#lunar week

[lunarweek]

Let’s celebrate over 30 years of Lunar together! Lunar Week 2023 runs June 18 to 24!

Tags for Tumblr: “lunar week” and “lunar week 2023″ are the ones I’m mainly going to use and watch, plus the general game specific tags. Feel free to @ me as well, if you'd like to make certain I feature your posts! <3

If you need inspiration for fan art, fan fic, crafts, cosplay, videos or general posts and reminiscing, I made a quick prompt list from out-of-context Lunar Lyrics! Feel free to use it as you like; in order, out of order, just part of the list, or ignore it entirely!

#lunar week #lunar week 2023 #lunar prompts #lunar silver star story #lunar eternal blue

[pandor-pandorkful]

Working on the graphic for @lunarweek Lunar Week 2023! Got distracted going thru my personal archive of official Lunar art, by this Mauri wallpaper from the "All the Lunar" cd-rom...

As far as I know, these are the highest quality in-game character portraits that were ever released in any form. And as far as I know, all we have are a handful of Mauri's.

But that assumption is 100% based on what Lunar-NET has to say about "All the Lunar", which is where I downloaded this wallpaper from in the first place... The thing with "All the Lunar" is you have to play a bunch of mini games to unlock graphics and wallpapers, and while Lunar-NET's contributor says that what they have uploaded is baaaasically all that's in the program, they also admit that they HADN'T unlocked EVERYTHING.

So, what DIDN'T they unlock? Could there be more of these? Hrmmm...

There's a rip of the cd-rom on the Internet Archive, if anyone feels like 100%ing it and finding out if there actually is anything else we don't have:

But I kinda suspect that for whatever reason, Mauri was the only character to get their hi-res portrait featured. Which makes me wish SO VERY BADLY that an EBC artbook had been made!!! ;;n;;

I wanna see the hi-res art for the rest of the in-game portraits so bad:

#Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete #lunar 2 eternal blue #lunar week #lunar games #lunar series

[indigozeal]

#lunar #lunar week #lunar games #lunar series #lunar dragonmaster #camelpimp started the poll trend #and i just noticed i had them #by “song” it has to have singing #no instrumental compositions #i've done polls before i know how you voters love to circumvent the spirit of the law

[blue-star-above-me]

#vocaloid #lunar series #lunar week #lunar silver star story #aoki lapis #hatsune miku #kaito #kamui gakupo #kagamine len #Youtube

[just-ghaleon]

Heyyy is it about time we should plan on when to do Lunar Week 2023? (I made a dedicated blog for it a few months ago btw: @lunarweek tho it's empty atm) Same-ish week in June as last year? (2nd to last) Earlier? Later?

Started thinking about it cuz I just had an idea for an alternate/visual prompt list, that may or may not be too much work for me to pull off, idk. (Editable bases from bromide poses :3c That would be in addition to a normal text prompt list since not everyone wants to draw hahaha)

#lunar week #lunar week 2023 #lunar games #lunar the silver star #lunar 2 eternal blue

[0nklz]

for anon!!

#lunar week #lunar games #lunar series #lunar silver star story #lunar eternal blue #lunar 2 eternal blue #lunar silver star harmony #jessica alkirk #mauri #my art

[pandorkful-art]

Happy 30th anniversary, Lunar! I had wanted to get a drawing done for each of the prompts I made for Lunar Week, but due to both my cats getting sick and my head just not being in the right place, this is all I was able to do, oh well. ^^;;;

This prompt was #2: Carried on Wings of Hope. Dyne has 'borrowed' back the White Dragon Wings for a secret retrieval mission in the ruins of Goddess Althena's Fortress… Although, he was expecting to find a corpse to lay to rest, instead of an ex-boyfriend barely clinging to life…. :3c Consider this a prelude to the comic I've been writing for like half a year now. >:3c

#lunar week #lunar week 2022 #lunar silver star story complete #ghaleon #ghaldyne #dyne #lunar fanart #lunar dragonmaster

[pandorkful-dolls]

Upgrading Punchy Ghaleon: Revamping the Loc-line Skeleton

Oh boy, this post has the potential to be a long ramble. So, gosh where to start? Maybe with Ghaleon?

