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guest-15 · 8 months

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A while ago, I found an old sketch of a Fakemon I made, and I figured I'd try to redesign and reinterpret it to fit in with other monster-taming games! Some of the iterations have different names either to fit in with the game's naming scheme or because the design changed significantly. Redesigns and their respective games are listed below!

Pokémon:

I'm mostly happy with how this came out. That said, I probably didn't need a second set of highlights for most of the drawing, and I'd like to find a brush that looks more pencil-like for the line art. When I originally drew this guy, I wanted to put a twist on the more typical mimic-mon design by having it striking from boxes and crates instead of the now-expected Pokéballs.

Temtem:

This is probably one of the furthest abstractions from the original I've drawn so far. There don't seem to be any creatures in Temtem that are especially inorganic looking (even the Cyber types are cyborg-like), so I figured I'd model it after a garden eel since they basically behave like an organic jack-in-the-box.

Nexomon:

This was the first time I decided to change the name. To fit in with Nexomon's type system, I based the design off of the French name for Jack-in-the-boxes, "Diable en Boîte" (Devil in a Box". By the time this design was finished, I figured it didn't fit the name Jabbox anymore, so I changed it to "Seeldevil" (from "Sealed Evil" and "Devil").

Cassette Beasts:

This one was the most like the original in design and behavior. The real gimmick to this iteration is that it'd be the only naturally occurring Glitter type in the game, being partly based off of glitter bombs. I also wanted to change the fist-head to an abstracted peace sign to fit the game's overall vibe, and it calls back to the slapstick trope of poking someone's eyes out ala The Three Stooges. I may also make a sprite from this drawing complete with bootleg recolors!

Siralim:

This was the first sprite-based design I made. I leaned a little into the monster-clown motif here so it could fit in with Siralim's more brutal takes on monsters. Moreover, this will likely be only one of two or three designs to not have a portmanteau as a name. In lore, these creatures would be crafted from the severed arm of a lesser demon and a few arcane machine components, now doomed to serving as both a babysitter and as a living toy. Variants of this design will have to come at a much later date cause making one pixel art hand was bad enough, making 5-6 extra would've broken me.

Monster Crown:

Speaking of drawing more pixel art hands! I wanted to lean harder into the monster-clown flavor since the denizens of Monster Crown are much more violent in their behavior. Making this sprite was a fun challenge since I was limited to a 4-color palette, and I intend to make the five other variant forms at a later date to go along with the game's cross-breeding system.

Coromon:

This is the last design I've made for now. I was initially intimidated by the prospect of imitating Coromon's art style as it's not only detailed but also smoothly animated. After axing the idea of replicating the animation style, I felt more comfortable working on this sprite. The overall design is derived from a theory that the original jack-in-the-box was based on a folktale about a demon getting sealed in a boot. I also threw in a few Muppet-esque elements so it'd better fit its Normal typing. The head is shaped like a "Devil Horns" sign, with the actual horns serving as the fingers and the single paw in place of the thumb. Making the Potent and Perfect recolors should be a much easier process and will likely be the soonest of the variant sets to come out.

Other planned designs:

Digimon, Dragon Quest Monsters, Ni No Kuni, Yo-Kai Watch

Lemme know if there are any other monster tamers/creature collectors with unique styles I should tackle!

#pokemon #fakemon #jack in the box #creature collector #monster tamer #sprite art #sprite #temtem #nexomon #cassette beasts #siralim #monster crown #coromon #fairy type #fighting type #jabbox

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tharrb · 3 years

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Digimon tamers retrospective- Episode 32

It turns out that the shibumi Hypnos has been trailing is actually a mokumon. This does raise the question on how a fresh level digimon is able to bio-emerge…until you consider that shibumi has the blue card

Hell, I think it’s safe to say mokumon is shibumi’s partner

Yamaki spared waste no time getting the tamers parents on board. Good thing to, since most of them didn’t get to say goodbye or even know where they’re children for the past few months

Another thing is should mention concerning the franchise; digimon are both fantasy creatures and self aware ai. In other words, they’re humans dreams and imagination manifesting in the global computer network. Dolphin even states that the original digimon were based off the dreams and stories of the monster makers children

