EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/01/09(Sat)22:53 No. 29068 ID: b7ef4f
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Today's sketch, a generic dorf guard.

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/01/11(Mon)15:44 No. 29072 ID: 458fed
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Yesterday's drawing, posted today because the internet was out.

So I really liked the Florans in Starbound, and needed more npcs... And it isn't like elves or dwarves aren't from other sources.

Spent too much time working on large scene to draw something for here. Also, first day of classes tomorrow.

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/01/13(Wed)22:08 No. 29078 ID: 83adbf
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Still drawing for next update (partly due to procrastination), but I want to stay in the habit of posting here (more or less) every day, so here is a corner of the work in progress scene of tiny people getting shot at.

On the planning of my latest update (and the previous one):
>Plan ahead for a reason to have only three or so allies with the main character in most fights
>Immediately decide to have the first fight in the quest occur before that point, with 15 allies present
Planning!

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/01/18(Mon)23:14 No. 29102 ID: 30f6e2
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Today's drawing: More concept art for my quest that almost nobody reads.
This is a Steppe Elf Titan, the combined Creation magic of several elves coordinated to conjure and fuel basically a cross between Jagers from Pacific Rim and Titans from Attack on Titan. This sort of thing combined with a recent history like a more genocidal Mongol Horde has resulted with Steppe Elves being by far the most hated and feared people in my setting (even more so among non-dwarves than actual demons).

Fortunately for our protagonist, these guys probably won't be appearing for a while in the quest.

Too much homework + procrastination today. Posting here as a reminder to self to try to not make that a habit.

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/01/20(Wed)22:30 No. 29106 ID: 84bc3a
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Auuuuugh this math class.

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/01/23(Sat)21:12 No. 29134 ID: fa9bb9
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So today I spent a third of the day designing a fancy weapon and glove that (unless I change my drawing style signifigantly) will be too small for any of the details to be visible when it shows up in the actual quest.

This is a redesign of the Goblin lineblade, with accompanying glove. The signature weapon of the Goblin Immortals elite infantry, the lineblade is a spool of razor wire that with a specific Stillness spell can be straightened out and reinforced into an incredibly thin and lightyet durable and inflexible sword-like weapon. The lineblade is primarily a thrusting weapon (able to pierce even metal plating) but has significant slashing ability as well against less armored foes, sort of like a supernaturally sharp cross between a rapier and a katar. It is not a very good weapon for parrying, but the Immortals who use it rely instead on a shield and protective magic for defense. The blade can be set to varying lengths and the spool is spring-loaded to quickly retract when the blade is inactive, but adjusting the blade length takes a re-casting of the blade spell. The glove typically worn with the lineblade has overlapping metal plates on the fingers to serve sort of like a crossguard, but it is otherwise unarmored. (I originally designed a proper gauntlet for it, but after drawing that I figured that the Goblins don't have enough knowledge of plate armor to make a full gauntlet due to their use of magic instead of heavy armor.)

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/01/25(Mon)22:49 No. 29157 ID: 5517ae
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Not much time for drawing today; just posting a quick tangentially goblin-related (goblin adjacent?) sketch.

Destruction__ Q A R L H H T T C R F U O O A G E
Creation____ Q A R L H H T T C R F U O
Stillness____ Q A R L H H T T C
Movement__ Q A R L H

Destruction__ C Y E N G E I O A E F L
Creation____. C Y E N G E I O A
Stillness____. C Y E N G E
Movement__. C Y E

Testing.
Destruction__ Y M L D I M L N O E
Creation ____ Y M L D I M L N
Stillness ____ Y M L D I
Movement __ Y M L

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/01/30(Sat)23:13 No. 29201 ID: f28285
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Working on multi-part update but need to get some sleep...

Testing testing

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/02/08(Mon)16:44 No. 29254 ID: 2c4c23
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I finally have internet back where I am staying after almost a week. I have been really busy lately as well, but hopefully I will be able to get back to updating today.

>>29254
That organic chem? Show Glycolosis! (metabolic conversion of glucose)

>>29255
Biochem. We will be getting to Glycolosis later I think, so I will draw it then.
And while I was planning to update today (or yesterday... this sleep cycle), I instead ended up re-reading Kill Six Billion Demons until ~3 AM and then working on homework until ~7 AM. I don't actually feel that bad now but from when I wake up at 11 AM onward it is probably going to be a rough day.

