Papilio Ulysses wrote:Hey, long time no see, Tindraake! Good to see you back.
I think changing up the pose for the lines would be neat. In your sketch, I like how dynamic the Chiryuu appears because of the perception of movement in the legs. The new posture for the tail is also great.
With regards to the partially Open Species, I'd be unable to make any, so I'm not sure how that should be handled. But going forward, I'd still be happy to use my Mystic for ordering customs however possible.
Hello, hello! Sorry for taking... 3 months... to reply. :'D
I wanted to keep the direction the Chiryuu is going and facing the same, but I felt a more interesting pose could be good compared to the old one. c:
Yeah, at this point I've honestly considered making Chiryuus a technically entirely open species, but keeping the thread/community here as it's own thing. That would enable people to both be able to make their own without limitations, but also let people who enjoy the old format and/or don't want to/can't make their own to still have some fun with them. c:
For the sake of my and any other staffs' sanity, only Chiryuus received through 'official' means (aka, this thread, more or less) would be able to be used for things on this thread and other 'official' stuff.
As for why I want to turn Chiryuus into a Technically Open Species is that 1. It puts less pressure on me to keep the species alive and 2. I've come to realize how, to be completely blunt,
stupid of a concept Closed Species are,
especially when they're just a slightly different version of an animal that exists IRL or a combination. I value artistic freedom above a lot of things, so the idea of someone being "locked out" of making a character that looks a certain way just because there's a closed species that looks like that is... eghh... this is definitely more of an issue with ones that you can only really acquire with real money, but yeah.
This turned into an entire rant, but I wanted to make my motivation and thoughts on why I'm changing things up so much clear. c:
I hope to see you around when Chiryuu Adopts V3 finally rolls around.
I have had a bunch of other personal projects I've been working on, and am still working on, so I haven't made much progress yet-