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Posted in Vichard's Mich (Comic) Posted 4 years ago
Now it's *MY* emotional support Mich...
@Aisukohi: I love your avatar!!
Posted in Bonds/Friendship Posted 4 years ago
I have a lot of close friends/best friends, but I generally consider anyone I'm amicable with to be a friend. Co-workers of past or present are friends in that sense, and so are many classmates of past and present, too. I'd do something nice for them given the chance but not if it cost me too much. Close friends, I'd give a kidney for, y'know. Best friends are generally synonymous with close friends just because my inner circle is so tight with me and also with each other, and we'd all do just about anything for each other.
Posted in Breaker Beach Coming to a Close! Posted 4 years ago
Congrats to the sound team. They posted hard :velvet-celebrate:
Heartbreak Hammer
★★★★✩
My concern with the initial pose is that visually, what is being held in the avatar's right hand is a little difficult to discern. If you didn't know what the item was meant to be, it could be very confusing to see on an avatar. I think the petals and overall look is a little too small for the amount of detail you're trying to fit there. My other concern with the initial pose is that the hammer neither fits the oversized hammer aesthetic nor is a reasonable mallet size, so it's a kind of strange midground. I think it would have looked nice if it were either smaller or more comically large. That said, I like the way the colors are balanced on the hammer itself and I wouldn't mind more hand poses that utilize both hands like this. The hair looks good, I have no complaints because I like to use this type of partially shaved head look, though I think it pairs strangely with the ear mods on the site in my personal opinion. The next pose is simple, it looks good, something I'd expect from a hammer item. The hat item looks good and is something I'd like to see more of, though the bill of the hat seems a little off perspective-wise but I can't really describe how to fix it (apologies). I feel like there was an opportunity to have the back-half of the hat use the tertiary color (white) of the color schemes but I am still happy with how the hat looks overall. It'll layer weird with some hair styles but there's not much that can be done about that, though I recommend any future similar hat items have different orientations (work backwards, more side-ways, more lifted/barely on the head, etc.) so that more hair can work with them.

No complaints with the pants, I like the mulitple belt look and I think it overall suits the style of the item perfectly. Similarly, no complaints on the foreground item. I think the aesthetic of the roses doesn't quite tie into the rest of the punk look so overall the item concept is a little strange as one half is punk/spikey, heartbreak, big hammer while the other half is rose, thorn, heartbreak so there's minimal thematic overlap in my opinion. I think the shirt is a little overwhelming, the font is unclear and there's no rose, thorn, or hammer motif in this pose so only the style/cut of the shirt ties it into the punk theme along with the broken heart logo; combined, I just find it to be more like an after thought in terms of the item theme. All this said, I like the colors chosen and I've already purchased two of them so despite my criticisms, I DO enjoy the overall bad boy aesthetic of it.

Heartbreak Coffin
★★★✩✩
The conflicting perspective of the roses adorning the coffin (especially by the legs, where it almost appears to be in the back of the coffin but is, instead, overlapping the character's leg) is strange. The roses aren't carried in the rest of the item as a motif so it seems out of place and I wish the coffin had just not had the roses at all (though thorns could've been made to work, more of a dead flora decoration to an item surrounding death). The hair seems fine, I like the way the streaks were done and I think it'd look fine when paired with head accessories. I really enjoy the leg item which is my personal favorite pose, and I think it'd look fantastic with a plethora of skirts on the site. I'd like to see similar poses or some (high-waisted) shorts released that pair well with this. The collar is a little underwhelming, I'd like to see the hearts appear broken or just one half present (other missing) to really tie into the theme and name of the item. For the shirt item, I like the hand pose but visually the glove on the face is indiscernible to me. It looked like they were holding something strange at first. I love partial gloves as a concept but I think the execution of the hand pose on the face made it a little less impactful. It fits the vaguely victorian theme but I'd have liked to seen the other aesthetic/motif elements present on this pose. I feel the same with the skirt, like maybe a broken or half-present heart would appear better for the item. The frill on the third color scheme skirt is difficult to discern but I do like the presence of the large ribbon on the skirts. I think this item might have been a little more visually interesting if ribbons had been a larger motif on the item, personally. Especially with the possibility of tying up/untying a coffin (like a present?) because it'd be interesting.

I already answered the other two items in the previous thread; for your convenience, I've copied and pasted that below.
Chrysaora Witch
★★★★✩
Concept-wise, this is a really good item. I like the jellyfish frill of the dresses (and the colors of the last dress are jaw-dropping), and I appreciate the simplicity of the arm pose. I do think the white eyelashes on the first two eye poses are strange, but they might end up looking really good based on skin tone so I guess the jury's still out on that one until I try it, haha. I think the hair pose is my favorite for this because all of the gradient colors look fantastic to me. I really appreciate the hair curls; not too much, but definitely enough to create visual interest. I also like the jellyfish background and how they converge on the avatar. I like the hat with the glass-liquid aesthetic but I do think the frill on the brim of the hat looks just a little strange in conjunction to the dresses since it doesn't seem to have that texture/'fabric' on it, so I think I would have expected something that looks more thin rather than plush-y.

Bubblenaut
★★★★✩
I like the concept and the colors chosen. I think the space suit itself looks fantastic and it's probably the pose I'm most excited for - the texture looks good, it seems comfortable, it's overall a great item for space. I think the little aliens are totally fun and in-line with what I expect for background-foreground companions on avatar items. I also love the bubble wand SO much, I think it's clever and unique and I believe the texture you guys chose for bubbles was a smart choice. In that vein, the bubble-head item is exciting. I'll need to see how it looks with regular items to fully decide just how amazing it is, but I am certainly a fan of the way it appears mid-motion. It seems pretty natural for being the unnatural phenomenon that it is. I think the spaceship was a logical pose for this item but the body of the spaceship feels 'flat' compared to everything else. The spacesuit feels more real than the spaceship, and I think that may be due to perceived lighting or shape, like maybe a highlight would've given the spaceship more 'shape'. I love the way the smoke curls beneath the spaceship though, I'd kind of be interested in an item like that that just generated cool smoke stuff in the background of the avatar (for dramatics, of course).
Posted in Team Electric Cabin Posted 4 years ago
I'm short on flowers and pebbles but I almost have the full set myself
I'm excited to finish it off
Posted in Team Electric Cabin Posted 4 years ago
*slides into thread*
it's not team colors but i'm feeling this avi rn
Posted in Team Electric Cabin Posted 4 years ago
haha, i remember when the page kept updating with like 10 replies, that was a hell of a time
Posted in Team Electric Cabin Posted 4 years ago
I do some lurking myself but we don't bite D: I wanna see some fresh faces (and some fresh avatars, let's see more uniforms in this thread lol)
Posted in Team Electric Cabin Posted 4 years ago
I wonder where most of our people are at >u> Must be lurkers
Posted in Team Electric Cabin Posted 4 years ago
lunch is supreme... i can't wait for tomorrow, it'll be $5 sushi day at the grocery store
Posted in Team Electric Cabin Posted 4 years ago
omg yesssss my galaxy wants to hold onto all these apps and it's like, if i haven't used it in two years... i'm probably not going to, right?
Posted in Team Electric Cabin Posted 4 years ago
oh yeah it sucks when the phone comes with apps you'll never use lol
mine has economy and sports apps that i'll never touch
Posted in Team Electric Cabin Posted 4 years ago
I'm so bad about holding onto apps I don't use
Are you gonna end up deleting some games off your phone D: