Star Army

Star ArmyⓇ is a landmark of forum roleplaying. Opened in 2002, Star Army is like an internet clubhouse for people who love roleplaying, art, and worldbuilding. Anyone 18 or older may join for free. New members are welcome! Use the "Register" button below.

Note: This is a play-by-post RPG site. If you're looking for the tabletop miniatures wargame "5150: Star Army" instead, see Two Hour Wargames.

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Artwork & Creativity

Express yourself with words and images. Show off your art, music, photos, and writing.
Just posting some lyrics I thought of in the shower this morning. Where the shadows burn colder than ice and the brightness burns like hell And the dust smells like a burning heart If you lived long enough to tell It's an emptiness so vast and deep that its secrets never end And in this black I'm going back For the people I defend For in the darkness, in the stillness There's a trillion points of light And Kagami Galaxy's stars Keep on burning bright through night [Chorus] No I won't give up Fire every shot! I'll burn every engine Til it's redline hot! When the walls come down I'll be at your side! Because I'm built to fight I'm the Star Army of Yamatai!
Headshot Commissions from Sir Meo
I just got these commissions recently from artist Sir Meo on Furaffinity, who was having a sale. I've just arranged for 10 more of these flat colored headshots and I was trying to decide which characters to use them on so I was wondering if you guys wanted to suggest characters. Here's what I need: The character's name a link to their bio The bio preferably should have a reference art the artist can use A link to them appearing in RP sometime this month Should be a Star Army of Yamatai character because I already told Sir Meo they'd all be in Type 42 Duty Uniforms Shouldn't be a hyper-complicated character design that needs an usual level of detail (e.g. they have 3 eye colors, 5 hair colors in a bizarre modern art masterpiece of a...
Last year I did a little sketchpage of different characters in holiday outfits here. I did random characters, but this year I'd like to do the same sorts of drawings but for people that want to see their characters drawn! I know @Miyako is one person that was interested! I have a whole sta.sh folder on deviantart of christmaswear: holiday outfits To claim, please link me one of the outfits from the folder and your character you'd like drawn in it ^0^ The top row is just stuff for the head so feel free to add those in if you want a specific hat ig? I can't promise I'll do everyone, might create separate illustrations, and might change up the pose depending : )
Art Gulag [ Come get this Commish! ]
Commissions are OPEN! What's good friends! Setting up a thread for all your character concept and design needs. My favorite thing to do is design characters, so whether you want just a regular piece of art or something highlighting their design, I'm your huckleberry. PRICING INFO Price is per one ( 1 ) character. Additional costs for additional characters / backgrounds Payment delivered upfront and through Paypal ( Large projects like character sheets may 50/50 ) Endless revisions up until final lines All artwork will be displayed in my portfolio unless otherwise discussed NSFW, Gore, other sensitive topics are subject to +30% additional price Ask me anything! Chibi / Cartoon - $10 Portraits Sketch - $15...
Custom Hime Class
hi hi I got a random idea stuck in my head, and it wouldn't leave until I got it down on paper. As usual, this is just fan art. Members of the Tokyo Amateur Explorer's Club near an uninhabited planet. Foreground: A Midori EX-40 Custom Hime. Background: A civilian model Misha. I tried to blend the original ship model with the style of a sports car and a touch of the pontoon style that other ships have. It was a difficult but fun challenge to try to cram everything into the given space. Midori EX-40 Custom The Midori EX-40 is a custom modification of the Princess Class Yacht with a focus on exploration. Professional explorer Midori-sensei made a limited run of the customized ships, having chosen the ship for its low cost and...
Mini-Comic
hi hi It's been a little while, but I had an idea for another little vignette from the melancholy life of Komatsu Elena. This time in mini-comic format. Komatsu is a private investigator now, a step up from hard labor to be sure, but still not quite the same as piloting a starship. I'm still getting used to using Clipstudio instead of Photoshop. I'm starting to get the hang of brushes again, but getting a good variable line width continues to be difficult.
