#i spend too much time on things

[egophiliac]

since Eng is getting 7.5 soon(?), I felt motivated to go back to my Meleanor rig and make her a couple of lesson animations! ...except for alchemy, because the cauldron bubbles proved too hard to photoshop around, whoops.

maybe she just got lost on her way to the classroom...?

(credit: backgrounds are from the game, I just put her on top of 'em)

(aside from the backgrounds, this is not an edit, I drew her from scratch! please do not tag or treat as an edit!)

[arttsuka]

Oblivious

[turtlewithatail]

Okay, no, wait. This is super fucking cool and I love this, but I have so many thoughts... they are only half developed, but I will try to refine them a bit and put them in powerpoint form or something eventually

Basically I love the concept but I think it can be more than just a reflavor - go big or go home.

Some preliminary thoughts in shitty bullet point format (sorry if this is incoherent):

Okay, so basically, instead of hell or hades or greek inspired, its jon trying to get through the institute one statement at a time, working his way to the panopticon, trying to stop elias

The home floor/house of hades is the reception area/the upper floors of the archives - shades are regular institute workers and statement givers, and when you go up to the groups of people, they have one line allusions to statements from the series.

The bedroom/weapon room is Jon's office

The first floor you fight through is the archives where you fight malicious statements and various entities - minibosses include the angler fish or the sandman- the final boss of the first floor is Jane Prentiss at first and then in later runs can be either rayner or Nikola

Prentiss has aoe attacks but is mostly melee

Rayner can black out the room and has longer range attacks

Nikola makes things weird and has manakin summons

Additionally in the archives, you can sometimes come across Bassira, who is looking for Daisy and gives you health or money like sisyphus

The second floor is Artifact storage - where you have enchanted items and twisted things attacking you. Minibosses include the piper - in the final boss room, you find sasha who turns into Not Them

Not Them has multiple variations: not cousin, not Graham, not sasha, etc.

In Artifact Storage, you can sometimes run across salesa in his camera house - he will give you powerups like persephone

The third floor is the tunnels - not sure abt the minibosses - maybe one of the hunters? - the final boss is Julia and Trevor working together to kill you

In the tunnels you. can run across Gerry's Spirit, who will tell you about Gertrude and the hunters and give you revival help

The final floor is cells in the panopticon, where you are finding a statement to survive - which you find and bring to the main room and read, releasing the apocalypse

The final boss of the game is Elias, who has a second phase of becoming Jonah Magnus

Once you beat the game, you emerge into the cabin with Martin and then leave to defeat Elias again(?) (Teasing a second game)

Every time you start a level, Jon says "Statement Begins", and when you die, it says "Statment Ends" and a tape, covered in webs is seen being rewound in the background.

Boons:

Dark - Given by Manuela - slowing effects as enemies stumble around blind

Corruption - john amherst - spreading damage over time with death bursts

Flesh - jared hopworth- meat shields, damage mitigation - can really lean into the gruesome here

Spiral - michael/helen - stunning + confusion effects

Stranger - could merge w spiral? - turning effects where you make enemies into allies?

Desolation - Jude Perry - chained fire damage

Hunt - Daisy(?) - crits and marking like artemis

End - Oliver Banks - not sure, but maybe something like ares

Vast -  Simon Fairchild - speed boosts with names like "Terminal Velocity"

Lonely - Peter Lukas - Push enemies away with fog and clouds

Slaughter - Grifters Bone - again, not sure what this could be - benefits for kill streaks?

Bloodstones are replaced with Satement Sense, where you can mark someone to give you a statement

Web - chaos like boons that change over time - they appear as cracks in the ground (I also like the idea that you could switch the spiral and the web here and do helen/Michaels door)

Buried - coffin gates like erebus but w a time limit challenge where if you dont succeed you are crushed

Keepsakes are replaced with Leitner's library

Weapons:

Gun: base is Daisy's pistol - Slaughter rifle

Axe - base is John's axe

Pipe - base is Elias' pipe

Knife: base is Melanie's knife - buried kukri

Claws/bestial form - base is Michael's hands - Daisy's claws

Shopkeeper is breekon and hope. - if you attack them enough, one will die and you will have to fight them as a boss

House contractor is rosie who doesnt say much

Other NPCs in the Archives include Tim, Melanie, Georgie, Sasha, Elias, Martin, all the regulars.

