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So. Only a couple of people have commissioned me. Which is cool, they're being very patient and understanding with my lack of paypal and whatnot. xD Good friends, they are. Sound like Yoda, I do. Blame the fact Star Wars is playing on tv while I type this.

Also. I have a question for anyone reading this. It came up in conversation with a friend of mine, and she called me an "indie snob" for it. So I thought I'd ask my watchers' opinion.

Does the fact I don't care for mainstream anime make me such a snob? Really? I know a lot of people who are like that, and for the life of me I just can't get into things that are fan arted all to hell to the point I just can't enjoy it properly. I haven't seen the movie Avatar or HTTYD mostly because the fan art is EVERYWHERE and it really just negated my desire to see them. I still plan to, but it's just like mehhhhh now. I don't think I'm any better than anyone else, or that I'm too good for mainstream. In fact, I like a lot of things that are mainstream. Star Wars is one. Star Trek, a lot of rock bands that are mainstream, etc. It's not because I feel like I'm better than anyone. I just can't get into it the same way everyone else does. :shrug: Anyway, what do you all think?

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Commishes and trades are in the works, guys. Be patient. :heart:
  • Watching: Star Wars lol
  • Playing: Furcadia, because I'm a loser.
  • Eating: Nothing
  • Drinking: Sunkist
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:iconcheeteach:
What is mainstream anime and stuff?...
Aaaand I find continuous fan art to be mostly lack of originality, and in a way I look at all those "I can't live after seeing Pandora" people with a bit of laugh in my mind. Goddamn, it is beautiful, but there is so much more in our own world if you just go out of your damn home to the nearest mountain... Plus the film contains around 40 or so species overall. I'd say Earth has around a billion more... Sorry for getting into avatar fandom hate. Just expressing my thoughts on Fandom, derived from fan, derived from fanatic...
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~Renbutt Jun 29, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Mainstream anime covers the ones everyone knows about and does fan art of. Like Naruto, APH, Bleach, etc. Those sorts. My preference just happens to be the ones people don't do a lot of fan art of. Or at least you don't see it on the front page daily anyway.

As for Avatar fandoms. Lol. You have a good point. People get all buzzed over the fantastic creatures they designed, and really, they were amazing. I've not seen it yet, but I've seen the creatures, and I love them. But by the same token, things like Lord of the Rings and Eragon had some very good creature designs, and you don't see a ton of fan art of those every single day. I swear if I see another Na'vi I'm going to scream. e.e Blue cat people are not original.
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:iconcheeteach:
Well, it's cos Avatar's more of a love story with nice effects while LoTR is all about fantasy and fighting. As for Eragon, apart from the dragons I can't really remember what else was there. I'm also rather sick that fan art is one of the surest ways to popularity, cos being original usually doesn't lead to being popular :( . The other way to pop being nudity and sex...

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How to make a blockbuster recipe:
1. Take an old idea that most people have forgotten (Brave heart, Pocahontas)
2. Add some great special effects (and that's the sole reason I went to watch this movie, nothing more, nothing less)
3. Add a male and female character that fall in love. (really, I don't think there's a movie that has a guy and a girl that don't fall in love by the end of it, is there?)
4. Have the guy and girl have sex
5. Add epic battle
And you're done :)


P.S. I am so proud that there's a Bulgarian movie that smashed the Avatar watcher numbers in my country to the ground. A comedy called "Mission London", not sure if you can find it, but still.
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:iconrenbutt:
~Renbutt Jun 29, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Eragon had the dragons, and those bird things that went after them... there were a few others, but I forget them.

Lol xD That's sadly all too true.

Hmm, I'll have to look it up sometime. It sounds familiar, but I'm not sure.
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~LoneWolfDreamerTsume Jun 28, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
*sighs* You aren't indie. You're too dependent to be independent (the origin of the genre/what-the-fuck-ever 'indie'). You KNOW I'm joking. You're very independent. I really am one of the people to go see something first for myself, then I get disgusted by all of the fanart over it. Well, the really-really-ZOMGthisSUCKS-it's that bad fanart is what pisses me off.

ANYWAY! My point is (assuming I have one) Mainstream and Not Mainstream doesn't change the quality of the anime. It is a funny irony that most mainstream anime tends to royally suck, and the stuff few people know about is generally pretty good. Overall, like what you like, don't like what you don't want to, and kick that bitch in the twat that called you an indie-snob.

And I -would- ask for a commish, but I has no munnies, although I could pay you back in art. And lovens. :D xD
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:iconrenbutt:
~Renbutt Jun 28, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
xD I might do an art for you when I get the commishes and trades done.

But yes, I agree. The few animes I do like are far from mainstream, and you have to do a search just to find fanart of them. xD (I did it earlier, I lol'd.)
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:iconblueeyedautumn:
Ummmm..

You like what you like. It's really just that simple. It doesn't make you a snob or anything.

God people get so caught up in the whole mainstream vs. non-mainstream thing. e__e Why can't people just like whatever the hell they want to without being labeled for it?
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~Renbutt Jun 28, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Because that's how society works, sadly. When someone doesn't like what someone else likes, they get defensive over it. It's a natural reaction, unfortunately. =/

I'd personally love it if I could just like what I like and not like other things for my own reasons without a label.

Also, GET YOUR ARSE ONLINE.
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~MyOwnLittleWorld Jun 28, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I stand by my prior conclusion that she is a moron, regardless. c:
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:iconrenbutt:
~Renbutt Jun 28, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Perhaps, perhaps.
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