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TCC = Tetsuko Cosplay Calendar

After a month's absence from TCCing, I figured the first calendar for 2011 ought to be something special. So choosing the right character was important.

Looking back over the various comments readers and fans have left about who they'd like to see Tetsuko as, I saw one theme recur: The Giantess. And what iconic image represents that theme the best? Why, of course, the famous poster for the 1958 movie Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.

Here, then, is Tetsuko as Nancy Archer, as portrayed by Allison Hayes.

You've probably noticed that Tetsuko doesn't have the same expression on her face that Nancy does in the poster… poor Tet-chan, she wouldn't make a very good actress. I just couldn't get her to do a good "mean" face (she has to be "provoked" into the right mood, and that I didn't want to risk). She wound up more worried about the poor people panicking and crashing their cars…

(I totally cheated on the background: trying to recreate the roadway and the surrounding cityscape was taking much too much time, so I just copied and pasted the road from the poster illustration into the pic, patching up the places where Tetsuko's figure didn't quite match where Nancy's was.

(Also, I have no idea who owns the copyright on Attack of the 50-Foot Woman.)

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Mood: Wow! ~Tyson87 May 1, 2011
Good calendar.
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~wozza1508 Jan 16, 2011
very nice January mate, besides it doesn´t matter about the "cheat" after all "the ends justify the means". iits still a brilliant bit of art.

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~Cheetaur Jan 15, 2011
Wow, now that is cool. ;) Thanks for making a great Jan

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Mood: Confused *lowdog Jan 10, 2011
"I made an error in one of the movies I listed in my earlier comment. The movie with German Shepherds in bad costumes was called The Killer Shrews. And no, the title does not improve the dismal quality of that picture. My apologies for the error."

"OK, next time we read the instruction manual before we try to put the thing together..."

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Mood: Humor *lowdog Jan 9, 2011
"Ah, the 1950's! When the local drive-in (ask your parents about this one, kids) was the weekend place to be. You could churn out almost anything in Hollywood, and it would wind up being shown in a drive-in somewhere, along with a host of other productions of various types. Quality varied from pretty good (Them!, Forbidden Planet) to decent (Fifty Foot Woman, The Giant Mantis), to the appalling (Attack of the Giant Leeches? German shepherds in badly-fitted costumes? Oh, come on!). By today's standards, these films are woefully dated. But they have a certain light-hearted appeal. Every now and then, I'll try and pick up some of these B-Level classics from the local video rental place, and try to remember when viewing a movie was intended to be fun, not a life-altering experience."

"OK, next time we read the instruction manual before we try to put the things together..."

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!CarzyGoose Jan 8, 2011
welldone. :)

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~Elephantking89 Jan 6, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
very excellent indeed

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~SturmB Jan 2, 2011
I love these calendar images you make! I only have one request: Would it be possible to make 16:10 and/or 16:9 versions of the images, for those of us with widescreen monitors? Or would that be asking too much?

I realize that might be opening up a can of worms if you agree, since you might then start getting requests by people with multiple monitors, portrait monitors, etc. Just a thought…

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*DavidCMatthews Jan 2, 2011  Professional General Artist
I'm having to give that some consideration anyway, since I now have a widescreen monitor! :D

Back when I first started the TCC series, I'd provide several different sizes for people with different resolutions; but that started to become a chore, so I decided to make the one size (1600 x 1200) figuring they could be resized by the user.

But yeah, I'll be giving some thought to widescreen versions. (BTW, which ratio works for you: 16:10 or 16:9?)

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Mood: Approval ~SturmB Jan 3, 2011
Yeah, having a largest size available that can be scaled down by individual users is probably best.

Personally, I use an 1080p HDTV as my monitor, so it's 16:9. 1920×1080. I know some people have 16:9 monitors with a higher resolution, such as 2560×1440, so if you wanted to make the images for that size, I can always scale them down.

And 16:10 folk can probably just crop off the little bit on the right & left of a 16:9 image to make it fit on their monitors, if you only want to make one widescreen-ratio image. (Or vice-versa: Us 16:9 folks can crop the top & bottom from a 16:10 image…)

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