The Last Poster Wins! [v21]

[Neo Emolga]

I can't remember if where i am got affected. I know we had some snow a few years ago, but I can't remember if our power went out. Possibly, because a squirrel playing jump rope could knock our power out.

It sucks living in the south sometimes, i am tired of summer...

Can confirm, we electric squirrels enjoy jump rope with power lines.

And yeah, I'm tired of the summer heat, also. It's kinda worn out its welcome a while ago.

[Noblejanobii]

We just have extremes in South Carolina.

[Neo Emolga]

Same in NJ. Autumn and Spring in NJ are simply mystery days where the weather can either be very cold or just plain hot. Also, they only last for about two weeks. After that, you will have either extreme HEAT or extreme FREEZE. Some days you have both!

There is some unwritten law that states the temperature in NJ can NEVER be between 55F and 75F for more than an hour. These are comfortable temperatures and in NJ, that is just simply unacceptable.

[Neo Emolga]

Well, between mowing the lawn, raking leaves, or shoveling snow off of the driveway, I'll take shoveling the driveway.

The worst is raking leaves. Urf, it's annoying and it takes forever.

[Noblejanobii]

Do y'all in Georgia remember the snowpocalypse we had like a year or two ago?

[Chakramaster]

Do y'all in Georgia remember the snowpocalypse we had like a year or two ago?

Yup, that's the one I was talking about. It was an odd storm. Luckily it only knocked my power out for a little less than 24 hours. What made it even more odd, was the next day. We had an earthquake the very next day that reached 4.1 I think it was? Not too bad, but aftershock worthy the next day too. Too bad we haven't had any snow since then. It just hasn't been cold enough.

[Noblejanobii]

So I have been reminded that bellossom if very hard to fuse via computer, so I'm probably just going to draw all my fusions this go round when I have time.

[Neo Emolga]

So I have been reminded that bellossom if very hard to fuse via computer, so I'm probably just going to draw all my fusions this go round when I have time.

Fusing Bellossom with Emolga was a little tricky. I wasn't sure how to go about addressing the difference between Bellossom's flowers and Emolga's ears, so I just decided to go with yellow, rounded flowers. Then there was the whole issue of Emolga's arm flaps on Bellossom's leaf skirt, and that was probably the most difficult thing to figure out. In the end, I just said screw it and just have them get connected to one of the leaves on each side. After that, it was just a matter of combining colors, half of them Bellossom's while the other half were Emolga's. And yes, I have no clue how Bellmolga would glide. XD

The other two Bellossom fusions were easier, although the one with Banette had me thinking "wow, this looks hideous" the entire time. XD

[Noblejanobii]

Yeah the problem with bellossom fusions for me Sprite wise is the flowers. They're specifically shaped to fit Bellossom's face so many of the other flowers on Pokemon like Shaymin or Roselia don't fit, which makes it a bit harder to do some of the fusions I want. I just edited in my bellossom Mismagius fusion and I think it looks quite nice because I was able to blend in the flowers and the hat. I felt like there wasn't enough Mismagius though so I added in the ribbons but I'm not sure how well those worked.

[Neo Emolga]

Sprite fusions do look very hard, and heck, I'm definitely not a star at spriting. Drawn art, I can do. Graphic art, I can do. Spriting... nope. For me, I think it's because sprites are so small and every individual pixel counts. Goof up just a couple of pixels and the whole thing can get messy. You also can't really sketch a sprite out before you do the pixel work. I usually do two sketches, one very rough basic sketch and one refined "make sure this is what you want to go with" sketch before doing the final line work.

The other thing with sprites that throws me off is what looks zoomed in may look like it's okay, but then when I zoom out to normal size, it looks terribly screwy, and vice versa.

But in the end, I just prefer the drawn art and graphic art side of things.