LiveTale Art Director
Cosplayer, Doll Customizer, Ren Faire Enthusiast, Fan of Faeries
Hey, Hi, Hello again! I have some fun art to share today and a deeper dive into how we are developing the base design for our species in LiveTale. This update is focused on Minotaurs but I plan to continue updating as we complete more assets.
If this is something you enjoy, would like to see more of, if there is a specific topic around art you would like to see me cover, or if you have a question please let me know in a comment and I will do my best to get back to you.
I enjoy playing bards, my favorite character I've played so far's name is Irenah. A bagpipe, drum, and lute-wielding bard, I found some great bagpipe music on Spotify to play during the session including a cover of Zombie.
Any character that has some props to interact with consistently to help inform the role is nice.
What are some characters that you've come up with?
I've been starting to learn Blender as we would like to potentially move into Blender for our pipeline with LiveTale. Its also been a process of refreshing my 3D modeling skills but its a fun challenge.
This is the tutorial I've been following so far:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR5h4ngiR6mBDJ18VDq-5ghSgmCge36n0
I've also started modeling a character called Fung from our internal Nyx Fate campaign. Here is the mood board I created for them awhile back and my model progress, dont look at my weird hands! (why are they the hardest things to draw AND model LOL) 
Hello! Another behind-the-scenes update for you, this time for the Satyr species, I think the next update I'll cover will be for some of the environment concepts we have been working on, so keep a look out for that!
I will be streaming in the Discord Community on June 29th, painting up one of the outfits that you see at the end of this point, if you would like to have a say in which outfit gets painted up live on stream join the server and cast your vote! See you there!
I've recently been working on a character in a space pirate/Atlantis/Treasure Planet-themed campaign using the Fate System.
I've been having fun making a navigator-type character but designing the alien species that she comes from. Her species is one of the high up in the Empire (which is bad, of course, lol) and people don't typically see one of her kind on a ship that's not part of the Empire. So I'm thinking she was sent out as a secret agent for the Empire because they don't want anyone to know they are actively seeking the Treasure. So she is undercover as a Pirate, the ship's navigator, but is also a sort of historian and lore person.
I'm wanting to play her as a double agent, I think that being on the ship with this rag-tag band of friends has changed her underlying motivations but she has to keep up the act for her Empire contacts.
Hello Hello!
My name is Katie and I’m the Senior Art Director for LiveTale. I’ll start by covering where we are and our thoughts as we try to make the most immersive and meaningful role-play experience possible. Getting your input and building our community along the way will be an important part of our process. We have a small but mighty art team consisting of Chris, our Sr. 3D Character Artist, Alex, our UI/UX Designer, (joining soon) Nathan, our Jr. Technical Artist, and myself.
Our first milestone goal for LiveTale is the Character Creator, we want to build the most robust character creator on the market so that you can make characters that encompass everything, and be true to yourself, including gender presentation. Chris is keeping a great artist blog for this area too!
Right now we are finding our style, and pushing our shape language. We don’t want to force any specific body type, or trope, onto a specific species set so the bodies and faces will be blend-able between many of the species to create hybrids for any number of unique characters.
Here are some images showing our creative process, I’ve adjusted the body type that we will sculpt in connection to the female orc. In the end, it won’t be exclusive to the Orc species and you will be able to make less buff orc characters but it's easier to prepare the different body types with specific species heads and make cohesive character designs.
There is more work being done on the Orc’s heads as well, to push the shapes and forms away from human structures.
In the final image, I’ve sculpted over top of Chris’s initial feminine Elf species head to see how far we can push the proportions away from pretty typically elven features. I want to push them farther away from feeling human so when you are creating a character and want it to be half elf half human there will be more distinct features that are noticeable to give your character an otherworldly feeling.
My favorite instrument of choice for a bard is the bagpipes, however I usually design the character as a mini walking band type contraption 
@Ashykat @Ashykat Hi Ashykat! You can submit multiple entries for the contest:
@Faye said in So many questions…:
We are most likely to select as many different creators as possible for finalists, however, the chances of becoming a finalist will likely only improve with exploring different ideas through multiple submissions.
That whole thread is located here: https://forums.livetale.com/topic/14/so-many-questions
The timeline for submissions is currently 3/6 - 4/28. Please let us know if you have any more questions. Happy writing!
Hi Everyone!
We want to involve you all in the development of our project and so we thought it would be fun to host an elimination style bracket tournament to decide what species you would like to see developed for the Character/Avatar Creator next!
Due to the way we can easily host voting through a poll, we will run this in the Discord Server which you can join here:
This tournament will need to move fairly quickly so I will post an update here and on Discord every other day until we have a champion.
Don't worry if your favorite species doesn't win, we are aiming to develop all of them!
@Kendall I really enjoyed playing a game in Call of Cthulhu, my character was premade but fit well into the world and the rules were very light and easy to pick up. It helps that I love mystery-style games though 
@SwampCreature hmmm I would love to go to a Melanie Martinez concert, I haven't had a chance to listen to much of her Portal Era songs but her persona and prosthetics for it are epic and would be amazing to see in concert. The only other concert I've ever been to has been a Weird Al concert in High School so going to any concert would be a big deal for me LOL. I would want to bring my close group of friends and we would likely dress up to be on theme :3
My question: What was something you were really into growing up but may have been made to feel "weird" because of it?
EX: I was/am really into Folklore/Fae but you know how middle/highschool age kids can be
@SwampCreature I was really affected by the first time Bobby died in Super Natural, I know he ends up coming back to haunt them later but at the time it was a pretty heart breaking arc in the story 
Hello! Another behind-the-scenes update for you, this time for the Satyr species, I think the next update I'll cover will be for some of the environment concepts we have been working on, so keep a look out for that!
I will be streaming in the Discord Community on June 29th, painting up one of the outfits that you see at the end of this point, if you would like to have a say in which outfit gets painted up live on stream join the server and cast your vote! See you there!
@mianngu My most recent was a bagpipe player, its amazing the songs that have been covered by bagpipes LMAO
@Alexander-Salkin I find myself always cycling back to GW2 at least once a year where I play it steadily for several months and then stop until something reminds me of it again.
Another one I find is BOTW and now TOTK will likely be the same, I also really enjoy Banjo Kazooie on the N64 even though it looks really bad on large tv now its just a classic for me.
Hey, Hi, Hello again! I have some fun art to share today and a deeper dive into how we are developing the base design for our species in LiveTale. This update is focused on Minotaurs but I plan to continue updating as we complete more assets.
If this is something you enjoy, would like to see more of, if there is a specific topic around art you would like to see me cover, or if you have a question please let me know in a comment and I will do my best to get back to you.
@DMMars Hey Hey! While reviewing the submitted tales and narrowing down the contest finalists to prepare for the voting phase, we are also working to develop the LiveTale Game.
As we go, we will continue to share updates on our progress on the contest and the game. Keep an eye out for some community events in the Discord. We hope to have an update for the community on the game side of things by the end of May.
@mianngu yep! At least in the 64' version, you will get the little guy with the sign following you around the whole time though.
That's a wrap, thank you for participating! We plan to host more fun little events like this in the future, if you want to see us start to sculpt out the winning species FROG join us in Discord on Friday!
https://discord.gg/VAxvPjUx?event=1099064820592021637
See you then
@SwampCreature Right?! I remember that game feeling absolutely massive and sooo hard to beat!