Messages posted by: morwalugi

"Werechu and SSBdave can get all the gifts and requests they ask"

Not always.When Werechu asked me in 2007/2008 to do one of my little storyboard
videos with Wyrrach Ur in it,there wasn't a hope in hell I'd do the standard
"angry young man turns into a 400 foot tall Doom Dragon and exterminates humanity" plot

Instead Wyrrach Ur stays hidden cowering in the cave when the fed up norsemen
come to kill him off for good.Instead its Wyrrachs much smaller anthrodragon
sister Winnifred Urrach who stands in front of the cave entrance defending her
cowardly big brother from the Vikings.Wyrrachs only appearance in those
3 "Winnie the Ur" videos is as a pile of dust surrounded by catapult stones.

and as a sidenote the letter arrive near the middle/end of last week,so thank you

movie teen sorcery mercedes the evil cheerleader

book quest of the fair unknown author gerald morris blonde esmeree the cursed beauty

ShadyIMG wrote:Uhh...yeah. I guess I could request here. ^^; In Bartok the Magnificant, there's a part where the villainess, Ludmilla, drinks a potion to bring out her inner beauty, but it turns her into a dragon while she's singing and dancing, while not noticing till the end. I first noticed this years ago here on this site, only the sequence pics cause it wasn't available for download, and thought "Woah. Very nice." It got posted on Youtube, but one day I want to get it from here. Here's the Youtube link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i6ROv1JKfg

The potion brought out 10 times on the outside what was in the inside.'10' is
generally not a mystical number in fairytale dragon lore.'3' and '7' are.Though
I suppose 3+7= 10 might have been deliberate on the scriptwriters
part.

Far more interesting than Ludmilla's transformation is her interactions with the
prisoners in the dungeon whilst rearranging.Also note that her costume as the Regent has
its parallels on her dragon body.Even before she took the potion the 'dragon' inside her
had a way of expressing itself in her choice of jewellry and style of dress.

some probably know that the book and film 'green snake' was a metaphor for the takeover of hong kong by mainland china in 1999

so when i came across a short story from 1985 titled 'lazy dragon' in
great masterpieces of terror and the supernatural
i was intrigued with the tale of a
4th generation chinese american born in 2010ad coming back as a ghost in 2010bc china
and serving as a refuge for a lazy dragon hiding from a rather stern and murderous
master of dragons,who sends out hit dragons to off dragons caught awol on the job.

considering the short story's publication date its either a hong kong metaphor or alludes to social tensions of 1980's
mainland china

the refugee dragon in question can size shift and in the end is still defiant as the big guy hurls
a lightening bolt to destroy him

Contains minor transformations near the end.

Also referces the Alien movie

Far more importantly it references
-Moses leading his people to the Promised Land

-the Gulf War I video game mentality controversy

Might as well apply the Conservor Method to art creation
not to mention everything else

A 8-1/2 x 11 sheet of photo copy paper folded in half and scanned
in at 75 dpi yields a image roughly 640 x 480 dpi.Thus in a video editor
set to produce a 640 x 480 video clip theres no need to
alter the electronic any further.

If you're saving paper matter in large envelopes,save the ones
you get in the mail from business's and reuse them rather then going to
Staples and spending 10 - 25 cents on a new 9 x 12 envelopes.

If you're photocopying the art for personal use,get on the mailing list
of Notices to Mariners and request a paper version.The paper version
has about 1/3 of the 50 or so sheets being printed on one side,leaving the
other side for reuse.And the sheets work well in a HP 2020 AiO.At about
$5 for a 500 pack of copy paper,that'll save 10-20 cents.And the Notices
were free last time I looked.

If you have a stack of old postage that wasn't date stamped and hence is still
useable sans glue,a bit of flour,salt and water make a reasonable glue paste.

Assuming postal rules haven't changed,it used to be the policy
of Canada Post to send tax returns ontp Revenue Canada regardless
of whether it had correct or any postage on it.

