I really don't see why you have some sort of stigma towards making a new thread. But since this really isn't the place for it, could you like, explain to your reasoning via AIM? (not PM, it is like always full >.>)
I tried looking for you on AIM last night but you were Away for as long as I could see so I didn't want to IM you.
I'll sum it up here anyways, since it actually is relevant seeing as it would PARTIALLY make it more sensible to fuse the two threads if we made a new thread (although it still wouldn't make any sense to me):
First of all, I'm not abandoning the thread we've had for nearly a year now so we can completely abandon our original shop. For another thing, it's pointless to create another thread, because as it is I see the possibility of shuffling members in the near future, and it would make the recreation of the thread completely pointless. Then what do we do, create a new thread every time it gets a little cluttered? That's just going to get confusing and annoying.
Jesiah mentioned, as many people have previously mentioned before, that maybe you should attach this fine shop you have to the CPS, where you guys basically do the same thing,
That's...not true at all. There's a rather large difference between adding funky designs to a Pokemon's background to use as an avatar and blending parts of a Pokemon to make a fusion of the two, or one of the MANY other things we do in the shop. We've had a few avatar-ish requests in the shop but that doesn't mean we do the same thing, even if you think about them at a basic level. Pokemon + Art can = many different things.
Niiro said:
No offense, but to me, all he is doing is finding some renders of Pokemon, pasting it on a background, using some effects to blend them together, and finish. I'm sure it is actually much harder than that (I can't do this **** to save my life) but I'm sure that any resonably talented graphics personish guyish dudeish man could do it with ease.
Regardless of what he is doing, we may already be able to do it or we may be able to learn how through practice and such.
But I have to refer to what Cease Tick said, because this is exactly how I feel;
Let's say you're a chef at an Italian restaurant. You only enjoy making Italian food. Some guy comes in and orders a hamburger that isn't on the menu. Even if you have everything you need to make it, wouldn't you resent being expected being forced to do something you don't enjoy to cater to the whims of other people?
The point is, even if they're able to, you shouldn't just expect the members of the CPS to start making avatars. They may not want to.
We created it as "The Custom Pokemon Shop". I created the shop with Spire because we like fusing, type-changing, etc. with Pokemon. Not avatar creation. Now Snucas enjoys that, and that's great for him -- he saw some interest in the avatars so he decided to make a full shop of it.
So even if we fused the threads, he would be the sole avatar-creator. I don't know about everyone else for sure, but I know I do not have interest in making avatars as well, and I'm pretty sure most of the other members would side with me. There's nothing wrong with the avatars, in fact, I think they're quite cool; I simply have no interest in fulfilling avatar requests. I want to do sprite requests, because I love spriting. Spriting is an art form in and of itself.
Now, I'll end the arguing in this thread here as I'm sure Snucas can't enjoy this cluttering up his shop. Niiro, if you have something to say reply either via PM, VM, or AIM.
