manikus DC is a site dedicated to showcasing my artwork for Dungeon Craft. I use several programs to achieve the various types of art, including Poser, DAZ|Studio and Paint Shop Pro

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02-13-12: (manikus)

This update contains two small pics and two portraits. The portraits are of human champions, female and male. Champions are not a specific class in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, but are meant to represent that certain kind of warrior - the one who carries a larger sword than anyone else, is better known than their peers and takes on the toughest adventures - they are badass. The small pics are of a nice cottage between two trees, just waiting to be visited by a party of adventurers; and an adversary of the Underdark - a duergar (grey dwarf) cleric ready to halt any from passing into the dark domain beyond. The two portraits are the last humans in the human's portrait series 1, which is comprised of the classes allowed along with two champions.

01-31-12: (manikus)

It's a bright new day at manikus' DC. I've been meaning to revamp the site for a while. The layout is pretty much the same, with easy navigation. The color scheme is a shades of grey thing for right now. You may notice that I took a bit of control over the page display, by choosing a width for the site instead of letting it default to your browser width. The site is now optimized for 1024x758 resolution. you may also notice that I've removed several sections - the walls and the backdrops. I want to make my art available for all 6 DC formats/sizes, which right now means that walls need to be reworked and new versions created. I will likely re-add walls at a later point. The same holds true for the backdrops - until I'm ready to offer each one for all six resolutions/layouts, I will not be sharing them. When these sections do return, I expect the layout to be similar to the current bigpics and portraits/smallpics sections. There are some walls in particular that I will not be doing for all resolutions, but will still offer for use, and will likely be uploaded as a special zipped archive.

The look of hte icons section has changed, but this is mostly cosmetic. All of the icons are still available, but now you can see the size of each relative to the other icons. The largest change are to the bigpics and portraits/smallpics sections. All content here is brand new. It's also available in all six resolutions/layouts for Dungeon Craft. Simply choose the one that is appropriate for your use, and you are good to go. A quick note about portraits and smallpics. These two types of art are really the same thing, I've just decided to create a designation for smallpics created specifically to use as images for PCs and NPCs. All portraits could be used as smallpics with no adjustment needed. Likewise, all smallpics could be used for PC or NPC likenesses, the mechanics are identical, though the content of smallpics will likely not be appropriate for most portrait needs.

The tutorials section has not changed at this time, but in the not-too-distant future I plan on adding all of the tutorials I have been working on for the Dungeon Craft help documentation. As this unfolds I may decide to change the layout of that section, but I plan on only adding to it, and not removing any tutorials with the exception of one which is now obsolete because Paul changed the way DC works and the tutorial is no longer valid.