I don't know if their are any willing artists left
Please try not to focus on that. I personally can't draw for shit, and yet I've created a few hair mods through vector tracing. People have created imports for their favorite characters simply by opening a reference image in MSPaint and then cropping out the background. The result is crude but it's better than nothing. If you're willing to put in some effort then you can achieve decent results,
even if you have no training or experience in visual art.
This community consists largely of amateurs. We'll often see someone's very first post be something along the lines of:
"Hey guys I've been lurking for a few years and I decided to make an attempt at drawing this hairstyle." If you focus on
what you want then some novice might rise to the challenge. Focusing on
who you want means that people are more likely to disqualify themselves (
"I'm not really a talented artist. I'll sit this one out.")
If you'd prefer for your character to be re-created in high fidelity by a skilled artist then you should choose
one of them and contact them directly (via PM, or by posting in their thread). Please note that most artists have a lengthy backlog of work, so you may need to wait a few weeks or months before seeing any progress at all. The
request board is less personal but it sometimes provides faster results. It's a way of saying
"I don't care who creates the mod, so long as it looks like <this reference image>."
enough money to afford the program.
Most of the tools are available for free (
Inkscape,
Paint.NET,
Gimp). The
hair template is available on the forum. Various
tutorials have been written by SDT artists.
If you're asking for an
animated hairstyle then yes -- it requires special tools. But you can use Inkscape to create a vector-based static hairstyle which fits the SDT template. You can hand that off to an animator and it makes their job much simpler. They can import your work into Flash and then add some code to make the various hair strands wiggle around.
Although they're not perfect any talented artist should be able to fill in any blanks.
I don't mean to be rude, but these particular images have already been posted. A few people have reviewed them and decided that they were insufficient (due to low resolution, muddy colors, racism against Mandalorians, or whatever). You're welcome to repost an image if you can find a higher-quality version, but reposting the
same image is similar to bumping the thread (which is discouraged).
If you want to proceed with this thread then I would encourage you to find
side-view reference images which resemble the anime art-style of SDT. Here's an
example. Since this character has exhibited several different colors and styles for her hair, please be clear about
which version(s) you're requesting. And if you expect the hairstyle(s) to be animated then you should definitely say so up-front, because that changes the nature of the project.
If you'd prefer to approach artists directly then that's okay. We can update this thread whenever a Sabine mod gets published. Aside from that, please feel free to post other requests for characters or designs which you'd like to see included in SDT. You aren't required to "commit" to a specific request; you're welcome to share as many ideas as you can think of.
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provided and read the recommended posts.
