Dr. Dee and Other Dark D's

A Dark Elf beckons you to his cave. The Dark Mirror shows strange visions in the wilderness. The undead Deacon rises. Two views of the grave of Deag.  The Deathwalkers follow their master across the heath.  Two versions of Defending the Gate. Dr. Dee and Edward Kelly conjure up the ghost of a dead woman. And Dr. Vogel seems to have put the hexum on his picture; I tried the most revisions on him, including trying to add a little vanishing trail of pawprints to imply his invisible familiar. I think the AI has problems interpreting the rather impressionistic wood-blocky artwork Here is the original:

May I Present To You My Card?

John made these cool versions of the cards and a possible backing for them. I like them because they are made to resemble actual Tarot cards, while at the same time preserving more of my original drawings AND making it look like I could draw them better than I did.

Deal Another Hand

Color Cards

I was able to scare up the color version of the Sets deck and enhanced a few select cards. I'll probably animate them later.

C's and a Kwee

About 2 o'clock Grok finally was allowing me animations; I am only sorry that this batch of C's are such a mild clollection. It includes two variations of two different pictures: a castle in different modes, and two tries at what I called Crowded Room. The trouble with Crowded Room is that it originally had a sign that said 'Drink Coca Cola'; this had been 'corrected' into simply 'Drunk'. The picture labeled Cutout is the remnantof a little phase I was going through: I would save cutouts of single figure drawings or traces of characters, then put them in drawn settings in which were cut slits to accomodate and integrate them. Basically a system of paper dolls, but I would never have referred to them as such. I stll have them in a little folder labeled Cast of Characters. I also made an animation of Kwee that I think much better. It rounds out of batch that doesn't include any human figures.

Introducing Kwee

Lately I've introduced a new character into The Wizard, the Prince, the Warrior, and His Son, a young Ogre that the healer Ketta by necessity adopts from the moment of his hatching. By necessity, but she is also a very generous and loving person, so it fits right into her character. So I'm exploring the concept (as I did in my essay 'Good, Evil, and Free Will on Ortha,' published here on NOT) of whether a member of a 'mook' fantasy race can be habilitated into a good person. His full given name (rarely spoken) is Gurrankwee (not an Ogrish name), but his baby name is Kwee-kwee, often shortened to Kwee by those not inclined to be so twee. What his 'education' would mean to those who know Ogres only as ruthless murdering marauders, or what it would mean to Ogres who despise friendliness and to whom violence is a social way of life, makes for some interesting speculation. My brother John made a very good picture of Kwee, perhaps the best picture of an Ogre we've made so far. Out of interest I developed it, speculating that if he was three feet tall and the equivalent of  five years old, how would he look at thirty years old and six feet tall? I was only able to make these two animations, as Grok is running slow. Not exactly satisfied with the animation of the young version, but couldn't develop it any more. I set it at six feet, as Kwee is a Lesser Ogre; if he had developed into a Great Ogre, he'd be at least ten feet.

Bonus Animations