Just occasionally you do a piece of work and you can step back and go “yes”.
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Know what I mean? Even your harsh inner critic has to shut the f#ck up and nod gently. For that brief moment, your periods of self hatred or lack of confidence or imposter syndrome or inferiority complex or whatever, take a little break and you can just go “Yes. Fair enough.”
So rendering this scene was one such moment for me – the lighting and the stasis fluid. I know nobody cares about CG – but getting that blue liquid to look like that was a major breakthrough for me. Volumetric lighting in a fluid with a noticeable but not prohibitive refractive index … in a CG environment. I know, it’s the little victories, eh?
This scene isn’t a spoiler because she orders a henchman to bring Skylar in a ‘freeze tube’ into her office in Lithium Comic #4. So here it is, ready for comic #5.
Also, I’d built the scene and was about to render it out, and then it occurred to me to have Skylar gently smile. She needs to represent innocence, joy, peace. And that bloody woman has to represent the opposite. Turmoil, control, devaluing people. So I added Skylar’s contented look in order to write it into the script – have her captor get utterly pissed off that her quarry can feel more peace than she can. This is really just based on my lived experiences of how people are.
Haha, ah well, whatever’s your hobby, whatever’s your field of expertise or interest, I love those moments when your frustration can take a deep breath and let go.
And perhaps if we are able to share our various privileges with others, perhaps we can step out of misery and into joy.
We. Me. You.
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