Practical effects aren't that much more expensive than CGI all things considered, they just take a bit longer to produce and to reset if you mess up the scene.
As for why they look better, its usually because there are these little bits of movement caused by the scene itself, little bits of lighting being off, or just some extra motions that a real object makes that an animator forgets about that make it look better when its real.
UNless its that sonic the hedgehog live action thing. Did that get canceled?
I've been thinking about Eise's theme song, because I'm a sucker for those, and I think I found a good one with how I'm envisioning her character. Trevor Something - "Come Back Down" Thoughts anyone?
@Raijinslayer Yeah, it's mostly because there isn't a "Personality" section of the CS so I got it in my head who Eise is but I havn't actually shared it with all of you.
I think I need to do a little restructuring of Eise, I've kinda implied that her time in the Kindergarten has healed her in some way when it couldn't be any further from the truth. She's basically spent most of her life in the thick of a brutal rebellion, lost everyone she's ever cared about, and moved to guarding the Kindergarten because of her "achievements" on the field. Plus I don't think Homeworld was super keen on therapists.
I'm kinda drawing up blank for powers since all that I've really imagined her using is replicationbut I'm open to any ideas you guys might have.
Name: Tug (informally), Tugtupite (formally) Gem: Tugtupite Appearance: Gem Placement:(Where their gem is located) Gem Item:Eskirma Sticks Powers: Tug is capable of replicating herself to a very large degree with her largest number reached being twenty copies, however, every time she copies herself she and her copies get weaker. She can only make around four or five copies on Earth before the atmospheric pressure and gravity poof her and her clones. Backstory:
Tug was a 2nd era Tugtupite gem and originally created with a lack of any of her powers. She was assigned to overseeing colonization projects on various planets where she would mostly work on setting up kindergartens and looking to optimize gem production with the growing increase in inapt gems such as herself. However, while she fulfilled her main roll of caretaker over various kindergartens, she also began to delve a little deeper into the likes of gemetics and see what truly made a gem tick so to speak. As she continued her research she began to do experiments on gems deemed to defective to be used by Homeworld and soon came to an astonishing discovery. Through her research she managed to induce a rapid gestation process in an already formed gem, essentially allowing them to finish their development in a fraction of the time and produce some previously unheard of effects such as changes in maximum hard-light mass or different powers altogether. Of course this process had its drawbacks such as the need for countless other gem specimens to be sacrificed for just one gem to develop properly and if the gem’s cognitive functions hadn’t developed properly to start with, they would stay in their unaltered state of mind, essentially making the process useless.
Tugtupite took her research findings to her gem and asked to be reassigned so that she may work on the process and hopefully find a better and more efficient way of fixing malformed gems and turning them into valuable units. Tug was granted her wish and sent to Earth under the leadership of Bloodstone where she could further her studies into the inner workings of gems and take down the rebellion that had rooted itself on the planet as well.
Other: -She once had a metaphorical heart of gold that came with attempting to raise so many beings from the menial wastes of a planet but she has since become much less nurturing since delving full time into her new studies. -Contrary to most Homeworld Gems, Tugtupite doesn’t hate humans and even idolizes some for their advances in their own sciences, some of which she has been trying to replicate with gem technology such as cloning, lobotomization and transfusion to name a few. -While the workings of human and gem bodies are Tug’s specialty, she is capable of building machines with some degree of finesse though not nearly to the degree of someone more devoted to the process.
@Archmage MC I dunno, Eise is a Rebellion Gem by technicality. She was alive during the Rebellion but wasn't actually a Crystal Gem, though she has given up believing in Homeworld.
@Archmage MC I dunno, Eise is a Rebellion Gem by technicality. She was alive during the Rebellion but wasn't actually a Crystal Gem, though she has given up believing in Homeworld.
Ah. i think Marry can fit anywhere in the hierarchy due to how open ended I left her story, since its all about studying and stuff.
So I'd need to know how long some of the rebellion gems were around, as too many years and Marry wont have much to study as she probably would've done it by now.
One thing I got in my Bio was that Eise was able to stowaway some newborns before The Weapon hit, so maybe some Newborns could wake up in Eise's hidey hole.
I'd need to RP with everyone to see where Marry stands with everyone. But I'm sure at the start, if you fell asleep when Marry was up, she probably did experiments while you were asleep xD.
Though I can see her being nonchalant or supportive about stuff.
@PathfinderYeah I saw that, and had a few questions on that. Like Halting asked, are these Developed Gems or are they still needing to be born? and if that latter, isn't that more harmful to the Gem then helpful? Like, taking them out before their ready would likely cause deformations and defects within them that could be avoided. Not to mention that I don't quite know what Eise thought they'd do with them afterwards. Sending them to the Rebellion makes them no different then Homeworld, but keeping them seems to speak of an excessive lack of forethought on their part, especially if they took them out while they're still under-developed, which again, I don't think would be very wise(and also excessively hard to hide), while hiding developed Gems seems borderline impossible, impractical, and a likely way to get shattered for Treason very quickly since those Gems will likely want answers, explanations, and not like staying put.
Edit: Telling them not to take part in the war would also be rather weak argument since, as we've been told in the show, Gems are born knowing what they're made for and probably the gist of how to accomplish it at least. As such, warrior gems would likely go out to the front lines anyway and point the finger directly at Eise as they do it for treason.
I'd need to RP with everyone to see where Marry stands with everyone. But I'm sure at the start, if you fell asleep when Marry was up, she probably did experiments while you were asleep xD.
Though I can see her being nonchalant or supportive about stuff.
