AMKitsune: Whenever I try focusing that hard, all that ever happens are ideas and solutions. Not once has anything moved because of it.
I'm probably just not trying hard enough...

AMKitsune: @damrok4321: You have committed scribbles against the booru and her people. What say you in your defense?

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AMKitsune: Sooo, any indication of who the artist is?
Also, I initially though that this was a comic where Katia was shooting Katia with some kind of shrinking ray until she's small enough to fit in a hat.

AMKitsune: Not quite from the comic itself, but still a very impressive vectorisation (I presume) of an existing picture.

AMKitsune: This feels like you've taken one of Makkon's paintings into the 3rd dimension, and that's very impressive! Besides small things like her slcera not quite reaching as far as her eyelash-line things and the lack of the lighter fur colour on her chest, I don't really know what more could be done to make this better! Perhaps a little tweaking of how the light reflects and scatters on the various surfaces (subsurface scattering, right? I'm really not good with 3d terminology), although that might just be because of the t pose and lighting in this particular image. I'd really love to see what you can do with this model in the future (assuming it's pose-able and not a static model).

AMKitsune: @Egg: The original image, as impressive as it is, makes me sad . This edit, on the other hand, makes me happy .

AMKitsune: Following on from KuroNeko's comment, her torso feels a little long compared to her arms and legs. Also, her head kind of looks like it's angled in a different direction to what she's supposed to be looking at (her arms facing away from the viewer while her head faces slightly towards.)

hopefully this helps visualise my (and possibly KuroNeko's) observations.

That aside though, her arms, legs tail, expression and fire are all pretty much spot on. Keep it up!

AMKitsune: In this alternate universe, AGGY just has to be their Slimer. That one ghost that has no ill intentions and just hangs around the main cast, but in this case, spouting apparent nonsense and breaking the laws of physics instead of flying around and leaving slime everywhere. You know it makes sense!

AMKitsune: This legitimately looks like some kind of otherworldly scene. The baron land, unusual architecture and colourful view of space make it look like something out of a sci-fi set. Well, to me at least. Turn the brown into green grass and it turns right back into a night scene from oblivion (Cyrodiil has grass EVERYWHERE).

AMKitsune: And even if there was, they couldn't save you from this smug, dancing child.

AMKitsune: "At least you should have come clothes in one of those cases, right?"
"... no"
"... they're empty, aren't they?"
"..."

AMKitsune: One day, I'm going to have to ask KuroNeko to put together a zip file of as of yet, unseen pictures called "Instant Adorableness: open in case of emergency" because these are always so uplifting! I don't know if I'd be able to hold off on breaking the figurative glass though. I don't have that kind of self restraint

AMKitsune: You know, it's only just occurred to me how simple yet amazingly effective the colouring on her dress is. Especially for something in a traditional medium, to get partial transparency like that, really impressive.

AMKitsune: The first thing that popped into my mind when I saw the thumbnail for this was cats don't dance. I can see the lackadaisy connection, but I've never really followed that comic, so it's not the first connection I made.
Still, all very good pictures in their own rights. Great job.

AMKitsune: I know that those are pineapples sunglasses, but I can't help but see Katia as having bushy green eyebrows here .
On the flipside though, that's a really clever use of the crisscross pineapple texture for shutter shades.

AMKitsune: Pocket kitten. For those days when you just need portable dawws.

AMKitsune: @Jadezzar: I just realised that 'sith' is an anagram of 'shit'. How about that?

AMKitsune: Dremora 1: Hey, should I go kill that furred one over there?
Dremora 2: What? No, don't be stupid. Look how it's not running in fear like the other mortals. It's either from another plane of Oblivion like us or it's powerful beyond measure.
Dremora 1: Alright, what about the ghost next to it then?
Dremora 2: Don't even think of trying to hurt AGGY. He's a good friend of mine. Plus, I doubt you could hurt him even if you tried. His definition of 'injure' isn't exactly standard, so it's not as if your weapons would have much if any effect. Now stop asking stupid questions and go set that building on fire!

AMKitsune: @Jadezzar: ...How? Genuinely, how could such a thing be achieved? The static panels, text and animated gifs to a lesser extent could be easily replicated (Moiré animation to the rescue!), but what about the flash/html animations and games? Would they have to be rewritten as mini choose your own adventure stories with dice rolls to emulate good and back luck in the gameplay segments? This actually sounds like the sort of thing Kaz would try as an experiment for shits and giggles and then discard once he's had a go at it.

AMKitsune: @KuroNeko: If I may, I've got a few observations that you may find useful.
The angle of her head seems very high for reading the book in its current position. It feels like it would be more natural and relaxed for her head to be tilted further down.
Given that she looks like she's holding the book with both hands, the flipping page seems a weird in its stiffness and motion. It would make sense if it were 'flicked' from one side to the other (although that would involve a degree of page bending while on its way) or if she was turning the page by hand, but as it is, it looks like the page is turning by itself. A possible alternative for a scene like this could be for her to close and reopen the book. It's hard to say without actually seeing it in motion, but that feels like it should convey the 'turning the page' message.
Finally, I always imagine lizard tails as being attached to their host body at their widest point, but the tail here seems to taper off to a narrow point before connecting to the body. Perhaps that's a stylistic choice on your part, in which case, don't mind this, but it just strikes me as seeming a bit 'wrong'.

That aside though, a very nice image. The imperfections and 'wiggle' that come from individually drawn frames like this are just so endearing and she looks so engrossed in what she's reading. Actually, that raises one last tiny suggestion. In instances where the inside of a book is visible, perhaps covering the pages with some 'fake text' squiggly lines could help make it more readily apparent that they're actual pages? It's easy enough to tell once you look at the animation as it is, but the blank pages probably aren't helping much in that regard.

