Back when I originally released this poster the print run was very sort, the cost to print at A2 was rather high and sales low. Back then I decided to discontinue the print and move on to other things, not really giving it a second thought. Recently someone asked me about the print and if it was available for download, today it is.

Origins

Circa 2007, originally this poster was designed for personal marketing, later turned into a Giclee print for sale. The poster makes use of vector as well as photographic elements and takes some of it’s inspiration from Monty Python artwork.  The model is my then friend, now wife, Aaryn Nutter.

Format

The reformatted poster is available at A3 size (that’s 297x420mm), 150dpi in CMYK color. While it’s recommended that you print the poster at A3 size, scaling larger or smaller should work fine.

Download The Garden poster free now (3.9MB)

Lets start with the obvious change first;

New website

The most notable change is to the website, it’s had the full make-over treatment. The old first iteration of the Deadly Furry Cute website was a simple one page site, great for testing the concept and getting something up, not so great for organizing content. So the first step was to get some content management in place. As usual WordPress was more than enough for the content task, even knowing I needed at least two different page formats -most of the details for the toys are simply saved in custom fields.

Download counting is also much more streamlined, now using a WordPress plugin rather than my own custom script. While the custom script worked fine, I’d never built a frontend to actually display the details -I was checking via myphpadmin.
This change does mean the perma-links for the old toys no longer work, but that’s ok, Series 1 has changed to Series 1 Edition 2. Those first editions are no longer an offering.

New toys

The next most noticeable change is to the number of toys. Series 2: Squirrels and Series 3: Apes are now released taking the total number of downloadable animal individuals to nine.

I’ve talked before about changing templates, having multiple sizes, trying different styles, and the design I went with for the new series -I wont cover those again. One thing you might have missed is that the series to start it all, Series 1, also has a face lift. The changes to the first series are subtle, I didn’t want to mess with a good thing, but they’re enough to make the first edition obsolete.

Even more new toys

Inspired by a request from an American Educator, Deadly Furry Cute now comes complete with alternate ‘Color Your Own’ versions. These versions are simply as they sound, toys which for the most part have all the features of the original -but none of the color, leaving you to color them as you see fit. You’re free to use any coloring medium, I dare say pencil, pen or paint would be easiest though.

The Game

The revamped Deadly Furry Cute toys all have six stats printed on their base (also available on the site), one stat lists the toys health, the others it’s attributes. Using these attributes in conjunction with the basic rules on the site -or any rules you decide to make up for that matter,  can make for a fun little game.
I’m hoping the two rule sets I’ve devised will add some more depth to the toys outside building and displaying them.

Extra free stuff

OK so the toys are free yes, but you still need to build them, how about some swag which doesn’t require assembly?
On the site you’ll now find a number of extras for your Mac/PC, iPhone, Droid or online applications. At the moment that means you’ve got access to some Deadly Furry Cute desktops, device wallpaper and avatar icons, more to follow.

Moving forward

I do have a hard written plan for Deadly Furry Cute, time-line is a little whibley-wobbly but the plan is there. I’m not going to go over it here -where would the surprises be! I will say: many more series are in the works and each one will eventually have a Color Your Own version.

Head over to deadlyfurrycute.com now to download the toys, goodies or leave some feedback.

More look-a-likes
Again I’ve gone for designing a close to full fleet of ships, from the small fighter class all the way up to planet killing dreadnoughts.  While I admit some of these designs look nothing like Star Wars – again probably a good idea to avoid lawyergeddon – some of the larger variants do have a familiar style I’m sure you’ll enjoy.  Again I’ve tired not to accurately recreate anything, but instead put my own twist on a style of ship design I love.

Download right away
This time around I’ve decided not to make anyone ask – and wait an age – for the ability to download the ship designs. I’ve only included the template files again for speedier download, it also allows you the fun of specing the ships out as you see fit. The ships were designed while playing Twilight of the Arnor, so you’ll need that expansion to be able to use them. I’ve also included a readme.txt in case you either don’t know how to, or are having trouble installing the files.

Download the Reileian Exchange ships now

Combat ships
RS Superfin (fighter)

KDS Firetail (fighter)

RS Prowler (frigate)

FI Hunter (assault frigate)

FI Griffin (troop transport cruiser)

KDS Spiker (battlecruiser)

FI Interdictor (battleship)

FI Commandship (dreadnought)

Non-combat ships
All these non-combat ships share the same base hull design. I decided to have the non-combat vessels share a hull to simulate variants coming of the same production line. Some of the hulls differ greatly from their siblings, others have only minor variations.

KDS Colony DSP

KDS Mining DSP

KDS Construct DSP

KDS Trade DSP

Other random screenshots
Heavy-weight group shot (battlecruiser, battleship and dreadnought)

Using the Krynn tech tree helps influence things some what…

Look-a-Like
This new set of ship designs is a veritable fleet of ships based on the much loved, but little supported, Games Workshop [GW] table top game Battle Fleet Gothic [BFG].  I’ve created the fleet using the Imperial ships as a source for inspiration. What I’ve not tried to do is accurately recreate the BFG ship designs, not just because GW likes to protect its IPR with lawyergeddon, but because straight copying something just isn’t fun.  I’ve tried to make my own designs, while using BFG as a base and I hope you’ll be able to recognize them at least somewhat.

UPDATE: Now for download
I’ve now put these ship designs up for your free downloading pleasure. I decided to keep the file size down by only including the template files, it’s more fun to fit them out yourself anyway. The ships were designed while playing Twilight of the Arnor, so you’ll need that expansion to be able to use them. I’ve also included a readme.txt in case you either don’t know how to, or are having trouble installing the files.

Download the Battle Fleet Gothic style ships now.

Combat Ships
Imperial Frigate

Imperial Cruiser

Imperial Battleship

Imperial Dreadnought

Non-Combat
Imperial Transport

Imperial Tanker

Ok so one final Battle Fleet Gothic ship design here – one I’d forgotten I’d done – which is based on one of the larger Space Marine ships.  I’ve been using this 4000 troop capacity monster to one-ship-invade planets in the later game.

Imperial Heavy