<div class="lexxy-content lightbox-container"> <h2><strong><span style="color:#DAA520;">What are your hopes for your 70-year-old self?</span></strong></h2> <p> </p> <p><strong>Chris:</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>Dunno, that's a half loaded question for me 😅</p> <p> </p> <p>I think I see myself as the chill, content with life, village crazy lady kind of type, with my own studio and workshop in some inspiring location, scotland or iceland or something, going for a run everyday, walking my big fluffy dog and constantly working on creating something? If I were to write myself a letter, I'd probably just ask how it's going^^ congratulating on making it this far and wishing all the best for the future hopefully still to come.</p> <p> </p> <p>I'd probably say I'm happy with the path I'm on, so I have no clue what I should "discuss" with my future self. I just want to see where it's going as it comes 🤔</p> <p> </p> <div class="lightbox-container"><div class="pswp-gallery lightbox " data-controller="lightbox" data-lightbox-target="container"><div class="lightbox__item"><a target="_blank" data-lightbox-target="item" href="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/126/content_STL_Icebreakers_044.jpg"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/126/content_STL_Icebreakers_044.jpg"></a></div></div></div> <p> </p> <p><strong>Alex:</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>By the time I'm 70, I hope to have landed my first job in the industry!</p> <p> </p> <p>No but really....<br> I hope to keep creating and experimenting as I do now, just with more experiences under my belt. There's so many stories I want to tell...Though I'd be happy even just telling one good one. I also expect lots of animals, a big ol' garden and a colorful house full of books. I'd want it to be super welcoming, with people coming and going all the time. </p> <p> </p> <div class="lightbox-container"><div class="pswp-gallery lightbox " data-controller="lightbox" data-lightbox-target="container"><div class="lightbox__item"><a target="_blank" data-lightbox-target="item" href="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/127/content_STL_Icebreakers_043.jpg"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/127/content_STL_Icebreakers_043.jpg"></a></div></div></div> <p> </p> <p><strong>Stephan:</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>I see myself ending up still working. Perhaps still as an artist, perhaps as a voice actor, maybe even a director on movies, but definitely as a mentor! Probably in some place that gets snow sometimes, but definitely a stimulating and exciting place, and not boring! Somewhere where I can still do weightlifting and be a martial arts hobbyist haha! I’d probably end up being the fun local grandpa that tries to get the younglings to try a bit harder to follow their dreams (read: threaten to kick their ass if they don’t do so).</p> <p> </p> <p>I’d love to sit down and have a drink with my old self and just listen to the wildest tales they’ve got to tell. I would probably get mad at some point that he’s spoiling all the fun stuff I still need to experience before just bursting out in laughter together. I’d probably leave giving the old man a promise that I won’t stop climbing up the mountain and he just gives a big grin in return, a slap on my back and tell me to get going then already.</p> <p> </p> <p>I can only hope I make future me here proud by doing my best now.</p> <p> </p> <div class="lightbox-container"><div class="pswp-gallery lightbox " data-controller="lightbox" data-lightbox-target="container"><div class="lightbox__item"><a target="_blank" data-lightbox-target="item" href="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/128/content_STL_Icebreakers_042.jpg"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/128/content_STL_Icebreakers_042.jpg"></a></div></div></div> <p> </p> </div>

<div class="lexxy-content lightbox-container"> <h3><span style="color:#DAA520;">If you were to write your 70-year-old self a letter, what would it say?</span></h3> <p> </p> <p><strong>Tabi:</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>Whewww! This week's about you question is something I had never in a milion years even thought of! I just realized I've never on a serious note envisioned myself old. So after a day of serious thinking, I have finally been able to come up with a face I could write the words to! 😂Here we go</p> <p> </p> <p>Hey there granny, </p> <p> </p> <p>I hope you're appreciating your wrinkles as much as you did your younger skin :D It's nice to especially see those smiling wrinkles show up, we really looked forward to those. I'm so happy you stuck through all the creative roadblocks and finally found your strong suit and clung on to it; and if you didn't, don't forget time is just a figment of our imagination so go forth and still try sky diving ;). No seriously, try it, you've waited long enough. Remember things are never that serious and as long as you're happy, in this other simultaneous timezone where we are younger, I am happy too.