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Gulliver63 — Lab of the Giants: Lab Grab 2
Published: 2014-08-05 07:31:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 5030; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 36
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As soon as Leela accidentally knocked over the beaker, Fry knew they were in trouble. He tried to climb down the thread quicker, but he couldn't make it down to the floor in time. The massive hand wrapped around his mid-section and he was pulled off of the thread; he was brought up in front of the two huge brown eyes to be studied."Just where do you think you're going?" the giant said. Fry was then dropped into a lab beaker.
This is the third picture I did based on one I made two years ago; I intended them all to fit together gulliver63.deviantart.com/art/…
See also gulliver63.deviantart.com/art/… and gulliver63.deviantart.com/art/…
I own neither Futurama or Land of the Giants
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Wow, Amy looks really menacing here. Fry's lucky that he didn't just now get squished like an overripe banana. Well done.
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I always research these guys expressions, and Amy is a fun one to draw in an emotional state. Then again, I love the "hungry" look of the giant lady in the show. The capture in itself is such a fun fantasy.
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I agree. Knowing how to put the right expression on a character, especially a woman, is 90% of a successful cartoon pic. In fact, one gentleman commented on how well I could convey moods through facial expression in "Wilma's Sexy Nunchuck Demonstration" fav.me/d5km2to. My prior experience as an actor in amateur theatre was a great help for me also.
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I've done several face studies; Leela is particularly interesting with her singular eye gulliver63.deviantart.com/art/… BTW, this one hangs on the wall next to my art table.
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Very interesting and original face study of our favorite cyclopean. Although I notice that her nose has an odd crease to it, as though it was broken (in a fight perhaps?).
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The nose is the most fascinating part; she doesn't have that nose bone like you or I, because that's were the eye would be. I would figure that she has just a bit of cartilage there instead. I'll have to send you more sketches that I haven't yet published.
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Very original anatomical description of Leela's eye/nose construction. If my old instructor in gross anatomy in my CNA classes ever came across a cadaver that really WAS a Cyclops, I believe he'd have a heart attack, n'yuk, n'yuk, n'yuk.
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I'm sure you're familiar with how the cyclops legend got started...an elephant's skull is eerily similar to a human skull, and has that whole center section gone to hold its brain. You look at the thing, and it looks like a giant cyclops skull.
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Yes I've heard that when ancient Greeks saw an elephant skeleton with it's unusual skull, they came up with the legend of the Cyclops which Homer used in his classic tale of Ulysses' journey in the Odyssey. That empty center section is not only for the animal's brain but also for the muscles and tendons for it's trunk. In referring to my CNA anatomy instructor, I was speaking, in jest of course, of a human Cyclops cadaver which we both know doesn't exist and never will. But we still love the cartoon Cyclops, Turanga Leela.
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Naw, I'm still sticking with my story of how Homer came up with the idea gulliver63.deviantart.com/art/…
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Ha, ha, ha. Very funny.
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That one was exceptionally good at a time when I didn't have any good markers yet. I love that idea, and it led to a second one... gulliver63.deviantart.com/art/…
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I took a look and I agree. Leela lends herself well to a humorous version of Homer's classic.
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I had so much fun with that concept...on one of my original ideas, Marge asks him, "Homie, do you really want to keep this writing thing up? Your Iliad didn't do so well."
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It's good that you have fun with cartoon concepts like this. Just as it's good that others, like yours truly, have fun looking at them.
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That idea machine is always on...I had an idea hit me last night as I was going to bed about a Morgan story; she has to break into an office, so she wears camouflage that lets her blend in with filing cabinets and office furniture.
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"Office Camouflage." Now there's something you don't see everyday. You're lucky that your idea machine is still on the job. My idea machine seems to be on hiatus.
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Here's old Morgan demonstrating it... www.futurama-madhouse.net/foru…
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Cute little story. Morgan is the perfect illustration of the sneaky, underhanded manner of office bureaucrats.
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I like her because she lives in that office. I have an unfinished story where that same boss forces her to take a vacation, and she doesn't know what to do. She acts like she's been punished or something.
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What can I say? There are workaholics for whom fun and vacations are foreign concepts.
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That sounds like the Nostalgia Critic online trying to slam two things together and come up with a disaster movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooK4yb… Chocolate Cthulhu Christmas, indeed...
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I think you could make just about anything if you put "pocalypse" behind it..."Pill Bug Pocalypse" and so forth. "Pill Bug Nado..."
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Centipede-pocalypse...I feel some bad CGI coming on there...
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Nice touch making Leela the klutzy one for a change.
Oh and why would "It's Iffy" ('s'yfy) put on a decent show like Land of the Giants in preference to their usual "made for Tv disasters"?
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SyFy...I always wondered about the name change...sort of like the "New Coke" thing in 1982.
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Well, that's the UK reaction to "Syfy". Of course, apparently one US advertising agency had to modify their rating filters to ignore our comments due to the levels of snark, sarcasm and irony we generated! Its obvious "advantage" is that you can copyright the name Syfy but you can't copyright Sci-Fi.
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::laughs:: Yes, but it sort of looks like the end of the movie "Threads" where the English language has mutated. Or, it looks like ebonics - I don't know if you're familiar with ebonics, but it was a lame-assed attempt on the part of several African-American educators to modify English for black students; what it amounted to was an attempt to "lower the bar" for these students. Many people, black and white, were very insulted by it. You guys in the UK were right to be dissatisfied with SyFy...it's just plain dumb.
From an advertising standpoint, which is most of my education. I found myself confused at first by it. Whatever your selling, whether it's Krelm toothpaste or whatever, you've got a precious little time to let the consumer know what you're selling. ::chuckles:: Reminds me of the Monty Python episode where the ad exec changed the name of Bolger's Instant Coffee to Bolger's Instant Leprosy; sales immediately dropped off 85 percent.
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I'd have had to have seen Threads, and I think the UK avoided ebonics. That said, we did have "Initial Teaching Alphabet" (ITA) which meant that I learnt to read English age 3.5, had to learn ITA at 5 on going to school, and then had to learn English again!
My only real exposure to advertising/marketting is consumer-side, and leads to a feeling that the average exec. is rather less clever than they think they are. For example, BMW's "Gran Coupe" models conjure up images of cars for women in their 70s and 80s, not 4-door "grand tourismo" models as the marketeers probably intended.
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I wish I could see the UK sometime; ::chuckles:: the closest I'll probably get is London, Ohio. Threads was filmed up in Sheffield, when their airport was still an RAF base. It was the British equivalent of America's "The Day After," but I felt was actually better done.
My favorite marketing story is New Coke. In 1982 Coca Cola decided to make the bone-headed move to change their formula of their product completely instead of just making a separate test market for it. Pepsi Cola loved it because it was a major fail. They even had to put Bill Cosby on ads to try and bail Coke out of their mess. Eventually, Coke relented and brought back the original flavor as "Coke Classic." If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Threads is well enough known; it's just that some people never watched it. For instance, back then I lived within 15 miles of 5 ground zero points, so had a good idea of my chances of survival (zero or less): that had me going "why bother?" with a drama about the aftermath.
I know about "New Coke"; it was worse than that here, since Barr's Irn Bru already had nearly as much of the market as Coke or Pepsi, and Scotland is now one of the few places where Coke is not the market leader.
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I just got to the point where I realized that if everything was released, there'd be no one left alive; it would n't be a question if New York were hit, but how many times it would be hit. I think if someone survived all that, they would eventually starve to death or die from what was floating around in the air. Interesting movie though...my stomach got butterflies when that town mayor got his leather briefcase delivered from the motorcycle cop - he knew what that was.
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