Pencil Pup, the Ad Replication of the Nation! (With alliteration!)

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Mostly I did a lot of masking.  Personally, I like mine better, except that the pencil tip is pretty horrible.  I almost think that the whole thing would look better with worse resolution so that the dog would blend better with the pencil.  The hardest part was A) Finding the correct dog breed B) getting rid of the background behind the dog C) The shadows

Strange Fruit

It is indeed strange

Pen tool character

This is my pen tool character.  His name is Cerberus.  I know, original name, but whatever.  Anyway, what I found most difficult about the pen tool was making shapes that weren't just going to be filled with color, because I wanted to make lines.

Cerberus was a man at some point, as were all the creatures in the Abyss, the place in which rivers of tumbling rocks flow, and gigantic mountains of quicksand are the only brief respite from the raging, blood covered rapids below.  Cerberus, in life was a man who was proof that even the proudest can be brought to their knees by others.  He was once the most moral senator in all the country, however, the lobbyists brought him down into party rivalries, and their world of corruption.  He would always obey the higher ups will, and now he will spend eternity as a dog in the Abyss.

Planets for the banquet project

New York State Poster

http://prezi.com/65kf6t1e1kzo/i-believe/

Film Critique

1. The film takes place in either the present or the near future in an unnamed forest in an English speaking part of the world.  A girl is visiting to father in order to make amends after some kind of split happened in the family.  Her father is apparently obsessing over a society of tiny people who live in the forest.  She thinks he's crazy, runs away, and comes into the middle of a ceremony of the tiny people and apparently by accident is shrunk.  From their she joins up with some of the "Leaf Men" as apparently some of them are called, and goes on a quest to save the forest.

2. The main themes of the play are Life versus Death, and Good versus Evil.

3. The movie is very cool.  The screenplay was very good although in some parts it was kind of corny.  The problem about the movie is how well off the bad guys were, but instead of accomplishing their goals in the long term, they stupidly went for hard to accomplish short term goals that were bad for basically every reason.  It had lots of symbolism, unfortunately, this movie would have been much better had the bad guys won, which they should have.

4. THE BAD GUYS WERE WEAK! They were very predictible and stupid.  This film had even more potential had it been made PG13 and had a sequel.

The Spoooooky Hooouuuse...

Ok, this may sound sad, but it was the Haunted Mansion that inspired me to make my house the way I did.  I used to be so entirely freaked out by everything about that ride that I could barely go on it without crying and having nightmares when I was little.  Oh, the memories. If it wasn't supposed  to be realistic I would have added the gravestones with puns on them like the ones outside the haunted mansion,  but I thought that would be corny, so I opted to omit them. I actually got the idea for the foreground from a picture I saw on the internet. Credit to the guys with really unkempt lawns and Disney World!