Ten Years Prior (to the shit show)
I’m a little bit frazzled. A lot is going on right now. I’ve been running around with my crazy pants on because my sanity pants are in the cleaners. My job is smacking me around. My best friend from childhood, like from age 0, my veritable big brother, left me for New Zealand yesterday. Off to go settle down with his Kiwi girlfriend to make kiwi babies and raise kiwi livestock (he isn’t raising livestock. In fact, I think he’ll be living in a townhouse, but I’ll call him a kiwi farmer until he retuns to his senses and moves back to New Jersey). When I presented him with the Jonas Brothers’ Concert DVD I bought him, he requested that I come within arms length of him so he could elbow me in the neck. I’m going to miss him so much.
So my nerves ran me into a wall today, and just couldn’t do anything… Well, my nerves, and the fact that there is a 72-hour straight Spongebob Squarepants marathon happening on Nickelodeon right now (!!!!), and there is NO WAY anything productive is getting done with this awesomeness tuned on every single television in my house and die a thousand deaths if you dare try to change the channel. I don’t care if I watching the tv upstairs, I can FEEL if MSNBC suddenly comes on downstairs. Turn it back. Don’t play with me. Read a newspaper if you want to know what’s going on in politics this weekend.
Anyway, yeah, spongebob, sims, and gluten-free peanut butter this weekend. I’m in a good mood now. FINALLY got some photos shot, LEARNED SOME NEW POSING TECHNIQUES. Okay so remember how I was rambling about arm animations and overlayable holds? UHM YEAH, that’s nothing. How about EVERY SINGLE ANIMATION that you can think of is overlayable. How about that? EVERY SINGLE ANIMATION. Everything can be overlayed. EVERYTHING. And, I was actually doing this before, but I didn’t realize I was doing it. I kept finding these shots of poses that I had no idea how I did or how to recreate. But now I figured it out. And I’m gonna tell you about it once I can sit down again. I’m actually gonna try and take some pics for a tutorial today. EVERYTHING CAN BE OVERLAYED!
Okay, but here is what you are about to encounter. I know I said I’d be starting Chapter 5: Betray All… but that’s impossible. My timeline is so jacked, there is no way I can continue without doing a massive flashback and straightening out some things first. Otherwise, I’ll just be writing in circles and I think I’ve done enough of that. Chapter 5, pre-commitment-to-writing-a-flashback, was a giant holy crapcake game of mad-dash connect the dots. Read: It was shit. I admit I was never expecting to go in depth into what actually happened DURING The Calling… and I’m still not… not really… But I have to let you in on the details of some of the shitty shit that happened, otherwise none of us are going to know what the hell is going on. So I’m just inserting a midpoint epilogue to the first half, prologue to the second half that will be set ten years prior to the shit show. It will be entitled: Ten Years Prior (to the Shit Show).
We’ll be taking a look at the storylines of (almost) every character where they were approximately (key word approximately) 10 years ago, extending some plot lines, taking a deeper look at characters before they were dreaming/insane/bitter/bad guys/good guys/ addicted to motherfracking vampires/uhm, DEAD… you know, the simple stuff.
I’ll admit, I was being a little pose-overlay-excited in this one, and some picture look kind of stupid… like I’m doing WAY too much and I’m losing my realism. But once I get a pose tutorial out, my shots should cool back down.
Random: Watching episode about how a butterfly in a bubble gets loose in Bikini Bottom and everyone thinks it’s a monster, because if you actually take a good look at a butterfly, colorful wings notwithstanding, you realize that YES BUTTERFLIES ARE FRICKIN’ SCARY. And I’m just glad that my favorite show is taking the initiative to let the world in on that terrible fact. 72 HOURS OF SPONGEBOB!!!! AAAAHHH!
TEN YEARS PRIOR!!!! to the shit show.
*Gets Veron a nice cool drink and an ice pack to CALM HER DOWN!*
Penelope
July 18, 2009 at 12:45 pm
SPONGEBOB!!!!!!!
Veron
July 18, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Glad to see your still alive and about to have a good weekend. Will have to catch up with the update tomorrow, though.
And how did you not know poses with overlayable? LOL! You crack me up.
Butteflies are adorable… but then again, I find odd things adorable.
