Dragonflies and More [Pega's updates]

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Dragonflies and More



You've entered the updates page of Pegasicorn, better known as Pega.

BLOG POSTs and DEER STATUSes will be posted via comments. This will also make it easier to know when I last updated if you're not tracking this, as the comments will keep track of the time.


Main Entry Last Edited: July 19, 2017
-let's start fixing some broken images...
-and cleaning up some old/other broken things (so much dust 8|)



DEER STUFF


Interaction and Roleplay Blog - Dragonflies and Nobility (always open)
Writings by Me and Gift Writings from Others
Deer Height Chart

Biographies
Dragonfly Deer (Scape, Magnet, Spade, Richter, Kinsha, Toukan, Tundra, Suiren, Radeon, Blue)
Bastilion
Numb
OOC "deer"/The Leowolf

Default In-Forest Looks (a "=" means this deer still needs to collect their set in version 3.4)
-- Scape - nightfall pelt, orca mask, orca antlers
-- Magnet - golden butterfly pelt, real deer mask, real deer antlers
-- Spade - secretary bird pelt, real deer mask, kirin antlers
-- Richter - great argus pelt, real deer mask, peacock feathers
-- Kinsha - golden butterfly pelt, orca mask, butterfly antennae
-- Toukan - swan pelt, real deer mask, real deer antlers (subject to change through part of the year - currently gazelle)
-- Tundra - brown and tan pelt, real deer mask, real deer antlers (subject to change through part of the year - currently gazelle)
-- Suiren - kirin pelt, Forest Spirit mask, secretary bird antlers
-- Radeon - secretary bird pelt, - mask, default antlers (often with poppies)
-- Blue - nightfall pelt, golden butterfly (whistling) mask, magpie feathers
-- Bastilion - real deer pelt, - mask, zombie antlers
-- Triston - brown and tan pelt, - mask, long/tribal set (golden) antlers
-- Numb - brown and tan pelt, skull mask, gazelle antlers
-- The Leowolf/OOC "deer" - butterfly pelt, gazelle mask, beluga antlers
= -- Toefat - orca pelt, secretary bird mask, great argus antlers; though can be almost anything [Note: this is a "community" deer, meaning I'm not the only one who knows the username and password.]




USEFUL LINKS




HUMAN STUFF

Everything that was here was so out of date and irrelevant now. I don't know what to do with this space yet. \o/



Contact Info
Email: soaringpegacorn@gmail.com

Skype: pegasicorn (I basically never log into this now.)

Discord: Pegasicorn#4633
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I loooovvveeeeeee that darn

I loooovvveeeeeee that darn unicorn game to death also |D

and

25TH PAGE IS MINE MWAHAHAHA~
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I got an adrenaline high

I got an adrenaline high playing it. |D


8O *pokes page 25*
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Feeeeek... o.o I realized I

Feeeeek... o.o
I realized I won't be on tonight, but I will be on this afternoon if yua want to talk a bit about the fawn. ^^
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I'll see if I can find time

I'll see if I can find time in the middle of losing my mind completing animations. 8D; Maybe if I'm lucky, I'll be waiting for them to render and thus will have not much else to do while waiting.
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BLOG POST I'm not done with

BLOG POST

I'm not done with my 3D animation.
It's due Tuesday morning.
I'm only at my university on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
...
*beep*

So yes, I'm going to the university today (and spending extra bus money) to get this done. While it's rendering, I'll probably turn to another computer to work on my Flash more. Or start to write one of my papers. Whichever.
Both papers are due by Tuesday, too, by the way. 8D

*BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP*



*looks up bus schedules*
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BLOG POST *pokes the

BLOG POST

*pokes the animation rendering into still frames on the next computer over* Hurry uppp, I wanna go hoooome. D8

So yes. I am done animating. 8]
But I can't figure out the program to put the still frames together on these machines so they're not going to be in video form until Tuesday since I don't wanna come in another day. |D My dad's probably wondering where the heck I am since I said I'd be done at 8. It is now 8:20. |D SORRY DAD.

*checks again* 283 out of 445. << A few more minutes maybe?
*continues to urge it on* |D

I was lazy and didn't add more to my lawnmower pushing animation. XD; Too much to deal with as is. I wanted to get the "character carrying an object" animation all nice instead.
I leave you in suspense. X]

301 now! *URGES ON*
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BLOG POST Boston Creme. Ice

BLOG POST

Boston Creme.
Ice cream.

Ben, Jerry...this is why you're my two best friends.


