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Published: 2008-07-09 05:49:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 7434; Favourites: 212; Downloads: 0
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More Kim Possible & Shego art appears in my KP gallery:[link]
This is the "completed" version of this picture.
In all such works I reach a point of diminishing returns. I put as much effort in the final step of this process as the previous three combined.
i.e. : what is the angle of repose of powdered snow on a frictionless surface? It is a freaking physics question.
I could make it "perfect", but that costs in terms of time and effort after a point where only I would recognize the difference.
In the end I got an effect that looks like me doing David Cherryh doing Jim Steranko (with respect to the ES outfit).
That was unintentional.
The Kim figure was far simpler and far more satisfying in the result.
NOW .... as for the subject matter.
When I saw "Edward Scissorhands" in its first weekend of release I came away with the certain knowledge that I had just seen a classic.
The critics at the time didn't see it that way. It took the rest of the world over a decade to catch up to me, (it took decades for "Its a Wonderful Life" to be considered a "Christmas movie").
The scene that clinched it for me was this one. When Kim danced in the ice crystals falling from Edward's Xmas angel.
It was the most beautiful scene that Tim Burton has ever filmed.
I hope that Burton and Kigo fans like my interpretation.
This will probably be the most complex Kigo I ever do.
Kim Possible and Shego (c) Disney
Edward Scissorhands & Kim (c) WB
art (c) me
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THANX.
I enjoyed painting the ice.
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THANX.
I posted the preliminary sketch of the Kim angel in my KP gallery.
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oo i defintly well check it out!!
i love ur pictures
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THANX.
This one took a lot of effort and has been slow to catch on.
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And you done it amazingly well!
Congratulations!!
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THANX for the fave.
This one took far too much time. I may yet post a detail of the Kim figure.
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Belated fave for a classic scene (and classic work upon the background).
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THANX. I put a lot of time into this one.
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Gotta love media double-standards, eh? Funny...a similar series of skull-flaying, torso-chomping and flat-out stomping was offered by "Dinosaurs Attack," and yet I don't FEEL corrupted. At least those cards must've been easier to hide from snooping authorities than your average centerfold.
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Come to think of it, I was stretching things by mentioning "Mars Attacks"...having heard of the card series, seen the film a couple times, and owned a similarly-themed series dubbed "Dinosaurs Attack," I know just what you mean. Not for the faint of stomach, those cards...then again, given the gum that came with 'em, their target audience would have to be a little callused.
Truly interesting influences, and once again I'm metaphorically thumping myself for not picking up the Tao element at first (or second) glance.
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The company that made the original "Mars Attacks" cards in 1964 had actually received plaudits for a card series on the centennial of the American Civil War. Those cards depicted bloody musket wounds and bayonetings, but hell, it was educational. When they depicted burning cattle and vaporized human flesh in "Mars Attacks" they were condemned. I remember huddling around kids in the school yard who collected these cards.
The feel that we got from them is that they had to be something forbidden like Daddy's hidden copies of "Playboy".
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Sir, calling this piece well worth the time & effort damns it with faint praise. The ice-shard/snowfall effects, excruciating to render as they surely were, more/less define the image's ethereal feel (gee, dippy wording much?); Kim's posture & appearance are 100% old-school (e.g. quality) Disney; and E's dark, ornate outfit contrasts with her '
On the Burton front...as far as favorites go, for me it's a tossup between the Michael Keaton Batman and Nightmare before Christmas, but E.S. comes in at a very close #3. The 60's suburbia angle is somehow hilariously exaggerated and spot-on at the same time (I think Timmy was going for a similar feel in Mars Attacks), and Ed has a personality & plight comparable to the early Universal portrayal of the Frankenstein Monster: an outlandish-looking artificial person, seeking direction & companionship from an uneasy, distrustful world (although Ed, unlike ol' Flattop, developed a quasi-marketable talent). And hey-even with his social issues, Ed's a much healthier match for Winona than, say, Betelguse (Burton & Keaton again!).
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THANX for the praise.
There is a clockwise Tao thing going on with light over dark and dark over light that is intentional. Kim stands en pointe in a ballet posture that also is intentional. The only thing that keeps her from being comepletely Degas-like is the absence of foot lighting. I altered Kim's party dress from the original only by eliminating a row of pearl buttons and making the skirt semi-transparent. When my daughter asked me why I had made Kim's outline visible through the dress, I answered: "because I could".
The picture is half Degas and half opening credits from Roger's & Hammerstein's "Carousel" where the angel is seen on a ladder polishing stars. I eliminated the ladder from my version of this scene and replaced it with a heap of sapphic symbolism (Kim appear 4 times in this picture, Shego appears 3 times). Tim Burtin, himself a student of the arts and cinema certainly drew from similar inspirations. "Mars Attacks" however was based on a garish and ghastly series of trading cards from 1964 that could be characterized as "warnography".
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So I think this is the final one?
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Trigon: Did Arella told you what happen to your father?
Raven: She told me enough. She told me you kill him.
Trigon: No, I am your father.
Raven: NO!!!
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It's amazing. Somehow when it was done...I just wanted to show it to my folks. It just...captured me.
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THANX for sharing your experience.
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Very nice picture! Especially, I like the angle. The guilty confession - can you believe I actually bought the Edward Scissorhands DVD more than a year ago and haven't gotten arount to watching it yet? Dunno why; have to fix that a s a p.
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Does this mean that you have never seen the film, or just not on DVD?
I have the DVD release of "Sleeping Beauty"still unwrapped, but I've seen it in other forms something like ten times. I missed "Sleeping Beauty" in first release as I was a little over a year old. I missed the next two releases in the 60's and 70's. In the dark ages before home video, the Disney company would re-release its animated features to theaters once every 7 years because it was reasoned that an entire new generation of rug rats had grown up since the last opportunity who had never seen it. I missed the 1966 rerelease because I was living in a poodunk town in Florida. In 1972 I saw posters for "Sleeping Beauty" in metro stations in Paris. That French poster design was infinitely superior to the kidstuff packaging Disney films got in the Retarded States. I was a college grad in 1979 before I saw it for the first time and it instantly became my favorite animated film!
"Edward Scissorhands" was filmed in a realestate development in Florida in 1990, but Tim Burton gave it the feel of growing up as a Baby Boomer in the 1960's. In a way, it is timeless.
It was also Vincent Price's very last live action fim performance.
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I can't explain it! Tim Burton's films are really favourites of mine. I love the unique feel he gives to everything he does! But, for some reason - never seen it, bought it but never watched it. Well, at least I have something to look forward to going back from my vacation.
Sleeping beauty is a real classic. Maleficient as a dragon is so elegant and menacing!
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ES is set in the Levittown suburbia of the Sixties even though it was filmed in 1990 for the same reason that Steven Speilberg seems hellbent on sharing his childhood demons by setting movie after movie in tract housing hell i.e. "Poltergeist" and "E.T.". Having experienced little houses made of ticky tacky when I was a kid, I look back and realize what a cultural wasteland American suburbia was 40 years ago.
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Well, I don't have that background but I bet I'll enjoy the movie anyway. Just as much as I enjoy the picture!
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this really is a beautiful pic,the colors and the ice sculptures and snow fall are really amazing,well done
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THANX. As I have intimated before, I have more fun in doing the "special effects" than in rendering the image.
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