According to my sources, it's a certain someone's birthday today, so I thought I might as well say Happy Birthday (because I forgot to send a card 😉 ).
So Happy Birthday Mr Hebert, hope you have a great one. Continue reading
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According to my sources, it's a certain someone's birthday today, so I thought I might as well say Happy Birthday (because I forgot to send a card 😉 ).
So Happy Birthday Mr Hebert, hope you have a great one. Continue reading
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The winner of this weeks poll was Melmo44 for Dark Titan. Congrats Melmo, please speak to dblade about your prize, and well done to everyone who entered, especially the other 4 finalists.
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http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Time_Travelers
Your Pop Quiz Challenge is to choose one of the time travelling heroes from the public domain link above and recreate them for the 21st century.
You only get one entry so be creative, and above all else, have fun!
All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine forums,ImageShack, PhotoBucket, or whatever);
This contest will close at 6pm Eastern on Sunday, June 1st.
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I am sorry that I have yet to post the results of last weeks caption contest, my cold it really kicking my butt today, to the point that I am actually considering calling in sick to work tonight. Anyway I hope to get that result up sometime tomorrow. Once again I am sorry about the delay.
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The following was submitted by community member Herr D. Lets all thank him for his efforts in the comments below!
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Music Video Review Of "Let It Go" From Disney DVD "Frozen" Special Features by Herr D
Artist, Language, Rating 1-5 starfish.
Stoessel Spanish: 5
Stoessel Italian: 5
Milan Malaysian: 4.5
Lovato American: 3.5
So, I'll start off by saying that I'm not a professional singer, I'm not a true polyglot, and the only academic credentials I have for this are a minor in Theater Arts from a Big East school. That being said, I've sung professionally twenty times, I'm a moderately-well-informed comparative linguist, and most people who don't like my opinions at least find them interesting.
I hadn't had the pleasure of hearing Malaysian sung before, but Milan made those syllables flow despite the constant consonants consistently jumping out. Obviously some skill there. I'd have been tongue-tied even if I knew the language, and I've done auctioneer speed with American English. The most interesting singing was by her. The emotive gestures were right up there too. Visual treat.
Stoessel, with the Romance languages, in the studio, with obvious skill. What's that phrase? She killed it! The translation she had and the grammatical requirements she faced meant she had to sing double-time during some of it. Sunni D, my technical consultant, says those were over language tense requirements. I hadn't known that you can't mix tenses in LYRICS in the middle of sentences. Stoessel's emoting visually as well as vocally were equal to Milan's. I have to rate the performance parts between the three songs by the two singers as equal.
Lovato was all there vocally, though I don't like 'belting' as much as most people I know. Where she fell down was visually. Some of that was influenced by the other professionals who made the video, no doubt, but I didn't see her put her life into how she moved.
I don't know who made the decisions, but Lovato looked like they didn't bother with an art director or to plan out what they were doing in advance. The video didn't even successfully showcase Lovato. What editing was needed was executed well.
Milan's video was beautifully shot and edited. Some fine work. The selection and dicing in of movie shots was executed well, too, resulting in a feast for the eyes. The reason Stoessel's videos top it is the production style itself. Not so beautiful, it mixes the properly showy emoting and a subtle story in the video itself with true finesse. The level of editing skill and the scenes shot showed me a commitment to the final product by the whole 'cast' and crew that I didn't see in the Lovato video at all.
This group of videos clearly demonstrates the value of having the right team behind every great performer.
On a side note especially for comic book enthusiasts, the other bonus feature is a great example of cartoons breaking the fourth wall in early cartoon history.
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Added some more body parts to Jeff's Body/MaleMaterials set and a few more shapes to the Insignia/Shapes set.
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Pay no attention to the title, it has nothing to do with this weeks contest, I just couldn't think of a better title.
Anyway, this week, I thought it would be interesting to re-use some of the older CDC themes, so that's what we are going to do. For the very first CDC (for those of us who weren't around the blog then) Jeff ran a contest where people had to design a character to fit a randomly generated word (in that case Capstan). So, that's what I've done. And the word I got was:
INDELIBLE
As per usual, no limits on entries this week and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). The winner gets to claim a custom made item from dblade to be put into heromachine, so long as the item conforms to his prize rules, which you can find here: http://www.heromachine.com/forum/the-heromachine-art-gallery/dblades-whiz-bang-item-dispenser/. Please read the contest rules before entering, have fun and good luck.
Rules for posts, contests, and challenges that I am hosting: Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters, no characters based on RPG’s or other games. The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warnings. Only post characters that you have either created for this contest specifically or you know for certain have never been entered to a contest before. If you aren’t certain, don’t enter it, because I’m not going to go back through all of the contests and check.
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