Dr Who - The Second Key

November 18, 2005 4:58 AM

Dr Who - The Second Key. Original Dr Who strips made with photographed dolls and speech balloons.
posted by nthdegx (20 comments total)

wow this is real great!
posted by nola at 5:23 AM on November 18, 2005

Wow, awesome. The art gallery is especially good.
posted by fire&wings at 5:27 AM on November 18, 2005

[)(] DOLBY DIGITAL TEXT
This is Awsome!
[)(] DOLBY DIGITAL TEXT
posted by Dreamghost at 5:34 AM on November 18, 2005

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posted by IronLizard at 5:43 AM on November 18, 2005

I wish I could come up with an adjective other than the all-pervasive "awesome"...but this is awesome. Great link, thank you. These models are very cool, anyone know what they are?
posted by biscotti at 6:02 AM on November 18, 2005

holy fuck on a fuck fuck. I love this. thank you thank you thank you.
posted by shmegegge at 6:11 AM on November 18, 2005

biscotti, Their Inside the Tardis section gives background on how it was done and what they used.

Also there are quite a few other stories on that site.
posted by Tenuki at 6:52 AM on November 18, 2005

Reminds me of Leisure Town. Good stuff!
posted by lyam at 6:58 AM on November 18, 2005

Holy shit that fucking rocks.

How does one go about doing something like this? Are those background photos fake? Are those all real dolls and minatures?
posted by nixerman at 6:58 AM on November 18, 2005

Take dolls out into the wild and photograph them I guess.
posted by fire&wings at 7:07 AM on November 18, 2005

nixerman, check out here and here and here for details on how it was done. All the work of one guy! Amazing.
posted by jjg at 7:09 AM on November 18, 2005

I like this. It's the same creative method that's now even easier to produce with things like Half-Life 2 and Garry's Mod. Some people have come up with some Humorous and Impressive stuff.

Beats the hell out of Sprite Comics, anyway.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 8:44 AM on November 18, 2005

Dr. Who?
posted by Dr. Wu at 9:13 AM on November 18, 2005

This is awesome. Daleks, the Master, the Guardians, lots of geeky goodness! It almost makes me forgive him from saving annoying Adric from death in his previous story :)
posted by unreason at 9:14 AM on November 18, 2005

I wasn't sure about this, but it won me over pretty fast. Decent photography, and a nice eye for how the series looked and felt.
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posted by boo_radley at 9:33 AM on November 18, 2005

Wow, so much better than I expected.
posted by grouse at 11:40 AM on November 18, 2005

This page is interesting taken out of context. Especially if you don't associate the WHUMPing noises with the TARDiS and instead....

Well... she deserved it, didn't she?
posted by Eideteker at 1:33 PM on November 18, 2005

Hah, love the crop circles! It seems odd that the Doctor didn't do more to help the Egyptian boy with the fever, though. He was very sorta "not-my-problem" about it.
posted by Eideteker at 2:03 PM on November 18, 2005

Best of the web in my book! Thanks, nthdegx.
posted by Lynsey at 2:21 PM on November 18, 2005

The wordiness and exposition-in-dialogue almost killed the first couple of parts, but then they hit their stride.

I really liked that they didn't feel the need to make the Doctor look overly like any of the canon Doctors (although Elannuir was a bet of a Leela retread). I loved the use of scale in the 20th-century city segment especially. The occasional subtle use of animated GIFs was superb. The interrobang/stair diagram ... was sublime.
posted by dhartung at 9:24 PM on November 18, 2005