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[Red The Hunter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hNkQman64o

Hah, neat.

That looks like a cool fighter, neat

 

[Hitokage]

I need to look into whether their game is intended to offer more than anthro char designs. Hopefully they have some interesting mechanics to pair with that.

 

[shysaursoft]

I need to look into whether their game is intended to offer more than anthro char designs. Hopefully they have some interesting mechanics to pair with that.

If Maximillian is involved in any way, even as a silent advisor, I'd bet it'd have solid fighting mechanics.

 

[Chuck]

That game looks rad.

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

It's a good start. It seems you knew what you wanted, so you drew it. My only suggestion would be, start learning how to construct drawings out of base primitives. It'll go a long way towards adding three-dimensionality to your drawings, and helping you build a firm foundation for the eventual shape. It'll also help alleviate the "template" look.

Mmm! Base primitives? Now I'm curious about it - what's that? *has forgotten years-ago lessons*

 

[shysaursoft]

Mmm! Base primitives? Now I'm curious about it - what's that? *has forgotten years-ago lessons*

Bear in mind, I'm no expect, but the basic idea is to build up your drawing from primitive shapes like spheres (balls), cylinders, pyramids, cones, and so on. When you do so, you're giving depth and weight to the structure. You can squash, stretch, bend and shape the primitives to suit what you're going for.

(Oh gods, it's been so long since I've drawn anything, I'm super stiff)

I tend to start off with a "gesture" myself, a single line of motion that indicates direction and stance, but that's just me. Then I work out the pose using a basic "skeleton", which is really just a shorthand you develop over time. There are lots of great books I can recommend for learning how to build up a body structure quickly using simple shapes, but for now, my horrid style will suffice:

A good tip someone once gave me, is figure out how your character is standing, all the way down to where the feet touch the ground, because that'll help a lot with the weight of the character, setting the center of gravity, which leads to a more natural look. You can always tell when someone's drawn a character from the head down, and ended up with the feet sticking off the page.

The number one tip? Flip your drawing horizontally very often, it'll help a lot with spotting things that seem out of proportion. As you're drawing, you get "acclimated" to how it looks, and it starts looking "right" even if it's not. Flipping it gives your brain a fresh look at it.

Practice drawing gestures for poses and such, and building up things out of primitives, and you'd be surprised how quickly you progress. Try to stay loose, and have fun with your lines. Don't worry too much about getting proportions right, or finding the right line and curve, that'll come with time.

Geeze. First time I've drawn in months. I gotta get back on that horse.

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

*snip*

All right, time to start with drawing with base primitives in mind... Golly gee, well, I think I'm gonna need all the time drawing to make things just right. Hmm...

*starts drawing one of his plushies on the desk*

*also starts to sketch "blank" characters for proportions and poses*

(Whoa, sorry for making you draw!)

 

[shysaursoft]

(Whoa, sorry for making you draw!)

Nah, I should thank you for getting me drawing a bit again

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

Nah, I should thank you for getting me drawing a bit again

Hehe.

Speaking of drawing things, I think I got a good shape going on for what will eventually become the first "proper" drawing for my... future fursona, so to speak. (Whoa, it's like a completely different level.)

I probably need to keep drawing the same thing over and over for a while, though, before I arrive to something I really like.

How should I handle the "clean-up" phase, once I've arrived on a well-proportioned sketch? Redraw? (I work on paper and pen.)

 

[shysaursoft]

Such nice dinosaur.

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

Hey, seeing as you're here, I think I've arrived at a particular... uh... something.

As you can see from the URL, this isn't the first "proper" sketch. I've went through so many sheets of paper just to get the sample "pose + skeleton" you provided "right" before going ahead.

Sometimes I still think he looks kinda lean and I might have drifted a bit from my original design, but I do think I prefer this look, to be honest.

 

[shysaursoft]

Not bad at all. Already a huge step up from the two-dimensional profile you did earlier, huh?

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

Not bad at all. Already a huge step up from the two-dimensional profile you did earlier, huh?

Mmm hmm. (I think I'll probably get around to muscle detail when I do draw an alternative version minus clothes (but still no naughty bits because of hosting)

 

[CHEEZMO™]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opt9wdtxHrw

Belarus has furries.

