Things To Come
Feb. 11th, 2006 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I think I have to buy everything Yann Tiersen has ever written.
Hyel (and others) by their subtle hinting have convinced me to break up my Monstrous Regiment postings into pieces.* So, tomorrow I think, I'll put up what I've done so far,** and you can all see how much I haven't been drawing in the last few weeks. I think I'll save the ones that are going to be coloured till I colour them.
... maybe ...
10:43 pm
I have decided that 'La noyee' is what Moist and Adora Belle dance to after the fire even though it is TOTALLY NON-CANON as it doesn't have a banjo in it. Too bad. That's what they dance to. Dang, I love that scene. I LOVE THAT BOOK WAAAAAAAH!
[breathe...]
*They're impatient and I'm impatient... it all works out.
**Except the one which has a preliminary colour rendition that is still on my computer at work because I haven't sent it home yet. D'oh.
Hyel (and others) by their subtle hinting have convinced me to break up my Monstrous Regiment postings into pieces.* So, tomorrow I think, I'll put up what I've done so far,** and you can all see how much I haven't been drawing in the last few weeks. I think I'll save the ones that are going to be coloured till I colour them.
... maybe ...
10:43 pm
I have decided that 'La noyee' is what Moist and Adora Belle dance to after the fire even though it is TOTALLY NON-CANON as it doesn't have a banjo in it. Too bad. That's what they dance to. Dang, I love that scene. I LOVE THAT BOOK WAAAAAAAH!
[breathe...]
*They're impatient and I'm impatient... it all works out.
**Except the one which has a preliminary colour rendition that is still on my computer at work because I haven't sent it home yet. D'oh.
GASP
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Date: 2006-02-12 08:01 am (UTC)Moist is such a great character that it'd be a shame not to use him again, but the post office, the clacks, and the mint? Maybe it'll be someone new who also believes in angels. And not freedom of choice. : )
GLEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
I'm never going to get to sleep NOW...
GLEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[insane cackling]
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Date: 2006-02-12 08:14 am (UTC)Character development HOOOOO! Allow me to flail gleefully to the tune of your insane cackling. XD
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Date: 2006-02-12 08:22 am (UTC)I love it when writers write well.
OH SO HAPPEYY!
We can flail about in geekish glee together (...on opposite sides of the Atlantic...)!
[flail]
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Date: 2006-02-12 10:54 am (UTC)Re: On the outside looking in
Date: 2006-02-13 08:31 pm (UTC)Ah, the Cintique in all its glory...(stand back! He's gonna blow!)
Date: 2006-02-14 04:38 am (UTC)-The display is nice and big, but not quite as crisp or color-accuate as a regular monitor
-It's very big, heavy, and cumbersome - to really take advantage of the "spinning" base, you need a pretty big, clear space on your desk, and I have two desks, neither one the right size or height to use it properly (the worst was when I tried it on my animation desk - I was cramping up my back and my legs to achieve the right posture to use it - ugh! A tablet, on the other hand, can fit comfortably on your lap, be turned any which way, AND you have the advantage of not having your pen or your hand obstructing your view of your work, which can be a problem with fine details, or when you're clicking on small type (I tend to hit the wrong stuff a lot).
