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.

AMKitsune: Must have been a pretty uneventful walk so far. Katia still looks full of joy and optimism, while ASOTIL clearly hasn't had the opportunity to impart the emperor's justice to any wrongdoers yet.

AMKitsune: It may not be fire breath, but that's still the first word of melt hearts.
It's a very quiet shout.

AMKitsune: @KuroNeko: I'm glad you finally decided to then, because this is simply precious

AMKitsune: @Dominik: Got ya covered.

AMKitsune: I don't know about phone wallpaper, but my laptop's certainly found a new one!

AMKitsune: @damrok4321: Must have been a pretty dream, because it resulted in a very nice picture .
@DarthVader: Come on now, don't try hording the cat all to yourself. If you can't share, Kazerad might come and put her back on the top shelf for another 24 months. No one wants that. Do you? (also, I never imagined you as the 'enjoying moonlit strolls' kind of sith lord.)

AMKitsune: I am genuinely surprised that this is the first time we've seen this guy here. Is it finally time for Katia to learn the ultimate in transportation magic... Cat Space Mission.

AMKitsune: @EK_lance: put the url of the image you want to display between [img] tags like this.

[img]https://www.website.com/picture.png[/img]

(it's important that the url actually leads to an image file. There's a full text formatting guide in the lexicon/help page)

AMKitsune: Snazzy outfit. My guess is that she's trying to conjure a matching hat.

AMKitsune: These are absolutely adorable! Honestly, I'm not even sure if this should be considered questionable as it's so cutesy, featureless and inoffensive, it could come straight out of one of those children's series where the animal characters don't wear clothes and nobody thinks anything of it.

AMKitsune: @EK_lance: ... NO.
Seriously though, the corn doesn't obscure the picture in any way and adds a much needed degree of context.
Personally, I don't think there necessarily needs to be a second version, but then again, more variety is always better (when it doesn't take over and clutter up the place). If you want to, I'd suggest embedding the cornless version here in the comments of the original. That way they're kept together without adding near identical duplicates to the main gallery.

AMKitsune: "Welcome to mage school. For your first lesson, go to a cave half way across the province and bring back a book that we need. Oh yeah, watch out for zombies, vampires and/or necromancers. We haven't actually been there in a while so gods know what might be there now. I'm not saying you need to kill them or anything, but bringing back vampire dust and other rare alchemical ingredients will net you some extra credit."

AMKitsune: @GalaTheFish: And you still can. Nothing's stopping you.

AMKitsune: That moment when you realize that you generally have better luck holding a ball of fire to light your way than using the inbuilt racial ability that you were born with.

AMKitsune: Let's hope she has a high enough athletics skill for this.

AMKitsune: Simply adorable!
Also, I get the hula hoop reference.

AMKitsune: I quite like the proportions here. It feels like a nice mid-ground between large headed, noodle limbed cartoon and proper anatomy. The fact that she seems relatively happy is a bonus as well.

AMKitsune: I'm glad you finished this one off. You just had to prove that your human by adding in that little derpy Katia in the corner there didn't you?
You just weren't content with dignified ones, eh?

AMKitsune: This screams "miserable" more than I was prepared for.
Still, amazingly done.

AMKitsune: You certainly are Katia. Just remember, the trick is to project the lightning towards something other than yourself.

AMKitsune: After seeing Makkon's sidebar drawings for the mage hoods, I wondered how they might look in colour. My imagination's not fantastic, so I made myself a visual aid

AMKitsune: That's the face of someone thinking "I'm tired and want to go home, but I don't have a home."