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well yeah of course. her name's sophie, actually

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soot sprite fandragon

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Designing the Everlux for Flight Rising

In November of 2024 Flight Rising released the Everlux dragon breed.

Designing a new dragon for Flight Rising is always an interesting challenge. The dragons need too be unique, fit into a square, and have enough surface area across both their bodies and wings for separate patterns (genes) to go into both. This breed originated from the Light Flight, and we wanted to explore a more alien dragon design. I came up with several concepts for the breed, but a heavy-set caterpillar inspired dragon is the direction we ended up going in.

Before proceeding with a final, I decided to do some studies from reference to learn a bit more about caterpillar anatomy and how their segmented, soft bodies worked. I did several studies from photographs of monarch butterfly caterpillars. I took the opportunity to draw in my sketchbook. Up until this past year, I have not been doing a lot of practice studies, and since picking up the habit, I’ve found that I observe more carefully and learn more by drawing on paper. With digital art, it is very easy to cut, move, and warp drawings after the fact. With paper, I was required pay attention to get the proportions as accurate as possible from the get-go, and I think it helped me to draw more mindfully.

With some practice under my belt, I proceeded to tighter drawings that fit the Flight Rising dragon style and template requirements.

And here are the final templates used for the game! Between the drawing and final stage, the FR art team provided helpful feedback on the hatchling. It was determined that the pulled up leg was busy and read poorly, so it was streamlined for the final. Getting an additional pair of eyes on something is always a good idea!

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Just some fish :)

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Browsing the forums I can't really tell easily how everyone feels about the effects and I'm curious. Personally I thought it was sort of a weird thing to add right now when there's so many other highly-anticipated features.

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Wait I'm curious

This doesn't necessarily mean you dislike that aesthetic, just that you like the others more.

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Swipp's stand is way too bloated with items and the stuff I want never comes around.

Proposed solution: Swipp should hatch more kids.

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i have a terrible idea,

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while i'm imperialposting. imperial dragon lore that makes me want to tear my hair out. web weave

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this is a beautiful woman to me

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hey spreadsheet simulator game people. how do you add images to a google spreadsheet without having to manually then resize the row+column? is there a way to make the cell just expand to hold the image?

this hurts me and if I have to resize everything by hand i will just Not do it

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spirit of lightning

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i love you… i LOVE you…… (wearing mi-amintesc by chivalry)

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I have once again been messing around with invisibility cloaks and I fear I have cooked. It's a dragon. Allegedly.

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I finally finished this double leap day g1 that's been sitting in my den for months. I love everlux so much. Featuring: accent by kingcrown

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Pretty much every year my egg rate is around 4% but I can't get myself to sell chests because I also want the new items (and I keep telling myself "Maybe today will be different!" even though it never is). And also real, same, the desire to open containers is strong.

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This is exactly the reason i started selling the majority of my chests and only opening 10 a day!!!

Last year was my first year hitting an egg drought and it was SO FRUSTRATING

Up until last year i would regularly get 3-4 eggs per 10 chests and now im lucky to get 2, if any (i will admit ive been lucky to even get 2. Last year i was getting NONE) and originally i was going to just sell all my chests this year and buy eggs, but theres that goblin part of my brain that likes opening containers lolol

I really think the chest pool needs to be reduced by A LOT. It’s so over-inflated with past items that even opening to try and get the new stuff doesn’t make sense since there’s so little new stuff now,

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So originally I was going to sell every single chest I got this year because last year I was REALLY disappointed in the drop rates, but I have decided that I will open 10 a day and sell all the rest

Today's haul, actually really good imo