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Dero Here
Hi, people. Name's Vikalp. 18 year old. I live somewhere in India. Currently studying. Plan to become a software engineer in the future. Or maybe a game developer. I'm not sure. Definitely sure about the fact that I'm gonna be someone who's in the computer line of field, though.
Things I like - I love listening to music. Been a huge fan of bands like Slipknot, System of a Down, Breaking Benjamin, Bullet For My Valentine, Blue Stahli, Celldweller, Poet of the fall and a few more. Mostly like listening to hard rock/metal, tbh. Been listening to a lot of Japaneses stuff as of late too. Blame it on my obsession with japanese anime, haha. Some Japanese bands/singers that I'm a fan of include - RAIN, YUI, Shoko Nakagawa and Ruppina. I'm quite a fan of anime and manga in general. One Piece is my favorite manga/anime series. May come of as a person obsessed with it, tbh. Don't blame you, haha. That's not to say I don't enjoy other series, though. I read Naruto, Bleach, Beelzebub, Kuroko No Basket, Fairy Tail and stuff like Freezing weekly. Mostly a fan of shounen. I like some seinen too. Berkserk (still at volume 23 I think) and Monster were amazing, imo. I look over the art section here so it's a given that I love art in general. Used to love drawing when I was younger. Though I realized I sucked so I kinda...stopped doing much of it. I'm into graphics, though! Been doing it for almost three years now. :3 Mmm, that's it, I guess? Throw all 'em questions at me, guise! |
asdf do they joke about rupees and http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/48950_100002471368266_196074084_q.jpg in India? Or is it another one of those American racist-things?
And also what part of indiaaaaa culturally? |
Nope. Video Gaming in India particularly revolves around PC. Most users are PC users. And most of them are pirates. Very few people know about Zelda. So it's only natural that almost none of them might know about the rupees thing, haha.
Hmm, I can specify, I guess. I was born in Madhya Pradesh - basically the heart of India. My mannerism and way of talking is similar to that of a person from that state. But dad's got a transferable job so we travel from place to place every 3-4 years. Currently in a state called Maharashtra. It's situated on the west coast of India. :3 Also, you guys probably don't know but we have tons of different languages in India. Almost each state has its own language. So yeah, people from Maharashtra speak different language than people from Madhya Pradesh. |
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Also what do you think of the…um dalits if I remember 7th grade correctly? I heard many higher-up people in India (ie people with internet) don't really like them. |
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As for the latter two questions...I'll require some time to answer those. It's 3:22 AM over here so I'll head to bed for now. Promise I won't leave them unanswered, though! |
Hey sport; you're pretty talented when it comes to GFX, so, I'm just wondering: What first nspired you in creating all of your Graphics work?
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People who did it can't be called humans. They're monsters (haven't checked but honestly if they haven't been hanged by now then screw the government of India - they all can just go die somewhere). And I believe, partially, lack of education plays a role in these sorts of incidents. Education enhances a person's personality. Can't imagine an educated person engaging in a disgusting act like this. So yeah, we really do need to step up our game when it comes to spreading education. Talking of education, it's actually pretty good where people have access to it. The standard of education and the quality of teachers are both really high. Speaking from my own experience. I've changed 4-5 schools, after all. All had good teachers. Population explosion is just making things worse for us. Too many people; not enough jobs. The competition is INSANE. You can't get a good job if you haven't studied your ass off in the 12th standard and come from a good, reputed college. There's more...but eh, this'll suffice, I guess? I realize that this probably wasn't a straightforward answer and not the one you were looking for so sorry. XD; Quote:
Honestly, I think that their privileges should be taken away now. Sure, they were treated like **** 60 years ago but that's not the case now. They're treated almost like every other person now. No need for these crappy reservations. It hurts a non-dalit person like me a lot when we see a dalit guy get into amazing colleges without doing 1/4th of what we did. People should get things based on their merit; not on the basis of caste. :/ Quote:
So I started making tags. But they all sucked a lot. They were basically just text slapped over images I used to google. So I resorted to tutorials. I did pick up a few tricks here and there. But still, not much improvement. Then I contacted Gav and he gave me some advise on some of my stuff. Told me to open a gallery. That was it. I used to make tons of tags, gav and moo used to provide critique and I used to read all of those long-ass posts and take notes. Little by little, I improved. And here I am now, 3 years later. Making stuff that looks 100x better than what I used to do before. :3 |
Do you ever plan to move away from India?
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What really inspired you into wanting to become a software developer or a game designer?
