Tag: behind the scenes with Set

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“Now,” he says.

At the command, the onstage bots immediately begin to—

Someone in the audience gives a shriek of horrified shock and Megamind smiles to himself.

Yes, to the audience it no doubt looks as if the bots are disassembling themselves. Really, of course, they’re just removing the completely non-functional extra prosthetics and assorted metal bits that Megamind attached to them for tonight’s show. And once the bots have finished removing the pieces…

“Yes,” he says, “as you can see, my cyborg helpers are busily engaged in constructing the contraption for tonight’s climactic conclusion! Can you guess what it is, Miss Ritchi?”

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Gravitational Equations For Falling (chapter two)

shycatdreaming:

setepenre-set:

How Megamind falls in love with Roxanne Ritchi.

pre-movie, canon-compliant, T rating

AO3 | FFN | chapter 1

Megamind is prepared to stake out the entrance of the KCMP station building for at least a week before finding the perfect time to stage his planned abduction of Miss Ritchi. He wants this to go smoothly, unlike his first disastrous and embarrassing attempt to take her hostage mid-battle, and he’s never actually…done this kind of thing before, so it will obviously easier to pull it off while Miss Ritchi is alone.

As the station employees all tend to arrive and leave the building at approximately the same times each day, he naturally assumes that catching Miss Ritchi by herself will be difficult.

That part of it, though, is actually surprisingly easy.

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Plan: Success!!!

Honestly, I completely love Roxanne fighting back with the coffee, I spotted that the second I read she had it.

I’m rather terrified of how she will react after waking up to being – well, pretty mucb assaulted from her perspective (no precedent, and far from a graceful spray of Knock Out Gas…). We shall see…

Good detail with the crowd, in all honesty I an’t blame them (if you only see the villain side Megamind would be terrifying), but you can also see how much they’ve LET themselves be lulled.

EDIT: Also, hints of Roxanne’s loneliness. It makes sense given she’s still an intern at the station at the moment, but it’s also obviously consistent with how you portray her.

IRL: I hope an effective treatment for your bronchitis can begin soon!

If you’re ever questioning your symptoms, write down everything you THINK you are experiencing. Then, read the list as though it were a FRIEND asking if they should go get help.

If you’re encourage a friend to get help, treat yourself with the same love.

I also struggle with self-doubt, anxiety, and repeating to myself “Nah, it’s not so bad…” A lot of the time, though, when I have a chance to tell people exactly what I HAVE been experiencing, though, they’re generally “Um, no, that was bad.”

Sometimes it does help to get an objective opinion.

Thank you!! :DD

LOL I’m so pleased you enjoyed the coffee thing; I had so much fun writing that part! 

Yeah, if you only saw the villain side of Megamind, he could be scary, and in canon, Roxanne says to Bernard!Megamind “I’ve never seen anyone but Metro Man stand up to him like that!” about Megamind, so I wanted to show that in this story–that the people of Metro City don’t fight back against Megamind, both because they are scared of him and because they’re in this mindset of “Metro Man will handle it; we don’t have to do anything”.

The people of Metro City feel themselves to be audience members to Megamind and Metro Man’s fights, and this attitude is kind of understandable, considering that, when Megamind challenges Metro Man right at the beginning of the movie, and draws Metro Man to the fake observatory…Megamind could easily have sent brainbots to attack the citizens still standing in front of the museum, and hurt a lot of people while Metro Man was preoccupied with rescuing Roxanne.

But he doesn’t.

And later, when Evil Overlord Megamind calls out Titan, he’s dressed in that giant destructive battlesuit, full of weaponry…the citizens still gather around in a crowd to watch, because they know Megamind isn’t going to attack them. Because they’re the audience, not participants in the action.

They view Megamind as dangerous, but know that, as long as they stay in their place as audience members, he won’t do anything to them.

When Megamind grabs Roxanne during that first battle, he brings her into the action–something he hasn’t done with anyone else before, and the reason he does it with her is because she doesn’t run and hide. She’s not in the proper place for audience members. 

He brings her onto the stage again in this chapter, because, with that “Megamind isn’t scary” interview of hers, she’s once again deviated from her place in the audience. 

So he pulls her onto the stage, so to speak, like a magician taking a volunteer from the crowd, and even when the magician puts the volunteer into the box and proposes to saw her in half, none of the audience members are going to intervene–because she’s on the stage, now. She’s no longer an audience member; she’s one of the actors.

shycatdreaming:

setepenre-set:

Such tricks won’t work on me

Temptress

This is BEYOND gorgeous! What were the original images you used?

