I came across this image very early in my manipping career and remember thinking I needed to save it until I was ready for it. In some ways, it still most perfectly encapsulates everything I love about EMC and is emblematic of almost all the little sub-fetishes I have. If I was going to show…
There was some other manip at the time that I think had largely inspired this. I remember seeing the image and thinking “Oh this like that image from so-and-so.” The fact that I can’t remember any of the details officially makes this caption pretty useless.
I remember being very frustrated with the image quality of the final piece here. I think I had replaced the subject’s head so she was looking at the screen and had to scale it up which always looks awful. In hindsight, I should’ve scaled the rest of the image down.
I can’t remember now, but I think this piece was inspired by Daphne’s Fairie Tale. It certainly calls that to mind as I look at it now. Also notable for being one of the few first-person narratives I’ve done.
A very early effort. I wasn’t too ambitious with the fx work yet and nowhere near experienced enough yet to attempt dropping a new prop into an existing image.
I remember this pic being so much fun at the time. I experimented endlessly with different techniques to pull off the wet sheen and puddle effects. I’m still very pleased with how it turned out.
I remember being a little self-conscious about this piece on account of feeling it was a little too obvious. The model’s name escapes me, but I do remember that I had several other photos of her saved that I never ended up using.
For the life of me I can’t remember how exactly this one came about. It had something to do with a meme on the Hypnopics Collective about which color was the most hypnotic. I, of course, had to throw my hat in the ring.
All I can say is I would do it much differently now. Actually, I’m not unhappy with the day-for-night color grading, that turned out okay.
At the time, I couldn’t come up with anything I liked in the way of a caption so I decided to just leave it off. If you knew me in vanilla-life, you’d understand how hysterically ironic it is to think of me not having anything to say.