It’ll be nice to see a flashback, but I hope you’re not overextending yourself!
Mao
July 19, 2009 at 12:23 am
MAO! HI! Hope your weekend is going warmly and sunnily.
No, Mao, I mean like… every single animation. Every single one… Like cross my legs and fish at the same time!!! Wait… is that common knowledge? Oh. Well, so much for that. WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TELL ME! IT’S AWESOME!!!!!!!! :p
On Monday I’ll die again, but for now, I’m not doing a damn thing, so overextending myself is not in the bill.
And have any of your cats ever attacked a ceiling fan?
Veron
July 19, 2009 at 8:42 am
Unfortunately, it is not a good weekend, LOL! Yeah, most animations and even poses can be put over one another. I thought you knew given all the crazy stuff you did. I rarely use it, if at all… not into complicated posing, LOL! But I’ll be interested in seeing what you do with your tutorial.
Nope, no ceiling fans, LOL! What kind of crazy cats do you have? xD Eating toothpaste, swinging from fans… so crazy!!
Hope you enjoyed your Spongebob.
Mao
July 19, 2009 at 10:34 am
Oh nooooooo
Your week will be better. We gotta have another “massive email” session.
I HAD NO IDEA. I forget what it was that made me figure it out, but I was literally staring at the screen with my mouth hanging open like I CAN DO THAT??!?!?!
Had no idea. I mean I WAS doing it, but I didn’ t know I was doing it. It was like, subconscious overlaying. Like, yeah I knew seated overlays, and photobox overlaying from goodbye_sun, but I never tried it on regular animations, or animations that didn’t have “overlay” in the title XD.
Well, now stuff is going to be extra crazy since I’ve figured this out
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I don’t knoooow what’s going on with my cats *whine*. They’re being so dimwitted lately. Bane straight up climbed on a bookcase and jumped INTO the ceiling fan. Nearly killed himself! And then he DID IT AGAIN. I’m like, WHAT ARE YOU IDIOTS DOING?!
I think I’m going into Spongebob overdose. And my boy is about throttle me, he’s so annoyed.
Veron
July 19, 2009 at 10:43 am
What?! You can overlay every single animation??? OMG!! I didn’t know that either! Cross your legs and fish at the same time, lol! I CAN’T wait for your tutorial, this is going to be a huge help!
Ning
July 20, 2009 at 11:19 am
Hehehe, I was freaking out like WHAT WHAT WHAT?!?!
But it’s weird I’m getting a lot of emails about posing lately, so this next tutorial might be a oddball concoction or something.
Veron
July 20, 2009 at 12:54 pm
I can’t even talk about overlays and poses without getting a migraine. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do it. But Spongebob is all kinds of WIN!
Gayl
July 20, 2009 at 2:44 pm
hehe, i’m in spongebob overdose.
I’m gonna totally make it super easy… well, i’m gonna try. I think. I don’ t know, people are making requests, and I’m no longer sure how i’m going to do this anymore. But I’m hoping its not difficult.
Veron
July 20, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Well if you are going to do a tutorial just stick to the basics. We should all be smart enough to figure it out and apply it elsewhere. It’s too much otherwise.
I love Spongebob…and Invader Zim. My son has bed sheets with Gir on it…and Zim of course.
Gayl
July 20, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Yeah, I couldn’t go beyond basics because then it would just be show and tell, not so much teaching anything. I’ve decided I’m going to put it up for reader choice, because I’m not sure if what I was thinking of doing will even be of benefit anymore.
Veron
July 20, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I for one would greatly benefit from anything you put up. I can do a great many things but I have never understood how to do overlays. I just don’t get the order…or anything else. But I think I can follow basic steps. You know I before E and all that…
Gayl
July 20, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Ha! Okay. Were my first tutorials okay, description-wise? Was I going beyond basics?
Veron
July 20, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Absolutely they were! More than ok. I am just very slow to grasp things…and by basic I mean that you shouldn’t feel like you have to add every single pose with every single overlay. You will get inundated with requests but putting up the basics, choose box A, pose B, etc. in this order…I think that works.
Hmm, hope that made sense…
Gayl
July 20, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Oh Oh Oh! Okay, yeah, I get you. And I’m about to email you.
Veron
July 20, 2009 at 6:11 pm