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“I've seen tutorials for how to make a flash dress-up game, and it doesn't seem too complicated. But I don't have any flash software, so if anyone's interested, I'd be thrilled to do a collaboration.”

“This is a new style for me. I've done smaller more intricately shaded dolls. This one is bigger, and I find if I cell shade, with no more than 5 colours per item, it goes much quicker than I'm used to.”

“I've now finished 6 gowns, and 2 robes. Out of 34. But only 20 of those are ones I would consider essential to do. So that means I'm more than 1/3 done.”

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
. . . If Inara were a real person, well, Mal would shoot us. And Jayne. In no specific order.

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I haven't uploaded one of these in forever. Better late than never. This is one of the costumes of the Character Inara Serra, from the scifi series Firefly, episode War Stories.

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Still plugging away at dolling all Inara's costumes from Firefly. I think I'm getting close to done!

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It's the latest in a series I'm doing of all Inara's costumes, hopefully to be turned into a dressup game eventually.

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It took me forever to get the embroidery right. I restarted from scratch about three times, till I figured out the right way to tackle it, but I think it turned out pretty well.

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It's con season, so I've been looking at panels from Dragon Con (my home convention) and others, specifically panels with the cast of "Firefly." Feeling nostalgic, I made versions of the ladies from the show. [If you don't know what "Firefly" is/was, see below]

L-R are Zoe Alleyne Washburne, the first mate and Captain Reynolds' oldest and truest friend; Inara Serra, who is a licensed Companion, and therefore holds a high social rank (much higher than the rest of the crew) and is probably the most thoroughly educated person on the ship; Kaywinnet Lee Frye ("Kaylee"), the brilliant ship's mechanic and the eternally cheerful "little sister" to the crew; River Tam, a genius-level teenager and younger sister to the ship's doctor, River was in a government facility where she was experimented on repeatedly until her brother risked everything to bust her out.

Firefly is a science fiction television series conceived by writer and director Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. among many others) that premiered in the United States and Canada on September 20, 2002. Set 500 years in the future, it is a science fiction Western, using elements of both genres. “Star Trek” may have originally been pitched as “Wagon Train in the stars,” but Firefly actually was that.

Though the show had a loyal following during its original broadcast, Firefly was promoted as an action-comedy rather than the more serious character study it was intended to be; episodes were occasionally pre-empted for sporting events, and the episodes were not aired in the order that the creators had intended. Most notably, the two-hour episode "Serenity" was intended to be the pilot episode, as it contains most of the character introductions and back-story. However, FOX decided that Serenity did not have enough of the sci fi action adventure they wanted in a pilot, and so the second episode, "The Train Job", was rushed into production to become the pilot episode, leaving viewers confused as to who these people were and why they were even working together.

The series was canceled by FOX in December 2002 after 11 episodes shown in the USA and Canada. Low ratings were blamed for the cancellation. Joss Whedon claims that it was also very likely the cost of the show that factored into the decision, and the network heads were never comfortable with the idea of spaceships and hovercrafts alongside horses and cows, and no aliens, laser guns, or loud explosions in space that you usually get with your typical sci fi adventure show. (All of Firefly’s space scenes are silent with only music in the background.)

Whedon eventually persuaded Universal Studios to produce a feature film, Serenity. (The title of Serenity was chosen, according to Whedon, because Fox still owned the rights to the name 'Firefly'). Numerous early screenings were held for existing fans in an attempt to create a buzz and increase ticket sales when it was released widely on September 30, 2005. The film was not as commercially successful as fans had hoped, opening at number two and making only $40 million worldwide during its initial theatrical release, mostly because there were no big-name actors to draw in viewers unfamiliar with the TV show.

Despite being canceled 16 years ago, Firefly not only still enjoys a strong fanbase, it’s getting bigger as parents who loved the show are introducing it to their kids. The actors have said at the more recent con panels that they are meeting 9, 10, and 11 year olds now who tell them how much they adore the show and want to see it come back in some form.

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