{"id":4133,"date":"2014-09-27T22:09:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T02:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2022-09-08T17:25:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T00:25:20","slug":"shiek-process-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2014\/09\/shiek-process-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiek Process Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014.08.5-sheik-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4137\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014.08.5-sheik-web.jpg\" alt=\"2014.08.5-sheik-web\" width=\"1200\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014.08.5-sheik-web.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014.08.5-sheik-web-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014.08.5-sheik-web-1024x662.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014.08.5-sheik-web-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014.08.5-sheik-web-1140x737.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014.08.5-sheik-web-720x466.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some fan art of Sheik&#8217;s Hyrule Warriors design from about a month ago! Made a process video of it, and uploaded it to YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EtsCZ7ouGIU\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It always kind of amazes me how much I enjoy video editing when it&#8217;s just for fun, and not for work\/a job.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m making some hastily put together ref sheets for an art secret santa event, and finding it really fun to type out some of the character info. I&#8217;d like to make nice ref sheets for some of my characters, but who knows when I&#8217;ll have time to do that, so the actual ref images are taken from finished or mostly finished paintings, and some random or old drawings I have lying around, many which I haven&#8217;t posted to anywhere because they&#8217;re poor quality. But in terms of being useful as a reference, they&#8217;re are probably adequate. Or the best I have right now, in any case. Desperate times call for desperate measures, haha.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s cool, because I mostly keep any written character info and character sketches separate (text document vs PSD file), and this is one of the few times where I&#8217;m seeing the text info alongside some images. How I&#8217;ve painted seems to have fluctuated a lot, and it&#8217;s kind of neat to be able to see that all in one reference sheet. It&#8217;s probably just interesting to me.<\/p>\n<p>A crop of Spectros from a wip before linking some music videos for a new band I started listening to!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014.09.26-happy-sketches-detail2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4134\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014.09.26-happy-sketches-detail2.jpg\" alt=\"2014.09.26-happy-sketches-detail2\" width=\"500\" height=\"782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014.09.26-happy-sketches-detail2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014.09.26-happy-sketches-detail2-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I was supposed to go to a Greek food festival tonight, but it&#8217;s apparently so popular that the police have sectioned off the parking lot to not allow new people in haha. The food must be pretty outstanding to do that.<\/p>\n<p>I listened to the German synthpop\/discopop band Modern Talking for the first time recently, and I&#8217;ve been strangely obsessed with their music for the past couple weeks. Since September 13th, according to Last.fm. Though they&#8217;re a German band, all their albums are in English. The music itself, most of it, is really simple and catchy (many them are almost the same song haha) &#8211; similar rhythm and keys, but I don&#8217;t know, they&#8217;re so addicting! And I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s because of that similarity, but I haven&#8217;t grown tired of many of the songs yet, which I normally would have by this point.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I found it pretty hilarious, because for the first couple of days I was only listening to two of their songs (was listening to a larger synthpop playlist of general 80&#8217;s artists), and I thought the vocalist was a sultry female vocalist the entire time, so when I saw the music video and the vocalist turns around and it&#8217;s this manly guy, it was quite the fun (&amp; sexy!) surprise!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, what the heck, let&#8217;s link the video for one of the two songs I was listening to! This is probably their second or third most popular song.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eNvUS-6PTbs\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is one of those 80&#8217;s videos that I LOVE, almost guiltily so. It is filled with a lot of small things I&#8217;m fond of. Probably the most noticeable is the lead vocalist, Thomas Anders, with the dark hair. I will forever love this video because I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll forget my reaction when, again, near the beginning of the video, he turns his head to the viewer and I&#8217;m expecting to see a lovely woman, and instead see this handsome man with long, flowing hair, with some of the most <em>luxurious<\/em> curls I&#8217;ve ever seen. On top of that, his eyes are incredibly striking, helped in no small part because he&#8217;s clearly wearing eyeliner. To top it all off, he&#8217;s also wearing bright lip gloss, of all things. Lip gloss! Things like that are why I love the 80&#8217;s, oh gosh.<\/p>\n<p>I also like this video because of Thomas&#8217; expression throughout most of it &#8211; at times he has a vapid, blank expression on, mostly when not looking at the camera. But it&#8217;s when he&#8217;s looking directly into the camera that it&#8217;s more interesting &#8211; he&#8217;s clearly looking at the viewer with the kind of &#8220;male gaze&#8221; that&#8217;s frequently used in fashion photography, and was historically (and is still very commonly used) given to female subjects in classical paintings &#8211; that kind of blank, inviting, &#8220;come hither&#8221; look. I love seeing that in a male subject, because it is just so much rarer, it&#8217;s a little fascinating to me.