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I always thought that when I grow up I'll make sure to choose a field of job which doesn't end up being a burden. I'm not someone who can give my 100% to something that I do not enjoy. But that ain't the case with game development. I've always been interested in it. Used to mess around with file extensions and their names in a game called Little Fighter 2 when I was 10-12 and the fact that I could unlock unobtainable characters and their cool powers by tinkering with a few files would give me immense pleasure. If I become a developer, I'd be able to do cool stuff like that but on a much larger scale. I'm not as creative as quite a lot of people but I've always enjoyed creating things. I feel really happy when something I do is deemed creative by other people. That's partially the reason behind me being a graphic artist as well but I digress. As a game developer, I'll be able to enjoy limitless freedom and probably be able to create something that people like and appreciate. Granted, I'll only handle a specfic part of the development process but I'll still be satisfied since I know I'll be contributing to the overall project. No feeling's better than watching the fruits of your hard work be appreciated by thousands of people all over the world, in my opinion. Plus, I'm a gamer myself so anything I make will also be enjoyed by myself in the end, if that makes any sense. :p |
How did you come up with the idea of creating your signature/how did you go about it? Do you plan to go to the more CSS-y side of graphics like Gav does?
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Ooh you're name's really cool! What does your name mean and what is it's origin?
Edit: I mean your real name not username, btw. |
I second AWsquared. Why "Derozio"?
Do you ever use graphic design as a coping mechanism? Or is it something you do exclusively when you're in a good mood? Do you feel that your state of mind influences the end result? I know it does when I draw, but I want to get a better grip on how graphic design fits into your everyday life. :) Most importantly, we all know what your favorite anime is. What's your second favorite anime? Gimme a list of top three not including OP. |
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OMFG Dero I sat here trying to think of a really cool question but ultimately, FAIRY TAIL!!1 Ahhh I wasn't aware you were a fan of Fairy Tail AND One Piece! I've been totally having a reprise of the height of my Fairy Tail fan days as of late-- I've reread nearly the whole series this week haha! Who's your favorite character-- and are you up to date?! What do you think of the latest arc?!
Also, when it comes to graphics, about how many layers do you usually use in a tag? I know some people use like a kajillion (coughme) but some people use very few! That's all for now, I'LL HAVE MANY MORE IN THE FUTURE I'M SURE *V* |
ok but what do you think about evangelion
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tl;dr alert! Nica - How did you come up with the idea of creating your signature/how did you go about it? Well, I'll assume that you're asking me about the stuff that I generally have in my signature. A tag and a little bit of CSS here and there (mostly below it), I mean. I'll be honest, it's just an imitation. I've never been the one to do something innovative. Used to see Siggeh and Maly have a similar layout so that's what I went with. I find it easy to do and sort-of attractive. No need to fiddle around much with the code. Recyclable, in other words, haha. Nica - Do you plan to go to the more CSS-y side of graphics like Gav does? Nope. I'm content with what I know - the basics. I'll probably study web-design a bit sometime in the future but as far as going into the 'CSS-y side of graphics' right now...it is a no. That's not to say I find it uninteresting. It's really fascinating and the stuff Gav does is really commendable but I just don't think I have the time or the motivation to start learning it now.AWsquared - Ooh you're name's really cool! What does your name mean and what is it's origin? lmao I thought you were talking about my username. :p Anyway, it means an "alternative" in Hindi. An example - When you say "Ooh, that's a good alternative since I don't have to use rare candies!" you can use the word "Vikalp" when translating it into Hindi. The Hindi translation is this, btw "Ooh, woh kaafi accha vikalp hai kyunki mujhe rare candies istemaal nahi karni padengi!"Quite a boring meaning, I know, haha. And no origin. Because it doesn't hold any significant meaning apart from "alternative". :p But oh well, at least you guys find it cool, lmao. Alexial - Why "Derozio"? Ehh, it's just a cool sounding name I came across by accident, lol.A few years ago PC used to have name-changes as a feature and I had ended up with an extremely crappy username "Crusher 1". I originally made an account "Crusher" just to download Shiny Gold but somehow lost its password. So I made another account (yeah yeah, I was so creative. Adding '1' in front of my original name like that lmao). But as time went by, I came to dislike the '1' in it. I found it extremely n00b-y and wanted to get rid of it asap. So I started to look for cool usernames. For god knows what reason I decided to start looking for names in my history textbook. And then I came across it: Spoiler:
I took an instant liking to it and decided it'll be my new username. Turns out that it was actually the name of a philosopher. Ironic because I'm not philosophical in the least, haha. Alexial - Do you ever use graphic design as a coping mechanism? Or is it something you do exclusively when you're in a good mood? Do you feel that your state of mind influences the end result? I know it does when I draw, but I want to get a better grip on how graphic design fits into your everyday life. Ah, I'm not sure. I almost never do it as a coping mechanism. I just do it whenever I feel like it. And when do I feel like it, you ask? I don't know. Whenever I get bored of my theme, perhaps. :p But yeah, I generally open PS whenever I feel the need to change my theme/participate in SoTWs on other sites. I force myself to do it though. The times when I'm genuinely motivated to do a tag/LP are very rare. As a result, 90% of the time things are like this>Dero is bored of his theme >Though not in the mood >But he doesn't feel like wearing the theme even for a single more second >Dero opens up PS even though he doesn't really want to make a tag. The end result can be anything ranging from horrendously bad to somewhat decent. There are times when I'm genuinely in the mood for some experimentation and I end up sitting on my computer for hours on end working on a single tag but they're very rare, like I said before. The end result is almost always something I'm satisfied with in those cases, though. And that's because I don't stop fiddling with the piece till it looks semi-decent/likeable in my eyes. So yeah, I would say that the end result is definitely influenced by my state of mind. To put it in short, tags when I'm motivated almost always turn out good (I think so, at least) while there's a probability of the result turning out extremely crappy if I'm not in the mood and am merely forcing myself to do it. :p Alexial - Most importantly, we all know what your favorite anime is. What's your second favorite anime? Gimme a list of top three not including OP. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, JO? This is a really difficult question, lmao. I've seen many different anime but whenever someone asks me to list them in the order of them being my faves it becomes extremely hard for me to do it. Idk, it's like this for me #1 - One Piece > All the other faves One Piece stands at the top while I place other anime in a "this is another fave of mine" group. It's a group and there's no hierarchy in it. :< So I won't really be giving you a list of top three, I'm afraid. Although I can list some of my faves if that's okay. :p All of these have made me go crazy at one point of time or the other. - Loved it to bits till 25th episode. A twist at every corner and the way L and Light go about having a battle of wits is just amazing. It goes downhill from ep 25, imo, but is still a really good experience regardless. |
Who's your favorite non-Straw Hat Pirate in One Piece? I always liked Arlong, even if he is a total jerk, I thought he was cool and was one of the Straw Hat's biggest biggest threats early in the series.
What's your favorite artistic medium besides graphic art? Make up a Devil Fruit power GO! |
Who's your favorite non-Straw Hat Pirate in One Piece? I always liked Arlong, even if he is a total jerk, I thought he was cool and was one of the Straw Hat's biggest biggest threats early in the series.Oh, arlong was definitely a cool villain. He legit made me wonder "how is luffy gonna beat this guy? He's so damn powerful!". But in all honesty, that question is a really difficult one to answer. One Piece has such an enormous number of likeable characters that it becomes extremely hard to pick one or two badasses from them. :< But if you're asking about pirates then let's see...I'd go with Blackbeard (kurohige). Sure, he's whiny as hell for the most part but what makes me like him is the fact that he's unlike the regular villains that we see in other shounen. He has the same goal as the main character but a radically different method of going about it. And he isn't someone who you'd call "evil" either. He just doesn't care what he has to do to achieve his goal, that's all. You can label him as a bad guy but he's not a one-dimensional evil villain who cares only about being EBILL!!!11! On top of that, he's goddamn powerful and durable. He has ****ing gura gura and yami yami for christ's sake! lmao So yeah, Blackbeard it is. Although there are many others that I like - Crocodile, Whitebeard, Marco, Donquixote Doflamingo, Trafalgar Law, Jewellery Bonney (biased cuz she's hawt :p) and the list goes on~ What's your favorite artistic medium besides graphic art? Digital art, I guess. I don't know...digital art looks very sleek and neat, imo. Not saying traditional's bad or anything because both have their +ves but yeah. I've never made a single digital piece, though. Don't have a tablet. :<Make up a Devil Fruit power GO! 1) Mythical Zoan: Model Cerberus - Transform into a Cerberus.2) Earth-Earth fruit - Power to control land ftw! :p 3) Rebound-Rebound fruit - Wobbuffet effect. Attacks bounce off the user. (yeah, Bartolomeo probably has this one. But technically it hasn't been revealed so...) |
Who do you look up to on this website? Aside from me, of course.
