February Discussion Thread

[CSF]

Seems I missed the kitten :\ heres hoping I can afford the store dinos ^-^

[parmaq]

The High Orange Red Bellied turtle is an actual species, but I'm thinking the chameleons are just kind of a fruit+turtle shell mashup.

EDIT: CUTE.

Ooh interesting! None of my cats grew, but this baby looks promising.

Reminds me of a pipe for some reason, but I don't think they'd make a cat based off of that haha[/quote

When i first saw them under the blanket they reminded me of water, somehow, now this pipe-like tail. Can't wait to see them grow.

[Spooky~]

Aw missed the kitty.

[Jessiemrar]

I'm really looking forward to the cats growing

[Meggle]

aw poo i missed the cat growth :c

[RM Damika]

Adopt virtual pets at Chicken Smoothie! he is so cute ^^

[hiero]

The blanket reminds me of storm clouds

[Lilian Nightshade]

Just a bit disappointed that the dinosaurs are store pets. That being said they still look amazing. Probably will never have the opportunity to get any of em which is unfortunate. XD Still I can't get over how good they look. They do make me eager to see other kinds of things as well.

The problem with them being store pets is actually just the fact that their lines will probably not get re-used ever and the chance of getting free dinosaur adoptables is pretty low now

My issue with dinosaurs as a theme is that, unfortunately, that's an extremely hard theme to pull off for adoptables. Think about it, nobody here has seen a dinosaur in the flesh(except birds, but that's not the point). Nobody knows for sure what their colors/markings looked like and very few had enough records found to give us an accurate view of how their plumage/scales looked like, all we can do is speculate about their design. With this, I find it simply impossible to make a dinosaur pet without huge edits, not without making the pet unrecognizable as their theme. I mean, just imagine it, I could make a horse with colorful feathers for a design and call it dinosaur inspired anytime, but it would never be satisfying... It's kinda like with my dragon themed horse litter from a while back, the designs were very abstract and pretty much nobody could tell their theme without me saying it, and even then many didn't really think they looked "dragonish".

I did try making a dinosaur pet before, which was the T-Rex. I wanted to make a cool dinosaur staff dog, but in the end it was so edited it only got accepted as a store pet, along with the other dinosaurs I made later. Maybe eventually another artist can pull this theme off without requiring edits somehow, probably with an abstract take on it, but I just wanted to point out why this theme is so hard to pull off for free adoptable litters.

[DobieDog]

It makes a lot of sense. Truthfully before I started going on these discussion threads, I didn't know what half the pets from any artist was based on. But you're right with how little we all know what a dinosaur all looks like. It just completely depends on the artist's take on the species. Frankly, I am loving your new lines, especially the dragons. The realistic feel to it just enlightens me. <3

And lets all think for a moment, you'd eventually run out of dinosaurs to make. At least with dragons you can make them any color or pattern. But I'm loving the amazing creatures Lillian!!

(Now that I said pattern I'm just imagining a cheetah printed dragon and its cute in its 3rd stage. x3)

[Shinryu]

While I suppose it can be disappointing to see that the dinosaurs are store pets and therefore not going to be re-used as free adoptables, I personally feel like it's 100% fair to make them store pets.

I've noticed time and time again that people call less spectacular store pets "lazy" or "rushed" - so clearly, if you have designs that look too normal, people will argue that they shouldn't be in the store, where real money is involved.
The dinosaurs are well-done. Of course we want them. They're gorgeous!
But I think they deserve being store pets. They're everything that store pets are supposed to be like - they're unique.

Would it have been cool to see more designs on these lines? Sure. But you could say that for any of the store pets, really.