{"id":66,"date":"2008-07-20T13:56:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T20:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.68.163\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2008-07-20T13:57:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T20:57:48","slug":"character-portraits-as-the-gods-intended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Character Portraits As The Gods Intended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was grabbing some quick snapshots of my peeps in Tabula Rasa, and realized that I&#8217;ve been doing this character portrait thing all wrong. You know, you find a nice location, turn off the GUI, find a dramatic angle, and capture<\/p>\n<p>Well that&#8217;s the old thing. The new thing is to show the character avatar the way the designers intended. From the rear. For example, here&#8217;s Brock Talen:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdna.com\/rails\/user_images\/show\/brock-talen-s-avatar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Brock Talen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdna.com\/public\/images\/user_image\/set61\/image\/61658\/brock_talen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cute, isn&#8217;t he? He still hasn&#8217;t lost his\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 youthful idealism. And then there&#8217;s Bret:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdna.com\/rails\/user_images\/show\/bret-talen-avatar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Bret Talen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdna.com\/public\/images\/user_image\/set61\/image\/61656\/bret_talen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"117\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bret prefers armor in &#8220;classy&#8221; colors, such as orange and brown. The large moustache announces his macho vanity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I had originally planned to show the female avatars &#8220;as I generally see them&#8221;, but ultimately decided that ass close-ups all over my character page wouldn&#8217;t make a good first impression, you know, on the ladies. So, here&#8217;s Laverna as I would see her if I wasn&#8217;t a guy:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdna.com\/rails\/user_images\/show\/laverna\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Laverna Talen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdna.com\/public\/images\/user_image\/set61\/image\/61659\/laverna.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yup. By fall, everybody will be doing it this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was grabbing some quick snapshots of my peeps in Tabula Rasa, and realized that I&#8217;ve been doing this character portrait thing all wrong. You know, you find a nice location, turn off the GUI, find a dramatic angle, and capture Well that&#8217;s the old thing. The new thing is to show the character avatar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}