Safe and Relatively Sound
... As sound as a madman gets, anyway.
We had a spectacular time in L.A., and I only wish we would have had more time there. I didn't get to do as many photo shoots as I had hoped for, but I'm very excited about the ones we did do. Tas is going to do a bunch of cool digital effects to them, so it will be a while before he can send them to me.
Another unfortunate thing is that we didn't get very many pics of Gankutsuou, but I post up the ones we did get. I'll have to rectify this at Otakon.
I can't wait to see the pics that Tas took. After working with him, I am itching to do some more really nice shoots, but I need a few things. A photographer with some free time and a good camera, and a old style bathtub with feet. I want to fill it with "blood" and get some fun shots as Alucard. I also wanted to get some good shots of Girlycard, since the only pics I have of that are when I'm standing around in a hotel lobby at cons. We're making his coffin for Otakon, so there are a bunch of fun things we could do with that as well. I was hoping to do these in an old looking building, but I don't know of any off the top of my head.
I'm also having a bit of a conundrum. We're doing a big Hellsing group fro Otakon, but I can't decide which version of Alucard to do. I'm trying to decide between adding onto the standard red coat version: re-casting my big hell hound heads, adding some crazy eye covered black armor-like plates with bat wings coming out of them, getting a longer wig and have bats coming out of it on one side, and possibly adding a wing on my back OR doing the Vlad the Impaler version with the sword and medieval armor.
I really can't decide. The Vlad version is cool because it's totally unlike any version I've done so far, but there is the considerable drawback of the lack of guns. Maybe I could make some crazy flintlock versions of the Joshua and the Jackal. Hrm.... And I could certainly add the hell hound head to it... What do you guys think?
*EDIT*
Ok, after fully considering the prospect of making flintlock steampunk looking versions of Alucard's guns, I've realized that I don't have near enough time.
I DO, however, have enough time to make the sword crazy looking. I just so happen to have a well carved wooden broadsword blade of perfect size and shape, that I could very easily fix up and cover with swirling black red-eyed chaos. The image I have for it in my mind definitely makes up for the lack of guns.
When I do a new version with bat wings and eyes all over, I will want it to be the bondage version, and not just an add on to the red coat one.
Which means that I have to choose either the super insane bondage Alucard, with tons of eyes, centipedes, and bat wings, OR and the medieval Vlad the Impaler version with the armor and chaos sword.
Honestly, they would both be just as easy to do and equally time consuming, so the question is merely that of aesthetics. The only drawback I see with the Vlad version is that most people probably won't recognize it as Alucard yet.
We had a spectacular time in L.A., and I only wish we would have had more time there. I didn't get to do as many photo shoots as I had hoped for, but I'm very excited about the ones we did do. Tas is going to do a bunch of cool digital effects to them, so it will be a while before he can send them to me.
Another unfortunate thing is that we didn't get very many pics of Gankutsuou, but I post up the ones we did get. I'll have to rectify this at Otakon.
I can't wait to see the pics that Tas took. After working with him, I am itching to do some more really nice shoots, but I need a few things. A photographer with some free time and a good camera, and a old style bathtub with feet. I want to fill it with "blood" and get some fun shots as Alucard. I also wanted to get some good shots of Girlycard, since the only pics I have of that are when I'm standing around in a hotel lobby at cons. We're making his coffin for Otakon, so there are a bunch of fun things we could do with that as well. I was hoping to do these in an old looking building, but I don't know of any off the top of my head.
I'm also having a bit of a conundrum. We're doing a big Hellsing group fro Otakon, but I can't decide which version of Alucard to do. I'm trying to decide between adding onto the standard red coat version: re-casting my big hell hound heads, adding some crazy eye covered black armor-like plates with bat wings coming out of them, getting a longer wig and have bats coming out of it on one side, and possibly adding a wing on my back OR doing the Vlad the Impaler version with the sword and medieval armor.
I really can't decide. The Vlad version is cool because it's totally unlike any version I've done so far, but there is the considerable drawback of the lack of guns. Maybe I could make some crazy flintlock versions of the Joshua and the Jackal. Hrm.... And I could certainly add the hell hound head to it... What do you guys think?
*EDIT*
Ok, after fully considering the prospect of making flintlock steampunk looking versions of Alucard's guns, I've realized that I don't have near enough time.
I DO, however, have enough time to make the sword crazy looking. I just so happen to have a well carved wooden broadsword blade of perfect size and shape, that I could very easily fix up and cover with swirling black red-eyed chaos. The image I have for it in my mind definitely makes up for the lack of guns.
When I do a new version with bat wings and eyes all over, I will want it to be the bondage version, and not just an add on to the red coat one.
Which means that I have to choose either the super insane bondage Alucard, with tons of eyes, centipedes, and bat wings, OR and the medieval Vlad the Impaler version with the armor and chaos sword.
Honestly, they would both be just as easy to do and equally time consuming, so the question is merely that of aesthetics. The only drawback I see with the Vlad version is that most people probably won't recognize it as Alucard yet.