Published Feb 23rd, 2021, 2/23/21 5:43 am
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Tl;Dr Disclaimer: This title is not sarcasm or self-deprecation. :) It's for a build theme; Derpy Animals!
I made this build within a single day, rushing as quickly and hastily as I could before the deadline. Daunting, really. It was truly quite daunting, because before this build my organic experience is so incredibly limited that all I could rely on was knowledge I had for other skills and the little knowledge I picked up while making the big organic in my "Spooky Space Sorcery" build, which contains the first serious fully-fledged large organic I ever made... and frankly, I feel really, really happy with how it turned out. Like, at this point, although I made this to try to compete as competitions are great fun, I can safely say that no matter the result this has been more than worth the time and I feel has served as the best learning experience out of all my entries so far, because this is a theme that's out of my comfort zone. I am not in the slightest bit comfortable making huge organics. I have hardly any experience - yet, I loved it, and I had a lot of fun with it, and I really, really like how it turned out. I know it can be better, but I'm really happy with it.
Anyway- Anyway, moving on to the point- Although I had to add that ramble because I'm happy- This build was made for the Minecraft Discord's Fortnightly Building Challenge, hosted as always by Cookiie, who has consistently been a rather sweet friendly person (I felt like adding that), and the theme this time was "Derpy Animals". ...now, perhaps, maybe, you may question why of all things, I chose a dinosaur for this theme, and one which, honestly, was portrayed quite impactfully... but I think it's arms are hilarious and it's easily the only animal I've thought was derpy since the moment I first saw it. Just think of its showings in things like Toy Story with Rex the toy T-Rex. It's hilarious. It's derpy to the core. Yes, it's the most devastating dinosaur king they all feared, and I can fully understand why- but I can not take it seriously. Plus I purposefully gave it eyes that face directly backwards for no reason- but the main point is that the arms make it so hard to take it seriously, to the point that I feel even when it's in such an incredibly imposing scene, with a threatening demeanour and harsh volcanic style with lava and magma overwhelming its core, it still looks derpy to me. It's possible I may be biased against the tyrannosaurus rex. I doubt I'd think this in person, after all. ...but still, it is what it is, and it's hilarious to me, and I was racking my brain for a few hours about what could possibly be derpy and it came to mind and I just knew I had to do it. I thought of horses, camels, dogs, wolves, perhaps even a chase of animals, a herd of them, or whatever- fences, a field, tree stumps, grass, giant flowers- originally I was even going to go with a really big hedgehog and leave it at that, taking an easy route out to not worry too much about completing it in a single day, and then I saw the user "ziemniak225"'s submission, and... yeah, that was cool, so I didn't have a choice but to aim a lot higher and push myself to finish something far better than what I wanted, and somehow or another I did and I am proud and happy and I can tell I've improved at organics even while knowing there's lots more room to keep going too. :D
Anyhow! Thank you for reading through this, and I hope you like the build. :) Most of this is really just me rambling, as I feel I had to get a lot of this off my chest as I'm happy... and I talk a lot in every one of my descriptions as I feel it can be pretty interesting for some people from time to time. :) While a build is a doorway into what went on in a person's mind, the description can help complete that doorway and show the world on the other side with a light it never otherwise would've had. Or at least that's my opinion - they take a while to read and people have limited time, so often simple is better too. :) Whatever the case, I like doing it this way. :D
Also, if you do check out the competition, make sure to search for Ziemniak's post in the #build-challenge channel as it's great. It's a skeletal centaur in a candy lollipop forest. :)
I'll update this with whatever placing I end up with, and in the meantime I hope anyone reading this - and hey, anyone not as well - is having a good day. :D It would be splendid if everyone did. Hopefully seeing this build contributes to that a little too- and even if it doesn't? That's alright, so long as you're still doing well. :)
Edit: It turns out I got second place, so I lost out to Ziemniak who I was trying to beat, but I'm alright with it. :) Ziemniak did great and I feel I gained a lot of experience with organics by participating in this, so it was more than worth it. :D
And as I noticed on many submissions a download gets requested- I added one for this one too. :) I mean, I have no idea what anyone would download it for but I appreciate the interest the submissions get anyway. :D Just please make sure not to repost it in any way; I'd prefer it wasn't reused like that. :)
I made this build within a single day, rushing as quickly and hastily as I could before the deadline. Daunting, really. It was truly quite daunting, because before this build my organic experience is so incredibly limited that all I could rely on was knowledge I had for other skills and the little knowledge I picked up while making the big organic in my "Spooky Space Sorcery" build, which contains the first serious fully-fledged large organic I ever made... and frankly, I feel really, really happy with how it turned out. Like, at this point, although I made this to try to compete as competitions are great fun, I can safely say that no matter the result this has been more than worth the time and I feel has served as the best learning experience out of all my entries so far, because this is a theme that's out of my comfort zone. I am not in the slightest bit comfortable making huge organics. I have hardly any experience - yet, I loved it, and I had a lot of fun with it, and I really, really like how it turned out. I know it can be better, but I'm really happy with it.
