I Don't Even Know How To Feel About Stone Ocean's Ending. It Was Good, But Depressing As Well. At Least

I said I'd draw Graph's character Mattie, but I didn't know what to draw, so when I was looking over her reference sheet, I saw her cow pastie design labeled "Mattie's last line of defense" and immediately thought of it as a Small Shield.

I tried to emulate the graphics in Vindictus and stylize Meushi Mattie's normal outfit to look like something from the game, even managing to stay to only three colors per piece which is why the hammer is only black, white and gold.

I named the Shield the 'Line of Defense' and the hammer 'Cowpat'

That's it. I've won. Now I can go back to to playing some horrible game where I suffer.

"Posted 3 weeks ago" Good think I crossed out 'soon'

Asks

I really should make a big basic info post first, but I haven’t yet and will soon eventually, but I’m open to asks about my characters and setting or anything really. It might help with worldbuilding.

I decided to do some PVP and my gold enemy was a lone Shoukaku Kai Ni A

One shot, 6 levels

Radical

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I was thinking this morning and thought hard to myself. I know there’s a lot o people I know that don’t have the opportunity to buy this stuff themselves, so I just wanted to make someone happy.

You could win:

Any anime figure, nendoroid or figma of your choice under $150. The item you want can also be a pre-order.

Rules:

Don’t have to be following me. If you want to follow, then follow. I post anime only here. Don’t follow then unfollow after the giveaway is over, please. 

Only reblogs count but you are still free to like this post.

I will ship internationally.

A number generator will be used to decide the winner, this way it’s not unfair or biased.

Any questions, please leave them in my ask box.

End date: September 24th, 2015. 12 PM, EST.

Good luck and have fun participating!

It’s odd how few people actually know about Operation Downfall. Yeah, the nukes weren’t a great thing, but the alternative was far, far worse. It happened 70 years ago and it was war. People die in war, it’s kind of the point. Either 250,000 people die or several million people die. Bad things happened, but sometimes the past plays out better for the future. It happened, you can’t change it, get over it.

Here we are, 70 years after the nuclear obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I’m wondering if we’ve come even one step closer to a moral reckoning with our status as the world’s only country to use atomic weapons to slaughter human beings. Will an American president ever offer a formal apology? Will our country ever regret the dropping of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man,” those two bombs that burned hotter than the sun? Will it absorb the way they instantly vaporized thousands of victims, incinerated tens of thousands more, and created unimaginably powerful shockwaves and firestorms that ravaged everything for miles beyond ground zero? Will it finally come to grips with the “black rain” that spread radiation and killed even more people — slowly and painfully — leading in the end to a death toll for the two cities conservatively estimated at more than 250,000?

Yet Americans still view the bombings as an act of mercy

So….I’ll try to sum up what’s happening here. In 2008, I designed and modeled a robot girl for a college assignment. I posted them on DeviantArt as I always do, and since then I’ve gotten quite a few people asking if they can model it as well. I always tell them sure, as long as I’m credited with the design. I failed to put my name/info on the image though, so it has been spread around the internet and some people have modeled it without my permission (just for the record you don’t have to sign something for it to be protected by copyright). They usually find out who made it later and gladly credit me. So I don’t mind!

Until someone tries to sell it.

Fast forward from 2008 to now. I find out that someone has been selling a model of my design on Turbosquid since March of this year, and it has made thousands of dollars in profit. I’m naturally very upset about this, so I report the infringement to Turbosquid. At first they seemed fairly courteous, but then I wake up today and find them basically asking me to let him keep selling the model as long as he credits me. Are you kidding? After making thousands of dollars? Note that Turbosquid takes a 60% commission of profits by default, so they likely made even more money than the seller did from my design.

They tried to appeal to pity by talking about how hard he worked on creating the model from my design. HI! I DID THAT TOO!

I just can’t believe Turbosquid is taking the side of the infringer and trying to ignore the fact that they both made thousands of dollars off my IP without my permission. The minimum amount of money made is $2,481.00. I base that on how many reviews the model had, which you can only do if you buy it. However, this doesn’t include any purchases made that weren’t given reviews.

I think it goes without saying that the profits belong to me. It is not right for a guy in another country to steal my design and make thousands from it while I struggle to make ends meet. I have never made a penny off of that character design. To think that Turbosquid considers it fair for me to make nothing off my design while they made thousands is just unbelievable.

PLEASE reblog this. I am an amateur artist. I am not famous. I spent $130,000 to go to art college and haven’t found a full-time job since. My only job is the freelance I do from home. I am not Disney. I can’t afford to have my designs stolen for profit. I am hopeful that with enough exposure of this, Turbosquid will suddenly find the ethics they dropped on the floor somewhere. If this can happen to me, it can happen to you.

How to pay artists for digital-only commissions through Goods or Services

Quick tutorial on how to pay artists for digital-only commissions ( which means no shipping) 

If you choose the shipping option when the artists is only doing a digital commission, and paypal sees that the artist didn’t ship anything, it creates trouble for the artist, to put it simply. So let’s not do that!

1.)

2.)

for those paying through MOBILE 

and you’re good!

2 dank 2 meme