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Xuebing Du
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Cosmic Funnies
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@xane-mma
The new render/#RobloxGFX shown in the previous (Instagram) post is actually already being used by the recently-updated experience icon, which also repositioned the #ProjectMagicalMary logo, moving it closer to the top border. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpOptvDsZWK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
WOW. You've improved so much in 4 years! I feel like my progress is at a standstill and I still draw like I did four years ago. Any tips on how to get out of this rut?
my advice isÂ
draw a lot.
draw what you see, not what you remember.
seriously i canât stress that enough. Reference is out there, please use it.
donât be afraid to try new stuff/ donât be afraid to step out of your confort zone. Itâll probably look bad on the first few tries but once youâve practiced enough, youâll get the hang of it eventually.
Practice A LOT. If you want to get good in one thing, youâll have to practice that thing.
DONâT COMPARE YOURSELF TO OTHER ARTISTS. Your growth rate is your own, and so is theirs. If they are good, surely they mustâve spent a long time to get there, and youâll get there too.
Art is hard, and it takes time, and youâll never be satisfied with your own style but please donât give up.
My computer was down for some time so I couldnât post these here, but here are my pieces for the Animal parade zine! Thank you everyone who supported it!!! <3
âLOVE IS STORED IN THIS SPECIFIC DUCKâ -@thenest-crossing
Facebook PSA
Hey all, a little Social Media PSA if you have the Facebook App on your phone.Â
With the last update, Facebook began tracking something called âoff-Facebook Activityâ which keeps up with all apps and browsing you do off of Facebook and collects that information with the purpose of targeting ads⌠which means theyâre selling it to ad agencies. This includes access to any banking apps on your phone and your spending habits.Â
 Not only is this a major breech of privacy that Facebook didnât have to tell us about when they updated the app, itâs, of course, automatically turned on.Â
To turn it off, go into your Facebook app, pull up the menu from the main screen [the button with the three horizontal lines] scroll down to security and privacy, find âOff-Facebook Activityâ and hit the button that lets you manage your history to see all the apps itâs been collecting from. From there, you can clear the information itâs already collected, and there will be a button regarding âFuture activityâ where you can turn the âfeatureâ off, at which point Facebook with give you an âARE YOU SURE YOU DONâT WANT US COLLECTING YOUR INFORMATION TO SELL YOU THINGS???â screen. Yes, yes you are sure. Because this is disgusting.Â
Facebook made this super hard to find, so Iâve written up instructions for how I got through it (on my app - I donât know if there are other versions where itâs different):
From Facebook, go to the Menu by clicking on the three horizontal lines on the top right of the screen.
Scroll down to the bottom and select the Settings & Privacy drop-down menu.
Then select Settings (the first option under the drop-down).
This will take you to a screen showing multiple headers with lists of links under them
Scroll down to Your Facebook Information and select Off-Facebook Activity.
The next page has a short explanation of Off-Facebook Activity. Click Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity after the What You Can Do header.
This will take you to a screen with an option to Clear History (which I recommend). To actually turn off this feature, you will have to click the three dots at the top right of the screen and select the Manage Future Activity option that pops up.
This will take you to a page explaining in more detail what theyâre doing. Select the Manage Future Activity at the bottom of the page.
THEN you can finally select the toggle to turn off Future Off-Facebook Activity.Â
If itâs glowing blue with the circle on the right side, itâs active, and if itâs gray with the circle on the left side, itâs off.
Just went and checked this out and yikes on a stick
Yuck. I just did this.
bell commission for @acshangri-llama!!
adkfldagal i love it!! most beautiful first post ever :â)
Nice art (and itâs great to see a drawing of the Cherry Blossom Wand)! If bell commissions were open, Iâd definitely be up for paying for a commissioned drawing of my female villager in this style with bells!
I never did share the full version of this comic here (arguably, that was for the better). Based on a true story.
The Lackadaisy Animated Film Kickstarter is live, but almost over! Just a few days left to reach our mini-comic dub stretch goal!
This was a commission for Nicole Ott ([email protected])
â ď¸However they never paid in full so this is more of a beware of this person.