Anyway- Anyway, moving on to the point- Although I had to add that ramble because I'm happy- This build was made for the Minecraft Discord's Fortnightly Building Challenge, hosted as always by Cookiie, who has consistently been a rather sweet friendly person (I felt like adding that), and the theme this time was "Derpy Animals". ...now, perhaps, maybe, you may question why of all things, I chose a dinosaur for this theme, and one which, honestly, was portrayed quite impactfully... but I think it's arms are hilarious and it's easily the only animal I've thought was derpy since the moment I first saw it. Just think of its showings in things like Toy Story with Rex the toy T-Rex. It's hilarious. It's derpy to the core. Yes, it's the most devastating dinosaur king they all feared, and I can fully understand why- but I can not take it seriously. Plus I purposefully gave it eyes that face directly backwards for no reason- but the main point is that the arms make it so hard to take it seriously, to the point that I feel even when it's in such an incredibly imposing scene, with a threatening demeanour and harsh volcanic style with lava and magma overwhelming its core, it still looks derpy to me. It's possible I may be biased against the tyrannosaurus rex. I doubt I'd think this in person, after all. ...but still, it is what it is, and it's hilarious to me, and I was racking my brain for a few hours about what could possibly be derpy and it came to mind and I just knew I had to do it. I thought of horses, camels, dogs, wolves, perhaps even a chase of animals, a herd of them, or whatever- fences, a field, tree stumps, grass, giant flowers- originally I was even going to go with a really big hedgehog and leave it at that, taking an easy route out to not worry too much about completing it in a single day, and then I saw the user "ziemniak225"'s submission, and... yeah, that was cool, so I didn't have a choice but to aim a lot higher and push myself to finish something far better than what I wanted, and somehow or another I did and I am proud and happy and I can tell I've improved at organics even while knowing there's lots more room to keep going too. :D
Anyhow! Thank you for reading through this, and I hope you like the build. :) Most of this is really just me rambling, as I feel I had to get a lot of this off my chest as I'm happy... and I talk a lot in every one of my descriptions as I feel it can be pretty interesting for some people from time to time. :) While a build is a doorway into what went on in a person's mind, the description can help complete that doorway and show the world on the other side with a light it never otherwise would've had. Or at least that's my opinion - they take a while to read and people have limited time, so often simple is better too. :) Whatever the case, I like doing it this way. :D
Also, if you do check out the competition, make sure to search for Ziemniak's post in the #build-challenge channel as it's great. It's a skeletal centaur in a candy lollipop forest. :)
I'll update this with whatever placing I end up with, and in the meantime I hope anyone reading this - and hey, anyone not as well - is having a good day. :D It would be splendid if everyone did. Hopefully seeing this build contributes to that a little too- and even if it doesn't? That's alright, so long as you're still doing well. :)
Edit: It turns out I got second place, so I lost out to Ziemniak who I was trying to beat, but I'm alright with it. :) Ziemniak did great and I feel I gained a lot of experience with organics by participating in this, so it was more than worth it. :D
And as I noticed on many submissions a download gets requested- I added one for this one too. :) I mean, I have no idea what anyone would download it for but I appreciate the interest the submissions get anyway. :D Just please make sure not to repost it in any way; I'd prefer it wasn't reused like that. :)
| Credit | I used SIldur's Vibrant Shaders for the screenshots with Shaders - it was a match that worked so well! :D I also used World Edit and VoxelSniper for the building on the Builder's Refuge server. |
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A grand fiery dinosaur was so fun to build. Glowing lava is so beautiful... in fiction!
I have committed many war crimes including spraying alcohol and throwing matches on alive beings. I 100% agree with you. Fire is nice.