak concentrations along the Atlantic coast. It is also common in many parts of the Near East and Caucusus Mountains, where the haplogroup can reach levels of 50% in some populations. H originated about 40,000 years ago in the Near East, where favorable climate conditions allowed it to flourish. About 10,000 years later it spread westward all the way to the Atlantic coast and east into central Asia as far as the Altay Mountains.

About 21,000 years ago an intensification of Ice Age conditions blanketed much of Eurasia with mile-thick glaciers and squeezed people into a handful of ice-free refuges in Iberia, Italy, the Balkans and the Caucasus. Several branches of haplogroup H arose during that time, and after the glaciers began receding about 15,000 years ago most of them played a prominent role in the repopulation of the continent.

H1 and H3 expanded dramatically from the Iberian Peninsula, along the Atlantic coast and into central and northern Europe. Other branches, such as H5a and H13a1, expanded from the Near East into southern Europe. After a 1,000-year return to Ice Age conditions about 12,000 years ago, yet another migration carried haplogroup H4 from the Near East northward into Russia and eastern Europe.

Haplogroup H achieved an even wider distribution later one with the spread of agriculture and the rise of organized military campaigns. It is now found throughout Europe and at lower levels in Asia, reaching as far south as Arabia and eastward to the western fringes of Siberia.

Royal Lines

Because it is so common in the general European population, H also appears quite frequently in the continent's royal houses. Marie Antoinette, an Austrian Hapsburg who married into the French royal family, inherited the haplogroup from her maternal ancestors. So did Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, whose recorded genealogy traces his female line to Bavaria.

Paternal

Introduction

E arose in the eastern part of Africa about 30,000 to 40,000 years ago. Since then, migrants have carried it throughout the continent and into neighboring regions of Europe and the Near East.

Within Africa, haplogroup E is extremely common and widespread, reaching levels of 75% or more among Arabs and Berbers in Morocco, Senegalese in western Africa and Bantu-speaking groups in South Africa and Kenya.

E1b1a and the Bantu Expansions

South of the Sahara, the E1b1a branch of E dominates. The haplogroup originated about 20,000 years ago in the pockets of western Africa that were habitable at the time, when much of the continent was extremely dry due to Ice Age climate conditions.

E1b1a is most common today among speakers of Bantu languages and those related to them; it reaches levels of up to 90% among the the Mandinka and Yoruba of western Africa. Its distribution can be used to trace the path of the expansion of Bantu-speakers throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, which began about 4,000 years ago. Spurred by the development of agriculture and iron-working in the region, the expansion spread haplogroup E1b1a – and the Bantu languages – throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa.

One migration path crossed the central African forests and into eastern Africa, and then stretched southward from Tanzania into southeastern Africa about 1,500 years ago. A second migration path began in the Congo basin and then stretched southward along the Atlantic coast into Angola, Namibia and Botswana. E1b1a reaches 50% or higher in Bantu-speaking populations descended from these two broad migrations (e.g. Hutu, Sukuma, Herero, !Xhosa). E1b1a is also the most common haplogroup among African-American male individuals. About 60% of African-American men fall into this haplogroup primarily due to the Atlantic slave trade, which drew individuals from western Africa and Mozambique, where E1b1a is accounts for the majority of men.

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Here's are some of the places you can go online to purchase, support, and find my work.....

My market is primarily the online market. I have no stake in the TV or Movie Market so far....

So I'm online 24/7.

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New Art Day: Pt. II

"Hands Up"

Random New Art: Sexy Sword Girl

Bibliography, The Collected Journals of Joseph Alberts, Currently sits at 6,500 pages long

The Journal Bibliography of Joseph Alberts

Total Number of Journal - Commentary - Production Memoirs Written:

9 Journal Books Finished and Published

2 - Manifesto - JM Strebler (600 1, 700 2)

2 - Manifesto Sequel, 3 & 4 - JM Strebler (400 pages each)

1 - Commentary - JM Strebler (750 Pages)

4 - Journals Volumes 1-4 - Joseph Alberts (400 pages each)

Total Lenth of Cumulative Volumes: 6,500 pages.