This is also why it’s always children who become partnered with digimon: their childish nature makes them more open to digimons fantastical nature

Yamaki must be opperating juggernaut (for a third time today) in order to communicate with takato

Takato basically lies to the parents in order to tell them everything hunkey dorey(he also probably told them about ryo, which is why his parents show up in episode 41)

As ryo explained, Humans in the. digital world aren’t subject to the worlds logic, which means they don’t need to eat, drink, or breath, unless they think they do(digimon are still affected though. Maybe Henry used a card that allowed him to breath underwater)

Aw, the divermon is just trying to protect his Otamon kids

So the tube leads to a hub of sorts that transports users to various points on the mini-verse. Henry, terriormon, and takato just happen to be transported to shibumi’s library(or maybe they were guided there by digi gnomes)

Here he is, shibumi aka Gorou Mizuno aka konaka’s self insert

Info dump time

Apparently shibumi was supposed to have been revealed to be dead at the end of episode 23, but that scene was cut for time. Konaka said “fuck it time to make him an actual character” we see later that shibumi was in a coma astral projecting himself into the digital world via his life support machine

He seems very tired, like he dosent have much time left in this world. Not because he’s dying, but quite the opposite, he’s starting to wake up

I think shibumi’s dream speech is supposed to be deep, but I don’t even he knows what’s going

Shibumi:”talked about dreams and evolution”

Takato and Henry: “grandpa’s off his meds again”

“It just seemed logical to call them digi-gnomes, al least to me.” Yes, it’s logical to call sprite like fish creature…gnomes

So, as it seems the blue card was created by shibumi and the digi gnomes to allow for data to communicate with the real world. The d-arcs are versions of the blue card converted into the form of hand held devices

Tamers also cleverly subverts the chosen children angle. Yes, takato, rika and Henry were all chosen by the digi gnomes… but as part of some grand destiny(shibumi didn’t even expect for the kids to become tamers) just as a way to communicate with the real world

I do think azulongmon may have had a hand in it, but I’ll get into that later

Shibumi also explains that the catalyst was an algorithm meant to allow digimon digivolve easier, and cause them to become more sentient(it’s implied that digimon could digivolve without the catalyst, but it would require massive amount of data, hence the kill or be kill attitude. Think gaining EXP to modify their own code)

We’ve see here how guilmon was created; the digi-gnomes used data packets and info from takato’s drawing to bring him to life

If heard from some that takato’s angst over weirder guilmon is just data is forced drama. Personal though, I think his reaction to all this is the result of the illusion being shattered, so to speak. Not only does he know how guilmon was created, he learns that his partner exist only because digi-gnomes wanted to communicate with real world, and he just happened to wanted it a lot. Like they gave him a toy

Furthermore more, takato starting to realize that data can be erased, replicated, altered etc. so that leaves him with the question: if guilmons data, how easy would it be to completely change him?

As we see soon enough, not hard at all…

In less existential news, I think there was a error in the script. The sovereigns domain is stated to be the highest layer, when in actuality, it’s the lowest

Oh yeah, the sovereign digimon is actually one of the four sacred digimon from adventure. In this continuity, they appear to be digimon that have evolved to the point of reaching godhood, and have dedicated themselves to protecting their home

“Digimon and humans will never be able to separated themselves from humans” the last episode:

“It seems they’re afraid the won’t survive unless they find away to defeat whatever is coming for them” and people say the true enemy wasn’t built up

#digimon tamers #digimon tamers spoilers #dmt retrospective

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v-mundi · 3 years

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Mushamon’s art fix went through several “final” renders before I got one I liked properly. The old art is just someone’s screenshot of a low-fidelity version of its DMO (Digimon Masters Online) model. First in this pic list is the actual final I think I’m going with, but it was a journey to get there. Second is the same render as the final but blown up more and without the aura effect. Third is my unused render which I figured was good.