I've taken over the last few months or so to start doing music in things like rythmik and FL studio; this is a couple of the pieces I've produced with the latter program. I'm not great at it but I'm learning. I've been trying to produce a song a week with albeit mixed results; still having fun all the while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfj_d5YK-gI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmOzhqBaPv0
Building a legend! Making the Type 33 NSP🔫🐍🛠
As i am very much a Discord person, i don't frequent these places too often. So by Wes' recommendation i am posting this here as well now. Being a fan of the T33 NSP's design, and being the owner of a UP! 2Plus 3D printer, i set out to make a lifesize prop of the iconic SAoY sidearm! Step 1: 3D modeling. I have asked Wes before if he still had the 3D model available used in the NSP's concept render, but sadly this wasn't the case. So using the NSP's 3D art i completely modeled a new one. It took a fair bit of time, but it was worth it! Step 2: Printing. As anyone who has3D printed before can attest to, this part of the project was the most tedious. Long print times and little margin for error make it a pretty...
Animating Characters
So I've found that by using some free online tools we can create and animate character faces: Artbreeder.com allows us to make realistic faces for free MyHeritage, a family tree site, has a tool that animates faces from photos using some AI-based deepfake style process and it works on Artbreeder faces (signup is required unfortunately) Placeit.net allows us to take the animated face videos and convert them to gifs as well as crop them and resize (also requires an account) When you combine these three things, you get character face animations like these: Update: Looks like you can only make 5 animations on the family tree site before it starts hitting you up for money.
Aquae ~Crystal Clear Waters~ [a visual novel]
Hello friends! I'm making a thread here to see if anyone would be interested in reading the visual novel I've been working on for the last year. It's nearly finished and in desperate need of avid readers and creative minds! Welcome to the proper thread for Aquae ~Crystal Clear Waters~ a fantasy/adventure visual novel. Completely free to play as was the original though now with a much more vivid and expanded world to explore. Still mostly kinetic though now with the ability to change certain course of events through the player's actions and choices. While romance isn't a main focus, it is now an option. The original story was broken up into three separate arcs. Presently, Arc 1 is sitting at 16,853 words before proof. The entire...
I am soldier of the Star Army, an expert in combat and exploration. I serve the people of Yamatai and will never betray the trust they have placed in me. I am a professional – I will maintain my mind, body, and equipment in constant readiness, and will follow my orders. I will take pride in my starship and work hard to it the Star Army's finest. No matter what, I will never give up, and I will always do the right thing.
The Polygon Art Pod
It's me, ya boi, Polyman!~ And we here for a new art thread that's hot hot hot! Remember when people made these? I liked it when people made these. Just updated my tumblr for the first time in a gazzillion years, mostly just getting all the semi-recent SARP stuff in the same place. But here is the more new stuff, anyhow; Elk 44 (Actually an Ayenee character, but yeah); Promise Greenview (188604); Olffa (NSV Furi'Ken); And just to prove that I'm not just making SARP characters 24/7, here is a 3D shmup game demo I was working on during the last year of uni; Blep. So there ya have it. Guess I kinda just posted this to reset my brain and decide what to work on next. Whilst I finish eating this scotch egg. Hope you like it.
[C]- Wes-of-StarArmy
[C]- Wes-of-StarArmy || COMMISSIONS || Here is finished! I really hope you like >u< !!! Art by: Me Commission for: You're not allowed to use this art in any way Character belongs to Wes-of-StarArmy and just them have permission to use this art! Please, don't remove my signature! View [C]- Wes-of-StarArmy on DeviantArt
Wes's Artbreeder-Based Art
You guys have probably seen that I've been using the machine-learning based site Artbreeder.com lately, which is a site that uses trained algorithms to generate faces and other things, and you can adjust them and mix them and so on. Well, since the creations are all free to use, I've started putting together character art using them. At first I'd just use the faces but I want them to be more unique to Star Army so I've started adding backgrounds and SARP details. There's also a full-body character concept art generator and I've figured out ways to take the nice looking faces from the portrait section and combine them with the bodies from the fullbody section to make some really good looking fullbody character artworks. In this thread...
