#the grey yurble

[ogerpwned]

We never see the grey yurble’s balloon and vira at the same time.

Only logical conclusion:

[juststocking]

A photo of me! ☻

[thedorfmirrin]

Drew one of my neopets, Quistalia, who was recently Grey Yurbled 💜

I'm now in love with the concept; a soft grey yurble with bright pastel hair and soft clothes who strives to spread joy and colour despite being sad and grey.

She is a painter and has a grey snowbunny, named Sniffle, who likes napping at her feet while she works. Her artworks are always surprisingly joyfull and bright. She also lives on a stormcloud up in the sky, and is a sweet angel of a neopian despite always being low energy and somewhat somber.

~•~

I entered this artwork into next weeks beauty contest (for the 28th) 💖 I really hope it will get in, and if it does please feel free to vote for her!! ^w^

[mutantmorphingpotions]

God he's so SOPPING WET to look at.

[zuccnini]

Darigan Yurbles Grey Tea Party!

(Based on my neopets hcktor and wyvmi)

[yourfathersmustache]

what went into the decisions behind nyx and ozzy's species as an aisha and yurble respectively? did you have any say in what they'd be?

(i'm most curious about ozzy because an aisha seems like an obvious choice for the plot's main character, since they're one of the most popular/iconic pets on the site. yurbles on the other hand are cute, but definitely not as popular)

I'm not really sure why these certain species where used. They were chosen by the narration/writers team, so i had no say in any character who shows up in the plot comics. I think from an artist standpoint, the contrast of colors and pet sizes make a good pair as our main characters. But have you see the original sad grey yurble? what a adorable little guy!

[starbiology]

pretty certain in the plot Nyx was in the void a lot longer than she thought and her brother is the yurble going around turning things grey because he felt abandoned by his sister as a kid

[adobe-outdesign]

I am so late to this but I had only just realised Neopets added new gray nostalgic styles with brand-new artwork for combos that don't exist pre-conversion! Do you have a favourite out of them?

(I already did the main grey review here before the new pet styles were released.)

Even as someone who enjoys customization, I think the execution of it was pretty poor. It definitely should've been that you could freely switch between the UC design and the converted design at any point, and the option would exist for pets that were painted after conversion instead of it being a thing you had to grandfather into. Likewise, I'd argue that TNT should've done new UC designs for colours that used to get special poses even after customization, so you wouldn't be losing the beautiful art.

It took the NC Mall and 17 years, but new TNT finally wised up and switched all UCs over to purchasable NC pet styles. Originally it seemed like they were only going to include pre-existing UCs; then, it seemed like they'd do pre-existing UCs plus some other pets with old art but no UCs; and then, finally, we learned that TNT would be giving pets that didn't even have old art styles. This is a great idea, as it gives the pets that didn't get a chance at unique art (Lutaris and Vandagyres being good examples) to have some. Plus the converted versions still exist, so it's just more designs for everyone.

(Pictured: Two UC/styled grey pets with pre-existing old art.)

The most interesting part about these new styles is watching new TNT trying to mimic the classic Neopets' art styles. There's no hard rule as to how old Neopet art worked (because different artists worked on different pets), but the following are what I'd consider the most consistent and important points:

Shading: Hard-lined cel-shading with only one or two layers. Generally high-contrast, especially for grey pets. Sometimes there'll be a small amount of highlights, but not always.

Lineart: Not too thick or too thin with natural weight variation.

Design: Not always present, but often times will include fun little plays on the original design like the Yurble's uncurled ears.

Pose: Easy to read with a good sense of motion. Matches the proportions of the original basic colour pet.

Of course, just because a new pet style isn't quite on point doesn't make it inherently bad (though I personally like the on point ones more, and have highlighted the best in that regard below). The new grey Xweetok style is pretty off compared to an actual UC; like, here's the old sad blue Xweetok pose, which is somewhat similar to it:

You can easily see that there's way too much detail in the shading and highlights (highlights too thin/plentiful, shading too hairline and layered too closely together), and the proportions and design details are also way off model (eyes missing the black "liner" at the back; head way too big; paws too big; ears slightly too big). But dang, it's absolutely adorable, and much much better than the converted version, which looks vaguely ill. It's a good example of how much personality a style can add.