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/02/10(Wed)22:00 No. 29265 ID: 2c4c23
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Here's another drawing as I try to get back into the habit of art.
Pictured is a goblin immortal with mask and re-designed version of the shield and Lineblade. They manage to use a fighting style similar to fencing with such a large shield because only the center is particularly solid; the rest is lightweight wire mesh that only has any defensive use when a force field is applied to it. The mail and mask are a similar mesh material that is very lightweight but relies on magical reinforcement for most of its defensive ability. The reason the immortals even use a shield with a force field when they already have force field based armor is that the armor field can only protect so much while being flexible and the shield can also block spells that might disrupt their main force field. The handle on the side of the shield is there to be grabbed with the Lineblade hand to put force from both hands behind an attack.

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/02/11(Thu)21:37 No. 29269 ID: 502e6f
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I have finally gotten around to working on the update but it is taking longer than I thought. Probably largely because of the two new party members with gear and spells I need to finalize for it. Equipment to redesign, spell casting systems to tweak, that sort of thing.

I really should be updating, but I spent too much time playing a game (Reassembly) where you can design and fly a giant nuke-slinging space buzzsaw. So now it is late and I need to go to sleep soon because I will be dissecting a pig's heart tomorrow morning.

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/02/16(Tue)23:31 No. 29312 ID: 502e6f
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Doop de doo, gradually working on the next update. Pictured: the north gate security corridor, with reinforced gates and some holes for ceiling spikes and magma reservoir piping. Pretty standard dwarven infrastructure.

Midterm exams :(

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/03/15(Tue)22:53 No. 29553 ID: 0d6c82
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>>29255
Here you go; have a Glycolysis.

Neat!

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/03/24(Thu)21:47 No. 29686 ID: b7dfa3
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A concept drawing for a Shard Witch. The specifics of how they work is still being decided, but the general idea is to use telekinesis to shoot lots and lots of sharp stone shards.

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/03/27(Sun)23:32 No. 29713 ID: b7dfa3
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No time to update this weekend, too much midterm preparation.
...And Brom quests reading.

Have a Glycolysis with more fiddly bits

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/03/27(Sun)23:33 No. 29714 ID: b7dfa3
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And a slightly updated Krebs

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/03/27(Sun)23:34 No. 29715 ID: b7dfa3
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And some Oxidative Phosphorylation

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/03/28(Mon)23:51 No. 29725 ID: b7dfa3
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Glycolysis with even more added bits.

>>29553
>>29713
>>29714
>>29715
>>29725
MMMMmmmmmm~ Such Catabolism. Very Energetic.

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/05/01(Sun)23:12 No. 30046 ID: 59a537
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No update this week. Busy investigating secrets of the heart.

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2016/10/23(Sun)23:32 No. 31610 ID: b7883c
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Posting here to say that I haven't given up on Word Witch, but the semester started at grad school and I have been very busy (and also lazy) so I might not be able to continue it until the semester ends or I get better at not procrastinating.
Here is a thing I did for a class project:

Just FYI word witch as at the bottom of the sixth page of quests. I don't know how long mods keep them before sending them to the graveyard but with what, six more weeks left in the semester? It might be worth reaching out to one of them and asking them not to do away with it

It will be in the graveyard within days, in fact. The last post is past the 2 month expiration date.

>>31610
Neat, been a while since I've done any biocyb stuff. It's such a shame EEG is so limited in capability, any really useful I/O still needs invasive arrays.

Really I'm thinking that instead of messaging the mods now to get it graveyard delayed I will message them when I am ready to update again to have it de-graveyarded. The result should be the same, right?

Been busy with grad school, but I do have stated using this as a drawing prompt:

(Via http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/160014619217/story-titles-invented-by-neural-network):
So Prof. Mark Reidl of Georgia Tech is the best kind of geek, and used some cool scripting to extract all the things on Wikipedia with plot summaries: movies, books, tv episodes, video games, etc. That’s a lot of plot summaries: 112,936, to be exact.

With a dataset this large, a neural network can achieve impressive results. Sure enough, when I trained this open-source neural network framework on just the titles alone, it consistently came up with titles that were both varied and (usually) plausible.