â ď¸â ď¸â ď¸ Nicole Ott ([email protected]) does not pay for commissions. â ď¸â ď¸â ď¸
This is also the reason why I will no longer be offering half payment before and after the commission is done, like I used to.
I will only accept complete payment upfront before staring any commissions from now on.
I know it sounds unfair to those that did complete their payment this way, but I'm just trying to protect myself.
I don't want to run into anymore Nicole Ott ([email protected]) clients đ
Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Design Book
Pikopuri Magazine (ă´ăăˇă) is a video game magazine aimed at young girl gamers. In 2013 they held a design contest and asked readers to submit drawings of their original clothing designs.
From over 7,000 submissions, they chose 70 and converted those designs from drawings to in-game pro-designs complete with QR codes as well as matching shoes and accessories. Additionally, they included QR codes for original patterns such as windows, food, and Face Cut-Out Standees.
Even though we have a plethora of resources and original designs all over the internet, Iâm really happy to see such a resource made available for those who might not know where to turn to for ideas and inspiration.
Something I donât think Iâll ever get to see myself is what I call the base drawing that they used in that magazine. The villager drawings shown beside each pattern have outlines that look suspiciously all the same, and look too neat compared to the actual drawings.
Iâd like to see that drawing, but I canât find a way to buy that specific magazine issue that had the contest in it, Pikopuri February 2012 or whatever. Does anyone have that particular one, or has a picture of the contestâs drawing that gets drawn over for submissions?
I found it and âAugust 2013âł on Amazon, but in the formerâs case, thereâs a Kindle version but for probably stupid reasons, the buy button disappears the moment I sign in, indicating they only will give it to Japanese people. WHY? Again, I donât think Iâll ever see it myself.
A gyroid that I made in Ceramics! It doesnât dance, but can be used as a container.
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Hi jello! First off, I adore epithet erased, so thank you!!! Second off, for the characters, have you decided if any of them are LGBTQ+? How do you feel about the LGBT headcanons?(ie Giovanni is trans, literally anything involving percy and zora lol) Anyway, thank you for this wonderful show and these fantastic characters! Iâm rooting for u to get the 2nd season greenlit!!!! Much love and keep bein awesome! âĽď¸
Okay yeah, Iâll tackle this exceedingly dangerous question.
AUs and âwhat-ifâs I donât mind because I think those are interesting explorations of what would change in a story if specific aspects of a character (in this case sexuality/gender) were different. I think thatâs neat, and it poses interesting questions without ignoring the original text of the work.
A headcanon, to me, is somebody saying âYeah, Iâm just going to go ahead and cherry-pick only the bits of canon that I want to be true while ignoring the work as a whole.â That creates a bad reading. I hate it when people do this regardless of whether itâs my work or not
Thatâs not to say that headcanons are never a good call, but when it comes to character sexuality and gender, I always think itâs weird to mentally assign someone a sexuality or gender that they canonically arenât. It feels weird and regressive to me. You donât get to decide what you want a characterâs gender or sexuality. The character does. Iâve gotten flak for this stance before, but I think âheadcanoningâ any character as any sexuality they arenât is equally weird, no matter which way you do it. Itâs weird to think of a straight character as bi, a bi character as gay, a gay character as ace, an ace character as straight, etc. All bad.
On the subject of Epithet though:
Something like Zora x Percy I donât mind too much. Itâs mostly harmless.
Zora is canonically bisexual and I write Percy as ace (maybe aro too? Iâd have to talk to her original player about that).
Because Percy is ace nothing sexual would ever happen between her and Zora.Â
Because of their position in the story and who they are as people Percy would never be interested pursuing a friendship with Zora, let alone a romantic relationship with her.
I know what kind of girls Zora is into and it ainât Percy.
But! I can seeâin an AUâ some of those comics of Zora flirting with Percy at a bar actually happening, and I think theyâre pretty cute.
Molly being non-binary is one I see a lot. That oneâs also harmless. Thereâs nothing in the text to counter it, so okay thatâs fair game.
Giovanni being trans though.
Uh.
Kinda hate that one, if Iâm being honest!
