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Fantasy Eagle - Dragolisco

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King of the Undersea by Juan Arrabal (Dragolisco)

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W9-Making-Wings, gloves&UV map

Additionally, this week, I happened to come across some 3D assets on ArtStation that fit perfectly with my project. These assets saved me the time of creating gloves and wings from scratch.

After finishing the mid-poly model, I had to unwrap the UVs before moving on to high-poly sculpting. This part of the process was somewhat tedious and monotonous, really testing my patience. Ultimately, following the tutorials I mentioned in a previous blog, I used the UDIM format to unwrap all the UV maps within a 4x4 grid.

Bibliography:

Ghadrdani, E. (n.d.) 15 Gloves Armor Base Mesh Vol 7. Available at: https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/WrvDJ/15-gloves-armor-base-mesh-vol-7 (Accessed: 14 August 2024).

Musaev, H. (n.d.) Medieval Gloves Plus Base Glove. Available at: https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/dor5B/medieval-gloves-plus-base-glove (Accessed: 14 August 2024).

Dragolisco (n.d.) 20 Wings for ZBrush and Blender. Available at: https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/5Vkov/20-wings-for-zbrush-and-blender (Accessed: 14 August 2024).

Yang Xu (n.d.) "Fantasy Knight" Full Workflow Tutorial for Film Character Creation. Available at: https://www.aboutcg.org/courseDetails/488/introduce (Accessed: 14 August 2024).

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Guardià de flama (coŀlaboració amb Grimmia), per Dragolisco. [font]

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Grim Haunter by Dragolisco

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“Spyro the Dragon King” by Dragolisco: http://bit.ly/2IEbrx4

Be careful who you call tiny in high school.

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Superfluous fire by Dragolisco

Check out Tabletop Gaming Resources for more art, tips, and tools for your game!

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Be careful who you call tiny in high school. “Spyro the Dragon King” by Dragolisco (Dragolisco): http://bit.ly/2IEbrx4 #spyro #dragonking #dragolisco #deviantart https://www.instagram.com/p/BupfA6pFaAF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tirevrptb2en

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Art by Dragolisco

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What an incredible haunter piece that, I think, truly captures how creepy this pokemon is.

by Dragolisco

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Lightning Black Dragon portrait - Dragolisco

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For those who once lamented that Pokemon was a child’s game and longed for a darker, grittier version, complain no more. DeviantArt’s Dragolisco seems to have heard your cries and has created a series of updated designs that screams, “Say no more, I got you fam.” These re-imaginings of classic characters will feed your imagination and nightmares for days to come. Dragolisco’s creatures look like they could be kaiju in the next Pacific Rim movie or possibly featured enemies in the next Resident Evil reboot.

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Typhlosion | Dragolisco

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Attack on armored train (Commission) by Dragolisco via ImaginaryDragons

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Krenko’s Guide to Pokemon: Mew

Want to collect them all? Buy Mew now for only $49.99!

DESIGN:

Mew is about as stripped down a design as you can get while still clearly being an animal. It’s a pink, hairless (?) cat that looks absolutely infantile. In fact, it looks pre-infantile. Many of Mew’s features suggest a creature that has yet to be born. 

It’s hard to comment much on Mew’s design because it is so simplistic, but I honestly think it’s perfect. Mew is just Mew, and there’s nothing really to change or improve. It is a creature in a pure, unformed state, but without being gross or weird.

Art by pridark

TYPING:

Mew is a pure Psychic type. As I’ve said plenty before, Psychic is a solid type. There’s nothing special about this anymore, though of course back in Gen 1 it was busted in half.

Art by Jiayi

STATS:

At 100 all around, Mew is good at everything, which actually results in it being treated as a bulky Pokémon. While 100 is a lot of attack and special attack, it’s not a huge amount for the tier it’s in, while having 100 HP, Defense, Special Defense, and Speed makes Mew a solid defender all around. Most bulky Pokémon are susceptible to either physical or special attacks, or their low speed ensures going second, but Mew can frequently go first and reliably take hits.