Is nowhere safe??

 

[Boss Doggie]

pfft, there are no furries in here!

 

[D-Pad]

Source

 

[shysaursoft]

That's adorable.

Meanwhile, I've been engaging in some primo HD Bowser Butt.

 

[D-Pad]

That's adorable.

Meanwhile, I've been engaging in some primo HD Bowser Butt.

Oh yeah I guess this is out now... Guess I'll go buy it.

 

[Boss Doggie]

looks like a lost AC character

 

[Chuck]

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[The Tofunator]

Nice! If I'm there next time, we'll all take the same photo 4 times. :3

 

[perfect free]

Aw, you're both adorable.

 

[CHEEZMO™]

New OTP

 

[Kai Dracon]

I've made a Mario Kart 8 weekly tournament for non-GAF friends that also has some people from this part of GAF in it. I don't mind if general GAF users wander in. It's set to run every sunday starting at 14:00 to the end of the day. I'll adjust the race count if we end up getting a lot of players.

Quote to see the code.

 

[Red The Hunter]

Hey guys have you've heard of this, the Shiness Kickstarter Project. A french indie RPG featuring anthropomorphic characters as your party members, thought some would be maybe interested, the campaign still has 5 days left.
Game Trailer

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[Boss Doggie]

is that a dbz furry

 

[shysaursoft]

is that a dbz furry

The Toriyama influence is unmistakable, yeah.

Also the Sonic OC influence:

Since Shiness is inspired of manga comic books (think about Dragon Ball & Naruto for example... ), it made sense for us to make our battle system a fighting game.

EDIT: Have some cute I found:

via: http://artkour.tumblr.com/post/86866280752/deep-3am-convos

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

I was kind of bored and ended up reading the forum archives just for kicks, and...

Uh...

I am blushing! Sometimes I do feel embarrassed reading other people's stuff...

Either way, sometimes I keep wondering how did I get to be a furry in the first place.

I kind of... uh... feel strange knowing that I'm probably one.

 

[Red The Hunter]

Someone made a badge of my fursona, Kiba, during the last furmeet I went to last weekend.

Remnants, the artist that made the badge is a pretty cool artist. Look at her stuff if your interested.

 

[Boss Doggie]

all dem megaswampert art

 

[Hedge]

Source

This is exceedingly adorable, and I'm very sad we'll probably never get to play this.
The "boop" is too cute!

 

[Refyref]

EDIT: Have some cute I found:

via: http://artkour.tumblr.com/post/86866280752/deep-3am-convos

Of course a bird would want to talk about birds.
(That is indeed pretty cute!)

This is exceedingly adorable, and I'm very sad we'll probably never get to play this.
The "boop" is too cute!

Think positively!

 

[Grakl]

megaswampert such a bro

also, scaleborn #1 game get hype

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

megaswampert such a bro

Heh... now I'm kind of in a tough spot trying to pick between Mudkip and Treecko in my eventual copy of Omega Ruby. (I'm skipping Torchic because I already have a perfectly good one.)

 

[CHEEZMO™]

Yesterday was kinda fun

The big one is in 2 weeks. I'll try to get some more/better pix then.

 

[Aokage]

Hey! Just generally sayin' "'sup?" to my furrageous GAFfer cohorts. I'm curious.

What's the roll call?

How many furs do we got on GAF?

How many of us attend cons?

How many of us lived in Japan and spent time in the kemono scene?

Looking forward to replies!

 

[Boss Doggie]

We should call this a den

 

[Aokage]

We should call this a den

FurryGAFDen? ;3 Wouldn't that just get more folks mocking us?

 

[Grakl]

not much to mock, thred is ded-ish

 

[Gattuso]

not much to mock, thred is ded-ish

too bad that its kinda always been like that though outside of when I was dumping images every other day in here.

 

[Aokage]

No furry gaming love?

Maybe I'mma have to encourage the multiple, multiple game industry furs to post here.

 

[Dachande]

No furry gaming love?

Maybe I'mma have to encourage the multiple, multiple game industry furs to post here.

Hey, I did tell you on Twitter (hi) that we're mostly IRC-based these days.

