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Turty can draw, write, and compose! (Oh my!)
THIS POST HAS JUST BEEN ABDUCTED BY ITS ACTUAL PURPOSE
Link to Music Link to Artwork (Until I get a scanner) Link to Writings (To be added) So I figured that I should have one of these as I have a little bit of talent in each of these subjects. And I didn't want to make a thread for each one of these things, since I love organization. I guess I'll try to update this daily. Wait a second, that's a dead lie. Maybe semiweekly. Biweekly. Triweekly? Semimonthly, maybe. Or maybe even bi-tri-week-hourly. Or maybe even not at all when I eventually let this die out. I'll try to archive most of the content here once I get past a page or 2 of posts. You can criticize all you'd like, but for requests I only take a few of. So to kick this thing off, let's have some filler! I present to you my first remix! This... is not all that good. XD But it was my first time experimenting with FamiTracker, and I wanted to do something sorta simple. The only thing I really like is the bass, which I also messed up, so... don't say anything about this. Last edited by TurtwigX; May 19, 2013 at 04:01:05 PM. |
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I'm back so soon? Hey now~ I got a little bored just sitting around being sick all day so I decided to redo the oh-so popular Christmas song, Jingle Bells!
This features some sweet chords, a Bass solo, and some of the sloppiest percussion you will ever hear. I literally just threw around different ideas trying to get a different beat in the different parts. Ah well, at least I tried to make it more tight around the end. And I tried to make the Bass perfect, so I put my ALL into it. Enjoy your gift unwrapping day, everyone~! |
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I've been listening to a lot of Beatles lately (obviously) and thinking about how to improve on the percussion when it hit me. I was inspired by Richard Starkey, more well known as Ringo Starr, also known as the greatest drummer in the world (really.) So I threw together a short, random tune based on the percussion from a Beatles song that I think has amazing drums. (I GAVE IN AND USE DPCM SAMPLES. I JUST NEEDED THAT KICK.)
Couldn't find a picture to use this was just randomness, so I used album art of the song I got the drums from. I had fun with the random chords and the bass's all-over-the-place-iness, but this song is all about the drums. Since I'm listening to quite a few (Read: all) of their songs, there are others that have inspired me that I might do, but those I think I'll compile in the same video. |
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I remember one time I told Cat I would try to draw a Charizard. And I did. Then I ripped it up, burned it, and threw the ashes away because it was just so hideous and I swore I'd never try that ever again. But I knew I had to, and with determination I pulled off a sketch! Once!
Good lookin' Charizard
I studied Ken's artwork for about 1 or 2 hours seeing just how all the different features were. I'm still not done dissecting it so I can redraw it anyway I want by memory, but this is a good replica methinks. It's important that I do, I need him and a few others for a project of mine I'll be starting soon. (Note: I do not know how to trace.) |
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It's been like 3 weeks since the drum song. And like I said, I HAVE compiled the others into one huge video. Same as last time, writing a song around the drums I stole from the originals, but this time they're short little tunes (since I was veeeeery lazy.) I did 5 of their songs (well technically 6, but the last one was more faithful to the original than the others) from the beginning, middle, and end of their career.
Yes, that is Kim Pine. She's only there because she plays drums. And this was exhausting, never messing with them again. Ever. Buuuut, I do sorta like them, so I may extend one of them at a later date. I just don't know which one. |
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I'm kind of obsessed with guitars right now. Specifically bass guitars. So I had a strange dream where I was in my dream band (that plays almost nothing but covers of The Beatles) except instead of a human, I was a Turtwig. And my bass looked like one, too. So I decided I wasn't gonna let that subconscious creativity go to waste, and I quickly made this!
Turty's Rock-god dream!
Of course, about a day after my planning (before I finished the actual coloring of the artwork) I started to whistle a song to go along with the drawing, in the style of Crush 40. I didn't want this song to die (like many others before it did) even though it was a guitar song, so I quickly spammed the notes in FamiTracker and started to build a more complex melody from my base. And this was the outcome! I think I emulated the guitar sound pretty well, and it's a good start for me to do more 8-bit guitars. Maybe I'll even accomplish my dream of starting a band. If someone, anyone can build me that Turtwig Bass Guitar, I will love you forever. With money. So much money... |
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I really like the sound of this last one. It sounds very much like an actual rock song played on guitar, and the drums fit it quite nicely. You certainly are great at Famitracker, no doubt about that. I like how you simulated the different toms with the DPCM pitch/speed setting.
As for the Ringo compilation, my thoughts were, "Ooh, this one is pretty goo--wait, it's already over? Hmm, this one is pretty nice t--aww." Last edited by Cat333Pokémon; January 23, 2013 at 11:05:16 PM. |
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To Cat- Aw thanks, you're really too kind, but that sure helps motivate me. About the compilation, I did say they were like little jingles, but I'm extending a couple.
There are a lot of games from my childhood that have much nostalgic value, but nothing gives great memories like the SpongeBob game "Battle for Bikini Bottom." While most games based off of shows and movies had weak production and little actual entertainment value, this one had an adventure system similar to Super Mario 64, lots of humor, references from almost every episode up to 2003, and amazing music. The one I chose to do was the Mermalair, the easiest of my favorites to get the notes to by ear (YOU try doing Slide without any assistance.) I love it (the original) for its parody of the Batman theme, except I like this one better. The hardest part of doing this (the remix) was the drums, they took up a whole day. And I HOPE they came out good in the end. Last edited by TurtwigX; January 27, 2013 at 10:20:29 AM. |
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Look at the first post. The joke one. That was like my first song I created in FamiTracker, or first FULL song anyway. So many failure jingles... It's been a little over half a year (I thought February was 6 months after July. Am I stupid?) since I started, and I thought I should make some sort of... halfiversary of my progress. But this song was still pretty difficult to do and I'm never going to try it again, not even in another 6 months.
I did the whole thing without looking at the old one, so it was almost like starting all over. This version has added guitar and complex drums along with the reworked Square and Bass. Now I'm gonna take me a pretty long break from doing music stuff. |
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If you do get to remixing Roxie's gym, be authentic with it and add some vocals of your own! And if you HAVE to do the English version, don't make the rhythm weird. |
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BEHOLD THE MOST AMAZING THING IN EXISTENCE!
BOW DOWN TO YOUR NEW MASTER
I'M BRINGING "WHAT THE VOLTORB FLIP" BACK, BABY. All of my IRL friends are complete idiots XD ...I do suppose this needs a LITTLE backstory. So I was talking to one of my IRL friends about how I'm doing requests for V-Day Pokémon for my friends in school. So he requests VOLTORB of all things (and he doesn't GO to my school) and I caps rage at him at how it's just a circle. So I quickly made this because DERP. AND THAT'S WHY IT EXISTS. I needed a little fun downtime~ Last edited by TurtwigX; February 4, 2013 at 05:50:00 PM. |
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Happy Valentine's Day, everybody~! ♥ While I normally treat this as a minor holiday seeing as how I don't usually care about love, this year I decided to dedicate it to my friends. 2013 is my super peppy positive year, after all. So for those amazing people I know, I drew pictures~!
Happy Valentine's Day Drawings!
But wait, that's not all! I also happened to do something I've been wanting to try for a while now.
Related Project
Well, that was a lot of stuff from me. I hope you all have a great day whether you're with someone or not. Me? Oh, I know who I'll be spending time with. The nicest, cutest, most considerable person in the world~ Take me away, Alphonse Elric~! Well, AFTER I sleep for 9 hours. |
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Alright, I've had enough time off for a while. Back to experimenting before I lose my touch! This time I decided to do like the BEST song ever. Okay, well that's an overstatement, but definitely one of my favorites from my favorite game of all time. Now many people should already know the game is Mother 3, but the song that I have done is the upbeat and happy theme Ride the Green Train~! This goes out to all the COOL people!
Original for the uncool who've never heard this- Remix for those COOL in the know- I honestly think this is my greatest FamiTracker work that I've ever made and released (since I obviously haven't released ALL of my content to the public.) I don't dislike a single part of this song, although I feel like some things could be further enhanced but I'm too lazy to go through with those. Even though when I made this I was without a piano, I tried to make the notes as accurate as possible. I even tried to add some of that good feel from the also 8-Bit Paradise Line (Again, the COOL people would know.) I'll definitely be using that picture again, cause I know I'm not done with Mother 3. Maybe Earthbound, too... |
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The great Turtovsky is back with his greatest musical composition yet! His new ringtone!
This is a lengthy version of a song I made for the purpose of being my new ringtone. Y'know, cause I'm too good to just download some random ringtone off the internet, I have to make my own! It was a pretty simple concept, though it took two days to bring it all together. My biggest influence was Flying Battery Zone Act 2 (Thanks JD ) as that helped me create the drum n' bass intro which was basically the backbone of the song. I still don't think this is my best thing from FamiTracker, but it sure is the longest. Since I'm lazy, I also developed this picture for all original compositions done by me that didn't come from an inspiration I can really draw (or want to draw. I did say I was lazy, right?)
THE LAZINESS
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I can't like this enough times XD I don't consider myself quite there yet, but I'll accept demigod
I forgot this in the original, but here's the short ringtone edit that I made. My favorite thing about this is the insane vibrato at the end of the harmony parts. I successfully pulled off an awesome sounding "waaah waaah" thing~ |
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Happy Easter everyone! Yeah I know I'm a TAD bit late, but Turty always delivers~!
Happy Easter, guys~!
This features the Easter Buneary having a jolly good time with her two egg-crazy friends Happiny and Chansey! With me under a pile of that good old Easter spirit! This is why I stay at home. Unfortunately this doesn't have color because I remembered today was a holiday right before I went to sleep at around 3 AM but hey. Maybe I'll color it in later and make it look SUPER fine~! |
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All this talk about X and Y makes me want to read all the info I can. But I have to avoid all the spoilers, and I'm trying so hard! In my mental breakdown, I found this and souped it up with color. A bad drawing of a fake professor I thought of!
