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Full sequence is here.
[room 129]
Dory: At least they got the bed size right...
Dory: [listens] There IS something under there...
Zeek: No-no-no. Please no. Shhhh!
Dory: A dragon...
Zeek: Shhhh! Oh please sir, please don't turn me in, I don't want to be a beverage. Please!
Dory: Ah, the distillery. I see what you mean.
Zeek: Oh, thank you, sir! Thank you!
Dory: You can come out, the door's locked.
Zeek: Oh, thank you, sir. Those dust bunnies and my allergies...
Dory: It's Dory.
[...]
Zeek: And that's the whole story.
Dory: So you renoed this whole wing yourself, "just to keep busy".
Zeek: Just the rooms. When there was nobody around, of course.
Dory: Uh... where did you get the paint?
Zeek: That's the other family secret.
Dory: ...
Zeek: It's true I can't breath fire, I...
Dory: You're saying you - breath paint?
Zeek: Latex. Don't worry, it washes up with water and it only happens when I'm REALLY mad!
Dory: [eyes wall] This is dragon spit?
Zeek: No, it's -
Dory: Boogers? This place is boogered?!
Zeek: No! It's - fire! Think fire! It's a dragon thing!
Dory: No, it's a stomach thing...
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 7:51 pm |
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Okay, that's an adequate reveiw of the hobby version. The Nexus Inn is based on an old RPG scenario "Ye Olde Come Back Inn" (you can enter the inn but can't leave - kinda Hotel California, now that I think of it...), except this one has 'extradimensional' doorways to everywhere. Er, call it stale, hackneyed, derivative, cliche, etc. and I'll agree, hehe. Gotta start somewhere. 
Moving on, here's the more recent/focused effort (moved here from WIP/Patel Grand), a first side adventure from the Nexus Inn:
111111 - Forgot to note this one (above) is an 'overpaint' (vectors over GS).
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:31 pm |
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Back to the collaboration idea, here's the basic layout of the inn (common area, minus chairs, tables, etc.). With a renovation underway (see above), the layout could change a lot (for the better, hehe). The farther from the common area, the wilder/derelict it becomes (ie. could support various scenarios in itself).
Okay, time for a beer...
Oops, forgot one - need some rats to contribute to, um, atmosphere, yeah.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:39 pm |
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Yep, this is one of those moments when nothing's coming out right. This post will be back when my brain's back online (when/if I've got the text sorted)... 
The practical effect is, this thread is a "sandbox".
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| Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:05 am |
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Another island chain (done in a fraction of the time...). New processor's still not powerful enough to handle another level of detail - oh well. Onward.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:17 am |
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Realizing I tend to 'image bank' so I don't have to draw something new each time (read *lazy*), which doesn't help with learning... Someone mentioned gesture (next concern for me):
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:08 pm |
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Back again -
geeze, didn't realize this page is overloaded (still annoying @68 kbpsd),
apologies for that (where needed)...
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:23 pm |
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Saw a Gorillaz fan video and something clicked -
yeah, I dont get out much, "Gorillaz"?
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:43 pm |
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Then another one...
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:45 pm |
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And again...
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:08 pm |
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And again...
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:22 pm |
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Back to 3D (square kilometre)...
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:29 pm |
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...better sense of scale (figure to cliff base = 140 m)...
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:46 pm |
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Elevations - okay we're done.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:02 am |
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Would be more effective with more shadow-casting objects in the foreground, I think...
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| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 5:16 pm |
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~2 km square...
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:32 pm |
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~4 km...
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:25 am |
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Blocking's done (good enough)...
(if the shadows invert, glance at the darkest spot, middle right, to fix)
Next up: detail the action spots...
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 2:16 am |
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Remembered (finally) the tablet includes PS Elements 7 - test drive:
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 2:50 am |
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In Inkscape vectors can be blurred (see cloud), if that's useful to anyone (surprised me; beziers are unaffected, whether the object's blurred or not). Otherwise, been converting old stuff from Word format (2000 px max export res) to Inkscape (unlimited export res and generates pngs too)...
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| Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 2:03 am |
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Not much progress but still moving -
wondered if drawing clouds front to back
(rather than silhouette first) would be easier;
seems to be; but having a clear idea of
the volume/shape is still most important
(lost track in this one)...
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:26 am |
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Thanks but I knew that already.  |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:37 am |
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...still going in circles but I think the radius is getting smaller, hehe...
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...low as I could go (polys)... incidental: export image (sketchup) hung my machine, until I thought to "run as administrator" (who knew?): much smoother image...
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:52 am |
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the lesson (at least for me) in planning sweeping landscapes: choose your battles (local detail only)...
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again (still), avoiding loading the page (until dialup is extinct, yep; ie. one image per post; apologies to anyone who's watching this thread and getting email notices)...
figured out Blender (the basics), not as hard as I thought but still not accessible to the average Joe (that's me too, unh-hunh) - back to sketchup (max potential for group effort, including those who are 'mathematically minded', ie. those who might not 'get' fluidity but still want to be involved - yeah, I'm not sure how useful saying this is but I'm sure nobody else is, so there )...
"frogback" island
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:26 am |
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another level of detail and again it's too much - did I mention "pick your battles"? lol
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:44 am |
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wip
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