Heath posted:

Wasn't there one out in the mountains or something and just off to the side BAM nuts

oldpainless posted:

I don't care about this


I'm intrigued

Heath posted:

Wasn't there one out in the mountains or something and just off to the side BAM nuts

Choco1980 posted:

I didn't remeber that particular saga until this post.

Len posted:

who was the person that became a mod (i think) would would post pictures that happened to have his testicles in them? Wayne Gretzky?

Koyaanisgoatse posted:

Wayne Gretzky owns. He's been posting funny names in the PYF bad name thread for 3 years

Olive Garden tonight! posted:

I still default to "Dnobdner" when naming characters in games sometimes

Koyaanisgoatse posted:

Elsa, the dude who makes naked drawings of the Disney character of the same name, got a big ol' boner when Troposphere posted a pic of herself in her PJ's

Elsa posted:

I love drawing. I'm just not the person who likes doodling on something for hours and hours when all I have to show for it is one drawing.

I want to improve very much, I didn't say otherwise. Improvement is very much a goal.

I started drawing when I was 8. I'm 32 now. I only recently (two years ago) decided to take art seriously. I've never been happier.

Here's an example of the efficiency I'm referring to. I spent easily 12 hours turning this image



into this image



I have other similar drawings. I could repeat that process and slave away on each and every frame, and it would look fantastic. But the duplication of effort bothered me. I would be drawing a character over and over, so instead of that, I decided to build the model myself, and texture it... so that producing an image with that character in the future was a matter of placing the scene and grabbing a render, then working over it in Corel Painter.

I'm in the middle of those classes right now, so I don't have a completed textured model to show. But the efficiency is apparent in this example of an upscaling I did using a Diablo 3 model. This was ten minutes of effort.



Other random modelling things I've done



That screengrab became this image in Corel Painter after another, what, 20 minutes. When I have the model textured (which includes color), Corel Painter will handle that for me, too.



Build up an environment and character assets initially, and you can crank out episodes of a comic very quickly, and they'll look fantastic, too. I was looking for that consistency and efficiency, I just didn't know it.

I'd like to eventually animate short films. Drawings are turning out to be a pleasant byproduct.

Avshalom posted:

Okay, let's get this thread back on-topic. Now we're talking about likeable vs. interesting characters, I just thought I'd run a few character designs for my comic relaunch past the thread. My designs in the past have been pretty flat and sameish, they didn't express the characters' background, culture or personality very well. I've been dabbling in a style that mixes photomanipulation with digital painting, so it's got that nice foundation of realism but with a veneer of artistry over the top. It's good because I've always had a tendency to get caught up in re-drawing and worrying about little details. This way I can get a comic out as soon as I've collected the photos. Anyway, here are the characters (all the photos are my own):

Lumina Brennan: The "leader" of the group. Headstrong, a little bossy, secretly insecure and worried about her appearance, but she hides that under a veneer of self-confidence as you can see from her straightforward no-nonsense flaunting of her body. Each of the characters has an elemental power and Lumina's is Light, so I tried to incorporate a rainbow element into her design to evoke the light spectrum without relying on cliches like blonde hair or literal glowing.



Plum Blossom Yang: The genius of the group. Her elemental power is Brain. She is a ninja who is very shy and submissive, but uses her meek appearance to get close enough to her victims to strike them with her neuro-hacking, with which she can take control of their bodies. However, she prefers to control her own body - she's an athlete as well as an intellectual and considers her perfect figure to be a symbol of her power and ability, so she displays it proudly whenever possible.



Mengelina Finn: The sassy girl. Her elemental power is Water. I made her a redhead as a bit of irony. She actually gets really upset when people point out how funny it is that a redhead is in control of water! Although Lumina tends to take control, Mengelina is the true leader who influences the others through snark and sarcastic remarks. Sometimes she can go a bit too far and cause offence, but she has a good heart and tends to be right about most things. She grew up on a secluded island living a subsistence hunter-gatherer lifestyle, so she never learnt to be ashamed of her body and she usually goes naked because it helps her swim faster.



Choo Choo: The alien. Choo Choo's elemental power is Fire. She's actually originally a tool of the invading aliens (the villains of the comic) and is a modified deathbot who was hacked by Plum Blossom and developed sentience and a personality. She's quiet but extremely powerful. She doesn't really understand humans yet, but the other girls are trying to teach her to fit in with human society and constantly reassure her that she's beautiful and desirable to boost her self-confidence, which leads to her slowly becoming more empowered and willing to display her body over the course of the comic.



Let me know what you think! I'm hoping to get the first few comics out as soon as I'm totally happy with the art style.

Koyaanisgoatse posted:

I think Avs must have wanted to get permabanned, because why else would you go on a multi-day posting spree about assassinating the president

Snak posted:

I don't understand how that guy can call spending 12 hours tracing a poser model an example of efficiency.

MY PALE GOTH SKIN posted:

He's always been unable to figure out what's appropriate, is my point.

Koyaanisgoatse posted:

I think Avs must have wanted to get permabanned, because why else would you go on a multi-day posting spree about assassinating the president

Enhydra lutris posted:

no but seriously, the reason sa is dying is because its userbase is mostly joyless pedants like this one. hence, places like games and the list forum thrive but there is less and less actual new creative content being made - because every attempt gets swamped by droning bores like this guy, whose actual stated favourite pastime on the forums is reading the leper's colony and complaining about people he doesn't like in qcs and also reading my posts obsessively so he can report everything back to the admins. he is a miserable individual and there are many like him. no matter how much lowtax whines on vice that the liberals won't let him say tranny anymore the actual cause for the forums' decline is a combination of (obviously) total neglect from top management but also a proliferation of boring, anal retentive, miserable shits just like this guy who contribute nothing to the forums except bringing down the atmosphere with their endless whining. i avoid hanging out irl with people like booourns and the same goes for online. unfortunately sa has come to the point where most of the population is people like booourns and believe me, nobody wants to spend any of their energy on a community like that when there are many other, better options available.

"but you suck and nobody wants you here!" you will protest, and okay, that may be true. but the point i'm making is that there used to be a lot of posters like me and many of them didn't suck, they were in fact good and funny. they're all gone. why are they gone? it's not because they're not allowed to call each other friend of the family any more - i'm afraid it's because goons just suck, and by fostering a community of people like booourns who actively drive out anyone who even tries to make content rather than just engaging in white noise current events droning, you have created a website where only the people that nobody could ever possibly want to spend time with end up sticking around.

Panfilo posted:

Stop saying pajamas, this thread can't handle Elsa getting any more turgid than he already is.

purple death ray posted:

Wait, is Enhydra lutris an Avshalom alt??

funmanguy posted:

I thought this was an open secret. Also speedball is a cool dude.

funmanguy posted:

Also speedball is a cool dude.

purple death ray posted:

Wait, is Enhydra lutris an Avshalom alt??

funmanguy posted:

I've not read his webcomic and it doesn't look like my cup of tea, but I read some of his civ5 LP and that was good fun.

Koyaanisgoatse posted:

Avshalom, Avshalom!

Powaqoatse posted:

me, tired: i dont like furry sex webcomics

a goon, nameless: the furry sex computer game is fun to watch someone else play

Koyaanisgoatse posted:

Avshalom, Avshalom!

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Yeah that was wayne gretzky, a posting hero.

Koyaanisgoatse posted:

Avshalom, Avshalom!

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted: