Comments on: 13 Things from Under 13¢ a Day!

By: MyLittlePony2010EG13

MyLittlePony2010EG13 — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 00:30:20 +0000

Hey, MajesticFox! =) It’s me… radishbird3… your old BFF. Remember me? I remember Yoshi, Candy, Pepper, and all of your other pets. Also, are you Julie? On your MyPage you had “Julie” there with the badges. ;)

By: Fracktail

Fracktail — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 20:43:41 +0000

Haha, I’m sure a lot of Webkinz have to work on their Kinzville coolness factor :P But it would be pretty funny hearing them say that stuff, haha. Like, Shadow gritting his teeth being like, “you know, I’m still waiting on my retail therapy…” Or Helix being like, “Nyeh, rather cute I would look in an outfit of new!” I dunno, stuff like that cracks me up. :P (also, whenever I imagine Shadow’s voice it’s always a growly version of Mewtwo from the first movie. is this accurate?) And yeah, I think I see what you’re getting at with Orion’s voice. I’m thinking, like Daffy Duck pitch? (not the same voice, but just the vocal range. Is that making sense? oh man i am not good at explaining) And I can’t do accents either, because whenever I try to do an English accent it comes out Australian and whenever I do an Australian accent it comes out English. And when I try to exploit that to my advantage, it comes out sounding like James from Pokémon. It’s a losing battle, I tell ya. (Although, in my defense, it is a pretty good impression of James from Pokémon.) Whitney sounds like fun to do, though. She seems like her voice would be really peppy, or something. I dunno. And Missy seems fun too; I can actually do a pretty decent Southern accent, now that I think of it. Nothing stellar, but at least you can tell it’s supposed to be Southern, so…that’s a plus? It’s cool that your pets have accents, though. Mine don’t generally vary in their accents, or at least, I can’t attach their accents to any sort of label. :P (also, I messed up when explaining Poseidon’s voice. see, you know how Marvin the Martian has the weird throat thing? well, Poseidon has something like that, except Marvin’s throat thing is going on in the very back of your throat, and I do Poseidon’s throat thing like, the back/top of the throat right where your mouth starts turning into a throat. this is making less and less sense as I go on, darn it. Why is his voice so hard to explain…?!)

By: Pokekinz

Pokekinz — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 21:52:50 +0000

Orion’s voice, although I originally thought it would be, actually isn’t very high-pitched. I’d say it’s ever so slightly on the deep side…. But not really “deep”….. Er…. He often talks in this sort of sing-song voice, just because he likes to raise and lower the pitch he uses so much, sometimes for emphasis, and other times he just sorta does it. It’s not too much, though. And yesh, Shadow’s voice is haaaarrrrd. So’s Whitney’s, because I have a terrible fake British/English accent. And Winston, because he’s supposed to have that accent, too. Oh, and Missy’s hard to do, too, because she has a Southern accent. Which I’m also not good at. I can only do “me” accents, apparently. And if Kinzville has it’s own slang, Orion has some studying to do if he wants to be cool. And Shadow has yet more to annoy him. And none of my Webkinz speak the native Kinzville slang term language. :P

By: Fracktail

Fracktail — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:11:16 +0000

You watched Garfield and Friends too?? That show was my childhood :’D And what kinda voice does Orion have? I think it’d be pretty chipper-sounding. Or something. (man, it’s hard describing voices to people…) And Chippy’s voice seems like it would be fun to do. :P I feel like Shadow’s would be hard to do because whenever I do low voices like that they always sound better to me than to the camera recording. :S Especially when you can hear the voice in your head. Like, Poseidon’s voice is really soft-spoken with kinda a weird throat thing going on (I told you I wasn’t good at explaining things!), like the throat thing is almost like Marvin the Martian but far less drastic. Maybe it’s not like that. Am I making any sense? I can’t explain it. But anyways, I have the voice perfect in my head but I try to do it in real life and IT DOESN’T WORK. GAH. But yeah, nobody really says “retail therapy” in real life. Maybe it’s a ‘Kinz thing? Like, what if Kinzville had its own culture and slang, or something. That’d be cool, I dunno.

