Scratch that last ask about Porygon, i realized I already asked and got an answer...
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Agh, 10-ish years ago? Fuck
LOL, no worries! I had your original Ask sitting in the back as I tried to dig up my old notes. But to answer that original question (since it has indeed been 10 years and things have changed at least a little, lol): While there has been some development since, it’s unfortunately very vague and disconnected, as you’re about to see.
Porygon didn’t get a huge amount of development before the project went on pause as it wasn’t clear what the best direction to take Porygon would be. Would it be a purely digital Pokemon, would be it man-made as a bio-engineering feat like Arceus was, or something different altogether? Since more recent project developments, Porygon would be a man-made Pokemon in a similar fashion to Arceus, but would be involved in some fashion of dimensional / inter-dimensional existence and movement in a manner not dissimilar to Mega Gengar and the UBs. Biologically it would probably be a mixture of silicon and carbon lifeform that would, over time, become unstable and “vanish”. There would be some measure of Videodrome vibes in extreme outlier cases as the Pokemon “faded”, but the average owner wouldn’t be exposed to this unless they were very, very unlucky.
Culturally, Porygon would be among the first of all Pokemon to become widely available - no special training or equipment required; a (quasi) digital pet that needed only the bare minimum from you - or so the box would say at any rate. Owning a Porygon would have been similar to owning a Tamagotchi or a Chia Pet, your “care” of the Pokemon was more symbolic rather than real. A Porygon did not truly occupy the same space as its owner - its owner cannot truly “feed” or “care” for it in the conventional sense. A Porygon would still need real care, but it wasn’t something the average owner (children) would be capable of giving it.
It would have been fair to call Porygon a “fad” Pokemon under this lens, and it could be argued that the introduction of Porygon by Silph Co. into the mainstream played a very large role in the tsunami of what would later become modern Pokemon collector and integration culture.
Apologies that this is very vague / nondescript - Progyon is still a “???” entity and everything is very nebulous. Should the project pick up again, Porygon probably won’t see any true development until both Mega Gengar and the UBs are ironed out in a manner that I feel makes sense within the setting, as Porygon would be something that would sit very uncomfortably between them and Arceus.
These goobers are a delight. All of my preconceived headcanons of John Carpenter-level horror have been completely obliterated, but the sheer goofy absurdity has more than made up for it. It’s a real shame the Coda can be farmed so quickly - but in the end that’s okay because I need more cosmetics for my Backroom.
I did initially give this the same gradient pink background as the original band render to complete the parody, but the result was, unfortunately, vomit-inducing. I fought with it for an hour or two before landing on these alternates instead. As stated before, I’m extremely partial to the concept art “version” of these five, and based this on those pieces shared by DE in Devstream 182.
You know you’re in a little too deep with something when an inconsequential detail under any other circumstance feels like some incredible revelation. “This motherfucker still has a WRIST!” shouldn’t be a statement that lights up my brain like the way it did today.
A commission for @extra-vertebrae of her operator and zeke, because even infested flesh monsters need hugs
MY BOY! Give your local converted body melt Lich a hug, being ripped out of the Infested hivemind probably leaves a gaping void of terror in their sense of identity.
The ambulatory boogers are my favourite, Your Honour. When I convert them all I hope they sing pop space sea shanties on my railjack while ripping Corpus boarders apart.
WIP of something for myself. I HaVe tO mAkE mY oWn CoNtEnT. The lack of Coda art online makes my shrivelled heart sad.
My lineart exists in one of two phases: “I don’t know what that is”, and “why are there so many veins”.
Hey, peeps - I’m looking for Warframe fan artists / artists willing to draw Warframes that take commissions. Moderate to high detail / accuracy, style-wise I’m very partial to fine / delicate linework and delicate posing. While I look for and appreciate frame accuracy, I’m glad to trade accuracy for style - smooth and flowing shapes rather than jagged angles are my jam.
If anyone has any recommendations, please share! I would be very grateful.
Hello, peeps! I am on a Warframe high, and I’m opening very briefly for some Warframe-centric commissions for you to take advantage of that WF energy! This opening will be short and limited in scope for this round, but a longer, wider-scope opening may follow later, likely sometime after March.
