http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Nandah&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Nandah en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:25:49 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/27068791/ http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/27068791/ Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:46:21 PDT , now I must do the same thing. It's easy: first ten people to comment on here will receive a free sketch. Probably I'll ink them, but no color this time. Sorry, I'm thinking about adding to commissions stuff myself these days . One condition: if you comment here, you must do this journal, so it'd be a great idea if you were an artist yourself (drawings, fanfics, digital art.. whatever you do). And no, I won't accept two requests from the same guy xD.

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I'd like to say I'm opened to lots of stuff (not bondage only); you know, fantasy, creepy creatures, comicbook characters... So, feel free to ask.

EDIT: All places are complete. Last one whishes to remains anonymous.

]]> ~Nandah http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/24819878/ http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/24819878/ Mon, 18 May 2009 10:24:40 PDT Nosferatu, the vampire.

First one, of course, was the original 1922 movie, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (you can find the complete movie in Youtube). Making some review, for those of you who don't know about it, Nosferatu was the unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, cause his studio couldn't achieve to buy the rights to the novel. He just changed some names and locations in order to not paying for those rights (for example, Dracula became the Count of Orlock, and the main characters didn't came from London, but in a fictional German city called Wisborg), though he couldn't prevent Stoker's widow to demand him and the studio. She won that demand, so pushed the studio to bankrupt, and demanded all the film copies to be destroyed. Fortunately, some of them could be saved, so the movie was preserved to our generations. Sometimes, it seems heirs are the true vampires (something similar happens with Picasso's hairs, but that's another story).

Well, returning to the movie, I must say is obvious, as most of the German Expressionist cinema, the true power of the film lies in the images. Orlock is maybe the first most creepy character in the story of horror films (Nosferatu was the first horror film, in fact). Each scene where he appears has a powerful magnetism. The vampire just catch everyone, characters and public, with each appearance of him. He's nothing to do with the theatrical vision we'd say ten years later from Bela Lugosi; Max Schreck made a great performance as a true blood thirsty demon, a death machine who brings plague and destruction everywere he goes. Maybe the main problem is about the rest of characters; under Nosferatu himself, there's no other emphasizing in the whole movie. Even the character of Dr. Van Helsing, the famous nemesis of Dracula, is just an anonymous doctor who speaks about vampire properties of some carnivore plants. Of course, we must be fair with the movie, bearing in mind Murnau should had some several problems to adapt the novel and avoiding rights at the same time. And no speaking about the terrible condition of the copies saved from Stoker's widow hunt, which means there's some scenes unfortunately missed forever (something very similar with Fritz Lang's Metropolis) and so unavoidable script holes.

The second one was the 1979's remake, directed by Werner Herzog. As I heard, it was acclaimed by both critics and public as a great tribut to the original Nosferatu, being able to make something original and not just a simple copy of the Murnau film. By my own opinion, is a nice film, though maybe a bit slow sometimes. It has the merit of being as a nice adaptation of Dracula (recovering the original character's names) as a tribute to Nosferatu, again locating the story in Germany (this time in the city of Wismar). The characters are better developed as well, specially Jonathan Harker, and there's a different vision of the vampire as a creature tortured by his own condition of a son of the night, eternal and unable to feel human warm again (something that maybe made an influence to Francis Ford Coppola to his own version of Dracula).

And, for finishing, I should recommend all of you one of the most interesting movies I've ever seen: Shadow of the Vampire. Is a fictional tale around the filming of Nosferatu, about what could happened in there if Max Schreck, the original actor who performed Count of Orlock, was a true vampire. The film is a very nice lesson about how films production were in 20s, and some scenes are just identical to the original movie, even in the same B&W granulated texture of old celluloid. But the best, for me, are dialogues. Murnau (performed by John Malkovich) shows himself as a true artist, a man obssessed with his proyect, and fighting against any obstacle in his way, even the dark nature of his special star. And Willen Dafoe makes a GREAT performance as the vampire, who shows his only reason to work in the movie as a way to reach the real eternity, beyond the lethal sunshine he's unable to feel anymore. Some of his reflections about the character of Dracula and how he reminds him so many sad moments of his own un-life are one of the best lines I've ever heard in a fantastic movie. Of course, I must assume not everything in the movie about Murnau's troubles in Nosferatu filming were true. It's a fictional biofilm, after all (the same with Tim Burton's Ed Wood).

