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News Submissions / CT Figurines
« on: February 22, 2011, 03:26:06 am »
Hey Chrono community, just popping in to drop off a valuable discovery. Someone in Square-Enix must have been thinking about CT, because Kotaku is reporting that a four piece set of Chrono Trigger figurines recreating classic moments from the game's artwork are currently available on pre-order. Maybe there's renewed interest in the series? One can only hope...
EDIT: Looks like it's actually a five piece set; not sure why the Marle one isn't being sold with the rest. Various vendors may have various supplies, or something thereabouts.
EDIT: Looks like it's actually a five piece set; not sure why the Marle one isn't being sold with the rest. Various vendors may have various supplies, or something thereabouts.
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Submissions / Stained glass Magus tribute
« on: April 21, 2009, 03:30:13 am »
Hey Compendiumites! Been a while since I've dropped in to contribute... but this time I've got a real winner of a fanart to share with you!
However... there's a catch.
I'm not going to say right away who made this, nor whether this is actual stained glass or just a clever Photoshop job. I wanna hear what you, the unbiased viewers, think. At the end of two weeks I'll post and reveal all the relevant info regarding this and the truth will be known, but until then you'll just have to discuss amongst yourselves.
Let the voting... COMMENCE!
In the meantime, feel free to check out this CT & CC fanart gallery that I stumbled across: CLICK HERE. I found a lot of pictures there that I'd never seen anywhere else, rather high quality stuff too. Enjoy!
EDIT: Oh, and I almost forgot... a little something I made a while back that I've been meaning to show the Compendium. It's part of a big Flash project I started last summer, but haven't yet been able to finish. [CLICK HERE]. Warning: pop culture reference to be expected.
However... there's a catch.
I'm not going to say right away who made this, nor whether this is actual stained glass or just a clever Photoshop job. I wanna hear what you, the unbiased viewers, think. At the end of two weeks I'll post and reveal all the relevant info regarding this and the truth will be known, but until then you'll just have to discuss amongst yourselves.
Let the voting... COMMENCE!
In the meantime, feel free to check out this CT & CC fanart gallery that I stumbled across: CLICK HERE. I found a lot of pictures there that I'd never seen anywhere else, rather high quality stuff too. Enjoy!
EDIT: Oh, and I almost forgot... a little something I made a while back that I've been meaning to show the Compendium. It's part of a big Flash project I started last summer, but haven't yet been able to finish. [CLICK HERE]. Warning: pop culture reference to be expected.
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Submissions / Magus MUGEN sprites
« on: April 18, 2008, 01:49:02 am »
Well, through some rather unusual circumstances I ended up chancing across this YouTube video of a MUGEN survival run featuring Magus. Thing is (as you can see in the video) this MUGEN fighter version of Magus didn't just simply apply ripped CT sprites . . . no, these were custom Magus sprites made by someone known as MugenTrigger!
Being the crazy insane Magus fanboy that I am, you can imagine what followed.
And so, it is with great pleasure that I present to the Compendium the following sprite sheet, assembled from MugenTrigger's original file (scroll down for Magus).
CLICK HERE FOR SPRITES
...Yes, included in the sheet is a fem-Magus. With green eyebrows. And that's NOT an edit. I dunno about you folks, but that's just unnaturally disturbing to me. It was so absurd that it demanded an equally absurd joke to point it out... but I couldn't come up with one. So instead you have Marle having a Sailor Moon moment and Crono self-narrating in Alya-esqe fashion.
That's almost as messed up as gender-bent green eyebrows Magus, right?
Being the crazy insane Magus fanboy that I am, you can imagine what followed.
And so, it is with great pleasure that I present to the Compendium the following sprite sheet, assembled from MugenTrigger's original file (scroll down for Magus).
CLICK HERE FOR SPRITES...Yes, included in the sheet is a fem-Magus. With green eyebrows. And that's NOT an edit. I dunno about you folks, but that's just unnaturally disturbing to me. It was so absurd that it demanded an equally absurd joke to point it out... but I couldn't come up with one. So instead you have Marle having a Sailor Moon moment and Crono self-narrating in Alya-esqe fashion.
That's almost as messed up as gender-bent green eyebrows Magus, right?
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Submissions / Chrono characters appearing in a fighting game?! YES!
« on: March 21, 2008, 06:53:51 pm »
Ladies and gentlemen, I have caught wind of something that I think Chrono series fans everywhere will be interested in. I'm not entirely sure of the details (because I can't read Spanish), but there is a fighting game currently in development featuring a truly VAST array of characters, including several Chrono characters! The name of the game is Card Sagas Wars, and they're already far enough along in development to have a trailer with actual in-game footage. Click HERE for their website and HERE for the trailer video!