I will be taking full-body, coloured digital sketch commissions with a flat colour or gradient background. Sketch quality examples below (these are busts):
The limits for this opening are: Warframes or Technocyte Coda (Infested Liches) only. No Protoframes, Operators, etc., please.
Rates:
$120 USD single Warframe / Lich, +$90 USD per additional Warframe / Lich per image.
$355 USD for the full Technocyte Coda band (five Liches), +$90 USD per Warframe added.
NOTE: In regards to the Liches, I will be working primarily off of the concept art shared by DE in their overview of Dev Stream 182 rather than the currently available official renders. To this end, the Coda will be a bit more “fleshy” / gnarly.
Slots: slots are unlimited, I will accept orders from now until 5pm MST. Clients will receive one rough WIP for approval before the final image is delivered.
How to order and TOS: to claim a slot and read my TOS please follow the instructions below the cut:
CLOSED! Thank you very much! Confirmations and invoices will be sent out this evening!
I’m going to preemptively apologise for the future content that will infest this blog in the coming weeks.
I’ve only been back with Warframe for maybe three weeks and I’m already reinvested as if I had never left. I haven’t even gotten to the 1999 content in-game yet and I’m having a severe aneurysm over the Infested boy band.
Hey, peeps - I have a request of you! As a part of my mentorship I’ve been tasked with designing a “handsome man”; this has become something of a conundrum, because my tastes in what is “attractive” in movies / games / comics is pretty far removed from the arena of conventional attractiveness. The more gangly, weird, and generally “wrong” or “obscured” something is the more I like it and / or the more I feel “I’d read fanfic about that” (and become disappointed when that fanfic doesn’t exist). This doesn’t give me a very good vantage for identifying what’s “handsome” when it comes to design. It’s something wherein I understand the concept in theory, but not in practice.
So, I’d like to ask you, Tumblr users brought to this blog, to please share with me your favourite “handsome (fictional) men” (no real people, please, I’m looking for character designs) from movies, games, or comics. I’m looking for designs that run the gamut from human to in- / less-human (sentient only), with some pointers on why these designs are “attractive” to you. Bonus points for designs that hit all the buttons in the physical category only, or were “attractive” until a rancid personality ruined it.
Thank you in advance!
ETA: you guys are giving me great answers so far in replies and asks! Please keep them coming, all of these are really making me think!
Sifting through old files. I haven’t touched this in over two years - at this stage I’m not sure if I’ll ever go back on it to finish it. Kind of fell out of love with it as it started to get refined - one of those pieces that overall felt and looked better in the sketch stage, I think.
Got sucked back into Warframe after a year and a half break. Here’s some old stuff from a few years back when I was hardcore invested with headcannons and theories and a lot of salt about ESO.
The ink pieces were done for WF Inktober a few years back. I wound up being too busy to complete more than 8 or so days. The triptych at the end was going to be submitted for the art show for Tennocon one year, featuring my favourite frame and the favourite frames of my fellow ninjas, but I was beginning to get burned out on WF and mounting disappointments from the dev team before it could be finished.
Specific context for the “”“newd”“” Limbo: the idea behind this and the Volt equivalent was related to Warframe construction and the possibility of errors resulting from genetic processing, re: reading errors from the component blueprints that could alter the structure of sword steel. Both of these were related to an “Anatomy of a Warframe” theoretical biology essay that would be hosted on my site, breaking down how a frame worked as an organism. I’m admittedly more concerned about addressing my backlog of farmables than worldbuilding at present, but once the checklist gets its due mind I might revisit the idea.
She is beauty, she is grace - she will bite you in the face.
Adult female (lesser) Grey Imp. The Grey Imp is a pest species native to Lust. Also known as “Lucifer’s Itch” or “Dragon’s Itch”, they are a biting species that cause and spread infection via saliva and fecal matter. Males are half the size of their counterparts and are extremely competitive when vying for female attention. Females are approximately one foot tall at the hump. A colony of 20 adults can strip a corpse to bone in under an hour.
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