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Photos Reveal The Full Spectrum Of Autumn’s Colors  

For people of the Northern Hemisphere, fall is officially here. The leaves are turning brilliant shades of orange, red, every shade of brown, gold and yellow; farmers’ markets are beginning to sell colorful carrots, peppers and pumpkins; the trees in the parks are all in different hues, creating a wonderful atmosphere with this huge explosion of color.

To celebrate the rainbow of colors that autumn brings us we’ve collected some beautiful photos that highlight the transitioning colors of autumn’s leaves and harvest.  Source:boredpanda

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Dark-Winged Angels: Roberto Ferri

Sumptuous oil paintings by Taranto, Italy romantic painter Roberto Ferri (b. 1978), modern master of his own Baroque revival, who some call Caravaggio’s heir. Who am I to argue?

We often see Ferri’s Lucifero posted here and at other blogs (the fifth image down). No idea why I hadn’t previously taken the time to look up more of this painter’s work. Gorgeous, one and all. But be they good or bad, why, we must wonder, are all of the angels’ wings dark?

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For anyone who wants a free pose-able human reference for drawing

The other day I came across this awesome program by accident (I don’t even remember what I was actually searching for, but on the several times I’ve looked for a program like this I’ve had no luck). It’s cool enough that I wanted to share it.

It’s called DesignDoll (website here) and it’s a program that lets you shape and pose a human figure pretty much however you want.

There’s a trial version with no expiration date that can be downloaded for free, as well as the “pro license” version priced at $79. I’ve only had the free version for two days so far, so I’m not an expert and I haven’t figured out all of the features yet, but I’ve got the basics down. The website’s tutorials are actually pretty helpful for the basics, as well. 

Here’s the page for download, which has a list of the features available in both versions.

There are three features the free version doesn’t have:

Can’t save OBJ files for export

Can’t download models and poses from Doll Atelier (a sharing site for users; note that the site is in Japanese, though)

It can’t load saved files

The third one means that if you make a pose, save it, and close the program, you can’t load that pose/modified model later. You have to start with the default model. I found that out when I tried to load a file from the day before (this is why reading is important…). Whether saving your modifications (and downloading models and poses) is worth $80 is up to you. 

But, the default model is pretty nice and honestly if all you’re looking for is a basic pose reference it should work fairly well as it is. Here’s what it looks like:

There’s a pose tag that lets you drag each joint into place and rotate body parts. The torso and waist can be twisted separately, and it seems like everything pretty much follows the range of movement it would have on an actual human.

Even the entire shoulder area is actually movable along with the joint! See, like how the scapular area of the back raises with the arm:

The morphing tag is one of the coolest features, in my opinion. It lets you pick and choose from a library of pre-set forms for the head, chest, arms, legs, etc. It has some more realistic body shapes in addition to more anime-like ones. Don’t like the options there? Mix a few to get what you want! Each option has a slider that lets you blend as much or as little as you want into the design. 

So you, too, can create beautiful things like kawaii Muscle-chan!!

The scale tag lets you mess with the proportions and connection points of different joints. This feature combined with the morphing feature not only allows more body shape variations, but it also means that you can do things like make a more digitigrade model if you want. (The feet only have an ankle joint, but for regular human poses that’s all that you really need, so whatever.)

Or you can make a weird chubby alien-like thing with giant hands and balloon tiddies if that’s more your thing.

The ability to pose hands to the extent it allows is far more than I could have hoped for from a free program. Seriously, you can change the position of each finger joint individually, as well as how spread out the fingers are from each other. Each crease on the diagram below is a point of movement, and the circles are for spread between fingers. 

And to make it a bit more convenient, there’s a library of pre-set hand poses you can pick from as well, and then change the pose from that if you like. 

In both versions, you can also import OBJ files from other places for the model to hold, like if you wanted to have them hold a sword or something.

Basically, this program is awesome and free and you should totally check it out if you want a good program for creating pose references.

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3D Learning Resources

This is not coding related, I know, but gamedev-learning related enough to be here! :) I’ve been asked about learning resources for 3D modeling and tried to make a list of tutorials I could remember - I’m highlighting the ones I’ve tried myself but I’ve heard good things about all of these. This list is low poly focused but the knowledge can be applied for anything else. 

I haven’t been doing this for long - I started learning 3D last July and have been ever since but as a 2D artist the technical side of it still overwhelms me a lot. I’ve gone nowhere near animation yet but I’ve been adventuring with low poly quite a lot (which you can check out in #GemuNoGemu, image above - I also put up assets pics in a Trello here as well as stuff on my website). I mainly use Maya (now Maya LT) but I’ve been trying to tackle Blender too. Here are some helpful goodies:

Maya:

I started learning Maya with this series of videos on youtube by Misterh3d. I watched through units 1-7 and it’s a pretty great introduction! Nicely paced, covers a bunch you gotta know.

A series on Low poly for game assets using Maya 2015

Blender:

Blender 3D - Noob to Pro: for the basics! :)

And another Blender course for beginners

The popular Secrets to Creating Low Poly Illustrations On Blender - great intro to making some low poly goodness :)

Blender Cookie - CGCookie is a website that has a bunch of awesome tutorials (loads for free) on many softwares, including Unity. Take a look at this Low Poly Game Asset Creation tutorial.

Some character creation tutorials by ward7299

Bunch of really cool low poly tutorials here by Manuel Graphics!

A Minecraft character modeling and texturing tutorial

All things 3D/low poly:

Creating a low poly treasure island

PigArt: rad speedart/timelapses of adorable looking low poly art, lots to learn from watching these :)

Digital Tutors has loads of 3D modeling tutorials, some free some paid. Tried a few of those and they’re pretty cool!