<\/p>\n<p>I sent this video to a couple friends when I was having my &#8220;Oh my god the vocalist is a guy how is he making his voice sound that way it&#8217;s amazing!1!!!!@!!&#8221; reaction, but to my surprise, they thought the vocalist sounded like a man&#8217;s voice! Haha, I guess it&#8217;s because I haven&#8217;t listened to many vocalists who sound that way, though I know the kind of male 80&#8217;s singing voice they&#8217;re referring to.<\/p>\n<p>Other things that I enjoy in the video are how hilarious Dieter Bohlen looks &#8211; in contrast to Thomas&#8217; vapid stare, Dieter has super masculine facial features, and looks like he&#8217;s about to burst out laughing at any second. How the heck is he able to make his face look that amused for the entire video. I couldn&#8217;t stop laughing the first few times I watched him. I also like the costume military uniform jacket Thomas is wearing, and his white pants. I love the room full of giant synthesizes. I love the theater fog everywhere, the dark creepy house, dark under lighting. And the end tops it off with both Thomas and Dieter doing that ubiquitous 80&#8217;s dancing at the end, which I always love to see because it just makes me smile, haha. It&#8217;s just a perfect video for me in so many ways, I could watch it so many times and still find things interesting about it to see. About the only imagery I didn&#8217;t love in the video was the scene with the cello bursting into flame, it seemed out of place with all the other imagery.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s break up this very large wall of text with another music video. &#8220;You&#8217;re My Heart, You&#8217;re My Soul&#8221; &#8211; their first hit, and probably their most famous song.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4kHl4FoK1Ys\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This video is pretty funny, due to how they edited Thomas to stare you down with this judgmental expression for several seconds, repeatedly throughout the chorus.<\/p>\n<p>But I love how unpretentious these videos are! Starting with the 90&#8217;s, a lot of music videos tried very hard to be &#8220;cool&#8221; and hip. It&#8217;s especially apparently with Modern Talking&#8217;s music videos from the 90&#8217;s (they were active from 1984 &#8211; 1987, broke up and then reformed in 1999). They are so much less interesting than the videos they were doing in the 80&#8217;s (and try so very hard to be cool and straight\/not gay, complete with awful old school 90&#8217;s rap that is not very well written).<\/p>\n<p>I found out that Modern Talking is actually a massively well known band, but their audience is international &#8211; they are virtually unknown in the US and UK. With the US, it&#8217;s obvious why they never attempted that market &#8211; disco died in the 80&#8217;s here and was replaced with rock. Which I only know after the fact, I wasn&#8217;t born then (which is why I&#8217;m always a little surprised that I tend to be so fond over much of the music from the 80&#8217;s). I read that the reason they didn&#8217;t seek out UK audiences was because they were uncomfortable they were marketed as a gay band there &#8211; I wish they had been comfortable enough to embrace their fabulousness during this era! (I still miss Anders&#8217; luxuriously long hair &#8211; his short hair isn&#8217;t nearly as fashionable!).<\/p>\n<p>I went into a long tangent here about 80&#8217;s and disco in the US and music artists&#8217; images compared to then and now, but the main reason for this post was to gush over Modern Talking, so going to abridge it here! I didn&#8217;t gush as much over them as I meant to. Oh well! Can always do so in another post! Yes, I will link more Modern Talking videos in the future. Oh yeah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some fan art of Sheik&#8217;s Hyrule Warriors design from about a month ago! Made a process video of it, and uploaded it to YouTube: It always kind of amazes me how much I enjoy video editing when it&#8217;s just for fun, and not for work\/a job. I&#8217;m making some hastily put together ref sheets for<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2014\/09\/shiek-process-video\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,423,340,10,11],"tags":[467,359,161,356,424,358,291],"class_list":["post-4133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-art","category-digital-painting","category-finished-art","category-work-in-progress","category-writing","tag-467","tag-hyrule-warriors","tag-legend-of-zelda","tag-modern-talking","tag-music","tag-shiek","tag-spectros"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Landy","author_link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/author\/liz\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/category\/digital-art\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Digital Art<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/category\/digital-art\/digital-painting\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Digital Painting<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/category\/finished-art\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Finished Art<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/category\/work-in-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Work-In-Progress<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/category\/writing\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Writing<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Some fan art of Sheik&#8217;s Hyrule Warriors design from about a month ago! Made a process video of it, and uploaded it to YouTube: It always kind of amazes me how much I enjoy video editing when it&#8217;s just for fun, and not for work\/a job. 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