Fake Professor
A while back, probably like in November 2012 I drew a picture of what I wanted to see in a professor. All of them were old and had chestnut or graying hair (not counting Juniper, she's a sweet young thang) so I made THIS guy a lot younger. And I made him BLONDE~! Blonde people are really cool in my opinion. A professor of some snow-covered unnamed region I made up, he also wears a green and orange striped sweater and a pair of corduroys to keep warm. Whenever I come up with ideas I put a Jesus-load of detail into them, so there's a lot I'm leaving out just to prevent a 3-page essay. |
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I knew someone was going to say Suicune sooner or later. :I The funny thing is I had him on my mind while I was drawing this. But the big difference between the two is that one is a lame ambitious guy who studies useless things and the other is a Pokémon professor. Seriously, Geology? What a useless subject.
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Being early is for losers and I'm never on time, but you can count on it that Turty will always make the deadline!
For You Algae~
Don't you just love it when you learn hwo to draw a new Pokémon in only 3 hours to meet a deadline? Well I only did it because it's for someone special in a totally platonic way, my Algae buddy~ At first I was gonna leave this in black and white because screw all that coloring nonsense, but then I realized how ugly it was, so to distract from that I added in a few splashes. Sweet Jesus, why do Unova designs have to be so weird and complicated? |
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All of you guys are so awesome and encouraging, I love you all~!
Now, you might notice that in the thread title that it says that I also write. But, you haven't really seen any of my writings... besides these. I haven't posted any because... I just don't know where to store them. Music is stored on YouTube, artwork in an album, but with words I draw a blank. And this is supposed to be my organized thread. But, I have been writing poetry since we've been studying MacBeth, in AP English, so after a 3-year poetry hiatus, here are two things I have written. Note: The second one is full of touchy feelings. You can ignore it.
"Songwriting"
This was inspired by a debate we had over the differences between poetry and songs (mostly modern.) Years ago.
"Hate"
This was inspired by something from long ago. Pent up frustration is nasty, letting it out calmly is relaxing. |
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It's taken me so long to finally do this, but it was possible thanks to Windows Vista. I present to you all a nine minute collection of songs from my Math Project I finished a few days ago!
I gave them all titles that pertain to their use in the movie. So, you'll understand none of them, but I couldn't just say "Song 1, Song 2, etc." I wish I could've made some of them better, I had to rush and I made all of these in one day. Although... making about nine minutes of music in a day seems like quite a step up for me. I might actually be getting better at this! Especially with all the new effects and sounds I tried to use~ |
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I'm back again, and this time I'm in love with Yoko Shimomura~! Wait, scratch that. I'm ALWAYS in love with her. But that's besides the point, because I've finished yet another song from Super Mario RPG. This time it's Koopa Castle, the second visit!
Originale- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1ZzAv7MVeA I love the part where it goes into the Bowser Fight from Super Mario Bros. 3. Funny story, this actually took me nine months to perfect. I started it after I finished the song Fight Against Culex (Which few people will remember, unless they went to my YouTube channel.) That was back in August or so. But the extra time allowed me to add in more of the jazzy effects I made to make it sound more musical! Now... who remembers that epic fight against Exor? You know, the one that lasted only 3 turns or so? GENO WHIRL! Last edited by TurtwigX; April 23, 2013 at 03:59:56 PM. |
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Ooh, not bad. There are a few parts where it sounds like two tracks are playing the same note (which causes a weird effect), but other than that it's quite a faithful cover.
You actually provided an MP3 for once instead of the horribly compressed YouTube quality? *waits for the rest to get MP3s or NSFs* Last edited by Cat333Pokémon; April 23, 2013 at 04:04:42 PM. |
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Thanks, Witi! Super Mario RPG... I don't remember when was the last time I played it. I know I'm in the middle of a playthrough, but I just had it paused... But the music is something that is always familiar to me. I love it!
Suicune, your work with that was TRULY commendable. Although I could feel where it went offsync, you made it blend really well. But I can't help but blame myself for not making the tempo perfect. I will try harder! |
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Life is but a moment, a meaningless grain of sand.
One of my favorite songs from Mother is Flying Man. The vocal version has amazing lyrics and a general all around great tune. Very catchy. But the thing is... it was never in the first game even though all the songs in the vocal soundtrack are remixes of songs from the game (including the instrumentals.) Oddly enough, this song WAS featured in the sequel, Earthbound, as the Game Over song and as "The Jolly Flying Man." Intrigued by this, I decided to go ahead and try to make this song as if it were from Earthbound Zero. The Original Songs This is different from all my other songs in the way that it's sort of an actual remix of a song since it's not exactly trying to match the originals. From those 3 original songs I tried to downgrade the tune and make it sound like a simple NES tune, like the rest of the songs in the soundtrack. It worked well in the beginning but I think I had too much fun near the end. Oh well, I had fun with the whole thing; breaking out new instrument types, note effects, pitch bending. I believe this to be my most creative work yet. "Life is but a moment, a single grain of sand. That slips right through the hourglass, slips right through your hand. You showed me how to make each moment count. And now I know now what life's all about." Last edited by TurtwigX; April 30, 2013 at 08:42:26 PM. |
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Have I really not drawn anything in a while? Let me change that my rubber duckies!