</p> <p> </p> <p>I hope you still haven't closed the door to trying out new things, we can never run out of exploring. But I know that won't be a problem to you because no side eye can faze you. I hope you still remember to take every day at a time and not to allow yourself to get jaded by the things that happen externally. </p> <p> </p> <p>You are still as fabulous as you were 50 years ago so don't be afraid to hit up your granny buddies get dressed and hit the club! You are doing amazing and no matter what may be happening granny Tabi I'm still proud of you for making it that far.</p> <p> </p> <p>Your favourite person,</p> <p> </p> <p>You.</p> <p> </p> <p>-----------</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Lydia:</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>Wow this is challenging hang on let me find a pen. If i were to write myself a letter, it would say...</p> <p> </p> <p>Dear future lydia</p> <p> </p> <p>I'm guessing you're pretty old now, cool! So if my theories are correct aliens should have made first contact by now, a mini zombie apocalypse started (probably in florida) but was soon contained due to the strain being unable to survive in hot regions. If the above did not happen then things are probably as okay as they've always been, some good some bad so I hope the bad made us hold onto the good and the good kept us going during the bad. </p> <p> </p> <p>How are you, really? </p> <p> </p> <p>Did you get  DOG? YOU BETTER HAVE!! I'm out here busting my butt so at the very least get us a dog at some point, A bull dog!</p> <p> </p> <p>Did we do alright? Are you happy? When you look back are you smiling? Did we ever get around to finishing our fanfiction? NO…? Probably? Yeah we should finish that someday, it's been over thirty years…</p> <p> </p> <p>What are you doing all day? We used to (no wait i still am) draw all day, animate or try our hand at code. Did we pick up music again? What are you doing? I really wish I knew that.</p> <p> </p> <p>Well, I’m glad you're still here (good for you for surviving the resurgence of the dinosaurs and becoming one yourself hehehehe)... </p> <p> </p> <p>I hope i made you happy or at least quit coffee, I hope we finally figured out whatever you're supposed to figure out during our play on the Earth server, I hope you never gave up and that you stayed as in love with living as I've learned to be, I hope you finish your comic, I hope you publish your game, I hope you make your movie and I hope you're still a cactus, (for context, for the aliens reading this, I’m referring to how I require the minimum human necessities to live because the economy, some people call it minimalism)</p> <p> </p> <p>Okay this is the last ramble, do i still do that? If i've changed a lot maybe i don't even recognize the person you've become... but i hope you still just want to make stuff, i hope that doesn't change.</p> <p> </p> <p>PS i’m assuming your debt free so duck yeahhhhh<br> NO STUDENT DEBT!!!!!!</p> <p> </p> <div class="lightbox-container"><div class="pswp-gallery lightbox " data-controller="lightbox" data-lightbox-target="container"><div class="lightbox__item"><a target="_blank" data-lightbox-target="item" href="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/129/content_STL_KawiasAdventure_025.jpg"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/129/content_STL_KawiasAdventure_025.jpg"></a></div></div></div> <p> </p> </div>

<div class="lexxy-content lightbox-container"> <h3><span style="color:#DAA520;"><strong>What are your hopes for your 70-year-old self?</strong></span></h3> <p> </p> <p><strong>Ruben:</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>That I’ll feel young and playful still. That my curiosity and enjoyment of exploring survives. I want to still be kickboxing, doing yoga eating both tasty salads as well as deep fried food when I want to. That I’m flexible, agile and adaptive to life in the 2060’s. By then I also hope that Airpods are embedded in our ears so I won’t have to keep putting them in and out :) And that Spotify is finally able to accurately find my kinda jams to the tee so I won’t have to listen to each Radar Release trying to find that one golden track out of a thousand. Oh finally that Togather is still online ofcourse so people can be scanning twigs on Mars for us on Earth to use :)</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Marie-Claire:</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>My first job after graduating from Central Saint Martins was to teach painting and drawing in a day centre for retirees. Richard was one of my students and left a lasting impression on me as an example of ageing well. At 72, wearing his trademark Spice Girls branded wristwatch he cycled from Moscow to St. Petersburg. </p> <p> </p> <p>I met him when he was 74 and set on learning to draw. Alongside being fine company and a thoroughly nice person, he was willing to be a beginner again and try every new technique and material I offered him. He gifted me my own Spice Girls watch when I left for a new job, thanked me and wished me luck. If I am anything like Richard in my seventies and beyond, then I’m doing it right!