{"id":2598,"date":"2021-01-29T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2021-01-29T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:27:12","slug":"2021-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/?p=2598","title":{"rendered":"2021 kickoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><IMG SRC=\"promo\/gfxgen_2021-01-27-222952.png\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Starting the year with some replacements for old sprite edits and some long overdue and requested characters.<\/p>\n<p>Custom Sprites:<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"customsprites.php?g=rastan\">Rastan Saga (new separate gallery)<\/a>: Rastan (new scratch-made sprite based on his stance from the first game)<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"customsprites.php?g=ninjagaiden\">Ninja Gaiden<\/a>: Bloody Malth<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"customsprites.php?g=undercovercops\">Undercover Cops<\/a>: Rosa Felmondes\/Blaze<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"customsprites.php?g=marvel&#038;s=ironman-fgtsze\">Marvel Comics<\/a>: Iron Man &#8211; classic armor in pose from cover #126<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"customsprites.php?g=movies#robocop\">Movies<\/a>: RoboCop<\/p>\n<p>Sprite Rips:<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"spriterips_index.php\">Name Graphics<\/a>: Select\/Vs. from Vampire Savior-Darkstalkers 3, also includes the dozens of custom names I made for this site&#8217;s image generators (and a few that are still unused) by cutting, pasting, and rearranging the preexisting letters. Most of the extras are horror-themed. It also includes a gradient pattern file to use as a layer or fill when you make your own custom name graphics.<\/p>\n<p>GFX Generators: today&#8217;s new sprites have been added to the appropriate generators (<a href=\"gfxgen_fightsize.php\">mostly the main generator<\/a>), along with&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211; the main generator&#8217;s side panel now has more short cuts so you spend a bit less time scrolling. I&#8217;ll continue to work on this and add it to the other generators later.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In December 2020, ownership of the Anime Studio\/MOHO (the animation program I&#8217;ve been using since 2015 to render most of my video clips) changed to <a href=\"https:\/\/lostmarble.com\/\">Lost Marble<\/a>, which will be a really good thing from what I&#8217;ve read. What isn&#8217;t good is how SmithMicro didn&#8217;t give any warning about how the software ownership verification on your computer would stop working if you didn&#8217;t update immediately&#8230; which I only found out after it happened to me because they sent no heads-up e-mail of any kind. That means all my work in AS is either temporarily halted or just completely dead and will have to be redone. So I went back to the lab with other tools.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/MMgDh1gFzcA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The 3-D shots were done in Blender with techniques I was experimenting with before I got Anime Studio. The 2-D Hall of Armor shot was made in Magix Vegas, the video editor I usually use to edit, assemble and render full videos, with layers of PNG and GIF files. So I&#8217;ll be spending a lot of time in the lab getting these alternate techniques down so I can get the videos going again.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;m taking a break for a month or two. I&#8217;m still very tired, mentally and physically, from how the last half of 2020 went for me offline, so I probably need to get some actual rest. My plans for taking commissions are going to be on indefinite hold, because I think I&#8217;m too tired to do those effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Future updates additions to the Toyboss section, like my new Golden Axe Skeletons by Storm Collectables (lucked up and caught the restock on Bluefin) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/articulatedicons.com\/\">Articulated Icons<\/a> Ninjas (most are 50% off until the end of January!) I finally got after fiending for them for a while. I highly recommend those ninjas, especially because they&#8217;re built for martial arts poses and customization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/PC310311.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/PC310311-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/PC310311-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/PC310311-1024x629.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/PC310311-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/PC310311-1536x944.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/PC310311.jpg 1784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P1230321.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P1230321-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Axe Skeletons by Storm Collectables\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P1230321-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P1230321-1024x911.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P1230321-768x683.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P1230321-1536x1367.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P1230321-2048x1822.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting the year with some replacements for old sprite edits and some long overdue and requested characters. Custom Sprites: &#8211; Rastan Saga (new separate gallery): Rastan (new scratch-made sprite based on his stance from the first game) &#8211; Ninja Gaiden: Bloody Malth &#8211; Undercover Cops: Rosa Felmondes\/Blaze &#8211; Marvel Comics: Iron Man &#8211; classic armor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,13],"tags":[56,79,95,501,198,472],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates-sb","category-sitenewsmain","category-updates","tag-gfx-generators","tag-marvel-comics","tag-ninja-gaiden","tag-rastan","tag-robocop","tag-undercover-cops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2613,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}