Webcomic work

[moon_custafer]

This week’s ep will feature a dream sequence with the characters drawn in a totally different style – basically because I watched The Princess and the Frog and liked the ‘Almost There’ number in which Tiana’s fantasy is animated to look like the art-deco image of a fancy restaurant, i.e. everything’s drawn rather geometric and pared down, including Tiana herself. It probably doesn’t need to be repeated here, but the Disney style is *really* hard to imitate, even in jest; I spent most of the weekend trying to get Marj to look right as a much-less-WASPy version of Ariel; doing the rest of the cast as sea-cretures is proving a little easier, largely because I can work off the earlier Disney funny-animal characters – it’s the Disney-human physiognomy that’s particularly difficult to capture.

ETA - meanwhile, worse things happen at sea. Real-life oil-rig drama makes all this look frivolous.

Comments

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

One of the things I've noticed about Tiana-as-a-human, after roughly one million enforced viewings, is that she sort of looks like a very pretty frog herself--her eyes are oddly skewed vis-a-vis the rest of her face, which is flat to begin with. But because she has those big, wide lips and that great smile, you don't really notice it so much; coloration helps, too (various shades of brown vs. various shades of green).

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

I think that’s the key to making such transformations believable – one of the things I always liked about Angela Carter’s take on Beauty and the Beast, frex, is that when Mr Lyon is returned to human form he’s a man with shaggy, unkempt hair and a broken-and-healed nose.