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John Conway's Leaellynasaura art is one of my favorites. Honestly, it's worth checking out the whole book it's from, All Yesterdays, which isn't necessarily full of completely out-there interpretations of dinosaurs, but refreshing ones.
There's an anecdote from Art and Fear (great book, and very short, highly recommended) similar to that. Half of a pottery class was told they'd be graded on the single best pot they produced that semester, the other half was told they'd be graded solely on weight of pots produced. At the end of the semester, the "graded on weight" half was producing better pots.
TL;DR: If your exclusive aim is financial success, odds are you are wasting your time.
>1. Is it possible to see how popular a game actually is on DTRPG, in terms of the number of downloads/sales?
Some publishers disclose their sales numbers, but I don't think DTRPG does. They do release a ranking for the top grossing once in a while, if I'm not mistaken, but no numbers.
>2. Short of running a Kickstarter, how would you guys gauge the level of interest from the community in anything you're putting together?
That's a hard one.
A Kickstarter campaign isn't a good measure of interest because it is first a measure of awareness. You can't accurately measure if people are interested in your product if they don't know it exists.
Communities tend to grow organically. For every out of the blue home run crowdfunding campaign we get in the news, there were others that only managed to succeed after slowly building an audience for months or even years before starting - and even more of them that didn't bother to build an audience and just flopped.
>3. Given that my stuff has been put together in the bubble of my mind and the games that seem similar to mine are only really similar in terms of the backstory (ie, humanity gets to a new region of space and is then cut-off) and, from what I've seen of them, that's where the similarity stops, should I worry about putting out a game/setting that has a lot of superficial similarities to something else or is that just the nature of the beast - ie, any fantasy RPG would inevitably draw comparisons with D&D?
It doesn't matter how far departed from your references your product is, they will show. And it will be compared to stuff. Other than that, steal like an artist.
>4. Should i just stop overthinking this?
Yes. But don't worry. It comes with the trade.
Good luck :)
It is 9 years old but I found All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals interesting.
I think it’s All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals. Looked really interesting to me but I was never able to find a paper copy.
I saw a thing about a controversy over colorizing photos. What do you guys think? I don't really have enough information to have an opinion, but it reminded me a bit about some paleoart discussions I've seen...it's almost certain dinosaurs had bright colors and did all sorts of stuff we can't see directly in the fossil record, but we don't know exactly what those things were. You can draw a gray dinosaur just standing there and be fairly sure you aren't providing any inaccurate information...but also be fairly sure you aren't giving people the right idea of what dinosaurs would really have been like. Or you can add in some color and likely behaviors and be sure you have the details wrong...but might be providing a more accurate impression of the overall way the animal would have been.
I see both kinds of art used in different contexts, ranging from simple black outlines in papers to All Yesterdays which might be the best solution.
Is there anything like the paleoart community for historical art?
Also, in this era of violated norms, it's nice to see the administration hewing so tightly to the historical norm of being vague and sketchy about the president's health status
From what I remember, the World of WoT was not spoiler-full. It's the book that was everything pre-WH or something and contains what you're looking for, imo.
These illustrations are from a book called All Yesterdays where they explain how a lot of paleontological illustrations of the past largely just shrink wrapped skin around the musculature (easier to determine based on bone position) and failed to account for soft tissue (fat, cartilage, etc) and uses the reimagining of familiar animals to demonstrate how lacking that approach can be. They also try to add those features to dinosaurs to change our ideas of what they might have looked like.
Art and Fear is a very good book that approaches some of these topics. I think you would like it.
When sexually aroused, excited or unable to find available members of their own kind, animals mate with members of other species with surprising regularity. Incidents of this sort are probably more common than generally realised, and there is evidence from the modern world that they occur increasingly during times of environmental stress or as populations become reduced or brought together due to changing conditions. When the species concerned are closely related, hybrid babies can be the result: numerous such cases are known from the modern world. However, matings between distantly-related species also occur in the wild. These seem to serve no function other than to relieve the frustration or boredom of at least one of the participants. As unsettling as they may seem, such acts may even be considered to bepart of the animal's play behavior. In one especially celebrated recent case, an apparently frustrated Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella ) copulated with a King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus ). It is well known that modern elephants are prone to a sort of seasonal sexual madness when they go through a phase of heightened sexual aggression termed musth. While in musth, elephants have been observed trying to forcefully mate with members of different species, such as rhinos.
We combined ideas about interspecies mating events with both the possibility of oversized sexual organs and of a seasonal 'sexual madness'. The result: a bull Stegosaurus trying to mount an innocent Haplocanthosaurus . In order to mate with females bearing a phalanx of dangerous spines and armored plates, we imagined male stegosaurs to have developed some of the largest and most frighteningly dextrous penises of the dinosaur world.
Source: All Yesterdays Book by C.M. Kösemen, Darren Naish, and John Conway
When sexually aroused, excited or unable to find available members of their own kind, animals mate with members of other species with surprising regularity. Incidents of this sort are probably more common than generally realised, and there is evidence from the modern world that they occur increasingly during times of environmental stress or as populations become reduced or brought together due to changing conditions. When the species concerned are closely related, hybrid babies can be the result: numerous such cases are known from the modern world. However, matings between distantly-related species also occur in the wild. These seem to serve no function other than to relieve the frustration or boredom of at least one of the participants. As unsettling as they may seem, such acts may even be considered to bepart of the animal's play behavior. In one especially celebrated recent case, an apparently frustrated Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella ) copulated with a King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus ). It is well known that modern elephants are prone to a sort of seasonal sexual madness when they go through a phase of heightened sexual aggression termed musth. While in musth, elephants have been observed trying to forcefully mate with members of different species, such as rhinos.