Cool Misc stuff:

Blender Cycles rendering introduction

Creating flat colored low poly art. This is how I currently color all assets for Gemu (I used to color using materials or vertex colors before because I can’t stand UV unwrapping but this is a pretty easy alternative) 

Please do check the Polycount forum, so many cool references and useful info! Also do check their low poly thread :)

There’s also reddit’s /low_poly

Study Files:

Cocefi kindly uploaded a low poly model for download here :)

You can download models on Sketchfab! Here are some popular low poly ones

Lots of cool Cinema 4D project files for download here

(I’ll share some Gemu stuff soon! Lemme know if you have any files you’d be willing to share :D)

Rad people making awesome 3D stuff:

@PIXELATEDCROWN

@turnislefthome

@chickysprout

@metkis

@korigame

@GarretRandell

@IMPLODINGORACLE

@ultrakurtzwelle

@khalkeus3d

@AckkStudios

@q_dork

@andmish

@heatpenn

@dicey

This is it for now! :) I know it’s short but I hope I can keep it growing - I’ll add more stuff to it as I find other tuts (let me know if you have any suggestions!).

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Ahh thanks so much for your comment/reblog >W< Uhh your background pic is basically the cutest. YES! Like, where all the cool ladies at? :S Like Cynthia, Cynthia was super cool.

aw thank you! my background was drawn by my friend katie <3

and yeah I really love cynthia, I'm glad they had her reappear in later games bc I think she's also one of the only recurring female characters? idk she has a really great design and is one of the strongest trainers which is really cool

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like none of them are even challenging, I know rivals have been getting friendlier w/each generation but STILL. they really just seem to be there to be imaginary girlfriends for dudes playing the games or something so they have to be as non threatening as possible

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One more thing I wanted to add is how in the past two games we've had these excitable female rivals who gush over the male player? In XY it was Shauna and now May has a really similar personality. It just seems really pandering and idk, even Bianca had shades those traits too iirc. It's disappointing bc we've only had four female rivals (and two of them are just the protagonist you didn't pick), yet all the male rivals have had a variety of personalities. 

BE A BOY:

BE A GIRL:

BE A BOY: The girl next door is basically in love with you and you get to start your journey with a jaunty skip in your step.

BE A GIRL: The boy next door thinks you’re incompetent and you get to start your journey proving he’s wrong.

 I started off playing the boy because I didn’t like the overly feminine way the girl walked. When I met May she gushed all over me and it made me uncomfortable, as I am attracted to boys. When I originally played Sapphire I played as the girl and so was used to having Brendan as a rival. So I decided to change to the girl just so I could see Brendan gush over me the way May had. But he didn’t gush over me at all, instead he disrespects my gender and my ability as a pokemon trainer.

I was pretty shocked at how blatantly sexist that was. I went back to check the original game and yes… it is that way too.. I guess I never noticed because I played as the girl and was used to rivals treating me that way from the previous games, and I didn’t realise May treated the boy character so different.

There are actually some subtle differences from the original game to the remake that I will point out because I think they make a world of difference in tone.

The pause in the remake for Brendan to say “Huh…. I didn’t know you’d be a girl.” where in the original he just states “I didn’t know you’d be a girl.” really changes the tone. The ‘Huh…’ at the start gives the impression that he’s disappointed she’s a girl, where in the original he’s just stating that he didn’t know.

It’s arguable that ‘assuming’ she’d be a boy comes off worse than ‘hoping’ she’d be a boy, but to me the original comes off as forgiveable ignorance where the remake makes it seem like Brendan actively dislikes the fact that the main character is a girl.

The last panel is the biggest change, and I don’t think it’s hard to see why. In the original after his intial shock that she’s a girl, he quickly moves on to introducing himself in a very friendly and pleasant way. But in the remake, it’s like he’s reluctant to get to know her or be her friend (because she is a girl). It comes off that he’s only doing so out of some moral obligation or convenience that she lives so close by. This is totally absent from the original and I’m not sure why the changes were made.

Anyways, I still very much love the remake and am excited to play, but this is what sexism looks like. If May had disrespected the boy character the same way, it wouldn’t have been sexist (both genders treated equally). If Brendan had gushed over the female character the way May does, it wouldn’t have been sexist (both genders treated equally.) If you got to chose who your rival was (pick May if you wanted to be treated nice, pick Brendan if you wanted a classic jerk rival) Than it wouldn’t have been sexist because then it’s just the characters’ personalities instead of sterotypical boy-girl dynamics. But the way it is:

If you pick to be a BOY there is a GIRL who will treat you a certain and very sterotypical way that is different from the way the boy treats the girl if you pick to be a GIRL there is a BOY who will treat you in a very sterotypical way that is different from the way the girl treats the boy.

And that is VERY sexist.

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Happy Halloween!!  To celebrate the Best Holiday Ever we’re giving away TWO of our special witch Kitsune design- one here on tumblr and one on facebook!  We won’t be selling this design, so outside of commissions this giveaway will be the only place to get it! :O

To enter:

All you have to do is reblog this post!  Cool!

Rules & deets:

Each person gets one entry- likes are cool, but don’t count toward the drawing!

Priority shipping within the US or first-class international shipping is provided for free.  However, if the winner requests a faster service they will be expected to cover the cost.

Giveaway winner will be drawn via random number generator Oct 31st at about 11:59PM central time

Keep your ask box open so that we can contact you if you’ve won!

If we can’t get in touch with the winner within 24 hours, a new one will be chosen.

More photos of the plush (as well as product specs) can be found here- good luck to all the entrants! :D

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ANONYMOUSLY MAKE ME BLUSH

I Fucking

DARE you

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legend of meth

tryin to get back into digital drawin don’t mind me

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Natasha Poly at John Galliano Fall 2009

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