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that's some amazing improvement :0 BUT HES ALWAYS BEEN A HANDSOME BOY

I feel like he started out as

and became

Suicide hotlines. Because the real world doesn’t (yet) have annoying robots that want your valuables, so everyone deserves help and someone to talk to.

commissioned art by @cryoclaire (creator, illustrator and co-writer of the webcomic Drugs and Wires) based off the following scene from my fanfic Bear Your Soul on the Ice.

“Yuuko wanted to know if you were naked and blamed it on the pregnancy hormones when Nishigori got all bent out of shape.  I told her you were probably wearing a swimsuit.”

“Nope!  I decided to do it naked!  In France there’s a copy where I’m getting out of the bath--”

Yuuri put his hands over Viktor’s mouth.  “Stop talking.  Please.”  He knew his face was beyond red.

Viktor just looked at him with an extra sparkle in his eye, but didn’t move.

“You know, I don’t even want to know.  Yuu-kun, the ice is ready.”  Alexei just looked at them. Yuuri knew that they had to look a sight, tangled up together on a couch, limbs akimbo with Yuuri pressed over Viktor and his hands covering Viktor’s mouth.  Yuuri groaned.

ProcJam Art Packs for 2017

The art packs for the 2017 ProcJam have been released, and they are as amazing as expected. Together with the art packs from previous years, this means hundreds of 3d models and sprites are available under a CC0 license for anyone who wants to use them.

The artists should be congratulated. It’s not a topic that gets discussed much, outside of the circles of artists who are working on generative projects, but there’s a number of additional constraints and considerations when you’re working on art that’s going to be used as part of a generative output. They have to work as individual art pieces and when repeated and fit in with the surrounding art--often with no idea of exactly what that art might be. It’s like tiling texture design turned up to 11.

For many generators, the choice of content is an intrinsic part of the system itself: a text generator working with a Tracery grammar is defined by the text that’s put into that grammar. A level generator can only work with the tiles it is given.

This even holds in a larger sense: for example, if transitions between terrain types are part of a tiled map generator, then the shape and kind of transitions that are allowed are dictated by what art assets are available. These relationships are sometimes addressed programmatically--you can always add more generativity within generativity, after all--but the general idea remains.

VIGOR MORTIS GUEST ART BY CRYOCLAIRE

We got the wonderful @cryoclaire, co-creator of Drugs and Wires, to give pre-Reaper Pierce a cyberpunk makeover - LOOK AT HOW BADASS IT IS.

Thank you so much, Cryo!

Check out extras here! | Start reading Vigor Mortis here!

The biggest and most useful discovery pertaining to this that I’ve made is there doesn’t need to be such a delineation between pencils and inks. More gestural “sketchy” inks actually look better than the really tight ones. More life. And they’re faster too. Win/win!

Goals, dude. :D  This is the dream!  And I kinda feel like my hand is finally getting steady enough that I can really try to push this in chapter 4. Thanks for awesome advice!

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I love seeing improvement like that :D Amazing job!

Debuting at TCAF 2017 - Drugs & Wires by Cryoclaire and Io Black