Favorite (New) Species:

Blumaroo: BROKEN HEART FEET. BROKEN. HEART. FEET!! That's such a wonderful detail, and 100% feels like something a UC version would've had. The pose is also really good, and the shading and lineart are pretty accurate (the lines are just a smidge too thick, but obviously not actually a problem).

Bruce: Another pretty good pose with excellent lineart and shading (might be the same artist for this and the Blumaroo)? It's adorably mopey and little things like the extra chubby cheeks and bigger bow add a lot.

Hissi: The shading's not quite as accurate as the above two (one too many layers on the wings, which are also a little too fluffy relative to the non-converted Hissi's wings), but the pose on this one is perfect and really feels like something that existed back in the day. I really like the eye shape in particular and how it affects the entire upper brow, so to speak.

Least Favorite (New) Species:

Bori: Sorry, Bori, but you're not quite right. There's just a lot of things slightly off with this one, like the shading (WAY too much fur detailing that doesn't flow with the actual lineart fur; too low contrast; highlights too minimal in areas like the tail fur). Like I said above, accuracy doesn't matter if the design and pose are good, but that also feels off here. The pose is just kind of strange, like it's about to be smacked or something, and the head is like... off, like it's too far down and too far in in a way that makes it look like it has no neck. It's still got a lot more personality than the converted though, so that's good.

[gale-gaze]

Shadowheart - Royalgirl Kyrii

Astarion - Royalboy Acara

Lae'zel - Mutant Skeith

Gale - Grey Yurble

Karlach - Plushie Scorchio

Wyll - Usukiboy Usul

Minthara - Darigan Aisha

Halsin - Faerie Xweetok

Jaheira - Woodland Wocky

Minsc - Tyrannian Meerca

[neobastard]

first full look at the mysterious grey yurble! and vira lookin cute as ever.

[ksslr]

another pet of mine, Komissariat! he's a grey yurble from neovia, local tortured poet, and once was an archeologist.

[ogerpwned]

Okay but listen wait no don’t go please here me out… cmon…

[coulsonlives]

Ngl: I'm fucking crushed that neopets is apparently gonna redo a lot of uc artwork to 'update it'. Half the reason I liked the uc art was the thin lines, plus so much of the artwork even has obvious proportion changes, see the faerie elephante :( Some of the new designs are so different that the nostalgia is just poof

I have 2 uc neopets, one of which I adopted years ago because I loved every aspect of the art, including the thin lines (faerie yurble). I have another uc I made myself (grey yurble) because again, I loved the art. I'm so, so upset that they're probably gonna be changed up because I've spent so long looking at them that they're not gonna feel like my pets anymore

The original art was PERFECT. Not too thin, nice variation in the lines, nice shading. I'd hate to lose that

[heychief]

Started playing Neopets on Grundo's Cafe a couple of days ago and I have fully fallen in love with it again!! Currently saving for a Grey Paint Brush to paint my sad little yurble.

[starryscorchiotcg]

I would like to try and look into ALL the neopets fursuits out there

I know for a fact there are at least 1 each of -Tormund (several, yellow lupe) -Darigan Bori -Christmas Bori -Plushie Lupe -Alien Aisha -Plushie Aisha -Darigan Ixi -Pastel plush ixi -Dark Ixi (purple ixi raider) -Blue Lupe -Mutant Usul -Shadow Gelert -Grey Yurble -Blue Draik -Starry Draik -Darigan Draik -Lord Kass (Darigan eyrie) -Gnarfas (4 armed red lupe) -Faerie Xweetok -Red Pteri -Rainbow Kougra -Desert Kougra -Faerie Kougra -Island Bori -Sophie the swamp witch (green ixi) -Ruki (really old, can't remember if faerie or red) -Darigan Kyrii -Brynn (orange kougra) -Skull head acara

[grundogrotto]

I'm so tired of my weekly quest reward randomly deciding to change and the streak resets. Yesterday the weekly prize was a Grey Yurble Morphing Potion, now it's a random petpet and my streak is reset