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Excellent title.
amyc at March 21, 2006 8:12 AM
Makes me look close...interesting.
Wild........ at March 21, 2006 8:23 AM
Very nice , I love it !
Bernard Dumaine at March 21, 2006 8:47 AM
Beautiful colors, wonderful flow, and outstanding title.
Exceptional work by all. It's definitely one to sit and stare at for a bit.
And again, another noteworthy debut. Welcome, Skyanth!
Miroje at March 21, 2006 9:23 AM
Aww, don't kill the hamster! Nice work guys!
slinkachu at March 21, 2006 9:28 AM
Have you guys seen eggagog's blog? (thisismycomputerblog.blogspot.com). This image immediately made me start thinking in the voice of that blog. I don't know why but it just did.
Careful mermaids! Careful of the Nuu Nuu! I AM NUU NUU I AM EATING THE WOOD. THE MOUSE IS EATING THE WOOD TOO. CAREFUL MOUSE THE MERMAIDS ARE PLUGGING IN THE LADDER. THE NUU NUUS ARE EATING THE WOOD TO GET AT THE GIRLS. CAREFUL GIRLS THERE IS A MOUSE IN THE HOUSE! MOUSE WATCH OUT FOR THE RAZOR AND THE WATER.
And so on.
This corpse... I like it. I admit I was terrified by what I received from U8IK--a 15px solid wall of wood--and I started imagining what was behind the door (which was pretty little "goth punk girls" I guess?) and how they would get out. Then I thought maybe the door could be dissolved and then of course I got to thinking about just sucking the door right off its hinges. But maybe instead, just maybe, the door has been dissolved by the water below (quickly rising and filled with mermaids) and the nuu nuus are there to clean up the mess the mermaids are making (WATCH OUT MERMAIDS STOP MAKING MESSES!) and it's all taking place behind the glass aquarium walls of the mouse's house.
I'm fascinated that a wood texture made it all the way to the bottom, even though it wasn't the same one, somehow that theme maintained through the psychic realm. I think now I wish I'd made a stronger commitment to pulling more of U8IK's wood down to the bottom-- with the melting/sucking thing going on, it loses clear definition as wood and I think my big alteration might have caused it to be too incongruous with my panel and the ones after. I do NOT say that because there's anything wrong with either U8IK or Jessica's panels (PLEASE don't read that into it) I think I just took it too violently in a different direction.
Maybe I only needed the one nuu nuu.
Those little suckers are powerful!
burnunit at March 21, 2006 9:29 AM
Fantastic.
Very nice, skyanth. I love the bottom-panel-as-floor.
Jessica at March 21, 2006 11:58 AM
wow EXCELLENT! And a clear example of seams making sense - Great work
lilah at March 21, 2006 12:19 PM
It's all about walls, it seems; although the top panel is more likely a door, I guess. I like the odd bit of distortion caused by the corner of the floor in the last panel.
Cute mouse, too.
FogBaron at March 21, 2006 1:06 PM
Thanks guys, glad to have participated in this corpse and looking forward to my next. I'm a bit confused about the large portion of light blue in the 15px I got, though. The rest of the previous slice is clearly brown. Jessica - was that meant to be water?
skyanth at March 21, 2006 1:31 PM
burnunit, thanks for sharing your thought and working process with us. I think we need more of that.
Cool corpse. Great work by all players. I really like the door and the corner.
Cicada at March 21, 2006 2:16 PM
And the weeki wachee too.
Cicada at March 21, 2006 2:18 PM
we persist, not wisely, but too cute
Colin Vincent at March 21, 2006 4:35 PM
Skyanth: What Cicada said. It's a pool at Weeki Wachee Springs, plus a German spa, plus someone's deep-end ladder. The 15 pixels of swimming pool tile (or _? burnunit?) were my cue.
I love this title. I'm going to hang this on my office wall as inspiration for my YA novel pitch. ;) skyanth rocks not just the continuance of some very confusing pixels but also the psychic Shakespeare-referencing-title-finish-ibility.
Jessica at March 21, 2006 4:53 PM
impressive. good title as well.
billporter at March 22, 2006 8:55 PM
burnunit: how did you math the wood all down the right side?
benny at November 24, 2006 8:03 PM
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