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Have you ever been to Gujarat? If so, what part? Sorry, can't help it! Lol
Is Pokemon big in India? Last time I went there, I actually saw quite a few Pokemon things in Ahmadabad. |
Harlequin - Who do you look up to on this website? Aside from me, of course. Haha, yeah, since you already know I do look upto you there's no use naming you again, I suppose. :p I'm fighting the urge to write a huge tl;dr on these people right now and so I'm just gonna name them. They are all some people who've either played an important role in molding me into what I am on PC or have proved to be a constant source of inspiration.In no particular order; Signomi, Abnegation, Alexial357, Cid, Cirno, Hiidoran, moments., Aizuke and Tara (BinaryPeaches). Though I have the feeling I might be forgetting a few names. :( Charizard★ - Have you ever been to Gujarat? If so, what part? Hmm, I once went there on a school trip. Gotta say man, it's hot as ****. We had to buy tons of mineral water because there was a shortage of it. At least 60-70% of my money that I got from my parents for the trip was spent on buying water. Not cool. :< The trip itself was amazing, though. As for which places we visited, I'm not sure about specific regions but I remember visiting Gandhi Ashram and a few temples. Also, a temple known as Somnath. I'm not the one to enjoy visits to temples but man, trust me, the atmosphere was breathtaking. It was just amazing how fresh the air was and how clean everything felt. The winds striking our faces from the sea-shore felt amazing. <3; I'd love to go there again someday. Oh, and on a side note, I met a foreigner there. I don't remember his name but I do remember talking to him for a bit before we parted ways. yeah, it was a huge thing for us 15-16 year olds back thenIs Pokemon big in India? I'm not sure. Really. I haven't seen many shops that sell pokemon stuff. :( As for the anime, I do not know a single person who watches it. So yeah. The games...idk, they might sell a bit. But not too much, I suppose. |
If you could pick one piece of your artwork and call it your favorite, which one would it be and why?
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Every time I got o visit my family in India (Gujarat) it's always blazing hot. ._.
Have you ever had Maggi before? If so, what kind is your favorite? Do you add anything to it? Have you ever had Pizza Hut in India? What kind of animals do you see around your house/property? Are there any monkeys where you live? I remember the last time I went to India, I was on my grandmas roof and a monkey stole my glasses .-. |
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So yeah, won't really be listing my 'favorite(s)' as you asked because I don't have any but I'll list ones that are sort of different, and hence, a little more liked by myself than my regular tags. http://i.imgur.com/GjWOsSO.png No stock. The text is the focal. Generally I work with renders. :3 http://i.imgur.com/qjJzLD1.png An invert tag. Plus it's vertical too. And has pentooling. Neither of them are common in my works. http://i.imgur.com/AZau24g.png Again, no stock. The text is the focal. Had a lot of trouble with it but eh, the result is pretty decent. Made it for an SoTW on another site. http://i.imgur.com/kD0Ppo4.png Entirely made up of stocks. There are no brushes, no c4ds or any texture in it. Although, actually, I did use 1 light texture. But it's barely visible. :p http://i.imgur.com/rZXNj5T.png ^ was trying to make it look like a painting of sorts here. It's incomplete but still different, I guess, haha. Just for your reference, though, my regular tags look like these: http://i.imgur.com/sn3e7gK.png http://i.imgur.com/UFhuoJC.png http://i.imgur.com/SMIhiqb.png http://i862.photobucket.com/albums/ab183/ASC303/WIPDante1.png They look more visually appealing, right? But they're all tags that fall in my comfort zone. And I, as a result, do not like them as much as the ones where I did took a different approach. ...but wait, what's this? WAIT, I just discovered something that's worthy of being called my favorite piece of work in a long while. This icon here: http://i862.photobucket.com/albums/ab183/ASC303/Raiden_zps25e57e8f.png It's sharp, colors are just perfect, imo and the positioning isn't bad. I just LOVE it. :3 Definitely my best icon in a while. So yeah, sorry for the long-ass answer! ;; Idk if this was what you were looking for but yeah! n_n; @Charizard: India is a hot-ass country. :p Quote:
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How does it feel being one of the very few PC staff to not be from the US/UK/Australia? I know those three countries are the most represented on the staff from what I know.
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Hey watcha talkin' 'bout. Me no staff. =(
Haha, but it's nothing special. You're right, though, I guess. Those three areas are where most of the staff are from. =p |
Does this still work? I'd like to bump it, plz. Ask me questions. I can answer, I think. :3
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