One thing I have been meaning to do for a long time is to provide some more information about the original sources of the Parlor's Mayfair Witches animations. Since this is an attribution for creations already made, I do want to get the information on the site.
If you look on the Mayfair Witches page, you will see, right above the Mayfair Emerald graphic, a link. This link will take you straight to the Idle Rogue Productions section on the Mayfair Links page. There is an image of all of the Mayfair Witches in the 2015 Second Life production "MAYFAIR - Stories of the Mayfair Witches" grouped together. You'll see a few links to give some background on this rather unique show.
You will also find a link to the Pinterest album by Jennifer Harris, who created the original artwork that the Parlor's Mayfair Witches animations derive from. The only Mayfair Witch not there is Jeanne-Louise Mayfair. So in my series, Harris' Deborah Mayfair became my Jeanne-Louise Mayfair, and the image of Deborah Mayfair derives from artwork by Javi Trulove Sims.
As you can no doubt tell, this production on Second Life makes use of what is generally and collectively referred to by many as "AI". However, even AI is impossible without real people to model it on. What those characters wear, think, say, or do as their stories are told come from writers. Anne Rice wrote novels (and some screenplays), and those who write for the screen are the ones who put these stories together.
If those writers did not exist, neither would the performing arts. Writers, actors who are real people who can portray characters, and all the people involved in producing even one movie, one TV show episode, one play, one anything, are, in fact, the ones who make that product possible. They are the ones who bring stories to life.
Let me say that again.
Stories to life.
Unless that is done by real people--writers, actors, a mind boggling amount of people who contribute to the making of a movie, a TV show, music video, play...there are no stories to bring to life.
I hope I made some sense as I'm pretty sure my coffee hasn't kicked in quite yet. Despite that, I still wanted to take a moment to share some thoughts on one of the biggest issues that, in part, led to the strikes. This seems to be quite a complex set of issues that has finally come to a head when it was time to go to the bargaining table for contracts.
Tom Hanks made some really good points regarding the strikes and the issues at hand in an interview he did that aired on PBS News Hour. I've shared it on the community tab of the Parlor's YouTube channel, and I want to share it here as well: