Toonbots message board: Meta-fanart (Emsworth)

Brother Emsworth Tue Jun 5 14:24:56 2001 Re: Meta-fanart (Emsworth) > All this talk about meta-cartoonists leads me to believe that Toonbots > requires a special kind of fanart--in fact, it requires meta-fanart. > To this end, I have created a VRML specification for Emsworth (mostly > because he got me involved in this, so he deserves it). Gosh! That's quite an impressive piece of work! I'm flattered, Tim! I'd never even heard of VRML, but it's pretty nifty. Many thanks!

TimberBram Tue Jun 5 20:22:14 2001 Re: Meta-fanart (Emsworth) > Gosh! That's quite an impressive piece of work! I'm flattered, Tim! I'd > never even heard of VRML, but it's pretty nifty. Many thanks! You're welcome, Emsworth. I hope you didn't mind the monocled version instead of the pince-nez. Since we were discussing Jihad personalities I thought that would be the correct version, given the sketch that Michael did of you. I'm trying to decide who to do next: Napoleon or gopher. (Yes, I'll ...ahem... borrow liberally from the posted sketches again. Meta or not, it's still fanart and therefore must depend on the material the cartoonist (or meta-cartoonist) provides.) Peace, Tim Bram.

Brother Emsworth Tue Jun 5 22:37:05 2001 Re: Meta-fanart (Emsworth) > You're welcome, Emsworth. I hope you didn't mind the monocled version > instead of the pince-nez. Since we were discussing Jihad personalities I > thought that would be the correct version, given the sketch that Michael > did of you. That's fine about the pince-nez. I really like what you did with the eyes, though. I wasted quite a few minutes today playing with that thing (after awhile it becomes mildly hypnotic.) Quite a pleasant surprise, I asure you! > I'm trying to decide who to do next: Napoleon or gopher. (Yes, I'll > ...ahem... borrow liberally from the posted sketches again. Meta or not, > it's still fanart and therefore must depend on the material the cartoonist > (or meta-cartoonist) provides.) Well, I'd be interested in seeing both. gopher might be more of a challenge, I think. I'm sure Napoleon would enjoy seeing herself meta-immortalized (I know had fun poking at my eye.)

Napoleon Tue Jun 5 23:19:51 2001 Re: Meta-fanart (Emsworth) > Well, I'd be interested in seeing both. gopher might be more of a > challenge, I think. I'm sure Napoleon would enjoy seeing herself > meta-immortalized (I know had fun poking at my eye.) I'm not sure if I like the idea of Emsworth being able to poke meta-me in the eye... :P But meta-immortalization is cool!

TimberBram Wed Jun 6 01:01:20 2001 Re: Meta-fanart (Emsworth) > But meta-immortalization is cool! Your demand is my wish. I'm working on Napoleon now. I may have it together tomorrow. I actually think this might be giving me enough practice to be able to tackle the more complicated shapes required for gopher. Peace, Tim Bram.

Chris Tue Jun 5 23:57:26 2001 Re: Meta-fanart (Emsworth) Wow! That is so cool. Rather like that bit at the beginning of Super Mario 64 where you get to manipulate Mario's head, minus the face-part stretching. At the moment, though, Emsworth's head seems to be upside-down and oscillating extremely fast, and I don't know what the heck I did to it. Seems that everything I touch turns to glod.

Pooga Wed Jun 6 11:37:36 2001 Re: Meta-fanart (Emsworth) > Seems that everything I touch turns to glod. You mean Glod Glodson, the famous Dwarf horn player from the Band with Rocks In?

Chris Wed Jun 6 14:50:07 2001 Re: Meta-fanart (Emsworth) > You mean Glod Glodson, the famous Dwarf horn player from the Band with > Rocks In? Maybee.... You're not elvish, are you?

Brother Emsworth Wed Jun 6 17:16:32 2001 Re: Meta-fanart (Emsworth) > Maybee.... > You're not elvish, are you? Coincidentally, I just read "Soul Music" (and a few other Pratchett titles) last week. The "elvish" gag was all right, and Death's scenes as "Mr. Scrub" with the beggars were especially amusing. To say nothing of the Dean's motto: LIVE FATS DIE YO GNU! BORN TO EAT BIG DINNERS!