It fits the Supreme Court definition of art (“know it when I see it”). After all, if there was just one way to make art, then we’d call Jackson Pollock a man who makes a mess with paint.
I love the fact that Sonata has no problems understanding Luna’s ‘middle-ponish’ speech patterns, but she responds in modern syntax.
There are many attributes to like about Sonata, but Luna may be the first to list ‘over 1000 years old’ as one of them.
I like that you use the word cinematography, because that really is what it is. It’s art, but it’s not like I’m drawing things myself.
It fits the Supreme Court definition of art (“know it when I see it”). After all, if there was just one way to make art, then we’d call Jackson Pollock a man who makes a mess with paint.
Hooray! Sonata has snagged another blue pone! Now to bed her.
Given this is a dream sequence, it’s hard to say who snagged who. Indeed, it’s hard to say if Luna’s behavior is being driven by Luna or by Sonata’s imagination.
I love the dreamlike quality of the transitions in this…
Wow, that’s…a hell of a review! Thank you so much. You did more or less describe what I was going for, you just put it better than I could have. Then again, I suppose how I put it was… points to comic
I like that you use the word cinematography, because that really is what it is. It’s art, but it’s not like I’m drawing things myself. And I make some of my assets, but not most. But, not to sound too artsy-fartsy, I do put them together and arrange scenes, control actors, play with light and framing and camera, and…yeah. Cinematography + writing is basically the closest thing, I suppose.
Yeah, going for the traditional Asian style of tea set, complete with appropriate teapot.
Though now that you mention it, Trixie’s teacups ought to fit into a dream somewhere… XD
I love the dreamlike quality of the transitions in this, especially the use of precise detail in the foreground of expansive sets with obsessive information about the smallest of objects in the foreground when they are sitting at tea, juxtaposed with what might as well have been blurred out backgrounds centered around sharply defined figures.
It really, absolutely, is pro level cinematography. Your use of focus and set dressing is incredibly effective in communicating that time and causality have been thrown out the window.
This is absolutely wonderful work. It communicates “dream world, anything can happen here but the characters themselves are still rock solid” so very, very well.
It also says much about their personalities, that they are so very real in an environment where everything else is ephemeral.
The inversion of the usual rule of diminishing detail with distance in the incredibly specific fractal mountains in the final panels is actually reminiscent of Björk’s “Emotional Landscapes” video - achieving the normal blurring of distant or moving objects not through normal blurs or changes in palette, but instead through providing so much crisp information that the viewer’s brain simply blurs it out - until you specifically look at it. It makes no sense, yet there it is, and it works beautifully.
It really heightens the sense that “this place is not reality”.
A teaspot with funny little bowls, no cups? Trixie would be disappointed.
Probably Stellarator’s usual flair for historical accuracy; these two are both old enough to remember tea before the invention of little handles on teacups.
Thanks! Next page will (I hope!) be all of that, and sexy as well. :)
That’s excellent, well done.
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There are many attributes to like about Sonata, but Luna may be the first to list ‘over 1000 years old’ as one of them.
@Smithers
Though now that you mention it, Trixie’s teacups ought to fit into a dream somewhere… XD
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