More then a Little Bit Scared

This is a very unknown indie RPG that needs to raise €6,500 in order to be made. The Kickstarter campaign has only just started, but I have a feeling it will need some help, which is why I’m posting this.

Obviously, it would be great for this game to be made. But even more than that, if this game is funded, one of the side stories will be written by Chiaki J. Konaka, the writer of anime like Serial Experiments Lain, Digimon Tamers, The Big O, Texhnoylze, etc.

Additionally, if more than €10,000 is raised, Yoshitoshi ABe will do the character design for that story.

I hope to see this game come into existence!

I got pretty fed up with looking for words to replace said because they weren’t sorted in a way I could easily use/find them for the right time. So I did some myself.

IN RESPONSE TO Acknowledged Answered Protested

INPUT/JOIN CONVERSATION/ASK Added Implored Inquired Insisted Proposed Queried Questioned Recommended Testified

GUILTY/RELUCTANCE/SORRY Admitted Apologized Conceded Confessed Professed

FOR SOMEONE ELSE Advised Criticized Suggested

JUST CHECKING Affirmed Agreed Alleged Confirmed

LOUD Announced Chanted Crowed

LEWD/CUTE/SECRET SPY FEEL Appealed Disclosed Moaned

ANGRY FUCK OFF MATE WANNA FIGHT Argued Barked Challenged Cursed Fumed Growled Hissed Roared Swore

SMARTASS Articulated Asserted Assured Avowed Claimed Commanded Cross-examined Demanded Digressed Directed Foretold Instructed Interrupted Predicted Proclaimed Quoted Theorized

ASSHOLE Bellowed Boasted Bragged

NERVOUS TRAINWRECK Babbled Bawled Mumbled Sputtered Stammered Stuttered

SUAVE MOTHERFUCKER Bargained Divulged Disclosed Exhorted

FIRST OFF Began

LASTLY Concluded Concurred

WEAK PUSY Begged Blurted Complained Cried Faltered Fretted

HAPPY/LOL Cajoled Exclaimed Gushed Jested Joked Laughed

WEIRDLY HAPPY/EXCITED Extolled Jabbered Raved

BRUH, CHILL Cautioned Warned

ACTUALLY, YOU’RE WRONG Chided Contended Corrected Countered Debated Elaborated Objected Ranted Retorted

CHILL SAVAGE Commented Continued Observed Surmised

LISTEN BUDDY Enunciated Explained Elaborated Hinted Implied Lectured Reiterated Recited Reminded Stressed

BRUH I NEED U AND U NEED ME Confided Offered Urged

FINE Consented Decided

TOO EMO FULL OF EMOTIONS Croaked Lamented Pledged Sobbed Sympathized Wailed Whimpered

JUST SAYING Declared Decreed Mentioned Noted Pointed out Postulated Speculated Stated Told Vouched

WASN’T ME Denied Lied

EVIL SMARTASS Dictated Equivocated Ordered Reprimanded Threatened

BORED Droned Sighed

SHHHH IT’S QUIET TIME Echoed Mumbled Murmured Muttered Uttered Whispered

DRAMA QUEEN Exaggerated Panted Pleaded Prayed Preached

OH SHIT Gasped Marveled Screamed Screeched Shouted Shrieked Yelped Yelled

ANNOYED Grumbled Grunted Jeered Quipped Scolded Snapped Snarled Sneered

ANNOYING Nagged

I DON’T REALLY CARE BUT WHATEVER Guessed Ventured

I’M DRUNK OR JUST BEING WEIRDLY EXPRESSIVE FOR A POINT/SARCASM Hooted Howled Yowled

I WONDER Pondered Voiced Wondered

OH, YEAH, WHOOPS Recalled Recited Remembered

SURPRISE BITCH Revealed

IT SEEMS FAKE BUT OKAY/HA ACTUALLY FUNNY BUT I DON’T WANT TO LAUGH OUT LOUD Scoffed Snickered Snorted

BITCHY Tattled Taunted Teased

Mission parameters set.

Fuck that noise.

God this is gonna suck when I get to Frost Cavern. 

Still holding on tight to that 3DS I don’t have and couldn’t figure out how to get back. Our mom’s probably holding it hostage.

Oh hey, do you want to see how it resolved the issue of not having a full render model?

The ONLY WAY to combat the lack of funding in arts education is for professionals to take a few hours a week to share their skills for FREE, to empower and encourage the next generation of artists. THIS IS WHAT THE INTERNET IS FOR. Here’s 200 tutorials:

We live in a pretty great digital age and we have access to a ton of amazing tools that artists in past generations couldn’t even dream of, but a lot of people look at a cool trick and only learn half of the process of using it.

Here’s the missing part of this tutorial:

How do you populate your backgrounds?

Well, here’s the answer:

If the focus is the environment, you must show a person in relation to that environment.

The examples above are great because they show how to use the software itself, but each one just kind of “plops” the character in front of their finished product with no regard of the person’s relation to their environment.

How do you fix this?

