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had to do a bit more work for the freelance gig; good money-wise, not so good time-wise - sorry

worked a bit on sprites today

apparently tumblr declared July the Mass Effect OC month, I'm wondering what I could do for it
after all, all the characters in MEC are ME OCs

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and before anyone asks ... I know it's still 1 1/2 years away, but I can't tell if we're done before holidy 2016 and you can use MEC to pass the time waiting for MEA.

Ideally yes, but considering the slow progress so far, I really don't know ...

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... not much apparently 
I was so enthusiastic to upload things since it's ME OC mon on tumbr
my current trilogy playthrough has kind of left me in a weird mood concerning Mass Effect. Maybe I should just let it rest for a bit and concentrate on MEC instead?! It certainly wouldn't hurt ...

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apparently we now have 700 likes on facebook 
thanks to everyone who is still interested in this project on facebook and here!

now if only I could overcome all the obstacles that prevent me from digging into this project.

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believe it or not, I actually did something for MEC today. Rough version of the turian (female) front. I'll work on shadows and the actual walk cycle later, for the moment I just want to get some rough versions of all the species needed to have something to work with.

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completed the WIP version of the Turian female sprite.
I also edited enough things on the Geth sprite so it can be used as a WIP/placeholder version.
Ironically enough both of those already had a wee bit of a walking cycle from when I had worked on them before (they'll need some editing though before they'd be considered 'finished')

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rough WIP of the turian male in armor is now added to the pile, too

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salvaged more sprites I had worked on before: salarian (I thought I had posted about him last night ...) and the human male; and for now I added the heads of the female human, the asari, the drell and the batarian to the same armor for placeholders.

That's about all I could take from previously done ones, the rest i'll do from scratch. Maybe with a quick glance at what Shadee and Norton had done for them. But even for the placeholders I want to redo them myself to better estimate how they'll look.

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Quarian male sprite also good enough to qualify as placeholder. Took a wee bit longer than just adding the side view tonight. There was just something off about when changing from front to side view that was weirding me out - placeholder or not.

Next up should be the Quarian lady sprite 

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Quarian lady sprite done for now, too, though the head keeps bothering me. By comparison it's too small. I enlarged it compared to the body and how a normal Quarian should look like, but when compared to the sprites of most of the other species in the game, they just aren't exaggerated enough. It's similar with the Salarians.

Eventually I'll have to rework them anyway to add the walking cycle, we'll see how much finetuning the head size requires ...

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the VIP - Volus in progress - is almost done, just needs a wee bit more work on the sideview, but I think it'll be a viable WIP-version by tomorrow 

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finished the Volus WIP yesterday and today I also did the Hanar 

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Elcor sprite WIP done as well 

 

as far as talking species go that only leaves the Krogan and Vorcha ...

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Krogan WIP front view is done for now, I hope I can do the side and back views tomorrow 

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Krogan WIP is done now: front, side & back

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Vorcha placeholder sprite is done for now as well.
As I said, most of them are just the standard standing position. The walking cycle needs to be done and colours, light & shadows need to be added, but for now they'll do.

As far as profile pictures go, I might just resize the ones I made before or use screenshots (maybe with a pixel filter) as placeholders.

I should probably work on the tilesets next. I did a wee tiny bit of work on those before, but don't really have experience with them, but we'll see. 
But those are more complicated than just making placeholder sprites, even if it's just WIP versions. So updates will be a bit more scarce again.

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and then work happened  >_<
sorry, lots of extra hours lately and I didn't get much done beyond making screencaps of the Citadel to rework the Citadel tileset ...
I gotta get back to working more on stuff before I lose the momentum completely again  D:

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finally managed to work a wee bit on the tileset for the Citadel, hopefully more to follow next week and then eventually some map test with the new tilesets

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I had hoped to spent more time of my vacation working on MEC, but so far I mostly used it for the things you'd do during vacation ... nap and play videogames (but at least I'm done with the single player of Legacy of the Void now  ).

Today I made some progress with the Citadel tilset though, I think I covered floor tiles for the most part. Hopefully tomorrow I can add to the wall tiles and some items here and there ... we'll see 

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didn't get as much done as I had hoped, but still a little progress on the walls for the Citadel

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I know it's been a while  >_<  but today I managed to work a little bit on the Citadel tileset again.
Mostly stairs ...

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more work on the Citadel tileset, which would be a lot easier of my PC wouldn't act up as often 

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I know it's been ages since I last posted here.
had a bit of an art block, then a spur of energy to work on sprites and tilesets, which was then interrupted by playing through Doom and now I'm finally back in the saddle.

Made a lot of crates recently, also worked on some other background stuff like the skycar.
And I'm currently working on some potted plants for the Citadel.

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had to re-work the crates

crates are basically all I worked on lateyl. Crates and plant pots *sigh*