Disregard the poor quality of this human drawing
This is a cartoony form of me! I just love doodling up random things. I posted it for comparison of an actual photo of me that I also posted. The key things about my style are the glasses, the jacket, and the headphones that I have on almost all the time. |
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*listens to his new song* Sorry for the long wait, exams have been keeping me busy. ^_^,
I think it's quite close in comparison to the original- and judging by the way it sounds, it can be mistaken for a real song made for the NES. I don't know how you do this (especially this quickly), but phenomenal job, Turt. |
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How I go about making songs
And thanks Suicune~! I think I did pretty well, too, for a day or 2 of work. At least I think it was a day... Anyway, today is my super special friend's birthday~! Since it's an IRL friend, the name shall be withheld for their privacy or whatever, but not my gift cause it's mine! Since I'm too poor to buy cards and junk I decided to do what I do second or third best, make ART! So I made a card which I will ALSO not show you guys, but I drew this picture.
Birthday Presents~
That is a picture of a rose. But not just any rose, it's the picture of a rose I made up; The Wildthorn (Y'know, KINDA like the one in my badge). With steel spikes and a metallic flower. And resting on top of it is an adorable Joltik~ |
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Turty here with a project that's been accidentally in development since yesterday! My friend dared me to do a song in the style of Mega Man months ago, and I think I finally absorbed enough classic Mega Man music in order to do it. Unfortunately, as I tried to do it, I found myself stumped looking for a decent melody. I started mashing the keyboard when suddenly I broke one of my rules I said I'd always follow. In fact, here.
Wily Stage 1.mp3 I refuse to upload this to YouTube for two reasons. 1. This song is way too overdone. I feel like it's too popular and I did it too imperfectly for me to put it out in the harsh, cold judging world. 2. I swore that I would never attempt to recreate an NES song in FamiTracker simply because my perfectionist nature would get too irritated by the fact that I'd never get all the notes AND effects perfectly. So take this shabby attempt at Wily Stage 1-2 from Mega Man 2 that I made. Consider a gift from me to y'all. But I still haven't given up that dream of creating my original song that sounds like Mega Man! Expect one in the next few weeks! |
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Hmm, it's Mother's Day today, isn't it? Yet another minor holiday. But, since I had some free time and a little inspiration, I decided to put together a little 8-Bit jingle.
Mother's Day.mp3 (Can't put this on YouTube either. Not fancy enough.) Of COURSE it has to be from Mother 3! I did a little simple remix of the tune from the Mother 3 Love Theme. It's just overflowing with motherly love~ I did it cause my friend changed his profile picture to Hinawa for Mother's Day. Plus, Itoi himself said it was so easy that a child could play it on piano, so why not try? |
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DID YOU KNOW THAT EARTHBOUND WILL BE IN AMERICA!? Well, I knew, so I decided to celebrate! More! As a follow up from the remix of the vocal Jolly Flying Man song, here's another vocal song, but this time in the wonders of VRC6!
The Original Song I first got the idea from Suicune. As a Christmas present, he remixed this same song, All That I Needed Was You, from the original game. It was none too shabby, but I just knew in my heart that it could've been done better. So I did it better. This is the first of my remixes to use an expansion chip to give me more channels to work with for vocals and the guitar. And boy, was it tough. Transcribing all the extra notes probably made this whole thing 32+ hours of work. But it was worth it. I don't mean to be narcissistic (even though I COMPLETELY am~) I think I like my version more than the original. Both of them. It's now my longest and my favorite. When I form a band we SO have to cover this one day. My favorite (and most annoying) part of working on this were the two guitar solos. I wrote them myself because 1. Ain't nobody got the time to transcribe every single note of a solo. 2. It reminded me of Jazz Band. My old teacher told me that soloing was important and I had to go for it. My new band teacher told me that making a melody was just arranging the chord tones with nice-sounding non-chord tones. So with that in mind I made the 8-Bar and 32-Bar solos from scratch. ALSO, NOTE I've finally found out a way to archive everything that I have posted here, including the original mp3 files, since some unnamed third parties really really wanted them. In the first post (obviously not this one) there will be links to where I store them. |
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Just like Suicune used to sketch in History, I sketch when I get ideas.
And this was a good one
So me and buddies were talking about Xbox One. It generally looks great, Kinect got a super upgrade, and I want Halo. But then we talked about all that bad and unnecessary stuff about it. One brings up how Sony will make money off of it because it has a Blu-Ray player and Sony owns that. So I instantly said "Are you serious? You know I have to draw a joke picture about this right?" Complete with combo Xbox-PlayStation controller. |
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Now that I'm back I can use this again as a way to boost my post count~! Yay~! Now first on my agenda... ah yes, this.
