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i never needed bitches

@salamander-crimes / salamander-crimes.tumblr.com

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sodomit

Made a little something on slur reclamation.

ID: on the left side of the image there's text saying "Reclamation:" and below it is an image of a protester holding a sign saying "That's Mr. Faggot to you" and below the image the text reads "Presents the slur as an identity worth defending, explicitly opposed to how most people use it." On the right side of the image there's text saying "Not Reclamation:" and below it is an image of a stock photo person saying "Of course I look normal. I don't have to act faggy just because I'm gay" with text below that saying "Uses the slur as something negative, worth condemning and distancing from, identical to how the general public uses it."

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(thanks to A-xesey for linking portfolios i hadnt seen before in the spore discord!)

some of the achievement art from John Cimino's site

theyre flat-colored, and higher resolution than in the game itself (but instead are jpeg compressed)

of particular note is this pollinator achievement, which was not tied to any stage in specific judging by the colors

its files arent found in the game anymore, but its description is still present in Text.package/locale~/achievements.locale

# alg-pollinator - achievementdescription 0x06529c6e One of your creations has appeared in 20 other players' universes #alg-pollinator - achievementtitle 0x06529c46 Pollinator

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side note John Cimino also made these spore animations. the second one is known from a swf from the old spore site, but the audio here is actually much higher quality than in the swf

and is responsible for all of this creature 2d art found all over spores prototypes (some of these here are recognizeable from the space prototype more or less!)

i never realised it at the time but of COURSE the achievement images were made by the same person who made these 2d creatures!

also according to A Brief History of Spore by Chaim Gingold, John Cimino's art influenced what the creatures would look like in the final game

The decision to incorporate the character design aesthetic of an animator marked a turning point in the visual sensibility of the project. The genetic building blocks of Spore’s life forms, the creature parts, adopted the appeal and personality of John Cimino’s creature designs. And, imagining how Pixar might visually treat a film about bacteria, we put eyes on our single celled organisms. Our planets transformed into expansive landscapes, but retained a toy like sensibility. We made the galaxy more colorful. The entire team became vigilant, seeking opportunities to inject charm and wit into the project, producing the dry goofball humor that characterizes Maxis games.

this article really good read in general, a lot of really interesting insights about spore's development. and check out John Cimino's concept art too!

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hmmmmm i had wondered recently how i would go about designing an anomaly which do not wants to be perceived

it is on a spectrum,,,,, Normally people cant see it but those who can see it as a sort of tiger but pinpointing exactly how it looks like is impossible because its appearance is different every panel/scene and shifts,,, what it does is that it eats memories of people and erases the people that they consumed from the memories of other people, so its like they never existed at all (and it ate Banksy) (wait who's Banksy??)

agentlady/corrine can see it because its her personal torment and felix/moustache guy can see it because he just sees things other people dont

i think she somehow got manipulated by it into helping it and is trying to fix her mistake and catch it before it hurts more people? Also a callback to the blackroom comic because why not

i think the perspective of being forgotten might be double scary for artists???its their gist afterall thankyou for coming to my tedtalk im just freestyling over here i love drawing concepts!!!

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memorycycle

people on the subway train are alwaus looking at their phones well we should look to eachother and build a community that lives on trains and be like a siphonophore that uses the train as a shell . and float through the pelagic zone and share the seas nutrients such as small fish and crustaceans among our linked bodies

we have to combine into one organism and live in the ocean

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talkedy

He is NOT. SKINNY!!! (picks up a chair and throws it at the wall and it splinters into a hundred pieces of wood) AAAAGGHGGGHHHGGGH (rips the glass pane from the window and smashes it over a vase causing both items to shatter into shrapnel) (and the ground is covered in sharp fragments of wood and glass and ceramic and I use my powers to swirl them all into the air launch them directly towards you. For drawing him skinny)

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gayvampyr

“i liked it before it was cool” well i liked it AFTER it was cool when everyone abandoned it

i get really into shows that aired like 5 years ago like “have y’all heard of this”

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