</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Dilruba:</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>Hoping that I can still bend down to look closely at the little things on the ground, while feeling light as a cloud. My maternal ancestry has a long history of living long (100-113 years old). I'd like 70 year old me to be a version of myself that still fills sketchbooks, can track a song she likes from a mile and is capable of making damn tasty food while enjoying the company of others. As I write this I'm wearing these socks that are grandma made (not mine, even though my great-grandmother made some excellent knitted socks too) and it gives me good vibes and warmth thinking about an aging Dilruba.</p> <p> </p> <div class="lightbox-container"><div class="pswp-gallery lightbox " data-controller="lightbox" data-lightbox-target="container"><div class="lightbox__item"><a target="_blank" data-lightbox-target="item" href="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/125/content_STL_Togather_029.jpg"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/125/content_STL_Togather_029.jpg"></a></div></div></div> <p> </p> </div>

<div class="lexxy-content lightbox-container"> <p>Holy smoke mates, we’re running out of gas here! We gotta get a refill!</p> <p> </p> <p>Week 5 has ended and by the time you are reading this we’re already halfway into week 6 almost! The week was an absolute marathon...a marathon of sprints. We accomplished so much, the biggest one being the finalization of the script of the Icebreakers pilot! Raise a glass!</p> <p> </p> <p>We got ourselves a heaping of fun news: All characters are now in 3D! Either as sculpt, retopoed or even fully rigged! We also have the base for the rendering and baking tools and Michael whipped them up at lightspeed! Our mentor Craig Berry already noted that tech is often done earlier than story, but hotdang it really lit a fire underneath us! The other great news is that it means that we can start blocking out the veeeery rough comic itself in a few days once we got our speech bubble tool! This is double nice, because like I said: We got our script finished!</p> <p> </p> <p>At the time of writing this, we just had a massive late night session finalizing the script and the dialogue. This week we wrote close to… 5 drafts? 6 maybe? It was exhausting and sometimes it really felt like we were constantly running in circles, but we made some amazing progress and really built off of each other’s strengths. We hope it really made us stronger storytellers in the end, but we can say for certain that the communication between us is getting to a point we can resolve so much faster than 2 weeks ago. For the story we really want to thank our amazing mentors, Vani and Craig especially for giving us some invaluable feedback that formed such a big part of what the script of Icebreakers has become in just 1,5 week. Leading into that…</p> <p> </p> <p>Mentorships! We started off with our first meeting with Craig Berry on Tuesday. The main takeaway from Craig was… What is more important? Tech or Story? Well, not spoil anything….It’s story! It is such a simple thing to get lost in waves when making a project such as this, but story dictates all. Story is usually the first thing people will look at and judge a project on, no matter how unique your tech is. This also means the tech should serve the story in its best capacity and not the other way around. His feedback made us really look at our script again and say….We’re gonna tell the best story we can, not the easiest story. We’re doing this with a bang!</p> <p> </p> <p>Our second mentorship on Wednesday was with Scot Stafford again! We had Chrisna with us again with this mentorship so both he and Scot could talk shop on music and how to best tackle this. It meant for us as a team that we need to give Chrisna a full blockout of the comic as soon as possible so he has enough time to really unleash his magic on it (Again, check out <a href="https://soundcloud.com/smallfrystudio/icebreakers-radio">his music for Icebreakers</a>!!).</p> <p> </p> <p>Another thing we talked about this mentorship: Voice Acting! We have decided to move forward to assemble a cast for Icebreakers and fully voice the comic! It is such an exciting opportunity to get, and while it isn’t for free, we’re getting an invaluable experience for it in return and some big lessons on how to prepare documents casting agencies and voice actors need to do auditions.</p> <p> </p> <p>And that leads us to the end of the week! We had another fun tribe session. This time with Leilah, Caro, Pedro, and our good friend Jasper (The Dungeon Master for our weekly D&amp;D sessions through which we met almost 1,5 years ago!).