Warning! Top Tier Character Approaching!
I LOVED me some E3 week. Screw Sony and Microsoft, I don't care about either of them. NINTENDO won the show for me, especially when they revealed the Top Tier Character Wii Fit Trainer #TaeKwonYoga (I get on Facebook too much XD) This has inspired me to do many things and so I will be posting them. Slowly. Very slowly. Savor her tastiness. Feel the burn so we can tone up those legs! Last edited by TurtwigX; June 30, 2013 at 10:35:51 AM. |
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MORE TRAINER TIME!
Got Fit, yo?
I got some pretty instant inspiration for this. I quickly did a practice sketch in my notepad then brought it to life on big paper. Since this was my 5th drawing of her, I decided to make it in color as well. Some people were offended by this. How? I am such a purist... THEN I SLAPPED IT ON TO THIS I made a song for her character! *eye twitch* It incorporates her trailer theme and Yoga and Strength training from Wii Fit. Everyone seemed to loooove this, though. Even with the picture. Last edited by TurtwigX; June 30, 2013 at 10:35:08 AM. |
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Looks like I forgot a Wii Fit Trainer yesterday, so here's an early morning dosage!
A fit soul eater...
For this one I spiced it up by using a quote from Soul Eater, slightly edited. First time trying anything with arms going across another like that, and it's the one main reason I hate drawing humans. But... I enjoyed this a lot. Last edited by TurtwigX; June 30, 2013 at 10:34:41 AM. |
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Unfortunately it's time for the LAST of the Wii Fit Trainer I've drawn (so far.) This one is my favorite as it took me a while but I could put personality into it.
Tae Kwon Yoga, baby!
That word "Tae-Kwon-Yoga" is an obvious pun of Tae-Kwon-Do and Yoga. It didn't take long, but I made it as a fan name of Wii Fit Trainer's crazy art style. And that last part is a modified Beatles quote because I needed something to add, and it fits~ I guess now I'll spoiler these slightly-big images now that the crazy's over. Last edited by TurtwigX; June 30, 2013 at 10:33:58 AM. |
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That is awesome, I love how the Wii Fit trainer made shapes of letters! |
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...But this took me 3 tries because I can't draw straight lines X3 |
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Okay, Wii Fit Trainer's nice and all... but Megaman in Smash Bros. is pretty cool too. Right? And so if y'all remember the time I tried the MM2 Wily Stage 1-2 theme, I spiced it up a bit for his long awaited arrival to the fray!
There Algae, I love Megaman. Happy now? THIS is now my favorite remix~ It once again uses VRC6 to add a second channel for bass and a better sounding melody. And the best part? This was so easy that it took me under 12 hours to make. I'm getting better all the tiiime~! |
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Good, pleasing you is harder than breaking open a bowling ball with a plastic hammer. Well, I already know all (or most) of Megaman's moveset but in terms of other characters I still don't know. Sakurai said there were less to balance the roster *insert WFT joke here* and not many third parties. But I still want Pac-Man and Lloyd. Maybe Shulk.
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New Leaf has inspired me to create this~!
Costume Party!
There are just so many outfits to swap and make~ I've had 5 ones that I really loved, so I was just doodling when I decided to draw them out. I even gave my outfits funny name~ (Ah-hem, CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION FOR VILLAGER IN SMASH BROS. 4) If you're one of those serious Animal Crossing nerds, see if you can name all the clothes and accessories I have on. |
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This reminded me that I posted a second attempt of one of my earliest songs (that I never posted to this thread) on YouTube. So let me share that with you guys now.
When I first showed the original to Gallium, he said it was "pretty good." I listen to it today and I nearly cry at how much I hate it. This version flows much better and though I could probably make a third attempt, I'm contempt with this. Ooh, and one more thing! This isn't a drawing, buuuut I finished one of my musical projects! And THIS one only required a few hours of my time. It's the Train Theme "Overworld Adventure" from Spirit Tracks. This and the Spirit Duet are the main reasons why Spirit Tracks is my third favorite Zelda, right behind Wind Waker and Majora's Mask (Oh my gosh, Twilight Princess and Ocarina of Time aren't in his top 3? This MUST be a mistake! Burn the turtle witch, BURN HIM!) Doing these things does take a while, but I just looove doing it~ |
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After posting the 3> picture, I just remembered a very old drawing of mine! I can't believe I found it just lying around~
The love never ends~
I 3> U 5EVA CAUSE IT'S MORE DEN 4EVA AND 3EVA It was only a year ago me and my friends were laughing at this daily. So obviously I had to draw this out, and with a cute Koala-ish creature thing! |
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This is two months old.