Not because I donât want trans representation, but specifically because of the reason I saw people making Trans Giovanni their âheadcanonâ, which was: âGiovanni likes feminine things! He crafts and cooks and has motherly traits! I bet he was assigned-female at birth!â
SUPER weird, regressive, and sexist take there, guys!
Giovanni is a cis male. The whole point of Giovanni is that heâs a teenage boy who is comfortable and open with his own femininity, which is something I wish I saw more in media. Heâs emotionally intelligent. He wants people to talk about their feelings. He paints his nails. Heâs the team mom. Heâs a guy, and heâs cool with all of that. Heâs not âsecretly trans because he has traditionally feminine traitsâ. What? What even?
I dunno thatâs just bothered me since day one.
Inspired on this post by @superbonusround  , here are my Spyro 2 talismans gifs [Part. 1]
Spyro 2: Riptoâs Rage! - PS1 (1999) âł Homeworld 1 / Summer Forest Talismans.
Gonna put this here too--
Whatâs wrong with different games in the same genre playing differently? You dont have a run button or the ability to jump on enemyâs heads in castlevania, and you canât duck in megaman (usually). Metal Gear Solid didnt play like a shooter for a long time, and not every jrpg needs to be turn based or even have a menu. Sonic unleashed doesnât play like sonic adventure, or any game, so why should srb2? Doesnât that reduce the benefits from experimentation in game design that got us SotN?
Iâve always bristled at the idea that Castlevania and Mega Man are the same genre, because that usually means the blanket term of simply referring to them as âaction gamesâ when, like, 75% of the games on the market today contain âaction.â
(Then there are the psychopaths who put Mega Man in the genre of âplatformer,â and thatâs when blood starts coming out of my eyes)
But I digress.
The thing that youâre forgetting in all of this is the drum Iâve been beating this entire time, and thatâs the idea of STANDARDS. Youâve heard the term where something âraises the bar,â right? Innovation is not celebrating somebody throwing darts randomly at a bullseye and clapping even when they donât hit the target.
Everything has to have a logic behind it, and either that logic is good, or itâs bad. And sometimes the logic is so good that it takes the current standard and elevates it to the next level, usually by improving on a core fundamental of the game design so much that all games to follow in its wake adopt the changes as part of the expected set of features that game has.
So you have Castlevania and Mega Man, as you say, right? Theyâre both âaction gamesâ but in the most granular terms possible, they are almost their own genres. Castlevania is a hyper-difficult gothic horror melee attack game, and Mega Man is a futuristic cartoon shooter with permanent upgrades.
As such, neither really has a baring on the other. What Castlevania does largely does not effect Mega Man, because Mega Man is not a hyper-difficult gothic horror melee attack game, and vice-versa, Castlevania is not a futuristic cartoon shooter with permanent upgrades. Both games have different vibes, both games have different goals, both games have different structures. They arenât the same thing and therefore do not influence each other.
They are their own standards, essentially. So you have Mega Man 2, and some people say thatâs the best Mega Man, so itâs the standard that all other Mega Man games are judged against. There is a wider action game standard, too, but itâs broader and more complex to define, so itâs easier to focus on something as simple as games in the âfuturistic cartoon shooter with permanent upgradesâ sub-sub genre.
The thing to keep in mind about Sonic Robo-Blast 2, is that:
Itâs a fangame thatâs part of a long-established franchise where the core genre is sort of a platformer/racing game hybrid.
SRB2 has been in development for over twenty years, and if youâve been following it for the projectâs entire lifespan (as I have) youâve seen exactly what itâs going for (which is to say: itâs the sequel to Sonic Robo-Blast 1, a pure platformer)
We also know what features were available in prior versions of the game (proper analog controls that did not require mouse aiming, and even a homing attack like the Sonic Adventure games had).
These three things influence how we judge the logic behind what version 2.2 has done. We can also use this information to compare it directly to games that are its peers â namely, other cartoony 3D platformers, and other Sonic games.
SRB2 version 2.2 implements its mouse-aim-focused controls because it is built on top of the Doom Engine, particularly the Doom Legacy fork. SRB2 has long fought to build a proper 3D platformer out of the Doom Engine. Every major version of the game moves it closer to this goal, with a third person camera, layered vertically-oriented level design, and moving platforms.
