#meiker.io

[birbgalaxy]

Hey. You there. Do you not want to be mistaken for a bot, but you've also grown attached to the default icon you got when you signed up? Great news! Worry no longer because now you can customize your very own icon!

Examples:

Usage notes: (1) Due to how the website works, it will struggle in mobile portrait mode. Try viewing the page in landscape or stick to desktop. (2) Use the cube option + the color selector to change the shape of your icon. (3) I think legally this counts as fanart, so remember that Tumblr, and all other referential items, belong to their respective creators and very much not me! Non-commercial only.

Thank you so much to the fine folks at @meikerio! Without their platform, this wouldn't be possible!

[angiestown]

I finished that dressup game I said I was working on !! would very appreciate people giving it a go because I spent literally a week on this. like 7 days off work doing nothing but drawing clothes lmao

in order to make the different body types work without ballooning up the file size way more than it already is, I had to make it so you choose your skin tone twice. in meiker you can't arrange the order elements appear in, but I recommend starting with these two options to pick out your body type and skin tone first, since some options look better on certain bodies imo

also !! meiker !! I don't hear people talk about it much, but it's really cool I like it a lot! it's like picrew, but instead of uploading a bunch of pngs, you arrange and label your layers in folders and upload a single psd file. personally I liked the process a lot more than picrew because I'd rather work with one big file than a million tiny image files, but that's just me. plus you can make the images bigger than you can on picrew too

also posting this again since I can attach it to a post with the game, but I made a tutorial on how to create a bunch of colour options super fast if you want to make your own dressup game. there's no way I'd have nearly as many options if I didn't know how to do this. once you understand the actions feature you can do so much stuff so much more efficiently it's insane it's like my favourite photoshop feature

[angrytreemarten]

Yall heard of picrew

allow me to introduce:

Meiker.io!

Basically the same as picrew but English.

@porculain-skelly

@fanoffandoms23

@rdhadastroke

@bmbsonmondaymornings

@stupidtrashandblog

@zhongli-lover-21

@viky2318

@nebby-stardust

@idkboutdiz

@still-got-no-idea

@bassywassy

@thereweremistakes

@happytheoristdreamer

@turtleskele

@total-fandom-tr45h

@purpleperson441

yall better check it out

it's awesome

anybody else that I didn't tag is welcome too

I'm just trying to show it to more people so it can get more popular

[roselyn-writing]

I came across this awesome meiker and I decided to make my OCs with it, So, This is how they’d look like if they were apart of the Trix! Meiker left to right: Simone Decrōnt, Selviya Levsloky and Aliyaa Aepel

Non-pressured tagging list: @darialovesstuff @melissalix @lorabeyc @monapome @liliana-vessina @jellys-girl @florafoom @alexapenz @lilymoo @musa-fairy @mollyb9 @nana-noone @noelle9 @loryeenb @llightssshadow @lunaria1 and you!

[styllwaters]

Guess what I maaade ;D

Sea Crawler Meiker is out!! Been working on this on and off for a few weeks and it's finally finished! Tried out a chibi style for the lines and I thought it turned out pretty cute :^

There's a bunch of colours, markings and accessories to choose from! (And different backgrounds too). Currently only for ocean-dwellers, but I might add a shore-dweller option someday. If you'd like a reference for the different OD ethnicities, here they are below on a pink base.

From left to right: Zunphua, Daihrut, Cevrunax, I'saimon, Xeld, Izvoi, Hvr and Zev'r.

Enjoy!

[elequinoa]

Coming Soon: Little Merfolk on Meiker 😘

[wildjuniperjones]

Juniper’s Massive World-Building Resource List

(Shamelessly cribbed from a dozen different sources)

1. The Checklists

These are the kinds of things that present you with a list of questions about your world, that you then answer as creatively as you want to. I find myself continually having to go back and add to them, because goodness sometimes I just want to write and not think about stuff that isn’t directly relevant to the plot...until it is. And then suddenly I have to think about the ramifications of that.

CRV’s Worldbuilding Checklists (originally from btot.de) - obviously more fantasy-focused Patricia Wrede’s Worldbuilding Lists - a good balance between fantasy and other genres

2. The Masterlist

This link has nearly everything you can think of. It’s not the be-all-end-all, because nothing is, but it’s damn good.

r/Worldbuilding’s Resources List

3. The Visuals

Yes, there’s the ever-present AI-generated images, things such as Artbreeder or Wombo Dream, but sometimes you need something more concrete. Like maps. Or people.

