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kahinuva

My comic with @prpldragon is coming out tomorrow and I’m so, so excited for you guys to finally see it!

projectprotea

Do you draw your comic on paper or digitally, or both? And what’s your process from concept to finished piece?

I use both equally. Drawing traditionally and digitally has different advantages for me so my process is a little convolutedhere it is:

step 1- do a thumbnail on paper to figure out page layout

2. model the background in maya if there is one

3. printout light version of just bg on my cheap paper. I’m drawing on 11 x 17in

4. sketch over printout

4.5 draw a better drawing if my first attempt sucked then scan that and place it in photoshop

5.get the figure looking acceptable in photoshop. I use a cintiq to draw

I have an easier time drawing digitally if I have an undersketch from a paper drawing. Don’t know why it just helps.

6. turn curves to red and printout on my fancy vellum bristol

7. final lines in pencil ( I’ve tried using real ink but I don’t enjoy it and I hate inking digitally) I ended up not liking how the arms on this panel looked so I fixed them with my red colerase pencil

8. scan page and get rid of red channel

9. coloring! (bg isn’t finished here)

that’s my process!

happydorid

overview of my comic style process

#art tutorial

vindicaris

protea cynaroides

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kahinuva

get psyched

pixelartus

+40 Pixel Art Tutorials

A growing collection of animated Pixel Art Tutorials by Pedro Medeiros (@saint11) of Studio Miniboss (they previously worked on TowerFall and are currently working on Celeste and Skytorn)

All +40 Pixel Art Tutorials can be found on blog.studiominiboss.com/pixelart (10 Pixel Art Tutorials are posted below)

#pixel art #sprite #sprites

patientno7

the suffering never ends

sinksanksockie2

This is the real process

thewritingbeast-blog

Resources for you!

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Bonus art masterlist!

brucewayneright

BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.

pc-the-unicorn-deactivated20190

This is what I need!

thewondersomethingorother

I think I have this somewhere, but just in case

badass-art-tutorials

CHARACTERS!!

luckstergal

A big to-do about SmashBits Animations

4 months ago now, SmashBits on Youtube started a series in order to cash in on the Undertale craze. If Undertale was Realistic. For a while, I saw it in my recommended, but paid it no mind.

It wasn’t long after the video was booming that I got a message from my friend @pipann about how the series was using her Undertale Models.

Not only was this done without her permission, but they were monetizing on it through Patreon, and while they gave credit to their animators and voice actors, there wasn’t a single line of credit to be found regarding the modelers and the models SmashBits ripped from the Steam Workshop.

Contact was made, disappointment was expressed, and at the end of the day, all that could be offered to Pip and the other model makers was that they would be publicly credited for their work. The project would continue to be funded through Patreon, so the animators and voice actors were still being paid. The modelers were not. This was ignored for the time being.

Recently, however, SmashBits got a sponsorship, and have injected a minute long product placement ad into their latest “If Undertale was Realistic” in order to earn even more money through their sponsors on top of revenue from clicks and their Patreon. They were continuing to make even more money off the backs of modelers who’d done the time to sculpt, map, and rig these models that were meant to be used on terms of the modelers (whom mostly allowed these models to be used for fun, not for profit).

Through encouragement of myself and others, Pip issued a DMCA and marked all points in the offending videos of the series in which her model(s) were present. She got the attention of one of the partners of SmashBits and they had been in the middle of finding a solution that would make both parties happy. But the moment the head of Smashbits decided to Counter Claim the DMCA, any negotiation went out the window.

Pip has attempted to leave comments about the situation on SmashBits’s page, both when the DMCA was first issued, and after the Counter Claim was made.

As of now, the comments have been deleted by someone at Smash Bits [Right click -> view image in new tab for full view]

This was to keep the now angry mob that is Smashbit’s fanbase informed as to what was going on in order to keep accusations from flying.

But with SmashBits having deleted the comment, their fanbase is left in the dark to continue being angry.

I, myself, have also left a comment. [Right click -> view image in new tab for full view]

But lo and behold it is no longer there when I go into Incognito Mode

The comments still appear for both myself and Pip due to Youtube’s cache being a bit slow to update for us. But it’s confirmed SmashBits is trying hardcore to cover their ass over the fact that they are making money using assets they have no right to, and even after several people have contacted them angrily about it when it all started, they doubled down to get even MORE money through the sponsorship without having consulted any of the artists.

