Warriors Wiki talk:Charart

Planning? (From Main Page Discussion)
Sorry. Wasn't sure where else to put this. I just know from experience that organization is important. So, what I'm trying to say is, we need to know what we're working on right now and what we'll be working on soon. The only other Fanwiki (for lack of a better term), that I've been to, the Bulbapedia for Pokemon, has several "projects" like "Project Anime" where they work specifically on getting high-depth information on all the Anime (TV) episodes. And each of the projects had their own tag, like a stub or formatting tag. I know that we don't have the vast amount of information to work with that Pokemon does, but I can at least think of a couple projects, for say, characters, places, and the books. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it seems, at this point, that we're going at this haphazardly. So like I said, we probably need to figure out what we want to focus on and what we'll be adding in the immedeate future. Or maybe I'm just babbling. I do that, sometimes. Gorsecloud 16:27 December 10 2006 (CST)


 * I'm definitely planning to turn the community portal into a project planning center. *Grin* And your brain seems to have borrowed some of my cells. As the Projects I'm thinking of are pretty much what you're outlining. I just haven't gotten around to it quiet yet because I've been trying to get infrastructure for the Wiki into place. (You would not BELIEVE how terrible this place was when I first discovered it... 6 pages total created, the creator only having been here for founding day... and a banner that a drunken monkey could have created with access to photoshop... It was in sorry condition)
 * As far as babble goes... Honestly... Sometimes just spouting ideas at random acctually... well... works. While you babble... I've been cruising other Wiki's for ideas. But you're definetly right... We're working in what I'd say is a rather... Higgdy-pigglgy fashion. Kitsufox 23:41, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I know I'd like to get pictures of the characters up. Because images make the site less boring. Not saying that Warriors Wiki is, but adding images appeals to the visual learners who are watching here. My question is, where would I find such pictures? Should I use cover art, or get real "representations" of the cats? The latter will have to be done for characters like Whitestorm, that have no picture on the cover art. Gorsecloud 17:46, 10 December 2006 (CST)


 * For the character images... I really want to put out feelers for an artist to come up with some blanks exclusively for use on Warriors Wiki. We cant use real image representations for the cats, because I want to aim for consistency... and as some of the cats are rather... sur-realistic in thier colorations we simply wouldn't be able to find accurate representations. Cover art is a problem because we simply don't have cove art on all cats. I'm thinking something along the lines of the pixels/adoptables that are so popular would be perfect. I've got the digital art skills for the coloring, but not for the making of the blank. But I bet we could either get permission for a nice existing set on Warriors Wish (there are some great ones) and I could just ask permission to color in the ones that aren't made for that set yet... or we could see if an artist was willing to let thier skills to make a set for us (3 blanks would be needed. Kit aged (for chars that don't get older than that, or that their aren't books yet in which they are older) Apprentice aged (same reasoning as kit) and adult). Ideally their would also be short haired and long haired versions for the lineart, too...
 * Kitsufox 00:11, 11 December 2006 (UTC) (Who doesn't ask much at all *eyerollatself*)


 * Hmmmm... A while ago I made an adoptable set. The problem is that Photoshop believes it is necassary to put color blending in *eyeroll*, but with something like paint, I think it would work. And what about the places? We could use images from the maps for those. I understand what you mean by the consistency thing though... However, I would like to add the amazing things one can do with Photoshop, or even Photoshop Elements if one knows thier way around it well. *coughs pointedly* To put it simply, I'd like to lead the charge when it comes to images.
 * Gorsecloud 21:36, 10 December 2006 (CST)


 * Weird. I acctually really like Photoshop and it's color blending technology. The "Adoptables" we'd be making wouldn't be adoptables, really... They're above and beyond that, as they would be intended as representations of the characters that are as accurate as possible. Feel free to take the image helm. Just communicate with me *wink* I'm an experienced (and professionally trained, go go college graphics courses!) photoshop addict as I'd love to help. Kitsufox 14:21, 11 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, the blending technology is nice, but for what would normally be an adoptable set, it wouldn't work. I'll see what I can do, though. It'll be tricky, because it's hard to make adoptables look professional. Gorsecloud 21:16, 11 December 2006 (CST)


 * Blend-tech is the big trick to getting adoptables to look professional. But the starting place is really with the blanks for coloring. Once we've got outlines, It's just a matter of spending a few hours per character coloring a nice, prettyful version up for that character. Kitsufox 05:02, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Crud, we're working up a lot of indents here! Well, I had the idea that we might advertise for someone to create the adoptable, because honestly, I don't think mine's professional-looking enough. I'd be happy to color them in, though. Gorsecloud 22:10, 13 December 2006 (CST)


 * I feel the same way about my own work ;) I'll help you color, though. I find it relaxing to work on projects like that. There are some spectacular artists out there. I'm sure we fan find someone good. Kitsufox 22:01, 14 December 2006 (UTC)