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Your site is so inspiring. Those character designs are amazing and I can't stop marvelling at your layout. I just read your blog entry on Freelancer and do know that these kind of decisions are what make us grow as artists. Please don't stop creating. Those kinds of bitter reflections are so damn important. <3
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thenri
1 year ago
Oh... thanks! I appreciate that a lot, I'm still trying to get my confidence back. I really admire your worldbuildy(??) touch to your site, and your expressed interest in pet sites. I haven't heard of any of them until now, but I was very into the premise of neopets, I'm all up for something like that, but without the mess of a 20 year old site!
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thenri
1 year ago
here's that blog post I wrote a while ago about the state of Freelancer and my future. Looking to make a page dedicated to what I've got done on this project in the future, cause despite its failure, I'm proud of some of the art
corru
1 year ago
your post resonates with me - i once started waking up at 3AM for weeks to spend hours working undisturbed, to the detriment of everything else, on a project that ended up being way too ambitious for me and was never even shared... this is a torment mirrored across the journey of many artists: "the big one", the "thing you're supposed to make" that screams in the back of your head when you aren't working on it
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corru
1 year ago
it is a hard lesson to learn that there isn't really anything you're "supposed to make," there are only 'things you make', and sometimes they turn out really great and connect with people. and if a project doesn't work out, the worlds and characters still never really leave you - if/when you feel like it, you can always return to iterate on them! (there were so many corru iterations...)
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thenri
1 year ago
It's relieving to hear that I was not the only one. As I said, I am still fond of the characters that came out of this, so they aren't going anywhere for now
WAIT I RECOGNIZE YOU! oh my gosh i never went through your story even though I wanted to, but I know just from the first section that you're unbelievably good at web dev. Can I suspect you're doing this professionally, too?
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corru
1 year ago
thank you!! yes! i have borne the curse of front-end development for like 4-5 years now, makin weird websites for artists and stuff - just applying that to this little world now too
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this style is awesome, and i really dig the background textures you used!! also i miss spiral knights š
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corru
1 year ago
it's nice, but also kinda sad - i was soo into that game, seeing it in permanent maintenance mode is like watching it decay (but at least people can still experience it for the first time!)
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thenri
1 year ago
oh, thanks! Spiral knights has to have been my single greatest influence over me, was so into it as a child, even though I didnt get far. I was in a period of playing it more seriously when I made that webtool. Got tired of the grind eventually. We could play it though, sometime, that would be neat!
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Ok so I started going through your art, IT'S SO GOOD! Rhyme's design is my favorite. LOOK AT THOSE FLOPPERS. Also, eager to see more about the Freelancer project!
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thenri
1 year ago
Oh, thank you so much!! Your site was really interesting too, I really loved the warp animations, so I'm wondering what you've got in store!
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thenri
1 year ago
About Freelancer though... I've actually dropped it recently because the story I wrote over a year ago was unbearably edgy and poorly structured. I was planning to write a long blog post about it but school got in the way. I'm sorry about that. Making that decision helped my mental though, I've felt wayy too pressured to finish it despite the flaws, and I still really love the ocs that came out of it!
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thenri
1 year ago
Heya, I'm back, I'm planning to make an update post to explain my abscence (again), but in the meantime let me know your thoughts about the new background! Does it cause any problems for anyone?
oh! those plaza posts are amazing!
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A new post dedicated to showing everything Freelancer had, along with a new portfolio page (which looks messy while all the images it's loading)