Character Bio: Victor

Who is Victor?

Victor Falconer is one of the main characters from my film, Conflagration. He is the leader of a Village inhabited by people known as the Agouti. They are a group of kind and understanding trades people. The village has a reputation of being very peaceful and generous to other tribes. Victors Father Gerard was the former Leader, but he stepped down, and Victor has stepped up to fill his place.
Victor has always been a very kind and understanding leader, and has developed many close friendships in the village. He has a good sarcastic sense of humor and can put a positive spin on most things. He is willing to take risks and stand up for what he believes is right. He likes animals but his fathers Gryphon, Abade doesn't like Victor very much.

What was the inspiration for Victor?

Well Victor is the most like me of all my characters. Most of my art is inspired by music of some kind and I think that Victors theme music would be Celtic Fiddle medleys. The cheerful upbeat music, and the feelings of a great community, wholesome fun, tight knit families - all that inspires Victor.

Now playing on Winamp: The Rankin Family - Christy Campbell Medly

(This song very strongly inspires the relationship between Victor, Jack, Nakia,Penelope and Gerard for me.)

Victors relationship with other characters

Victor gets along really well with pretty much everyone, but he does tend to tailor his behavior to each person.
In regards to his daughter Nakia, He mostly observes her and lets her make mistakes. Particularly in watching her relationship with Jack develop through the film. When Nakia complains about how much Jack irritates her, he is more likely to sit and listen to her spill her guts, saying nothing until she's worn herself out.
He has the same relationship with his father Gerard, but opposite. Gerard will keep quiet while Victor vents. Occassionally though Gerard will offer some advice.
With Jack on the other hand, he tends to communicate more with. If Jack said something about Nakia being impossible or rude Victor would defend her, or agree... since she can be pretty impossible sometimes.

Artwork Featuring Victor

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Now playing on Winamp: The Rankin Family - Mull River Shuffle
via FoxyTunes

Opus Self Portrait

K, last time I posted some previews of the sculpture for my Opus Self portrait :p

here it is finished. The photo isn't great, but I'll get some detail shots later on.
Its Sculpey, painted with gouache, and acrylics with Gloss sculpey glaze for the drool on the spider :)

Sculpture, artician and stuff

I spent the better part of the morning modifying my Artician layout. I'm pretty pleased with how it looks with the exception of one thing.The bottom of the modules side has one corner missing, and doesn't line up right. Oh well, Its pretty minor, but It still annoys the heck out of me LOL.
I'm gonna change the header later as well, but right now it matches this blog too :)
well, anyways...

Art news, I'm working on a self portrait for work. We aren't required to, but we are encouraged to. I'm going a little crazy on mine, turning the panel backwards so its like a box, and incorporating the frame as well. its going to be like a diorama of a completely random bizarre situation. I've already sculpted little guru. I've got a couple bad photo previews as you can see.
The photos aren't great, and its not a great likeness of me, but i think its still recognizable as me. I need to fix a lot of cracks in the coat and add all my buttons to it too though.

Next up is Kitty as a unicorn/centaur LOL :p

I have quite a bit of work to do on it, and I'd like it done before the staff meeting on the 16th too. hee hee hee :D

I've got so many paintings on the go, it might be a good idea to finish one.
I've also got a rough sketch for Aida's art Nouveau contest, but I'm not sure I'm going to be able to finish it :B
anyways, i better get to work on some of this stuff :D
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Now playing on Winamp: Cutting crew - I just died in your arms tonight
via FoxyTunes

Website updates

I spent a bit of time today updating some of the graphics on the conflagration pages on gurukitty.com. I never got around to updating the bg colours for the graphics so it looked pretty tacky, lol. So I added some links for the animals on the character page, updated graphics and thats about it. Oh, I posted the animatic on the conflagration page as well, and added some of the animation tests to the character pages, but its not new stuff. If you keep up with my art, you'd have seen them already.

I also posted a little blog on gouache paint over at Experimental Guru.

Kthanks :D

Airbrush painting

Posted my first real painting with an airbrush last night. I am so pleased with it :)
I used a series of home made stencils for the background, and freehand the bottom half with airbrush. Then i painted some gouache details, and a bit of beach on the ground, and finally painted in all the mist in the BG. that's when I though I should pull some colour up to the top and added some of the orange foliage. I then pulled off the stencil masking off Bala, and coloured her in markers. Some of the airbrush sprayed underneath the stencil, and that worried me at first, but in the end I think it helped create some unity with her environment.
What do you think?