I hate it when they're shown clean under the sinky surface...
You don't see the usual coating, as you couldn't see anything then. There is some color tinting. Sorry, but everyone asks/desires something different, and I can do it all. We all have our own specific wants. If I had left the body parts covered, it would have defeated the whole purpose of the see-through medium theme.
I DID see some OK results using tar and leaving the "caker" code intact to cover all submerged parts as you prefer. Using grey outlines makes things somewhat visible under there. I may do a tar pit scene like that one day because of.
Speaking about people covered in stuff...,
...don't expect many more vids of mud-covered people happily leaving mud holes. Nor are boots in mud, a popular theme. Just not in my universe. I did the first "Ecstasy" video with a happy, mud-caked Yuki walking about to fulfill long-time requests and promises, but it did little for my own entertainment (though Yuki's solo time down in the mud-hole certainly was!). That's OK. I want to make something for everyone.
Not easy. Almost every release comes with an "If only..." from somebody. "If only she had boots on."......."If only it were tar instead of quicksand" or "quicksand instead of tar"......... IF ONLY everyone liked the same thing. But then life might get too boring, right?
But who knows? Have hope. If I myself get bored for do-able concepts, I may venture that way. I do have a story concept for an "Ecstasy-3" video involving Yuki and Jenn "back from the dead...was she ever?" type of theme, but the story itself needs lots of development time.
Don't look for anything like that soon. This stuff takes time to create. Last night I tried to get the latest vid out by 10pm, then saw an error and moved showtime to 11:30. Fixed that and a bit more refinement and got it up finally, only to see it banned worldwide. A filed dispute was rejected. FORTUNATELY I located a decent cover of the song performed by a nobody-knows-who-they-are band, and with a little pitch and tempo alterations work managed to make it sound a lot like the original with the same play time. I also have an unpublished, professionally-made album from a friend's rock band (Tom Skowbo of Pearl Black) given to me back in my studio soundboard days that I can use samples from. He wrote and sang everything. It's a good album that I wish I could share the full songs from. You'll hear some samples in the movie, and maybe more in future releases.
DO NOT READ FURTHER UNTIL YOU SEE THE VIDEO............ SPOILERS ALERT!
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The post-credits scenes idea came to me days ago while I was recording Amber standing by the car in one scene, practicing "RIGHT-HAND-UMBRELLA-MOUSE CONTROL" for hours.....yes, literally hours. You have NO idea how hard it was to keep that umbrella upright as I moved her about with my left hand on the keyboard and right hand on mouse balancing it, a penny jammed into the side of the CONTROL key to keep it held down so that she would walk rather than run....The tortures I go through for my art ...(heh heh
). I did a few practice sessions along the way, like seeing if I could make the umbrella/car idea work.By last night I had the idea for outtakes fully developed in my head and decided I needed to shoot and add them, and moved the release up one day to Friday. I worked all night and finished it early this morning around 8 or 9 am, another all-niter. Very fortunate I still had all of the so-called movie sets still intact to shoot the outtakes (not really outtakes then, I know). SO glad I did. They came out far better than hoped. Amber still makes me laugh trying to figure out how to shift,her fixed-but-still-readable face expressions priceless treasures.
The new video looks more along the lines of how this image appears, so you will know what to expect: https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca88777 ... wHhp8AQ29Q
I replaced the questionable song with a cover version by another performer. Let's see if this one goes through.
Here's some background:
Maybe someday....
