Aycelcus

So I've been involved lately with Giant Gnome Productions, ( www.giantgnome.com ) a podcasting site that does awesome serial fan dramas. The Awesome Fiance has a pretty big part in Star Trek: Outpost. He really got to shine in the last few months, since Episodes 21 thru 23 focused on his character, Captain Monty Buchanan, Commander of Deep Space Three. I had a teeny part in 21, and had a blast, and now I've been given a NEW part in the show! I'm playing a Betazoid Ambassador, and having a blast doing so! I show up in the last part of the current episode 24: Drawing Back the Veils. It just was released yesterday!

So usually we get the scripts to the new episode before the current one comes out, but this time it was delayed a bit. Me and the Fiance were chafing at the bit, curious as to what was happening next. Well, this morning I get awoken by the Fiance as he is on his way out the door to go to work, to tell me that the next script was here, and I had quite a few lines.

That was a bit of an understatement. I'm in almost every scene! Holy crap! I guess Tony was all "she wants some lines, eh? She had fun, eh? Well THERE. HAVE SOME LINES."  

I got dry, overworked throat just from dry-running the script as I sat in bed (I hadn't technically gotten up yet. It's my day off, and the bed is warm and comfy. Laptops ftw!) I'm going to have to break the script down and do it scene by scene to record, so we can keep it manageable and easy to edit and save in the format needed.

Look at me, I have to ACT. SO MUCH FUN. I totally would have gone for Drama if I hadn't been so obsessed with visual art. Course, I still am obsessed with visual art, but this is ever so much fun to flirt with! All my acting experience comes from LARPing, but there is something refreshing about voice acting. I don't have to worry about costumes, or body language, or whether I look the part or whatever. I just have to worry about my voice. That's worry enough, cause I still get nervy and stage frightish, a thing I am trying to combat. My main issue is that my voice goes up when I am nervous, and so if I'm alone, reading something aloud, I can do some pretty good low voices and different tonalities, but when I try to show the Fiance, I CAN'T. GUH. I am trying to work through this.

I'm glad my Ambassador part isn't a low or growly one. I can do effacious and wafting. Oh can I do it. ^___^

I don't know how many episodes this part will be in, but YAAAAAYYYYY! LINES!

*does happy dance*

(mostly crossposted from my Livejournal)

EDIT: I can't believe I forgot this! Star Trek: Outpost was nominated for a Parsec Award for the second year running! OMG so excited!  We are nominated for best long form serial podcast! The award ceremony is at Dragoncon, so AWESOME. I think this year we really have a chance to win; Outpost's second season has been really solid in it's writing, acting, and production. The Gnomes are putting together the submission now.

So right now, instead of doing what I should be doing, I've been drawing the cast of Firefly as Rescue Rangers, as per a sparkbunny from my friend Hep. I've gotten six done so far: Mal, Zoe, Kaylee, Jayne, Wash, and Inara. Tomorrow I should get Simon, River, and Book done, and then I intend to do a large cast pic, with Serenity in the background and the Firefly logo all swirly on it.

*shakes head* I still can't believe I am doing this. I didn't even LIKE Rescue Rangers. I liked Talespin. Seriously, I am cracked in the head.

It's kinda fun, though.

I haven't written here in a while, but that's pretty normal for me. I've been doing some art, which I finally get to post now that the reveals at the fest are up, and mostly I have been working on voice acting and sound engineering, which is entirely the fault of my wonderful fiance who is awesome at it. So now I am being a voice actor as well.

I've been working a lot on textile crafts lately, which I have been having a blast at. I intend to do some more 2d marker art, but with all the Teacat Design company work we have been doing, it's been 3d sculptural jewelry and the sewing and the plushies and I've been busy. And sick. Bad combination, really. But I made it through our move and the roommate's wedding and the holidays alright, so now it's time to roll up my sleeves and get this party started. More art for all!

I've finally started to upload the designs for my divination deck. This is my big project right now, aside from school coming up, and I know it will take a while to finish. But my goal is to have a working, hand-made, laminated deck by the time I am done, with all the meanings written and printed in a little book, complete with layouts. This isn't a tarot deck, it has more parallels with maybe just the Major Arcana, or a rune card deck. All of it is based on my Cillara and Ilene story, so this has been a way to deeply examine what that story means to me. Keep watch and I'll update more when I have more. The deck will have 27 cards to it in all.