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Seraphim Moonshadow

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Jeremy! Mike! I have some...questions.

First of all, how does the bone structure work for your TeamClaw characters?  I wasn't quite sure, so I've been left a little confused, because...I don't know..maybe a cat CAN hold a sword, but it would seem pretty hard to. You saw how I drew Viktor and there's  many ways of drawing, of course. So I wasn't sure what kind of style you wanted. I also had some questions about the armor......could you go a little more into detail about what kind of armor it is? Or you guys just thinking about...regular..knight-ish armor or something?

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jerbl

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Re: Jeremy! Mike! I have some...questions.

Think cloth, very durable cloth.  Its explained in the story.  As for the thumb (or lack of it) that is left up to the imagination.  So anything you do will work.  I personally like to think that they can use one of their fingers as an opposable digit.

Monisawa

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Re: Jeremy! Mike! I have some...questions.

Think cloth, very durable cloth.  Its explained in the story.

Okay.....some things I hinted at and left to the imagination....much like a cat holding a sword...but how I envisioned Nemo and his suit was pretty basic.  I wasn't exactly solid on every detail of how it was desighned, but imagine something japanese or chinese.  It is a fabric that would most likely be worn by a stealth ninja.  In fact most of the desighn hangs HEAVILY around Ninja and the 'asian genre' of such martial arts and things....BUT you have to remember that the suit comes from a place that is not from Earth.   The fabric LOOKS weak, tearable, ripable, burnable, destructable....but there is no real proof of how much it TRULY can stand.  In episode 6-7 you learn only a faction of the true nature of the suit. 

Jeremy and I also discussed about how there needed to be some kind of clear face-plate...to protect against anything else that the suit would not...or maybe not at all.  I DO know that the suit is generally a very DARK color.  It could be Black, Green, Red...or some thing close to it....but it is VERY dark, so that Nemo, in his earlier years, could do stealth missions with it.  Use your imagination.  perhaps it could have writing on its fringes...or somehting to that affect.

Truthfully the best idea is to research several concepts, merge them into the desighn...and then do several sketches....and then if you are still not sure, post the sketches and I can give some feedback.  Generally I will agree with your decissions anyway.

As for the thumb (or lack of it) that is left up to the imagination.  So anything you do will work.  I personally like to think that they can use one of their fingers as an opposable digit.

Okay.......Smile  I knew this was coming.  The DREADED, 'how can a cat hold a sword,' problem.

Initially I decided to add a comment to one of my stories....I think it was 5.....and I stated that Nemo, or any of the other sword wielding cats would rest the sword inbetween their 4 front fingers...thus resting the hilt of the sword on the lower wrist. -_-  I hope that helps.  That was my initial idea.  Truthfully, I didn't aim to actually describe how it was held.....you could draw the picture so that you are not showing HOW it is being held!!!!!

I hope that you have read all of the story, but all of the cats that use swords are not from Earth.  If that helps you understand, then you also have a creative liberty in that aspect as well.

thanks for asking. 
if for some reason you are still confused ask the question again, or rephrase it and I will talk at you again.
tahnks
mike

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Seraphim Moonshadow

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Re: Jeremy! Mike! I have some...questions.

Sure...thanks!  Um...I'll say more later.    Thank-you.

Edit: I'm almost to..part...5? I think....

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