We combined ideas about interspecies mating events with both the possibility of oversized sexual organs and of a seasonal 'sexual madness'. The result: a bull Stegosaurus trying to mount an innocent Haplocanthosaurus . In order to mate with females bearing a phalanx of dangerous spines and armored plates, we imagined male stegosaurs to have developed some of the largest and most frighteningly dextrous penises of the dinosaur world.
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Source: All Yesterdays Book by C.M. Kösemen, Darren Naish, and John Conway
Skin color of figure is lost against the pink BG. I'm confused at what the figure is drinking. Is it wine? Is this the 5th grader? If this is a murder mystery, why does she seem happy?
The light brackets, stool top and subtitle are the same color, which in my bookstore glance, tells me they're tied together. Why, though?
Take a look at Robin Williams' "The Non-Designer's Design Book" for a wonderfully quick primer on design basics. It is top-nothch and older versions are likely in libraries. You deserve the best cover possible.
>Ever since I found out about Marie Kondo and her own techniques of cleaning around the house, I've been actively trying to declutter parts of the house on my own but it's honestly been draining my mental health so much when I should be doing my assignments/projects that have been due for weeks and everywhere I go, I'm still seeing so much mess that we should be getting rid of.
Marie says in one of the first chapters of Tidying Up that you can't clean others' stuff. She tried. And did it. For years. It creates a huge amount of resentment. She recommends, with a very strong argument, that you not do that.
Also, if you get The World of Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time (Amazon link for reference) a version of this short story is included there: https://www.amazon.com/World-Robert-Jordans-Wheel-Time-ebook/dp/B06Y5LK6B7/ref=sr_1_2?crid=24D99AS6L3Y31&dchild=1&keywords=the+world+of+robert+jordan%27s+the+wheel+of+time&qid=1634817450&sr=8-2
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0042JSQLU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Art & Fear. I think Robert Rodriguez told me about it.
Yeah, that's what I did. At the time the exchange rate murdered me but I really wanted it.
There was a kindle version as I recall? It's only $9: https://www.amazon.com.au/All-Yesterdays-Speculative-Dinosaurs-Prehistoric-ebook/dp/B00A2VS55O
Gotcha - maybe a simple paper tray on your desk to place them all in at the end of each day might help? Definitely get the constraints of WFH mess. For to-do lists / meeting minutes could you create a google doc/calendar to help eliminate the papers?
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (Amazon link). I read it in 2014 after graduating college. I was an extremely messy person who had never really purged. Her methods helped me a lot: not only have I continued to be clutter-free, but it also led to my changed perspective on consumer culture in general.
Steal Like an Artist is an awesome book. It basically states that nothing is original. It is meant to take away that anxiety of knowing your work is an imitation and that is ok. Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
I can recommend this book:
Too much information if You are interested only in cover design, but does a good job at explaining how to make things look nice.
tldr use no more than two fonts from different families in a block (ie sans and script)
Support the book this is from, it's great
https://www.amazon.ca/All-Yesterdays-Speculative-Dinosaurs-Prehistoric-ebook/dp/B00A2VS55O
Learn to protect yourself. Understand how to properly fuel the human body and how to process waste. This is the cure for cancer.
https://www.amazon.com/Detox-Miracle-Sourcebook-Complete-Regeneration-ebook/dp/B007EFW0YS
It presents the cure for cancer and most serious "diseases" (heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimers, etc.). It'll also radically rearrange your perspective on what "disease" actually is -- just symptoms of an overly acidic body, manifest in various ways, caused by eating the wrong food for our species and not processing metabolic waste properly. "Modern" medicine then categorizes these symptoms into "diseases" and profits by treating the symptoms, never addressing the root cause: food, waste-processing.
tl;dr: Eat fruit + exercise = don't get cancer.
Intellectual types tend to poo-poo diet/exercise information, but arguably the most important information we can obtain is how to properly fuel and maintain our physical bodies. Imagine if you had no idea what to put in your car -- "Hey maybe it runs on grape juice! And let me just drain the engine of coolant and weld a cap over that exhaust pipe -- it'll be lighter and look cooler that way!"
What's the 2nd book? Only found the one: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Changing-Magic-Tidying-Decluttering-Organizing-ebook/dp/B00KK0PICK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1493614301&sr=8-1
I'm in the process of trying to do the same, been dealing w/ a lot of shit recently and got let go from work b/c of an inability to work/concentrate, now working on reinventing myself.
I found the other two "not giving a fuck" books by another author, though.
Switched to a raw fruitarian diet; no longer need deoderant. Check this guy out:
https://www.youtube.com/user/robertmorsend
His book:
https://www.amazon.com/Detox-Miracle-Sourcebook-Complete-Regeneration-ebook/dp/B007EFW0YS
We will just have to agree to disagree then. Because you are obviously curious about learning art, but you can't get over your own mental barrier of "I am not capable of artistic expression". Don't deny yourself an opportunity right now and look back in 20 years in regret.
Before I go, I want to leave you this, and I hope you can give it a shot. Patience and time is all you need.
Errant Signal's take on the game is an interesting watch. There is also Killing is Harmless, a 150+ page essay on the game.
This is a good talk. I've spent the aft listening to these Ritchie Allen talks and some of them are very good. Jim Marrs wrote that book about the rise of the fourth reich, which everyone here should read. He figured out the CF cabal a long long time ago
Here it is
"The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America"
This book is incredibly good
If anyone's keen on diving into the game further, there's a REALLY interesting short ebook called "Killing is Harmless" which is an in depth critical reading of the game https://www.amazon.co.uk/Killing-Harmless-Critical-Reading-Spec-ebook/dp/B00B9P2WP6