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alright, i like dusthides

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hatched sooo many tropical fish

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I tinkered with my fathom pixel base... I think detailing genes is going to be more trouble than its worth. but the insane attention to detail is what I was most proud about with my other fullbody pixels. im struggling with reducing detail to a satisfying degree.

now, my old fullbody pixels were, except for the tail, actually just still body parts that were moved around rather than redrawn per frame, so it was extremely articulated without having to redraw the majority of the dragon. My fathom animation is NOT like that. very little of the 10 frames can be copy pasted and then adjusted.

I prefer frame-by-frame animation now that I'm more experienced... but damn, beginner-animator-chee definitely had things more streamlined.

anyway maybe I'll like. auction the fathom base, I don't think I'll want to edit it more than once lol

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Thaaanks! It was a successful illusion!

Literally nobody asked for this but now that I'm thinking about it, it's time for everyone suffer me blathering about pixels.

You can see just how much I broke up the body parts into small pieces so I could nudge or rotate them tiny amounts to make movement.

This is a technique I learned from studying my biggest art influence, Breath of Fire 3.

Have a look at this sprite from that game. MOST of this sprite is animated by moving static parts around. I think only the tail tip is animated frame by frame.

I've highlighted one segment of the scales. You can see that this segment is simply being moved around. With the many other segments also being moved, it gives a ton of articulation in the lower body.

This 18 frame animation would otherwise require a ton of work to draw frame by frame, but with this technique, the majority of the motion is accomplished with simple translations, and then the artist can do a smaller amount of frame-by-frame work in some areas where it's most needed.

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I tinkered with my fathom pixel base... I think detailing genes is going to be more trouble than its worth. but the insane attention to detail is what I was most proud about with my other fullbody pixels. im struggling with reducing detail to a satisfying degree.

now, my old fullbody pixels were, except for the tail, actually just still body parts that were moved around rather than redrawn per frame, so it was extremely articulated without having to redraw the majority of the dragon. My fathom animation is NOT like that. very little of the 10 frames can be copy pasted and then adjusted.

I prefer frame-by-frame animation now that I'm more experienced... but damn, beginner-animator-chee definitely had things more streamlined.

anyway maybe I'll like. auction the fathom base, I don't think I'll want to edit it more than once lol

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more red sky babies up

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Day 553

Allied Mastercomputer from I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by XxTricoStarxX

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New festival cycle predictions

Apparel: necklace

Familiar: probably not an animal, I feel like it alternates between animal and elemental. Maybe elemental magical items?

Hope: elemental boons

Fear: effects

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sorry if you're suffering my miscellaneous posts, tumblr defaults to this blog for some reason

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I scattered my progen to emerald/emerald/driftwood so yay both of my progeny’s are xxy

But the driftwood tert is a bit difficult

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to save money on my gacha impulses. im just gonna grab the cheapest gem-gened dragon on the ah and then pick a cheap mate for it and make a one-off breeding pair

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sailfish marlin are you kidding me right now. and gecko with the steel chair

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its giving satanic ovum

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ALERT: ALL OF HER COLORS HAVE BLUE ACCENTS

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sailfish marlin are you kidding me right now. and gecko with the steel chair

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its giving satanic ovum

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sailfish marlin are you kidding me right now. and gecko with the steel chair

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the hits keep coming

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Reworking Bonito, I’m considering a lot of different directions and one of which is an affable baddie. As in like actual mean pirate type.

He’s so golden retriever coded… but that would make the Chaotic Neutral (leaning slightly evil) more compelling, if anything?

Buuut I think ultimately I think he’s gotta be a good boy. Like not a saint but definitely altruistic at heart. But maybe he gets duped into doing bad things.

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:/

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My anniversary wish is elemental boons. I never wanna rent a nest again