Cities in the Astral

08-05-14 DILD. Completed Bonus TOTM. I was already in a DILD climbing up a building when I again thought of TOTM. I looked down on a street and thought about what the bonus task might be. It seemed to me that it had something to do with cartoons. Maybe create a cartoon DC? No, but that seems close. It must be something were I need to change an item from realistic into a cartoon version while observing the changes? Yes, it is something close to that. I will start there and see if more comes to mind. I watched as a white van came slowly up the street. How to make it transform into a cartoon version of itself?

I focus on the shading caused by light and shadow and erase all of that. Now it has a even white color with no shading. I try to imagine this is causing a 2D effect. It works and the van becomes fake looking. It is still driving down the road, but the effect is a bit like a cartoon van driving down a real road.

I am now down on the street level. I use thought to shrink only the front end of the van. It looks very funny, like a circus mirror effect. I sit indian style about 2 feet off the ground (floating). I start following the van up the street and it turns onto a faster busy road.

I realize now that the task is not so much change things into cartoons, as just shange things in interesting effects. I do this on perhaps 4 more cars. I try new colors, change the brightness, and metalic glints in the paint, enhance the crome strips. I had great fun with a copper colored sports car. I took a plain ordinary car and changed it to copper, then added a galvinezed effect to the paint. Then caused crome to appear every where. Next I stretched out just the lower half of it. It looked like some weird preditor car.

I woke up naturally soon after that.