[Herr D]

You’ve asked repeatedly for critiques–I want to see an ornate background from you. Your characters are great. It’s time to make a background with the same level of care. Your ‘Drunk Dragon,’ for example, is close to Pixar level while the fire he breathes looks more like it’s painted on the set behind him. You know, like maybe he’s breathing a tiny bit of fire in front of a photo-op cutout. I know you could have done better fire. Split is great, but what about the arena or ‘dugout’ behind her? Rags she wiped her blades on? Cheering silhouettes behind her?

Maybe you should start by making a boring-looking character reacting to a Delirious Al background.

[Herr D]

Thank you. This one was difficult. Getting the stuntwoman to do that seventeen times took all my charisma.

[Herr D]

SECRET

NSA Digital Text Recovery: TimeStamp 201308230030
Device: Disposables, Both Listed Stolen
Subject: Triad Hit Request For Mbumbwe
Assassin–Blond Fury
SpecSign: Possible Communique From Operative Known Only As Yokai

YO: MSG 2 BlondFury. RSVP. Brother Mbumbwe assured us that the “chip on his shoulder is no concern of ours,” that we should “see his side,” that everything is “all right,” that he will “stand firm,” and that we will “just wait as we should, and just swing by at the proper time.”
So, if you please, SWING BY, timed carefully, while waiting, leave him standing, cut off all that is left so that everyone will see his side, and leave the diamond chip earring that he wears on his shoulder. Please be quick, as assurances from those at our level should never be in doubt.
BlondFury: Minimum seven hours preparation and travel. Situation possible within thirty hours, guaranteed within one hundred. Multiple conditions lend an exact response. For the lack of doubt, and the elegance of a single stroke, I humbly request triple the average fee.
YO: Triple fee to be wired within four hours to usual location. No further communication for this matter.

Enclosed photo taken at TS201308240157 by covert op, NOC redacted at this security level. Pursuit unsuccessful despite likely dislocation of left shoulder. No collateral. Wire, fake hair, shredded cotton fibers recovered from scene. Cover story in place.
http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2013hm/BlondFury_zps22487232.png

“When fighting is only done to the death, people are much more POLITE.”
*6/17pose

[Herr D]

It looks like I misread something a couple of pages ago: fire on hm is best done by varying between reds, yellows, oranges, using all three in varying translucency, changing x vs y, and a LOT of pieces while hiding the similar-looking edges however you can. The same hints with grays and browns work for smoke, which is great for hiding the fire shapes anyway. You’re coming along very well.

[Herr D]

Glad you liked ‘Weird Miscreants.’ It seemed to be a good opposing name. For a leader, Brick, Blob, or Energy type?

[Herr D]

Strange Justice is a good departure from the norm. Are their opponents named the Weird Miscreants? I’m looking forward to seeing them.

[Herr D]

Right you are, prswirve. Chariots were armored, contained archers, etc., and may have sometimes been decorated to look like stone. Talk about your psychological warfare. “The land here hates us, sir! The castle’s outbuildings themselves ride into battle–must be made of local stone?”
(WHACK, thud) “I’ll not have superstitious cowards in the ranks!”
“He was right. I got shot by one, General.”
“An arrow?”
“An arrow from a moving stone outbuilding, General.”
“#$%^&*”
Mistranslations from one language to the next led the meaning through stone, etc.

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–No one has seen the riders of White’s rooks and lived. They shoot from their perches as soon as they line up the shots.

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/ChessPieces/HerrD-WhiteRook_zps864f2f6a.png

Of course, no one is eager to be directly in front of or behind them either!

**Only one kind of fish looks brutish enough to be as powerful as a rook but still looks diverse enough to be traveling in exactly four directions at an instant’s notice. It’s a matter of how you look at it. Or how your eyes point. Oh, whatever.

[Herr D]

Gah! I thought this was tomorrow. Clock starts on next round–NOW.

locations spelled out in file.

[Herr D]

Thanx, J. The secret to fire on hm seems to be use all the fire shapes you can multiple times, varying the color, shape, x, y, alpha. Scramble the order of layers contextually and hide the similarities between pieces as well as you can. If you can do that as well as put the fire where it ‘belongs,’ you’ll have good-looking fire.

[Herr D]

Sometimes the Big Bad isn’t really all that.

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2013hm/HerrD-MrBurnsWasVERYPutOut_zps558b3fda.png

**opposites contest

[Herr D]

Very nice couple pics.

[Herr D]

mmmm? Body and legs staying as they are, grow the arms and hands and bring the head and all down? Eight heads to height, arms thinner than legs but just as long–the grid option helps.

Good first re-edit, though. Megan Fox in a duster look.

[Herr D]

You have to be very clear and specific when dealing with computers.
So you must be careful how you PHRASE what you wish for . . .
http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2013hm/HerrD-AutoDate_zpsd4103182.png

[Herr D]

**OPMC
You have to be very clear and specific when dealing with computers.
So you must be careful how you PHRASE what you wish for . . .
http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2013hm/HerrD-AutoDate_zpsd4103182.png

[Herr D]

Disabled? Mmmm. Maybe you could get your wife to pose for you?

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