I have even been outright muted to keep from posting any information on their discussion page. They themselves have not made any comment regarding the scenario other than “the videos will be back soon”.

I normally am against callout posts, but this is a case where the offending party (Or at least the head of the party) is very much in the wrong, and it needs to be known. The artists are not the bad guys for wanting to be properly respected and to not be seen as just a tool that gives people free assets to make money off of.

Smash Bits does not deserve to go unscathed from this. Spread the word. Inform the fanbase of the hacks they actually art.

At least until they either fully demonetize the projects in which they do not own all of the assets to, or they hire artists to make assets specifically for them to use.

synduo-inspirationblog

These guys are hurting a friend of mine, please reblog http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=797805669 Model used.

nikout-deactivated20170316

IN ADDITION TO MODELS BEING USED WITHOUT PEOPLE GETTING PAID! Py-Bun is also a creator of Papyrus and Sans from Undertale. She deserves some credit as well, and I believe she is not aware of this whole situation at the moment.

spartanburger

I am no wizard in legalese, but for anyone curious, this is what I’ve been able to pull from the steam subscriber agreement related to this issue. I was a little worried that, by uploading the content to the steam workshop, monetization rights were a little different, but it seems that the subscriber agreement clears this up:

Section 6B, relating to the user generated content uploaded to the steam workshop:

Workshop Contributions are Subscriptions, and therefore you agree that any Subscriber receiving distribution of your Workshop Contribution will have the same rights to use your Workshop Contribution (and will be subject to the same restrictions) as are set out in this Agreement for any other Subscriptions.

The user generated content section (section 6) makes no mention of commercial or monetized use, but it does specifically mention that workshop contributions are considered subscriptions, and under the same terms as other subscriptions. So on the use of subscriptions:

Section 2A, general content and services license

Valve hereby grants, and you accept, a non-exclusive license and right, to use the Content and Services for your personal, non-commercial use (except where commercial use is expressly allowed herein or in the applicable Subscription Terms).

In addition: Section 2G, restrictions on use of content and services.

You may not use the Content and Services for any purpose other than the permitted access to Steam and your Subscriptions, and to make personal, non-commercial use of your Subscriptions, except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement or applicable Subscription Terms.

You are entitled to use the Content and Services for your own personal use, but you are not entitled to: … (iii) exploit the Content and Services or any of its parts for any commercial purpose, except as expressly permitted elsewhere in this Agreement (including any Subscription Terms or Rules of Use).

Emphasis mine. The gist is that you can use subscription content, which as mentioned in 6B includes workshop contributions, for personal, non-commercial use. So the offending videos would have been fine if they were not commercial in nature, or if permission for commercial use was explicitly given by the content creator, but I think it’s safe to say that neither of this is the case. In case there was any doubt.

The only area I think there might be any question about is that it might be difficult to hold legal precedent against the video creator if these models were created without authorization from the holders of title to the Undertale IP (i.e., an unauthorized representation of an owned character or whatever the legalese is). That is probably something more explicitly stated in whatever usage agreement that Undertale has, unless explicitly stated otherwise by the Undertale IP holder.

Regardless, SmashBits is an ass, it’s really fucking late, and I’m way too tired to think about this any more

nikout-deactivated20170316

UPDATE: Seems like the whole situation with used models is being worked on in legal terms involving FUPA’s support on fair use by Pipann. Check Pipann’s Steam Profile and check out comment section on the bottom of the page.

pipann

Not quite confirmed yet. I’ve emailed FUPA, but they have yet to respond.

pipann

There is a new update on the Smashbits debacle. Smashbits has responded themselves on what’s going on.

No matter what they say I never gave them express permission. I refused their offering purely out of respect for Toby, and any other IP owners they would have tried to involve. They have no way to prove it that I ever said to them that I gave them my consent. The only truth is that I agreed (reluctantly) to let them continue their ways, but it’s now different since sponsorship is involved.

Not to mention that their trigger-happy use of the term “Open Source Filmmaker” is a favored excuse to imply that SFM is fully open source and royalty free, commercial use included. This is what OSFM really means: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/OpenSourceFilmmaker It’s a fan group, dedicated to SFM. They pull this excuse time after time again. I’m sick and tired of this going on repeat.

Do not let them get away with this ruse.

kahinuva

Sorry, no.

