Deborah Galvez, Connie Criswell and the cougar
Darrell Green
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I just finished the course on Electrostatic flocking and fur transfer. Throughout the course, I was just locked in on all the techniques because it was all so foreign and new to me. Obviously, a lot of techniques that Deborah and her colleagues have simply invented from scratch in order to make lifelike creatures.
I wanted to share a quick post on the moment it all became real. Very near the end of the lesson, Deborah began to punch in the whiskers. At the moment she reached inside the lip of the cougar and pierced a hole, my thought was, "ouch, that looks painful" and quickly realized I had transitioned to thinking of it as a cougar and she was stabbing it with a really fat needle. Bravo. No better reaction could be expected but the cringing empathy of how much that would hurt when it was really just foam. Brilliant work.
I wanted to share a quick post on the moment it all became real. Very near the end of the lesson, Deborah began to punch in the whiskers. At the moment she reached inside the lip of the cougar and pierced a hole, my thought was, "ouch, that looks painful" and quickly realized I had transitioned to thinking of it as a cougar and she was stabbing it with a really fat needle. Bravo. No better reaction could be expected but the cringing empathy of how much that would hurt when it was really just foam. Brilliant work.
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