Death is No Laughing Matter - M/F - Foot!

[Kalamos]

From Tim Burton's "The Corpse Bride", used without a shred of permission.

😉

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[I'm spent now, no witty text this time...]

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[cosquillero1]

Well, although i don't know that movie (i haven't seen it yet), the artwork looks excellent, very detailed and with good colours, congrats Kalamos your artwork improve more and more yet.

 

[CheshireCatNY]

Wow....just....wow......ya know I had a similar idea I was going to do with Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas.....dammit! LOL

 

[Low_Roads]

This is one for the ages, Kal! Grisly and light-heartedly sensous at the same time! You've captured Victor, Emily and the odious Bittern perfectly (I especially like Victor's hilarious "Echhh!" attitude!) The shading and luminous background mood really weld the piece together... well worth waiting for! Glad Emily's finally gotten a few giggles: she's earned a bit of pleasure!

 

[Kalamos]

I must be mad, but I found this movie moving.
The dead were caring and just as humane as the living were greedy, selfish and petty.

And Emily was the most touching char of all.

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The plot didn't advance as smoothly as I first hoped, and maybe after Nightmare before Christmas I expected something more lighthearted... but I really liked this motion pic.

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Oh well...

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Thanks for the appreciation, guys.
If you followed me over the teaser thread, you should be familiar with this pic already, so I won't rant on technique too long.

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-> Cosquillero.

Thanks. 🙂
I really strive to do something a bit better each time I post a pic.
These fan-pics do ease the burden somewhat, since I get to concentrate on the pose and the situation, while the actual authors provide me with ready-made characters for me to use.

This is my second fan-pic to Tim Burton's chars, and it's by now clear I'm fond of his works.
Must be something with me feeling a bit undead, at times.

😀 😀 😀



-> Cheshire.

Glad I left you speechless. 🙂
Watching your pics helped me - even if I never had the chance to say that.

Looks like I've stolen your idea twice already...

-> http://www.tickletheater.com/showthread.php?t=13163

But I'm sure you'll be stealing great ideas too, in the future. 😀



-> LBH.

Man... you're the one: you helped in making it possible.
How?

😉

I know.
You do.
Satis est.

 

[Low_Roads]

Don't delay your appreciation for this fine picture too long, folks. Check the "Teaser" thread... a couple more days and it may disappear with the jack-o-lanterns! Then you'll have to hunt it up on Kal's Smartgroups homepage (which everybody should already belong to anyway!)

 

[Kalamos]

I found an interesting pic of Emily's, over Stopmotionanimation.

 

[Low_Roads]

Is that Ray Harryhausen holding the model? It sure looks like Ray Harryhausen!

 

[Kalamos]

So it seems.

-> http://www.nndb.com/people/852/000022786/

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[Low_Roads]

It certainly makes sense he'd be invited to visit the set. He's a god to anyone still working in the stop-motion field! Even folks doing computer animation claim him as a major influence!

 

[Kalamos]

Wish I had something intelligent to say.
Lacking that, watch me impersonating a wooden log.

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[Low_Roads]

I know... I tend to foam with enthusiasm whenever Ray gets mentioned. But he was a huge influence on me in the late '60s and the '70s. I was strongly considering stop-motion special effects as a career path. Might'a made it, too, if I'd been able to construct a decent model armiture. As is was, I made a few super-8 films using clay and crude plastic models with flexible wire joints. They could'a been worse. Not nearly good enough to see me on my way, though.

Lord, I'm starting to sound like Grandpa Simpson!

 

[nessonite1]

You amaze me, Kalamos. XD

 

[Kalamos]

Yeah, I'm fairly amazing, as far as wooden logs are concerned.

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I did consider stop-motion as a career too, at some point of my life.

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Should get *my* plasticine figures out...

 

[Low_Roads]

I did consider stop-motion as a career too, at some point of my life.

Hey, that's wild! Did you finish any film projects? I was always better at orgainizing and starting my movies than completing them. "Plasticine figures"... do you still have any of your old animation models? If so, I'd love to see pictures! My clay figures just got wadded back into the pile... I believe I still have the pieces of a few of my plastic models (shooting was brutal on them), but I'm not sure where those fragments finally ended up (what box or drawer I've shoved them into).

 

[Kalamos]

Nope, no finished product. Took a diverging path from art early on.
But... hey, dreaming was free back then.

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I created many plasticine figures, but most of them took the way of the trashcan.
I still have a few things I pieced together with leftover clay... but those are quite crude.
I was lost in memories, and thought I still had my older stuff.

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What about your models? Any chance of survivors?

 

[Low_Roads]

I may still have two tiny models I built for a 20-minute film (400 ft. .... feature length in super-8 terms) called "Theseus and the Minotaur". These figures were only about 5 inches tall, and were supposed to appear 30 feet tall onscreen! Thanks to a borrowed Bolex-160 camera, with a built-in macro-zoom, the illusion worked better than it should have. The models represented the eponomous characters, and were badly chipped and broken apart by the end of filming (this was caused by the strain of the weak wire armature being repeated bent during filming, and the constant patch jobs). I don't believe I threw these models away... as momentos of the production, they were far too neat. But I don't know now where I stowed the darned things. I really wish I could run across them again. If I do some day, I'll take a few photos for the Non-tickling Image forum.

 

[Kalamos]

It would be great.
This thing sprang a whole new host of memories.

 

[Low_Roads]

It certainly has for me. These are oldish events, too, better than 30 years ago! Fortunately, I've never thrown out any of my old screenplays... rereading them occasionaly helps refresh my recollection.

 

[Kalamos]

An interesting fact is, we are sharing similar memories: you got to experience them first hand, and then I was exposed to re-runs or later imports.

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No matter what, even now my country is late on mainstream, since we need to dub the series, so we lag at least six to twelve month behind.

And some of the least known shows simply never make it outside USA/UK.

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I'm happy I can follow some of the spoken contents on my own. I would have never been able to draw this pic, for instance, if I had had to wait for my national release.

 

[Low_Roads]

I took a hard right turn and wound up in an Ingmar Bergman film!

 

[MTJpub]

Nicely done Kalamos! Nicely done indeed!

Morandilas
MTJ Publishing

 

[Kalamos]

* Takes hat off *

Thanks you!
You know where to find me. 😉

 

[Low_Roads]

Bumping this up for a little November consideration. It's not specifically Halloween material... the shivering theme should be good all winter long!

 

[Hungarian21]

:wooha:ACK! I didnt post here! 😛

AND I'm sure I would say great pic, but I cant. Or, wait, I can. 🙄 GREAT PIC! 😛