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[moches]

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we'll be including every set (the unused sets as alternates) in the pack anyway so don't y'all worry your precious butts off

edit: oh wow, that sounded creepy. I apologize

[Mollocephalus]

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There is no point in including a secondary (probably worse) set, especially considering no one will be using the alternate. I'd rather have only the desired/chosen set in the file, as long as it's visually appealing and fits the song enough. For now i'll put the current sets in the first post, until someone makes something better or asks for the graphics to be changed.

also PIXELS cause can't find any high quality video of club ibuki, if anyone can find me one i'll replace the layer with the anime baddu

[moches]

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if everybody else is cool with that, I'm cool with it too!

by the way the End of the World set is your best set so far imo so different strokes for different folks

[ScylaX]

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So much color it's like I'm in Tsuka's world

[moches]

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So much color it's like I'm in Tsuka's world

lmao

throw in a couple sets, will you? <3

you too CBR, I see you >: )

[stargroup100]

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Loli Fishing Next 20,000 Leagues - Virt (Puppet)

oh my god I just came to the realization that this is finished

what the fuck I need to play this asap klwjagklejlwkgawt

[moches]

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Puppet finished it like 123329 years ago rofl

hold on lemme find a working link for it

[kommisar]

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he released it on odi in what 2008? was around the same time we collabed on bogey at your six

[Gundam-Dude]

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I released loli fishing in bunch of files you probably don't have volume 1 so everyone has that file. get with the times dawg


also, I would contribute sets, but marco and I are definitely going to be clashing in opinions purely based on our design styles—him purely based on photo blending and photoshop effects, while me with print design minimalism with strict adherence to typography rules and conventions, as proven by the our past posts. a good example of what I'm talking about is that the dirtwalker set (made by wwplpmpn) is perfectly acceptable by my standards for graphics and typography, but marco thinks otherwise.

I myself question a lot of the type work in marco's sets, but I guess it's mutual because he also questions exactly what I do likewise. all I'll say is that type isn't as easy as hitting the type tool, typing shit out, and hitting enter you know—it needs to be technically treated and you have to know typography inside out like I do.

tl;dr until marco and I can come to some sort of a mutual agreement on not throwing our elitist design subjectivity on how the fuck to do things at each other, I won't help out period.

[gnr61]

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so glad this pack is getting the mollo graphic treatment, everything looks fuckin grand. hype~

@stargorps yea loli fishing was single released i think 4 years ago haha, i should honestly give it a good edit but since a lot of people already have it from gundam's pack that probably isn't appropriate (and the edit's wouldn't be material enough to merit calling it v2 etc). still, hope u liek it :3

[Mollocephalus]

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GD, I am for sure not going to criticize the technical aspect of the typographic work you do, nor the use of certain design fonts over others cause i'm sure you know what you're doing. The thing is, i don't think that kind of style is any good for the majority of stepmania music, as it's really plain and it fits more commercial graphic design/advertising than it does on a music game. I work in the same field, although i haven't studied specifically for it therefore my works can be amateurish, but by looking at professional work i'm under the impression that what you say is true only to an extent and in this specific case it does not really fit, or it needs a better execution.

For example, in "the clear blue sky" you used a neat concept for the text, but the end result is quite unpleasant to the eye (imo). Not sure if your typographic skills have been used in there too or it's just an old graphic, but the thing is, i agree we have completely different views on how to make a graphic (pretty much the same happened with arntonach) and given this i'd rather make them all by myself, no hard feelings intended

[NeoMasterPie]

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tcbs graphics are from before pat knew what the fuck he was doing iirc (still better than anything i could make xd)

tcbs toyco gfx on the other hand are 2 legit 2 quit, the bee's knees, etc:

[Gundam-Dude]

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The Clear Blue Sky is a really old file but revamped, so those graphics are from like 2009—Xiao actually made those for me, I just never bothered replacing it, lol. None of my present day typographic works look anything like that set anyways.

I do in fact realize that SM graphics I make aren't all that fitting, but I mentioned before that I integrated my print design influence on purpose and with reason. I argue that it give players something aesthetically different to look at, which is a nice element of variation and I suppose surprise to some extent. It also enforces more of a professionalism in the sense that each set looks like it could be printed out and still have it look neat, as opposed to the usual SM graphics standard which would actually have more trouble converting to a tangible medium such as paper.

I feel that people that do graphics for this game are too anchored to the floor by the design ideals established from the long history of abstract renders, scanlines, anime, pixelation, poor fake renditions of classic designer typefaces, and more. It's hard to find aesthetic variation nowadays because everyone essentially follows the exact same formula of "HOW TO MAKE PROPER STEPMANIA GRAPHICS". Meanwhile, there aren't many people who experiment and do something completely out of the box from the typical graphically norm(e.g. people I can name off the top of my head: Spitfire, Spenner, wwplpmpn, myself, and a couple others).

I used to be all for the typical, STePMaNia graphics standard before I made the decision to throw it out the window to do something different—I'm the type that can only do something for so long before wanting to try something completely out of the box. That's really the only justification I can give as to why I choose to do print design minimalism over stuff similarly to what you do, which is essentially the long established standard of SM graphics for as long as this game has existed until now.

tl;dr no hard feelings, Marco. I understand where you're coming from, but I'll continue doing my own thing. Maybe I'll contribute and save some work and time if I feel like it.

p.s. eron you're gay

[Nullifidian]

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The trend of that faux-pixelation effect really bothers me btw

[gnr61]

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holy shit torrent stepped burial
and it's pretty fuckin good too