You don't get to make models based off SOMEONE ELSE'S intellectual property, release them to the public, then suddenly expect to have some say as to who can use them for monetary reasons and pull a copyright strike, because yo are not the copyright owner.

If these were your own original characters then yes, this would be something you could claim a right to. But just as you took someone else's concept and character designs without asking and made your own creative work with it, they took your inspired work and made their own creative animation with it. The videos are not "for profit"; they're free work that anyone can access. The audience is the commercial audience and YouTube pays for audiences to be reached, but advertising on a platform for a free product is not the same as selling someone's work. That is the difference between an artist selling prints of their work, and having Google Adsense enabled on their Tumblr that they draw fan art on.

I'm not a fan of SmashBits - I don't watch them, I don't know them. They could be a terrible production company for all I know. But as a content creator myself, I have to put my foot down and call out hypocrisy when I see it. If Fair Use applies to you, it applies to them.

rahisaurus

Playing with @krita-foundation‘s animation beta!

If anyone wants to commission a gif from me, it goes at the same rate as a digital art piece (it’ll probably cost a bit more because multiple frames = multiple drawings = more time)

dongstomper-deactivated20161230

imagine a sword made out of smaller swords

unendingreblogging

luckycavy117

this is this is literally Bionicle

#bionicle

retronator

If you like a good tale of game development including the learning experience and all behind the scenes life of a independent game developer/musician, you might have fun following Brando a.k.a @theamazingbrand0 in his quest to develop Animus: Before & Beyond.

Brando’s skills are progressing quickly so it’s fun to see how the game’s turning out. The Patreon video is funny too.

vicemag

Photographing the Beauty and Inhumanity of Asia’s Cramped Megacities

Michael Wolf takes photos of the masses of people who live on top of one another in Asia’s biggest cities and who struggle to survive in environments that weren’t built with their comfort in mind.

just-rube

the Chroniclers Company

see see for short done on todays stream

actualsaame

ohcarararara

I remember my first eagle ceremony when I turned nine. The first eagle you get is always declawed, which I always thought was pretty inhumane, but it was a good way to ease into caring for the birds. My eagle (named Baldy, because I wasn’t a terribly clever child) was already quite old when I received him (he was a rescue eagle, luckily) but I did have him until I was 16. I don’t know if I was more excited about getting my drivers license that year, or my new eagle! You should have seen the party we had when I got him, too! Grilled hot dogs and fire works and lemonade…. obviously I named my beautiful new eagle Freedom. He’s too big to keep inside anymore, unfortunately, but we’ve got a pretty comfortable roost for him on our apartment’s balcony.

the19thhistory

Ah, yes, the eagle ceremony! My Justice and I remember his quite well. (They had just come out with telepathic link transplants when I got him, which is how I know he remembers it.) Our celebration was quite modest, compared to Freedom’s—apple pie under a cloudless summer sky as we signed our Declaration of Interdependence. I still have the inked and talon-pierced document hanging on my wall.

vashappeninstyles

what is this

rinnysega

Get out Canada

thesanityclause

I was so scared during my pet eagle ceremony I almost threw up. But Stonewall Jackson and I have been best friends ever since. My dad and grandfather built a really massive roost behind the house for my eagle and my sisters’ eagles. Stonewall always waits for me when I get home from class since schools are getting so over protective and strict these days and won’t allow eagles indoors. Which just goes to show how much we’re bubble wrapping kids today. Back in the day, if you couldn’t handle a few stitches because you pissed off the wrong kid’s eagle, you had to just man up and learn your lesson!

nooby-banana

Ooo, I never miss a chance to tell this story! I had a rather unusual first eagle ceremony. The traditional giant American flag that you wave around to summon your eagle had been severely damaged the week prior (a ceremony that had not gone according to plan, but the child only suffered minor talon wounds. The flag took the brunt of the attack). Anyway, I couldn’t use the normal flag so we had to search ALL OVER for one suitable for eagle summoning. Unfortunately the stripes weren’t the correct shade of patriotic red so everyone was worried an eagle wouldn’t show up at all. I had to stand in the middle of that wheat field, the wind creating amber waves out of it, shaking that flag in the air for over three hours. Everyone was just about to give up when suddenly Patriot appeared out of nowhere! He came to me so quickly it was like he was apologizing for being late. And we’ve been together ever since.