Here's the Chrono characters currently listed on their site's gallery as being playable:
CLICK HERE to see the character list in its entirety. These game designers are crazy ambitious!!
Plus there's a separate gallery, the "red cards", specifically for monsters. With any luck some old school baddies like Zombor, Heckran, and either a Lavos Spawn or the terrible Lavos himself might end up joining the list!
Here's the Chrono characters currently listed on their site's gallery as being playable:
CLICK HERE to see the character list in its entirety. These game designers are crazy ambitious!!
Plus there's a separate gallery, the "red cards", specifically for monsters. With any luck some old school baddies like Zombor, Heckran, and either a Lavos Spawn or the terrible Lavos himself might end up joining the list!
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History, Locations, and Artifacts / The Summoning Circle in Magus's Castle
« on: February 10, 2007, 10:57:26 pm »
While working on graphics for a Flash movie about the battle with Magus in 600 A.D., I became suddenly intrigued with the summoning circle Magus uses for awakening Lavos... in specific, it's design.
I hadn't really given a lot of thought to this particular artifact before (as I imagine most CT fans also haven't), but when I started looking at it closely and thinking about more I realized that this design seems very atypical compared with most artistic conceptualizations of magic/summoning circles (like, for example, this one from the Tales of Phantasia OVA). In fact, since most mystical floor-circles (regardless of purpose) are usually portrayed as little more than rings of glowing runic symbols and lines, Magus's circle stands out as very sharply different. Has any research been done into this, per chance?
Breaking the image apart, it has a LOT of distinct qualities. The most blunt visual detail is what looks like four fire-breathing beasts (winged horses? griffons? some other kind of chimeric or mythic animals? It's hard to tell), one in each major quadrant. This in particular baffles me when trying to figure out what the circle's design would have been based on; why draw these four creatures as central aspects of a summoning device? What purpose could such representation serve? I've wracked my brain, but the best guess I could come up with is that it's an oblique reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but even that doesn't seem to fit very well.
Then there's the fact that its segmented in a rather compass-like way: four cardinal directions coming from the center, and then markings on the outer circle (where what looks like red runes are written) for four additional directions (IE: south-west, north-east, etcetera). And if you think that's something of a leap of logic, look and see where traces of gold coloration are in the image. With the sole exception of the firebreathers' eyes, the gold hues are (a) in the very center, where they form a diamond shape around a sole red dot (interesting? possibly meaningful? I think so.), (b) on the outer edges on the circle (primary directions), and (c) lines within the embellished middle of the circle (secondary directions).
Whatever the meaning of the animals is, I'd have to guess it has something to do with this compass setup. For visual ease, I removed all the non-gold pixels from the image. Check it out:
Now I've always thought it kind of strange that Magus would be able to summon Lavos from way above ground with magic principles he'd learned himself, whereas in the Kingdom of Zeal it took bringing the Mammon Machine down to the ocean floor in order to awaken Lavos from its slumber. The (arguably) greatest magical device of the Kingdom of Magic... outdone by one man's summoning circle? Seems preposterous...
... but I wonder if there's any connection to this?
If we could look at the Ocean Palace from a directly overhead view... wouldn't it's layout rather strongly resemble this "compass" marked out in Magus's summoning circle, as well as some of the decorative elements near the center and middle? If we ignore the four mysterious beasts for a moment, the similarity is actually rather strong!
I won't say that I know enough about Chrono lore or summoning circles to make a full theory on this, but I figured I should get my thoughts and observations out so that they could be evaluated and other, more knowledgeable Chrono fans could see if there's anything useful or relevant. This summoning circle is very possible a critical piece of Chrono-series data that has yet to be fully explored, or so I think.
I hadn't really given a lot of thought to this particular artifact before (as I imagine most CT fans also haven't), but when I started looking at it closely and thinking about more I realized that this design seems very atypical compared with most artistic conceptualizations of magic/summoning circles (like, for example, this one from the Tales of Phantasia OVA). In fact, since most mystical floor-circles (regardless of purpose) are usually portrayed as little more than rings of glowing runic symbols and lines, Magus's circle stands out as very sharply different. Has any research been done into this, per chance?
Breaking the image apart, it has a LOT of distinct qualities. The most blunt visual detail is what looks like four fire-breathing beasts (winged horses? griffons? some other kind of chimeric or mythic animals? It's hard to tell), one in each major quadrant. This in particular baffles me when trying to figure out what the circle's design would have been based on; why draw these four creatures as central aspects of a summoning device? What purpose could such representation serve? I've wracked my brain, but the best guess I could come up with is that it's an oblique reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but even that doesn't seem to fit very well.
