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snarrymod (snarrymod) wrote in snarry_games,
@ 2009-08-29 11:43:00

Entry tags:

Team Cauldron Entry (ART): "In Everlasting Remembrance" by Mayflo
Title: In Everlasting Remembrance
Artist: mayflo
Team: Cauldron
Genre(s): Gender Bender and/or Crossdressing
Prompt(s): Seeing Red, Skin Deep
Rating/Warnings/Kinks: PG13; Highlight if you wish to know: *mild canon Het, angst, AU set after HBP.*
Artist's Notes: Thanks for the mods and teammates for being so tolerant with me.
Media used: Photoshop + tablet, Flash mx
Archiving/Usage permission, including the Tribute Video (only after the polls have closed and medals have been awarded): Please ask.

*Dial up users beware, flash animation below the cut*

In Everlasting Remembrance, by Mayflo

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MOD NOTE: POLL IS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE SNARRY GAMES.

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	fancypantsdylan 2009-08-29 07:11 pm UTC (link)
	This was truly breath taking, I've watched it 3 times already and still find something new, beautiful. (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-08-30 03:04 pm UTC

	atypicalsnowman 2009-08-29 07:16 pm UTC (link)
	This is lovely. You chose the perfect music for this scene and the soft crying... Perfect. Really loved how you drew both characters and the fade from Lily to Harry. Severus was drawn beautifully as well. Wonderful piece of art. (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-08-30 03:07 pm UTC

	mimiheart 2009-08-29 07:19 pm UTC (link)
	I loved this the last time I saw it, and it's still amazing. Great story, wonderful music, I just... wow. So beautiful and heartbreaking and wonderful. (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-08-30 03:17 pm UTC

	morganlefay1958 2009-08-29 07:20 pm UTC (link)
	That was absolutely lovely!! The minimal touches of color very dramatic. The emotions came through very clearly. Brava my dear!! (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-08-30 03:22 pm UTC

	marguerite_26 2009-08-29 07:25 pm UTC (link)
	oh! Mayflo! That was gorgeous. I love the pacing of it, the sparseness of the sketching and the font changes of colours and sizes. Wow. the whole package was fantastic. (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-08-30 03:25 pm UTC

	alisanne 2009-08-29 07:36 pm UTC (link)
	This blew me away the first time I saw it and it still does. Each panel is so very poignant, the carefully used color is so effective and the story you told is heartbreaking and yet has a happy ending. Yay! Really beautifully executed, my dear! I'm so glad to be on your team! :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-08-30 03:21 pm UTC

	sev1970 2009-08-29 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	You constructed this so well: the transitions, the colors, the dialogue, everything. Job well done! (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-08-30 03:48 pm UTC

	shadowess 2009-08-29 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	oh I love how this turned out! the music selection was perfect and set the scene. The flow between the images are great. wonderful job! (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-08-31 12:20 am UTC

	accioslash 2009-08-29 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	The minimal use of color is inspired and so dramatic. It really makes the entry outstanding. Beautiful! (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-08-31 12:22 am UTC

	gingertart50 2009-08-29 08:16 pm UTC (link)
	Beautiful! The music, the colours, the design and the drawing, all pulled together into something very evocative and lovely. Very well done indeed. (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-08-31 12:26 am UTC

	snarry_fan7 2009-08-29 08:24 pm UTC (link)
	Amazing work. I love how you created this and everything is wonderful with it. The music is perfect and I love the added sound effects and I love how you've drawn Harry (and Lily) and Severs. Very, very lovely.~Sophia (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-08-31 12:28 am UTC

Beware: long review is *long*

davinci_1985
2009-08-29 08:25 pm UTC (link)

Wow. Talking about an ambitious project... I can't even begin to think the hours you must have spent in this work alone. I warn you in advance: what will follow will be a long review filled with incoherent babble as I am unable to remember most of my English to express myself properly, in all my excitement.

First of all, the music: really, really lovely. I love that particular piece of piano, and I do not think I have ever heard it before (or maybe I did, my memory isn't the best, please tell me the name). I also think that you used masterfully the sound effects: none at all except for the soft crying and the door creaking open. Incredibly effective, both of them.

Second: the plot of the fic: really, really lovely, and an excellent use of the prompt you were given. They are carefully chosen, not too many, but not too few, just the right amount to let the viewer deduce by himself/herself the backstory and hidden meaning to every one of their words and gestures. You wouldn't believe me, but I love that particular font for the text, very beautiful and easily read.

