Thanks all for visiting and bearing with the Frankenstein knee. Actually, my wife has named it "Polly Patella" (because the bottom of the new joint is a polyurethane buffer with a lifetime guarantee). The other knee, which now creaks and groans pitifully as she goes through therapy, is "Molly Patella," and probably will undergo the same procedure next spring.
Belldandy16 wrote:i love Sakura's eyes
I do too: they can be both riveting and wonderfully engaging. The animators really were able to make her look both cute and immensely strong at the right times.
lcatino wrote:Wow, the cheerful Miyu is stunning! Nice addition!
Sakura in the prince costume is also gorgeous.
I was really taken by both of these when they came up FA and lucky that I was able to slip in and get them without a fuss. The Sakura particularly came up along with several other nice CCS cels that involved quite a bit of Rinkya/SMJ competition, so I was lucky to slip off with this one undetected out of the middle of the sharkfest.
Cordelia wrote:Lovely VPM cels....I love the sketches that come with the OVA cels
That douga really is pretty. I thought about giving it its own page, as it shows more of the scene than the cel, and the cel as cropped as planned shows still less.
pixie_princess wrote:I'm happy that I can finally read through all your CCS indepth explinations without fear of spoilers (we finished the series about a week ago)
I envy you! Watching through CCS for the first time was one of the most enjoyable experiences of my life. I remember thinking, "It's going to turn mushy, they can't sustain the mood, sooner or later it will get repetitive. And it never did: it continued to surprise me all the way to the final credits. I can't say that about many classic novels.
Kero-zilla makes me laugh. hehehehe
I love that image; just wish the cel were in better physical shape, though.
zerospace wrote:My other half is an avid Miyu collector, and he was surprised to see that you have a Miyu section
I was a little surprised, too -- until I realized that Toshihiro Hirano, (the husband of Narumi Kakinouchi, creator of the VPM manga and animation director for the OAV) also directed both the
Magic Knight Rayearth TV and OAV series. I've never seen a Rayearth cel that was less than beautiful, and so I guess it was inevitable that I'd be drawn to Miyu cels in the same way.
Moop wrote:I have a cel with a fair amount of paint on the front, the majority of which, like yours, depicts shadows - but I've always assumed that this was correction paint, applied after the realization that a desired effect had not been achieved. Is the technique in fact used for artistic - as well as pragmatic - purposes?
I don't know, except that in this case the result is really very effective. It could be that the artist started by correcting a problem, then, perhaps with studio permission, went ahead and made the cel more artistically arresting. Without the sketches (particularly the douga) it would be hard to tell. I do know that
Tree of Palme cels used colored trace lines in somewhat the same way to create effects that simply wouldn't have been possible with the "paint-by-numbers" process by which most cels were created.
Thanks all for visiting! Vampire Princess Miyu Roorock!
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Good thing Polly came with a lifetime guarantee! 
