LadyJudgement

Thanks, I just wonder if it's enough... I hate bad karma.

Ya ya, zat is strange... and also Ms Aggy, danke schoen...

see blue print for my reply.

I also know what you're saying. But the movement is the spunk/life/personality, it's the difference between 2D and 3D, spatial awareness of the character in "action" is far better to me personally than say a flat head on shot that says nothing other than here are the least amount of details I can give you.

Accuracy needs all the help it can get. We could do a case study, give 2 artists a flat tech reference, and give 2 other artists a more movement orientated reference. And if all 4 artists are of equal caliber, I would bet that the movement pieces come out more "accurate".

Sure this is also a question of artist style, some artists don't even need a visual, just a well written description as you pointed out.

*shakes head back* I agree about the character study as an additional commission and future reference chart addendum. What I meant by spunk/life/personality was something other than the technical side, front, back screens... something in addition to them, like so: LJ Mood Board

Hmmm a costume file would be kind of a no brainer... yes I think that would help a lot, I kept guessing at the skin color. Plus it would allow them to make a version say without a cape they could enter the game with it, and move the camera around on them. Might be labor intensive for an artist with not a lot of free time, but couldn't hurt. I wouldn't tell them to do it, but if they feel like doing so, offer it.

Dude, I'm over it. My only caveat was that you seem to have time to write everything else but a simple thanks, so it confused me. Sure you said you would reply later, but your reply was long enough it seemed to me to warrant wondering why you just didn't say cool... which I would have been fine with. I thank you for the explanation and sorry you bumped your head, it's just in my experience when someone says they have a lengthy reply, it's not usually good. So I was wondering if it was totally off base from your vision. Coupled with the no and no reply, it felt again like there was nothing good to be added.

My wife tells me all the time, "you have no idea what these people do, you can't expect an answer right after you post something". She's right. She's always right. And I sincerely apologize for over reacting. I hope we can drop any bad feelings and move on.

You sound like you had a doozy of a day, again my apologies for adding to the stress. I hope you'll take back the gift in the original spirit it was intended, I just wanted to give someone who hadn't gotten art yet a small something something. Again sorry to have ruined that...

Tell ya what, if you accept my apology, I'd be willing to color that bad boy.

You don't have to reply now, take as long as you want. Peace bruddah!

Wacky colors? You mean if you participate, you have to recolor yourself for the night?

Well first off I supplied the did you hate it and or see it - part. Something I shouldn't have to do, okay maybe the non contrasting type, didn't help. However "No and No." in my humble opinion are not polite responses. Maybe he works in a missile silo, and it's his turn to turn the key, so absolutely no time to type a lengthy reply... but wait he did reply. Okay he said he'd go into detail later... I guess I'm just an instant gratification *****, (rhymes with chore) HEY! Don't look at me like that! O_o

okay, okay... it's not really a big deal. Just would have liked a simple and quick thanks.

And thanks Thorny, for noticing.

Wow it must be really hard for you to say, thanks, or thanks, but that's not how I see him.
Yup that took me all of 5 seconds. Save me the long explanation, I'll reserve my gift art for people with more time on their hands.

DUDE! I can't get enough of this... I'm sending Suichiro a case of Heineken!