Tweaked Selkie’s bubble to make the “dark grey vs true black” a bit more apparent. She’s gotten better, but she’s not at full proficiency yet.
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Speaking of “not at full proficiency yet”, current phase of my Blender learning project.
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TODD: Selkie! Your voice changed!
ANDI: I'm glad ONE of us is used to that.
THEN: I'll give the kids credit, they're half right. I DID want to see what their output looked like.
THEN (VO): But I still want to know if you can see anything special.
SELKIE (VO): It' looks just likes a big version of that thing Mom gaves me.
AMANDA (VO): I don't see anything but bright green Literal Hell.
SELKIE: Oh no, wait, there! Do you sees that?
AMANDA: What? ...Oh.
SELKIE (VO): There's something movings in it.
ANDI: I'm glad ONE of us is used to that.
THEN: I'll give the kids credit, they're half right. I DID want to see what their output looked like.
THEN (VO): But I still want to know if you can see anything special.
SELKIE (VO): It' looks just likes a big version of that thing Mom gaves me.
AMANDA (VO): I don't see anything but bright green Literal Hell.
SELKIE: Oh no, wait, there! Do you sees that?
AMANDA: What? ...Oh.
SELKIE (VO): There's something movings in it.
Selkie didn't get the black speech bubbles when she managed to attain fire-eyes previously, but I opted to throw her an "I'm The Main Character Dammit" bone and give her progress a leg-up.
They’re.. they’re working together… Selkie is actually pointing things out Amanda may have missed; Amanda acknowledges Selkie is right without snark or sass.
Todd is supportive, even excited for his daughter. Andi is still in freakout mode but, she’s staying seated instead of screaming.
Bonding!!!
I can totally picture a series that’s just these two sisters using their echo powers to fight crime together ot something. Absolute radness!
You misspelled “commit crime”
Amanda and Selkie prevent grime; Amanda invents and Selkie animates a vacuum cleaner that really DOES get pet hair out of a carpet, and Mr. Morton comes and lives with them like a good kitty. And possibly Henri, if he will behave.
So, as of right now Amanda has more “power” but it’s unstable (the striped voice bubbles) even if it is closer to full/actual echo level power, but Selkie has more control (since, you know, practice & more experience with it) so it’s more consistent/she can notice smaller details, even if actual focus on them isn’t as precise.
Combined, they’d probably already be a hell of an echo, but for now they get to further bond by helping each other with the parts they’re lacking in (even if it ends up just being near each other helps with that resonance/getting more or less synched up)
(Also, Boiling Green Literal Hell would be a good name for a band)
I’m glad Selkie is catching up. Was tired of seeing her just lose out here.
Whereas Amanda has all the power, but limited control.
… Frankly, that worries me a geat deal.
Indeed. Especially since her physiology’s so Not Designed For This it made her actually puke. Hope it gets a little less Literal Burning Green Hell as she gets used to it.
Makes me wonder how Sarnothi react when they first awaken. When Selkie started glowing, Pohl mentioned that she should be doing fire-eyes instead of the candlelight glow she had going on, implying that Amanda has what’s considered a normal level of power right off the bat. So do Sarnothi have trouble dealing with it as well, or is it because Amanda’s a human/didn’t grow up with it, or is it just her own tendency to vomit?
I’ve been assuming Amanda’s response was abnormal, but fair question. Guess we’ll have to see if Suko develops Echo powers any time soon (I don’t recall – is Sai Fen an Echo herself, or just uses Sarnothi tech designed for non-Echoes?)
Sai Fen is not an Echo, I think, she’s just been using that sweet sweet Echo tech.
One of the things you’ll want to do when modelling heads, is to ‘extrude’ the holes for the eyes nostrils, and mouth. (And ears, I suppose. Man, Selkie’s ears are gonna be SO EASY!)
The goal is to get ‘rings’ around the orifices, so that the underlying geometry flows more smoothly. If you do it right, you can have a very low-polygon mesh that turns out just right with a couple levels of Subsurface modifier on it.
I like the solid green on grey, vs the skipping green on black. It’s a nice touch.
I like the effect, but the mid-dark grey is really off-putting to me. I’d try for something between this grey and the color I now realize is almost-black-grey on the previous page. Get it dark enough that it looks nice (especially given the lime-green font), but is still visibly different from black (on most monitors).
Obviously having someone right there Echoing with her — someone who, for weal or woe, Selkie has had a lot of experience with — is helping Selkie resonate better herself!