I would like Ponies .... ponies was my first interest when i came to Gaia after being given my first B/C pet on Gaia being a Pony XD
Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 9:55 am
As far as I know you can RP a pet anywhere you want to once you have bought/won ownership of it.
@Elf - Those lines are lovely! I especially like the bottom running one!
I also love the stag/deer like creatures floating around but I agree with Uta I would like the initial focus to be on Equines of some sort, and then branch out into others, unless we get enough artists to make a broader start-up feasible anyways.
Lots of Amazing ideas in here though! I was sad last night, depressed this morning but now after reading all of this?..I'm hopeful..and even a little bit excited. So thank you everyone for being a great community.
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Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 10:02 am
Uta
So, my figure is, they are not bringing the art over. Not really. They're bring the character/personaly over. They would be considered OC's and the character itself would just be RPed in our setting. There wouldn't be official lines or official art for them (unless we made a transition thread, which happened in an old Pern Gaia shop of mine after it closed unexpectedly) but people could still RP them just without official shop lines.
Say I brought one of my ponies over, Zara. She was originally made on soq lines. She's a unicorn that's pink with all sorts of pretty spirals and stuff. I don't have art for The Sanctuary, so when I would RP her, I'd just have to describe what she looked like. If people really wanted an idea, I could point them to the old soq art and say that was her inspiration, was her old soq form, but carry on. It would only come up if someone wanted to see what I meant when she had a paisley coat.
So I'd just RP this unicorn OC named Zara, and say she has kids with her other old soq uni mate Hadrian, in the Sanctuary during a breeding raffle. I'd show colorists their old art, so they know the inspiration for these OC's, and call it a day?
I think this is a grey area because I've seen shops where people get characters redone in other shops all the time. Or characters roleplayed that are inspired/based on other shop characters/personalities. So I don't see it as thieving art, since we'd only be using the soq art as a reference ONLY on what this new OC looks like?
Does that make any sense?
That's my brain logic right now. We're not using soquili certs/arts and saying "These are from the Sanctuary!" which would be art theft. It's the persons character, without lines or art in the Sanctuary, that is being RPed. The soq cert would be used as an old art reference only.
I'm also not a judge on this -- this is just the way my logic worked, since I have seen soquili/characters show up in other shops.
This. This times a million. I love you <3
Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 10:02 am
Uta: That's exactly what I'm thinking. Which is why any breedings of said pets would be more like a 'Wishing Star' deal rather than a proper breeding. (As in the 'children' are inspired by the parents instead of direct descendants.)
As for RPing other pets here, it's like someone trying to take my trolls away from me, they are my characters and have evolved into a huge family tree that exists outside of the Soq shop so yeah... don't see that happening. :p
yes uta! thats exactly it :3 they are just reference for the character xD i already started to convert fergus dawwwww his baby face <3333
WOW! ... amazing!!!! *would love any of her babies on the lines you made* he's looking stunning
wow really? *_* I would love to! i could start cleaning them up and shading them
YES REALLY .. stop being so doubtful over your things. Cleaned up and shaded i think these lines would look (in the words of the 10th Doctor) FANTASTIC!
yes uta! thats exactly it :3 they are just reference for the character xD i already started to convert fergus dawwwww his baby face <3333
:O ...........<33333333333 loooooove
Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 11:15 am
ANNOUNCEMENT: I think we came to a conclusion in the staff guild-y that we do want to START with Equines being the Predominant species to begin with -- other Species will be added as time goes on.
EPF? o3o if you'd like to talk to me about possibly commissioning some pose sketches (not official templates just sketches for some pose ideas the team and I can go over and tweak and compile into a proper template) for males, females, M/F foals, and M/F Elders.
Edit: AND MINIS.. ANd Hippocampuses. o3o And... Minicampus?
After reading ( most ) of what was posted. I agree with multiple people.
First Summer. If the shop doesn't go in a horse direction, that's fine. Honestly, the characters are what we crave and need to return. They are amazing and have been developed over several years. Some of us have started families there, and if we have to start over, so be it.
I also agree with most the people. Going in a "Native American" theme, would probably not work. Fantasy theme though, would. We already had so much fantasy in Soquili ( Dragon Soq, Bird Soq, Cat/Dog/Wolf Soq, I mean come on, how is that "Native American? ). So, having fantasy would make it so much easier. And then those that transition over who are actually "Native American" colored, could be like... a blast from the past kinda style? Maybe futuristic fantasy based? Idk though.
Adding in other species could be fun; though it could also mean a lot of work for staff. But you could transition them over ( Kalona/Ulun'Suti turning into Dragons, for instance? ) Though that may get complicated as well...
IDK. Whatever you wanna do Mind.
I love all the sketches and stuff that I saw though! They all looked awesome!
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