Digital denizens of the mini universe

Here's a frame from a story I worked on this weekend, called "Jennifer Falls Down." No, you don't get to see the whole thing.

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Sources for me: Hair is freebie Boy Hair for V4 by 3Dream. Collar from MAB/WillDupree's Bunnygirl for A4. Top from Adzan's freebie Etienne le Bien-Aime for H3, textured with one of nikitanights' freebie Sequence Sparkle Texture Tiles. Pants and sneakers from Adzan's freebie Small Sins for H3. Pose from one of H3's defaults, tweaked by me.

 

Sources for Jareth: Hair is Daz/AprilYSH's Amarseda. Neck brace thing from Adzan's freebie Painted Osculus for H3. Necklaces, upper arm bands and bracelets from Adzan's freebie Solar Solace for H3. Corset from Adzan's freebie Monoculture for H3. Pants from Adzan's freebie Etienne le Bien-Aime for H3. Shoes from Wilmap's freebie Roaring '20s clothing set. Pose from Hivewire3D's Everyday Poses for Dawn, tweaked by me.

 

Sources for Jennifer: Hair is freebie Hmhm Hair for V4 by Red Viper. Blouse, dress, underwear, stockings and gloves from ISOP's freebie Idol for A3 outfit, all with included textures, except for the gloves, the texture for which is from a freebie by Kandace Wright. Pose from Digiport Designs' Storytime for Millennium Kids Preschoolers, tweaked by me.

Background by me!

Yippee -- I got a therianthrope!

I've lusted after MAB/WillDupree's harpy for years, and I finally got her at 40% off. Expect her to show up on my blog soon enough...

Madame Tutli Putli: magnificently Gothic stop-motion short

A woman, weighed down with the baggage of a lifetime, takes a macabre ride on a nighttime train.

I can't stop staring at the beautiful textures at play in this stop-motion animation. I love how the main character's limbs seem to be made of worn, stuffed muslin over a wire armature, but, somehow, the skin of her face is so translucent that her weariness emanates clearly. According to Wikipedia, the animators composited human eyes over the stop-motion figures, which drives the train straight into the Uncanny Valley and only adds to the eerie sense of life in death. Beautiful, disturbing, compelling. Requires multiple viewings to appreciate the melancholy sensibilities, subtle body language and quintessentially dreamlike narrative.

Sintel: mediocre story, amazing dragons

I found a short film about a girl on a quest for a dragon.  The film itself is forgettable, except for the realistic anatomy and animation of the dragons. Like birds, they have a total of four limbs, two wings and two feet. Like birds, they also squeal, squawk and roar. They scuttle along the ground when young and fly when older, and they act like large, irritable, flying lizards. I recommend watching this if only for the utterly convincing imaginary monsters. :D

Recommended for smart remarks!

Andrea writes on her Tumblr that she recommends my blog for more reasons than just my trenchant rants on the lack of 1:6 scale electric wheelchairs. One of these reasons, apparently, is such gems as my admiration for crotch jewelry Adzan's Solar Solace for Hiro 3. I'm not sure which is more entertaining -- the fact that someone recommends my blog to other people or the fact that "Invisible Suspenders" is what makes my blog recommendable. ^_^

Bebe the Boreal harpy

Her name is not actually Bebe, but a musical, piping string of liquid vowels that human language can't approximate. There is a bebebe sound somewhere in there, though, so she usually just tells humans who don't speak the Champlain dialect of Avian to call her Bebe.

In making Bebe, I strove to create a character both realistic and stylized. She's obviously stylized because wings that small could in no way bear her aloft. However, I wanted her physicality to be convincing, so I scaled her down to 85% of a default V4 and gave her a lean, musclebound frame. Her face is a relatively flat plane so as to reduce drag, while her large eyes give her keen predatorial vision. Her top knot functions practically as a way to keep her hair from her eyes, and it's messy because she doesn't worry about style when riding the gale. Her extra large hands help her grab dinner, while her drawn countenance, with bags under her eyes, suggests a hard life on the wing.

Bebe likes dancing!

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