#blog design changes

[bacchuschucklefuck]

class swap design masterpost for convenience (from top to bottom: bard!riz, cleric!gorgug, sorcerer!kristen, barbarian!fig, artificer!adaine, and rogue!fabian)

[lynxfrost13]

Oh Butchered Dreamer how I missed you

[ask-indigo-park-swapped]

when an eel bites your thigh, and you bleed out and die... thats A Moray :))

<happy chapter 2 trailer drop!!>

[midsummerclan]

Working on a new project, going to be smaller scale than my previous clangen.

Keep an eye out for updates!

[cable-salamdr]

Incoming Breaking News: Geo “[I’m] not exactly a skilled warrior like you” Finder decks two wolf warriors with a giant metal chair and most definitely wins the fight. More at six

[umblrspectrum]

ive been struggling big time coming up with anything funny to draw that hasnt been done yet so have my rw au art dump

[moodlemcdoodle]

After a year of doing art in secret (and forgetting to post anything… I’m sorry I will have my backlog queued up soon!) I have finally accumulated enough power… to revive my ancient human superhero Sonic AU and make it actually good! Here’s a bunch of my sketches, mainly of Sonic and Tails but also of a bit of lore… More to come later!

[scourge-sympathiser]

SCOURGE SUNDAY 025/???

BLESSING leader of WATERCLAN

[transfem-edward]

i'm alive!!

yes im still a tfem edward truther dw

haven't drawn em in ages,,,i miss edward

[sprout-battlecats]

moonpaw

[tero-ga]

Eyyyy SwapAU enthusiast, missed me? I finally finished Gina's design from like, late July?

I used some references of the earliest history pictures of police woman in Britain for her outfit. I kept something from her original design like the buttons of her hat and pattern of her scarf, speaking of her scarf Idk why i chose that for her but it's just felt right (and I still think that shbsjsb). For her hair, in her original design her braided bun reminded me of mochi donut and keep thinking of desert during the process, so i made it to look like swiss roll as shout-out to Gumshoe hehe.

Anyway a doodle of her and Gregson (I've been wanting to make this meme for a long time lmaoo-)

Concepts for her design!!

[mel-loly]

-Little message/warning! ↓

And please, if you have a moment, read what is below! It's important to me that you do this..🧡

I don't know how to explain it, but since I revealed my name, I thought about using it more to refer to myself, and not as Mel anymore..

Like- Mel is my character, Mel Ravagear, as well as Mel-Loly, and I am their creator/designer, I am Melissa...

And about MKS, I already said this once, but anyway, for those who don't know, “MKS” means the initials of my real name, and as it is also my identity, I decided to make it one of my names here, in addition to Melissa and Mel Designer.

I know this is annoying and probably ““no one”” will respect this “new change”, but... Anyway, I still wanted to talk about this....

Again, I know it's something of mine and I shouldn't care about certain opinions, but still, sorry guys.. I hope you can understand and somehow try to respect me in this regard...

I know you guys are not the kind of people who are mean, y'all are actually very sweet and such a wonderful community (I really feel very happy to be here and it's a very good place here)! But I believe there may be people who don't understand(?) and.. Yeah... I just.. Just hope you can understand!

Also- final notes, very important too!

From now on, if you call me just Mel in asks, comments or anything, I will do so by referring to my characters, not myself.

I will still continue with the @ with the name “mel-loly” because this name is from the beginning of my journey here and my oc Mel-Loly is the icon of my blog so.. It will remain the way it is.

And this (↑) also applies to all my @, they will all remain the same. Nothing will change, just the name of the blog creator/designer and that's it!

Thank you very much for reading this far, I hope you can understand and help me with this thing of calling me by the “right” name! I love y'all!🧡

To finish with one last note, the name “MKS Group” that referred to my OCs' group will definitely change, I've wanted to do this for a long time and I'll talk about it in more detail with you guys later!

What do I think about nicknames?

[orangesleepy]

im trapped in my own nightmare.

[nyssasatelier]

Two things:

1. YOU ARE GORGEOUS 😍

2. YOUR POSEIDON IS ALSO GORGEOUS THAT I WOULD GIVE HIM EVEN MYSELF AS OFFER

Bonus:

[tryagainstarlight]

woooaahh looks like we can help with memories at least! Being able to keep level ups for everyone should be awesome.

Also siffrin: yes, there’s a secret library! You can ask the librarian in Dormont about it, but as far as I know, there should be a hidden switch on the back wall of the library in the House that will lead you to a shield spell that Mirabelle (your Housemaiden) can learn.

But if you want to shortcut through that, tell Mirabelle about the CARROT method! Trust me!

-ramble-y anon

💫: Is there any other things I should know about? I do think I should get going back before it gets dark. Mira did want to talk to me...

[solradguy]

I'd seen a comment that the finalized design for Venom seems to have an unbuttoned shirt when compared to the buttoned vest of the concept art from the S4 trailer (which had leaked unfortunately), so maybe that's where the confusion might be coming from. Does make me curious how often they change a detail like that so close to model work being done, given so much of Strive's concept art (at least the ones I've seen) does tend to match what we get in the final game.

I must've blocked the correct amount of people because the last character leak I knew about was the Slayer one that was like a whopping 12 hours or something before the actual reveal anyway lol

We were actually talking about concept art through alpha then beta designs in the wiki server yesterday!! It's really interesting how far some concepts made it in the timeline before getting changed. @shmuelbrain dug these up.

Elphelt from the 3rd location test for Xrd Sign (late 2013?) still had a pink clover on her ear that she's got in her concept art (it got changed to green in the final release):

Sol's outfit changed pretty late in Sign's development too. The story preview they showed there had an interesting saturated color filter. I like it, but the more natural colors in the final version definitely look/read better. From the 3rd loc test.

We were musing over what could have made them change their minds about Sol's outfit for the story that late into development and decided that it was possible his arm anatomy kept bugging during animation so they gave him sleeves to hide it lol

Sol's story mode outfit (with the longsleeve jacket) seems to be a light reworking of the outfit he had in the Xrd prototype from 2011 (!!). He's on the right in this screenshot, but the imposter on the left's outfit is really similar too

Throwback to the fingernail gloves from his Holy Order uniform...

The Xrd prototype design fascinates me because it's essentially a 3D version of Sol's Vastedge XT design. He's even got the Junkyard Dog Mk.II in the prototype build. The design there is 1:1 to its design in VXT.

Note: The neon colors here are placeholders, it doesn't actually have that bright cyan in Vastedge.

The Xrd prototype/Vastedge design is cool because you can still see elements of it in Sol's Strive outfit. They tightened up his silhouette and made things like the gloves/hands read easier, but it's almost possible to argue that this is likely the same jacket. They've been tweaking this for at least 14 years!!

It's tricky to figure out this stuff for most of the cast, but Sol's design changes are really well documented. I think he's usually the first character they make for games, so he's usually their graphics and gameplay test dummy