This does still mean Mew works fine as an attacker, but when using a set-up move like Swords Dance or Nasty Plot, which allows it to take advantage of its bulk to go on the offense.

Art by Kenket

ABILITY:

Mew’s ability, Synchronize, inflicts certain status effects inflicted onto it back onto the afflicter. This is certainly an interesting ability, and it can punish some foes, but it can’t be built around and type-immunities cause it serious problems.

First off, Synchronize only works on Paralysis, Poison, and Purn, ignoring Sleep and Frozen entirely. While Frozen is rare and random, Sleep is pretty common and very powerful.

Second, it has to be inflicted by an opponent. You can’t force the issue with a Toxic or Flame Orb, and Toxic Spikes don’t trigger it.

Third, the most common users of Burn, Poison, and Paralysis are immune to it. While most Pokemon can learn off-type moves, Burn is usually applied by Fire types, Poison by Poison types, and Paralysis by Electric types, which are all respectively unaffected by their type-attached status effect.

While Synchronize isn’t a do-nothing ability, it just fails far, far too often to be considered useful.

Art by Dragolisco

MOVES:

Now this is where Mew shines.

Mew can learn every TM, TR, and Move Tutor move in all of Pokemon, minus a few Signature Moves like the starter-only Pledge moves. This makes Mew the single most versatile Pokemon for building, bar none. Special attacks, physical attacks, status moves, 2v2 Healer, toxic tank, whatever.

It doesn’t matter.

I could be here for days listing off potential Mew builds, because Mew can be built for basically anything. It’s just that good.

And if you really want to get to attacking, Mew has a special Z crystal that allows it to set Psychic Terrain when it uses its Z move. Because the Pokemon that has everything also gets something of its own.

Mew does whatever. I can’t tell you how to use it, that’s something you have to decide for yourself.

Art by KoriArredondo

OVERALL:

Mew is a great example of a Mythical pokemon, unable to get in-game without glitching it out, released by Nintendo only via event, able to do everything and with huge stats. It was magical, it was special, and you had to actually try to get it…. Until Let’s Go.

I might be a little “Old Man Yells At Cloud” here, but I absolutely loathe that Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee included Mew as a bonus for buying the Pokeball Plus. Mew went from being a magical mystical hard-to-obtain rarity that really fed off the social aspect of the game to being paid DLC. Mew was supposed to be something special and cool, and now it’s gimmick is just that you have to pay $50 more for it. And before one of you points out that you can get it without the Pokeball Plus in BDSP… you still have to have Let’s Go Pikachu or Eevee for that, so it still requires paying more to get it.

I don’t inherently mind the cross-game bonuses, but there’s a significant difference between the Gigantimax Pikachu and Eevee that were just cute novelty and Mew being one of the strongest Pokemon around. Further, its rarity and power means that it’s banned from tournaments, which makes it an even weirder form of DLC. You’re not allowed to use it competitively, so it’s just for the sake of having it, but you still need to shell out $50 if you want it.

And with that change, I don’t understand the purpose of Mew anymore. Initially, it was this wondrous, difficult to find Pokemon that you could only get through events or trading, there to complete your Pokedex as a reward for being engaged in the Pokemon community. Now, it’s just something you buy.

…Anyway, designwise it’s good for that magical something special, and the gimmick of “all the moves” is great. It was bonkers powerful to begin with, but now as power creep has happened it’s instead a specialized tool, something with good stats to build as you want, but without the raw power of some of the other Legendaries or Megas.

They just either need to make it obtainable enough to allow it in tournaments or make it rare enough to be actually special again. Because spending $50 for a Pokemon is easily the worst thing ever, and I’d hate to see a system where that started to become normal.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go pull for Darkrai in Pokemon Masters.

Art by aocom

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Leviathan Dragon by Dragolisco