<br> We guided them through the wonderous world of Icebreakers and we just had a grand ol’ time! Music playing in the background, we told them how the project was exactly structured, how it works (We’re getting more and more confident in pitching it!) and where we were heading. While we felt some doubts in the beginning, it quickly involved everyone pitching in ideas for what kind of comics you could make and how our technology could be used doing so! It was so rewarding and exciting seeing where we’re heading, that it was worth it, even though we’re exhausted from this week. It also got us thinking that once the project is done, we might write a paper on how to place panels, or theories on how to use the tools to give the community an idea and kickstart their imaginations!</p> <p> </p> <div class="lightbox-container"><div class="pswp-gallery lightbox " data-controller="lightbox" data-lightbox-target="container"><div class="lightbox__item"><a target="_blank" data-lightbox-target="item" href="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/124/content_STL_Icebreakers_041.jpg"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/124/content_STL_Icebreakers_041.jpg"></a></div></div></div> <p> </p> <p>That has been all for the week! We’ll be here again next week, hopefully a bit better rested! But first, cool links!</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Are you average? You’re actually super special:</strong><br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbiveCNBOxk">Does The Average Person Exist?</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Some more cool music as an addendum:</strong><br> <a href="https://youtu.be/VW_UHYs3giU">ENNY ft. Jorja Smith - Peng Black Girls Remix | A COLORS SHOW</a>Fatoumata <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sBqMBEehIs&amp;feature=youtu.be">Diawara - Nterini | A COLORS SHOW</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Stephan’s </strong><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/665ojw8ZPdmGjbSd9dp16w?si=JtaO4cuBTU69CO6BHLn6Rw&amp;nd=1">Icebreakers playlist</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Sunken cities are really cool, especially when they’re so thought out! Watch <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230011/"><em>Atlantis: The Lost Empire</em></a>!</p> <p> </p> </div>

<div class="lexxy-content lightbox-container"> <p>Lots of fun discoveries and progress this week. And you'll want to check out Dilly's Twig Reports on our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5IsHrhUQtOiNqu3Jq04yQ">Togather YouTube channel</a>!</p> <p> </p> <div class="lightbox-container"><div class="pswp-gallery lightbox " data-controller="lightbox" data-lightbox-target="container"><div class="lightbox__item"><a target="_blank" data-lightbox-target="item" href="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/123/content_STL_Togather_026.png"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/123/content_STL_Togather_026.png"></a></div></div></div> <p> </p> </div>

<div class="lexxy-content lightbox-container"> <p><em>You know the drill! A boring predictable adventure is no adventure at all!</em></p> <p> </p> <p>We’re at the end of week 4 already, y’all! Can you believe it? We’ve been working our (pirate) booties off and oh boy, Icebreakers is really starting to take shape!</p> <p> </p> <div class="lightbox-container"><div class="pswp-gallery lightbox " data-controller="lightbox" data-lightbox-target="container"><div class="lightbox__item"><a target="_blank" data-lightbox-target="item" href="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/120/content_STL_Icebreakers_033.jpg"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/120/content_STL_Icebreakers_033.jpg"></a></div></div></div> <p> </p> <p>We got all our character designs done! We can’t wait to show off some of them, especially since we fully completed another 3 characters and one of them as a sculpt. We wish a warm tribe welcome to The Captain, his First Mate, their Mechanic, and finally their pursuer, the stately and intimidating Commander Tiberius!</p> <p> </p> <div class="lightbox-container"><div class="pswp-gallery lightbox " data-controller="lightbox" data-lightbox-target="container"><div class="lightbox__item"><a target="_blank" data-lightbox-target="item" href="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/118/content_STL_Icebreakers_034.png"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/118/content_STL_Icebreakers_034.png"></a></div></div></div> <p> </p> <h5>The Captain</h5> <p> </p> <div class="lightbox-container"><div class="pswp-gallery lightbox " data-controller="lightbox" data-lightbox-target="container"><div class="lightbox__item"><a target="_blank" data-lightbox-target="item" href="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/114/content_STL_Icebreakers_035.png"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/114/content_STL_Icebreakers_035.png"></a></div></div></div> <p> </p> <h5>The First Mate</h5> <p> </p> <div class="lightbox-container"><div