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Tired of me refering to HCK2 all the time? (sure you are).
Wouldn't you rather it had a name like the original? From a song like the original, With an epigram like the original?
(sure you would)
Hat Check Kelly2: The Streets of Evangeline
"What has happened down here is the wind have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain
Rained real hard and rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline."
(and for a forum chalenge - you tell me where it's from)
Louisiana 1927 - Good ole boys - Randy Neuman. Do I get a prize?
"The river rose all day
The river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood
Some people got away alright
The river have busted through cleard down to Plaquemines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangelne"
;]
Not bad.... as long as it fits the image of the story in your head, it's fitting imagery. _________________ "I'd add a legitimate comment here, but that would mean reading everything, which I have no patience for." - Slynky
I'd say the imagery sounds pretty good for a bleak or stormy sort of story. Of course, if HCK2 is about feeding pigeons crusts of bread in a nice sunny park and talking about happy memories, that imagery may not be quite right, but after HCK, I'm sort of doubting anything quite that sunny is what you have planned. ^_^
Plus, it rolls off the tongue. Always a plus for a title. _________________ "It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste."
Louisiana - point 1 - that's where the story is set (not 1927).
The whole "wind have changed" image. changed attitudes, changed memories...yea that fits.
There was one bayou storm already in the script at the point everything starts moving in another direction for the first payoff. Another one would fit at the finale. Don't ask me how to do wet matted hair. I have NO idea.
Dark stormy rainy - that don't fit much with film noir detectives do it? Or with an artist who would like to try and get away with everything in 100% shadow. Costs more for ink but it saves on rendering time.
Yea I'm about 98% sure this is it. Y'all can say you were there when.
Plus, listen to the song. You can almost see the final credits rolling behind it.
Ok Bear you get an autographed copy when it's published.
Actually, god willing, if I am lucky enough to see this in print I plan on buying a box and having a bit of fun running through the forums.
That's one of my answers to the 3AM question "why am I wasting my time/ruining my health doing this?"
After all what's a few missed sales? I'll be on the NYT Best Seller list. Interviewed by Katie Couric, "Who would have thought that a comic book would surpass J.K. Rowlings success with Harry Potter but an artist in Boston has done just that. Later on Today..."
Heh heh. I know the feeling, jj... I'm undergoing what seems to be the start of a massive period of burnout right now. You know: turn on workstation, start at monitor, open graphics program, piddle a bit, close program, repreat process with different program.... give up in disgust and shut down workstation and go surf the net a bit. *pleah*
2 - 4 hours sleep a day isn't helping: it just makes the burnout worse. _________________ "I'd add a legitimate comment here, but that would mean reading everything, which I have no patience for." - Slynky
Joined: May 30, 2002 Posts: 524 Location: Mesa Arizona
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 4:07 pm Post subject:
I know that feeling all too well..except for the 3 hours of sleep. Right now, I am just doing little by little due to health reasons ..can you believe the exec gave me flack because I was ready to go in even with a quesy stomach, and called in 15 minutes before I was supposed to be there because I offered the porcelin goddess some of my goods. I was totally dressed and could of been out the door any minute...it not like I planned it. So today I am just doing what I can ..but if I feel this way tomorrow, saying hell with it and going to the doctor. I hate drugs. See, coughs..sure, automatic doctor visits...(immune suppressant drugs)..but what happens when you are sick to your stomach..that could be a variety of things. A lot of those things have slowed heresy down quite a bit, but still rendering a scene in the movie. Well, two scenes actually.. one is still workin gin my second machine. Yikes.. (will go back to bed) _________________ Dana Haywood
<a href=heresyproduction.com>Heresy Studios</a>
You've got to be careful of burn-out. I did small press comics for 15 or so years, was just starting to get into semi-pro work, and I totally burned-out on it. Didn't do much of any art for a year. (I also had cancer that year, but that's another story.)
Started playing with 3D software three years ago, go me reinterested in doing art, and I think I'm ready to try doing comics again. I'm even doing some pencil drawings again. It still feels like I lost several years though.
What to do to avoid burn-out is different for different people, but try to do what you can not to get it.
Joined: May 30, 2002 Posts: 524 Location: Mesa Arizona
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 2:53 pm Post subject:
I avoid burnout, by knowing when to quit for a bit. Well, cancer might be a whole other story, but can have a deep impact on your reflection of your work. Although I don't have cancer (yet and hopefully, never but I got to be careful cause now I am very prone to colon cancer), I do have a disease that takes a lot out of me. Namely the reason why I can't do the 3 hours of sleep a day..I simply wouldn't be able to do it.
Man, I am listening to a song that says it all for me.. "Show must go on" by Queen. What gets me about this song was it was done (to my understanding) in 1991, when Freddy Mercury passed on to another place. (believe they were in the middle of doing Made in Heaven at the time). The reason why this song gets to me is because despite everything, Freddy Mercury gave us all he had, and possibly more. So in retrospect in my mind, the show must go on. So no matter what happens in my life.. the story of Heresy must continue (working on a render right now) and the movie for Heresy must be produced with everything I got.
Now don't take this out of context, and think I will probably die soon. Far from it, cause my doctor will have a few words before that happens. I am under good care for the condition I have, and while I have good and bad days, I am still under his eagle eyes..and if things go horribly wrong and I call him (trust me I do)..he is on the case immediately trying to think of a solution. If this had been the case in massachusetts when it all started ,I think I would be very healthy right now..and not in the severe stages .. but right now, I can only focus on a couple of things. Getting healthy again, and continuing doing what I do best. That is produce comics, short animations, work hard, and kick butt.
So in all, sometimes it is easy to get burned out, and that when it time to take a break from things and take a deep breath. The fact that you are considering doing comics again is a cool thing, you mind is going back to something you love to do. More power to you..
(I need more sleep.. I just babbled didn't i) _________________ Dana Haywood
<a href=heresyproduction.com>Heresy Studios</a>
Well not posting pages makes it so that people don't know if I'm in burnout or not.
I admit to having a day/week or two of wholesale "f-it for a lark" times.
What terrifies me is the thought of an off meteor hit, a freight train barelling throuh my office or an odd total-drop-dead.
I mean, HCK2 is still in many pieces and growing every day. Even though enough people around the house here who know what I'm doing, is there anyone who will be able to decode my database stricture, see how all the little bits are supposed to be assembled and finish it for me?
Worse yet will they get to go to the Playboy Mansion without me?
(for all you under 50 - don't worry bout it - you'll understand soon enough)
Joined: May 30, 2002 Posts: 524 Location: Mesa Arizona
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 9:44 am Post subject:
I hope so.. because I want to see the Playboy Bunnies.. *thinks.. smacked in the head for even thinking about it by a redhead* _________________ Dana Haywood
<a href=heresyproduction.com>Heresy Studios</a>
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