But for more than half of its development, a very popular feature for SRB2 has been its âMatchâ (Deathmatch) mode, which throws all the platformer stuff out the window and brings SRB2 back to the its roots in the Doom engine, with âgunsâ (weaponized rings) that can be shot at opponents in tight, looping arenas.
And because itâs basically Doom, it helps to play it like a shooter: WASD for strafing, mouse for aiming. The most hardcore SRB2 players even play in first-person, just like Doom. For them, itâs almost not even a Sonic game anymore, itâs just Doom with different weapons and more colorful maps. This, even though deathmatch didnât get added until three years after SRB2 entered development.
As the game wore on, the old developers slowly left to go live normal lives and new developers were brought in to fill the gaps, some (or even most) of which were the types to play lots and lots of SRB2 deathmatch. They played so much deathmatch that they decided that playing SRB2 like a standard platformer was worse than playing SRB2 like it was a shooter, so they opted to make SRB2 play more like Doom, because thatâs what they like.
Except it doesnât need to. SRB2 is still structured and designed like a platformer. Nothing in the single player campaign explicitly requires you to circle strafe, even though the tutorial makes you practice doing so. The gameâs own design is fighting itself, and the people who just want âDoom with different weapons and colorful mapsâ are winning. Itâs making for a worse product to the people who have never touched SRB2â˛s deathmatch, or plan to touch deathmatch.
Itâs their game. They can do whatever they want with it. They can take what SRB2 was and change that, if it strikes their fancy. But that doesnât mean I have to like it, and it doesnât mean Iâve given up the right to complain about it. I cared enough about SRB2 that pieces of my artistic DNA are still in that game to this very day. Iâm allowed to have an opinion on it.
And that opinion is: it doesnât want to play like a 3D platformer anymore. It ignores 20 years of analog control standardization and tells you to play a platformer like a third person shooter. It offers a kludgy justification for it by breaking established rules of how 3D platformers work â rules that, might I add, were not broken by previous versions of SRB2.
When Mario does a long jump in Super Mario 64, he jumps in the direction that heâs facing. When Banjo and Kazooie do a Beak Barge, they shoot forward in the direction theyâre facing. When Jak & Daxter do an uppercut, they do it in the direction theyâre facing. When Spyro does a headbutt, he does it in the direction heâs facing. When Sonic spindashes in Sonic Adventure, he shoots off in the direction heâs facing. When Sonic boosts in Sonic Generations, he boosts in the direction heâs facing. Nobody EVER shoots off EXCLUSIVELY IN THE DIRECTION OF THE CAMERA unless they are holding and shooting a gun, like Ratchet in Ratchet & Clank. But even then, the moment you stop aiming? All of Ratchetâs moves go in the same direction that heâs facing.
I really cannot make this any clearer than that.
Blaze does have good points here. SRB2â˛s illogical âthok in the direction of the cameraâ was fine in 2.1 and previous versions (because Sonic always faced the cameraâs direction when not in analog controls) but now that he can look in any direction, it would be preferred to at least allow players to choose whether to use the camera or playerâs angle for determining where to âthokâ off to.
If I was the one in charge of things behind the scenes, Iâd probably let the player decide that on their own instead of forcing their own control scheme on them. In Maryâs Magical Adventure, my game, I like to give the player options (the âxane_â CVARs) to tweak their game or improve performance. If I did something like this (and it was easy to add the old behavior back), Iâd...probably do it.
âLooks like weâve still got some things to do after all, old friend.â Dragons may age differently than Dragonflies, but best friends always stick together đđ Spyro & Sparx, all grown up! Spyro took up with the balloonists to see the worlds. This is Unofficial fanart in the Official style! I saw a few interpretations of Elder Dragon Spyro floating around online (and of course the original from the old manual, which I referenced for this piece) and I had to try my hand! Drawing while my wife plays The Reignited Trilogy and having a great time- theyâre actually likeâŚreally still fun to play :))) www.nicholaskole.art
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