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The Thundering Monkey	Cat Tales Themed pics		Lead	[-]
Posts: 838 07/07/05 10:15	Tags : None Ok, here's the first of a series of pics I plan on doing to illustrate scenes from the Tales. This one is from way back near the beginning. It's the Protocols, all over again. Still not quite done with it, but you'll get the idea. Batman is sort of implied here. Whiskers...well...he got into something apparently. Still a work in progress, as Trinaenae mentioned, I hope to have, you know...walls in this picture eventually, and maybe a bat-shadow.
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TriniNaeNae	Re: Cat Tales Themed pics	#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 887 07/07/05 10:20	Very nice. Looking forward to seeing what comes next. Hope your wall shopping goes well. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I'm hoping today will behave, really.
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Chris Dee.gothampm	Re: Cat Tales Themed pics	#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3928 07/07/05 14:38 Gothamite	WOW, TM I can't begin to say how exciting this is, and you know me and words. The poses on both Selina and Whiskers is really well done (glad you pointed out W). Now since we're talking about art and technique here, I'm going to step out of gleeful CT-centric gushing and put on my docent hat. You've done something very good here with composition, to my eye. It's Nutmeg. Furry ball of cuteness is going to pull focus and so is something that much lighter than everything around her. In the way you have her positioned, her paws direct our eye back to Selina, and her looking off panel points our attention there also. So our eye doesn't just hit her and stop, we keep moving through the picture. I really like the variations of textures too, btw, the sofa & carpet (I'm a sucker for textures). On a technicaly note (and here I make up for calling you a woman in the other thread), it was magnificently ballsy starting off with cats - which you did exceedingly well. This isn't Catwoman/Cat-Tales bias talking here, this is art. Cats are hard, esp with anything like this, mechanically rendered. Down in Walt Disney World has achieved absolute MIRACLES with their animatronics, from birds to dogs to people - but the cats, I think there have been 2 in the whole 4-theme parks collection, they just can't quite get it. Toto looks fine, the cats just don't look right/don't move right. So kudos for putting W&N in your first project. It presents special challenges, but well worth it (Look at Nutmeg, she's sooo cute down there!)
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ThatSeanGuy	Re: Cat Tales Themed pics	#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 380 07/14/05 17:45 Gothamite	I support calling TM a girl. Girly. For, fo'serious, nice stuff! You can see the implication of muscle and movement, which is really key for any style of art-that it either moves well, or implies movement well. I don't care if its realist, cartoony, or "other", it needs to move. Also, Joker plz.
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Unregistered(d)	Re: Cat Tales Themed pics	#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 0 07/30/05 12:17	Again really nice work. I just wanted to echo everything Chris said (just imagine it spoken with a english accent) We often agree and she puts it far better then I could! Really great work. Your not exactly starting on the easy stuff, which is pretty ballsy and your making leaps and bounds. "I grew up watching TV and I turned out TV"
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The Thundering Monkey	Ok, Here we go. New Pic.	#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 838 08/01/05 05:46	I finally got the textures working for some of the guys costumes, so I celebrated by kicking out another cat-tales themed pic. This one is from "Plan 9 from the Demons Head" if I remember correctly. I'm running through the scenes that made a lasting impression on me, that I have the means to pull off. This one is "You Knew He Was There."
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TriniNaeNae	Re: Ok, Here we go. New Pic.	#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 887 08/01/05 07:16	I like the emotion here. The only thing I can nitpick at is... Is Dick wearing ... toe socks? Why isn't he wearing shoes? That is rather ... odd. Aside from that, lovely work, the lighting (or lack of) is quite difficult, from what I can tell. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I'm hoping today will behave, really.
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The Thundering Monkey	Re: Ok, Here we go. New Pic.	#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 838 08/01/05 09:51	It's the carpet, you see. It's brand new. (looks at clock) 8 hours old or so. It's a bad way to start things off with a Girl You want to marry you. "Babs....ahem.....Barbara......We've known eachother for so long and..Oh NO! I've tracked diesel fuel and cocaine onto your new carpet. Actually, if you remember the costume is just a texture that replaces the skin texture kind of like we were trying to overlay the Batgirl costume texture over the leotard texture. So yeah, he is wearing toe socks. Good eye. Crap. Just noticed I didn't get the roof back into perfect alignment from that time I accidentally bumped it. Ok, everyone ignore the roof. There's a perfectly good reason she'd have a roof like that, a Bat reason. Lighting was pretty hard. That and the damned potted plant. I was trying to keep Babs face lit up, as though she was sitting in front of a computer screen but still keep Nightwing in the Shadows.
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Catwoman Meow	Re: Ok, Here we go. New Pic.	#8	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6454 08/01/05 15:48 Feline Fatale	Oh damn, that's awesome. Actually I have an idea for lighting her face, a B5 trick, wait till our resident Oracle gets the caption contest done and I'll try it out while Photoshop is free.
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Oracle.gothampm	Re: Ok, Here we go. New Pic.	#9	[url]	[-]
Posts: 635 08/01/05 17:48 Gothamite	Alrighty here goes. Step 1: Added a city background, very easy to create a mask by magic wanding the windows then going to the city layer mask and fill. Added a transparent to solid gradient to that. Step 2: Create her monitor screens (flip for the text), transform/skew those layers into the right shape, add inner and outer glow, and pull the transparency way down. I had the idea of losing one or both of the side screens, but it seemed to put a little TOO much importance on the text. Step 3: added eyeballs because while she looked semi-blind in the original, the addition of the text reflected on her face drew so much attention to it that she looked REALLY blind, and that changes the whole context of the image.
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TriniNaeNae	Re: Ok, Here we go. New Pic.	#10	[url]	[-]
Posts: 887 08/01/05 18:47	Nice! Now if we can just do a little shoe shopping for our black and blue fellow there, I'd think it would be just perfect... _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I'm hoping today will behave, really.
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The Thundering Monkey	Another New Pic.	#11	[url]	[-]
Posts: 838 08/10/05 15:35	I call this one "Barbara Must Die." Rather than post it here, we're putting the fanart in it's own gallery. You can see this one here cattales.photosite.com/ca...ffles.html Once again, thanks to Chris and her photoshop Wizardry for the scenery behind the window.
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TriniNaeNae	Re: Another New Pic.	#12	[url]	[-]
Posts: 887 08/10/05 21:49	Nice. That is a frightening dress. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I'm hoping today will behave, really.
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