Cookies will never be the same again and other musings

[ileliberte]

You know you've been in SGA fandom for a while when someone gleefully tells you to click on some story advertising itself as cookie porn and it turns out to not be a strange euphemism for lots of baking and food joy, but actual cookie porn, and somehow, you're not even that surprised. However, I am somewhat traumatized. Laughing hard. But also, traumatized.

Animation is hard. Every little thing needs attention. Also made harder by the fact that I couldn't figure out a way to see the main stage that I needed to be animating on because in my efforts to be all "I don't need no stinkin' tutorial, I can figure it out myself!", I managed to click something that hid the main working surface. Kind of like trying to draw on a canvas by poking a canvas-less easel and hoping the canvas magically appears.

I am currently drawing people underwater and trying to decide between strategically placed dolphin (for whatever passes for realism when it comes to underwater AUs) and silly huge shells (Ariel she is not. But what else!) as upper body raiment for our redoubtable heroine. I am simultaneously trying to draw a completely unamusing horrific wasteland, Dean with a rabbit, Teyla as flak jacketed cop and John as plucky bus driver civilian a la gender-switched Speed, and people trapped in an Escher-ian never ending landscape (yes, they're all unrelated).

Speaking of Escher, this reminds me of the drawing I made in class my freshman year. I still have insane love for it though I do think I've gotten a lot better since then, but there's something so amazing about looking at ordinary things from such a weird perspective. When I was younger and getting bored of my room, sometimes I'd bend over and look up at my room upside-down through between my legs. It always made it look all new and exciting again.

As a reward for reading this far, here, have a song:
Nazron ke milne se(At the meeting of eyes), a soft and sweet song with music by A.R. Rahman, from a Hindi movie called Vishwavidhaata.
Hosted on my site, so right click and download and please let me know if you're taking it :)
If you're interested in more music, use the music tag, I have quite a few Indian (and a few Pakistani) tracks up.

Comments

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I'm taking the music because the stuff you put up is always interesting, thankee.

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

You're quite welcome, I hope you like it :)

[ratcreature]

Bwahaha, I remember the cookie story. But as I read it after encountering them as all kinds of objects (peas, ketchup, socks...) I wasn't expecting anything else. In HP I read a story once where someone was transformed into an object, I think it was a quill(?), and then the other half of that pairing was writing with it, and putting the quill end in his mouth, and the transformed-into-a-quill guy (the story was told from that POV) would experience that like sex...

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

I have read that story. And the ones about wall-hangings, and drapery, and bedsheets...I've read way too much HP fic about sentient household stuff XD The crack, it is awesome.

[ratcreature]

HP is responsible for my weirdest as well as my most squicked fanfic experiences. And I don't squick easily...

[crysothemis.livejournal.com]

I *love* the drawing. I, too, have a strange fascination for warped reflections and unusual views, and I love the contrast between the reflection and the hand holding the ball.

Hope you figure out the animation thingy, and all I can say about the cookie porn is that I may never eat Girl Scout cookies again. Which, you know, wouldn't be such a bad thing for my figure.

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) I have a fascination for the shiny christmas ornaments, it's only been solidified by having to do that project. I had to stare into a red christmas ball for a very very long time :D

Oh man, I was totally not expecting the marshmallow, but, so not surprised either. You're right though, probably not a bad thing going off of cookies XD

[lemonitsa.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday ileliberte!! I hope you have a wonderful day!!!

:)

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you so much!

May your wishes come true, may your future be bright

[bratfarrar]

Apparently it's your birthday. And, if I'm to believe miss_porcupine, you're turning twelve. In that case, you're quite the prodigy, since your artwork--even "old" stuff like the drawing above--is excellent.

Re: May your wishes come true, may your future be bright

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the lovely wishes. And don't listen to her, she lies like a rug. However, if it makes me more interesting, then, why yes, I am turning 12 and this drawing was one I did when I was 5, quite the prodigy
XD

[winter-elf.livejournal.com]

ah, but cookies will never be the same. Especially Thin Mints :)

miss_porcupine gave the hints to pop over and say HAPPY BIRTHDAY! and to show how much I love your art - my favorite pic/icon by you :)

Hope you spent it doing something fun

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, I did indeed have a lot of fun :)

[nargynargy.livejournal.com]

Hey, going through the music chronologically hence this comment randomly - just a heads-up that the link for 'Nazron ke milne se' is not working. And now I shall carry on, some it is quite cool so its promising \o/

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

Will have a longer reply to your other comment soon, but for now, just wanted to let you know I fixed the link for this one :)