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 Thread: Shoe Loss in Cartoons, Games, Movies, and Comics MegaThread |
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Not looking for spoilers but the latest Jason Statham film, A Working Man, piqued my interest. Coming attractions show a nicely dressed young woman in a dress and heels getting forcibly abducted, becoming the catalyst of the film. Before I go with my hopes elevated, and again not looking for spoilers, but does this young woman lose a shoe in the abduction, or do we have just another addition to the Shoe Teasers thread?
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| Thread: Lost Potential On Ghost |
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Crap! This should have been posted in the Shoe Teasers thread. Oh well. Sorry folks.
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| Thread: Lost Potential On Ghost |
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There's a great television comedy called Ghost, based on a UK show of the same name. It centers on a group of spirits that haunt an old mansion somewhere in Upstate New York, who can only be seen by one of the owners after she has a near fatal fall that allows her to see them. Her Husband can't, nor can anyone else that comes to their home, which they've turned into a B&B. There is one recurring character in the show that could have been ripe to have been written as a one-shoed spirit. This character (Stephanie) was a prom queen who was murdered by a chain saw maniac in the 1980's and is condemned to stay on property for all eternity. Now don't get upset. It's done in very comical fashion in a nod to those 1980's slasher flicks. Anyway, this character only shows up once or twice a year and spends most of her time sleeping in the attic. She's dressed in a short, blue prom dress and white pumps. The missed opportunity is that she could have lost one of those pumps when she was running from her attacker, and spends the rest of her time having to negotiate her purgatory in one heel. Her other heel's "spirit" lays out in the courtyard where she lost it, but she can never put it back on. Every time she dips her foot into it, it just swipes through it. The shoe would be invisible to everyone, like all the other regular ghosts in the show, but the main "living" character (Sam) would be able to see it sitting forlornly in the middle of her property's courtyard marking the point where Stephanie met her grizzly end. She's one of those 1980's bad girls, always stirring up trouble, so her one-shoed condition could be part of her punishment, a "Cinderella" who will never have a Prince Charming put her white "glass" slipper back on. Sadly that is not the case. A missed opportunity if you ask me. Opinions anyone?
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| Thread: Cartoon And Comic Book Shoe Loss |
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Look, I know we all have to make a buck, but is putting these items behind a paywall really the right thing to do here?
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| Thread: Mission: Impossible Shoe Loss |
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I recall seeing some years ago an episode of Mission: Impossible where Barbra Bain's character Cinnamon deliberately leaves a pump behind on a stair case to throw pursuing guards off. I've never seen it since. Anyone know the name of the episode? I believe it had to be early in the series since Bain left the show after a few years.
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| Thread: New Image Of Laura From My Novel |
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Okay I just impressed even myself. Here is a vastly improved render with Laura in the correct blouse and sitting in the back seat of an actual police SUV. I also fixed her hair better. Enjoy!
PS: At this point in the story her nylons are gone, having been essentially destroyed as she escaped from her captures.
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| Thread: New Image Of Laura From My Novel |
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Here is another render I did with the Chat DALL-E render program. Another bear of a job with Photoshop. Again she has the wrong blouse on but I don't want to deal with that so here it is. This is another new scene in my novel where Laura is in the back seat of my titular character's police SUV. The vehicle is also incorrect but that's what DALL-E gave me. Laura is not completely one-shoed here. She's adjusting the "rig" Mike gave her so she could at least get around in one shoe in the harsh environment of the rail yard she's being held in. She's in a sort of non-ladylike pose on the seat as she does this, but the draping nature of her short, pleated skirt keeps her modesty intact. Remember she's only 25, youthful, and still very flexible to be able to wrap herself up like that on the back seat of a police car! Enjoy, and hope to have the novel done some time this year!
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| Thread: New Image Of Laura From My Novel |
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This was just a test. I was hoping to one day use it as some kind of promotional art after the novel was finished with some kind of mention about how her shoe was the key to everything in the story. It can be easily removed from the scene using Photoshop, however.
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| Thread: New Image Of Laura From My Novel |
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But it's still far from perfect. It will not make any renders of a woman in one shoe. It violates some kind of prudish content policy. It also never fully follows instructions. i got very lucky with that render I posted. It was my first try and it came back sort of like that. But I still had to manually remove her shoe and make her hair less puffy. I then moved her and the image of the counter onto an earlier render i did to mix everything together into what i have. I also had to put in the shoes I wanted on her, (One on her right foot, the other on top of the counter). I've liked those shoes for a long time. I lifted them from a one shoe clip I had commissioned some time ago, so they are not new. I recolored them from black to burgundy with photoshop and that's how I got what I have here. Still a lot of work for a program that should have made that easily and in far less time than it took me. I've since worked on a few other scenes from the novel in this fashion, but every one needed a massive amount of work. I'm very frustrated with the Chat GPT render program (DALL-E) and have set any further ideas for scene renders aside for now.
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| Thread: New Image Of Laura From My Novel |
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No. I just can't seem to settle on anything. However I am continuing the process The rewrite is still plodding forward and I have it about halfway done. I never thought it would take this long but, my God, has life been busy for me since retirement, and I guess that's a good thing. This was done using Chat GPT and its render capabilities. It made the base model up front and i used Photoshop to do the rest. Even wound up changing her hat to a nice fashionable tam that I think looks a lot better than the brim hats I had her in for years (decades). That Chat program has turbocharged my writing. it's like having an editor at my side. Almost freaky. I don't take some of its recommendations and most others are heavily modified by me into my voice. But it has been a revelation. I really am hoping the Author's Edition will be ready before the end of this year, perhaps even earlier, but I've said that before. Oh well! Onward! And glad you like the render. Hope all is well with you, my friend.
