November 2010 Archives   25 November 2010 Katherine Fugate Appeal For The Wayuu Taya Foundation Katherine has written an appeal for The Wayuu Taya Foundation, a charity dedicated to raising a school in Venzuela for children of the indigenous Wayuu peoples. Please click on the link and read Katherine's message. What is the Wayuu Taya Foundation? The following is from their website: Welcome to The Wayúu Tayá Foundation website! We are a 501(c)3 non governmental, nonprofit organization founded in 2002 to help improve the lives of Latin-American indigenous communities while maintaining and respecting their traditions, culture and beliefs. Wayúu Tayá Foundation was founded by Wayúu model and actress, Patricia Velásquez. Since its creation, Wayúu Tayá has concentrated its efforts in assisting the Wayúu, an indigenous group of over 450,000 people, located in the Guajira Peninsula of northern Colombia and northwest Venezuela. Continue reading Katherine Fugate Appeal For The Wayuu Taya Foundation.     17 November 2010 Mittens For Detroit - Erin Cummings Charity Mittens for Detroit, the brainchild of Detroit 187 actress Erin Cummings, is a community initiative whose sole purpose is to collect and distribute new gloves and mittens to children and adults in the city of Detroit. to Get Involved If you are interested in carrying a drop box for the Mittens for Detroit cause or if you are in need of our charitable donations, please do not hesitate to contact us! Every little bit helps. Please email info@mittensfordetroit.org for more info. The official site is located here     5 November 2010 Featured Episode Art - Xena Season 2 Episode 12 "Destiny" This week's featured art gallery is a group of montages I created during Season 2 for the episode that looked back at what made Xena turn to the dark side. Originally this episode had a different ending but because of Lucy's Jay Leno accident where the horse slid from underneath her and she ended up with a fractured pelvis, Xena stayed dead and it led to one of the best season 2 episodes (and Season 2 was fantastic) in The Quest.   A bit of personal trivia: the third montage on the page is the first montage that was signed by Lucy Lawless (having being sent off to RenPics on the hope it would get autographed. It did, which let me tell you sent me into the stratosphere for quite some time). I still own that printed out montage and the autograph...one of my most prized Xena collectibles. I was still a newbie at Photoshop and to Xena. Doesn't mean much to anyone else but it sure makes me smile when I see it. Click here to view gallery     1 November 2010 Redesigned MaryD's Xena Warrior Princess Episode Art Season 1-6 I have been redesigning / reorganising my artwork section. I have now desgined the section in Season and Episode Name to make them easier to identify. There are 271 episode montages/artworks based on each episode. These were created between 1996 and 2001 (with a smattering of beyond 2001 but I can't remember when I did those). Click here to view entire gallery here Organised by Season / Episode Name - Season 1 - 34 Artworks - Season 2 - 32 Artworks - Season 3 - 36 Artworks - Season 4 - 37 Artworks - Season 5 - 36 Artworks - Season 6 - 96 Artworks For those curious as to which montage was created first - it's Season 2 Episode 9 A Solstice Carol (goodness knows what Xenaverse artists could have done with high res episode stills back in the day...we didn't have them so we made do with small screencaptures - the quality wasn't great but it let everyone be creative. We have it really great today with huge episode stills and HQ caps but back in the day...just small/medium captures and very grainy. That's why the early work was restricted to 500 x 500 px in size. The screencap quality increased and so did the size of the art. What I would have given to have high quality stills especially from Is There A Doctor In The House (that blue filter drove me insane trying to get good shots that weren't dark). The artworks need alot of work but it was FUN! Screencaptures were created by Tom's Xenafan site and later by Judi who created them for AUSXIP. It was all thanks to Rob Tapert and Studios USA for allowing the fans to create screencaptures and be creative.     Read More Archives