{"id":5688,"date":"2017-10-31T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2017-11-02T12:04:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T16:04:23","slug":"happy-halloween-weekend-bixbys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/happy-halloween-weekend-bixbys\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Halloween – Weekend at Bixby’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of Halloween, we worked with Leo to come up with a story and a lovely art piece for one of our tried and true antiheroes, Bixby Alladocious. \u00a0Below, you can see the long trials of making a piece of art worthy of our ne’er-die-well.<\/p>\n

The first phase of what we’re lovingly calling Weekend at Bixby’s was the confusing back and forth of finding out how to present the piece.<\/p>\n

We had talked about how we wanted things to be. \u00a0Maybe Bixby\u2014who dies often, but always comes back to life\u2014could be manipulating one of his corpses on stage. \u00a0We were thinking a little more marionette than this Yorick-like pair of sketches:<\/p>\n

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Leo and I usually have very little problems communicating, but Bixby is such a weird character, with such an unusual ability. \u00a0Getting the point across the right way was a bit of a trial in and of itself.<\/p>\n

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There were some difficulties explaining to Leo that Bixby stayed the same size when he died. \u00a0I’m sure it didn’t help that I was using the word marionette, which often invokes images of tiny little puppets. \u00a0I had originally envisioned Bixby crouched behind a curtain, lifting his corpse up with strings.<\/p>\n

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That didn’t translate so well either.<\/p>\n

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This was the closest I think we got when we were still trying to go this route, but it still wasn’t quite what we were looking for.<\/p>\n

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After running out of steam with that train of thought, we switched tracks entirely.<\/p>\n

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Instead of doing the marionette thing, we opted to go with the Weekend at Bernie’s routine. \u00a0It just made a lot of sense. \u00a0Above, you’ll see the opening concept.<\/p>\n

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Our next variation was a little closer to what we were ultimately looking for. \u00a0And Leo started knocking it out of the park after this.<\/p>\n

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For the first time ever, Bixby was done by Leo, and he looked great!<\/p>\n

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Two Bixbies, on the other hand? \u00a0Even better!<\/p>\n

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We ended up making a couple more changes. \u00a0Dead Bixby looked a little too lively, so we added some flies, inflicted some noticeable wounds to him, and glossed over his eyes. \u00a0I glossed them over a little bit more for the final piece.<\/p>\n

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And there you have it. \u00a0Our team of Bixby’s look spectacular. \u00a0Also, considering how close his power is to Deadpool’s, we went with a color scheme that mimicked the merc with a mouth. \u00a0Bonus!<\/p>\n

If you want to know how this image plays into Bixby’s latest story, you’ll have to read it\u2014available to read now, right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Happy Halloween again everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of Halloween, we worked with Leo to come up with a story and a lovely art piece for one of our tried and true antiheroes, Bixby Alladocious. \u00a0Below, you can see the long trials of making a piece of art worthy of our ne’er-die-well. The first phase of what we’re lovingly calling Weekend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[346],"tags":[1268,1267,1263,363,1433,1581,1579,1580],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bixby-3-e1509473853938.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-1tK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5807,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions\/5807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}