And if you want to send your art to your Member of Parliament
the letters are postage free.
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(and for people complaining no ones making their kind of art,may I
suggest the following layout?
OP probably should have offered a explanation for why
no ones doing that type of art and why we should give
a damn about possible solutions to the percieved problem.
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Why are artists only doing shitty versions of the
Turner-Goya 1811 masterpiece
"Lambe and Percy Feeding Their Flock"

As we all know in 1810 Turner braved the
British blockade and Napoleonic forces so he
could meet Goya in Madrid with a proposal.
"Hey Frank,How'd ya like to team up with me
to do a painting?"

"Oh Yeah,bring it on "said Goya and the two
artists high 5'd it and decided to do the scene
where Reverend Lambe ,his daughter Philadephia
and Bishop Percy discover the "Laidly Worm o
Spindleston Haughs " ancient scrolls in a blocked
up cave where they'd been hidden 9 centuries
earlier along a rocky promotory overlooking
Eyemouth Harbour.

So the two artists pulled off their jackets,rolled
up their sleeves and got to work on this 9foot by
33 foot masterpiece of the ages.

Naturally word got around to the other artists and its
rumoured the French guy who did
"The Assassination of Robspierre " got a special
escort from the Emperor himself to lend a helping
hand to the other two.

There were the usual duels,fist fights,boozing into
the night as they struggled to bring the Percy Lambe
to perfection,but in the end it was done

Philadephia is seen crawling out of the cave,the scrolls
held forth to her eager dad,whilst behind Lambe stands
Percy,robes fluttering in the sea winds whilst holding
onto that hats of his so it doesn't blow away.Down below
we see the village of Eyemouth,with a small scene of
Lambe holding the scrolls aloft in a "I have returned"
pose surrounded by the grateful smugglers and
privateers(who need the tourists) and the Sun shines
gently upon the village like Gods own blessing.

So reasons modern artists don't do the Percy Lambe
right anymore

-they're a bit clueless on the Percy Lambe and its
depicted historical event?

-it would cost a fortune to reproduce it on the internet?

-they no longer possess the skills the old tymers had?

-they're waiting for the up front $1,000 downpayment on the
$100,000 commission fee?

Reasons people should give a damn

-the George Bush Iraq War Memorial fund is offering $10,000
grants to ex soldiers who do art in the "Tradition'

--The Afghan Womens Benevolence Society is doing a major
Hollywood blockbuster on Turner,Goya and the Percy Lambe.

-plenty of cross marketing /promotional potential

Solutions to possible problems modern artists might have in
doing a good job.

Problem 1
Solution 1

Problem 2
Solution 2

Problem 3
Solution 3

Any other solutions?
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( And onto less economic or successful marketing matters

Hokey Wolf's "Poached Yeggs" episode first premiered
on August 25 1961.

Cross Linkage trivia
The Flinstones first premiered in September 1960
and Daws Butler voiced Barney Rubble/Dino
When Hokey Wolf came out in December 1960 Hokey Wolf was
played by Daws Butler.
http://www.wingnuttoons.com/Flintstones.html
http://www.wingnuttoons.com/HokeyWolf.html

My guess would be that Daws Butler voiced the dragon in
Poaached Yeggs,and that the dragon drawings are in fact a modified
Flinstones Dino.)

Its been a awful long time since I've drawn S&D charts,so I'm sure there
are errors in these.

I assumed 2005-Contest 1,2009-Contest 2 however we all known that from Oct 2008
the global banking crisis hit home dramatically,so the 2005 charts
could just as easily be dated June 2008.

Impression I have is that tf artists are reluctant to drop the supply
line,(probably because they have alternative sources of income such as
teaching art at college)
except for a few $1 commissions on Transfur.So probably the
all important line is that demand line.Basically its either shifted
down along its entire length( no $$ in a commissioner-patrons pocket no matter
what suppliers offer the 'tf widget' for
or
theres a change in consumer tastes,where the elasticity of demand changed
and the demand line angled downwards (rich consumers buy wall ready art,
poor consumers buy tf widgets.