Also, pay artists to make beautiful things whenever you can. AI art is designed to remove the actual humanity from the creative process, and while it’s fine for face claims or inspiration, I would never ever use it as, say, my book cover.

Alsoalso, learn a little something about graphic design. Please. Color theory. Rule of thirds. I beg of you.

Things I have used for maps:

Inkarnate - Browser-based, but almost entirely fantasy-focused

Wonderdraft - Large-scale mapping for countries/continents/worlds

Dungeondraft - Smaller scale mapping that shines when doing smaller areas, especially interiors (both ‘drafts are from the same creator, and are desktop only) There is not, as of yet, a Towndraft, although the community is ravenous for it!

I highly recommend the art packs from Cartography Assets, although if you’re going to use them in a commercially released work, do be a good human and pay the artists for their work! If you want to do sci-fi or modern maps, this is where to get your assets!

Things I have used for people:

HeroForge - A 3D tabletop miniature creator with a vibrant modder community. The free version lets you create as many figures as you want, but their Pro deal lets you organize them into folders, which I absolutely love. It also lets you save specific colors/materials to use across multiple figures, which saves a lot of time when creating folks with a shared uniform. You can even import people/outfits/poses from other figures! I’m told that facial feature modification, clothing patterns, and kitbashing are coming this year! (I’m a little addicted, as you might’ve noticed.) Best on desktop, but you can get a quick “sketch” done on mobile.

Picrew - A truly massive collection of portrait creators. The Discord associated with it is really helpful, in that you can frequently get links to creators that meet your specific requirements, like ‘must have elf ears and POC skin tones’ or ‘must have heterochromia and vitiligo’. This site got me through the roughest parts of 2020. Great for mobile.

Meiker.io - Similar in scope to Picrew, Meiker has a few treasures, including a lot from the now mostly defunct DollDivine, which relied entirely on Flash. There are a few that I return to again and again, but not many. Best on desktop and very easy to create your own creators.

Neka.cc - A Chinese-based site with a lot of similarities to Picrew, although a lot less diversity, both in skin tones and bodies. Great for mobile.

Storior gets an honorable mention because it has a ton of potential, with a lot more options in some respects, but precious few in others. Best on desktop. Can you tell I really love these things?!

4. The Organizers

It helps to have somewhere to store all this information, right? Preferably in an easily accessed database? Perhaps with links or prompts?

These are the ones I’ve used:

World Anvil - Browser-based, incredibly detailed and complex, even for the free version. I found it to be too complicated to figure out, but maybe it’ll be your cuppa!

Campfire - Browser-based, mostly focused on writers, and has a suite of options that you can opt into or out of. This also wasn’t as useful to me, since there’s nowhere to put an outline!

Kanka.io - Browser-based, and just this perfect sweet spot between bare bones and overloaded. There are specific modules you can enable or disable, like in-universe calendars, dice rollers, character journals, etc. It’s my preferred option for organizing my world-building, outside of things like Google Docs.

I also understand a lot of writers like using Scrivener for their work, but as I have Linux, I don’t have any experience with it.

5. The Rest

So, a lot of world-building comes down to how well you know our world. I love world-building because it means I get to use all my education and interests together to create something that feels realistic to my readers and players. This is a time when ADHD is absolutely useful! Chase those squirrels! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve ended up reading an article on, say, rivers, only to end up with an idea for how leylines function in my world!

So here are my top 5 recommendations for figuring out how our world works:

Sociology! - If you want to know how different cultures interact, why certain customs come about, or just how a population reaches a decision, learn about sociology. It’s probably my favorite subject, and most useful to very culture-focused world-builders.

Geology! - If you want to know how your world fits together, what it’s made of, where things like mineral or gem deposits might be or how they might form... in addition to how rivers, lakes, and “strange” geographical features form, geology’s a great place to start.

History! - Okay, maybe this one is cheating, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read about something in history and thought “what if it went this way instead?” BAM, there’s a premise for you. (I have an entire novel idea built around that, told mostly through a writer interviewing a famous figure in this alt-history for their biography. After seeing the popularity of Dracula Daily, I almost want to release it like that...)

Ecology! - Oh man, if you want to figure out the botany and zoology of your world, ecology is a great place to start. It builds very nicely off of geology, and covers such a broad range of topics and how each of these pieces interact with one another - like how hydrology affects meteorology affects climate affects plant distribution affects animal distribution... which of course then affects culture!

I’m going to be sacrilegious in the eyes of some of my fellow world-builders here and NOT put linguistics - not because it’s not useful, just because it’s not a field I know much about. Instead, I’d suggest looking at world myths and religions. Yeah, it’s technically part of sociology, but if you’re developing a world from scratch, the creation stories that the sentient species tell themselves can inform a lot of their culture.