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| Thread: New Image Of Laura From My Novel |
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New render of my main female character in my novel, Laura. The render was done in 3 D this time with AI assistance. She looks pretty good. This is not an exact scene from the novel as by the time the scene at the parts counter takes place, she's removed her stockings, which were shredded, and had completely lost her left shoe. This is more of a promotional item. Hope you like it. It's also now my current avatar.
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| Thread: AI Film |
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As many of you here already know, I have written and continue to rewrite a novel where the main female character loses her shoe and remains that way throughout the story. There is a lot more to that story, though, if anyone has ever read my earlier version of the novel. It's still available on Amazon, warts and all. I've been struggling to get an updated and improved version of the novel out that I call my Author's Edition for some years now, but it has been exceedingly difficult due to family and health issues plus other everyday mini disasters and obligations that pull me away from the keyboard. But I am continuing my work albeit slowly.
But this past month, I've become distracted by an experiment that has now blossomed into something bigger. I put a chapter through Chat GTP and asked it to regenerate it as a film screenplay. While what the program gave me back was not entirely what I wanted, after some tweaking on my part, it came out great. So I continued. I have about a third of my novel (essentially most of what I've updated to date) converted to a screenplay. It is awesome. Exactly how I envisioned this story to be when it first popped into my head so many years ago. BUT, its too damned long! Screenplays run 1 page per minute, and most films are only 100-110 minutes long, so my screenplay has to be 100 to 110 pages. But mine is over 140 pages! And like I said it only covers about a third of my novel. Making very serious cuts to the opening sequence brought the screenplay down to 90 pages, but again that's only the first third of the novel. So what do I do?
Obviously, this novel cannot be made into a theatrical film and still make any sense. Too much has to be cut out from it. The next obvious idea was to make it into a streaming service miniseries, but what would be the catch for a novel that for lack of a better word has not sold all that well. But with such drastic improvements in AI, how would it be if this novel were to come to life as the first completely AI generated film, made with no real actors or actresses, just their AI renders of my characters and their voices all artificially produced to make this miniseries possible? That would be the hook, although Hollywood might not like it owing to the recent strike they had where one of their issues was AI replacing actors. But I have the story. I created the characters in it and the world they are performing in. It's my story, but no one will ever see it because I'm not connected to anyone with any juice in Hollywood. And I will never agree to some director with no skin in the story taking charge of it and reshaping it into "his vision." That's always where great stories wind up as crummy films.
But is this possible? Can it be done? I mean it would need the highest form of AI to make so that the characters look like real actors and move as such, not like they do on the video games my sons love to play where the characters all seem to drift and float in slow motion with odd actions. AI is going to be the future of so many things. In less than 5 years it's gone from pure sci fi to a real sometimes threatening thing. What do many of you think? Wouldn't you all love to see Laura here come to life, dealing with the loss of her shoe while struggling to survive an ordeal she accidently wound up in, with only The Railroad Man able to help her through? Your thoughts, my friends?
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| Thread: Gabriel's Fire Search |
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Sad to say, but now that the great James Earl Jones has passed, I wonder if they'll now release Gabriel's Fire to air so that his performances in the show could be scene? Of course I'd only be interested in Episode 10, titled Windows, where the main female character loses a shoe during an escape from a kidnaping attempt and remains in one shoe for a substantial part of the episode going forward. It was identified years ago on another website that's now defunct and I've been looking for it ever since. The trouble was that the owners of the show, Lorimar, has never released it on DVD or into to any syndicated reruns. I hope the episodes have not been destroyed.
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| Thread: Shoe Loss Animation Test |
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Man, I'd love to try and animate the sequence from my novel where my main female character loses her shoe. I've made some storyboard images using Photoshop and the models of her that I created from heavily modified photos off the internet. It could be very interesting to see my chatacters come to "life" for the first time.
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| Thread: Horror At Party Beach |
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Here's a real dinger for you guys. This movie was so bad it's good. Even made it onto Mystery Science Theater 3000. A bunch of "monsters" which look like ugly fish with their mouths full of hot dogs, "terrorize" a Connecticut beach community. Near the end of the film, the daughter of the scientist researching the monsters (also the hero of the film's main squeeze) is tasked with some kind of project to find more stuff out about the monsters when she is attacked. She runs from them onto some kind of rocky outcropping in a skirt and what I guess would be called a pair of ballet flats today, when she slips and falls into a crevass, jamming her ankle in the rocks and messing it up pretty badly. As she struggles to free her foot, her shoe drops off, leaving her in one shoe for the rest of the film, which continues for several minutes more with her hobbling around in one shoe to try and get away from the monsters until the hero arrives in the nick of time (of course) to save his girl and vanquish the monsters. Here's is a link to a comic book version of the film, which I have never seen outside of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
https://magicmonkeyboy.blogspot.com/2012...arty-beach.html
You can bearly see her shoes as they were light colored and the black and white print was not the best, but it is very apparent she's only in one shoe after she falls into the crevass. Neat tid bit from a very, very bad film. You'll have to scroll down some to reach the part where the girl slips and loses her shoe, which unfortunately isn't shown, but it's pretty clear when you see it. It's about two-thirds of the way down.
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