Greetings from NaNo land!Still, this month has really been good for me artistically.
Also! I'm pleased to say I think I've made a new friend, in =Chronophontes. I've been watching him since I first started working with DAZ3D, and have found him to be a gracious, interesting person to talk to. When I saw a little shoutout in his journal, that was a seriously cool moment for me. So thanks, Tom! You brightened this lady's day!
Anyway, more NaNo word sprints are starting soon, so I'm off! Later all!
Hungry
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Impressive gallery, especially the characters! I guess one side effect of also being a writer is that you concentrate on character development
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That said (sorry, got a little long-winded!), thank you so much for the comment, and you're very welcome for the
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Something similar happens with me, though I'm little if at all of a storyteller. (At any rate, I rarely think in terms of sequences of events, beyond maybe three or four images.) Most of my characters had no personality at all when they began. They develop as I put them into situations, and especially by interacting with each other, and sometimes with me. They react in very much their own ways, which I don't always anticipate - and with that odd mix of inconsistency and consistency that is so characteristic of real people.
One thing, fun but maybe not so good, is that a lot of the character development takes place not in the images themselves but in the Artist's Comments, where the characters do much of the talking. I wish my images would stand on their own more! Another problem (which I'm sure you as a writer have also encountered) is that no single image really says everything about a character - you have to look at every image of that character to start to get a feel for what she/he is really like.
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Tom χφ
I also don't think it's bad to be doing a lot of the story telling in the artist comments. Speaking as a writer (who stole the idea from you to occasionally add in those bits of story), I think your images stand alone very well. I would also venture to call you the same thing my roommate calls me, and that's a "virtual photographer." Just like a real photographer, we're only catching a moment in time, but catching it in a way that's hopefully dramatic and eye-catching. What you're adding in the artist's commentary is just enriching what we're already seeing. And to be honest? I love people who use the artist commentary, especially for stuff like that. (I am also, I should mention, the person who spends more time watching the extras on DVDs than the DVDs themselves.)
Thank you for the wonderful complement in your message as well. While I always do these pictures for me first, I'm always immensely pleased when someone else enjoys them. ^_^
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"Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last and don't ever volunteer to do anything." ~ Murphy's Laws of Combat Operations
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"Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last and don't ever volunteer to do anything." ~ Murphy's Laws of Combat Operations
thanks
Rajeev
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