Notes on the Making
Process, decisions, behind the scenes — how the stories get made.
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In the Picture: Endless summer
The start of summer finds two sisters luxuriating in their freedom. OK, maybe they’re the tiniest bit bored. By evening, they settle in to watch a little TV. Oh, great, it’s Night of the Living Dead. Hearing a sound at the door, they go to investigate. And quickly slam it shut. Well, *that* was certainly…
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Night of the living dolls
I never thought I’d find myself downloading the 1968 version of Night of the Living Dead as part of my doll adventure, but that’s what happened this week. After deciding (more or less) what I’d do with my two 1/4th dolls who got shut out of the treehouse story, I’ve spent the last few days…
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In Scene: Plotting out the final storyline
Strawberry (now Fern) threw all of my plans into disorder. I was going to have four un-related 1/4th scale dolls hanging out in a treehouse. Then I fell in love with this somewhere-between-1/6th-and-1/4th-scale doll, who fit so well with two of the 1/4th scale dolls that they ended up becoming a family. That left my…
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My Doll Adventure 32 – Rosie solves it all
As we catch up to Rosie, after her last episode when she found that Fetch had stored away all of her dream objects in her cupboard, she appears to be . . . well . . . dragging a big bag of flour across her room . . . dumping it all in a sand…
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Turning a photographic novel into a graphic novel
Looks like I’m playing around with the second version again, while I’m supposed to be finishing the first 🙂 But I had an idea I wanted to see the adventure in more of a graphic form. Fortunately, Photoshop (and, in this case, Photoshop Elements) has some cool filters for quickly transforming photos into sketches and…
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Rosie is the brains of the adventure
And, we’re back. Lovely week off seeing my family, dancing at a wedding, and all-in-all having a great time. We’re to the point in the plot where everyone-who-isn’t-Camellia shares a single episode. In the one I’m working on now, Lily and Daisy are rushing around looking at tide-tables and maps trying to figure out what…
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My Doll Adventure 31: Rosie’s Pirate Adventure, part 2
In her last episode, Rosie was carted off by pirates. In this episode, she finds herself being carried through a jungle: And brought before the queen: from whom she receives a map: Afterwards, the pirates dump Rosie back in her room: Where Fetch grabs the map and puts it in the cupboard: Revealing all of…
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An odd day
An odd day here in doll adventure land. I started the day getting laid off, and ended it driving a dead possum up to Vancouver, WA. And still, in-between, I managed to work up a few Rosie dreamland shots. Here’s my in-progress shot of the island queen I’m assuming I’ll finish up the shoot in…
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A few asides
We’re heading towards the finish line, here, with the conclusion of Rosie’s final dream adventure. After that, it’s just a hop skip and a jump away from the conclusion of my year-long adventure. For Rosie, apparently the pirates have taken her through some of my favorite artist’s landscapes: In other news, I was rewarded for…