Missing in the Museum!

Posted on February 1, 2012 by desireejoy

My second installment for My Childs Adventure (.com) is finished!!!

Finally the three of us at MyChildsAdventure.com (And Groovie) can all sigh in relief. Our sophmore effort ‘Missing in the Museum’ has been completed and is available for customization and purchase! We’ve all worked hard and are proud to present you with ‘Missing in the Museum.’(MitM)

What is it about?

This one is a simple tale of a young boy or girl heading with his mom or dad to the Big City Museum. Upon arriving they discover that a model pteradon has been misplaced. The curator, Dr. Art. E Fact, has requested that your child help locate the missing dinosaur. They follow the clue through several exhibits and the employee lounge until they discover the truth behind the missing Pteradon!

Screenshots

The opening scene, your childs house is on the right!

The museum foyer. Your childs first peek inside!


Curator Art E. Fact and your child find the missing Pteradon.

Wanna know more?

As with Monster Under My Bed MitM
is fully customizable with your childs picture, name, favorite color, and street address. (No city or state, just enough to help them remember it!) It is also available for only 20$ through paypal. Please check out it’s page to see what it’s all about!

Thank you, and we are eager to hear your feedback!

Spore Palace

Posted on January 23, 2012 by desireejoy

My sister Cameo Anderson has created an online presence to celebrate her work as a Science Fiction Writer and Illustrator. The site is called Spore Palace and also will host a variety of tools and techniques to assist any aspiring writer/artists. I will be assisting her with blog posts, worksheets and so on, so check in often!

The on site description goes as follows

You have found yourself in the inner sanctum of Spore Palace. Don’t stand too close to the walls and certainly don’t touch anything. Besides being sticky, the spore sacs are fragile and will burst open at the gentlest touch. They will then infect the nearest host. Again, that would be you.
Feel free to take a look around. Herein you will find my own art and writing. As you have no doubt guessed already, I prefer to work in the sci-fi genre. I seek to have my writing described as “weird but cool”. Every once in a while something closer to normal comes around, but I do my best to avoid that where possible.
I’ll be posting concept art, writing excerpts and keeping you updated on my projects from this page.

Dancing in the Fallout!

Posted on January 19, 2012 by desireejoy

After the seriousness of the PIPA/SOPA posts I thought I’d just have a little fun for my next send-up. I’m not really the fangirl type, but there is occasion when I get really excited and almost.. fangirlish about something. One of those things is FALLOUT! I love Fallout.

Since I picked up Fallout 1 and 2 in a dual pack after high school, I’ve been pretty addicted to the idea of a nuclear apocalypse. When Fallout 3 was announced I was ecstatic, it met and exceeded all of my expectations. Naturally I pre-ordered FO4 and plowed right through that. Anyways, I figured I’d let today’s post show a little fallout inspired fan art.

The four wasteland traders of the Fallout 4: New Vegas world. Clockwise they are Crow (My fave), Doc Hoff, Crazy Wolfgant, and Lucky Harith.

My friend and fellow Fallout enthusiast JJ had her 21st birthday, so I drew her with her favorite character from Fallout 3, Jericho.

I snuck some other fanart in here, MST3k is pretty sweet too. I prefer Joel because his relationship with the bots, and well his whole personality, is just a lot more original. Not that I don’t love Mike too

I hope you guys get some enjoyment from my scribbles!

SOPA & PIPA: What is it? How can you fight back?

Posted on January 18, 2012 by desireejoy

I hate that my first blog post on my new site is going to be a social/political post ,but with the SOPA/PIPA issue it’s important that people understand what’s going on, and I want to throw in what assistance I can!

There are plenty of posts on what it is and what can be done, so I’m not going to bore you with a long post detailing my take. Instead I’ll link you to a few that are out there. I will say that as an individual who produces media and works in a field that is frequently the victim of copyright infringement (I believe it hits us Illustrators a lot harder than it does the movie/music business) I am firmly opposed to SOPA/PIPA. I think it’s a scare tactic, a chance for the MPAA to throw their weight around. It didn’t work when they were picking off people at random (http://betanews.com/2005/11/02/mpaa-sues-grandfather-for-600-000/) and making examples of them, so they’re taking on the whole internet. The MPAA has put ninety four million dollars into buying congressional votes! That said, the clowns who are lucky to make 40k a year are bringing them to ruin with their downloading. We don’t have ninety four mill, at least I don’t. ~~(If you do, let me direct you to my commission rates)~~ The media blackout is how we show our voice! Unfortunately my site is small and not fully up, so I can’t really help out via a blackout, but I can help by adding my voice and encouraging you to add yours.

To understand the SOPA/PIPA issue I’ve included some links for you guys!

Wil Wheaton’s post on SOPA/PIPA

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2012/01/today-the-us-senate-is-considering-legislation-that-would-destroy-the-free-and-open-internet.html

Reddit’s Technical Look at SOPA

http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html

Wikipedia’s Blackout Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia will give you the info you need to contact your senator/congressman.

A New Year, a New Company

Posted on January 18, 2012 by desireejoy

(Reposted from the Jan 1st posting on my blogger blog)

My sister Cameo and I have recently opened a site ‘My Childs Adventure‘ where we sell personalized flash animated INTERACTIVE storybooks for children. That’s a lot of adjectives! I could come up with more, but I’ll let you check it out and think up some of your own. We also have free flash games to keep the kids occupied.

This is our team to the left. That’s yours truly, my sis Cameo, and our friend Joe who is running the server. The big lug behind us is our mascot “Groovie Monster.” He’s a big lovable furball!

Anyways, we premiered on January 1st around midnight CST! It’s a brand new year, and I welcomed it with the opening one of my favorite dream projects!

I was inspired to create this because when I was in first grade I received a storybook present from my mother. Cam and I each had one. They had our names in it, listed our street address, even our dog was featured in the story! I loved it! I have a terrible memory, but I never forgot that book! I’m surprised at how long it took me to come up with this particular idea. I have been working in flash for a while, and I’ve been running through ideas like an online flash library, with animated fairy tales and the similar stuff. (Oh and there will be classic fairy tales on here soon!) I knew they could be interactive, but it just didn’t click together til the middle of November. We immediately set to work now the first story “The Big Hairy Hungry Scary Monster Under My Bed“(MUMB) has been released! It features one of my nephews (Cartier) who loves it. I’m already at work about our second installment, tentively called “Monster in the City.” The first two will feature Groovie and be for smaller (toddler age) children. We plan to have a range of ages and feature guest writers as well.

Where’s the competition?

Anyways, when starting a new business of any sort, you should always look at your competitors. You should do this when you are considering opening a business. It would be really awful to have spent all this time on a website and MUMB to have the idea be completely unoriginal! I found what I expected to see, there were a couple storybook companies that did the same printed versions that I had received in the past. I only found one that was even close to what we do, that was an animated, interactive flash storybook featuring you…. r name. It’s a lot like those customizable cups, and rings, and license plates you get at any trinket shop. You’d have to have a name they had in stock, and you have no choice in the look of the character. (Ours uses an actual photo of the child!) It features licensed characters like Dora and Spiderman. The art on the interactive stories isn’t all that exciting. So I figured we were good to settle into our niche. Now all we have to do is advertise! (That’s a huge deal, and I’m still getting better at that!)

Alright, so I feel like I’ve done a lot of writing! This project is something I’m really, really excited about, so hopefully, you’ll be seeing lots of posts to come about other stories I’m working on. This wont’ be the end of any of my other projects though. You’ll still see a huge variety here!

Thank you! Goodnight!