[Yokuutsu]

Most small businesses fail in 5 years or less, and avatar websites can be small businesses since they do sell pixel items for real money?

-one thing I learned from my business classes- Wooo

[Coda]

That's exactly the figure I meant.

[Lawtan]

One thing that is also sad is the lack of, from what I can tell, written communication on those newer sites. Don't know if it is the speed at which things feel like they are going, or that images (especially moving ones) attract people more than talking to people, or what.

[Illusion]

Originally Posted by Yokuutsu

Most small businesses fail in 5 years or less, and avatar websites can be small businesses since they do sell pixel items for real money?

-one thing I learned from my business classes- Wooo

And it's sad because Trisphee is 5 years old or at least almost 5... Are we talking open years, or beta years?

I wouldn't be surprised if this site is closed down soon. The site is hanging on a thread and support for the site is tossed around or in hands of very few people who put a ton of effort in to keep this running. But other then that there are plans for the site, that.. Just can't get a leg in. People have their own lives, and have sadly lost interest in the site.

We have threads trying to get people in, great suggestions thrown around but I think it's at the point where the site is going to die simply because no one is truly running the site, only backing it up and holding it from collapsing. But it won't be too long until someone gets tired out and has Trisphee collapse on the,.

We never advertised it was only by word of mouth, no ads = no extra revenue, no gimmicks to keep people here, a lot of people have moved on from Gaia but we never truly tried to capture that audience, and their is simply no value left in the site. :/
But I've noticed the trend the more I talk down about how Trisphee is fairing the worse the site gets. So I question whether bringing up the problems is bad because it's scaring people away in some way, or if it's bad to bring up these problems and never to have any single one solved for years now.

Nintendo for example is proof that Avatar sites aren't dead. (I know their a video game company, just hear me out.) People have been stating right when the Wii U was released it was dead, look at it now. Japan's audiences said console gaming was dead, look at the Wii U, PS4, and Xbox One. People tell Nintendo that their games don't sell LOOK AT THE BLOODY TOP SELLING GAMES OF THIS YEAR. The say can be said about animated movies, then poof! Here comes Frozen.

What I learned from any of these companies you just keep supporting something with the intention to keep improving until you hit gold. And Trisphee kept improving until it hit huge setbacks, people left, and then it became the way it is now. :/ I spit on the idealism of the new factor, but I can't deny there are some elements from that idealism in the works.

-Shrugs- I like to bring up problems and spot them, I'll occasionally suggest solutions that go unused. So I try to not bother with that anymore. This site is definitely going to die the way it's going, but I'm just going to have the most fun I can with everyone until it's gone.

[Coda]

The only thing keeping the site down is a lack of pixelists. That means no items; that means no assets for site development or games. No items and no games means no events.

Seriously. Give me a good pixelist and I'll make things happen.

[Ginger]

Damn I'll look around on Deviantart. Would anyone like to help me hunt for a good pixelist or two?

[Espy]

Thing is, Tris can't afford to pay artists /real actual money/ and lots of artists are, well, looking for that.

[ml1201]

I know someone who's pretty good at pixeling, but I think she'd rather have real money and not just donation currency. A lot of people are trying to make money off their art now and not many are doing it on the side. There's someone else I could mention it to who's a fantastic pixel artist (though they don't normally do anime style) but I don't know how much time she'd be able to devote to the site if she were interested because she's looking to get a job in a lab since I think she has a doctorates in biology. ^^;

[Yokuutsu]

I don't know how to pixel or anything....else I'd try to make items D:

If nothing else they could be for aurum or something D: I'll see if I know anyone that can pixel.

DO NOT COUNT ON ME THOUGH....I don't know many people .-.

[Illusion]

Originally Posted by Coda

The only thing keeping the site down is a lack of pixelists. That means no items; that means no assets for site development or games. No items and no games means no events.

Seriously. Give me a good pixelist and I'll make things happen.

And you guys never bother to ask me for anything. Or did you mean REALLY good artists? xD

I can only get better over time, and some fairly decent items is better then no items at all. If you can guys can provide decent concept art, I can provide decent pixels.

[Obsidian]

Originally Posted by Coda

The only thing keeping the site down is a lack of pixelists. That means no items; that means no assets for site development or games. No items and no games means no events.

Seriously. Give me a good pixelist and I'll make things happen.

Sucks that you guys have lack of devoted pixelists. I'm still a newb at tool-shading, so I just stick to the pixeling I'm best at, heh.

I don't really know any tool-shading pixelists else I'd send them your way.

[Madame-Aiko]

Originally Posted by Coda

The only thing keeping the site down is a lack of pixelists. That means no items; that means no assets for site development or games. No items and no games means no events.

Seriously. Give me a good pixelist and I'll make things happen.

Did someone say they needed a pixel artist?
I came over here from Syndrone Online because two of their users really suck and I was being harassed plus their management is awful and the original owner of the site is a criminal so I am looking for a better place.
Anyways, I do my pixel art in Photoshop Version 5, but I heard you guys need peeps who do tool shading. I'm not entirely sure what that is but I'm sure I could learn it pretty quick.

*You don't need to pay me at all to do your pixel art. All I ask is that I'm credited properly and that the users don't harass me if they don't like the things you guys ask me to pixel or let me pixel. I'd just like people to know as an artist I exist. Critique is allowed and the such and of course people are going to have opinions, I get that. It's just one of Syndrone's artists left the staff role because they were being harassed and the such really badly.
I hope this community has friendlier people in it. I really do. I joined a few months ago or so but I haven't really been active.
I have some examples of my work here:
https://www.weasyl.com/~aiko
Most of the pixel work I do is in my gallery, but I can also do huge pixel images with things moving and talk sprites pretty decently.
Please get back to me about this when you can. I'd really like to help the site.

[Illusion]

I... I can't believe you would even have to specify that you don't want harassment from users about your art.
Was it that bad over there?

[Madame-Aiko]

Originally Posted by Illusion

I... I can't believe you would even have to specify that you don't want harassment from users about your art.
Was it that bad over there?

Yes. A lot of the users there are trolls or just really biased.
EDIT: I'll add onto this because I hate short sentences like the one above in just one thread, a haha.
If I got a place on this site I'd be happy, because then I'd have a chance to put my skills into full gear instead of just doing basic commissions on DeviantART. I'd be very happy to do pixel art for this site for free.

[Coda]

Tell you what, both of you -- why don't you submit an application? Try your best to imitate the Trisphee art style. Grab one of the bases from the avatar editor, pixel a couple of items onto it, and e-mail it to admin@trisphee.com and we'll review it.

I managed to dig up an old tutorial made by Lucid. See if it helps: http://daxxen.deviantart.com/art/Tri...rial-337266826

Take special note that we usually work in grayscale to make it easier to recolor things, since we always release every item in at least three colors.

[Madame-Aiko]

Originally Posted by Coda

Tell you what, both of you -- why don't you submit an application? Try your best to imitate the Trisphee art style. Grab one of the bases from the avatar editor, pixel a couple of items onto it, and e-mail it to admin@trisphee.com and we'll review it.

I managed to dig up an old tutorial made by Lucid. See if it helps: http://daxxen.deviantart.com/art/Tri...rial-337266826

Take special note that we usually work in grayscale to make it easier to recolor things, since we always release every item in at least three colors.

Alright! Give me a couple of hours, and I'll send it to that email. Should I send it in a PSD file or just jpeg with all of the layers merged or PNG? Also how long would it take for you guys to respond?
EDIT:
Also, where could I find the avatar editor?