Kid Koala
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January update of silliness! Creature Corners! Board games! Coupon Code!
🕑 Added 2021-01-08 23:43:14 +0000 UTCHello Everyone!
Just a quick update. I've been spending the morning daylight hours everyday working on paint/colour tests for some creatures in preparation for the Creatures of the Late Afternoon album artwork. These were initially supposed to be tardigrades but most of the photos I saw of tardigrades were just greyscale electron microscope images. I've been inspired by octopus and chameleon camouflage skills from several undersea and reptile documentaries we've watched with the family... so now this first set of creatures are kind of tardigrades with camouflage skills.
We are also testing some other creature designs in 3D. We are going to make 3 prototype miniature puppets to work in these Creature Corners. Here's one of the work in progress creature corners. We will cut a hole into the floor and the creature will play the theremin and make strange sounds on the modular synths.
Here are some very rough sketchbook ideas. One creature was initially a salamander but I've changed it to a coelacanth for story reasons...
Here is a kind of plan for layout for the game board. The game board will be in the center and it will be surrounded by an ocean of chameleonic tardigrades...
I also picked up two 4' x 4' canvases to paint the gatefold board game that will be on the album cover when you open it. (giant headphones for scale).
Excited to get started on this! A fun indoor project for the coldest month of the year.
In other news:
January Store Coupon Code: if you want to gift some fun items for your friends with birthdays coming up soon, the patreon store discount code for January is: WINTERISHERE this code is open to all patreon tiers this month!
Mailbox Goodies! Updating Mailing Address for New Fun Tier patrons: To those of you on the New Fun Tier or Nufonia Noise Consultation Committee Tier, please take a moment to make sure your Patreon profile is up to date with the best/most current mailing address for you. We are preparing some things to send out for next month's mailbox goodie! You can update your mailing details on a computer by signing into your Patreon account and clicking the avatar in the top right then click "My profile settings" to update your info.
ICYMI, December Pizza Break was super fun and open to all tiers for the holidays! It is replayable here.
That's about it for now! Thank you all for joining us. Thank you for your support!
Happy New Year!
Eric
Comments
Kid Koala
Having fun imagining a coelacanth's life quest. Now, just trying to figure out how to mount the canvases to the wall to work... I'll probably just paint them on the floor for now.
Oslo Zeimantz
REAL... they look like space pigs or something. Magical creatures. I like to think they can live in space too. I kinda in my of hipppy heart, think they came on an asteroid with mycelium and spores for all the delicious fungus we eat. One the only comparable creatures is in the Galapagos, "Marine iguana" that lil guy has a 3 chamber heart. His heart can go down to 5 BPM! (thx Jacque Cousteau, what a dude).
David
I LOVE how you create a whole world for the album to inhabit. Itβs just phenomenal. And I canβt wait to see the story reasons for requiring a coelacanth over a salamander! π Glad you figured out how to transport the big canvases too!
Melissa Brizuela
I'm excited to see this project come to life! Plus, it's got tardigrades.