I'm inclined to think the economic model for the tf community goes something like this

Stage 1
the professional artist and the commissioner-patron

The final consumer-the commissioner patrons(demand line)
the professional artist( the supply line)

From what I gather most professional artists don't actually make a living at their
art but at adjacent professions,teaching art at the local college for eg.
So our art teacher sees commissioner-patrons waving $20,s and $50's and
enters the tf community and supplies the product.The money dries up and the
artist goes back to teaching art school.

Stage 2
places like this and the professional artist

Professional tf artists (demand line)
the Service Provider(supply line)

the professional artist,in order to get the commission from the
commissioner-patron,comes to places like this to do the research for the job.
Whether they pay/donate for the Service Providers service ulimately boils down
to the state of health of the commissioner-patron.If Joe Blow puts
his $50 back in the wallet the non-event will work its way down the chain.
Joe Blows gone,the artist goes back to teaching art school and the Service
Provider is offering a research service no longer required.

I'm not going to work out how contests fit into that
stage1/stage 2 model,but I'd guess for contests time=money
and that professional artists(now the demand line) where you
are the supplier of 'contest widgets'(the supply line) saw a major
downward shift in the available quantity of time they have
available to 'spend'
which would have the same effect on a S&D chart as getting rid of all
the $ in the commissioner-patrons wallets.

Main point being the demand line has shifted for tf widgets in a very real world way
for all the various stages of S&D charts involved in the economic model.
Less $,less time,less everything.Essentially you'd need to get commissioner-patrons
primed up with $20's and $50's again to reprime the pump.

And to round off the provenance on this one.

Mother of the final video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulEnLWxhva8

Basically abandoned because the excuse for the tf was a bit corny
and I don't go for one-off fanfictions.

Father of the final video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtErCIYHMBg

This ones the most direct parent of the final video,providing the tf clip,the
other images and the cloak and dagger impetus.However I didn't think my two
grandparents would have approved of their characters tf'g on screen,nor whizzing
about in space.Hence abandoned.

I suppose I might as well provide a quick provenance on this one.

October 2001 "Dragon Warp" on Animal Transformation Archive
2002 "Lady and the Rum Runner" (Basically 2 of my grandparents(RIP) having adventures)
2002-early2004 1000 drawings of "Draconic Real Lifes"( Art Spiegelmanns "Maus" inspired family history)
2005 "Laura and the Starliner" ( Dragon Warp 2 )
January 2009 series of proto "Dragon Warp 3" videos working out plots,settings,technologies,characterizations

"Its 1935 and fascist Prince Aragon
(Danny Phantom) rules Teutonia whilst in Dragon Canada
unemployed dragons can't afford to buy magical tobacco pipes
and Professor Puffs prototype Starliner is sabatoged by a
anarchist group called the Hooded Hawk."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90tOYJB7vPg

Anyways if this one meets the parameters you can enter it in your contest.

90% of the clips that have been uploaded or 90% of the rest?

As much as I'd love to create quality videos Youtube experience
has shown me its not worth wearing out the capital equipment to
do so.Hence I generally just use a digital camera with 800 x 600
resolution to photograph about 4 storyboards per episode.(takes
about one minute with the camera and about 15-30 minutes if I use the
aging 7 year old scanner)

Obviously the
number of eyeballs and commentary will drop of the cliff but the
only other sure way to nail eyeballs on Youtube is to 'pimp' the
creation by using a juicy come on in the text blurb that accompanies
the upload.

These days with a World Great Depression 2 a very real possibility
I think people will have to apply more economic thinking to their
creaticity.Being popular in the furry/tf community is nice but ultimately
won't put food on the table or provide a warm fuzzy feeling.