A little character art
hi hi I know it's a little bit of a faux pas here to make art without approval, but every so often I wonder what my old character might be up to. Whatever it is, it undoubtedly does not shape the galaxy, but I just had to make something. So hope you don't mind, I made a picture and some embarrassingly self-indulgent prose to go with it. Here's Komatsu Elena, after a long day of hard labor for PHI. (There's a Starchaser II coming up to dock in the background.) Siren System - A Station in the Akuma Asteroid Field The crowd in the lounge had dwindled as the first shift patrons left for the night, and second shift's end was still hours away. All that remained were a few holdouts and transient passengers waiting for a connecting...
Hi everyone. After putting some thought into it, I have decided to offer art comissions of ground vehicle. These can be of existing SARP vehicles, art of vehicle ideas that are to be submitted for approval, and maybe real life vehicles. Out of the goodness of my heart, I am offering my services for free. Please note, though, that they may not be finished right away because I have college Monday to Thursday, and they also may not be the best quality as I don't have tools to be able to draw digitally, so they'll be done on paper. I look forward to seeing what vehicles you would like me to draw. >3<
Over the years, many artists have created artwork for the Star Army universe. With all the art being scattered around our wiki, sometimes it's hard to get a sense of just how many artworks we've got, and we may have missed many new artworks simply because they were for characters not in the same plots as us. So I'm making this thread where I plan to post them all. You guys are welcome to discuss them as they appear. I'm going to start with all the Star Army art I've collected on DeviantArt, and I plan to regularly post updates here.
Well, I thought I would share some of my art, I don't really do art as in pencil or paint. Though sometimes I am creative in that area and try to do so, I am very basic at that. But my passion is more in the photos and I love making them as clean as possible. They would tag it as a Candid style of pictures where I explore the pureness of the real emotions of people, rather than have them fake it. I also love doing nature images. But because of the quality, the images are too large for uploads to the forum. So here is the Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wolffactor88/
So one of the things I love is hearing about different hobbies and passions people have. So to also learn abit about a few people here would love to hear about some of your hobbies. Now also to give abit of my self to everyone here i'll talk about some of my hobbies. One of the big hobbies I do is miniature wargaming mostly warhammer but I also love historical war-games with WW2 and some cold war era miniatures.I really enjoy doing narratives and having games that show off abit of a story, maybe your doing a campaign and though your chips are down your still fighting on. The table top adds to the narrative since you can't always predict it like a real story. Next thing is of course writing. Though I don't think i'm any good at it, I...
100 Days of Making Comics
Hey - My friend Yuuki suggested I post here, because there might be people who were interested in getting some character art, or comic pages done for commission. I figure the best thing to do would be to introduce myself, and then share my current project -- which is an Alice in Wonderland NSFW comic called "Alice Slays the Jabberwock." I'm doing the project in a daily challenge format, and if you want to follow along for free, you can go subscribe on my Youtube Channel. A majority of my artwork is available for free, scattered over the nets, but these days I run a tight ship, and mostly paywall with the exception of promotional posts for campaigns, steemit to share my latest video of the day, a few different discords, and my youtube...
Plastic Crackheads Anonymous (Image heavy!) (Post your own stuff!)
Been thinking about the old user Born-on-Board lately. Anybody else here into painting, modelling or kitbashing stuff? Also using this thread to look for alternatives to 40k. Know any good 'use anything' sci-fi tabletop wargames? Feel free to post your own stuff here! In the words of a giant floating head, "Show me what you gottt!" -PP Stuff- Just getting into Maschinen Kreiger. The sculpts are awesome even on the cheapo gatchapon figures (pictured vs MKIII Space Marine for scale). Half the price of terminators and twice the size! Attempted the Gundam Skirmish game for a while, but the community just isn't really there yet. Bandai makes *super* nice and highly posable stuff, though. The 1/144 stuff is light years ahead of the...
I booked!! My LGBT fantasy novel "The Light in Front of Me" is now available!! WLW romance, trans representation too! Swords, magic, and dragons as well! There's a fox (my profile pic) so Neshaten might like that :D Amazon (Physical): https://amazon.com/dp/1686029519 Amazon (ebook): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0821TNCC1 itch (ebook): https://arcanearia.itch.io/the-light-in-front-of-me I wanted to give a special thanks to SARP for being a great place to practice writing with many different people over the years, without that I don't think I'd have been able to do this. Thank you! ❤ (I should be able to post faster now that this is wrapped up :P) Summary: Princess Valerie, a strong-willed 19-year-old with curious magic powers, finally...