AS SEEN ON TV - AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE OF MINE IS BACK UP: END TIMES ONE SHOT & Art - Manifested: Now available for $0.00

END TIMES ONE SHOT & ART - MANIFESTED: Now available for $0.00, on Amazon: Kindle Prime

Right under the "J.M. Barrie" Listing, in the "books"...section

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There's also a newly revised edition of the print version of Art-Manifested, which will be available soon, for what will soon be around $10 or so less than the former cover price of $33.

Art Manifested, printed snail mail order edition pocket art book is going to soon be available for the new reduced price of $25, which is a considerably better deal than previous incarnations. Finally figured out HOW TO lower the price. So I did.

List: Best TV Animation and TV Screenwriters

Animation writing is an underrated profession. It also has a shorter history than animation draftsmanship and filmmaking. This fact exists because animation was not always scripted. Animation writing only emerged when animation itself became more complex and structured as a production medium.

So without Further ado,

Here's the greatest TV Screenwriters of the current generation, animation and otherwise...

·        David E. Kelly

·        David Lynch

·        David Chase

·        Dave Willis

·        Evan Dorkin

·        Breaking Bad

·        Yoshiyuki Tomino

·        Dai Sato

·        Aaron McGruder

·        Katsuhiro Otomo

·        Kenji Kamiyama

·        Eric Radomski

·        Paul Dini

·        Michael Reaves

·        Matt Groening

·        Trey Parker

·        Matt Stone

·        Chris Carter

·        Dave Filoni

·        Savin Yeatman-Eiffel

A drawing to cheer myself up...

Was feeling a little gloomy today, due to some serious financial problems that've been hanting me...relentlessly.

[lack of] Money aside, I somehow managed to draw a bit this morning earlier today, sometime around 6:30, 7 a.m.

This is my first attempt at a real, live production still and animation cell style sketch. (aka "genga/douga" as they call them in Japan.)

I realized recently my drawings don't have that full composition feeling to them, or a greater sense of storytelling or full scale fully rendered detail.

I realize my bad habits have been taking my style over, and no one had the heart to tell me directly...

So when I realize the mistakes of recent art, I decided I can tell myself...

Now that I'm aware, I've entered a process of corrective drawing to teach myself to sketch and draw in fuller compositions and richer detail. Closer to the way anime animators and directors over in Japan draw individual animation cells, which is how you draw an anime co production...if you're into that sort of thing.

Production sketches for an anime HAVE TO Look full and three dimensional and have a sense of composition. They HAVE to, or it won't LOOK LIKE an anime...

That's the secret truth about anime and animation a lot of people who don't work in anime (like myself in the past) don't realize. If you want to be the guy behind the drawings on your TV or YouTube or DVD Screen, you have to....it's a necessity that you produce drawings, high quality work that LOOKS like what we Actually See On Screen, NOT an Approximation or abstracted interpretation of it. It has to be in EXACT PROPORTION to the animation cells of your show themselves. This is achieved by thinking like an animator. Get inside the animator's head, and produce something that LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE a Genga. Nothing less. "Less than that" used to be all I ever did. But I've made the decision I want to improve, even now after all my success with the arts. I want to take it and push it even further...and taking things to a higher degree is ALWAYS POSSIBLE, if you Try Hard Enough.

That's right kiddies! Ya called my bluff.

As some of you might have guessed or figured out, Production IG's Dead Leaves is one of my favorite films of all time, and Retro is one of my favorite anime characters of all time. So straight out of Tex Avery on crack I love it! I wasn't WATCHING Dead Leaves when drawing. I normally do not except sometimes, but the film and its animators left a STRONG impression on me, and the spirit of that film permeates much of my more extreme designs. Well, that and Yasuhiro Nightow's artwork. It's hard to explain in great literary detail, even though I specialize in it. That charmingly eccentric and bizzare, funky Rob Schrab and Hewlett like squash and stretch geometric angularity. That feeling like it's Leonardo Da Vinci or Todd McFarlane trying to emulate a Dr. Seuss children's book in animation form or something. That type of thing takes skill to make appealing, too.

The thing about Dead Leaves, and why it's an incredibly ingenious but underrated film? It's the cover. The cover does NOT do the film justice. Instead of doing the artwork justice by maintaining its integrity by going with a cell freeze (aka Ghost in the Shell), Production IG and Manga entertainment went with a crappily drawn "re-interpretation" of the films artwork. Now if Jamie Hewlett Himself (one of the films Western influences, clearly) drew that cover, THAT I could understand, but after seeing the film in its authenticity, it's just now that I realize some anime DVD covers suck compared to the interior artwork, hence misleading a lot of people to not bother with that. That or not be aware of what the film itself looks like in reality. I don't know who drew that cover, but it SUCKS. You MUST watch the film itself and not judge it by its cover the same way one would judge Ghost by its cover, something a bit more reasonable.