So this model has problems. Toei problems. Again. Long (and repetitive) story short: Digimon models are usually based on Toei art, not Bandai, and Toei is an animation company that makes washed-out color drawings of the original designs using short stubby limbs and huge extremities. Works for animation. Bad for model posing. REALLY bad. It makes posing them an absolute nightmare as things clip around and never quite make the distances I need to use weapons especially. This model was actually rigged incorrectly. See that chest dent in the third image? That’s from someone during the chain of ripping or rigging messing up the weight paints so that the central purple foxtail thingies would stay still while the model deforms, causing a chest cave-in. How did I fix that in the other two images? I moved the entire model and perspective at once, instead of the waist...it was really difficult and annoying. In fact, I could only make those renders because I knew how to pose the model already from having done the third.

At first, I used a reference of a sprite from the Wonderswan games since it was the best pose. Unfortunately, sprites are bad at conveying 3D space so I borked it up pretty bad. The chest is facing the wrong direction, the sword angle never worked, and everything is pretty much just wrong and off. Eventually, I found the Bandai card the sprite was based on and realized my error. Good thing too, since I would’ve gone with that ugly third render. It already took a long time to clean up the artifacted and washed-out texture, blow it up to HD, make color corrections for accuracy, and find a good material to replace the ugly clay matte look of the default model.

The final render used the card art as a pose reference and I got everything right (as much as possible) finally. Interestingly, the model uses a falchion sword instead of a thick katana or thick shamshir—whatever that thing Mushamon has is supposed to be. Not sure why they did, but I love me some falchions. Either way, the sword won’t be as curved as the original no matter what and I’m good with that.

I was just about to use that second image as my final card art when I remembered Zanbamon and the sicc looking aura. I took that effect that I had created and applied it to Mushamon due to his draining sword attack glowing. I found out it’s also violet but I didn’t want to reuse the color so I dipped the aura into blue. I also scaled it down because after not looking at it for a while, I realized such a huge image was actually hard to make out if you didn’t know what all the details were before seeing it. And players wouldn’t. So now it’s good, visible, and has cool post-processing effects and color grading! :D yay. I love the final version. Maybe if other people don’t, I can go back to the huge, blown up version lol.

#digimon #Digimon card game #Card game #card game art #card game development #mushamon

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notdeadjusttrash-blog · 6 years

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My Friend has been Falsely Accused of Tracing So I Will Defend Him

Okay I accidentally deleted the blog I posted this one because I’m a dumbass, so I’ll just repost it here even though I don’t use this blog anymore, but apparently I still have followers. Bless caches because I was able to get this back from google caches so I don’t have to retype everything. I added further evidence and refutes to claims that were not in my original post btw.

Anyways, I am making this post to help out my good friend @5ru9 aka Falco who has been recently accused of tracing/copy pasting other people’s / official art!

I’ve known Falco for over 3 years, and we’ve grown as artists together. Once in a while we give each other advice on art (thanks for the mech and armor advice and teaching me how you line and color!), but most of the time we just meme each other.

Anyways, a lot of people have pointed out that they’ve seen him livestream before, and he’s already posted some of his block outs and other wips as proof that he does not trace in his post here:

http://5ru9.tumblr.com/post/168277137427/hello-i-have-been-informed-about-a-callout-post

To further prove his claim with solid evidence, I shall present to you!

Times he’s asked for advice on his art, or I randomly decided to mention things I notice in his WIPs!

Exhibit A-1:

A Tenkai Knight he made up! I pointed out a few things I thought were awkward about the perspective in his WIP.

Exhibit A-2:

He started working on this way back in July and didn’t finish it until much later because he was working on several other pieces at the same time. I suggested lowering the eyebrows and drawing the eyes a bit narrower to get more of the playful expression he was aiming for. In his final piece here, you can see that Falco continued to refine the piece.

By the way! The reason he sometimes posts a lot of detailed artworks one shortly after the other is because he sometimes works on multiple pieces at once! And then finishes coloring them around the same time.

Exhibit A-3

Falco and I spent good time trying to figure out why he felt like something was wrong with his sketch! I thought maybe it was the trapezius and I decided to red line (or blue line i guess) it so it’d be easier for him to see approximately where i thought the line should go to fix it.

