LIVESTREAM REMINDER

Saturday, 13th January, we will be hosting a Lioden Developer Livestream!
The stream will be hosted on Xylax's twitch channel and all creators will be there , Abbey and Xylax will be talking and Kitty will be in charge of the chat! - LINK
The stream will include development talk - we want to improve Lioden but to do that we also need player input - stream will contain questions to playerbase. Abbey and Xylax will be talking while Kitty will be handling the chat!
We will be answering Q&A form questions you guys submitted during last week.

The livestream will be held at approximately 12pm Lioden time, Saturday, 13th Jan - please check Lioden time against your local timezone. Lioden time can be found on the sidebar near the top of the page.

Brushy Friday!
This friday we have decided to focus a lot on helping the artists in Lioden community!
Today's update features:
- New craftable decors
- New game rewards
- New patrolling unique decor
- New brush pack and hints
- New LD art style big files and step-by-steps
- Sharing love for a huge idol of mine (and our other artists!)

Craftable Decors:
Huge community demand to make leftover herbs craftable:

30x Devil's Claw will craft into 1x Grapple Plant

30x Grapple Plant will craft into 1x Flowering Harpagophytum

30x Stripped Cacti will craft into 1x Barbary Fig

30x Dream Root will craft into 1x Silene Capensis

New WAS rewards and other Decors!

In Whack-a-Snake you can now win Black Lemurs, Carmine Bee-Eater and a Tenrec!

Remember Charmed Dwarf Lioness decor? Now, another Patrol-unique decor can be found during patrols by your submale - Smitten Primal Kitten!

Pearl Emperor is a new butterfly available in the Monkey Business!

Art Style Tutorial Thread has a following update:
Piebald Snake - Step by Step - NEW!
Smitten Primal Kitten - NEW!
Explore - Large Hyena Clan - lineart - NEW!
Laharu - partial progress for a novel pic - NEW!
Chuckling Hyenas Battle NPC - Step by Step - NEW!
Shared by Deertush - White Bunnies - Step by Step - NEW!

Brush Pack Thread has a following update:
BRUSH PACK 2!
January 2018 - I have prepared a new set of brushes that I have created for my landscape arting needs. I know you guys enjoyed last pack, so let me share the new stuff along with some quick examples:




These are mostly just grass brushes. I use low opacities and gentle strokes rather than press hard. When I move the brush from lightest to darkest or blend colours softly and/or mix the brush types with each other, it gives the best results.



Here along with more grass brushes, I included a new pastel-like brush that gives a nice thickness variety + some leafy ones. I mostly use them for very gentle bases for dark shapes or highlight strokes.
There's also some extra examples of how I use the brushes.

I really recommend extra detailing after brush work, otherwise it gets very repetetive!

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE NEW .ABR of January 2018! - save it anywhere you want. Just remember the filepath to load the brush pack to your PS or just move manually to Presets/Brushes in Adobe folder.

Aaron Blaise

I cannot express enough how our art team loves this guy for what he does, shares and how awesome he is in general as an artist, idol and inspiration. Aaron Blaise, an animator name recognized from titles like Brother Bear, Lion King, Mulan and others - this magnificent guy shared his workshop online and I use a lot of his resources on Lioden.

Yes, the content is paid for - you pay for hours of tutorials, brushes, packs, anything you choose from - and it's okay to use for your work, commercially.

I use the fur brushes a lot (+ ofc watch as many animal drawing videos as possible), in moderation of course, and play with direction, flow and detailing. The resources you can buy on the website are 10/10 and I recommend them highly to all artists out there!

LINK TO AARON BLAISE'S WEBSITE

Mutation files update:
Ah not this friday, HOWEVER! Considering what's going on this weekend, I have called off all my meetings and other work, bought piles of food to not even have a reason to go out and will be updating markings for mutations exclusively during next 48 hours and uploading them on sunday. This will mean I will be doing mutation files update even during the livestream tomorrow! It is possible that there will be some screensharing between coding and art if our internet will be graceful, we'll see :D

Shad has updated avatar tags in January along with some made by Berenos!

Raffle Lioness

Congrats Bellum (#132854)! You have won the last raffle lady!
New lady with the Simien Mountains BG is up for impressing in Special Lioness area in Explore or in NEWS section under News Post List!

Polls and dev notes
1135 - Yes, please replace existing Vitiligo 1 & 2 names and release new, crunchier designs!
127 - No, please keep everything as it is.
484 - I don't mind either way.

These are the poll numbers so far :O We will leave the poll for one more week, but it looks like the idea of changing the Vit 1&2 names would be most favoured by the community!
Remember we're open to suggestions regarding releasing new Vit 1 & 2 versions!
LINK to the poll