Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24972506-20141026202255/@comment-24577221-20141029160518

I'm very glad that you noticed the "claws" -- they occurred to me as a nice little extra detail, and of course ended up taking much longer to get looking nice than I'd expected. As with the flames on the hoop, I think that something weird must be going on with the transparency, because those little "painted nails" show up much more clearly than I'd expect from what I see on the image sheet.

There's a TV show I've been watching, Face Off. It plays on the SyFy channel and the Space channel. It's an elimination competition between contestants to create makeup, costumes, and appliances for TV/movie characters, i.e. science fiction, fantasy, and horror stuff. It's a really cool exhibition of materials technology, technique, and to some extent the psychology of making costumes look convincing.