Exhibit A-4:

The gif-ing process turned white bg into blue… anyways! Falco showed me an early version of his Tenkai Knights OC that he eventually used in an April Fool’s joke to pass off as a new character in the series. He mastered the tenkai style enough that at first glance, people really did believe it was official! Like you had to get a good look to realize Shiyu was not really a real new character! Btw I had to go into my old twitter acc to find this…. (Edit: the gif wasn’t working bc it was too big so i had to make it smaller… and choppier and stuff to fit the mb max)

Well now that brings us into!!!

Exhibit B

Some of his old art!! (I’m so sorry falco i’ll be exposing your ancient art to ppl now)

Here you can see his progress from 2014 Tenkai fan art to early 2015! It starts looking more and more like the official art, which is what he was going for.

For reference, here’s what the character Ceylan Jones/Washizaki looks like:

I blocked out fan art by everyone except falco (which i marked) that shows up in this google search. Everything else is official art. The two fan arts by falco you see here are more recent, the angel one being from 2016 and the chicken one from 2017 (i think he also made a version with sonic instead of the chicken? lol). They’re both on his dA accounts btw! The 2017 one really looks like official art, doesn’t it? But it’s his artwork! He practiced a LOT to reach that point, and I hope the earlier arts I showed above this one are enough to convince you in his art progression! Side note: i only used images w/ceylan because 1. i’m biased because ceylan is my favorite character and 2. he drew ceylan a lot because ceylan is his favorite character Also you can see his handle change from s3iwashi to burningbraven. 5ru9 is is a pretty recent handle.

ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN IN THE TENKAI FANDOM FOR A WHILE CAN VOUCH FOR HIM!!!!!

And now for the last one,

Exhibit C

WHAT? WHO IS THIS???

This is my favorite character from a Chinese series called AOTU World! His name is Grey, or 格瑞。I commissioned Falco to draw Grey for me, and let me tell you it would be IMPOSSIBLE for him to have copied any of this. Why? Because the donghua is 3D and the manhua’s art is very inconsistent!

Let me show you the reference pictures I gave him to work with!

They’re all in my gdrive folder here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CqwH5KS-pHX0ZqLHQpoIZBi6W-gsU_Tz

This is all official art from the manhua, except the 3D model is from the donghua. Look at how inconsistent the references are! There’s no way he could have copy and pasted or traced this! Grey doesn’t even do this particular pose anywhere. lol. I told Falco “give him a cool sword pose”. (I’m sorry for being so vague, Falco! But it turned out great!!) The style he ended up drawing in was a mixture of all of them.

Btw!! here’s the blockout and the sketch he sent me before I sent my payment for the commission!! You can see his construction in the block out!! The arm construction and leg construction is light, but it’s there. You can also see the block out below the sketch. Notice he actually fixed the leg length from block out -> sketch?

ARGUMENTS AGAINST SPECIFIC ACCUSATIONS

LOOK, thte actual drawing doesn’t even match the sprites that closely. Pay attention to the collar especially. The whole frankensteining the image and then painting over it thing is just way more effort than drawing it himself. They don’t even match that well in the overlays. Like wow it’s such a crime to try and stay on model.

WHO WOULD EVEN NEED TO TRACE A MOUTH LIKE THAT? IT’S SO EASY TO DRAW. I CAN DRAW IT PERFECTLY JUST BY LOOKING AT IT. (well i AM an animator so I also do style mimicking)

Doesn’t the fact that you have to edit the sprites to match his artwork prove that you’re just a tryhard in making up fake evidence and not a tryhard enough at art since you think it’s so impossible for people to draw characters on model?

Yes he referenced the broom and possibly the heels from this image, but your overlays for the leg and arms are disingenuous and you know it. The leg positions are different, and the overlay doesn’t even match up. Face tracing also makes no sense. You literally stretched the mouth to try and make it fit but it still doesn’t fit. Do you really think it’s that hard to draw mouths and eyes in the DR style? DR faces are really simple to emulate. Also you fool, if you follow Falco’s artwork enough, you’d realize the way he draws bodies is actually rather consistent even as he does different styles. Especially when it comes to hands. His way of drawing hands is how I recognize his art and know right away it’s his art and not official art or a trace (also his coloring style). The heels he drew are also reminiscient of how he typically draws shoes/feet. he draws them bulkier. The other art has dainty heels. At most he referenced how backside works because he’s used to drawing sneakers.

