A Bit of a Mixed Bag, But Mostly R's

The last video, Schretel, is based on an old fairy tale in which a goblin haunts a bakery, driving the baker out nightly, until a traveler lends him his pet bear to stay the night. Some people think it has ties to Beowulf, with the bear taking the place of Beowulf, whose name means 'Bear,' allegedly.

A P's Mint (Sorry, I'm Reaching)

From Poltergeist to Puck, we have stuff from Studio Ghibli to James Branch Cabell to The Brothers Grimm to T. H. White to L. Frank Baum to William Shakespeare. Poor Falada freaked me out a little as a child; now I pass the trauma along to YOU!

More Plumping

Mostly A's and B's. Professor Odd is the odd man out here (yuk-yuk). The version with eye-stalks is the more original-drawing accurate, but the lizard version is not without its charms, which is why I include it. For the prompt for Alien Attendant I put gurgles in an alien language, and I got this kind of David-Cross-sounding guy and one of the worst alien languages I've ever heard. Hey-hey, my Glip-Glops!

Plump It Out A Bit

I have a file entitled Whole Darn Show, where I put all my animations and the pictures that inspire them. When I settle down to go to sleep, I turn on my music playlist, start a slideshow, and watch interesting synchronicities unroll. I noticed a certain paucity of animations at the start, so I made these 'to plump it out a bit.' I include that variation of A Little Jaunt because I think it superior, but I can't get it horizontal. The boy in Adventure is walking through a magic portal, not just stepping outside. I also made a variation of Ancient Oak to spice it up a bit; how do you make trees more exciting? I was pleased and surprised to find that Grok supplied Angelic with actual Bible-accurate angel dialogue.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

I was casting my eyes over on the books I have on the shelf on my desk and I saw Death's Jest-Book, by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (see elsewhere on this blog). I came to me that I'd only only seen one old black-and-white crayon picture of him. Then I thought, it's hard to get any idea about him from just that. And then I thought, "Let's bring him back - with science!" And here he is. I wonder how much like him it really is, but this is probably as close as we can get at this late date. Hi, Tom!

Take a P

Padre Porko to Pocketwatch.  Patrick is from an incomplete short story I published here, When He Woke Up. Pecos Bill should rightly be riding a catfish, but whatever. Right now the universe is p'ing, as my nephew would say. I'm glad to have done this much.

Ooo!

Sometimes when I look at my own drawings I think of this line from The Golden Voyage of Sinbad: "These pictures tell the story of a legend yet unrealized." For some reason Grok is being very generous today (10 second animation instead of 6 seconds) and, umm, creative in their changes of points of view. All 'O' subjects today, from On Guard to Ozma. Our Noble Lady is of course You-Know-Who.