TONIGOBE

I was hoping to post this last night, but I was functioning with only 3 hours of sleep the whole day. More about that a little later, but first… Contest Winners!

Congratulations to Kiseichu and Nemesis

Given that there were over 30 downloads of the contest file, I’m surprised I only had 2 entrants in this year’s contest. Based on last year’s contest’s stats, I was anticipating at least 5 to 7. Nevertheless, I’m glad in a way that I didn’t get that much, because just judging between the two entries was a bit difficult!  I can imagine how much harder it would have been if there were more!

This years Grand Prize Winner is Kiseichu.

Congratulations, Kiseichu!

Kiseichu didn’t have a particular tankoubon he would like to edit.  He entered the contest as a form of thanks for the work I have done.  He does hope that I would do more harem (and Hana) mangas, ‘though. I guess he’s happy with me doing all the work! LOL! Still, Kiseichu, if you ever reconsider…

Here’s a sample of Kiseichu’s work.

This years 2nd Place Winner is Nemesis, of Little White Butterflies. (See! This is how you get to cross-promote your blogs!)

Congratulations, Nemesis!

I almost wanted to be cheap (or smart!) and declare only 1 winner; but I must admit, for something that he rushed in doing, Nemesis did one hell of a job editing! I didn’t actually have a 2nd place prize of sorts, so for Nemesis, I combined the prizes for groups 1 and 3 (5 doujinshi’s-20pages or less, or 100 pages).

Here’s a sample of Nemesis’ work.

You can find out more about the winners, their editing styles, and a few more samples of their work on this page: 2010 Editing Contest Winners!

Please check it out!

Next up…

The other night, or yesterday morning in the wee hours, I finished MaxAndEmilyTate’s commission: A Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha doujinshi featuring Lt.Col. Hayase, by the circle, ArcS.  MaxAndEmily did the raw scans as well.

I pulled an all-nighter to finish the last half of this commission, since my day job had encroached on my free time, as usual, earlier this week.  I didn’t want MaxAndEmily to wait much longer, so hammered out the last half of the doujinshi on Thursday night.  I don’t want to make y’all wait much longer either, so I may post this tomorrow night.  Or Monday night (HST), at the latest!

This weekend turned out to be a hentai-weekend, so I’m currently working on chapter 5 of Gift.  And while I’m mentioning it, many thanks for Flying Horses for sponsoring the remaining chapters! ^_^

Oh My Mai!

Earlier this year, I was at a loss coming up with a new challenge for the this year’s editor’s contest. Then I recalled this project, which I started almost 3 years ago: It’s a doujinshi based on Mai-HiMe, featuring one of my favorite characters, Mai, and I’m actually about half-way finished with it.

This project was intended to be a challenge for myself, and thus a slow project to finish. I wanted to take my time to clean and de-censor the images, and re-typeset the SFXs.  This was a major task, especially since all the pages are in color. However, after almost 3 years, even I’m getting impatient and would like to see it complete; and there are still 8 pages that I have yet to start editing!

Which brings me to this year’s contest.

The challenge is basically to clean and de-censor the remaining 8 images, which basically means removing all texts, including SFX, and be left with a clean raw image. There is no type-setting involved. The idea of this contest is to have fun and show yur shop skilz.

I have grouped the pages into 3 groups, ranging in difficulty from easy to hard… relatively speaking. Thus there are prizes for each group (which is basically me making a bunch of scripts for the winners ^_^;; ), plus an extra Grand Prize for someone who manages to clean all 8 pages and impress me.  And in order to win, you do need to impress me!

Because of the amount of images and detail involved, I’ll be leaving this contest open for at least a couple of months in case anyone wants to try for the Grand Prize. I hope to announce the winners around the first week of May or so.

Anyhow, for those of you who would like to take part in this challenge, I have all the details of the contest here:  2010 EDITING CONTEST RULES.  I have also included an edit of mine as an example.

Good Luck and Happy Editing!