If you read the description of the video, you will see that this particular
video is now the single most difficult I have ever made. Not because
Christmas dinners make me cry (they don't), but because of numerous problems
with software, which still gave me grief even AFTER I upgraded
it.
Now, I understand that now that it's upgraded, there are some more things
it is now capable of doing. Well, that's good, because the next thing
I'm gonna work on is my Dammit Doll, and I'm gonna animate it and it's gonna
look great being banged on something somewhere in the 3D house--
Anyway.
Before sitting down at the table, please give your cellphones to Tante
Oscar, and she'll put 'em in the fridge for ya. Bring it to the table,
and someone gave that kid over there a remote control F14 fighter with
little bitty projectiles and all and it's got this remote control so I'm
borrowing it in case--
Oops!
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, and wishing you all a happy New
Year!
The Parlor has been pretty busy with a lot of things, but aren't we all at
this time of year? Not all of it has been good, though, so having
something to escape with means my 3D model project of the Mayfair
house--1239 First Street in New Orleans--has come a long way.
This is a tiny little teaser, but also to get you thinking about the
character of Lasher. What are his true intentions for the Mayfair
Witches? Why is Christmas so central to Lasher's history and his
plans? And how is that going to play out in Season 2 of AMC's Mayfair
Witches when there wasn't any mention of Christmas to any real extent in
Season 1?
Michael Curry's love of Christmas really stands out in The Witching
Hour. His memories of Christmas as a child, and his later love of the
holiday led to his collecting an assortment of beautiful Christmas
ornaments. When he went back to San Francisco briefly to close up his
house and business and ship some of his belongings to New Orleans, among
those belongings were some boxes of the Christmas ornaments he'd
collected. He was thrilled to finally be able to have a Christmas tree
large enough to display all of these treasures.
This is partly what inspired me to include a version of the Mayfair house
that is a Christmas version. Like the model of the house itself, the
Christmas version is by no means finished, but I'm tucking in a few little
surprises here and there.
Something else, as long as I'm on the subject of San Francisco: Rowan and
Michael relocated just in time in The Witching Hour. The novel's
present-day time is 1989, and San Francisco had the major earthquake in
October of that year. Looking at photos of the area where Michael's
house was set in, if he were an actual person, he'd be bleepin' lucky his
house managed to escape with what sounds like comparatively minor
damage. Like the roof leak.
At some point, I want to resume exploring Michael's love of
Victoriana. Some things I'm trying to update at the time of year those
things are relevant. In the meantime, I've been looking at other
things that could stand to be updated and added on to. Even things as
seemingly insignificant as bits of tradition and cultural heritage unique to
New Orleans, seen in creative ways.
But I'm getting ahead of myself, here. This is a very brief teaser as
we get closer to Christmas...