Like I said, all rambling thoughts that I may or may not get down somewhere, but that's where I am at this moment in time, so yeah, take that as you will.

remembered about my magnum opus aka tma hades au so decided to throw it out there. hades is a rogue-like game with beautiful graphics, amazing story and fantastic characters. and i like tma. it’s bunch of sketches with explainations, one page couldn’t be attached, rip breekon&hope as shopkeepers

[almondpiglet]

stars for day 1 mobtober

[ruushes]

ive been enjoying artfight SO much it's rly energizing!! crops of my first three attacks: hamal mahariel for @ghostwise, ariya blackwood for @puffy-shirt, and connor delacy for @reddragoncrush 💙🩵💜

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[crispinkiss]

the looperrrr

[off-mozzarella]

My sincere apologies, I never know how to crop my drawings XD

Anyways, they tiny!!!

[bees-pees]

this is all snufmin related i am so sorry

[wazzi2ya]

Art for the portraits in Sinsmas by jigokuhana89

[novaluxvi]

Day 3: Scars

Matching scars in the bathroom ✌️

[coldshrugs]

HOW are you dealing with the new expression bones

for me and the type of gposing i do, less is more when it comes to expressions. still, i've tried to set myself up for success when adjusting them, so i'll share what i've got here.

quick preface: i use ktisis to pose. i've seen the layout for anam, but haven't used it, and i find brio's posing a bit too finicky for my liking. i use it for supplemental features, but not posing.

blue tips will be pretty accessible, and red tips are for those who don't mind fucking around and finding out, or putting in a bit more effort.

Filter the Visible Bones in Your List

No brainer, right? Looking at the left is a nightmare.

Do yourself a favor and only activate the group you’re working with, like the mouth group on the right.

Make an Expression Pack (or several!)

When it comes to expressions, the best advice I can give is: go through the vanilla expression emotes with your character and save them as .pose files. It’s a little time-consuming, but it WILL be worth it if you’re making enhanced poses often enough. And you don’t have to stop there–if there’s a full-on emote with an expression you adore, pause it during the expression and save it the same way. You can load that face onto other poses.

A note on pre-made expressions with the new face bones: Expressions will not carry across races, nor will they carry well across faces of the same race. This is particularly noticeable for the mouth. For that reason, you may want to label your expression folders like this:

Gender > Race > Face –or– Female > Viera > Face 4

Eye Movement with Sibling Linking

This has always been the go-to, but I think it’s good to share. There’s a button that lets you move one bone while also affecting its sibling bone (for example, you can move the left eye, and the right eye will move too).

“Link Rotation” will move the bones in the same direction. You will use this the most. “Mirror Rotation” will move them in opposite directions, but the amount of movement will be the same.

I use this for eyes and eyelids to ensure I’m getting even movements and looks across the board (like below), but it works for ears, limbs, hair, you name it! If there’s a left and a right version of the bone, they can be moved in tandem.

Mouth Movement with Position

With the new mouth bones, I’ve found position to be far more helpful than rotation. Switch your transform mode to position, zoom way in, and lift those lip corners, or shift them in or out.

Here's the expression we just made from a blank face!

Adjust Some Settings

Consider adjusting your settings so that the bones and their connecting lines fade or disappear while you’re mid-movement, so you can see things more clearly. Some folks don't want to dabble in settings at all, which is fine!! But if you have the time and inclination, try it out!

Try Bone Offsetting

This is a lifesaver. You can adjust the position of each dot, for a more clear view of them. This takes some time and patience, but I found it to be worth it because I'm always on that damn gpose.

ESPECIALLY useful for the eyes, where the bones’ default state is stacked on top of each other. I’ve also adjusted the abdomen/waist/lumbar area and viera ear bones to my taste.

Bone Offsets only affect the specific race and gender you adjust them on. Here you can see the pile of dots on the unadjusted fem miqo's eyes, and then the fem viera's bone dots spread out to more legible placements.

Hopefully this was somewhat helpful! Feel free to shoot questions my way anytime! 💗

[snarkspawn]

Oh look, it's that time of the year again :'D (how tf did that happen??) Anyway, hm. Mental health-wise this year was the worst in quite some time for me, so for some months I literally only had one, maybe two finished pieces to choose from. BUT on the plus side I'm fairly happy with most of the drawings I did finish, so that's good! I'll just focus on that, and on all the things I still want to improve on in the future. Here's to hoping 2025 will be less rough, and a little kinder, to all of us :)

On that note I wish all of you a wonderful end of the year and a great start into 2025! Thank you so, so much for coming with me on my art journey, for liking and reblogging, and for leaving nice comments and messages! You make it all worth it and I appreciate the hell out of you, whether you've been following me for ages or only just got here 💜 mwah!

[wifii]

Melanie and Helen fighting with flesh avatars during the time skip is kinda badass actually so I had to draw something

[why-the-heck-not]

"the debug experience" - playlist:

[obsob]

there he is......the man of the house