Also come on, if all you referenced from an image was a broom because you liked the style (his is also clearly drawn by himself since you can’t overlay it on the other one. like i said he mostly used the style as a reference for how-to-broom) and you referenced pieces from many other images, are you going to list every single thing you referenced? While yeah it’d be nice to, it’s a little ridiculous to expect all 5-20 references whenever they post the image. It’s a thing where, if someone asks, you’d tell them, but it’s too much to list all of it. This isn’t a 20 page thesis.

If it’s such a crime, then holy shit sue all those people who parody other people’s comics and sue everyone who dares!!! to ever draw something remotely similar to someone else. Dang.

Art doesn’t live in a vacuum.

Okay, this one is just plain stupid. You distorted the sprite to match it up with his, but what would be the point for him to distort it just to trace? Also if he traced, can you explain the rest of the fingers that are drawn nicely but clearly different from the sprite? Also the thumbs don’t even match up. His faces more downward while the sprite is facing more forward. Also explain the turned body in Falco’s sketch, then!! And the hair! OH WAIT YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN IT BY ANY OTHER WAY THAN HE DREW IT HIMSELF!!! BECAUSE NO SPRITES MATCH IT AND YOU CAN’T FIND ANY SPRITES TO DISTORT ENOUGH TO EVEN GET CLOSE TO MAKING FAKE EVIDENCE FOR IT.

By the way, the style he drew it in is closer to the drv3 than this sprite. while it’s pretty much the same style as the older games, drv3′s art is more refined than the older games. Falco’s art is also more refined as you can see. (wow not only did falco’s art improved from back when we first met; even professional artists improve. shocker. /s)

Dude what the hell? The overlays don’t even match up even ifi you tried to frankenstein them. And these are really common poses at really common angles, and once again, must every single thing we reference from be listed in the description of every place we post an image? Let me just list all 30 videos and 50 images i used as reference for one of my prints. jfc.

As for the saihara animation based on the digimon opening animation? It was pretty clear to everyone that it’s some kind of parody. Many people when making parody animations don’t mention the original video either?? It’s a fun thing for fans of the franchise to recognize the reference themselves. Yes he could have said it was the digimon opening on the description, but at least he didn’t say he thought of the idea himself? And if you talk to him about the animation, he will openly tell you it’s from digimon. And the fact that you think it’s a trace despite how much the overlays do NOT work out is practically proof that you’re just doing this maliciously and hoping that saying he traces enough with shoddy evidence will make people believe you.

ALSO PEOPLE LITERALLY TRACE ANIMATIONS TO MAKE PARODIES OF, DOWN THE STYLE WHERE ALL THEY CHANGE IS THE HAIR AND OUTFIT, AND YET SOMETHING WITH DIFFERENCES EVEN DOWN TO THE STYLE LIKE THIS IS SOMETHING YOU THINK IS A TRACE? Do you need a new pair of glasses?

I was gonna ignore this one because it was the same as a lot of the others, but you literally erased Falco’s face line so it would match the sprite, and you covered the bigger boobs Falco gave her, and totally ignored that the angle doesn’t even match properly. Like you covered parts of his sketch in your overlay just to make it look more like it matches, but if you actually fucking overlayed it correctly, even with squashing it, it won’t fit. (Also sorry to point this out Falco, but the circles on your goggle lenses are too small compared to the sprite; Maybe if you actually traced like this person claims you’re doing, they’d be perfectly like the sprite. OH BUT WAIT YOU DREW IT YOURSELF SO OF COURSE THERE’S SOME DIFFERENCES. JUST LIKE HOW EVEN THOUGH ALL YOUR OTHER WORKS ARE REALLY CLOSE TO THE STYLE AND PRETTY MUCH ON MODEL, THEY’RE NOT EXACTLY THE SAME WITH THE SPRITES! SHOCKER...!)