So, OK people, I'm just in the Nosferatu mood actually xD. I should make a pic of him soon.

]]> ~Nandah http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/24559623/ http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/24559623/ Sun, 03 May 2009 04:52:52 PDT [WARNING ABOUT PROBABLE SPOILERS]

Well, well, I never believed I'd update my journal with such a miscellaneous stuff, but being noticed about how much I'm enjoying with my special DVD edition of Hellboy: The Golden Army, I suddenly feel obliged to make some kind of big comment or something. Just a stupid try to show the world what a kind of fanboy I am of Hellboy and his last film version xD.

Well, of course I must say my first encounter with Hellboy was in the original comic format, and I found it pretty badass at that precise moment. The perfect mix between folklore and myths, demonology and Lovecraftnian influences, the awesome romanesque-like graphic art, the outrageous cool characters, and that particular BPRD (another sort of mix between Ghostbusters, X Files, Men in Black) captivated me at the first moment. And then, the first movie version came out. I found it VERY accurate with the original comic (something very strange, specially when you try a live version of a non-ordinary plot like Hellboy), and a very interesting contribution to Mignola's scripts: the father-son relationship between Red and Prof. Bloom, the non-sickly sweet Hellboy&Liz relationship (with GREAT sense about the big red's fireproof nature), the new creepy version of Kroenen... Oh, yeah, I think Kroenen was the BEST of that movie, though Sammael had a great design too.

But I think the most important thing that movie gave to me was the chance to meet Guillermo del Toro, one of the best fantastic directors I've ever knew. I saw two movies of him before, as Blade II and The Devil's Backbone (El Espinazo del Diablo in its original Spanish title), but I didn't knew him very well until that. And then, he came out with the shocking but beautiful Pan's Labyrinth, showing the entire world what he understands about fantasy.

And a few years later... Hellboy: The Golden Army! Surprizingly, an original del Toro's script, but perfectly worthy of the best Hellboy comic storylines. I think for me and a lot of people, that movie was some sort of Pan's Labyrinth spiritual sequel, besides the second film adventure of the red demon. For me it's one of the best fantasy elements displays I've ever seen in cinema since Jim Henson's Labyrinth and Dark Crystal. Once I came out from the cinema, I fell in need of see more of that magical word inside del Toro's mind. Maybe I should go point by point first:

-Hellboy universe: of course, keeping the previous universe around Hellboy and the BPRD agents built in the first movie was pretty important to prevent the movie to become in a hollow visual effects display. And the great point is del Toro really achieves that, with excellent changes. Hellboy & Liz relationship becomes one of the most realistic ones I've ever seen in a film (pretty paradoxical coming from such freaks xD), with that natural arguments about living space, and Liz's worries about her pregnancy. Abe becomes more important than the first movie, and he shows us his most sensitive side. And he gives us away one of the most hilarious scenes I've ever seen, with that "I Can't Smile Without You" drunk version in unison with Hellboy. And, in the end, there's the new guy, the German ghostly medium Johan Krauss (who's not pretty known about most people who saw the movie to be an original BPRD comic character); his arguments with Hellboy and his self-satisfied talking is just hillarious.

-The Elf Kingdom: Well, since this movie I must say I REALLY trust Guillermo del Toro to be a great director of The Hobbit film version. You know, I'm completely NOT against people who loves Lord of the Ring's elves concept (in fact, I was a big follower of it myself), but after all that LOTR's obsession which enclosed the movies, I began to think that old classical fantasy concepts needed some sort of revision. You know, the classical elves are cool, but repeating once and another the same idea makes it stagnant and antiquated. And, as my old teacher of Greek said once, "you need to go to the origin if you wanna become original". And that's precisely what Guillermo del Toro made with his Hellboy elves: creating them from the VERY original Irish and Celtic foklore. I know, Tolkien did the same, but what makes del Toro's and Tolkien's elves different is the point of view. Tolkien saw them as the nearest folks to the gods, some sort of prophetic people who represent prefection itself, just cause they learned directly from that gods. Guillermo del Toro sees at his elves as survivors, very linked to woods and nature, burning inside in hard controversial feelings: keeping faithful to the old truce with humans, even if that means their own end, or rebel against that.