avatarjk137

Some people think it’s excessive to have two eagles. But what can I say, I’m a two eagles kind of guy. Well, I can say, “You must be a terrorist to call me out over my excesses,” but I digress. We don’t have many open fields around here, so I got Liberty by waving my flag atop a decommissioned WWII aircraft carrier. I was kicking a couple of boxes of tea into the harbor for good measure, and there she was. I loved her so much I repeated the process a year later and got young Colbert here. It’s hard work, raising two eagles, but I have two shoulders, after all. Besides, I know that the secret to happy and healthy eagles is plenty of Bud Light.

roachpatrol

Oh man, the eagle ceremony. I was a weird fucking kid, okay, so I was totally sure that the eagle ceremony wasn’t just going to net me my eagle and deepen the mystical bond between a citizen and their country, I thought I was going to get to turn into an eagle too. So me and my mom and my dad and my little brother are all standing in the old civil war battleground, surrounded by the ghosts of our fallen soldiers, and all and the problem here — it’s not usually a problem because I make sure to shave my beard off twice a day, three times on sundays — was that I am, actually, born on the fourth of July. So it wasn’t just one eagle that showed up, it was pretty much every big old patriotic warbird in Missouri, all flapping around confused and pissed off, their innate senses of direction completely fucked up by the way firecracker babies warp America’s natural system of ley lines. And I was six, so grabbed the flag and ran with it over my shoulders, rippling in the wind, thinking it was going to turn into wings for me and I would go be an eagle with all the other eagles. Instead I just got mobbed by a freaked-out mess of nationalistic avians who all weighed more than I did. I lost half my nose and my whole left arm and spent most of fourth grade in reconstructive surgery getting machine guns welded on to the shattered remains of my ulna. Completely missed my little brother’s eagle ceremony, which I will always regret, but it was all worth it to have met Columbia. I never did turn into an eagle on the outside, but I like to think those long hours in the hospital, feeding her rubbing alcohol and my own blood, have made me an eagle in my heart.

hudlion

I usually never reblog long things, but this is worth reading, I swear.

raiining

Ah, see, in Canada things are very different. In Northern Ontario, for example, you never quite know what you’re going to get. Ralph, my beaver, is a very standard 20 lbs, and she came to me quite easily during my Oh Canada Calling. A friend of mine, though, ended up bonded to an 800lb bull moose (she named him Bambi, she was a weird kid).

skandrae

You’re so lucky you got Ralph! I had such issues during my Oh Canada Calling, and wound up with a pair of grice.

freyjastormborn

My eagle ceremony was weird. First of all, my parents felt I was too young to get my first eagle so I was the last one of my classmates to get an eagle. My parents are hippies so they got really into the spiritual aspects of it. Like, with my first eagle, I wasn’t allowed to get the telepathic implant, they wanted me to do it “natually” so I had to sit and meditate with Artemis for the entire morning. Luckily she was awesome and creating a natural telepathic bond pretty much happened organically. Of course we had some of the traditional parts of the ceremony, the waving of the American flags while the guests chanted “USA USA USA”. But other than that it was a pretty relaxed eagle ceremony. I’m glad my parents gave me the opportunity to develop a natural telepathic bond with my eagle because it’s good experience, but with my current eagle, Brunhilde, I went ahead and got the implants because I’m so busy with school that I didn’t have time to do the proper meditation. Brunhilde is a scientific type so she thinks the implant was a good call.

flatbear

Ugh growing up in New Zealand is worse. You just stand outside and yell Xena war cries until a Hobbit pops their head up over the nearest hill and politely tells you to keep it the hell down. If you’re lucky, a Kiwi ambles up, but it’s basically like having a football with a handle for a pet. This is why I moved to America…

ferrific

getting my american citizenship was both amazing and a bit traumatic. you have to do a lot of work before they will let you have an eagle ceremony, and the older you are the more difficult it can be. but after I passed all the tests and received my flag, my canada goose, laura secord, and I went to a shut-down auto plant and waited. eventually uncle sam, my eagle swooped out of the sky, and after a brief struggle, killed laura secord. it was sad, as we had been together for so long, but everyone knows canada geese are assholes, so I got over it quickly. because of my age we had to get the implants, but uncle sam and I are quite happy together.

tamorapierce

Our family, well, the common word you’d have for us is “hillbillies,” but I don’t mind. We’ve been living in our part of the Alleghenies for a long, long time, and my Pa’s family in particular holds to the old values. Of course, this was a while back, so we didn’t have the link, but I don’t think the old man would have approved if they’d been around. Anyway, he was determined that I would do things the right way, even though we both knew he was pretty sure I would be a disappointment to him. I didn’t like to fish or hunt (to his shame, I was gunshy); I hated camping, and I wasn’t good at swimming. Still, I was bound and determined to go for my eagle like our family had always done it.