By: Pokekinz

Pokekinz — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:53:24 +0000

I guess it’s kinda funny, but I still think it’s annoying, because I don’t think anybody would really say that normally. I was also surprised by it when I first saw it (although it’s still better than Orion saying he’d look “cuter” with a different outfit). I guess it’s because I put so much into my Webkinz’s personalities. And I tried to do Shadow’s voice, and I actually got the pitch kinda close, but my voice isn’t… Gravelly enough, I guess. Shadow’s voice isn’t super rough, but it’s noticeable. I can do Orion sorta okay. But I can’t really make any of my female characters sound different (except Chipadea, because I can do a relatively good impression of a crazy Red Squirrel’s voice), which is annoying. Oh well. And I’d be super picky with their voices, too. And I’ve heard about the “key animation” thingy… I think I was watching something about the old “Garfield and Friends” show. It certainly does take a lot of people to do one cartoon. But with comics, I wouldn’t have to have anybody do voices, so that’s a plus I guess. Also consistency isn’t as important (although it’s still important). But I’m terrible at coming up with story-lines. :P Thanks, though!

By: Fracktail

Fracktail — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 00:16:31 +0000

But “retail therapy” is so funny! It’s…I dunno how to describe it. It’s like, a weird mix between “trying to be cool” and “unrepentantly dorky”. Like, if they made our pets say tacky phrases from the 80’s, like “mondo” and “way cool” and stuff, then that would also be incredibly funny. And yeah, I feel you with the voices. Like, I have a very clear idea of what my Webkinz’s voices are like, but my vocal range can’t handle them (well, that’s my excuse) and I’d get someone else to do them, but I feel like I’d be super picky about what voice they’d have to do, I dunno. I think the only voice I could do successfully is Helix’s, and maybe Blossom’s. Animation is definitely something I’m going to do, though. I’m still learning the basics now, but rest assured, I will make cool animations and cartoons one day! And continue doing so for the rest of my life. It is a life goal of mine, haha. I think the consistency in animation is something that you learn over time, there might be techniques I’ll have to learn to do it (or I might just start getting better at it as I animate more). But with animation, you do the “key frames” first, and the transition frames between them afterwards. That way you don’t have to get all worked up over small details as long as you have the key poses down. Comics are cool, too! I think that’d be something I’d like to do in my free time, haha. And I think a comic book with your characters would be really cool! I’d love to read it. :D

By: Pokekinz

Pokekinz — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:29:00 +0000

Ohhh, okay, that makes more sense. And yeah, Priscilla isn’t exactly unique. And I think I have a problem with the glitches because it feels so untested, like they rushed it to get it out around Webkinz Day. I wish they had perfected it more before releasing it. :\ I don’t mind the pet requests so much, because they aren’t too often, and I think it actually kind of a cool idea with the filling the heart meter things for prizes. I think the phrases are weird though. I mean, “retail therapy”?? Although I probably also have less of a problem because I consider the virtual versions separate from my Webkinz characters. Cuz Shadow looks super weird online. And so do a lot of them, actually. And that’s awesome! I really like the idea of doing animations, but I don’t think I’m consistent enough to do it. In my art, I mean, I certainly wouldn’t be able to keep Orion’s pattern looking the same. :\ and I’d also need somebody to do voices. Or I’d have to do the voices, and everybody would pretty much sound like me trying to do their voices, which I think would be weird. Although I do really want to do comic book-type things, so that’s something I’m hoping to learn.