And that's the point when I speak about probably the most faved character of the whole movie: Prince Nuada. Yeah, fangirls, I perfectly understand what do you feel about this guy, and I must recognize you're right... ]]> ~Nandah http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/24508246/ http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/24508246/ Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:00:43 PDT
No mucho que contar, el de mi cumpleaños ha sido un día bastante agradable en general. Ya me he acostumbrado a no organizar grandes fiestas y a conformarme con pequeños detalles. Eso sí, mi familia se ha portado muy bien este año. Nada menos que una cámara digital nueva y la edición especial en DVD de Hellboy: El Ejército Dorado. Lo único que estropeó el día fue un pequeño brote de infección de garganta, pero ya he acudido al médico y me ha dicho que no es nada de lo que preocuparse. Unos días a base de antiinflamatorios y todo arreglado.

Me gustaría actualizar pronto la galería, que hace tiempo que no subo nada nuevo, así que a ver cuándo me pongo con todo el trabajo atrasado. Aparte, aún debo preparar todo el tinglado para la próxima partida de rol que voy a dirigir, que espero poder tener a mis jugadores contentos.

Hale, así de breve he sido xD.

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Ok, I know this report is two days behind schedule, but I was a bit sick, and better late than never xD... So, nothing else xD.

Nothing much to say, my birthday was a pretty nice day in general. I've got used to not celebrate big parties and not needing much to be happy. But I must confess my family gave me GREAT presents this year: a new digital camera and the special DVD edition of Hellboy: The Golden Army. The only little detail who was about to spoil the day was a throatache, but I visited the doctor this morning and he told me there's nothing to worry about. Just a few days taking anti-inflammatory and everything will be done.

I'd like to update my gallery soon, I didn't post new stuff for a long, so I hope to get soon to work with all the stuff I'm behind with. Besides I must prepare the next roleplay game I'm gonna direct, so my players can be pleased.

Nothing much to say.

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¡¡YA SOY TÍO!!

¡Sí! ¡or fin, tras nueve meses de espera, de tensiones, de nerviosismo, de soñar con lo que podría hacer con mi sobrina, por fin hoy decidió salir al mundo! No ha sido un parto sin complicaciones (han tenido que practicarle cesárea a mi hermana, tengo entendido), pero al menos todo salió bien. Acabo de ir al hospital a ver a la niña, y no hay palabras. Es enorme, casi parece que tiene dos meses en vez de ser una recién nacida. Lo que he sentido en el momento en que la vi por primera vez, no lo puedo expresar.

En fin, ahora me queda un año entero para disfrutarla, antes de que crezca del todo. Y no pienso desaprovecharlo. ^_^

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So many people likes to embellish these stories with lots of high-flown nice words, making tons of metaphors or trying to put color and forms to their feelings and all the stuff... However, I prefer to be more simple and sum everything up in just three words:

I AM UNCLE!!

Yeah! At last, since waiting nine months, having so much nerves, strain, dreaming about all the things I could do with my niece, finally she decided to come to this world! It wasn´t an easy labor, anyway (my sis had to have a cesarean), but at least everything went right. I went already to the hospital to see the baby, and no words. She´s huge, looking more like a two-months baby than a newborn one. What I felt at the moment I saw her by first time, I cannot express it.

Well, now I have a whole year to enjoy with her untill she grows up. And be sure I´ll do it. ^_^

]]> ~Nandah http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/21368040/ http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/21368040/ Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:38:31 PST After a long time not updating the story (first reasons were not having ideas about how to continue it), inspiration finally came to my mind, and sketching a bit in classroom was just what I needed. Now I´m working on new pages, which I hope to finish and submit as soon as I can. Don´t worry, I´m the first one here who doesn´t want this story to fail.

Here´s the first new page, continuing Cavaldi´s flashback. Don´t worry, it´s just the last one before the current story goes on. And, of course, you´ll see our cute team tied up soon!