I think I got punch-puppet Ghaleon off eBay around 2004-05? Not long after one of my college friends lent me his copy of Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete for the PS1 and I succumbed to sad gay elf brainrot lol. He wasn't mint in box, but in pretty good condition at the time and oops this is already turning into a ramble. To skip to the point, several years later, maybe around 2010, the hard plastic of his punching mechanism got brittle and the levers snapped, putting his fighting days to an end. Externally you couldn't tell, and I could have just put him back in his box as a display piece... But I was deeply into doll making and doll customizing by that point, so I decided to whip up a fast and loose doll body that was more proportional to his head:

It was pretty crude and basic, but a huge upgrade from a broken punch-body! I would have been happy leaving him on it... But around the same time, someone new on the doll forum I frequented was posting about making Loc-line armature bodies for their spare (or "floating") ball-jointed doll heads. The Loc-line bodies they made were very straight forward: get a premade pop-bead doll and teddy bear armature (Loc-line, Jeton, Darice and several other brands made them), alter it to be more BJD proportioned, bulk it up with tacked on batting, cover that with a stretchy fabric sewn directly onto the body, make a decorative velveteen bodysuit/skin to cover that, and finish with Obitsu "replacement" hands and feet. It was simple and brilliant, and a fun solution to the issue of displaying extra bjd heads without dropping a couple hundred on a new bjd body. Plus it was a lot lighter than a resin body, and in many ways a lot more posable as well The idea captivated me, except for one thing: a flexible tube is great for spine mobility, but limbs tend to look very Gumby. There had to be a way to improve on the formula... But, how? Looking at Loc-line's offerings on Amazon, they had long stopped making doll armatures and were solely dedicated to producing modular hose tubing for industrial and chemical uses. Which meant there were a lot of oddball attachments to spark the imagination. I bought a few around 2011 and started playing around.

Basically my first attempt at elbow/knee joints, not very stable and very bulky. Later I stumbled onto mending brackets, which gave me ideas.. 

One of my later attempts, made with mending brackets, cut-down "+" connectors that had been mislabeled as 1/4" but were blatantly not and I'm not sure what scale they're actually meant for, some screw covers leftover from a bookcase, random screws and 1/4" diameter Jeton armature beads. Much more stable, kinda heavy and bulky. And a real butt to make. I have no idea how to source more screw covers like those.

The final attempt before I started straying away from this jointing idea, pretty similar to the one above, but using flathead screws instead of screw covers. If I could recreate and improve on this for 3d printing, I think it could be a winner for internal jointing. I found some Loc-line bead files on thingiverse last year, if I had any 3d drafting knowledge I really think I could refine this concept into a sleek, stable double joint. But I haven't had the focus to dive into learning 3d sculpting and drafting yet. 

The incomplete armature, as I left it around 2019. So the difficulty and heaviness of the joints tabled the project, basically. Then just a few days ago I remembered a frog art doll I'd seen on tumblr some years ago, that had double jointed soft hinge joints in it's elbows and knees. (I know I saved the photos, but not on my phone...) And suddenly the idea of externally visible joints took hold, which brings us to today. 

Here's my current concept sketch again, please excuse the chaos haha I was excited. I think for the prototype, which will be Punchy Ghaleon's new body, I'm probably not gonna go with removable lower limbs via high tech buttonhole technology ahahaha, mainly because I've never sewn a buttonhole before and I just want this to come together as fast as possible lol. 

I ended up removing a couple beads from the spine before I started adding fluff, this was looking a little Johnny Long-Torso.

So I mentioned that the tutorial I was inspired by had you tack batting directly onto the Loc-line armature. They used thread, but I'm needle felting polyfill on since I have a lot of experience felting polyfill and can kinda build up the musculature more accurately by sculpting it.

Granted,  it's all going to get covered by fabric in the end, so I don't want to  get too nitty-gritty with polyfill detailing lol. But here's where a handful of hours of felting got me, I'm pretty happy so far!

Also, if you're familiar with Ghaleon, you probably noticed I took off the cloth part of his hat and removed the single line of rooted hair that was running temple to temple, haha. Mainly I wanted to show off that for whatever reason, Working Design's sculptor left indentations for ears. I don't know what their plan was originally, they could have filled them in to make the mold less complicated, but they left them. And it got me thinking...

The ears on this vinyl "practice" head, tho it doesn't look like it so much in this photo because of how I was holding it, are pretty much the exact right size to fit in those indentations... 

They're about the right size for him, I think.... Oh, right, and I removed his hair cuz the rooting went straight across that ear indentation, and was kinda sloppy. I wanna reroot him nicer, but also I kinda want to find someone to 3d scan him, so I could theoretically edit his chin to be a little smaller and more, uh, canonical. 

I'm pretty sure this head isn't a clone of a bjd, or JM-Toys is shamelessly slapping their copyright on a clone. Who knows. Either way, you can find it for about $10 just about everywhere now, I ordered this one from Walmart. :P

Probably won't be chopping the ears off right away, I ordered a pair of Blythe elf ears and Parabox Pixie ears to try too, since I have a major problem when it comes to getting duplicates ahahahaha.....