For instance, the world that Starcrossed, Amongst the Goblins & the Fishes, and The Silver Hand are all set in is an alternate Earth where magic never left the land. The creation myths in this world are much more centered around humanoids living in harmony with nature, rather than dominating it. In fact, some of the human societies have a specific taboo against desecrating the earth that is taken to such an extreme that other species, like elves and dwarves, occupy that niche instead, acting as stewards of the forest and mountain because they don’t have that same taboo. Part of these myths explain the existence of ley lines, and why they wither and die out (because of excessive logging, destructive farming/mining, or large-scale slaughter of creatures). Will this ever come up in Starcrossed? I highly doubt it. But it figures into the other two VERY prominently.

Phew! That was quite a tangent. Anyway - did I get any of your favorites? Do you have something you’d like to add? Should I make this all a separate page so it’s easy to access and update it regularly? Tell me things! Ask me things! I am an open book and love talking about world-building! Tell me where you’re stuck and maybe we can figure out a way forward together! (Also hmu on Discord, I am so mediocre at Tumblr.)

[pidgedee]

i made a little dress-up game this past weekend! it’s basically just my clothing pinterest board on a cute base haha. i’d love to see what you make with it, feel free to add on in reblogs! 💖

[unnoticed-poison]

Found this cute dress up game on meiker.oi by waffalet and wanted to try making my Hazbin hotel mc how I imagine her

And this one also from Meijer.oi by Salchipapa! (Sad I couldn't change the ear shape tho)

Definitely gonna play with more of them!

[divine-lyn]

Enchantix update is live! I'm really pleased with how it came together, and now you can check it out here!

[gritsandbrits]

I have an odd idea for a Horseland OC partly out of nostalgia for she show but also to address its serious problems with how it handles certain topics. Her name is Xandra and her horse is called Hornette.

I gave Hornette yellow stripes to resemble hornet/bee stripes. As her rider Xandra wears yellow in her outfits. Their symbol is a yellow lightning bolt.

I was inspired by Spirit stallion of the Cimarron for some of the designs. The other design is based on the famous horse story "Black Beauty", even resembles a bee :0

Both Xandra and Hornette are quite loners who prefer each others company than hanging out with the student body. They especially have zero patience for a certain set of gingers.

I like to think Xandra appears in a hypothetical season 4 as a mandatory New Character, showing up at the ranch after the recent death of a loved one. Hornette is a rescue horse formerly known as "The Quiet Storm" who acted aggressive towards humans and other horses until Xandra used her viola to calm her down. Eventually Xandra became the one human Hornette allows to touch. Xandra gave her a makeover as another way to move on from the past.

While Hornette is quiet she also has a fury that simply refuses to be tamed, and a competitive streak. Xandra is tact, polite and can be VERY blunt to the point of insensitive. Then again given the type of show Horseland was, some characters needed to get their feelings hurt....

Link to the meiker!

[captainsy-cookiemonster]

Found an adorable new meiker!!

Link

@littlefreya @wolvesandhoundshowltogether @luna-aestas @the-soot-sprite @limedemon @thelastsock

[angiestown]

I'm working on another dress up game rn and like ~2 years ago when I made my last one, making all the colour variations took soooo long. then right near the end I remembered that I knew how to automate things like that. since I had to get it set up again anyway, I figured I'd record myself doing it and make a tutorial to hopefully save some other people some time

[roselyn-writing]

✨Couple Picrew✨

I made my OTPs with it, (SubSelvi,AroAl,NaHaru and HadLay).

Non-pressure tags: @lorabeyc @breakfwest @melissalix @kyd35 @lisadelise @florafoom @alexapenz @mollyb9 @monapome @lilymoo @saito-mitsuko @loryeenb @noelle9 and you!

[queriesntheories]

Hello linguistics side of tumblr! I present thee with an offering:

A Wug Picrew! Featuring many hats, a wug that can sit on your head, fairy lights, feet, a bonus linguistics reference, and many pride flags!

Share 'em far and wide! Have fun making your own wugsona :D

If Jean Berko Gleason does want me to take this down for any reason I will happily do so- I'm just trying to make the linguistics community a little more fun lol

[juniaships]

My Disneysona in her WISH outfits! I love to imagine myself in gorgeous outfits From top to bottom: my "main" dress, my "adventure" outfit, the courtship dress King Magnifico gifts me, and the finale dress after his inevitable defeat. Link below