(I felt that warranted a post. |D)


Seems something went weird when I rendered the panels of my "character carrying an object" (still not being specific yet ;D) animation. This animation requires me to swap out a duplicate of the object so that the one already "attached" to the character's hand will be easier to make them carry (all I need to do is animate the hand, and the object will follow). Except...I think selecting motion blur to occur screwed me over. At the point where the object gets swapped with its duplicate, it disappears completely for a split second.
|D
This is where I get to blaming motion blur...
You see, motion blur takes the frame/still, looks one frame behind and one frame ahead, and averages them together to give a slight blur to show smoother movement.
Except the object and its duplicate have a frame before or after where it's not there.
Taking a frame where it exists, another where it exists, but tossing in one where it doesn't...
IT'S ONLY LOGICAL IT DISAPPEARS.

WHEE.

I am not re-rendering all those frames...
Screw that.
I'll just see if I can leave the "ghost frames" out.
Otherwise, I'll tell people to blink at a certain point.
If you didn't see it, it didn't really happen, right? 8D
RIGHT?


I ran out of ice cream near the beginning of typing all that.


...I could probably start typing up one of my papers that are due on Tuesday.

...

Later sounds better. |D (As it is half-past midnight, so that is technically today. It's not like I said, "I'll do it tomorrow," after all. ;D)

I blame the ice cream for the weird mood I'm in.

Long post it long. Reminded

Long post it long.
Reminded me that I need to do my homework or I'll fail my exam Laughing out loud
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I've never had Ben and

I've never had Ben and Jerry's ;;
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@Ammy: I only noticed it

@Ammy: I only noticed it looked long after posting it. |D But it only has the illusion of being long. It's just my spacing that does it. =B
DO YOUR WORK. D8<

@Her: D= *mails some*
Ironically, I grew up on Haagen-Daas, and didn't discover Ben & Jerry's until I was in high school. XD; You'd think I'd find B & J first.

Probably. xD Hm. I might test

Probably. xD Hm. I might test how long it really is >D
Fine. But it's Legal Studies work D: All about boring stuff too, not the interesting things.
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>> > What is this "testing"

>> << >> What is this "testing" you speak of? >.>

You need to do it anyway. D8< Just like I need to write a paper for senior thesis and write essays for my art history take-home final exam - neither of which I find fun nor wanna do. |D
Though apparently it's good to write the thesis paper like it's a story.
"ONCE UPON A TIME...THERE WAS AN IDEA. AND THAT IDEA BECAME...a storyboard. THE END."

xD Oh. You will have to

xD Oh. You will have to guess. You have three wishes. :3

Fine. I'll do it >> I don't want to fail.

XD! Ah, I wish I could write my essays like that too.

"And they all lived happily ever after." 8D
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But I can't think of 3

But I can't think of 3 wishes. D8 And I should go to bed now anyway. |D

Not failing is usually a good option.

I can't write it exactly like that of course. XD; My teacher just joked (or I think he was joking..) by saying "Once a upon a time..." after saying the best way was to make it like a story. Basically, I just have to write the process/"journey" I went through on my storyboard, and make it so anyone can understand it.

You could have wished for the

You could have wished for the answer, but nevermind =D

Yeah. I'm doing it, but it's placing crimes in categories. ._. borin'.

It'd be cool if you could.
Y'know what annoys me? When they ask 'Why did you do this?' and the answer is "BECAUSE YOU MADE ME." XD But you can't say that.
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BLOG POST & DEER STATUS My

BLOG POST & DEER STATUS

My deer have mixed feelings about today.
Scape and Magnet wonder if their mother is doing ok, or is even still alive, for she is/was a "long-faced" red deer doe in the Black Forest of Germany. Even I don't know if she's still alive. The two of them would have wished their mates a Happy Mother's Day of course. (Expecting mothers count too! ;D)
Spade probably wished Aspen a Happy Mother's Day in the same fleeting way as Devi, though not quite as "drive-by" as it seems she did. |D (I read right in her updates, right?)
For Richter and Kinsha, this is a mixed day. Not only is it a depressing day due to their mother not being of this world anymore (and thus making it depressing), but it's also their birthday (being twins and all). Both a sad and happy day.
Toukan wonders how both his parents are doing since he pretty much ran away from home (with bad results *pokes his leg*). He doesn't regret leaving, but he does miss them.
Suiren...I'm still working out details on, but I think she only lives with her father and grandfather, so she probably sends out a mental Happy Mother's Day to her mother.
Radeon's parents are long gone from this world, but he reflects on the good times, and wishes those in his family a Happy Mother's day (directed at his sons' mates. =]).
Blue is Blue (XD).
Bastilion and Triston don't even know about this holiday.
Numb...acts like she doesn't care.
Toefat could not be reached for an opinion. He was too busy "tophatting" sleeping deer.