He took me up into the Laurel Highlands, past where stupid old British General Braddock got himself shot in the back and where George Washington built and surrendered his first fort to the French and their Indian allies (though the enemy never got his cannon because George hid them). We got to the end of the track our family had always taken up into the mountains, and Pa gave me a panic button if I wanted to quit. He’d come and get me then, but he’d give up on me, too. That was another thing we knew without saying.

Long story short, I was coming down a hill my second day, worn out because I’d gotten little sleep in the cold, and upset because I hadn’t seen or heard any birds or animals let alone an eagle (I wasn’t what you would call an observant kid) when I tripped and fell. Down I went, and tumbled. I stopped on the bank of a stream,

I had my first aid badger from Girl Scouts, and supplies in my back pack, so I soaked my sprained ankle in the icy creek, then bound it up. By the time I found a branch long and strong enough to lean on, it was coming on sunset. I had two more days before Pa started to track me. I wanted at least to be partway back before he found me.

I had given up on that eagle. He’d have to wait for my sisters Kim and Dani to get big enough. They’d find theirs; they were better in the woods than me already. I was just a daydreamer, someone who never had any sense. Put me to shelling peas or doing dishes and I’d take twice as long as anyone else, because I’d be telling myself stories. That’s what I did that night, to keep my mind off my pain. I told myself stories of brave girls who found their eagles and went off to be soldiers (girls weren’t allowed to be in the Army then) or joined the FBI (we weren’t allowed to be agents, either). If the owls who hooted or the deer who drank at the stream liked the story, that was good, too.

I must have dozed off sometime before dawn. When I woke, a golden eagle stood by my hand. Not a bald eagle, like all those in my family, or like my friends’ parents had, or like people had on TV. A golden eagle, a big fellow with a trout in his beak. He dropped it on my knee.

At first I couldn’t breathe. When I could talk, I said, “Thanks, but I have jerky, and peanut butter, and celery, and … things. You eat it.” And he did.

When Pa saw me limping on the track three days from where he’d dropped me, dirty and crazy-looking with twigs in my hair and no eagle on my shoulder, he stopped and looked at me, his weathered face like stone. Then Anthony Wayne, his eagle, began to raise hell on his shoulder as Tecumseh glided down from his tree top. We’d found it was easier for him to fly ahead and wait for me than for him to ride on my shoulder, at least while I had one bum foot. This time, though, for the purposes of meeting family, he settled on my shoulder.

I describe things all the time, but I can never describe the look on my Pa’s face. I only know that he reached a hand out to Tecumseh, who stretched out and touched his fingers with his beak. Finally Pa said, “It’s been right in front of me all along. I’ve been trying to make you a strong member of the family, and you are strong, but you’re also a medicine woman. A dreamer. And this is a dreamer’s eagle.”

“His name’s Tecumseh,” I said.

Tecumseh fluffed himself up with pride.

Pa grinned. “Now let’s see if I can get you two home. Your mother is going to read me out for letting you into the woods alone.” He put two fingers to his mouth and whistled. One of my uncles and two of my aunts walked out of the woods, their own eagles on their shoulders. Tecumseh and I were going home like royalty.

dainesanddaffodils

Did Tamora Pierce just fucking add her own ‘how I got my pet eagle’ story?

What a time to be alive, folks.

roachpatrol

TAMORA PIERCE READ ABOUT MY EAGLE CEREMONY

elswere-1

Bionicle Was my first fandom

#Bionicle #Art

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Horizon Zero Dawn - E3 2016 Gameplay Video | Only on PS4

“Launching February 28, 2017, Horizon Zero Dawn is an exhilarating new open-world action role playing game exclusively for the PlayStation 4 System, developed by the award winning Guerrilla Games, creators of PlayStation’s venerated Killzone franchise. Take on the role of skilled hunter Aloy as you explore a vibrant and lush world inhabited by mysterious mechanized creatures. Embark on a compelling, emotional journey and unravel mysteries of tribal societies, ancient artifacts and advanced technologies that will determine the fate of this planet, and of life itself.”

More selected highlights from E3 2016 on my tumblr [here]