Created by: Charles, Casey, David and Ben
By: amyc
This one is beautiful! Lovely use of color throughout, and even the same species of fish in three separate panels.
I love the thematic descent from the ethereal divine elements to the human, fucked-up government reference. And how the silhouette bird in the top piece is echoed in the elephants and donkeys at the bottom.
I wouldn't want to be the people on the trolley.
January 11, 2002 10:18 AM
By: ZachsMind
I would want to be on that trolley. Looks like a helluva ride! Great piece.
January 11, 2002 10:26 AM
By: jessica
very soothing in an edgy sort of way
January 11, 2002 10:29 AM
By: everchill
this is gallery material! I love how it flows so smoothly top to bottom; from air to water to underwater civilization. that hungry bear makes it all happen. can't imagine this image without him.
January 11, 2002 10:41 AM
By: Gabriel
Yay! Seamlessness and thematic unity. This one might be the most complete yet! Would the artists like to comment on their processes a little? Kudos on another stream-of-consciousness success.
January 11, 2002 10:49 AM
By: david
came out better than I expected, I feared the low quality of my original images would affect the overall quality but it appears ok.
I am suprised by the unity of theme: not only did the fragment I played on turn out to be a fish but there is one in the top panel too! The blue pattern looked like drapery or it could have been water --I kept cloning it to try and build up some sort of seamless ground and it stated to remind me of some Chinese graphic of mountains--which has turned out stangely appropriate for the Budda. Then the Chinese blue mountains became the Zermatt lift map...
Those animal silhouetttes, returning to the top panel--uncanny.
January 11, 2002 03:05 PM
By: denise
it turned out beautifully. i'm amazed that casey and david picked up on the goldfish, though there wasn't a hint from the strips they received. they caught on to the asian theme as well. heh... ben, did you have your tin-foil helmet on? just kidding. your piece adds the punch.
January 11, 2002 05:56 PM
By: Charles
WoW! I think everyone did a fantastic job on their bits. I can't take any credit for the seamlessness, since I did the "head." Process? I don't think I have a process. My head has been in an Asian place lately, maybe that was an influence. And - you can never go wrong with a monkey in a fez, I believe. The freaky teddy bear is from a card by a great old freaky illustrator named Magnus Greiner. I have a few of his pieces here.
January 11, 2002 10:18 PM
By: Casey
I wanted to make something less complicated than I'd done in previous corpse pieces, and the water lily was so dominant I couldn't help but balance it a little. Trying to blend the water texture from Charles was more complicated than I thought it was going to be. I debated whether or not to leave the fish head in my segment for David; you can see how little there was to divine that from in the upper right of his segment. I really wanted to find the leaf that would have been our top model's body, but I didn't find it before the lily came and obscured the rest of her. C'est la vie.
January 14, 2002 12:13 PM
By: Ben
My process began with taking a hard look at the elements I was given in the strip and then completely tossing the first idea I had out the window. The little bit on the right looked like the top part of a reindeer with a word attached. It could have also been a word written in an engraved-style font. That got me thinking along the words theme. Being a video producer/editor, I deal with putting text on the screen all the time, so that seemed a logical course. The word 'kakistocracy' was on the recent radar. We got "The Superior Person's Book of Words" (Peter Bowler) as a an xmas gift and it was was one of the funniest words that leapt out as I skimmed through it.
I'm not completely happy with my blending of the border between my panel and David's. The left side came out pretty good, but the right side keeps leaping out at me. I thought the s-curve would help to hide the seam on the right. It does, a little, but I feel I could have put some more time into blending it a little better...maybe if I carried over some of those black blobs from the left...but that's why we only get 7 days...or else these things would never get done.
All in all I think the whole comes together nicely. Job well done to Charles, Casey , and David...I look forward to contributing to another corpse.
January 14, 2002 08:51 PM
By: mirla
The corpse may not be perfectly seamless Ben, but it's a job well done, particularly on the collective consciousness front.
The accent colors from the top keep coming back without prompting in subsequent panels - orange, green, yellow. Uncluttered. Really wonderful.
January 15, 2002 08:31 AM
