Latest Posts by squird5 - Page 7
What'cha lookin at smoothskin?
probably thinkin about how incredibly impractical tying a tree to her hat was
Walk cycle for class. Decided to put space marine armor on him
Finished up my face turn animation, colored it too 25 hours for 6 seconds of animation
I got my perspective homework done early since the only good tables I can use are in one room at school. The scales didn't fit well in feet so I just went with meters. I might clean it up later to make a scene with it since I sorta did for fun when I finished it.
Face turn for class
9 hours and that's all I've got and I still need to finish the hair motion at the end, add clothes and refine areas
I made this after class in Animation two weeks ago and fixed it up on monday and I keep forgetting to post it
I wanted to make it a gif but ToonBoom doesn't export gifs by default and Photoshop CC doesn't let you alter the framerate like Elements 5 (which is super restricted in size and duration) does
Parallax Timeline
1114 Universal Era 1 Great War Era Great War Begins 68 GWE Powder weapons invented 74 GWE Rifling Invented 87 GWE Machineguns invented 103 GWE Atomic power discovered 121 GWE First Low Orbit craft launched 201 GWE FTL drives invented 206 GWE First Colony Ships leave Ashire 224 GWE First Directed Energy Weapons produced for combat 224-226 GWE Ashire Crisis Mass exodus of Ashire 241 GWE Cazanan city of Namore on planet Glin destroyed 242 GWE Cazanan Probe discovers Dronok Space; Capital planet Bethari discovered 250 GWE Cazanans invade Bethari Dronoks discover Cazanan Space 257 GWE Cazanan patrol encounters Fronzok fleet at edge of Known Space 257-259 GWE Cazanan-Fronzok First Contact War; Cazanans surrender after substantial losses 266 GWE Dronoks invade Cazanan capital of Atos on planet Alphine Cazanans retake control of Alphine in the Second Battle of Atos 280 GWE Dronoks discover Fronzoks on planet Malrin 282 GWE Dronok terrorists raid Malrin and are defeated 340-344 GWE Dronok Rebellion; Insurgent Wars Insurgents are wiped out in the four year Battle for Ferlos 345 GWE Dronok Inquisition founded 738-742 GWE Cazanan Civil War; The Corporate Wars 987 GWE Planet Alos rendered uninhabitable 995 GWE Invasion of Delri 998 GWE Pathin destroyed by Dronok Superweapon
Messing around with building a timeline for the events in Parallax and I think I got sidetracked with the planet discovery and city founding in the 200's
NotMokou from the stream. The internet died for a while and I left the stream off for the most part. This pose was a pain to get drawn down right. I think I got it about right this time.
She still needs a name.
Parallax
Parallax originated as a 3D action platformer where you played as a special operations cat doing battle with the evil dogs. It shifted to anthropomorphic animals and then to kemonomimis where they are at now. The gameplay also changed from a Sonic Adventure-like game with jets to a First Person Shooter, more akin to Halo.
The first written content for Parallax is from back in 2005, a stats page with weapons and vehicles names, damage and capacity, after was a walkthrough style campaign synopsis, complete with terrible spelling. Many of the items have been renamed and almost everything, if not everything, has been rebalanced. Balance then heavily favored the Cats (Cazanans). Now I feel the weapons are fairly well balanced against each other, a few exceptions being weapons I have not worked with much, semi-redundant weapons and when vehicles are involved.
In 2008 I started making a web comic, because web comics were cool, so as to help make some brackground for the Parallax universe. It is called Parallax Beginnings, in reference to how it was to take place before the main game storyline. Updates have been extremely slow and infrequent. It stopped several times for several reasons. This last stall was so as to design the characters and equipment more completely before getting too far along and having mighty morphin power armor, as seen by Church's black and red armor. It also gives me time to rewrite much of the comic's story without the need of retconning anything.