Snek Shenanigans!
A Separa's various misadventures within their SAOY career. ovvo! They do like their warm places, don't they? Ft. Pancakei's Anastasia Barlow. Yikes... Ft. Jabonicus' Traumapatcher Care Seven Six ----- But yeah, i'll be making more of these little 4koma's from time to time, just for funsies. Hope y'all like it. ovvo/
Inspired by a separate discussion with @Ametheliana I have decided to create a thread for people to brainstorm, write, critique, and edit poems, short stories with the end-goal of injecting them into the setting as IC works. This setting has far too little literature and IC written works (read: None), and I think it would be cool to work together to create some stuff to flesh out the cultural side of SARP a bit more. The same goes for IC artwork, paintings, music, etc.
[OC] Swim
[OC] Swim I made this with MS Paint '98! I feel so happy to paint with this program? Again??? This is what growth feels like huh I sketched the pose and used most of the original lines from that in the final product. Coloring and shading has never been easier for me and drawing this made me so happy, in the end. Not typical with digital art lol 800/10 perfect program View [OC] Swim on DeviantArt
I found this link while I was surfing the site (as you do), and was just really impressed by the quality of the artwork, and the concepts within. My first real impression of Eve! (Which is by the way some lovely art). Anyway, I thought everyone should be able to see these images from the past, for one reason or another: https://stararmy.com/g/gallery/gallery.html If there is somewhere else that links to that easily, and I've wasted a post, forgive me, I've never seen it before.
Kimono Maker
One of the artists I follow on DeviantArt has just uploaded a cool "Kimono Maker" flash dress-up game to her DeviantArt gallery. I think it could be useful for people with Yamataian characters who want some examples of their kimonos to put in their character's inventory. Here's one I made of a kimono Hanako might wear: I'd like to see what you can come up with for your characters.
Hello SARP friends, You possibly saw this on Discord too. But I wanted to post it here to get more in-depth feedback. So let me explain in short: the Guide is a sourcebook about the cultures, history, and places of the World of Kaloran, which is a Multimedia project article I posted for immersion. So let me know what you think of it, and I must use this disclaimer: it's 112 pages, however most history parts are repeated and you only need a few to understand the whole thing, and the first 6 pages are just indexing. Here it is, in PDF format: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AvuRYPO6x9BghnWFOiEb6frEDS6P
[Gift for Wes!] Hanako
[Gift for Wes!] Hanako This is the awesome OC of named Hanako. In some ways, she is the face of Star Army Role Play! She is most often seen in her uniform, these days, but I wanted to bring her off duty clothes into a drawing of her! I didn't really know where I was going with this or what was next, but I am happy with the outcome!! I also hope this gif works D: View [Gift for Wes!] Hanako on DeviantArt
Raph's Chibi Art Requests (Closed)
EDIT: Requests are now closed! Over 300 chibis were made! Does your character not yet have a cute chibi illustration? Fill out and reply with this form and I'll see what I can do. NOTE: You may only request your own characters. Your character's bio needs to be fully up to date and accurate! URLs should be actual URLs. Do not use hyperlinks. Try to use standard uniforms, e.g. Duty uniforms for Star Army chars. Include URLs for any pins, ranks, or patches used if necessary. DO NOT USE FORUM CODE IN YOUR REQUEST - these are copied into text files and if you use a hyperlink instead of putting the actual URL that means extra work going back and getting the link. Character Name: Character Bio URL: Uniform/Clothing URL...
AI Line Art Painting Online Tool
Maybe people already know about this site, but I just discovered it today. And it's pretty amazing. https://s2p.moe/app.html Upload line art. Select artist. Receive AI colored art. Read the guide and start adding 'hint' markers to get the colors right. Zooming in helps. You can even set up lighting. I was able to make some pretty interesting stuff! Our base. Gives you... And with this one: I got... Try it for yourself! I think there's even a way to upload it with color, remove the color, then see how they color it for you.
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