(I am so completely jealous of your photo manip skills, btw!!)

AHHH thank you so much! :DD

The original image is here.

What I did with it: 

I widened the hips, widened the thigh, added an extra bit of skirt on Roxanne’s right, lengthened the neck, increased the size of the head, and increased the size of the hair. This made Roxanne taller than the source image, so I copy/pasted and blended the top part of the background behind her.

 I also basically restructured the whole face–

I changed the shape of the jawline, eyebrows, nose, and lips, increased the size of the eyes, and changed their position.

Then I used the blend tool on everything to smooth out pixelation!

One trick I’ve learned with photoshop–make a copy of the layer you’re going to work on every time you’re going to take a new step. ‘Step backwards’ only takes you so far; it’s better to have a backup copy if you’re going to do something experimental. 

For example, after I had finished the restructuring of her face, I thought “hmm, I feel like her head might need to be bigger?” So I duplicated the layer, hid the original, went to the duplicate layer, and worked on making her head bigger in the duplicate layer, copying and pasting her head and then increasing its size. 

Once I’d finished that, I had to lengthen her neck, to make the transition between the head and the neck look smooth. It looked good–but did the bigger head really look better than the smaller head version? Since I had previously duplicated the layer, I was able to quickly and easily switch back and forth between viewing the two versions.

Source: setepenre-set

Hi!! I just finished binge reading Old, New, Borrowed and Blue and I adore it so far. I’m just wondering if you have a update schedule that you stick to for it, or if it’s updated randomly? I’m not trying to rush you or anything like that. I’m just curious. I can’t wait to read more!

Hi! 😀 I am so glad you are enjoying the story! I actually don’t have an update schedule for any of my fics; I skip around between them all as inspiration comes ❤ 

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One Bad Picture In an Unflattering Dress

every romance should begin with someone punching Bradley from Channel 9 sorry I don’t make the rules. 😀

Bradley from Channel 9 is the WORST! I actually based him off of a (very awful) character from an early storyboard for a previous (R rated) version of the movie. The character in that clip is such a jerk that I felt he needed to be punched; writing it (both times) was quite satisfying!

gammaspectrum:

I just finished reading “Take Me Out” by 

@setepenre-set​

Which as a native Michigander , I loved it. I’m not an avid sports fan, but it’s pretty hard not to know that our sports teams (other than the Red Wings) are… not good. At all.

The Lions rarely win anything, and the Tigers do okay and then choke (according to my mother and my grandmother who pay attention to such things).

Anyway, @setepenre-set uses a fictional baseball team called the Wolverines, who happen to use blue as their team color. Although it’s entirely possible that they meant this to refer to our state animal, which isn’t even particularly common in Michigan, I couldn’t help but think of the University of Michigan:

“NCAA Boys’ Replica Football Jersey Michigan Wolverines”

Which I’m probably not supposed to say too many nice things about, since my adviser was an MSU alumni and (unless I decide that medical physics is what I want to do instead of nuclear physics) I also intend to try to go to MSU. And the Spartans and the Wolverines are mortal enemies. Except when either of them play Ohio State.

I actually based it off of Michigan’s historical professional baseball team, the Detroit Wolverines! (which, I’m sure, got their name from the state animal.) In reality, the Detroit Wolverines disbanded after 1888; in my Megamind stories, they didn’t disband, but moved to Metro City, and were re-named the Metro City Wolverines.

When I searched “michigan wolverines baseball”, though, I definitely found pictures of the University of Michigan’s baseball team uniforms, and saw that their team colors are blue–which I had, of course, chosen as the team colors for the Metro City Wolverines. It pleases me greatly that there are pictures online of what could almost be the uniforms of my fictional baseball team!

how do u manage to write so much and accomplish so much alsmskdjff why r u my author/writing goals??

AHAHAHAHAHAAAaaaaaaa

but really it is a lot like that; this is one of the reasons Megamind feels so relatable to me.

I almost always feel driven to be working on something; I get restless and twitchy when I’m not; I feel it like a static hum. I have periods of hyperfocus and extreme productivity, too, during which I feel even more driven than usual, and everything just seems to flow quicker and easier and better. And I do enjoy it while I’m doing it–it’s not just ‘having written’ that I like, it’s the actual writing, too. (same goes for drawing/photomanipulations/various other art forms.)

((I do also go through periods of time of depression and exhaustion, where I can’t work on anything, and trying to work on things is extremely not enjoyable.))