#snaptoon

Snaptoon: https://www.acon3d.com/en/toon/product/1000007186 https://snaptoonwarehouse.com/snaptoon/snaptoon_en.php Acon3D: https://www.acon3d.com/en/toon Clip Studio Assets: https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/

(from Pagan Portals – Loki: Trickster and Transformer by Dagulf Loptson)

The Snaptoon Stone is a simple devotional object used in Lokean practice. Unlike amulets or talismans meant for long-term wear, this stone serves as a temporary focus for Loki’s presence, insight, and catalytic energy—especially during moments of creativity, problem-solving, or sudden change.

Its power lies in simplicity and intention, not ornamentation.

✦ What Is a Snaptoon Stone? ✦

A Snaptoon Stone is:

a portable devotional focus

a reminder of Loki as catalyst and disruptor

a tool for quick inspiration and perspective shifts

It is not meant to bind, command, or store power indefinitely.

✦ Materials ✦

A small stone, preferably naturally found and easy to carry

A candle dedicated to Loki

Incense associated with Loki

Optional: a symbolic activator (breath, focused touch, saliva, or another personal method)

No carving or permanent marking is required.

✦ Creation ✦

1. Selection Choose the stone intuitively. Let it be about resonance, not appearance.

2. Cleansing Cleanse the stone with smoke, breath, or simple mindful handling, clearing it of distraction rather than “impurity.”

3. Consecration Light the candle and incense. Hold the stone and focus on Loki as:

fire-bringer

path-breaker

source of sudden insight

Speak your intention plainly.

So I'm playing around with Snaptoon-- which is a program that a lot of webtoon artists use for their backgrounds ( and it's free! ).

It's not something I'm personally interested in for Chimera Academy.

But I'm intrigued for something less . . . not serious, but something that doesn't require a personal touch as much. Like for fan art or for my silly wuxia mini comics.

The only issue I have with it, is that once you start using it for a project you have to keep using it. You can't just have a random background you did yourself because it was easier to just draw what you wanted instead.

( Here's an image I slapped together, nothing Fancy or Good or Composed. I bought the background skp file from Acon3d. I just wanted to see if I could match the Snaptoon extract linework. )

Hell, I'm still not sure how it would look for you to add stuff to a scene! Like would it be weird to add a vase? Some flowers to this scene?

But it's the same thing for the other way around. If you do hand drawn backgrounds like I do, you can't bust out a Snaptoon bg/props because it's easier.

It's a choice and a choice you gotta stick with. It's interesting.