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Closing Out

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Hello everyone.

I am writing this, with a heavy heart, that I am closing out this account. I'm still going to keep this up, since I've had it since back in '06, but I will no longer be logging in and managing this account.

I will open a new one, most likely under the name of SEMstudios, or something to that tune, but at the end of the day I know that this account has been coming to a grinding halt for a while now. There are a few key reasons; mainly I don't have the time to manage this account nor the willpower to take on something I've had as more of a crutch than something I want to show the world and be proud of.

As stated previously, I've had almost 9 years worth of work on this account now, and as much as I love looking back, I'm now in a pivotal transaction in my life where there is no time to look back. I love the people I've made connections with over the years on here, and I hope that one day I can come across those people on a different account. Maybe at that point I'll be better at making friends, or keeping connections. Maybe I'll be better in updating frequently and be a better individual to those that give their time to look over my work. I just know that it isn't going to be with this account; too much static, too much haze.

I've had this account through 4 horrible relationships, many mental breakdowns, a dark high-school experience, and the start of a wonderful relationship with an amazing man. I owe it to myself to start fresh, and make a deviantart account that is clean from the bad I carried with me.

I love every one of my watchers, even if I rarely show it. I hope we can meet again, and that I can be a more attentive individual. All regrets and 'I hope's aside though, please do take care and be kind to yourselves. If you aren't on your own side, then who will be?

-Shana.
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*waves* hey there everyone, how's it going?

I know I've been pretty absent, which is a pattern for me I know. I don't intend on putting deviantart on the back burner, and be completely absent from anything and everything that is it. I would love to participate in tournaments, and have free time to do that, but alas, that is not the case. Between work, school, and being in a relationship, my free time is spread quite thin. I do miss my devart friends, however many of you are still lingering around and haven't found more involved people, which I fully understand since I know I'm not the best person to have as a friend in the first place. I do love you all, but again, I can only spread myself so thin.

Now, enough of the sentimental chatter, I don't want to come off as too pathetic, for I have wonderful updates.

I am so deep into my degree and the faculty working with me on it that I've been practically under a rock when I'm not at work. I get my associates and my certificate in animation early 2016, I can almost taste it. I've been working with one of my teachers in working on a documentary that sheds light on soldiers returning back to U.S. soil and their transitioning back into civilian life. It's pretty exciting, and I'm doing storyboards for the animations, as well as the lines for the characters and props. It's pretty magical, and it's an amazing experience; we even get to submit it to the library of congress when we're done. I can't talk too much about it, but it's going to be amazing.

I've also finished my digital animatics final, which is this animation. Sadly, since I have it in mov format and I can only access it from the school and not my home base, I can't put it up here. I plan on fixing that by next week. The animation is a little sloppy, but since it's due next week and I have to work on the doc stuff, it'll have to do until I can revamp it and make it cleaner. I'm pretty darn proud of it though, since it's my first ligit animation.

A future plan that I have that I really hope to have work out is that I plan on putting an application to the Nickelodeon internships for next summer. I think it would be amazing, and I could really use the experience.

As for my love life, I have this amazing boyfriend who I can see myself being with for a very long time. I have never been so happy, and it's simple as that.

So overall I'm doing good, and until I can get things to a good clam I don't know when I'm gonna stop. I'm gonna try and pop on here as often as possible, and show you guys my progress on everything. I actually feel like everything's going in the right direction for once, and I have peace of mind with my life.

That's it for now, love you all.
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~ to write an update journal.

SO. What's up everyone? Life good? How'd semester go for all of you that are in classes? Good? If not, it's okay bro, you'll get them next time. 

As for me, the reason why I haven't updated my audition for angels ascended, is because I threw myself into my final. If anyone wants to see it then chime in, it's not fully done, but it's a 30 second animation involving Moza and Drake. Half done, half rough draft, a bit quick paced, no sound, but I still got a round of applause, SO THAT'S GOOD RIGHT??

Wooo first actual animation. And A's in both my classes. I'm on a roll. 

Anyways.

I'm going to continue my audition and try to jam on it. I might not be able to make it as pretty as it has been, but I want to get it done. I still got 20 plus pages to do in under a month, and I'm picking up more hours at work, so we'll see if I can pull it out of comic space without it looking like a train-wreck. 

Also, in the fall, I'm going back for a digital animatics class, a 3d animation class, and a documentary class where I was invited to be a lead animator/designer, so big stuff right there. Excited for the fall. Lets see if I can hone some stuff over the summer.

And, final note, I'm going to denver comic-con for my birthday, so hopefully I can talk to some big names there and see if I can get into the industry that way/get some pointers. If any of you end up coming to that con I have a weekend pass, so shoot me a line on here and maybe we'll run into each other. (A month ahead, I know, but I figure eh, why not?)

Just sharing this to let you know I haven't dropped off the planet, like my life leads others to believe. 
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Hi guys!

Just wanted to let you know that I'm still kicking, and even though I've been doing the monster-girl challenge thing-a-ma-bob, life is trying to take that away from me. 

Basically, whenever I THINK I have time for things, like awesome tourney participations, and being able to do awesome thing in my rapidly shrinking free time, it gives me a big bag of 'nopes' and hits me over the head with it.

u@ So, I gotta disappear into the plane of non-existence, when it comes to things I want to do at least.

But! On the plus side! I'm part of a studio project! That's exciting! And I'll post up homework that I'm pretty proud of, and possibly redraw it, if it's got an awesome theme to it. So, that's a plus! 

Excitement!
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But I'm gonna need to back out of 9circles. Not that I don't want to do it, but I hardly have any free time as it is. I thought I would work on an entry, and get it in, but I can't. I don't have enough hours in the day, and work's only going to get more intense until next year. Yay christmas rush. >.< I could hardly get out the entry for :iconrabbitcruncher:'s tourney thing. 

That being said, I'm sorry Scythe. I really am. I was so excited about going against you, but I can't even think of where to begin going with this round! I could throw together something sloppy, but that's not right to either of us. ;n; I hope you can forgive me for dropping out. 

Time to go hop back into the abyss that is real life and work. 
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