Piano - Final Fantasy VI - Phantom Forest

Sorry about the hissing sound. I didn't fix ALL of the audio problems when I re-uploaded this, but I at least made it louder, in an attempt to not further destroy anyone's speakers/headphones/eardrums from watching another video after this one. Overall, the whole thing was just a big experiment. For one, this was on-the-spot playing with no real reference at the time. Now that I've heard the song more, I can play it with more correct chords in the future. As for the visuals, that was just me having a bit too much fun with AfterEffects :P

Piano - Ghost in the Shell: SAC - Inner Universe

Aeria Gloris...

Piano - The Legend of Zelda Theme

This is my little contribution to my favorite franchise's 25th anniversary.

Action Figure Sketches 01

I haven't drawn for myself in quite a while. School's been having me do more 3D work, which I may post later. But I've been starting to sketch some of the action figures that I own. I began with my Motoko Kusanagi from "Ghost in the Shell," and my Orion Moon Slave from "Star Trek." This is but a very small fraction of my figurines.

A Little Update

It's been a long while since I've updated this blog, so I figured I'd give a bit of an update. For those who know me from my Fountainkeeper channel on YouTube, I know I have not been recording my piano playing nearly as much as I used to. I do not make a living off of music. Currently, I'm a senior at the DigiPen Institute of Technology, going for my BFA in Digital Art and Animation. This is my real time consumer. Although I am extremely busy with schoolwork, I still find time to play piano. I have not stopped, and I've made sure by doing my live UStream shows that I have not fallen off the map.

Last month, I made an announcement video saying that I have set up a second channel (ElephantSpank), and put a couple songs up on it. I did not promise that videos would be more frequent. I initially made it for lower-quality piano vids, or whenever I visited my parents' place with their old acoustic piano. But mainly, it will be my dump channel for whatever the hell I feel like posting :)

As for my fountainkeeper channel, I will be deleting my two announcement videos later. I don't want my channel to be cluttered with announcement videos. I'll probably archive them over to ElephantSpank. I have recently recorded "Inner Universe" from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, so you'll be seeing that soon. I've also further practiced and fixed the mistakes I made on the Zelda theme I posted on the ES channel. I am redoing it as my own little celebration for Zelda's 25th Anniversary.
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As far as my life goes, yes, school is a grueling, torturous, painful experience, but I'm still having fun.
One of the things I miss doing because of the schoolwork is reading. I haven't read a book for myself since the Deathly Hallows came out, or when I listened to the audiobook of "The Lovely Bones" back in 2008. So for these past few months, I've started picking up audiobooks from the library, and listening to them while I work. So far I've listened to "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH," and Neil Gaiman's "Stardust" and "American Gods." I hear there's an HBO series of AG coming out. Can't wait for that :). Speaking of HBO, I also picked up "A Game of Thrones," which I'll get to, once I finish "Howl's Moving Castle."

As for playing video games, erm.... Hell, I'll just list the ones I beat this past year:
Metroid: Other M - AKA: "The baby... the baby... the F**KING BABY!!!" }: (
Secret of Monkey Island 1 and 2
Tales from Monkey Island
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Portal (Still have yet to play P2)
Half-Life 2 (and Episodes 1 and 2)
Broken Sword 2 and 3
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (for my 30-some-oddth time)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (and Master Quest)

Live Piano Sessions

From time to time, I will be doing live piano chat sessions on UStream. My first one will be on Friday May 6, from 4-7pm PST. Metalheads who subscribed to me on YouTube, don't miss out on the first song!!

My UStream Channel
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fountainkeeper-s-piano

Pre-DigiPen Renderings

I found a load of renderings I made back in 2004-6 with Rhino. This was long before I learned about unwrapping texture maps. Every separate color is all its own separate object, seamed together to make one. Just imagine how many polygons they were! ...Fun times :D

 

Some self portraits

 These are the images I used as the posters in the piano room picture below.

CG Environments

These are two scenes I had made for my CG Environments class. Created with Autodesk Maya.

Welcome to my blog!

I don't know exactly what I am going to post here yet (except for maybe my piano videos or artwork), but I've decided to make a Blogspot account for the hell of it. Let's see how this turns out :D