Double Dutchess

For this Fall's round of seasonal_spuffy the theme was "Walk Through the Fire". It reminded me of "Fire" by The Pointer Sisters. To me, the lyrics of "Fire" just scream Spuffy, and I thought it was nice to do a vid from Buffy's pov for a change. Also, it's just a great song! Note: the vid is possibly not entirely worksafe due to some Spike nudity and sexy scenes, but mostly just kissing (lots of it).


( Credits for the vid )

I also submitted a banner for the banner poll, which you can see under the cut below. (In full size the width is 900px.)

( Walk Through The Fire banner )

And my final seasonal_spuffy entry: a Sleeping Beauty wallpaper with Spike in the role of the sleeper, and Andrew as the storyteller: This also fills the "Andrew" prompt on my buffyversebingo card. The full size of the wallpaper is 1920x1080, and you can see it in its full glory HERE.

( Wallpaper under the cut )

Back to re-posting my seasonal_spuffy entries! These are the banners I made for the banner poll, together with some variations. In full size they are all 900 px wide.

( First banner )
( Second banner )
( Third banner, with variations )
( Credits )

The next step of making the shoebox diorama was selecting, editing and printing the comics images I wanted to use. Luckily, the Thursday before the summer solstice was my first day back at my workplace, and this meant I could abuse the colour printer at work to print the images. I forgot to print a few of the images, so not all of them are full-colour (most notably the Klimt poster and Buffy’s scarf). I printed out most images in multiple sizes, because it was difficult to estimate the best size and I hadn’t had time to make exact measurements.

For the actual physical execution. I started with the most important piece, that of Buffy and Spike of the bed. I wanted to make the bed three dimensional, but there was no way I could do that with Buffy and Spike themselves. So this ended up as a bit of a strange mix of two and three dimensional (images 1 and 2). I did the same thing with the dresser: the dresser itself is three-dimensional, but the vase with flowers and the tissue box on top of it are two-dimensional. This can be clearly seen in image 1 below, which also shows the backside of the dresser (made of the same cardboard box as the bed).



Image 1: top view of the diorama in the making.( Rest of the "Making Of" under the cut. )

Hey, how are you all doing? I'm having some time off work (well, more or less) and finally finding the time to post some things to LJ. Starting with the shoebox diorama of Buffy and Spike's bedroom that I made for the Summer Solstice free-for-all over at seasonal_spuffy. With thanks to teragramm for the term “diorama” term, which sounds a bit grandiose to my ears, but so much better than “peepbox” which I used originally.

( Shoebox diorama under the cut. )