Old, internal gag. Except that, probably, it'll make sense to just about anyone. Apart from the deeply stupid. But that's okay: fuck'em.
For those who get it--at least for the most part--but wouldn't mind a bit of clarificaton: A) see yesterday's What's New [which should be linked below somewherish] or B) keep reading for a minute.
So, for those who at some point read yesterday's What's New [link; below; repeat as necessary], things went slightly wrong, but not quite wrong enough to cause any real problems. Meaning that Swyndle, having got the day off, didn't get the day off, and instead went in to sit around for three hours connecting his mobilephone to mine and costing a bit of cash since we've got different carriers and life sucks; then he got the hell outta there and we sat in the citywide nonsmoking section at VillageIdiot, because life sucks, for about eight hours, working on concepts, styles, pencils, inks, et cetera. And here's what we came up with, since life doesn't quite suck entirely....
Given the laws of the country, the rules of this server, and the Content Useage Policy of CafePress.com, we've developed a list of MangaHentaiBloodyHell chicks which are respectively okay until or unless the supreme court gets all goofy, allowed if these digital chicks can be inferred to be over eighteen, and...potentially allowed on shirts at CP. At some level, we're seriously stresstesting the anaclasticity of the rules. Because, you know: Wasted.
To be real, a casual [if SafeSearchOffed] search through images.google.com for hentai will return worse [or better] examples of this sort of thing; but various thumbnails would fall into a grey area on this server's policy against childporn, and drop well beyond charcoal within CP's CUP. That said, so far, the stuff Swyndle was pencilling out on inkjet paper is oddly more...more. With slightly less gaping obviosity, maybe; but oodles more...I guess intrigue might not be the wrong word. There's something psychological about seeing nearly everything, yet missing the critical bits, I guess. To some slight degree, bits of the critical bits might be, in cases, slightly out of one's line of sight. And that makes things strangely more...more. Somehow.
So. That much worked out, we move on to the next phase, which sadly can't be done overnight. Especially overnight tonight, since other stuff has to happen tomorrow, starting in a couple hours. But, soon enough, pencils should be scanned into the computer, imported into Crash5, locked into a background layer, and inked in pure vector; then it gets coloured; then it gets exported at massive resolutions in jpeg and png, and ultimately goes up onto the server to be affixed to shirts. Then, of course, over time, the process is repeated for the next design, and the next, through thirty or forty individual concepts to date, building up what should prove to be a really cool subsection of Wasted in no time. Unless you count the time it takes to do it. And that could actually be a month or two, or more, before the entire line is ready to go.
Technically, whether the first completed design will be instantly available remains undecided. I'm guessing it'll show up online before the whole project is completed; but it's possible that they'll all remain hidden until we're sure that we've got the right style after all.
For now, the style we can both live with is of course just about exactly what you see upon first hitting swyndle.com. And yet, more...more. Somehow.
It'll all make more sense as it begins to appear online. I assume.
Amidst this unusually cool project are a couple others. But those are really more Swyndle's things, so I'll keep the secret for the moment. Meaning that you'll want to keep a bit of an eye on his site, pending the announcement. For those who like spoilers though: Swyndle's primary talent, really, is fullmotion cartooning; and, as mentioned, he's got Flash to play with; so, amidst the MangaHentaiBloodyHell chicks, you might be seeing a few kinetic fuckeries going on over there sometime before June. Ish.
More later....

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