omg bones

[twilightsorcery]

Okay, it's official. I am obsessed with Bones.

I started watching it because I had just finished Angel, and it got a name-check in the Restore Joss Whedon video

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[ariadneelda]

Ooh, I wanted to watched it too after watching Angel. :) But it's been ages and I still haven't got around to it. I should really hunt this show down sometime!

[twilightsorcery]

I highly recommend it. As you might have noticed. ;)

[sleepsong]

Yay! I'm not the only Bones addict out there!

[twilightsorcery]

Hurray, I'm not either! :D

[sleepsong]

My friend's girlfriend is really super into Bones, too. She's in grad school doing research on bone ossification or something like that, and she says the science is pretty decent, even if the lab is pure fantasy and the software Angela uses kind of bull.

[twilightsorcery]

Yeah, Angela's skillset is... somewhat unlikely. ;) I mean, it's not like someone can't be good at both art and programming *cough*, but the odds that someone who trained primarily as an artist would be that good at programming that fast is, well, not very likely.

Also, "enhancing the resolution" is not really a thing that exists. You got the pixels you got. Once you start inferring from blurry bits, you're just making shit up. :-P

However, I choose to suspend disbelief because Angela is just plain awesome.

[r_grayjoy]

Aw, YAY! So glad you got your hands on the forensic art book and have found it useful! :D

As for the tissue depth markers, I don't recall right off the top of my head what she recommends using in the book, but those long, automatic eraser refills work great. Just measure and cut with an X-acto knife. Hehe.

[twilightsorcery]

So glad you got your hands on the forensic art book and have found it useful!

I found it *very* useful. Most of what I know about art centers around the ideal proportions, so it's really enlightening to have one that centers around actual real people (who are a lot more diverse than the "one eye width between the eyes" rules).

As for the tissue depth markers, I don't recall right off the top of my head what she recommends using in the book, but those long, automatic eraser refills work great. Just measure and cut with an X-acto knife. Hehe.Yep, she recommends vinyl erasers. I could probably get ahold of those easily -- it'd be much harder to get my hands on a skull! Since the odds of getting one are small, I'm looking for pictures of skulls with the markers already on. Google images turned up a few, one of which has the angle and resolution she uses in that chapter

[r_grayjoy]

Late reply is late, but I wanted to tell you: getting skull casts is pretty darn easy. LOL (That's just one site I found that seems to have a good variety of decent ones for good prices. You can get cheaper ones -- as well as much nicer and more expensive ones if you look around.)

Also, if you want one of the copies of the pics I made and printed out of the Villa Magna casts, you're welcome to attempt facial reconstruction of some long-dead Medieval Italian dude. LOL