I decided to do Midna's Lament in 8-Bit! Why you ask? Well obviously because it's a simple sounding beauty that only takes two channels. And because I wrote sheet music for a piano duet I'm doing with someone next year. I play the Bass Clef and my friend will play Treble. (Oh my God, do you see that? SCANNED IMAGES. NO CAMERA REQUIRED, HAHAHA!!) |
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I almost forgot, THIS is the super ultra mega huge project that took my the entirety of July to finish. I said I was gonna do it (to myself and like 3 people) so I DID it! My tribute to The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD, The Super Wind Waker Medley!
This song clocks in at an impressive 18 minutes and 23 seconds. This is the longest song I've ever made, and boy was it a doozy. I sliced it into three parts because I ran out of writing space in FamiTracker, but it's still all the same song. I finished this quite literally the day before my vacation. I uploaded these videos to YouTube while in a Vegas hotel |
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Just in case this was unclear, I am a musician with an overactive imagination. And sometimes I have dreams, some so tasty that I just need to become real. So whenever I draw the Turtwig Bass, it is very real for me because I'm determined. (The Charizard Guitar was just for fun, but I'm sure someone would like one. It could shoot REAL fire!)
The dream is real! (1)
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This is the Turtwig Bass Guitar Design 3.0 (2.0 was while I was on vacation and my mom said she knew a guy who made guitars for fun.) In each of these pictures I have a shot of my real bass and a sketch of the Turtwig Bass design that I based off of it. Cat once told me that it looked too flat, so I thought that taking pictures of all sides and drawing it would give it that needed depth. And if someone calls it a banjo one more time I swear... It's shaped like that because I was inspired by the Paul McCartney Hofner Violin Bass! I WILL NEVER PLAY THE BANJO. |
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The last time I ever recorded myself playing the saxophone was six months ago back in February. I played the melody to my little version of The Beatles' song "Ask Me Why." That one I don't like much at all today because of all the post editing due to how little faith I had in my playing ability (I might re-record it, too.) THIS one however I played through 100% normally with no post editing besides cutting out the silence and background noise of me failing to start the recording... that was sad...
This is Fourside/Because I Love You from Earthbound on my Soprano Saxophone. I'm so not excited that I'm getting a Wii U in 9 days~! EARTHBOUND BABYYYYYY!! Note: It's loud, for one thing. But it's also slightly choppy because I was out of breath at many parts of this because of Band Camp. |
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From 50% inspiration and 50% perspiration (Like seriously, you'd sweat a whole lot too if you lived in this state) I have just made a new sketch in only like 30 minutes!
Enter! Giratina
This sketch in honor of who I certainly believe to be one of the coolest people I've ever known, Reun/Suicune/Jellybean. I realized too late that the clouds at the bottom should be facing up to make a better cyclone but THE RULES OF SPACE DON'T APPLY HERE. |
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But it's just a sketch and not a full color masterpiece. It's not all too much. |
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Some people might say that I have a lot of fun recording myself play various instruments. They'd be right, but it'd be more fun if I had the proper recording tools and maybe some effect pedals. Money money money...
I recorded like 4 or 5 of these soprano saxophone solos just today. But because of my one post a day rule I imposed on myself, I'll spread them them out. So this is Day One: National Park. Also, I was moving stuff around, and I noticed. This photo is an accurate wordless description of what I do all day. |
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I wrote the sheet music for all of these back when I had an untrained ear. Now that I'm better at picking out notes I noticed that I had to rewrite almost all of the notes. On this one they were all flat. Day Two: Olivine Lighthouse.
But wait, there's more! This past week I've been very happy, it almost scares me how good I've been because that usually means something bad is about to happen. But I ignored it like I normally do. I had this idea in my head for months that I was unsure about until about last week when I fixed my scanner! (All by myself, I might add~)
Nostalgia Tripping!
Back in the back of the day when I was about 8 or 9 I was a comic artist (It was gonna be my profession. HA, I couldn't even draw backgrounds. ...Still don't like it...) I was decent enough at it since I drew all the time. I stopped at around 8th Grade when I lost a lot of my old material and just didn't feel like it anymore... But the voice in my head persuaded me to try again with this Animaniacs parody idea! Still black and white, still with an uninteresting background, still very me. Only it's harder to be flexible with characters that aren't yours. |
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Oh well EXCUUUUSE me. So, can you read the title and every single note on that piece of sheet music? Huh? Can ya? CAN YA? CAN YA!?
*Ah-hem* Since I won't be home for another 12 hours I decided to post this now in the AM. Recording these while listening to the music through headphones made playing it much easier. Somehow I made a whole lot less mistakes. Day Three: GSC Surfing Theme. And because I'm going back to school, I just remembered something. My music theory teacher had us write an original baroque style piece for our final. I got a perfect, so I decided to put it into 8-Bit. Here it is. We were supposed to perform this and I had my part PERFECT but Mr. Jerkface stopped being serious about the class... |
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Whoops, I just remembered that I forgot about my instrumental whatevering.
