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*shifty eyes* I thought one was Lupin's too

Heh, No. That's actually a painting.

seriously who painted it?

This guy:
http://www.collinbogle.com/colorsofautumn.html

*Grumbles a little* Why? Why couldn't I have found this forum AGES ago instead of coming in on the tail end of it? (Pardon the pun) Ok, maybe it's more the middle. I'm so excited and engrossed. I can't wait to see this movie and hear more of it here.

The insight that everyone has here is fantastic and the fact that someone making a movie is interested in what the fans have to say on the subject is phenomenal. The detail that has been discussed is marvelous. I love it! Kudo's to everyone!

Finally I've found someplace that reflects my own interests. (My friends are so grounded they think I'm looney-tunes for loving wolves or werewolves.)

Ok, ok...*calming down* I promised myself I wouldn't do one of those 'Fan-girl' posts. Really, everything here is amazing and I look forward to joining in with the discussions. I promise *hand up* not to restate anything that has already been overstated and only speak with intellegence.

Thanks.

*Goes to dig deeper into the rest of ...everything.*

Welcome! Sounds like you'll be making a good contribution. I sympathize with your distress at finding this place only now, but don't worry; there's time to make yourself useful yet.

Well lets see...I just joined this site. I found it from a bunch of links on GoldenWolfs website and at first I didn't know what this FreeBorn thing was but after I read the aout link thing, I was overjoyed! A movie where the werewolf is a likeable character maybe?

OoO I can't wait for it to come out...say...when does it come out? xD

You should probably have posted this here.

Release date is, as far as I know, "Sometime in late 2006"

Bonjour all ^^

I'm with you Leighlia...I feel the same way.

Every single time I try to talk to somebody about wolves or weres, I get this look like "You're really crazy. Are you sure you don't need some help?"

Errr...it's really frustrating.

Anyway...Sorry for going off on a rant Heh..

I just joined too, so I thought I'd stop by and check everyone out

Alright, well I'm happy to be here, and I'll see ya'll around

-Malevolence

Oops sorry. ^-^; Late 2006? D: Awww... Oh wellz. *waits*

Leighlia and ::Malevolence::


Here, have some duckies!!

Welcome to the Pack Leighlia and ::Malevolence::.

My friends are so grounded they think I'm looney-tunes for loving wolves or werewolves.

Every single time I try to talk to somebody about wolves or weres, I get this look like "You're really crazy. Are you sure you don't need some help?"

Heh, all of my friends know I'm into wolves, but I don't think any of them realize I'm into werewolves yet.

Welcome one and all to ze Pack!



Watch out for zeem duckies, don't let THIS: happen to you!

Eccentric mood today, don't mind me...

::Malevolence:: wrote:Bonjour all ^^

I'm with you Leighlia...I feel the same way.

Every single time I try to talk to somebody about wolves or weres, I get this look like "You're really crazy. Are you sure you don't need some help?"

Errr...it's really frustrating.

Anyway...Sorry for going off on a rant Heh..

I just joined too, so I thought I'd stop by and check everyone out

Alright, well I'm happy to be here, and I'll see ya'll around

-Malevolence

You want to see crazy? Come hang out with us on IRC some time

Anyway. I'm sure we've all had that problem to some degree or other. I've solved it for myself by keeping most of my talking about it online, with others who feel similarily, and having friends who're also "weird." Not to quite the same degree as I am, but someone who likes wolves and would even like to be a werewolf doesn't faze them much at all.

Oh yeah, and welcome!

Thanks everyone!

*blinks* Duckies!! I love duckies! Yum yum!

Malevolence...nice name.

Thanks Reilune And thanks everyone else who said welcome.

And yeah, I keeping most of my "eccentric werewolf convos" to places like this. All hail the werewolf lovers


But really, I don't mind if my friends think I'm weird, I could care less really. I guess it just tells you that I'm openminded..heh

I actually joined abouta week ago, but only now just noticed this topic.

So, how to sum me up?

I work as a senior programmer at a game company, Pandemic Studios, and just finished Star Wars Battlefront 2). I have a dedicedly technical background (M.Eng in EE/CS), but multiclassed as an amateur artist and writer. That bit of nerdiness should explain a lot about me. And to top that all off, I'm unashamedly Christian and conservative, leaning towards libertarian..

As a result, I try to look at things from both an engineering and artistic perspective. Basically, I'm not afraid to bust out a calculator or do some research to figure out how things should work when such things are appropriate. Numbers are our friends! (But so are pictures!)

