I am amazed at the speed that this request was claimed, kudo's you Kloun for taking it on.
I have been watching things thread on and off for a while now.
I have recently had the privileged of watching one of the artists on this thread, work their magic, I have sat here and watched the magic unfold, one click and one drag at a time. For the most part of such a viewing, I am just sitting there, stunned.
From first request, to gathering the information and characters and gear, to rendering and posing it in WMV (which I have seen bugs out alot...), to processing the entire thing in Photoshop.
The amount of work to get one character the way you imagine it to be and then all the stuff you still do in PS.
It amazes me how all of you can take something seemingly common and bleh and make it beautiful and stunning.
I personally admire all the artists on this thread for spending their free time to work on these requests, sometimes even on requests that seem impossible.
Now a small word to DemonlordOrion :
Please take no offence to these words, I mean them in a nice way and hope that anyone reading this will take the good out of it.
Your request is very very specific, almost so specific that it hinders the artist of wanting to apply their own style of making things.
I know that we all always have this specific image in our head of how it should look like and wish to describe it in as much details as possible.
But remember that the person taking your request might have a different view of things.
So in essence: Don't be too specific, mention what you want and how you want it, but don't make it sounds too mandatory, allow the artist to breath and work in their own style of magic.
The fact that Kloun got it made in the way that you wanted it is amazing, well done to you Kloun.
I hope that applying the additional requests will not take too long (I know late nights and things have a weird effect on the mind
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One last thing to all the artists here:
Well done on every signature, chat blocker, wallpaper, profile covers and what not you all make here. They look stunning and keep up with what you are all doing.
Its inspiring to others.
Keep up the wonderful art that you create.