This makes today Day Four: Kirby Rest Area and Ripple Star. These two songs were so short yet sweet that I decided to record both in one sitting. My mom hilariously makes a cameo in this because she YELLED SO LOUD during my performance that the mic picked up her voice. I was going to silence that part out, but it's her own fault. I wrote these all back when I was just beginning to add music into my everyday life. Before The Beatles, before FamiTracker, before all of it. I just had a piano and a clarinet. I wrote simply to feel the pleasure of being the band stand-out. This is the last of the recordings for now and I have a lot more sheet music to review and rewrite. I might pick this up again next week on Tuesday or Thursday. |
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Time to catch up on songs I haven't posted in here yet.
Taking a break from messing with Roxie's Gym (I'll be back for the honey and you!) I decided to go with my 2nd favorite Gym Leader, Clay in Driftveil! This one I had fun with because it has bass funk and low brass instruments. Probably to represent earthy tones hahaha. So I punched the instruments low and tried to follow the percussion with just one channel. The one thing I wish I could've done was more echo... |
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Talking with Cat is like injecting myself with poison. The ideas never stop.
But it was a good one.
I know I can't sketch people and shouldn't, but I couldn't pass this up. I was dropping some music history on him when he brought up something about the C Clef and tablature symbol (Which is just "TAB." How lazy.) Thinking it has always looked like a bow, I decided today was the day I sketched it out, using the TAB symbol as the string. For added effect I drew in a cymbal note with a mercato accent as an arrow. Even that completely nameless original character holding the objects of attention! I drew a girl because I'm more comfortable drawing them (From all that Wii Fit Baby) and because I was thinking of Katniss Everdeen while I was drawing. |
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First day playing the clarinet again after about a year or more. Whoo boy am I rusty. What better way to celebrate this than to record myself playing it? So here we are with Day Five: Youngtown/Paula's Prison. (EARTHBOUND, BABY~! I CAN BARELY HIDE MY EXCITEMENT!) It doesn't sound too good since I run out of air much faster on the clarinet, and it's 6 years old. Which wouldn't mean much to an adult that takes care of their instruments, but I've had this since I was 11. I'm in dire need of a fresh replacement.
...Yes, day five. I'm still continuing. |
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Today was an amazingly fun day for me~ Despite the fact that I'm going to crumble into dust in 13 years because 30 is so the death age. And now with my Wii U safely in my arms I present Day Six: All That I Needed Was You. I seem to have an affinity for this song, I keep trying it in many different styles and such. It's just such a nice one~
I thought about making a birthday drawing, but I couldn't. I just didn't feel like it, and I was more in the mood for receiving. You know me~ |
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I've been debating on it long and hard, but now I know the answer. Otters are INDEED mammals. Oh, and I also have a very special post for today. From my new collection I give you Birthday Greetings #1!
Happy Birthday, Suicune!
Two days after me, two years before me. Ain't that funny? This song is indeed the pinnacle of my FamiTracking career. First of its kind in my repertoire, it's a combo remix/original song. It includes every trick I have ever learned, and some new ones that I just started using or just made up. Drum and bass solo, single channel echo, heavy percussion, transposing to a different key, even transitioning between speeds. To accompany this I also made that full color poster drawing that took about an entire day and a half. And if that wasn't enough, I even whipped up this little sketch (with me new special green pen~) since humor is a nice thing to have.
Because you're worth it! ...~$37.99 + tax
Happy Birthday, Jellybean. Enjoy your last year as a teenager, you'll be soon on the path to dust, oldie |
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School has been kicking me all over. This has been my first chance to write music since early August :I
First off I'd like to say, Suicune, you're a jerk. Two days ago he ruined my night by making a terrible remix of New Bark Town with the RSE soundfont. The first 18 seconds sounded good enough, but the rest of the loop sucked. The worst part is that specific Hoenn TASTE I was looking for. Heh, look at me ranting about his remix here. So, using this as an excuse to dedicate some time out of my schedule for composing, I went into FamiTracker and spent 2 nights on this VRC6 remix! (See, I TOLD you it would take me a couple days.) I even wrote an entirely new ending. My personal favorite part of writing this was combining 2 channels to form a faux-Genesis sound for the melody~ I accidentally created the effect when trying to do a countermelody I'm becoming more and more like The Beatles each day~<3 |
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Well, maybe me making a terrible remix wasn't such a bad thing after all- it gave you determination to make this and I think you did quite a good job. The ending sounded a bit weird to me at first, but I think it grew on me.
Is it bad that I like this version better than the original? |
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Time for another one of Turty's special "I sketched in class because I got bored!" episodes. The only downside to this is that I had to use graph paper because I forgot all my good paper at home.
Poster Sketch: Space Tripping Between Reality!
I got the idea from things like movie posters. I had the title in my mind "Space Tripping Through Reality" in my mind for a while from who-knows-what source. What I really want to do is put it all together in full color with digital art techniques, but I don't know how... |
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I believe this is the only thing that remains unposted. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Light World Dungeon Remix.
