{"id":3458,"date":"2014-05-27T09:08:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T13:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2014-05-27T09:08:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T13:08:10","slug":"the-unsung-extras-from-slaves-of-the-switchboard-of-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/27\/the-unsung-extras-from-slaves-of-the-switchboard-of-doom\/","title":{"rendered":"The unsung extras from Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx3\/blog\/slaves_of_the_switchboard_of_doom_Hazel.jpg\" alt=\"Hazel the robot, from Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom\" width=\"501\" height=\"501\" class=\"img_wide_open\">\n<p>So you&#8217;ve seen the Green Room, where my characters while away the hours until their names come up on the call sheet; and really, all the characters get to enjoy its amenities. But so far we&#8217;ve only looked at named characters: those human and mechanical people who have lines, or &#8211; if they&#8217;re not equipped for speech &#8211; something <em>like <\/em>lines.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not everyone: in <em>Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom<\/em> there are hundreds of robots from the Fraternal League of Robotic persons; there&#8217;s a council room filled with the Priests of the Spider God; there are plenty of switchboard operators who pitch in, but never chime in; and so on. And at last there are those characters who simply mill around in the backgrounds of the illustrations. Like Hazel, here.<\/p>\n<p>Hazel falls into that category of character actors who we see over and over again in the old studio films. She&#8217;s individual enough to stand out even though she never gets a line. If she minds at all, she won&#8217;t let on. Hazel&#8217;s a pro.<\/p>\n<p>Hazel&#8217;s especially useful to me because her silhouette is so distinctive. I need a <em>bunch<\/em> of robots. I&#8217;m still modelling them as they&#8217;re needed for one chapter or another. In order to give them plenty of personality in such humble roles, I&#8217;m trying to create varied body types.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is, though,  I&#8217;m kind of taken with Hazel here. I may have to give her a bigger role in the future. That&#8217;s it, hon: I can make you a <em>star<\/em>.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx3\/blog\/Slaves_of_the_Switchboard_of_Doom_cover2.jpg\" alt=\"Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom cover\" width=\"501\" height=\"501\" class=\"img_wide_between\">","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazel here is especially useful to me because her silhouette is so distinctive. I need a bunch of robots. I&#8217;m still modelling them as they&#8217;re needed for one chapter or another. In order to give them plenty of personality in such humble roles, I&#8217;m trying to create varied body types.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slaves-of-the-switchboard-of-doom","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}