HOLY FUCK. I already pointed out and gave evidence that Falco started on the Nier Automata drawing waaaaaaay before he posted the actual picture. The 2 sketches are sketches! They don’t take a super long time. I busted out 10 inktobers in 1 day. (thumbnails of my artwork below)

Look I even even lined and colored 5 fairly detailed chibis in 1 day (i did the sketches earlier though. btw i hand drew the plaid on ray. it was annoying)

At the moment I have 5 wips. They’ll likely all be done around the same time. I know Falco often has multiple wips as well, and sometimes he also finishes some of them close to each other. Some artists (like my friend Fish) can pump out extremely detailed paintings in less than a day. WOW some artists can draw at a fairly fast rate. WHO KNEW? (manga artists in weekly magazines pump out 15-20 pages of manga in a week)

He’s still developing a style; he’s mostly doing style mimics of series he likes in the mean time.

At the moment he’s mostly experimenting with the drv3 style, but he was practicing p5 earlier. By the way, he DESIGNED a phantom outfit for mishima. Who the heck would he copy that from? He made it up because he loved mishima and wanted to make him part of the gang in some AU fan art. Mishima doesn’t have artwork like this for him to trace, so it should be obvious it’s his own work.

And the pokemon and crash bandicoot ones are actually not that close. The pokemon one looks like a good attempt at imitating the pokemon style, but since he hasn’t practiced it enough, you can tell it’s a little off model because, well, he drew it himself and doesn’t practice the pokemon style a lot. Same with the crash one. Had it been a trace, with his level of control over his lines (which you can’t refute), it would have been much closer.

And you act like it’s a crime to imitate others’ art style. It’s really not. What is wrong with you? Do you want to slow down animation production by only letting the character designer draw everything? Or do you want animation where the art has 0 semblance of consistency because all the artists draw in vastly different styles? lol. What do you have against artists that try to stay on model?

LOL THIS IS ONE IS SO STUPID WHERE DO I EVEN START?

Oh, I KNOW. Why don’t I do that same pose with my own hands?

IT’S A MIDDLE FINGER, YOU IDIOT.

Just because YOU don’t know basic anatomy and can’t tell a middle finger from a pinky, doesn’t mean everyone else is as incompetent as you. He wasn’t doing the rock-on hand pose (sry idk if that pose actually has a name lol), and he’s drawn the rock-on hand pose properly before.

Closing statement

I believe I covered a lot of things and provided a lot of evidence here that Falco and his other friends did not cover in his defense against the false accusations.

I even added more counter arguments in this repost because apparently my original post wasn’t enough to convince people.

Perhaps the person calling him out meant well (no, I doubt it because they made a new side blog just to diss him because they knew if they did it on their actual blog, they’d be called out for being a jerk), but they did not do enough digging to find out if their claims were true or not (and they probably know well enough that they MADE UP THEIR EVIDENCE).

If you��re going to make a call out post, please make triple sure sure of everything before you accuse people. Talk to them first. Talk to those who know them too.

Many jobs require you to be able to draw characters exactly in the style given. Animators for example! There are multiple animators working on one series, and they all need the skill to draw consistently! Some games also have teams that need to be able to draw in the same style so they don’t have to leave everything up to one person. Comic artists often have assistants that help them draw background characters, but those background characters can’t be too different from the main style either.

As for the people who believed the call out post before, it’s perfectly understandable. I am also guilty of falling for similar posts in the past. Due to that, I decided it was best to double check before retweeting (i say retweet because i use twitter far more than tumblr these days. heck i almost never post anything on this blog) things, and if i wasn’t sure, I would just leave it be.

I hope my post was able to convince you on Falco’s innocence and all his hard work. And if you already believed him but checked out this post anyways… Thanks! ObligatoryPleaseWatchAotuWorld.

And again:

Art does NOT exist in a vacuum. All artists are influenced by each other and MANY artists, especially professionals, use a lot of references, whether it be from photographers, their own pictures, others’ artwork, life, or whatever. We all use many different resources. If you’re going to say that’s wrong, you just dismissed millions of artists in the world.

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