(The story
Earth mid 20th century never developed electrical or electronic
devices.Basically gritty Victorian London parked in the 20th
century.The aliens really needed to talk to the Earthling and commandeered
Humphrey Bogarts trash hauling starship to make the run.Just before
the final approach the rebels snuck aboard and sabatoged the ship.
Humphrey managed to get the 'African Queen" down but the rebels
than proceeded to mess up 'First Contact' with the Earthlings.The tf
component is called the Squavo,a Gollem phantom snakes inhabit to
meander about in the flesh and blood dimension.(bodyswap
rather then a actual tf of the host.)
(and quick notes on the Danny Phantom dragon tf clips
the voice actor who did the Sam Mason's father also does the Dragon
Prisoners of Love and Parental Bonding reversion tf at beginning use the same cels,but in reverse order
There is order to the appearances of the dragon ghost
Parental Bonding Prisoners of Love,Beauty Marked,The Ghost King episode
and one with that 50's nerd
Basically theres a sub arc plotline in the bigger overall story arc that connects all the episodes with the
dragon ghost in them
Butch Hartmann did not just sprinkle in random appearances of the dragon ghost)

Basically done from the POV of Princess Dorothea Aragon
as the narrator,knowing full well when she gets angry she turns
into a big blue flamebreather,which would give the word
'cremation' a spin Robert W Service couldn't have envisaged for his
unnamed narrator

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There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.

Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows.
Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows.
He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell;
Though he'd often say in his homely way that he'd "sooner live in hell".

On a Christmas Day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail.
Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail.
If our eyes we'd close, then the lashes froze till sometimes we couldn't see;
It wasn't much fun, but the only one to whimper was Sam McGee.

And that very night, as we lay packed tight in our robes beneath the snow,
And the dogs were fed, and the stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe,
He turned to me, and "Cap," says he, "I'll cash in this trip, I guess;
And if I do, I'm asking that you won't refuse my last request."

Well, he seemed so low that I couldn't say no; then he says with a sort of moan:
"It's the cursed cold, and it's got right hold till I'm chilled clean through to the bone.
Yet 'tain't being dead -- it's my awful dread of the icy grave that pains;
So I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains."

A pal's last need is a thing to heed, so I swore I would not fail;
And we started on at the streak of dawn; but God! he looked ghastly pale.
He crouched on the sleigh, and he raved all day of his home in Tennessee;
And before nightfall a corpse was all that was left of Sam McGee.

There wasn't a breath in that land of death, and I hurried, horror-driven,
With a corpse half hid that I couldn't get rid, because of a promise given;
It was lashed to the sleigh, and it seemed to say:
"You may tax your brawn and brains,
But you promised true, and it's up to you to cremate those last remains."

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in my heart how I cursed that load.
In the long, long night, by the lone firelight, while the huskies, round in a ring,
Howled out their woes to the homeless snows -- O God! how I loathed the thing.

And every day that quiet clay seemed to heavy and heavier grow;
And on I went, though the dogs were spent and the grub was getting low;
The trail was bad, and I felt half mad, but I swore I would not give in;
And I'd often sing to the hateful thing, and it hearkened with a grin.

Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay;
It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May".
And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum;
Then "Here," said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."

Some planks I tore from the cabin floor, and I lit the boiler fire;
Some coal I found that was lying around, and I heaped the fuel higher;
The flames just soared, and the furnace roared -- such a blaze you seldom see;
And I burrowed a hole in the glowing coal, and I stuffed in Sam McGee.

Then I made a hike, for I didn't like to hear him sizzle so;
And the heavens scowled, and the huskies howled, and the wind began to blow.
It was icy cold, but the hot sweat rolled down my cheeks, and I don't know why;
And the greasy smoke in an inky cloak went streaking down the sky.

I do not know how long in the snow I wrestled with grisly fear;
But the stars came out and they danced about ere again I ventured near;
I was sick with dread, but I bravely said: "I'll just take a peep inside.
I guess he's cooked, and it's time I looked"; . . . then the door I opened wide.

And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar;
And he wore a smile you could see a mile, and he said: "Please close that door.
It's fine in here, but I greatly fear you'll let in the cold and storm --
Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it's the first time I've been warm."

There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.

I generally just play size comparison games.When Dennis Nolan
did the BEFORE and AFTER for Yolens transformed
heroine Dove Isabeau he set her image against the same wall in the
witch's tower.Once you get the background of the two pictures matched
up,it's possible to figure out just how big serpent Dove is after her initial
transformation.(about 5 feet from the floor to her shoulder blades)After that
each time she gobbles a knight her size increases by 1X

Hence after 99 knoghts she's 99X bigger then she started as.