Three more costumes. Well, maybe four. Actually, all up, I think it’s eight …

This week has been focused on getting the costumes for SAMBT pushed along the line a bit. I had been a bit fixated on the three guys in the SAMB tank, but I realised that a bit of thought, which is about all I have any more, should go into the ancillary characters. There is definitely the waist-high shot of Commander Josh, and the torso shot of Bryce the Destroyer. (My rationale behind that is that I don’t want to devote a lot of time to makeup. And/or it adds a mysterious brooding menace to the character to never put a face to him. )

There could be an upper torso shot of three full Kiwi Space Patrol infantry guys, based on Alistair’s drawings. They’re only needed for a throwaway joke, but could be good way to get the costumes for KSP underway.

The other one is for Uber Uber Commander Liz, who would have a fearsome cleavage, for a joke that would last an entire episode of SAMBT.

There were two ways to go with him, I thought. One is to Klingon him up with a suitable suit of something armourish and big gauntets covered with studs and chains (probably a shelf item at Mr Fabuloso’s House of Leather) or we could go corporate pin stripe, OR we could do corporate pinstripe WITH some big, mean gauntlets.

Luckily, Gemma emailed saying:

“Ha ha I just had an image of a pinstripe suit with studded shoulder pads it was awesome! Metal grunge will also be good. but it depends on the character.

I’m linking the sound of a senior senior commander with cleavage…. if the actress is a similar size to me i have a victorian corset that gives you killer cleavage.”

Anyways, Alistair, you know what I said. I said draw costume designs with boobies. It is a get out of jail card, should they query what you are doing while you ride the rails drawing cleavage pics, to say that Bill said it was ok.
That rests the case for the defence, your honour.

Anyway, Uber Uber Commander Liz should also have some decent sized epaulettes. In fact, I was looking for something of a woman’s military dress uniform and I found this pic by Marla Rutherford which is pretty much what I had in mind. In terms of visuals …

We could replace the Red Army-ish collar dogs with the Southern Cross ones Alistair came up with, put on a high collar with the kowhaiwhai pattern and bigger epaulettes. (French for “little shoulder” from épaule, meaning “shoulder”, in case there is nothing else of value in this post.)

Finally, the glorious content

Okay folks, something to look at.

Uniformatage is the page where a few ideas about the uniforms goes, while the other page has a couple of designs for the SAMBT and some badges which are based on an RNZAF squadron insignia. (In this case the Kiwi has a taiaha.)

Also, because we are a visual monkey species, I have put in a pic from Dark Star, which was hugely influential because I was told by people who were smarter than I was that it was really important, and because I saw if for the first time at the Welcon Science Convention at the Hotel St George in about 1979BC.

And it really is an important movie, except for the beach ball alien, which sucked, but was necessary for theatrical release. (No prizes, but kudos for working out who the people in this scene are. Hint – Alien, Halloween and Honey I Inadvertently Sexed the Goat Up. )

Designing moves

Word on the Net has it that blogs are usually updated at least once a month. Well, that makes this the one for May.

Alistair Hughes, who has come up with some interesting designs for the Super Mega Awesome Battle tank (along ways I never envisaged), has just had a move at the DomPost, going from creative services to being a graphics artists for the DomPost proper. So well done that man. It’s bad news for him as I only have to haul my sorry jacksy up one flight of stairs, rather than the previous four, but he has the handy benefit of having the pit of fire vipers and the caged hounds to defend him, these being the new DomPost editorial management minders.

I have just received a grab bag of software for the editing and special effect, so the next step will be to buy a super computer to run all that. Will take an extra lotto ticket for that.

Am revising the first few scripts and will post these as soon as I learn how to do that here. But fear not, I shall be in contact shortly with alotted tasks.

On a completely separate thing, friend Eric, along with his young colleague Oliver, are getting involved in some music videos. I have offered my free services as general lackey, loper and coffee boy, anyone who is interested in seeing this sort of thing should probably get in contact with Eric.

This is his email if you want to do the whole vid experience. Did I mention it is unpaid? But as they say, what price experience!

themoviead@yahoo.com

Bill

This is where it all starts.

If you are reading this, you are working on Super Awesome Mega Battle Tank the Internet vid. Or, you were extremely bored one night and thought, “I wonder if anyone else has thought about doing an Internet movie about a luckless, hapless, clueless Kiwi Space Patrol crew in a Super Awesome Mega Battle Tank because I really have a good idea for that,” so you googled “Super Awesome Mega Battle Tank”, and you’ve just gone “bugger arse buttocks” because now you know I have already lodged the script with the New Zealand Institute of Copyright and Big Scary Sticks, with the protection that only a New Zealand institution of copyright protection consisting of 2.5 equivalent full time workers and a goat called Reggie can provide.

So sorry about this, but if you are in fact one of the team working on it, well, welcome.

This is to the resource for the scriptwriting bits and bobs, an update on how things are going, links to the other members of the crew and 37 million links to porn which should really get the Google ad revenue going.

As of today I haven’t a lot to report. But I do promise greatness. Perhaps not for anyone involved with this, but I promise it is out there.

Check out the links for that.

Bill