Whew.
That's all of them.

My mom got a coffee maker. 8] Perfect. Because she's a coffee drinker.
*sips 3rd cup of the day* ...I obviously am too. XD; Don't worry, though. Two of the cups I made were decaf.

If I stick any deer in, unless I see something interesting going on, someone I know around my deer would want to hang out with, or feel like taking a wander through the trees, they will be sleeping as I type up my senior thesis paper.
Luckily, my art history take-home exam got finished last night and emailed to my teacher. This thesis paper and my Flash are the only real worries of mine left, and they're not that difficult. =]

"You wanna scratch some of these?"
"But they're yours."
"Yea, but guess how many I did earlier?"
"How many?"
"I have no idea."
^short conversation I just had with my mom regarding the scratch-off tickets my dad got her. XD;

haha Devi is just scared

haha Devi is just scared Aspen will punch her in the face after all that's happened recently... xD and I bet she's just embarrassed; she's too ~*cool*~ to wish her a happy Mother's Day. :B oh Devi, oh Devi...COFFEE can I have some 8D
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I plan on kicking Zerg in

I plan on kicking Zerg in today, syk. X]
Maybe Dark/Arch/or Lagho later.
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@Sarie: "Oh Devi" indeed.

@Sarie: "Oh Devi" indeed. XD
SURE. *shoves mug at* 8] But if you start going crazy...tell no one I gave you this... >> << >>

@Zerg: Cools. =D Hope I get enough of this paper done so I can have a deer be awake for awhile, and actually finish it tomorrow. |D
I'M HAVING TROUBLE STARTING IT. D8 I told my mom my teacher joked by saying to start with "Once upon a time..." and she, "Why not start with that?" She was only half-joking too. |D;
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I would reccomend starting at

I would reccomend starting at the first part you have some idea how to word, and then build a start from there. Also, don't mind Hyacinth. If you want Toukan to just sit down and doze off, she'll just keep him company and I'll do a little writing or somesuch.
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Alrighties. Guess I'll let

Alrighties. Guess I'll let him pass out in this pillar for awhile then.
And I'm not sure I can do that with my paper unfortunately. I basically have to talk about what I did for my thesis project. That means starting at the beginning and describing each step, starting with how I got the idea I assume. I'm having trouble figuring out a good sentence to start that.
I'm going to end up not caring how it starts at this rate. |D

..I think us "pillar deer" are being watched from the pit...
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"For my thesis, I did

"For my thesis, I did [blank], [blank], and [blank], and here's how." It's not a good opening, but it can be edited, and it gets you going. Or start with the first thing you did and then blather on in an intro.

...Hyacinth finds it spooky, but then again, she is safe in a pillar. She is being a sculpture.
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My opening line turned out to

My opening line turned out to be, "I knew for awhile that I would need to complete a senior thesis project in order to graduate from William Paterson University with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree." Not the best, but it got me going. Now it's going pretty well. I doubt this paper is going to be too long, though, since I can't explain everything I did. Not like I'm going to explain, "I stroked with the pen so many times for the grass, clicked so many times to get the texture on the rock.." |D I guess as long as I cover all the important details, I should be good. Then I get to make copies of the storyboard files that will be small enough to look at on a computer screen and fit on a CD. Joy.
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Awesome! And while you're

Awesome! And while you're busy being productive, I've been goofing up writing yet another prologue to Seed's story. Who'll bet it will have more prologues than parts before this is done? ...OK, I kid. It's probably got about 8-11 parts planned, depending on how much suffering I want to put Seed through.
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XD Good luck with that.

XD Good luck with that. Starting is always the hardest.

That reminds me that I want to do something to detail Toukan's origin. I'll have the time to do it soon too. =D

Well, back to the coal mines..
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Yeah...I need to look over my

Yeah...I need to look over my notes.

Don't forget your canary!
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Will a finch do? I think

Will a finch do?