Here´s the link to page 18. Enjoy it!
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Conclusión: empiezo la semana de puta madre.

]]> ~Nandah http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/20606122/ http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/20606122/ Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:53:32 PDT

I´m working on English translation of my fanfic, I promise. I´ll try to got it finished when I return from Madrid.

Nothing much. See ya!

]]> ~Nandah http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/20361469/ http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/20361469/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:54:10 PDT
For one side, I really can´t wait to see my niece´s coming. I though lots of times about the moment I could hang and hug her... but for the opposite, I´m convinced I´ll never be a good uncle for her. Don´t ask me why. I just have a feeling about it. Kids need confidence around with their grown-ups, and I´m everything except the most self-confident guy in the world. Be sure about that.

About the rest, well... Things like making a really unfortunate comment to a good friend which makes her even suffer more, makes me think I must be surely one of the most stupid useless guys ever been. And realizing you are able to feeling pretty bad even after a good day are not pretty comforted, you know.

Sorry for so incoherent words. I know all that sounds just stupid or weird. As I am. Maybe I just needed a few minutes to write first nonsense coming through my mind.

]]> ~Nandah http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/20246590/ http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/20246590/ Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:06:11 PDT
That´s the point: I recently remembered some memories of my childhood looking for little clips on Youtube. That clips were about the amazing stop-motion creatures and monsters from that 70´s fantasy-adventure old movies: Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad... All of them created by a genius called Ray Harryhausen. Surely some of you remember the fight against Jason and two men against the seven skelleton warriors, or Perseus defeating the titan Kraken with the petrifying look of Medusa´s head, or the cavemen fighting against all kind of dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures. I always loved Harryhausen creations, and stop-motion animation tecniques. I think they have something very special, "artistic", even more than lately CGI creations we can see in so many actual movies. Maybe cause they were made with more passion and enthusiasm.

And now, my idea. I was thinking about making some DiDs (or even GiDs or CiDs, I don´t care ) with OCs of some DA artists, and some of these Harryhausen creations involved in. Of course, NOBODY is gonna be hurted, they´re just tribute pics with the best of intentions. So, all the one who likes to see an OC of his/her in one of these pics, just tell me in a comment . It can be male, female, a couple or even an alter ego xD. And, even if you want to choose the creature, you´re free to do it! (as long as it belongs to a Harryhausen movie, of course).

See ya!

]]> ~Nandah http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/19654014/ http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/19654014/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:34:58 PDT se ha ofrecido a dibujarme un chibi de mi personaje Nandah, y a cambio me corresponde a mí continuarlo.

Las cinco primeras personas que dejen un comment aquí, con referencias a su personaje, recibirán un chibi de éste dibujado por mí. A cambio, deben continuar este tag (si quieren, vamos... yo nunca obligo a nadie ^^u).

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Another tag (yeah, I´m in the tag mood these days xD), which I found funny anyway. offers herself to drawing a chibi of my OC Nandah, and I must continue this tag in change.

First five persons who leave a comment here with refs to their favourite OC will receive a chibi version of it drawn by me. Then, they must continue the tag (just in case they wanna do it... I don´t want to press anyone ^^u)

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Comenta y yo:
a) Te diré porque me amiste contigo.
b) Asociaré con algo -fandom, canción, color, foto, etc
c) Decirte algo que me gusta de ti
d) Contarte algún recuerdo que tenga tuyo.
e) Preguntarte algo que siempre he querido preguntarte.
f) Decirte mi pic favorita tuya.
g) A cambio, debes poner esto tambien en tu journal.

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A little stupid thing I saw funny anyway xD. It comes from

Post a comment, and I will:
a) Say why I found you as a friend.
b) Associate you with something -fandom, song, color, photo, etc.
c) Tell you something I like from you.
d) Ask something I´ve always wanted to ask you.
e) Tell you my favourite pic from yours.
f) You must put this in your journal too as a change.

]]> ~Nandah http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/18645502/ http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/18645502/ Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:30:17 PDT
First one... I was thinking seriously about remaking the actual pages. You know, I did them with the first intention of looking for someone who could help me adding color to the comic (there´s lot of people on DA better with Photoshop than me, like Ryuji-kun, Suicide, etc...). But actually, I saw I´ve really improved my style, specially making experiments with pens, pencils and similars. And the actual Crab Island pages has a lot of mistakes cause that facts I said before, at least for my own point of view. I think they could (and MUST) be much better than they´re now. I though it just could be great in a B&W style, but with a improved draw and style, as the story deserve.