Also: the coloring. The colors were few, mostly black, reds and greens, giving the whole video a soft, sparse, achingly beautiful look that went incredibly well with the music and the plot of the vid. You outdid yourself with Severus's eyes. And the hair is so well-painted, with their two different shades, Severus's a little less vibrant and more black than Harry's dark, dark brown. Really, really lovely. And the effect of the candle was fantastic, at the beginning. I also loved how the lighting was applied in every picture, judging it by the hair.

And the drawings by themselves: each piece is wonderful. I am in love with Severus's bone structure. Seriously in love like you wouldn't believe. In the scene in which Harry is pointing a wand to his neck (both main pictures, from the back and focusing on Severus's, I just want to reach out and trace his contours. And his hands! Long-fingered and thin and beautiful. Harry's hands are also wonderful. And both of their mouths. I'm flailing here at the wonderful awesomeness of it.

I also loved the desperation with which Harry grabbed Severus's robes by the shoulder, and the intimacy showed by their feet, at the end - so unbelievably sexy, with so little flesh showing.

I'm sqeeing like a little girl at Severus's knee-high boots. It's all about the boots, elegant and sober and comfortable and also unbelivably sexy.

And before you start to get tired of all my excited babbling: not only the individual parts are beatiful and awesome in their own, but they also are combined masterfully to be really, really breathtaking, achingly touching.

I am awed at your talent.

Davinci

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Re: Beware: long review is *long* -

mayflo, 2009-08-31 12:19 am UTC

	morgana_white 2009-08-29 08:50 pm UTC (link)
	That was gorgeous! The colours beautiful and the music you chose was absolutely wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing! (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-08-31 02:10 pm UTC

	prayer_at_night 2009-08-29 08:58 pm UTC (link)
	Very impressive and heart-breakingly beautiful. Love the vivid red and green. And Snapes boots (yes, I notice strange things^^°). Lovely! (Reply to this) (Thread)

davinci_1985, 2009-08-29 09:09 pm UTC

hogwartshoney, 2009-08-30 12:10 am UTC

mayflo, 2009-08-31 02:13 pm UTC

mayflo, 2009-08-31 02:12 pm UTC

	sweetmelodykiss 2009-08-29 09:26 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, that was so breathtaking, heartbreaking and beautiful. Fabulous work! (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-08-31 06:52 pm UTC

	centaury_squill 2009-08-29 09:29 pm UTC (link)
	Lovely, simply lovely. happy sigh (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-08-31 06:52 pm UTC

	house_elf 2009-08-29 09:32 pm UTC (link)
	Fantastic. Loved the story and the artwork. I particularly liked the music you chose and that fact that it doesn't end when the animation does, it gives you time to reflect on what you've just seen whilst that haunting tune plays out - amazing. (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-08-31 06:55 pm UTC

	dacro 2009-08-29 09:37 pm UTC (link)
	Wow! Beautiful story and I loved the video/sketch format! It was so emotional with the music and the sound fx. well done! (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-08-31 06:58 pm UTC

	taurus_paul 2009-08-29 09:47 pm UTC (link)
	that was really great. totally different then any other work i have seen, that is what i call a creative solution to a prompt. very well done. (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-09-01 02:46 pm UTC

	sra_danvers 2009-08-29 10:04 pm UTC (link)
	I have no words, I'm so moving... It's sad, but the end it's just heart taking. Thanks for so great work! MARTA (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-09-01 02:50 pm UTC

	sinick 2009-08-29 10:11 pm UTC (link)
	I loved the old-world ambiance of this; with the parchment background and the slow, melodic piano score, it felt like a silent film. Great use of spot color too, putting the highlights on the important things: Harry's eyes, Lily's hair. (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-09-01 02:55 pm UTC

	syrosis 2009-08-29 10:18 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, this was beautiful. (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-09-01 02:55 pm UTC

	zephre 2009-08-29 10:44 pm UTC (link)
	incredible story, well executed animation, awesome art. beautifully done - great work. (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-09-01 02:58 pm UTC

	aeryun 2009-08-30 12:02 am UTC (link)
	Oh WOW! I...Beautiful...yeah, just WOW! (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-09-01 02:58 pm UTC

	hogwartshoney 2009-08-30 12:12 am UTC (link)
	Mmmmmmmmmmm..... just delish. The colours here and there, the overall 'feel' of the thing, the piano music... oh, the angst, the little details like the powder and the puff of breath, the vibrancy of Lily's hair and the way it faded to Harry's... I really liked that transition. I really liked just.... everything about this! (Reply to this) (Thread)

mayflo, 2009-09-01 03:02 pm UTC

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