This thread is an offshoot of the stuff I did for the Custom Ghost Trap. I felt this thing deserves its own thread, as I'll be posting story fragments, ideas, figure tests, and general cries for help.

My first post on this thread will be a cry for help: is there anyone who's proficient with Photoshop and has the time and ability to devise a Ghost Trap effect–the big column of white light?

Here's a proposed title: “CHRISTMAS-SLIME IS HERE AGAIN”.

And one of the websites I plan to be shopping from: www.miniatures.com

Miniatures.com sells dollhouse props, furniture, and set dressings–especially important for most if not all of the GBHQ scenes.

UPDATE: Over the weekend, I managed to write a few chapters–they're very short chapters, because the story is largely told through the pictures, with blocks of text and dialogue accompanying. Last night, I managed to shoot the first chapter's pics too!

Here is a behind-the-scenes shot of me looking somewhat light-headed.



Yes, that is a rechargeable emergency flashlight duct-taped to my head. I'd already tried holding the light in one hand and the camera in the other, but this resulted in some very shaky pictures, so I hit upon the solution of strapping the light to my head and using both hands to hold the camera. I'm a strange one, aren't I?

*SNORK!*

I'm assuming you're doing a movie with the figures, but the light ductaped to the forehead is awesome!

I can't really say much though, my cheap @$$ work boots have flamable tongues. Not good if you're a welder. I had to tape glove cuffs over them to prevent the obvious. It's funny, been at it for 5 years, I've been anal about helmets but as long as the boots had steel toes, I couldn't have given a rats arse…until I got a hot one down the boot. That was a fun day!

Regardless, more info on your project would be killer!

All right then, I suppose I owe it to you to post the first chapter.

(But I can't quite shake the odd feeling that this is going to get me into trouble for one reason or another…)

CHAPTER ONE






Janosz Poha hadn’t had a good year. Oh, certainly, there were one or two highlights—successfully obtaining a few grants at the Manhattan Museum of Art, accompanied by a nice, big raise and subsequent move to a new apartment (one of those strange “Victorian revival” penthouse suites, available completely furnished at a reasonable price)—but the poor curator still wasn’t happy. It was probably just the oncoming New York winter, and its near-constant snow, slush, ice, and cold, cold, cold, that made him feel grouchy—and he was never really a fan of the Holiday Season anyway–but this year it made Janosz’s mind turn toward his ignominious defeat the year previously.
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Curse those Ghostbusters, he thought. First they had to shatter my dreams of love to pieces, and wreck Lord Vigo’s plans, but then they had to add insult to injury by leaving me dripping with goo!
The effects of the positively-charged mood slime had long since worn off, and all his good feelings were now replaced with those dreaded winter blues, coupled with the fact that his water now took a while to get hot; indeed, that was the one and only flaw in his new apartment. There he stood, waiting for some hot water so that he could start the dishes, but the water was only lukewarm—and then it stopped completely.
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“I wonder if my neighbors are having problems like this,” he sighed. “Better go and call the superin…hmm?” He paused, noticing the odd gurgling noises coming from within the pipes. He opened the cupboard underneath, expecting to find some leak under the sink, but there was no water under there. He heard a sudden gushing noise above him, and he found something unusual in the basin. It was a thick, pink sludge. He put his hand in, picked some of it up, and confirmed his suspicions.

“The slime has returned,” he said. “At long last, I will be vindicated!” The slime took on its full power, and brought out all of Janosz’s darkest thoughts, which he articulated in a good, soul-cleansing, Evil Laugh.
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“Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!”

TO BE CONTINUED.

You know what I'm going to do now that I have a little break in between the next blocking session? I'm going to look for one of those eBay photography sets, the one with the mini-studio lights. I betcha anything it'll make this a whole lot easier.

I finally have an image of the official logo for this project ready to post.

Here it is:



What do you think?

A good start.

I follow some Transformers photonovels.

For a second I thought I saw a menorah in the background… turned out to be a … birdcage?