Then there's the fact that its segmented in a rather compass-like way: four cardinal directions coming from the center, and then markings on the outer circle (where what looks like red runes are written) for four additional directions (IE: south-west, north-east, etcetera). And if you think that's something of a leap of logic, look and see where traces of gold coloration are in the image. With the sole exception of the firebreathers' eyes, the gold hues are (a) in the very center, where they form a diamond shape around a sole red dot (interesting? possibly meaningful? I think so.), (b) on the outer edges on the circle (primary directions), and (c) lines within the embellished middle of the circle (secondary directions).
Whatever the meaning of the animals is, I'd have to guess it has something to do with this compass setup. For visual ease, I removed all the non-gold pixels from the image. Check it out:
Now I've always thought it kind of strange that Magus would be able to summon Lavos from way above ground with magic principles he'd learned himself, whereas in the Kingdom of Zeal it took bringing the Mammon Machine down to the ocean floor in order to awaken Lavos from its slumber. The (arguably) greatest magical device of the Kingdom of Magic... outdone by one man's summoning circle? Seems preposterous...
... but I wonder if there's any connection to this?
If we could look at the Ocean Palace from a directly overhead view... wouldn't it's layout rather strongly resemble this "compass" marked out in Magus's summoning circle, as well as some of the decorative elements near the center and middle? If we ignore the four mysterious beasts for a moment, the similarity is actually rather strong!
I won't say that I know enough about Chrono lore or summoning circles to make a full theory on this, but I figured I should get my thoughts and observations out so that they could be evaluated and other, more knowledgeable Chrono fans could see if there's anything useful or relevant. This summoning circle is very possible a critical piece of Chrono-series data that has yet to be fully explored, or so I think.
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Submissions / Crono Break
« on: April 02, 2006, 03:55:31 pm »
My first Chrono-series related Flash movie (although far from my first-ever Flash movie, so you need not fear any n00bality from it).
My fellow Chrono fans, I give you all . . .
~ CRONO BREAK ~
My fellow Chrono fans, I give you all . . .
~ CRONO BREAK ~
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Kajar Laboratories / Magus's mysterious father... discovered?!
« on: November 21, 2005, 03:54:29 pm »
Now, of course, this is just one of my little fanatical concepts. And I'm willing to accept the possibility that I've overlooked important facts that would make this whole crazy idea utterly impossible. If you can think of any, from either game, I'm more than willing to hear them. More facts always = good.
And yeah,... <.< ... >.> ... this is somewhat of a "suggestion" to Square-Enix that they oughta put Magus in a KH game. Call it a fanboy whim.
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Chrono Trigger Flash Series / Artwork (Old Resources) [LOCKED]
« on: August 05, 2005, 09:41:05 pm »
While not fully complete, I've made enough progress on CGing the Schala sketch by CuteLucca that I figured I ought to show it. And, as we don't yet have a topic for whatever non-sprited artwork will be included in the CT flash series, I figured it would be best to start one instead of just try to squeeze it in elsewhere.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...
Schala, before and after.
Granted, it isn't finished yet, but my schedule right now has a bare minimum of free time (a few hours on fridays, only). When and/or if the idea of CGed sketches for cutscenes becomes a finalized decision, I ought to be able to pump them out much quicker than this.
Comments, critiques, suggestions?
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...
Schala, before and after.
Granted, it isn't finished yet, but my schedule right now has a bare minimum of free time (a few hours on fridays, only). When and/or if the idea of CGed sketches for cutscenes becomes a finalized decision, I ought to be able to pump them out much quicker than this.
Comments, critiques, suggestions?
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Kajar Laboratories / (fanarts) Magus: Lost Shadow of Time
« on: July 21, 2005, 07:46:11 pm »
~Magus: Lost Shadow of Time
~Shadowmage (high-bandwith large version)
~Shadowmage (low-bandwith smaller version)
~Prophet-Magus edits and a laughing Frog
And yes, the first three are on Sheezyart. For those who have browser difficulties with Sheezy, my sympathies and apologies; there's not much I can do for you. Feel free to post reactions of any kind, be they accolades, questions, critiques, or otherwise. Enjoy!
~Shadowmage (high-bandwith large version)
~Shadowmage (low-bandwith smaller version)
~Prophet-Magus edits and a laughing Frog
And yes, the first three are on Sheezyart. For those who have browser difficulties with Sheezy, my sympathies and apologies; there's not much I can do for you. Feel free to post reactions of any kind, be they accolades, questions, critiques, or otherwise. Enjoy!
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