Hi I'm the site admin for PaperDemon.com

I'm a recent college graduate in Animation/Illustration and a fulltime web designer for a tech company in California. I'm 23 years old. My spare time is usually spent with my boyfriend and working on PaperDemon.

Computer
I spend a lot of time on it so I made sure to buy a really nice one. I have a dual core processor and dual 20.1in wide screen monitors.

Art
I do enjoy anime and will watch a series here and there. I have Netflix so that I can easily see a bunch of different stuff without having to buy the DVDs. It's awesome and I'd highly recommend you try them out. I studied Animation and Illustration in college and have a great appreciation for it. I like all sorts of different types of art. I'm just starting to get into comics.

Games
My favorite video game series are Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Metroid. I do own a Nintendo Wii and a DS. Chrono Trigger is my favorite video game of all time.

Misc
I'm not much into sports, though I wish I was. I'm probably one of the pickiest eaters you'll ever meet. I love potatoes and pasta but have to back off on the starches for health reasons. I'm into roller coasters. My boyfriend Mike and I have season passes for this summer to a local amusement park and have gotten full use out of them.

PaperDemon.com
PaperDemon is my baby so I try by best to take good care of it. Though its so huge that often times things will get old and out dated quickly. I enjoy spending time working on the site and adding new features and improvements.

My "Project Time" is working out really well so far. I have drafted storyboards for the first two scenes in Surviving Together and started the third. There are a total of 4 scenes. I'm finding it quite difficult to storyboard. It's difficult to imagine characters in a setting, decide on camera angles, and have it all make sense. I'm also trying to reuse shots whenever possible to save time in the animation stage. Also I'm trying to avoid showing any characters walking because that's difficult to animate. I want to get this first episode done. Then I can work on more challenging animation shots. Right now I'm being as conservative as possible. Once I have the boards together I'll scan them all in and create an animatic to share with a few people to give me feedback. More updates to come.

I've spent some considerable time the past couple weeks reworking the tools the Moderators use at PaperDemon. We've been short staffed as of late and there have been a lot of submissions coming in. I figure if I can improve the tools to make it easier to mod and have it take less time, we can get more done with less staff. The tool uses a lot of nifty AJAX. I just learned XML and XSLT at a 1 day class at work and am trying to put it to good use. I have a php script that generates the XML file and an XSLT style sheet that states how the file should be formed. Then I use Sarissa to submit post data of my form, get the xml back from php, and then apply the style sheet to the data.

So far the only problem I've run into that I can't solve is that it doesn't work for some reason in IE 6. I haven't tried it on 7 yet. Sarissa has trouble applying the XSLT on the XML for some reason. It  doesn't make any sense because if I access the XML file directly and put in a line in there to use my XSLT file it outputs the formatted HTML correctly without any errors. Is this a problem with Sarissa? I tried searching the net but haven't found a solution yet. Works just fine in Firefox.

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