Below are some of my favorites, arranged roughly by apparent genre:

Action/Adventure

Titanic Buffalo
Pirates: A Fight Dance Story
The Bad Legend
Conan the Pirate
O Bullets
Home Transformers
Shurk Hat Dies!
An Enemy of Bob (Homicide: Life on the Street)
Cannibal Spy II
American Hero: Fire of Crusty
Lego Man Hunt
Nancy Drew: The Last Day (film)
Surf Crisis
Legend of the Experience of Scarlet Freedom Damageboo
American Midnight: Swear Dragon
Problem

Scifi/fantasy

Under the Daleks
Batman and Flancles: The Fun Tree
The Legends of World Planet
Bomberman’s Love
The Enchanted Feed
The Star Wars: The Santa Contact
The Long Ninja Dove in the Air (film)
The History of the Galaxy Bunny Lada
City of the Stupid (film)
Shy Castle
Hamburger (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Swords and Batman: Summer Party ?

Kids/Family

The Boordeeple (2011 film)
A Dog’s Toy Friends
Boop (Adventure Time)
A Dinosaur Quest
Colonel Corn (video game)
Scooby-Drum
New Bear
Borky the Pig (film)
Excellent Very Broken Christmas
The Great Bother Cat (film)
Happy Cat in the Yaku Wonder
Fireman and Halloween Rules
Big Can Flower Home
The Green Yaurglar Pig
Scooby-Doo'Wagon Traps (video game)
Book Dog (film)

Horror

Terror Dog
Tree Screaming
Zombies of Florence
The Trunkelling
A Vampire Time for Monster
Murder’s Eagle
Frozen Bat (film)
Haunted Place
The Sheep of Evil
Barney’s The Devil’s Treachery
Merry Scroobers: Crown of Evil
The Steel-Pounted Murder King
The Shadow of Life of Very Worgy (film)
The Mystical Booged of California

Documentary

Market that Knave
Spork at Bliss
The White Soup
An Indiana Office
The Last Fish Show
The Fish of Education

Restricted section (there were quite a few more of these)

Absilloved Lovers 2: Black Bearfly Dawn
Horse Man Academy 5-R: Cowboy Sheeper Wydex
Breed Bot 3: The Journey Kitchen
Wild Bad Party 109
Pink Moon
Indiscreet Maidman

And finally, a list of the most quintessential story titles, obtained by setting the creativity to near zero on a highly-trained network:

The Story of the Stranger (1994 film)
The Last Day of the Story
The Lost Princess (film)
The Stranger (1994 film)
The Last Star (1994 film)
The Secret of the Story of the Stranger (1996 film)
The Stranger (2014 film)
The Story of the Stars
The Story of the Stranger (1999 film)
The Last Day of the Sun
The Story of the Star Trek: The Secret of the Story of the Star Wars

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2017/05/01(Mon)17:00 No. 33864 ID: b7883c
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Getting the hang of image sizes.

Bringing you the worst villains with the best makeovers, its MARKET THAT KNAVE!

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2017/05/03(Wed)02:36 No. 33876 ID: b7883c
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Can you survive...

>>33812
>>33864
>>33876

Holy shit. These are great!

>>33883
Thanks! Do you have any suggestion of which to do next?

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2017/05/10(Wed)02:11 No. 33934 ID: b7883c
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Are you a bad enough dragon to save the city from ninjas with SICK STUNTS?

>>33933

Lego Man Hunt and Home Transformers are both good ones.

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2017/05/15(Mon)12:49 No. 33987 ID: b7883c
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I got a meme in my head and had to get it out.

my naym is King,
of all the worls.
I lef my power,
to dis girl.
cos I alone,
know dat sum day,
six billyon demons
she wil slay.

>>33987
Good meme.

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2017/05/20(Sat)21:50 No. 34077 ID: b7883c
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>I cant stop thinking about the fact that, during the oblivion crisis, the Argonians in Blackmarsh kicked dagon’s ass so hard, they launched a counter-invasion into Oblivion, and forced the daedra to start closing their own oblivion gates to keep the argonians out
>And keep in mind, Dagon’s plane of Oblivion is the Deadlands, literally hell
>You basically had a bunch of Lizard Doomguys launching an invasion on Hell

Imperials be like “Akatosh save us!“
Argonians be like: (Image)

EveryZig!Ac/akrMPao 2017/06/17(Sat)22:49 No. 34491 ID: b7883c
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Home Transformers - Its just another day in the lives of the Autobuilders: Transforming into power tools, remodeling houses and competing their rivals, the underhanded Constructacons. Featuring Optimus Powerdrill and Bumblebuzz.

(Hopefully the next one takes me less than a month to get around to.)