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TODO - Import following characters

Posted 5 years, 2 months ago by Ammoth
A list of characters I still need to make profiles for. This is mostly stalling because I also need to make _art_ for them, which I'm evidently being extremely slow at :')

  • Eiche - the Foreigner
    • Species: Wolpertinger
    • Bearer of Spring
  • Rowan - the Herbalist
  • Sequoia - the Guide [needs redesign, might just scrap him though…]
    • Centaur, big and strong, draft horse. A gentle giant
    • Helps you find your way through cursed woods
    • Always surrounded by fireflies
    • Carries a purse of iron coins and a pocketful of salt
  • Fir - "the Guide"
    • A light in the snowstorms
    • Might guide you back, might loose you more
  • Cedar - the Smith [just needs icon]
    • The Beast
    • Cursed
  • Lumme - the Lake Monster
    • Benevolent cold water mermaid
    • Probably seal-inspired, with some whale or shark thrown in? Not a saltwater creature though, so… hmm
    • Huge and fat
Name after a hardy water plant of some sort? Suggestions welcome
Cypress - the Witch and Healer Ash - the Fae  MalevolentSo, so beautiful
Deadly

Looking for commission artists :D

Posted 5 years, 6 months ago by Ammoth

I have officially updated all of my character profiles, yay!

Which means: I'm good to go on a commission spree B) I already poked around the TH forums a little bit and got some art done, but I'd love to get more. So I'm asking for recommendations! Do you know anyone who has commissions open atm? Do you have commissions open? Hit me up! I'm really looking forward to getting more art of some of my characters <3
Also, for what it's worth: I'm definitely down for art trades, too! Lemme know if that sounds like your think, we can work sth out.

Here's a loose list of what I'm looking for, though it's more of a guideline than hard "must have"s, so if you got a rec that doesn't fit some of that, throw it at me anyway.

  • price range: 10-30$, up to 45$ if I really like it. If you charge more than that that's awesome and I'm really happy for you, but also I am Not That Rich :')
  • expressive human art that takes facial features and body type differences into account.
  • cool monster art.
  • willingness to take a prompt/concept and fucking run with it, especially for nonhuman character designs. I want interpretations of my characters, not perfect copies of my concept art!
  • on a similar note, I'm always interested in artists with peculiar or different art-styles. Crazy, abstract, iconic, bold stuff. Give it to meeeee
  • history nerds. … because Pyrit.
  • fashion nerds.  … because Vasiliy.

And on the flip side: things that will probably not make the cut:

  • manga/anime style, on account of the aforementioned "takes facial features into account". I want my noses BOLD.
  • chibi, for the same reason.


Profile revamps 2.0

Posted 5 years, 6 months ago by Ammoth

Hello, long time no see! The "land of eternally neglected characters" line on my profile sure is there for a reason…

Anyway. Antimoany linked me to vomcodesstuff's absolutely gorgeous html based profiles, so I guess it's time for a revamp of everyone's profiles! I also finally got around to uploading Wes, who's been around for a while now but for whom I didn't want to make a profile without finding a nicer layout to work with. Go give him love, he's very good 

I already updated Pyrit (the spoiled favorite) to the new profile format, as well as moved his two one-shot stories into literatures (which didn't exist when I last edited his profile, would you look at that progress). The plan is to eventually update everyone to the new layout. I'm not sure how I want to handle characters who have longer bits of poetry on their profiles yet, I might just move them into literatures too? I'll see.
I'm also not sure what I want to do with the death gods, who would profit from a more minimalistic design. Either scrap something together from Vom's code like I did for the literatures, or commission them for it. We'll see, either way it's gonna take a while because I am very slow :')
If I'm feeling very ambitious I might even update my own profile, who knows.

I have to say, though, I am very happy and very impressed with the progress Toyhouse has been making! It's been slow and took a hit while Lulu was busy with FV, but it is definitely growing into a really great, really useful character storage and trading site. I really love it.

EDIT: progress! I got Anna, Aspen, Cereus, Ink, Magnolia, Pyrit, Remy, Vasiliy and Wes on the new layout.
To do still: Cain, Glow (who needs fleshing out), Mothified, and the death gods but I gotta work something else out for them. I also have a bunch of characters that don't have profiles at all currently, so I gotta work on importing these at some point. But I want to clean up what I already have first.

And when I'm done revamping the lot I'm gonna need to go on a commission spree. A lot of these guys really need more art. Magnolia, Aspen and Anna especially.

Character profile page notes

Posted 7 years, 5 months ago by Ammoth

I need to find a nice, clean, simple way to arrange character profiles in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and easy to navigate. Writing down some requirements below. Feel free to link me if you have anything that would work!

CSS not available atm, though considering a premium account maybe if I find a really good profile format?

Needs:

  • 'intro', 'backstory' and 'description' sections. Optional 'info for artists' and 'misc' sections.
    The intro needs to be near the top/beginning.
  • 'basic info' section needs to stay. Maybe condese it though?
  • Some way to further divide up these main sections. Ex make 'backstory' have the sub-categories 'early life', 'story', 'current story', etc.

Also nice but not obligatory:

  • a header or profile picture near the top somewhere, kind of like an avatar? In addition to the gallery at the bottom.
  • the 'owner/creator/designer' section either removed or, even better, moved to the bottom. In a… footnote kind of way? It's useful information to have but the current page layout is just terrible. Also, just dispay the usernames of the user etc, and not their avatars.

Might edit this if I think of more. But that should cover the basics o/

Bullet points

Posted 8 years, 3 months ago by Ammoth

Some bullet points of things I need to do. Everyone likes bullet points.

  • I’m working on my character profiles, specifically trying to give Caïn a short enough but still informative description but man, it is hard. Clearly, I am not a writer. Feedback and spell-checking are very appreciated. I can't tell if his physical + character descriptions are informative enough or not, and if they read somewhat fluidly.
  • I kind of want to give Caïn a close friend/lover/someone to rely on because I’ve given him enough baggage already and his only other storyline is “dies alone in some kind of stupid accident/pissed off the wrong people before the age of 30" and that’s just sad, but then he has trust issues a mile long and I can’t imagine anyone sticking around long enough to actually make it past all the shitty treatment they would have to endure to get anywhere near him??
    He’s an asshole, but he doesn’t actually deserve to die alone.
  • Speaking of Caïn, I need to draw Gabriel at some point. I have a mental image of what he looks like but I never got around to it.
  • Re: characters I need to draw: Vasiliy's wife. She's cool, she deserves a face. Probably going to be a shoemaker, somehow my brain got stuck on that?
  • And he needs more family in general. I hadn't planned on fleshing him out too much, since he was mainly created so that I have a collection of art of a rather masculine guy rocking female coded clothing, but I still want to give him enough context, personality and backstory to make him truely likeable. That's the whole point.
  • Need to commission more art of him, too.