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Published: 2018-04-13 23:37:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 5089; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 32
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Here we see that it's Lois Griffin's turn to be shrunk and join her friends in the tiny city. The main reason I did this today is that I had to kill another long 12 hour shift - and this did the trick nicely. I liked the imagery, and it was important to me to angle the room a bit to add some perspective. Lois and the rest of the picture were done on two separate drawing pads. Color was added in Adobe Elements, some construction lines were added in Medibang and the yellow shrink beam was done in Corel Paint. I just did one sketch when I was just fleshing the whole thing out, and you can see why I needed the angles:Β sta.sh/01t92tvrsrh6 . The progress thermometer was a late idea that was quite funny to me - "61% Shrunk."God, I love that it's Friday!!Β
Lois is the property of Seth MacFarlane. Rebecca Kwan is my character.
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It was a pretty good film, but I wish there'd been a little more G/T interaction.
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This is really good you should do more drawings of growth or shrinking process
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That is an awfully fun type of picture to do, especially if you can have several images as the person is going on down.
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So, here is the beginning of Lois' troubles in tinytown.Β Nice use of digital color.Β I see you also have a ruler app, otherwise you couldn't have gotten such straight lines.Β Nicely done.Β Β Β Β Β Β
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Thanks! The ruler lines were done with a grid filter in Medibang, as angled lines can be done as well. I love technical questions
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My Sketchbook app has not only a ruler but also an angle grid.
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Friday the 13th to be exact.
Downsizing seems to have given you a trove of ideas!
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Not as many as I would have liked; I was hoping it would, but there isn't as many goodies in there as I'd hoped for.
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You see, that was where my wife and I had difficulty with the movie. I understood that it was only organic material that could be shrunk down, but they had buses and computers and everything in there. It would have made the movie more fun if they'd stayed by that rule, that the only things in there had to be "micro-engineered." I didn't think about her little hospital gown, unless it could be made of some sort of plant material. Technically, she should be zapped down in the buff.
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Well, a clockwork "motor" can be made as small as 0.5" diameter and 0.125" thick (think lady's dress watch) and there are plastic model kits of buses anything from 1/24th to 1/87th scale (that I know of; they may go down to model railroading Z scale).
OTOH computer chips are heading for molecular scale, and it's a push to call them "organic" since they're mostly silicon compounds.
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As I studied this (mainly for a RPG game I'm setting up), I came across several organic materials they use for clothing, namely cotton and bamboo. I'm assuming that both are a cellular structure under the microscope, and without being a nuclear biologist, I would guess be able to be minimized.Β
TV's I think wouldn't be a problem, seeing as we can make nearly a paper thin cell phone screen. For my gaming NPC's I'm figuring that they're would be computers and phones, but they would be big clunky things - not the compact laptops and cell phones we big people are used to. I haven't gotten any really great gaming stories yet, but the planning for the campaign sure has been fun.
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Formally, an "organic chemical" is one which contains carbon compounds. That covers pretty much all clothing except for metal armour and fasteners. Yes, I did mean to include rubber, leather and plastic there.
VDUs, including cell phone screens, are a subset of integrated circuits (silicon chips, from the normal use of a high purity silicon as a substance to print the circuitry on). If you follow the rule that you can only miniaturise organics then you can't miniaturise a TV.
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I think that's a good rule; we've all seen those obnoxious looking thin cellphones from Korea that they can literally twist; I figure that if they can make something like that, they can produce a small enough tv screen. I think thatΒ some of that stuff they can just assemble. If some other things can be shrunk, they can then have the littles on their end put them together. For the feel of the game, I still like the toy concept of much of their stuff; my game company, the Micronis Corporation, has a business partnership with the Tinker Toy company, who provides much of the stuff in the town - toy electric cars, doll clothes, people carriers, ect.
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Ah got you; yes you could use that tech to make (relative terms) big TVs, but you'd be making them that size, not making, say a 50" set and Downsizing it.
Physical limits on how close you can put circuit paths mean that you'll not be making working 1/12 scale cellphones though.
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I thought that the cellphones would be hard to replicate; I can almost picture some sort of big, clunky phone booth as a substitute. This makes it more interesting in the game campaign to have some of these challenges. I still also like the idea of the toy company marketing a whole line of "Downsizing" toys and accessories.
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It's not so much an easy/hard thing as a physics one. We can only make electronics so small, and if you let stuff get smaller, then the only remaining source of possible "difference" becomes hazard from creatures that haven't been Downsized, and full-size weather.
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Speaking of hazards of weather, the movie city had walls an little more than a bug net over it. Mine in my game (I call it "Micronesia") is a domed city like in Logan's Run. It's not airtight, for obvious reasons, but the incoming air is filtered, and CO2 levels are watched very closely. I always figured the Simpsons Springfield to be in Oregon, so that's where I placed it for game purposes.Β
Hell, here where I live, you'd have to figure out if the dome could take a direct hit from a tornado. And even though it's been cold, it is the season.
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Sufficient snow would cause problems of its own with both mass of snow, and diffusion of gasses through the snow; sufficient rain can cause flash floods (and that would be worse with a walled city only covered by a net...
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Principal shooting was done out in New Mexico; I from living in Phoenix that when they get about two inches of rain, it's a real problem out there. When they get a couple of inches of rain, the fire departments are rescuing people out of cars that have been stuck in high water. I think a protective dome is definitely the way to go.
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To keep it PG, just do what they did in (original) The Andromeda Strain movie - say the gowns are made of paper.
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Or, even better, is to have her nude covering everything, and just conveniently have a metal bar in front of her midsection:Β Lois Downsize Naked Shrink
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Looks really great my friend! And yes, WooHoo it's Friday! Lol!
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Thanks! I was draggin' ass by the time I left for home.
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I've done the 7 - 12s working shutdowns and outages! I know it is draining, but great for the bank account! Lol!
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Well, the one thing it helped was in getting my daughter on her feet after her college graduation - we were able to pay her share of the rent for a couple of months. But I don't want to tell work that!
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Hahaha!! I don't blame you! They don't need to know everything!
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