As much as people tell me there's a lot of games industry furs, I have to say I don't know any others in real life, but I suppose I do try and keep a low profile to not out myself. The games industry is very small and people are judgemental. I've never posted in this thread before for that reason.

 

[Red The Hunter]

Hey! Just generally sayin' "'sup?" to my furrageous GAFfer cohorts. I'm curious.

What's the roll call?

How many furs do we got on GAF?

How many of us attend cons?

How many of us lived in Japan and spent time in the kemono scene?

Looking forward to replies!

Red The Hunter here on GAF, but I go by Kiba within the fandom
Here's a badge of my fursona done by an artist during a recent furmeet...

Hard to say on how many there are, since while there is a small group of us here, they're maybe more. But even then it's only like maybe a few more than our already small group.

Haven't attended any furry cons yet, will be in September with RainFurrest, the Washington State Furry Con.

Nope, would love to go to Japan someday, dunno about living there though.

No furry gaming love?

Maybe I'mma have to encourage the multiple, multiple game industry furs to post here.

I do have my Little Tail Bronx Collection of stuff that I've bought over the last year and a half.

There are a couple who work in the industry that I know sort of though here on the thread and through chatting with them on the IRC. But really like Dachande said, Furry still has a negative stigma attached to itself, along with a decent amount of vitriol towards it as well. I'm not in the game industry myself, but I can see why some game industry furs are very cautious about being open about it.

 

[Aokage]

Hey, I did tell you on Twitter (hi) that we're mostly IRC-based these days.

As much as people tell me there's a lot of games industry furs, I have to say I don't know any others in real life, but I suppose I do try and keep a low profile to not out myself. The games industry is very small and people are judgemental. I've never posted in this thread before for that reason.

You did you did. Western game dev is so not judgmental, btw. I know several out furs in major positions.

Okay, to download an IRC client! IRC. Dang. Going back ten-plus years!

What time-ish is the channel most active, by the way?

 

[Boss Doggie]

what games did you pick up because it has... uh... furries >_>

I did that with Etrian Odyssey 4

 

[Aokage]

Red The Hunter here on GAF, but I go by Kiba within the fandom

RESPECT to that Solatorobo collection! How'd you get the official dojin/fanbooks from outside Japan? All the merch, really :3 I was lucky enough to snag it all while I still lived there.

And, honestly, that 2000s furry stigma is going away. Almost all the industry furs I know are open about it.

 

[Aokage]

what games did you pick up because it has... uh... furries >_>

I did that with Etrian Odyssey 4

Basically, uh, every semi-decent game that had well-designed anthro characters.

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

*doesn't really care whether there are anthropomorphic characters in video games, to be honest*

EDIT: wait, Hitokage got banned?

 

[Red The Hunter]

RESPECT to that Solatorobo collection! How'd you get the official dojin/fanbooks from outside Japan? All the merch, really :3 I was lucky enough to snag it all while I still lived there.

And, honestly, that 2000s furry stigma is going away. Almost all the industry furs I know are open about it.

Thanks, I'm very much a big fan of the games, along with this was how I got into the fandom.
I got the dojin though Amazon Japan, as CyberConnect 2 was selling both of them to fans who couldn't make it Comiket. Fanbooks I got through another person on GAF who lives in Japan and was going to Tokyo for the weekend. Asked him if he could get these for me while they were in Akihabara during the trip. CyberConnect2 does sell their merch not only through their own online store and Amazon Japan, but they do sell in a few Japanese stores like Akihabara's Kotobukiya.

The rest of collection along with a set of two wall scrolls of the characters from the game all came from amazon japan. Like I said before, they sell all their merch on there, though I did have to use a forwarding service just to get most of it here. Because they only ship CDs, books, DVDs, and Blu-Rays outside Japan. Pain in the butt, but was worth in the end.

I would recommend that you check out their Kemono Fanpage on Facebook, along with their English CyberConnect2 Facebook as well, as they're very much kemono fans who have a love for it as well, and will talk about upcoming releases of either their Kemono or Solatorobo/Little Tail Bronx related merch from time to time.

 

[Boss Doggie]

CC2 is selling doujin?