I've always found werewolves fascinating, even in high school, but I found similar anthropomorphic characters just as interesting well before I knew there was such a thing as "furry". I joined alt.horror.werewolves when it newgrouped nearly a decade ago while I was in college. In addition, I edged towards the periphery of furry fandom, even posting a dozen or so images to the old Avatar Archive when that was still around. Still, I had a soft spot for werecreatures, and all of my fictional settings featured them in one form or another. I bailed from furry fandom when I noticed it spiralling into a vortex of porn, and that's not my style. At the same time, though, the a.h.ww crowd drifted off into "were lifestyle", and that isn't my style either. I'm in some sort of weird DMZ between "furry" and "were". All my "anthro" characters are weres, with human and animal forms in addition to gestalt forms, but they don't act like stereotypical werecreatures.

I found a link to Freeborn a few weeks ago, and lurked here for a while before signing up. I like where Freeborn is trying to go, even if I don't go for the "bitten" style of werecreature.

This is really disorganized, but what do you expect at 4 AM?

Ultraken wrote:I actually joined abouta week ago, but only now just noticed this topic.

So, how to sum me up?

I work as a senior programmer at a game company, Pandemic Studios, and just finished Star Wars Battlefront 2). I have a dedicedly technical background (M.Eng in EE/CS), but multiclassed as an amateur artist and writer. That bit of nerdiness should explain a lot about me. And to top that all off, I'm unashamedly Christian and conservative, leaning towards libertarian..

As a result, I try to look at things from both an engineering and artistic perspective. Basically, I'm not afraid to bust out a calculator or do some research to figure out how things should work when such things are appropriate. Numbers are our friends! (But so are pictures!)

I've always found werewolves fascinating, even in high school, but I found similar anthropomorphic characters just as interesting well before I knew there was such a thing as "furry". I joined alt.horror.werewolves when it newgrouped nearly a decade ago while I was in college. In addition, I edged towards the periphery of furry fandom, even posting a dozen or so images to the old Avatar Archive when that was still around. Still, I had a soft spot for werecreatures, and all of my fictional settings featured them in one form or another. I bailed from furry fandom when I noticed it spiralling into a vortex of porn, and that's not my style. At the same time, though, the a.h.ww crowd drifted off into "were lifestyle", and that isn't my style either. I'm in some sort of weird DMZ between "furry" and "were". All my "anthro" characters are weres, with human and animal forms in addition to gestalt forms, but they don't act like stereotypical werecreatures.

I found a link to Freeborn a few weeks ago, and lurked here for a while before signing up. I like where Freeborn is trying to go, even if I don't go for the "bitten" style of werecreature.

This is really disorganized, but what do you expect at 4 AM?

Thats very interesting.

I'm late to the internet. 1st got on with WebTV. Bad mistake!! Didn't get a PC until 2001. Thats when my real internet experience began.

Also

You might want to requote my message; I just overhauled it.

Ultraken wrote:You might want to requote my message; I just overhauled it.

Oh...ok


Hmmmmm..... Since you're a senior programmer, do you think you can make a "Freeborn" video game?

(After you get the "OK" from ABrownrigg, that is.)

Figarou wrote:Hmmmmm..... Since you're a senior programmer, do you think you can make a "Freeborn" video game?

(After you get the "OK" from ABrownrigg, that is.)

Well, that's more a buisiness decision, and well outside my purview. Pandemic Studios also tends towards action shooter games with strategic or tactical elements. I'm not sure how well a dramatic werewolf movie would transition into an action game.

(I had a setting in mind that featured "not mindless monster" werecreatures as one of four playable sides, but I don't necessarily see that going anywhere either. I suspect it's too conceptually nerdy for the lead designer.)

Now that's an interesting idea, Figarou. Something like Vampire: The Masquerade, except based aroun werewolves?

Ultraken, what're your thoughts on working on something in your free time? I'm not asking anything here; just wondering how you feel about it. It'd be understandable if you don't want to because you already do enough of this sort of thing at your workplace. However, there are resources extending even to complete game engines, with modern graphics, physics, etc. available for this sort of project, if enough developers come together; Crystal Space and Yake, to name a few.

I'm sort of tied down with Pandemic, so I can't work on a commercial product externally. I also tried working on a noncommercial product in my free time, but my free time tended to run dangerously scarce when things got busy at work, and I nearly exhausted myself trying. Such is the life of a professional game developer...

Instead, I've been trying to work "inside the system" for the past couple months by providing a setting that supports similar ideas for the next project. It hasn't been getting very far with the director or lead designer, but I'll see where I can get. The concept is kind of nerdy, and would need to be treated carefully to appeal to a mass audience: science-fantasy space opera setting, explicit magic instead of pretending that it's science, set near future 2010-2015, Earth uses traditional technology except for an ancient Astral Drive Ring, outsiders use various "flavors" of magic. (Each side has unique abilities and play styles while fitting into the same squad-based action/shooter structure.) I'm trying to treat it as seriously and realistically as possible by thinking everything through and taking things to their logical conclusions, but it get very dorky if done wrong. In practice, I think my chances are slim-to-none...