Also, if you want to draw authentic anime, do not draw manga or illustrations. Probably the truest form of anime is genga cells. You're better off copying from Genga cells or drawing re-interpretations of Genga than you are drawing manga if you want to work in Japanese animation. That's kind of what I think of anime nowadays. I wish there was more genga online, genga galleries and whatnot, but there's a surprising drought of it, and most of it is only available in doujinshi artbook format, with rare pro exceptions available on Amazon America.

Waiting kills me....LITERALLY

God I hate waiting around for things.

It fills me with fear and anxiety, not taking action to better my life.

Sometimes you just gotta grit your teeth and bear it though.

My adoptive parents delay and procrastinate about nearly everything, both important and not.

They waste a lot of time.

So naturally, I'm a very quick reactor. I'm the opposite of my adoptive parents.

LATEST SEARCH QUERY I WISH SOMEONE WROTE AN ARTICLE OR BOOK ABOUT: COMICS-TO-ANIMATION ADAPTATIONS

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American Animation's CHANGED...MAN!

I could go on.....

Actually I think I will.

I no longer have aspirations to be in the top tier of the American animation industry.

Besides, I find Asia is in a business and cultural animation  climate now equivalent to what American animation was 20, 30 years ago. The Asian market contains elements America lost more than a DECADE ago: Kindness, friendship, Openness, Trust, Honest, Purity, Good will. American animation mostly doesn't have those things, ESPECIALLY in ADULT ANIMATION in America. It's now a bunch of college sophomore kids hacking and trash talking each other, and mindless hype and PR. All hope is lost.

American animation now is untrustworthy. It's unstable, unpredictable, unreliable, untrustworthy, closed off, backstabbing, treacherous. All thanks to rogue animators like Seth MacFarlane and Trey Parker. PURE EVIL!

The American import industry has gone from niche to pop culture, to ghetto-ized by recession from downturns in the Obamamy. The most unreliable economy EVER.

No wonder so many animators are leaving the country.

If you're the big cheese, the head hancho, AKA OBAMA and SETH MACFARLANE (who else is there, right?), don't complain when people leave your precious little "beloved" arrogant as FUCK country in droves to live and work and find better opportunities in foreign markets. YOU'RE the one who drove everybody away and caused that SHIFT. You're own myopic arrogance and selfishness, and lack of respect for the traditionally RIGHT way of doing things. You have no one to blame for driving Americans out of AMERICA, but your SELF.

It's not so much the fact that Seth MacFarlane and Steven Hillenberg (Spongebob) tap dance on the grave of the old Walt Disney, Spielberg, Franco, and Rankin Bass 80s and 90s TV grave in the modern TV Graveyard of the old TV landscape that BOTHERS me.

It's that they do it so GLEEFULLY, like they're raping it or something.

It's as if they smiling, nodding (creepily), then muttering to animators like myself

"How dare you succeed and still have a SOUL"

But a soul you must have, if you're not to become a soulless corporate monster puppet drone.

Bill Watterson was right in his pre-retirement commentary, I agree with a lot of his philosophy and talk of "soulful" and soulless cartoons.

If the animators have no soul, no spirit, the studio won't either, and if a studio doesn't have a soul, neither does the cartoons they make.

A lots changed, but you shouldn't have to kill your own soul just to BE at the top. That's WRONG!

Anime has a soul
Franime has a soul
Pixar has a soul

American primetime does not.

Soulful shows, allow me to elaborate:

• Are not  built on big budgets. They are built with lots of heart and soul, on MINISCULE BUDGETS to create an epic illusion of grandeur or a product of the heart.
• They do not make fun. They empathize. You can tell the producer is not a failed V.A. / Comedian.
• The artwork is beautiful and and of innovative design, of organic origin
• NO STEREOTYPES! JM Animation in Korea may produce beautiful anime drawings, but their content, their CHARACTER PERSONALITIES are stereotypical as all hell. As smart as they are, they can't figure out when they're being racist, whether it's Avatar or the Boondocks.