The second point is, if I finally remake the actual pages, I was thinking about submit them in a different server. Probably in Smackjeeves, an excellent webcomic site, where everybody is free to submit comments, and register before is not necessary.

So, what do you think? Should I make again Escape of Crab Island?

See you!

]]> ~Nandah http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/14499127/ http://Nandah.deviantart.com/journal/14499127/ Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:15:24 PDT
Pues eso, que llevo unos días pensando cómo celebrar que ya llevo más de 5000 visitas en mi página, y creo que ya lo tengo . Por desgracia, yo soy poco original para estas cosas, por eso buscaba algo que fuese interactivo y al mismo tiempo interesante. Y al final surgió la idea: el concurso de Freakomics xDD.

Bueno, no es un concurso realmente, pero no sabía cómo llamarlo, la verdad ^^u. ¿Y qué es un Freakomic, os preguntaréis? Bueno, la idea se me acaba de ocurrir ahora xD. Es simple: todos los que queráis un Freakomic debéis dejar en vuestro comment una lista de los personajes que os gustaría ver en un pequeño crossover de no más de 2 páginas. Pueden ser personajes de cualquier ámbito o género: literatura, cine, televisión, cómics, videojuegos... Tanto la ambientación como la historia las decido yo; vosotros ponéis los personajes .

En cuanto a la selección de personajes, dejaré sólo algunas pequeñas indicaciones:

-La lista deberá ser como mínimo de 2 personajes, y como máximo de 5. Se puede repetir (entre diferentes personas, claro está.

-Si el personaje en cuestión forma parte de un grupo inseparable (Lock, Shock y Barrel, los hermanos Dalton, etc) se pueden incluir como un solo personaje.

-No os lo toméis a mal, pero os agradecería que no me incluyéseis personajes de Final Fantasy. No se me dan bien, y aparte les tengo un poquito de manía, lo siento ^^u

-De momento, personajes originales no, lo siento. Sólo oficiales.

-Si en algún momento queréis cambiar personajes de la lista, os doy un plazo máximo de 48 horas después del plazo de inscripción para indicarme cualquier cambio. Una vez expire, ya no se admiten cambios.

A partir de las siguientes 24 horas se aceptan propuestas, hasta un tope de 10 personas. ¡Adelante, que el tiempo vuela!

Anuncio importante: he decidido ampliar el plazo hasta dentro de dos semanas. Tenéis más oportunidades, así que adelante

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Well, I´ve been thinking about how celebrate my 5000 page views, and I think I´ve got it . Unfortunately, I´m not very imaginative for these things, so I looked for something interactive and interesting at the same time. And finally, I´ve got the idea: the Freakomics contest xDD.

Ok, it´s not a contest really, but I didn´t know how to call it ^^u. And what is a Freakomic, you´ll ask yourselves? Well, it´s an idea I´ve thought recently xD. It´s simple: all of you that wanna a Freakomic must put in your comment a list with the characters you wanna see in a little crossover, no more of 2 pages. They can be characters from anywhere you want: literature, films, TV, comics, videogames... Story as theme will be decided by me; you put the characters

About characters´ selection, there´s a little indications:

-List must have at least 2 charas, and at most 5 charas. You can repeat char (but only different persons, of course).

-If a char belongs to a unbreakable team (Lock, Shock and Barrel, the Dalton Brothers, etc.) you can put them like an only char.

-Please, don´t take too hard, but I prefer not to receive any Final Fantasy characters in your lists. They´re too hard to me and I don´t like them too much, sorry ^^u

-At the moment, no OCs, sorry. Only oficial chars.

-If you wanna change any char of your list, I´ll let you to do it until a maximum term of 48 hours after the inscription term. After that, any change will not be accepted.

You can show me your proposals for the next 24 hours, the top is 10 persons. Come on, the time is over!

Important announcement: the term is open until the next two weeks. You have more time, so go on!

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