Staff Litter Discussion 2018

[Knickknacks]

Does Raire’s pup have an official name this year? Don’t see anything on the hint chart/remember Raire saying anything, but I always like finding out the If staff members have chosen name for their dogs ^^”

[Sixx O'Clock]

Does Raire’s pup have an official name this year? Don’t see anything on the hint chart/remember Raire saying anything, but I always like finding out the If staff members have chosen name for their dogs ^^”

The hint chart lists the name as Kirej.

[Zphynnx]

raire, your puppy is so precious omllllll
the map looks like its north america-ish though, so why is that? i'm curious :'3

No Murica at all, that's Europe and Africa.
Just really, really small.

The map part looks so much like Europe/Africa/Asia/Australia to me, or am I seeing the markings wrong if it is a map? Either way it's so adorable! I wasn't expecting that

That's correct!
A bit of Greenland is there too and I didn't forget about New Zealand (even though it's very very small).

I was almost going to say r/MapsWithoutNZ. I'm glad you didn't forget!

In any case, i love this pup! Pixel pets are always so cute!

[yharnam boy]

Today's outcome is amazing. It's unique, unexpected and also I love pixel art a lot because of the fine-grained structures.

[Soloee]

Where is N- and S-America on the new pup?

I can see my country

[firestar123456789]

Where is N- and S-America on the new pup?

I can see my country

I don't think America is even on the pup at all

[Sixx O'Clock]

Where is N- and S-America on the new pup?

I can see my country

I don't think America is even on the pup at all

Nope. Raire said that the Americas aren't included. I imagine that's because there's a pretty limited amount of space on that tiny lil pup. ;u;

[Raire]

Thank you for all the nice comments, I'm glad so many of you love my pupper! <3

As you might've figured out by now, almost all of my hints were based on the final stage, because let's face it... with the bunnies on it and the pixel art it is very obvious that this one is mine. So I only had the middle stage phase to troll you a bit. And oh boi did I troll you sometimes. I bet it's only because of the trollface of doom >:3c >:3c >:3c



Now, I owe you an explanation, don't I?

TL;DR - There is no elaborate, fancy, awesome and cool story behind my little pupper, just a concept I followed and things I liked and things I needed to do in order for it to look right.

Kirej is tired.
They are tired of the world, of the negativity, of the anger, of the hate and the lack of understanding.
By now, they're more indifferent towards it and try to live without thinking too much about it.

Sadly, I really dislike the palette due to my hate of pink/rosy colours and pastel, so working with it was for sure very difficult. Yes, it's a nice palette and I adore quite a few outcomes by now, but I prefer... other colours. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And I'm not an awesome pixel artist who can blend the colours and work some magic, so it is all pretty basic.

At first I wanted to do something like Solloby did, with a blue body and yellow on the lower body parts, but once that pup was posted, I changed my mind and tried to do something different. Sadly, yellow on blue (or vice versa) didn't really work out and the brown looked too harsh, so I had to use lots and lots of pink. ಠ_ಠ
When I saw Pis outcome and the very similar markings, I also thought about changing mine, but by then it was already done and I liked it. And I used yellow instead, so I left the leg markings/scars as they are now. >w<

There is a little trans pride flag on one ear and two ear piercings on the other - I actually want some there too, but the last try was very unsuccessful and I'm not ready to try again.
The palette was very nice for doing a little detail like the trans flag, I love doing details on the ears and I also thought of a very dear friend of mine (♥) when I did that.
I didn't design my pupper very masculine or feminine, so as I said before: it is up to you whether they're FTM or MTF.
I love small details that are not visible at a first glance, the nose is actually yellow AND blue. :3c

And about those particular words I mentioned in one post... trans, love, useless.
There is still an explanation why my Kirej is tied to that pink pup with the curly tail. It has to do with these three words, but I don't wanna fully spoil it for you yet. >:3c

While goofing around with Jayfrost, I tried caesar ciphering "trans" with my favourite number, 17, and it gave me "kirej". I really like names with K and one of my oldest OCs is named Kirei. It was meant to be.
I pronounce it "Kiresh". "ki" from "kiwi".

The world map was a design idea I had while trying to figure out what to do. At first I thought about pastel confetti with yellow and pink splotches all over. This would've been certainly very boring. :'D
And because yellow doesn't work directly on blue, I did the fabulous zebra stripes around the world, because zebra stripes are awesome.
Leaving out South and North America was a deliberate choice, so for anyone living there- sorry, but not really sorry? :')
Another fun fact: I only found out about r/MapsWithoutNZ (@Zphynnx XD), because I googled so many different world maps to get at least some details right on this small size.

That marking on its head is an arrow. It is both a nod to ATLA (one of my favourite series, except that one movie WE WON'T TALK ABOUT IT and I have high hopes for the new LA series in planning) and has the more deeper meaning of pointing towards what is important in life: yourself.
Don't forget about self-care.

The three bunnies are obviously there, because I. love. bunnies. They're the cutest.
They're also the reason why I mainly used bunny pictures as hints this year - I thought it would be a funny and unique idea, even though I spoke to much in the end. I just like discussing stuff too much. :P
Didn't really think about an actual bunny companion until some of you mentioned it. But oh well, it follows the trend of bunny markings on my CS pets and an actual bun might've been too much. The pup itself is more important imo.

Three tails were too difficult in this pose or rather, I couldn't make them work at all. Both anatomy wise and design wise - I tried it with two tails and a swapped tail marking, but it just looked confusing. So I left it at one tail.

And the sploot position, because why doesn't CS have a splooting pupper yet!
We only have that one adult dog (which is also a staff pet), but nobody did a PPS sploot yet. I needed to fix that. ಠ_ಠ୨
Couldn't have done it without Jayfrost and Swiftalu though, wanna say that again. They helped a lot. ♥

☑ Staff dog with that other tail from the multi-tail lines *check 2017*
☑ PPS *check 2018*
☐ Multi-tailed dog

I THINK THAT IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY - DID I BORE YOU YET? :'D

[lucky333123]

Raire <3 I don’t know what else to say because you have left me speechless (in a good way)!

[mossmuttz]

Ahh Raire your pup is so sweet <3 being trans myself, I’m seriously happy to see a pet supporting it c:!!
time to start a hoard