The tentative title for the book series I'm writing is "Aurora", the name of the main character. I can't decide what I want to do to distinguish between each of the books. I could give every one a completely different name, like the Twilight or Narnia series, or go "Aurora and the..." like the Harry Potter series. I'm more leaning toward "Aurora: somethingsomething" just using a colon. But I'm not sure.
Anyway, I had fun yesterday making "Dollz" of some of the main characters in the series on http://dollzmania.com/ . The site is awesome. The only problem I had was that some of the character makers don't have alot of "normal" clothes - it's all themes and formal and punk stuff, and most of my characters wouldn't wear anything like that, because they're just normal kids going to school. They have their own styles, but generally nothing really far out. Also, alot of the makers that had good clothes didn't have the right hairstyles. So that was a challenge, but I think I ended up with a couple that I was happy with.
This is the outfit that I thought would fit Aurora best, however the hair is not exactly right.
This hairstyle displays more of the soft curliness that I imagine for her hair. The color is still wrong, though. I imagine Aurora wearing a lot of light fabrics and sundresses, although obviously strapless isn't very practical.
This is the color I imagine for her hair, although maybe a little peachier. Just a very light, creamy blonde.
Autumn was very easy to do. There were long, auburn hairstyles a-plenty, and lots of outfits that suited her fitted, diva-ish style. The only thing was that they didn't have any olive-skinned girl bodies.
Both of these looks are pretty accurate for how I imagine Novel's character. She's casual, yet stylish. The hair is pretty accuate too, especially the second one. She has very long hair and hazel eyes, and apparently wears alot of purple.
Yes, Maria is black and has red hair. Don't ask me how it works.
Ayla is more of an antagonistic character. Her style is punk and somewhat gothic. She's the ex-girlfriend of the main guy character, Mion.
Lolita is more of a minor character, but a lot of the clothes and hair suited her. She works at a bar and is quite the little tart.
All the guy clothes suck, but for some reason I can't pinpoint what it is about all of them that I don't like, or what is missing.
I couldn't make a single doll based on Emerald that I was happy with. There were some green hairstyles, but they were all very bright and pixie-ish. Emerald is a troubled girl with medium-length olive green hair. There was just nothing that suited her at all. Anyway, it was a well spent afternoon...!
"Watchmen" made almost $56 million at the box office this weekend. Have you seen, or do you plan to see, this edgy superhero flick?
I saw Watchmen on opening night with my friend Justin and his dad. Justin had lent me the graphic novel beforehand, but I never got around to reading it as I rarely manage to pull myself away from my computer. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a very good movie - although I could tell that there was alot missing (as with Harry Potter, and Twilight, etc.). The style is brilliant, the acting is amazing and the plot is layered and intricate. I noticed a lot of things seeing it the second time around (which I did with Chris and his friend three days later on cheap movie night) that I hadn't the first time, like how many pictures The Comedian has of the original Silk Spectre in his apartment.
My friend Mallory, who has also read the graphic novel, and whose dad is a comic geek and owns a movie theatre, thinks the movie sucked. Justin, who loves to critique movies, thought it was great and that the change in the ending of the movie was a good idea - it made it less farfetched, in a way.
I tend not to share my opinions on movies all that much unless I saw it with Chris, because Mallory and Justin's criticisms, conviction and knowledge about things intimidate me. But here it is. :P
On a side note, a couple funny things: When I met Justin and his dad at the theatre, Justin was playing ITG in the arcade and his dad was saving seats in the theatre. Some teenager took one of the guns attached to one of the games nearby and was pretending to shoot Justin. I don't know if he noticed. When Justin finished the round he was on, he looked around the column behind the game opposite to the side I was standing on to look for me in the crowd upstairs. Then a younger boy who was with the teenager asked him why he sometimes used his hands to hit the arrows on ITG, and Justin tried to explain it to him but is pretty sure he didn't get it. After that exchange was over, I said "Hi," and Justin, surprised, said "Oh! I thought you were one of that kid's little friends." As his dad said, he's so observant.
Then Justin discovered that he had lost one of the movie tickets. However, he did have a ticket for Paul Blart: Mall Cop that he found stuck in the ticket machine, so I said we should just try and get in by putting the Watchmen ticket in the front and hope that the ticket guy didn't look at the second ticket, which was for a movie time that was already past. He did. We told him we had lost one of the tickets, so he told us to just go up to the counter and get a voucher. When we came back, Justin apologized profusely to the ticket guy for like 5 minutes because he was so embarrassed for trying to pull a fast one on him. It was funny. I told Justin he needed to do more bad things in his life and/or get out more.
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