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Thank you so much for all the response to Ida 2! You wouldn't believe how nervous I was about this one. While I still don't think it's one of my best art-wise, the story was very important to me. I can't even tell you why it was important - at the risk of sounding like an ar-TEEST, the Ida character just... you know... spoke to me. And wanted a cup of water at 2 AM. You know how little kids are.

I'm getting lots of questions about what's next for Skary - if this is the end and so on. Absolutely not! I'm going to take a break from Skary movies for a bit and work on more prints. Remember how I used to do a new one almost every week? And it's almost time for the 2008 calendar. There are some non-Skary things I want to do as well (and I'm taking freelance clients again, by-the-by!) but the Childrin are still tops for me.

In between prints, I'm going to take some time to learn a little bit about 3D. I'm trying to get the hang of Blender at the moment (and failing miserably. That thing's like a spaceship control panel or something). Eventually we'll have 3D Skare-o-vision! Oh, and if anyone has some tips for this total n00b, I'm all ears.

If you've got some 3D pointers for me - or any dire questions - don't forget to e-mail me! I do *eventually* get to my comments, but e-mail comes first. If it takes me a while to get to you, that just means I've got a lot of messages to slog through. I'm catching up, though!

Annnnnnnnnyway. I made some wallpapers n' avatars for ye. See here!

Avatars:


Wallpapers:


P.S. - to the person who thought (and was offended by the idea) that Ida's Luck is a message about the ignorance of religion: it wasn't. I can't make that clear enough. That suggestion just ruffled my feathers so much I had to reiterate my response for the benefit of anyone else who may have come to the same conclusion. Because... wow. No. Jeepers.

Actually, while I'm at it - feel free to discuss what Ida's Luck means to you. I always like hearing others' interpretations. This one seems obvious to me, but hey! You never know.

Ida's Luck part 2 is DONE! WOO.

Want to hear something funny? I had absolutely NO idea until today that I'd gotten a DD for part 1. I've been slightly, shall we say, oblivious? lol Anyway, thank you!! That's so awesome!

Sorry Ida 2's not up yet! My technical problems were tougher to sort out than I thought, and then I had visitors and things to do, and sinus problems... I'm pretty sure Godzilla attacked at some point.

Anyway, I found the problem (Windows Vista is largely to blame, but so is the sheer size of this thing) and have been working on fixing it. I had hoped to be able to finally show this thing tonight, but my allergies have got me down. Depending on how I feel tomorrow, it'll be up tomorrow night or Friday night.

Also, I'll try to catch up on my e-mail and comments and DA notes over the weekend. I know I'm behind. Also - the Christmas Books are a few days late. There was a mistake in the batch sent to me (missing a blank page, which made all the other pages off by one so that the book doesn't make a lot of sense). The printers fixed it and the corrected ones are on their way to you all now (and, yes, they're signed!). I'll probably offer the mistakes for supercheap pretty soon. I guess they're good for parts. lol

What else... what eeeeeeeelse... I know I'm missing some important bit of news. I'll figure it out once Ida's out of my brain. And Ida should be out of my brain and on your screens in a day or two, unless my sinuses climb out of my head and strangle me! (They do that. It's ugly.)

In the mean time, close your eyes and wish, wish, wish. And would someone be a dear and make a cup of chai for me?

P.S. - Somebody uploaded the incomplete version of Ida's Luck Part 2 to Newgrounds, despite my explicit request that no one post it anywhere else. That wasn't very nice. Please don't do that again. (Thank you liljim at NG for taking care of that for me, and thank you to all of you who alerted me to it!)

P.S.S. - have yourself a merry little screencap:

I fail. Actually, my audio fails. I'm still trying to sort out audio-related crashing issues (any Flash-smart folks have suggestions?), but after today, I won't be at my own computer until Monday. Yipes! But I promised you Ida, so you get Ida... even if only a minute or so.

This is only the beginning of Part 2, so please don't post it on any other site!

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(There's no preloader, the audio is low quality, I know. Just remember that you're only seeing a sample.)

I'm sure there's a quick fix, but I'm beat. So are you. The rest is coming next week. If I get a chance to sit down at my PC again this weekend (not likely), it may be sooner.

I'm getting a lot of messages asking, "Where's Ida? Where's Ida? You said she'd be here!"

I did and she will! The second half of Ida's story is coming up latelatelate tonight. It's possible that this will go as late as, oh, say 2 in the morning my time, which technically isn't the 1st but is still the 1st by my internal clock.

So, go get yourself some tomato soup (add a pinch of rosemary) and a blanket. Set up a tent in your living room if you want that waiting-in-line-for-a-movie experience. Ida's coming, we sweaaaaaaaaars to you. </Gollum>