I got into those awful forum RPGs around that time as well, resulting in a Parallax RPG on the comic's forum. Be Advised the quality of posts in that time is horrendous. The RPG was run with little to no planning and acts as a semi-canon instance of the universe where I would play around with ideas and keep things I liked. Much of the resulting content is not canon, making the Parallax RP a bad reference for Parallax canon. Things that are maintained in canon from the RPG are Hellen's Point, Steve and Steve's Stuff, Sergio (The Invincible) and Quaran. It has been one of the largest contributors to the setting's background.
More recently I got the idea of "What if my characters were in a Dota?". The result was a rather large influx of new characters. Before that, the "Newest Character" was Erika Keenly, who quickly stole Main Character position in the comic and general character development from Ryan (O')Connar. Erika has not and will not have an appearance in the comic for quite some time and she is already the most developed character. The New Newest Character is actually the result of a school project. The unnamed Not-Mokou in need of a redesign. Her story is untied to the Cazanan-Dronok war, but I intend to have it tie together in the FPS, along with making her a boss.
I would quite like to make a Wiki, however I'm not sure what all I could put on it at the moment without it being mostly plot spoilers.
I had to go out and finish my homework on the school computers so I used the tablet to draw an alien quick once I finished. I wasn't really paying attention so the pose is really off. I redrew the head a few times and I still don't like it.
Aeshnir are insectoids, standing between 5 and 8 feet. Females are bigger, brightly colored and extremely aggressive. Their exoskeleton is similarly durable to infantry armor.
Spoilers
I feel it's a bit difficult to talk about my setting because, while I want to, I'm afraid of spoiling everything at the same time. I'm not sure at what point plot discussion turns into just spoilers and I've thought more about potential plots and side plots than I have just raw world facts. I also find it a bit hard to find a place to start and I need to build the context of it before I start going 'I might change this or add this'.
I screwed up the orientation on this one bad. I had it the wrong way starting, then I flipped it. I shouldn't have flipped it once it started.
I remember something about iPhones autorotating the video if you turned it, but I guess not
We got confetted on and they started building the last set, hiding it behind a curtain which kept inflating like a hot air balloon
Paramore had some neat stuff going with their wall of lights behind them, a lot of the bright colors only showed up as white, like the red and blue speckling thing in this video
It was the opening band and yeah the crowd did feel really wimpy. They got better later, but they never got hype like they should have. When I went last year the venue was smaller but people were much more energetic.
cerastes Punk Rock Glowingdrumkityoucantreallyseebecauseitsstilldaytimeandvideodoesntzoom
And then Paramore who had some cool lights going behind them that the camera whited out most of the time. They got someone from the crowd to sing part with them and the monument pillars turned into Disco Spires
cerastes Punk Rock Glowingdrumkityoucantreallyseebecauseitsstilldaytimeandvideodoesntzoom
They had slides and everything But they had no signal there so posting these late
When can we get this as the standard GPS?
I keep forgetting to post this, I drew this at Starbucks the other day
Once before when I was at that Starbucks I was thinking about what kinds of animals would be in my setting and one that stuck was the Wyvernling, a little flying creature that could be found in and around Helen's Point, one of the main Cazanan cities. The Wyvernling is 6 to 8 feet long at the largest, feathery/furry and an omnivorous predator. It divebombs small animals, tacking and eating them. I was also thinking of them being an uncommon pet so they should be at least a little cute and pretty friendly. They're too bulky to perch in trees, but that doesn't necessarily stop them from sitting in trees, more like a panther than a bird. They'll have a moderate intelligence, able to understand words and phrases, but not as smart as an ape or raven. They are warmblooded mammals who mate for life and have live birth. They will attack and try to kill creatures many times their size if their young are immediately threatened and they have very sharp teeth and claws which allows them to kill much larger creatures, even if they don't actively hunt them. The lifespan in most subspecies is about 20 years with some able to live 60 or more.
I'll probably draw them much more catlike as that's what I'm currently associating them the most with, big flying cats.
Classes are over so here's the stuff from my sketchbook so far
And it's done I was going to post the source, but I guess it actually is a screencap from the show so guess I'll just reference the image