By: Fracktail

Fracktail — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 02:28:36 +0000

Nah, I just feel like Nafaria would be one to do stuff like that in secret and put on the tough facade, whereas Priscilla would be a jerk inside-out. But my Nafaria isn’t even canon, so it doesn’t even matter. I dunno what point I’m trying to make anymore, don’t mind me. I just…Priscilla is kind of not my cup of tea. Not that she’s supposed to be anyone’s cup of tea, but like, I don’t even like her as a bad guy. You know? Also, the W Tales seem to be fine now, so I guess that’s fixed. I don’t think my problem with Webkinz X is about the glitches, because I understand that part of the process was having the users test it, but the change in gameplay was pretty unnecessary. I’d rather just have the new look, and the “pets asking for stuff” was kinda unnecessary, especially since Zums were already a thing. See, pets acting like pets is kinda weird at this point, because Webkinz pets have kind of evolved to the point where they’re not really pets anymore? They’re more treated like citizens of Kinzville in their own right, I dunno. But the glitches I can live with. On an unrelated note, I’m starting to learn how to use Photoshop to use animations! I go to a tech school, so they have shops and one of the shops is Multimedia Communications (basically graphic arts, i.e. my first choice), so I’ll be doing a lot of animation there. So a Webkinz animation from me is a possibility in the future! :D

By: Pokekinz

Pokekinz — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:59:58 +0000

Well, with the W Tales, I just meant because it went straight from chapter one to chapter five. Now it’s on chapter six, so apparently they’re just gonna go on skipping chapters two through four. And I was hoping they’d ask whether or not we liked Webkinz X. I DON’T LIKE DAT CRUD. Tooooo many glitches, they shoulda waited on releasing it. Also, Nafaria is obsessed with a little kid’s TV show?? Huh????? But I was just saying whatever random thing popped into my head, because I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted her to be like. (Nafaria is obsessed with a kid’s TV show???) But I doubt GANZ is really gonna change her personality, since not a lot of people read those things anyway (which are pretty much just re-postings of the same stories, so they couldn’t really change her there).

By: Fracktail

Fracktail — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:29:04 +0000

Nah, the Newspaper has always been weird like that. I think they only do the “weekly” surveys every once in a while, like when there’s a festival (I’m actually surprised they didn’t have a survey asking whether we liked Webkinz X), and the W-Tales are just…the W-Tales. XD Unless there’s a different glitch going on that I didn’t see. It’s impossible for me to log on for some reason, so I dunno…and yeah, Priscilla is pretty flat. I mean, none of the Webkinz really had much of a backstory, but they all had their little quirks and they definitely had more than one personality trait. I wish Priscilla was more of a threat instead of dropping in and being sassy, not like a villain but just letting her selfishness get the better of her and getting in the way of the ‘Kinz. Like, what if there was a story arc where Nafaria was trying to take over the world again, and then Priscilla volunteers to help for some unrelated reason. Nafaria is overjoyed to have her VERY OWN EVIL MINION!!!, but she soon finds out that Priscilla is even more obnoxious than Nafaria is (or at least in Nafaria’s eyes), and the two constantly argue, but Nafaria figures that if Priscilla stays on her side then she’ll eventually gain from it. But then it turns out that Priscilla is horrible at being an evil minion because she hates to “have her beauty tarnished” and do things herself, and so Nafaria gives up on her (but not before Priscilla helps Nafaria at least a little). Then Priscilla realizes that she’s just put Kinzville (and her possessions in it) in danger, so she reluctantly teams up with the ‘Kinz to thwart Nafaria. Something like that. And she wouldn’t be just like Nafaria, because while Priscilla is vain and selfish she cares way more about looks, whereas Nafaria would be a villainous mastermind and a megalomaniac who takes pride in her wits (despite not being able to get Alyssa out of her hair). Priscilla could be more of an anti-hero or something. I think that’d be way cooler than just having her be annoying (even though she still would be annoying, she’d just do more stuff. I dunno.) Maybe I wouldn’t go so far as having her friends ditch her right away, but I like the idea of her being faced with a situation like that at some point. I feel like having her be obsessed with a kid’s TV show would be kinda Nafaria-ish, and my one worry is that the two will be indistinguishable, you know? But I dunno. Regardless of what kinda stuff happens to her, I think she should definitely stay an annoying little kid first and foremost, since that’s what sets her apart from Nafaria (who isn’t very mature either, but she’s not as passive as Priscilla).