{"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
<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n 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 <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n 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 <\/a><\/p>\n That didn’t translate so well either.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 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 <\/p>\n After running out of steam with that train of thought, we switched tracks entirely.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 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 <\/a><\/p>\n 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 <\/a><\/p>\n For the first time ever, Bixby was done by Leo, and he looked great!<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Two Bixbies, on the other hand? \u00a0Even better!<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 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