This song reminded me a lot of the Tower of Heaven theme from Pokemon Black and White. I was aiming to reach that sound, but I don't think I quite got there. In fact, I struggled while making this. I like the melody part when everything comes in and the bass intro, but the rest displeases me. |
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We're back, and this time we're using that good paper! (Thaaaanks Caaat)
Behold, the future!
This, unfortunately, is just a demo. But it is the base for my latest project that I am working on. It's an effective parody of The Beatles using the Team PHS characters, my fictional band I've been working on for years. The finished project will be used as my binder cover for my final year. That idea was also sort of borrowed from Cat, but I guess he's just really good at being there to inspire. He's my idea man. |
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The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker HD came out like a week ago and I'm still unsure if I want it or not. But still, it got me thinking about my Wind Waker Medley and certain songs I thought stuck out. So for the next few weeks I'll be uploading some stereo remixes of songs from the super medley. First on the list is Outset Island!
For each of these songs I simply ripped from the 3 large medley files, but I couldn't POSSIBLY be that bland. So I decided to augment it a bit by adding a little spice to each. For this, I extended it to add a second part to the song. Last edited by TurtwigX; September 28, 2013 at 07:33:40 PM. |
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How about some Sunday afternoon poetry?
"When Love Was Real"
The stronger your emotions are, the easier it is to express them creatively. I like to get the more sad ones out through writing. But that's not all for today, we also have a request from Suicune! Here is the E3 2002 Wind Waker Title Demo! I know this song is only 25 seconds long, but it took me two hours to complete. At first I was gonna treat it like Suicune did with my New Bark request (>:I) All I had to do was string a new beginning and paste it onto another already completed song. But then I thought, "Is this really up to The Beatles' standard?" and so I spent lots of time tweaking every bit until I loved it. (Headphones recommended for maximum enjoyment.) Last edited by TurtwigX; September 29, 2013 at 11:11:29 AM. |
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Week two brings us to our next island, a quaint post-apocalyptic Kakariko Village. But for simplicity, let's just call it Windfall Island.
This was one of my all time favorites in the medley. Pretty much every song in part 2 was among my favorites because of how well they flowed while sounding good on their own. But I still wanted to redo the melody line to be more flute-ish, and I added in the intro from the soundtrack. |
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It's week three! This is quite possibly the most famous the most famous island song from Wind Waker. I know it's my favorite because of the bass~ Here's Dragon Roost Island.
In the medley this song was fourth I believe, minus the intro. The bass in this is perfect, if I do say so myself. In fact, I believe this entire song was really already too good since I only really tweaked the bass a little and extended some of the looping parts. |
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The college application process is very mind numbing and time consuming. I haven't had time to work on music for a while... But now that my Early Action one is sent out I should be fine again. Here's something leftover that I finally got done.
Forest Haven! This wasn't my favorite of places in the game, in fact I hated this entire section of the game, especially when I was looking for Makar the second time because that took forever for some reason (I did NOT know how to use that Grappling Hook... )But the song... I didn't think I'd love it that much! It sounded so good when I put it in the medley. I had to make this the GREATEST redux of them all. This doesn't make up for anything, but I sketched some Pokemon while I was sitting in Forensic Science. I don't go anywhere without my sketch book now.
My Favorite Kalos Pokemon!
I promised my girlfriend that I'd do a super one in color for her, so expect one of those in a week or two. |
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Today feels like such a Sunday. It would be a great Day to ride my bike. That's why this is Day Seven: Ness's Bike.
I know I messed up in a few parts and that this is quite short compared to others, but I thought it would feel more authentic so I decided against fixing it. Plus, I didn't have sheet music, I did the whole thing by memory by ear by inspiration from sheet music I glanced at on Starman-net. (Horrible place, never go there.) "I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike. I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride it where I liiiiike~" |
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Oh, you noticed that? X3 Yes, that is my adorable little Alphonse keychain. I modeled this Klefki's objects around my very own keychain. I... don't have that many keys as you can see, but the Alphonse one is everything.
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The penultimate remix in my long-running (at least I think it's too long for me) Wind Waker medley spree. But I got bored with simply adding a part to the medley songs, so I spiced this one up more. Here's Hyrule Castle!
I used the original song as the base, but from there I remixed my own remix. I added some crazy drums and the intro/outro from the actual game. |
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Finally done with songs from Wind Waker! Took long enough... I'm ending this run with a song that was a huge process, so huge that one look is 3 and a half minutes long. Here's the Great Sea!
Remixing this wasn't too hard, it just took forever. I had to move various tracks and I even added in a nice little extra. Maybe that extra part is what makes it so long... nah. I think of all my individual Wind Waker remixes this one is the best. |
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Remember when I had to take pictures of every single drawing in order to upload it? Yeah... well I'm back to it right now!
Doodley Doos
I love doing me some doodling, especially in Forensic Science. We had just taken a test so I decided to pull out my 3DS and instead of playing it I drew it. It came out kinda fat, though... Also see a useless skateboard, a bugle/cornucopia, and a failed 3D cube sketch. The title is Junk based on the song by Paul McCartney. (Even threw in some lyrics.) |