Keep up the good work!

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AMKitsune: @PermanentFace: There's a weird bug that I only managed to uncover a day or so ago. Turns out that the web server doesn't like it when the source field contains "http://". Something to do with a security setting I have no control over. If you ever encounter this problem again, just remove that part from the source, leaving www.whatever and it should work for you.

AMKitsune: @MinnoSimmins: Oh god yes! I thought this reminded me of something but I couldn't for the life of me place it. Thank you for settling that for me.

She certainly needs a little more peace and tranquility in her life. Don't we all?

(if this isn't a conscious reference/crossover, it's an extremely good coincidence)

AMKitsune: @KuroNeko: You're very welcome. I'm just sorry that the previewer let you down like that. It was a recreation of the site's own bbcode system built in javascript, so it was never going to be perfect.

That's not really good enough though, so I built a new comment previewer that uses the site's native code to preview your comments now, so there shouldn't be any instances where its results differ from an actual posted comment. Fingers crossed at least.

AMKitsune: @KuroNeko: I think that might be because you seem to have used a capital I the opening tag while they only work in lower case.

AMKitsune: This is probably typical of me at this point, but I'm more curious about the paper used than the anatomy involved. It looks like some strange combination of lined writing paper and squared graph paper. What is it actually meant to be used for?

AMKitsune: @Zargothrax: What if they all just wear cat ear headbands under their hoods?

AMKitsune: Congratulations on seeing this through to the end. The fact that you even changed medium near the end there really goes to show that you meant business.
Out of all of them, I'd have to say that my favourites are pleased, shocked/surprised, confident and disgusted.

AMKitsune: Absolutely brilliant! The timing and motions work so well together. It's just a very minor shame that some of the time is taken up with static frames, but for a hand drawn animation like this, that's perfectly understandable.

Fantastic job

AMKitsune: SCARY CARD? Oh boy, that's the best kind of CARD!
@fastolaf: Ahem *adjusts monocle*, I think you'll find the proper term to be 'eau de toilette'. Much more dignified and marketable XD

AMKitsune: The lighting and expression here are just lovely. I really hope we see more like this from you in the future.

AMKitsune: After how overdone that meme is by this point, her reaction there couldn't be more appropriate.

AMKitsune: Kitten is angry? No. Kitten is absolutely furious!

AMKitsune: As embarrassing as it may be for her, that middle panel is worth more than an entire sack of gold

AMKitsune: @Tabby_Catface: I like to imagine that she's working as a magician on some sort of cruise liner, doing tricks like the linked hoops and making doves appears. Her audience consists of mainly accomplished mages though, so no-one's particularly impressed.

AMKitsune: Magical mistress of mysticism, miss Managan!

AMKitsune: @Tabby_Catface: Whoever it was, they've been banned and your images tags have been reverted.

AMKitsune: @Sashimi: Very much so, yeah.

AMKitsune: Given the currently abnormal weather in the UK, this is very relevant.

AMKitsune: As a fellow hat in time fan, I wholeheartedly approve of this cat-kid
How would she look in the Nyakuza Metro outfit though? I mean, she already has cat ears and a tail...
Peckin' awesome work.

AMKitsune: @Sashimi: I'm definitely seeing it as well.

AMKitsune: @KuroNeko: I'm also looking forward to seeing what else you may animate in the future.
If I may offer a little input however, while the individual frames are very well drawn, the timing feels a little off. I'm not sure if your going for more of a 'slow rise from the water' or 'energetic eruption', but the smoothness with which she ascends doesn't math up with the relative snappiness that she comes back down with.

I had a little go at tweaking the timing (and faking some intermediate frames) to see if I could get the motion looking a little smoother, although I'm not thrilled with how my attempt came out.


The main point I tried to address with this was to have her spend a little longer at the peak of her ascension and for her eye opening to be faster. Basically, to put a little more emphasis on the keyframes of the animation.

Honestly, there are people here far more qualified to talk about this kind of stuff than myself, so hopefully they'll be able to be of more help than I can.

All that aside though, this is adorable as heck!

AMKitsune: Oooh, I get it now!
I was trying to figure out what the black thing she's holding is, when it dawned on me. A hat!
Knowing that, how many others cats hold their hats like that while making big eyes?

AMKitsune: No Katia, you can't get a job as a Bonsai kitten. That's an admirable effort, but that's not how it works.

AMKitsune: @bluedraggy: At this resolution and duration, it's probably a good thing that you didn't try to animate it further. As it is, you've got a total of 22 frames, most being spaced either 5 or 10 seconds apart. If you were to have turned this into a full animation, the additional frames required would have caused the filesize to skyrocket!

Still, a lovely little story.

AMKitsune: KuroNeko, these little comics are absolute treasures!

AMKitsune: @Unidentified_BA: Wait, I recognize those land masses. That's our world!
Let's not be too hasty with world breakage here...

AMKitsune: You know, burnt hair is actually a real nuisance. I actually burnt my beard a few weeks ago when testing some spark plugs on a lawn mower. Turned out there were more residual petrol fumes in and around the engine than I imagined and ended up taking an inadvertent fireball to the face. No serious harm came of it, but about half of my beard hairs became brittle, curled up, discoloured and absolutely stank of burned hair. I ended up shaving the whole thing off and waiting a couple of weeks for it to grow back.

Point is, it's a good thing Katia only get a comical 'covering in soot' when she catches fire, otherwise the razor incident would be more of a regular occurrence.

AMKitsune: And just like that, I've found a new wallpaper.