Blatting about: life[first scene - spy movie sendup]8yo: how do they get all that stuff on the car? It's not big enough.[at some point during sweeping cinematographic scenes]8yo: how do cars grow? How do cars make stuff anyway?Husband: ...you're thinking too much into a movie that has talking cars.More specifically: stuff kids say...
Blatting about: AEfter RagnarokSo I'm hideously slow on WiP shots. Part of it is because I'm feeling a distinct pointlessness in them (there are many characters and whatnot to come) and most of it is simply because I keep putting off taking the screenshot when I think about it, and then eventually forget.Every now and again though I need to...
Blatting about: home educationThis weekly stuff is tiring. Seriously who reads this anyway? May just start hiding them as I still kind of need to write them. Anyway.Bit of a slow week this week as the kids all caught a cold and I spent a couple of days heroically fending it off.The kids wanted me to teach them how to draw. Actually what...
Blatting about: AEfter RagnarokMy loving husband has told me on many occasions that I'm certifiably insane. While not exclusively so a lot of it has to do with the whole trying to be a studio around homeschooling, webmonkeying, being the one at home so having to manage the house and all the associated miscellany.Recently I decided to muck...
Blatting about: home educationOur garlic bulb has grown quite large but is now looking a bit limp and sad. Got the kids to draw it again (still have to find where Tao put his first diagram). Tao's writing is improving a lot. Got him to work out the perimeter and area (both of just the floor and the entire building) of a building he was...
Blatting about: AEfter RagnarokGood enough for now, I'm sure I'll fiddle with it more as I go. Was going to post a much earlier wip and of course it was "after I fix this, and do this bit, and what the hell is that, and..." now it's mostly done.I'm not sure if the model in my anatomy book has tiny ears, but if Red's ears look massive it's...
Blatting about: home educationMonday: sick. Fortunately there was Josh to help with maths. Josh was making noises about wanting to do modular arithmetic. When I passed the kids were doing basic arithmetic on the whiteboard. Josh wasn't quite sure who was where and thought Tao knew how to carry 10s. I said we were working on carrying 10s,...
The Writing on the Wall
Floating cities are always fun though...I see them a lot in sci-fi art and the thought is always the same...what keeps them aloft, and what happens if there's even a slight malfunction? Maybe that's something to explore in a story.