But the number one problem I have with the thing (and, more specifically, with Photoshop and Iview) is that for a few months I HAD to use them to produce my storyboards, under a lot of pressure and tight deadlines. Now, there are people here (you may be one of them) who would have no problem with that - they love drawing this way, they got used to it quickly, and would never go back. For ME to do continuity boards on the computer from start to finish was pure agony and frustration - I worked at a fraction of the speed I'm used to, my drawings were stiff, overworked, poorly staged, and I had tremendous problems with "flipping" the drawings so they flowed together properly. I'm accustomed to working very quick and dirty, needing only a pad of paper, a marker, and maybe a pencil to be as rough or as detailed as I wanted, making changes on the fly anywhere and being able to show them to people without finding and opening a file, waiting for the scene to boot up, dealing with network problems, power outtages, memory issues, corrupted files (despite all of the backups and safety precautions, we've had weeks' worth of work vanish in the blink of an eye whenever two people accidentaly tried to view the same scene at the same time!), etc.,etc. All of the bells and whistles that actually come in handy when I'm cleaning up a sequence, or making adjustments, are a nuisance at best when I'm just trying to rough out a sequence quickly. To compensate for the loss of productivity and quality in my work, I was literally living at work for weeks on end, barely sleeping, and getting no compensation for the overtime because my show didn't hav it in the budget. Those months represents an absolute low point in my life, not to mentin my work. There are several of us here who, after killing ourselves trying to learn this AND meet our deadlines have given up on generating artwork (from scratch) on the cintique, and have gone back to paper (primarily), and luckily the studio is supporting us in this. The reason I'm back on the cintique now is I have to go in and make changes to the awful sequence I started on the cintique previously, and after a few months of wonderful freedom, it is painful to go back again! Eventually, I do hope to get more comfortable with it (perhaps Disney will allow us to use better software for storyboarding, too, someday), especially if I have some downtime to experiment with, but as long as I have tight deadlines to keep, it is a heavy stone around my neck, dragging me down...! (yeah, I know, you STILL don't feel sorry for me, but I'm being totally honest here!)
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Date: 2006-02-12 05:18 pm (UTC)When does Making Money come out though?
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Date: 2006-02-12 08:00 pm (UTC)[raises tomato shield]
French music does rule, though. I much prefer the musical selection on Radio-Canada than the CBC.
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Date: 2006-02-12 08:55 pm (UTC)HEAR! HEAR! AMEN AND HALLELUJAH!
Date: 2006-02-13 07:10 am (UTC)And the award goes to....
Date: 2006-02-13 04:54 pm (UTC)And yes, take my breath away (insert capitals and italics because I'm lazy... and just capitalized a letter so I shouldn't complain...) sucked butt-monkeys.
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Date: 2006-02-13 06:43 pm (UTC)Your icon is also hypnotic...I am compelled to read all the funny dialogue...over and over...!
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Date: 2006-02-13 10:53 pm (UTC)And yes, I'm fairly proud of the icon myself. It's my sister and me (now you have to guess which one is me... currently I'm wearing a red shirt, but the pic was taken.. ((pulls off socks to count)) four or five years ago.)
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Date: 2006-02-14 04:42 am (UTC)Do you have rings on your ankles like a tree? I'm confused... :)
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Date: 2006-02-14 04:07 pm (UTC)It obviously wasn't my thinking day yesterday.
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Date: 2006-02-23 06:26 pm (UTC)You could probably put a banjo into La Noyee. Banjos have gone into stranger things, and they sometimes work!
For the Dancing on the Edge scene (which I try to draw with no luck all the time) I like to think of the song "Jealous of the Moon" by the young Alternative Bluegrass/Blues/Jazz/Grunge group Nickel Creek. You can catch it here- scroll down to "Studio 330 sessions", select Jealous of the Moon. Hope you like it! The lead singer/mandolin player looks kinda like a certain character from one of your drawings, too! :-) http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/creek_nickel/videos.jhtml
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Date: 2006-02-24 02:49 am (UTC)Here are the words anyway:
You´re tryin' on a brand new dress
But you haven't worn the old one yet
You've come too far to turn around now.
You're giving up the good fight when you´re as strong as anyone
You're just back where you started from
You're staring down the stars, jealous of the moon
You wish you could fly
But you're staying where you are there's nothing you can do...
if you're too scared to try.
You drag your pretty head around swearing you're gonna drown
with a beautiful sigh in a river of lies.
You're staring down the stars, jealous of the moon
You wish you could fly
But you're staying where you are there's nothing you can do...
if you're too scared to try.
Why don't you call me?
I could save you
Together we could a god we can pray to that will take you by the hand.
I hate to see a friend of mine
laughing out loud when she's crying inside
but you've got your pride. You've got your pride.
You're staring down the stars, jealous of the moon
You wish you could fly
But you're staying where you are there's nothing you can do...
if you're too scared to try.
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Date: 2006-02-24 04:17 pm (UTC)http://hype.non-standard.net/track/53442