Scenes from a Science Fiction Saga

From a series of drawings I made in middle school. Argola was the Captain; Borrisk the Engineer; Suwissie (named after Swissie Mouse, a knockoff of the Mickey Mouse Balloon) was basically an Ensign. The Attendant worked at a space port (thanks to the animation, I tend to think of him now as Glorb Zorp). An alien scene and bizzare creatures was basically an excercise in creating alien creatures, There were two other characters of whom pictures survive, Thun, a space pirate and nemesis, and Groka, his Mr. Smee. Groka's name got recycled into the Goldfire Saga. I'll probably make pictures of them next time I go through the Archives.

Let's Try For a Twofer

Here's the original source: Grettir descends into the barrow of Karr the Old, and Karr's grave ghost/corpse objects. AI initially interpreted that chest as a book; it took some tries to try to correct that.

And to plump out the post, here are some animations I had done of our Morg characters. I'm not too pleased with the manic Korm, but my limit for the day ran out before I could correct it.

Crazy Eights: Part Three

A man asks for Godfather Death to stand for his son. The Green Monster is a strange artifact produced when I tried to explain that the thing that looked like a potted plant was actually Swamp-Thing. Grendel's Dam attacks. A Lady and a Unicorn. Mr. Baggins from an early American magazine extract. A wizard opens a Portal to another world. Mike Riding Guard in the Afterlife. A platform in a Treetop that I can't help think would be a good place for Oak Tree Tea.

Crazy Eights: Part Two - F for Effort

 

Two versions of Face in the Frost; a more proper version of Firf; the First Goldfire use; Viking Mike gets a Fish; a boy is not serious about Fishin';  the Frost is on the Pumpkin; a house with a Glass Dome (the only non-F picture).

Smorgas-Morgs

Taking selected passages from my essay "And What is a Morg?" (see elsewhere in this blog), and after a little tweaking, I used ChatGPT and came up with a passable model for a Morg. Then, using that model, I came up with fairly good versions of Roth, Korm, and Thron. Still could use some tweaks (especially when it comes to muzzle shapes and headgear) but strangely satisfying. 

Update: Hannu and Bekmok.

Crazy Eights: Part One

After not being available most of the day due to 'heavy traffic', Grok allowed me a record (for me) 26 animations after 10 PM. I'm going to put them on in three batches during the day. This is my third pass through my 'To Be Animated Archive.' It includes pictures which for one reason or another I've been passing up, 'redos' of animations I wasn't wholly satisfied with, and interesting variations that the program spit out. In no particular alphabetical order.

Berg Geist is an animation of the postcard that helped inspire the creation of Gandalf.  The Book of Three tries to do the Jean Leon Huens cover of the Lloyd Alexander book. Crystal Moon is the way-off interpretaion of a Howard Pyle illustration of Merlin. Cutter from Elfquest. Dakimh Researches and Dakimh from the Marvel Man-Thing comic. Dragon Mim is from an illustration in a Gulf/Disney magazine. Dreamsky is a redo of one of my own drawings animated, made now that I have a little more experience and closer to my original concept.

2021 Diary: Dis May

5/22/2021: Up about 4:30 AM. Prayers and Bible. Dozed through part of the morning, then up again. Blood sugar at 7:30 AM, insulin at 8 AM. A spattering of rain outside that complicates my plan to catch up wash while the Shanafelts go to SA for the toy show and to visit Kaitlyn and Ryan.

As it turned out the toy show was scanty on the things we want, and they brought back nothing for me but the $100 I sent. Reports on the Tovars house are glowing. Did my wash in three big loads. Rainy all day.

 

5/23/2021: Read the Pentecost services for yesterday and today. Popcorn caught fire in the microwave. No harm done except a mess. About noon Andy took me to Chicken Express. Constant rain. Spent the rest of the day on DQ8 and trying to sleep, and some cleaning. Make order for HEB.

 

5/24/2021: Up at 4:45 AM. Prayers and Bible. Catch up diary. Shower. Going to make efforts to regularize my meal and medicine schedule today.

Went in at 9 AM, boiled eggs and made egg salad. Kept waiting for HEB order, then on a hunch checked the front porch, and there it was, in direct defiance of my request. Couldn’t bring the water in (too heavy) but Andy brought it to me at lunch. I almost wept in frustration. Also, at lunch they told me the sink was busted, and I’m sure Susan blames me, though I did nothing out of the usual operation and it looked fine when I was done.

Made cucumber salad and Kam came home. At 4 PM went in and fixed fish and couscous. Andy home a little late and at 8:30 PM I washed up. During the evening I watched most of “Chaplin” on TCM.

 

5/25-26/2021: Went through the days trying to keep on schedule. Had to admit that, as far as reading goes, my vision is far too blurry now. The kitchen sink in the big house is leaking, which complicates cooking.

 

5/27/2021: Up at six. BS, then breakfast, then shower. Cartoons. At 8 AM prayers and insulin. The struggle continues.

 

5/28/2021: Went back and collected all the images I had been letting go by and posted them. John called about 1 PM and firmed up our plans for lab (9 AM Monday) and doctor’s appointment (3:30 PM Tuesday). Lots of rain and thunder from 9 PM well into the morning hours (4 AM).

 

5/29/2021: Spent the morning point-farming and then beating Rhapthorne. On to the Dragon Dimension. Wrote some on AM (“Aftermath”).

 

5/30/2021: Woke up at 6 AM and knew I wasn’t going to make it to church. Read the Missalette for the day and prayed. Andy mowed today and it rained in the afternoon. Feeling woebegone and tense and lonely. Ate too much, of course. This month should have been called Dismay instead of May.

 

5/31/2021: Memorial Day and the last day of May. John picked me up at 9 AM, we went to the hospital, but I’d forgotten my form, so we came back, I got it, and had my blood drawn. We went by Whataburger and got three double meat double cheese burgers, then to Walmart. I bought some 3x cheater glasses, some size 14 slippers, and a new Gandalf articulated action figure. The rest of the day was kind of quiet and dull, with DQ8 and Gravity Falls. Didn’t have to do any cooking. Ordered groceries from HEB in the evening.

Notes

I don't think I've unboxed that figure yet.