class="pswp-gallery lightbox " data-controller="lightbox" data-lightbox-target="container"><div class="lightbox__item"><a target="_blank" data-lightbox-target="item" href="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/115/content_STL_Icebreakers_036.jpg"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/115/content_STL_Icebreakers_036.jpg"></a></div></div></div> <p> </p> <h5>The Mechanic</h5> <p> </p> <p>We also settled on a story with Icebreakers after dozens of ideas. It was tricky to figure it out and make it a suitable length so we can show <strong><em>YOU </em></strong>a full narrative and get these loveable misfits a bit better! More on this as we talk about our mentorships this week! This is all fine and dandy, but there’s no Icebreakers without all the mechanics going on behind the scene! With mechanics we mean the tools you will also be able to use at the end of the Icebreakers to make your own VR comics! Our production is running at a high, but we can tell you one thing: The best is yet to come.</p> <p> </p> <p>But hey! There were also mentorships this week and they were AMAZING! The lineup for this week: The amazing Sally Slade, Saraswathi Vani Balgam, and Kim Jung-Gi! A trifecta of tech, story, and art respectively, so we had ample reason to be excited. We started off with Sally Slade giving us a few tips and tricks on making sure the viewers will stay comfortable while experiencing Icebreakers. VR tends to be a bit finicky, so making sure people are enjoying themselves watching these pirates while not getting seasick themselves. A lot of our talk was centered around hammering out the gameplay experience, such as spacing of the comic panels, user controls, the pros and cons of Skeuomorphic design, and accessibility for different types of users. It was something we were already tinkering with, but getting the extra emphasis on it gave us some extra food for thought!</p> <p> </p> <p>The 2nd mentorship, this one with the amazing Vani was an absolute doozy! We came in with our finalized script, which we knew would be the main thing we were tackling this mentorship and we came out with a stronger realization of how well we were on our path to making a great story. We specifically looked at the emotional core of the story, consciously writing dialogue, adding tension, and how to get to the hook of the story, and how we could further emphasize it through some exercises we did together with Vani. It was truly an enriching experience. To top it off, she gave us boatloads of extra resources to examine! (Check them out down at the bottom!)</p> <p> </p> <p>For the final session of the week, an early riser once again, we got to talk and discuss Icebreakers with Kim Jung-Gi himself. He wasn’t too sure what he could add to the table as a traditional artist, but was very excited to see what we were doing. It turned around quick though as we talked about what inspired us and how we were tackling the designs for Icebreakers. Tackling design research, we discussed how to best show how our world functions though minute details in the designs of the ships and the clothing of our characters. Especially once we started talking about technical designs for the ships, something most of us are a bit out of our depth with, we really got going with this mentorship. Having a mentor specializing in comics next to just storyboarding has definitely been an added bonus for us as we’re moving forward!</p> <p> </p> <div class="lightbox-container"><div class="pswp-gallery lightbox " data-controller="lightbox" data-lightbox-target="container"><div class="lightbox__item"><a target="_blank" data-lightbox-target="item" href="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/116/content_STL_Icebreakers_032.jpg"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/116/content_STL_Icebreakers_032.jpg"></a></div></div></div> <p> </p> <div class="lightbox-container"><div class="pswp-gallery lightbox " data-controller="lightbox" data-lightbox-target="container"><div class="lightbox__item"><a target="_blank" data-lightbox-target="item" href="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/117/content_STL_Icebreakers_031.jpg"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/117/content_STL_Icebreakers_031.jpg"></a></div></div></div> <p> </p> <p>This week was a fun one! It was a week of learning, getting closer and closer as a team, and really getting in a groove. We accomplished a lot and that definitely deserves a small celebration. There’s still a lot ahead of us, but we’re going full speed ahead across these waves!</p> <p> </p> <div class="lightbox-container"><div class="pswp-gallery lightbox " data-controller="lightbox" data-lightbox-target="container"><div class="lightbox__item"><a target="_blank" data-lightbox-target="item" href="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/122/content_STL_Icebreakers_038.JPG"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/122/content_STL_Icebreakers_038.JPG"></a></div></div></div> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Some links aren’t so bad eh?</strong></h3> <p> </p> <p>New music by Chrisna:<br> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/smallfrystudio/icebreakers-radio">Radio</a><br> <a href="http://soundcloud.com/smallfrystudio/icebreakers-the-chase-is-on">The Chase is On</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Let there be more sailing knowledge:<br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuiaVpCNYNo">The Rig &amp; Sailplan (Rebuilding Tally Ho / EP90)</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Let us introduce you to the art of “Mona-Lisa-ing”:<br> Scribble all of your feedback everywhere and over everything! The more of the original you cover the better.</p> <p> </p> <div class="lightbox-container"><div class="pswp-gallery lightbox " data-controller="lightbox" data-lightbox-target="container"><div class="lightbox__item"><a target="_blank" data-lightbox-target="item" href="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/119/content_STL_Icebreakers_030.png"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/119/content_STL_Icebreakers_030.png"></a></div></div></div> <p> </p> <p>Jokes aside, as long as you’re respectful, this has actually been a pretty nice technique. You are from here on required, by law, to call this kind of feedback mona-lisa-ing. Don’t forget it! (If you know the originator of this, we tried to find them for about an hour, but our google-fu is weak. We’d like to credit them, so please shoot one of us a message if you know)</p> <p> </p> <p>And now for a wealth of helpful material by Vani! Give her some love while you’re at it, this stuff’s invaluable:<br> <a href="https://www.scoopwhoop.com/movies-that-celebrate-the-never-say-die-spirit-of-an-underdog/">28 Movies That Celebrate The Never-Say-Die Spirit Of Underdogs</a><br> <a href="https://in.pinterest.com/lrjaffe/expression-sheets/">Expression Sheets</a><br> <a href="https://boords.com/blog/16-types-of-camera-shots-and-angles-with-gifs">The 16 Types of Camera Shots &amp; Angles (Video Guide)</a><br> <a href="https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-a-logline/">What is a Logline</a><a href="http://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-a-logline/"> [with FREE Logline Formula Template] </a><br> <a href="http://www.katherinecowley.com/blog/writing-powerful-emotion-beats-in-fiction/" title="Permanent Link: Writing Powerful Emotion Beats in Fiction">Writing Powerful Emotion Beats in Fiction</a></p> <p> </p> <p>This week’s recommended Swashbuckling playlist (apart from our own soundtrack of course):<br> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6B3VmYdEmpWbal9Itvg8mL?si=fY0e4U3nQX2sIBT3wy3TFA">Swashbuckling Space Sapphics (and other tales of the gays of our lives)</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Go give “<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120746/">The Mask of Zorro</a>” a watch again! He might not be a pirate, but he’s got that swashbuckling spirit!</p> <p> </p> </div>

<div class="lexxy-content lightbox-container"> <p>Hey everyone,</p> <p> </p> <p>So as this video so clearly states, it's been challenging so far. But management tools like Trello, our incredibly helpful and supportive THU project guide Ana and our amazing mentors are helping us push on! We achieved our week4 goal which was to kick-off Togather with the Tribe, and have our Pory site up and running so Tribe members can begin sharing their gathers for phase1 and later their marks and brushes.</p> <p> </p> <p>The meeting with Kris brought us WAY BACK &amp; FORWARDS to the instinct that brought us here in the first place. Bringing the outdoors, in. And having pulled out the old sketchbooks for the meeting which contains some of my first ramblings about collected twigs, I wanted to share this quote with you which I think hits the nail on its head with why adopting outdoor findings in our art-making is so wonderful:</p> <p> </p> <p>"It's like the tool is the storyteller and I'm just its instrument"</p> <p> </p> <div class="lightbox-container"><div class="pswp-gallery lightbox " data-controller="lightbox" data-lightbox-target="container"><div class="lightbox__item"><a target="_blank" data-lightbox-target="item" href="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/121/content_STL_Togather_021.jpeg"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://trojan-unicorn.s3.amazonaws.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/121/content_STL_Togather_021.jpeg"></a></div></div></div> <p> </p> <p>(this drawing of me was made by my dear friend Michelle Ku, after a skype session we had where I told her about my most recent findings)</p> <p> </p> <p>More on the origins of Togather (from the archives), art made with digital brushes inspired by physical objects and our new learnings about brush-making with Kyle T. Webster to follow. Stay tuned because team Togather is finally logbooking for real ;)</p> <p> </p> <p>Stay warm,</p> <p> </p> <p>Dilruba</p> <p> </p> </div>