Well, here’s the simplest solution:

This is a popular trick used by professional storyboard and comic artists alike when they’re quickly planning compositions. It’s simple and it requires you to do some planning before you sit down to crank out that polished, final version of your work, but it will be the difference between a background and an environment.

From Blacksad (artist: Juanjo Guarnido)

From Hellboy (Mike Mignola)

Even if your draftsmanship isn’t that great (like mine), people can be more immersed in the story you tell if you just make it feel like there is a world that exists completely separate from the one in which they currently reside – not just making a backdrop the characters stand in front of.

I’m a 3d artist and have been exploring the possibilities of using 3d as reference for 2d poses. I want to add a couple of tips and things!

Sketchup is very useful for environment references, and I assume it’s reasonably easy to learn. If you’re interested in going above and beyond, I highly recommend learning a proper 3d modeling program to help with art, especially because you can very easily populate a scene or location with characters!

Using 3ds Max I can pretty quickly construct an environment for reference. But going beyond that, I can also pose a pretty simple ‘CAT’ armature (known in 3d as a rig) straight into the scene, which can be totally customized, from various limbs, tails, wings, whatever, to proportions, and also can be modeled onto and expanded upon (for an example, you could 3d sculpt a head reference for your character and then attach it to the CAT rig, so you have a reference for complex face angles!)

The armature can also be posed incredibly easily. I know programs exist for stuff like this - Manga Studio, Design Doll - but posing characters in these programs is always an exercise in frustration and very fiddly imo. A simple 3d rig is impossibly easy to pose.

By creating an environment and dropping my character rig into it, I have an excellent point of reference when it comes to drawing the scene!

Not only that, but I can also view the scene from whatever angle I could ever want or need, including the character and their pose/position relative to the environment.

We can even quickly and easily expand this scene to include more characters!

1. Bert Wily.  Best boy.  Supportive, innovative, adaptive, clever, fashion forward, aims for leadership as a means to improve the lives of those around him.  Sweet babbu.  Will protec.

2. Dr. Light.  Buff Dad.  Robosexual.  Veteran. Empathetic, strong, pacifist, genius, judges a person’s character only, still tries to help others even when they could hurt him.

3. Suna Light.  Cool elder sister.  Emotional foil to Aki but also grounds his impetuousness in great sibling synergy.  Army of drones.  Heart for justice.

4. Wave Man.  Did nothing wrong.  Loves his job, which is to clean the city and its sewers thus promoting public health ;  Loves his alligator which he named Alligator.  Must be freed from Good Guild custody and reunited with Alligator immediately.

5. Drill Man. LET HIM PLAY THE PIANO. LET HIM DESTROY CAPITALISM. Everything he loves was taken from him, including his bodily autonomy.  He has a right to feel anger.

6. Ice Man. Very confused, but his heart and Slappy Hands are in the right place.  Did not skip elf practice.

7. Fire Man.  Him bigggg.  Trying to be his best self with yoga, therapy, and fighting against human oppressors.  Loves baby robots.  Unfortunately keeps endangering lives because he is being misled.

8. The Principal.  LORG!!!  Enforces the rules with compassion.  Protects students and citizens.  Has chosen peace despite the hints that he was an ultimate war machine.

9. Hypno Woman.  Wants people to live happy, fulfilled lives, but goes about it wrong.  Honestly trying to date Dr. Light because she appreciates his mind and accomplishments. Sorry, Aki, but I hope she becomes your stepmom.   h e r e c o m e t h e c l o w n s

10. Blasto Woman.  Lorg!  Works hard for her $$$ and displays both cunning and agility alongside her physical strength.  My kind of villain.

11. Air Man. Solid villain concept, but needs more [heh] air time to flesh out his personality and motivations.  Makes good use of his powers, and I appreciate his new helicopter design.

12. Toaster Bot.  Just makes toast!!  Kept as pet by many citizens!  Good beb.

13. Citizens of Circuit City.  Y’all fine.

14. Duff McWhalen. Not on screen, but the story amazingly is hinting that MMX has already taken place during the Hard Wars, so this implies that Duff McWhalen is canon and his existence can continue to keep me up at night his name is Duff McWhalen…

—LINE OF VALIDITY—

15. Rudy from HR. Mocked and shamed Fire Man, and thus gets a black mark in my book.  Probably just doing his job, but didn’t need to be such a jerk.

16. Drill Man’s Father. Took away Drill Man’s dreams and hands.  Probably wants happiness for his son, but is too set in his ways to appreciate his son’s true talents.

17. Sgt. Breaker Night.  Not valid.  Hates robots, probably because he has issues about being a cyborg and was hurt by enemy robots during the war.  Doesn’t recognise that the South lost.  My dude, you can’t live in the robo-racist antebellum mindset forever.  Also you have a boring villain design, and jaundice.

in shadow the hedgehog, completing a playthrough unlocked a cutscene sequence of that playthrough in the extras menu

literally just the level cutscenes placed in the order that you just played

each sequence had its own name and all 300 of them needed to be unlocked to 100% the game

I’m pretty sure Trent Reznor has a song titled after number 39, like come on.