Art and Lore - 3/10/00

Read Le Fine Printe!

Link of the week Customers Suck! If your job requires you to be face to face or over the phone/e-mail with customers, I'm sure you'll find this an interesting and STRESS-RELIEVING read. =P Be sure to check out The Many Reasons as it's one of the sections that just hits home. Contact Lorelai Submit your Fanart AIM: Jenova 98 ICQ: 32105014 Lorelai's Archives Artist Archives Fanart 2000 Archive Fanart 1999 Archive Peruse Me Please Fanart Main Page Fanart FAQ Submission Guidelines How to get Fanart Posted Greets to y'all! Le sigh~ I was armed with a rant about how I do not like my part-time job and how I seem to be a magnet for freakin' ANNOYING customers, but instead, I will spare you the pain and say one thing instead -- please, I beg of you, ALWAYS READ THE FINE PRINT. This applies for advertisement flyers (ESPECIALLY flyers), application forms -- everything! Spread the news! Tell your parents! Tell your relatives! Tell your friends! Tell your imaginary friend(s)! You don't know how much UNNECESSARY stress you will save yourself and the person helping/serving you when you do that. I'd give you an example -- heck, I'd give you MANY examples of how fine print is beneficial to both your mental and physical health, but I would take up this entire page with them. XP So, basically, just trust me and always read the fine print. Afterall, the most important information is usually there (such as stuff like the fact that you have to pay taxes and a processing fee up front when you decide to finance/defer the balance for furniture/appliances you have bought). XP Random KouKou Fluff Chrono Cross -- Parallel Navigator -- Published by Shueisha (under the V-Jump Game Series label) ISBN 4-08-779043-6       1238 yen Okei, so you can see SQUAT of the image on the left there but you can click on in for a nice big spiffy scan of it. So what be this? Why, it's the Chrono Cross guidebook~! =D It's nothing compared to the massive, all-inclusive books like the Xenogears Perfect Works or SaGa Frontier II Perfect Works. =/ But still, it's over 200 pages (all colour) and just about every page is crammed with screenshots, maps, and a chockfull of useful info/data. ^^ (Now I know where them Versus Books patterned their guidebooks after ... but, heheh, I still prefer Japanese ones. XD) The only thing this baby is missing is images of the last dungeon bosses and the final boss him/her/itself. ^^ In terms of Yuuki Nobeteru artwork, you'll only find the all-too-familiar character designs (re: no new pics for charas T_T). =/ BUT! There are two composite drawings by Yuuki that I've never seen before. They're probably in the game manual though. =P BTW, no, I don't have the game yet. =P Here are (horrid) scans of 2 random pages (^^) in the book: Tumalu chara data page (270 K), Element+Field Effect Explained (253K) -- this one's a partial scan ^^ I only scanned it since I found the art on it was silly. ^^ (I really don't think it's Yuuki Nobeteru's art.) The Word on Today's Art Update Ack, the most difficult part of this fan art job is deciding what to put up which is why this update has quite a bit of posts. ^^;;;;; So much beautiful fan art. ;_; Well, I hope you like the selections. ^^ Ah, you'll notice that there's an AVI submission this time. ^-^ Now I must remind everyone that when you decide to submit an AVI file, please send it as a ZIPPED (re: archived) file; that is, unless the AVI is less than 200K, for some miraculous reason. ^^;;; AVI format compresses most wonderfully when archived, I tell ye. And BTW, just so you know, the background for this page IS white and has always BEEN white. The tables have a BG colour of white, the body BG is white so ... if you're seeing anything other than white then all I have to say is please check your browser preferences. ^^ If you're not seeing white right now, change the override colour to white -- unless you WANT to read spoilers. XP Recurring Friendly Reminders RFR 1: all fan art is to be temporarily submitted to kouryuu@chickmail.com. And please remember to refer to everything listed from the fan art policy onward when submitting your work~! (There's a little bit of fine print here, yes. =D) RFR 2: Lorelai is still available for fortune-telling at lorelai@rpgamer.com (The Hotmail one is closed now.) Just don't send her fan art though. =P Alternatively, you can also find her milling around at The Art Corner or its IRC channel, #artcorner, on Espernet. ^_^ RFR 3: If, for some reason, you DO want to write to me, then please forward your mail to kou@ica.net and not the Chickmail.com addy~. Thanks. ^-^