Speaking of duplicates, uh, I also recently bought 2 more punching puppet Ghaleons. One to keep in box, and one to make into another plush Ghaleon, but to keep more stock and to eventually make the full Vane Premier outfit for.

Which I guess begs the question, what exactly do I plan to do with my original Punchy Ghaleon if I specifically bought one to keep stock?

Well, I'd like to remove that hat, somehow. Probably the obvious way would be to just cut it off, but that would mean rebuilding half his forehead :P Slightly easier and harder at the same time would be to cut off just the cones and then shave the hat details off his forehead. He's kinda medium density vinyl, harder than a barbie head but softer than your average large doll head, which makes a smooth cut kinda difficult. Which is why I'd like to 3d scan him first... hahaha...

If I get cold feet about modding his hat off, I might just add ears and work around the hat as much as possible, to make kind of a new weird style for him lol.

Either way, the next step is sewing some "skin" (old t-shirt fabric that happens to be a near match to his vinyl) and prototyping the joints!

And making hands and feet... the tutorial I've referenced several times used 1/3 scale Obitsu replacement feet and hands, since those pop onto 1/4" loc-line armature easily. But in the 10 years or so since I read that tutorial, Obitsu parts have become difficult to buy. Junkyspot used to be a reliable place to buy Obitsu dolls and parts in the US, but their stock hasn't been refreshed in years. Parabox seems to be out of replacement parts, too. So I'm just gonna have to make some myself. Probably needle felted, since that's what I'm most comfortable with, lol.

#long post #tl:dr how do i get something 3d scanned? #doll wip #lunar week #lunar week 2022 #Ghaleon #1/3rd scale

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy Year of the Dragon!

#non mdzs #lunar new year #digital art #Still struggling with figuring out digital art stuff but I’m getting there #The year of the rabbit really was a special and lucky one for me. Maybe because sometimes it is also the year of the cat. #The energy of the rabbit might not be with me but I hope to have the wisdom of the dragon leading my days #This week is going to be filled with a lot of sappiness so I won't go into yet. #But thank you to everyone for making me feel less anxious and afraid with all the kindness you have shown me. #I have become somewhat domesticated now. I will sniff your hand if there is a treat in it. Maybe blink slowly at you from a distance. #HAVE A WONDERFUL LUNAR NEW YEAR EVERONE! We are all gonna do great B*)

[artyheartz]

Popstars Earth n Lunar!

this was hella fun to draw. reallllyy proud how this turns out

#mayaart #my art #laes #lunar and earth show #laes earth #laes lunar #digital art #sotw #show of the week #fnaf lunar #fnaf earth

[catmi1606]

a lunar eclipse

the light of all the earth's sunsets and sunrises, cast upon the moon

#good omens #good omens fanart #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #digital art #catmi art #inspired by the lunar eclipse from two weeks ago :]

[lunarweek]

I did some slight subtle anatomy alterations to make the bromides more agender, so you can use them to make bromides of all your Lunar faves who never got a bromide! Or your Lunar OC! Or whatever character you want, I won't gatekeep ya! Just @ me if you do use them! I wanna see! :3

Here's an alternate version with more details and the original expressions. ^^ Use em as a reference or use them as a base. Have fun!

#lunar week 2023 #lunar week #lunar series #lunar games #lunar bromides

[pandor-pandorkful]

Aaaaaaa waaaaaannnnttttt :3c This print of Luna, Mia, Jessica and Nall by @zambicandy is stinkin’ adorable!!!

i’msobrokethoit’snotfair ;;n;; </3

#lunar week #lunar merch #lunar silver star story

[indigozeal]

We’ve had the people speak on the humor of Lunar this week, so I go to the (write-in) polls myself to ask: what are your Lunar hot takes?

#lunar #lunar week #lunar series #lunar games #lunar dragonmaster #posted while i think of my own #that aren't well-worn by this point of course

[twottie-m8]

Kazurei week....day 5.......date night

#buddy daddies #kazuki kurusu #rei suwa #kazurei #kazureiweek2023 #art #my art #ibis paint #HAHA SHUT YES I WILL COMPLETE THIS #I KNOW IT ISNT 2023 ANYMORE #WHO SAID IT HAD TO BE ACCORDING TO THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR. HUH? #its still before lunar new years...i think orz #when i said ill finish the ship week even if it kills me i meant it

[just-ghaleon]

I’m blown away by these custom figurines  made* posted by SagaFarland on twitter!

They also made* have this epic crystal with Lucia inside:

*Correction: SagaFarland commissioned someone else to make the figurines (and possibly the crystal)! I’m not sure who and I’m too shy to ask lol. Still, very envious of their collection! ^-^ <3

#lunar silver star story complete #lunar 2 eternal blue #lunar week