I think that's it for the writing portion of this segment. /no idea what that was
Now I'm going through the tedious task of making small copies of my files for my teacher. Sketches, linearts, complete panels... 53 each. SUCH FUN.
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That does sound like a huge

That does sound like a huge pain...I hate tedius things like that.
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ugh! Doublepost of fail!

ugh! Doublepost of fail!
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Nix that. I decided I'll just

Nix that. I decided I'll just give him resized copies of the complete panels. I found I forgot to fix something with a few of the sketches, and I don't wanna give him some proportionately different sketches. It just wouldn't look good. Besides, I put a few in the paper as examples. That's good enough for me.
Now to make jpegs of a few examples of linearts, flat colored character panels, and unshaded panels...
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*runsinsunsout*

*runsinsunsout*
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8O I AM FINISHED. 8D I don't

8O

I AM FINISHED. 8D
I don't have to do anything tomorrow! Whee! 8DD
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WOOOH! In the "bad news"

WOOOH! In the "bad news" column, I'm sleepy and need to go to bed so I can't celebrate your done-ness further.
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|D It's ok. It was cool

|D It's ok. It was cool chatting with you anyway. =] *waves*

EDIT: COMMENT 1234. YAY. 8D
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/lol'd more than appropriate

/lol'd more than appropriate at the mother's day update.
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That's ok, cuz I just read

That's ok, cuz I just read what I wrote and cracked up. 8D;

I don't think any of my deer

I don't think any of my deer would even be aware of the existence of Mother's Day.
Although I could say Scape told Oisin about it. Even though I'm a bit late now.
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I'm sure he would have.

I'm sure he would have. =]
But don't worry; Bast and Trist don't know about it either. XD; I'm sure they were wondering what this "Mother's Day" so many were going on about is.
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BLOG POST ADRENALINE!!

BLOG POST



ADRENALINE!! @__@
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HOLY HELL. Okay I guess I

HOLY HELL.

Okay I guess I haven't played that game enough. The highest I ever got was around 60,000.

AAAAALWAYS I WANNA BEEEEE WITH YOU. MAKE BELIEEEEEVE WITH YOU. /shot
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That was the best I got

That was the best I got before too. XD; But I don't know what happened. I think I entered some sort of trance when I noticed the numbers on top of the screen slowly grew larger and the game seemed to move slower as it got faster........yea. |D
I'VE ONLY BEEN PLAYING SINCE LAST SUNDAY. @_@
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BLOG POST Boo-yah, huzzah,

BLOG POST

Boo-yah, huzzah, and whoot.
And all other forms of celebratory words.

I AM DONE.
My final flash - the prequel to "Desert Dessert" - is online too.
It was a hit in class.
Planning to do something in a bit with my friends. We're now talking over places to go. =]
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BLOG POST I got home an hour

BLOG POST
I got home an hour ago, and my stomach really hates me. 8D;
My friends and I got to Applebee's in time for their half-price appetizers, so we stuffed ourselves on chicken wanton tacos, chili nachos, and the appetizer sampler (mozzarella sticks, boneless buffalo wings, chicken quesadillas, spinach and artichoke dip). There was leftover nachos, and my friends weren't that into them, so, after gobbling more of them, I had them packed to take home. (Currently in the fridge.)
Then dessert. Both my friends got this triple chocolate cake, but I got the chocolate chip cookie sundae. It's basically a big chewy chocolate chip cookie with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream, topped with whipped cream, and crumbled Oreo cookies.
I AM STUFFED.
Do not expect much from me before I go to bed. |D The mountain dew made me talkative, sure, but I sounded drunk. |D;
*rolls/crawls away*
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BLOG POST/DEER

BLOG POST/DEER STATUS

*shakes the living daylights out of the cable wires. Again.* INTERNET, STOP DYING! D8< Good thing I haven't woken Toukan up yet. People might wonder why he poofed twice then.
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DEER STATUS Dude. Collector,

DEER STATUS

Dude. Collector, that was Toukan's face you just ripped off! XDDD Definitely not how he expected to wake up.
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XD Well, at least he left a

XD Well, at least he left a flat-faced replacement!
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It looked like it only took

It looked like it only took one cast, too! XDD
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BLOG POST This must the

BLOG POST

This must the worst and most delayed caffeine low I've had ever. I've been feeling "blah" for so many hours. What basically happens is I get apathetic. I don't feel like doing anything. I don't even wanna type this really.
And it's driving me insane.
Hope this stops soon.

Wonder if I could get myself to draw something..

Also, it hasn't really hit that the semester is over yet. Hasn't sunk in that the graduation ceremony will be the last time I see my animation teachers, who apparently get to usher the event. (My 3D animation teacher I think will be leading the art majors or something like that.)
Holy shiz....graduation ceremony...Tuesday....
Nope. Hasn't sunk in.
Maybe it will then.

! Wo. Graduation? Serious?

!
Wo.
Graduation? Serious? O.O
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Yea. 8D; Hard for me to

Yea. 8D; Hard for me to believe too.