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

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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!

Custom Vehicle

This is the Imperial Death Ship, Bringer of DOOM.  I used several different space ships in my design, with the Imperial Star Destroyer as the base for it.  The X-Wing turrets had to be re-masked so many times it isn't even funny.

My five original images are not retrievable, unfortunately they were lost when I transferred computers.  However, I used something like these.  The actual turret on top was on a tank but I could not find the same tank again.

For the New Background I touched up the masking and color and took time to find a background that had the correct lighting.

For my screen, the response time could definitely be better.  If I were to move my cursor across the screen I would see a faint "ghost" of where it was.