*SIGH*
Not even a single comment here after putting up the morphs. Ah, well. I'm not in it for the glory, that's for sure.
I've got to go work on final revisions for A.B.S., or whatever title I end up going with. I promised Femur that it would be ready by 6/1/09. After that, it will be out of my hands. I havn't seen anything from CBlack yet, so I'm not sure if that leg of the tripod is ready to go. Judging by the "Road Trip" comic that just got put up, I'm guessing that my project is not at the top of his list.
Like I said before, time to go write now.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Morph: Package Loss
... and here's the morph. Please forgive the weak quality of the morph. It was my first morph project.
Transformation Video
After posting my fan morph of Siproites sequence and putting a link in the TG Comics forum, I immediately got several wows and a request for more. Since I have a couple pieces gathering dust on my hard drive, I decided to upload them here. The first is a transformation video I did in DAZ Studio a while ago. The other is the first morph project I did.
First up, the transformation video:
First up, the transformation video:
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Max Forward Broke My Heart
Well, crap.
I've been toying with the idea of self-publishing thru Lulu.com. As part of those plans, I've wanted to hire a professional illustrator. I was searching Craigslist.org and found someone that seemed ideal: Max Forward. His work is reasonably priced. He draws well, and the women he creates are very sexy. He even does some nudity. He works in an electronic format which makes working over the internet ideal. Even his name breathed cool. I mean, really, Max Forward is just about the awesomest name ever. With high hopes, I contacted him with the basics of my project and asked for a quote.
I was shocked and more than a little disappointed when he expressed discomfort with the subject matter and declined to provide a quote.
In the larger scheme of things, I suppose I'm not surprised. I commonly swim with ideas that makes the public at large squirm, or at least giggle in discomfort. In my own family, my sister kept me away from her children for years and implied to our siblings that their own children weren't safe around me based on nothing more than crude prejudice. I've even had problems at more than one job based solely on small minded people not being able to wrap their head around my personal life.
I'll find another illustrator that *will* work with me. But still, I'm mourning for the lost fusion of Max Forward's art and my writing. I feel a hole in me where the synergy we could have created was supposed to go. I think he would have been proud of the resut if we had worked together. Luckily for me, I'll find someone else that will fill that hole.
Too bad for Max. He is the real loser here.
I've been toying with the idea of self-publishing thru Lulu.com. As part of those plans, I've wanted to hire a professional illustrator. I was searching Craigslist.org and found someone that seemed ideal: Max Forward. His work is reasonably priced. He draws well, and the women he creates are very sexy. He even does some nudity. He works in an electronic format which makes working over the internet ideal. Even his name breathed cool. I mean, really, Max Forward is just about the awesomest name ever. With high hopes, I contacted him with the basics of my project and asked for a quote.
I was shocked and more than a little disappointed when he expressed discomfort with the subject matter and declined to provide a quote.
In the larger scheme of things, I suppose I'm not surprised. I commonly swim with ideas that makes the public at large squirm, or at least giggle in discomfort. In my own family, my sister kept me away from her children for years and implied to our siblings that their own children weren't safe around me based on nothing more than crude prejudice. I've even had problems at more than one job based solely on small minded people not being able to wrap their head around my personal life.
I'll find another illustrator that *will* work with me. But still, I'm mourning for the lost fusion of Max Forward's art and my writing. I feel a hole in me where the synergy we could have created was supposed to go. I think he would have been proud of the resut if we had worked together. Luckily for me, I'll find someone else that will fill that hole.
Too bad for Max. He is the real loser here.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Siproites Morph
After seeing some of the great transformation sequences done at TG Comics, I wanted to turn one by Siproites into morph. I've been sitting on the result since the beginning of February. Here it is!
(I know, I know ... the resolution isn't that great. I'm still looking for a way to get this online that doesn't involve YouTube.)
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Morph It!
I forgot to post before now about a breakthrough of sorts that occurred last week. I was fooling around with Morpheus - the software I use to make morphs - and discovered by accident that I could load a recently edited / cropped video file made with Virtual Dub. With that discovery, I now have the power to make the files I need to do video morphing!
As if that wasn't exciting enough, the next day, I found software (RAD Video Tools) that lets me convert .MOV files to .AVI files. This means I can shoot short video clips on my cell phone, move them to my computer using a micro SD card, convert them from Quicktime to WMV (Windows Media Video, for those not in the know) and then do a video morph using footage I've made myself.
As a test, I found some footage online that I'm going to work on over the next few days / weeks / months. The source video is an audition tape for runway models. It has many different models, both male and female, doing the same walk against a neutral, white background. I chose a male and a female model that were dressed somewhat similarly and made two shorter videos using Virtual Dub, one for each model. I loaded them into Morpheus and now have a nice crossfade with no morphing of the man into the woman. I expect a nice result once I've had a chance to begin the real work of getting the morph set up.
Wish me luck!
As if that wasn't exciting enough, the next day, I found software (RAD Video Tools) that lets me convert .MOV files to .AVI files. This means I can shoot short video clips on my cell phone, move them to my computer using a micro SD card, convert them from Quicktime to WMV (Windows Media Video, for those not in the know) and then do a video morph using footage I've made myself.
As a test, I found some footage online that I'm going to work on over the next few days / weeks / months. The source video is an audition tape for runway models. It has many different models, both male and female, doing the same walk against a neutral, white background. I chose a male and a female model that were dressed somewhat similarly and made two shorter videos using Virtual Dub, one for each model. I loaded them into Morpheus and now have a nice crossfade with no morphing of the man into the woman. I expect a nice result once I've had a chance to begin the real work of getting the morph set up.
Wish me luck!
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Submission
I had more luck contacting Reluctant Press this time around. Ms. Chrissie wrote back with some needed info and I'll be sending in submissions in the near future.
My proofreader is off work again today. Grrr! I want my manuscript back so I can use my notes to make some changes before I submit it. Judging by past experience, not much changes during the editing process at RP, so what I submit is pretty much locked in stone once I send it in.
My proofreader is off work again today. Grrr! I want my manuscript back so I can use my notes to make some changes before I submit it. Judging by past experience, not much changes during the editing process at RP, so what I submit is pretty much locked in stone once I send it in.
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