Sinzalot: Balance

Monday, 13 April 2009

Balance

One of my more recent projects, the theme
for this was 'Balance'. I started off
going down the more obvious routes
but decided to go with a mountain
goat...and ended up with two of them.

All done in photoshop, took about 2days.

(Forth place, Gnomon Workshop Competition)

3 comments:

Barry O'Donoghue3 May 2009 18:33
excellent cartoon style.
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Skamitis11 May 2009 21:02
i love this 3-d cartoon
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Matt Long18 October 2010 08:47
Cheers guys for the comments, alas Skamitis no 3-D was used in the making of this piece, I've still got all the saved files, all 158 of them I think. I'm currently making a sort of time-lapse development piece for the X-Box and Balance pieces, hope to have them up soon. :)
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Deep Sea Pygmy Tickling...

A Brief History...

Deep sea pygmy tickling is an very old and very dangerous critter sport. It's original purpose was as a 'right of passage' for critters into the workhouses of the human world. Candidates were required to tickle the pygmy (traditionally the Japanese fighting variety...the most aggressive) until it changed colour.

Earliest records indicate that a light shade of lavender lava would be sufficient for the candidate to pass. Also note that tickling a pygmy does not make them laugh, in fact the opposite occurs and as the subjects rage increases, colour changes occur. After the incident at the 1805 ‘slap ‘n’ dash’ championships, where over 200 critter spectators lost there ears it was noted that no pygmy should ever be tickled to a colour of mental mauve. Research was conducted and found that as long as the pygmy was kept wet (sprinkler failure, 1871) and tournaments staged below sea level (after the Everest incident in 1931), this high pitched, explosive colour could not be achieved.

Today 'tickling' is more of a pastime, Peruvian floating mini-pygmies are now used, and all tickling performed at a safety depth of at least 100 ft to ensure constant wetness. The challenge these days is to go as deep as possible whilst still trying to get your pygmy a nice shade of pulsating purple.

Underground bare-knuckle tickling has been reportedly on the increase.

No pygmies were harmed in the making up of this story.