[Limelight] Tattoos and The Like

epi.alyssaa · September 29, 2018, 5:52pm

They announced on IG that they are officially focusing on Limelight now, and they said once Limelight is sustained, they’re gonna head back to INK which may take up to maybe one to two years because of how each clothing asset takes about three to six months time.

olivia.episode19 · September 29, 2018, 5:53pm

fml my life is officially over
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GamrrGuy · September 29, 2018, 6:20pm

They didn’t say they were going back to Ink…

Apes · September 29, 2018, 6:26pm

I just hope when @Liz come back we will get a more clear message about the INK updates of stuff that’s already created. I’m not a person who’s commenting all the time under posts but I wish they would just say something. Anything.

epi.alyssaa · September 29, 2018, 11:34pm

They actually sort of did.

Technically, they said that they couldn’t focus on Limelight and INK at the same time, but they didn’t say they wouldn’t stop INK. I’m saying it in the sort of way where we’re still gonna get updates for INK, but it’s not gonna be anything new.

GamrrGuy · September 30, 2018, 6:25am

From my understanding, they’re gonna do quite a few more INK updates then when they are finished they will focus on Limelight alone.

PETITION: More Ink!

Hey everyone, we’ve addressed this before on the old forums. I’ve reposted our response here for your reference.

"Hey guys!

We understand the community’s love for Ink is immense, and we appreciate the dedication to the style. However, Ink is built off of older tech that we just can’t keep supporting as we grow and improve Episode. Limelight is a newer, easier system to work with that allows us to make new clothes and other assets more quickly.

“Are you discontinuing Ink and shutting it down?”

Nope! Ink will still be available for your stories and we will still have our own Ink stories to finish. We do need to stop developing new features and community art specifically for Ink as a style. This isn’t the end of Ink and we aren’t shutting it down. We are continuing to work through the existing closet and will release everything that we can moving forward. In order for our platform to advance and improve the way we write stories, we need to focus on developing Limelight. With the help our community we hope to improve Limelight over time.

“Are you ignoring our requests?”

We love Ink too and we hear all your love and concern about its future. The decision to stop developing Ink is one instance where the voice of some of the community is not in line with the long term goals Episode has as a platform. To continue to develop Ink would prevent us from adding to Limelight and improving our platform in the future.

“Can you give us all the hidden stuff from Ink?”

We’re working on it! We’ve gone through every Ink asset we have and it turns out the list is longer than we thought. Previously we told you that we would be releasing Ink items until at least the end of 2017 and we are happy to say we still have more sets in the queue for the coming months. Unfortunately we can’t give you everything that has ever been made for Ink. There are certain pieces in the catalog that we just aren’t able to release and they fall into three general categories:

Any item that was ever in a gem choice has to stay restricted.

Anything that was created as a part of a celebrity likeness or specifically for an IP story (Demi, Mean Girls, Clueless, PLL, Dolan Twins, etc) has to stay restricted due to the terms of the agreements we had in order to make those stories.

Some items we make never really work correctly (the male athletic body and face are examples) and can’t be released because they can break your story, cause crashes or generally give readers a bad time.

Lastly, some of you have mentioned items in stories like PLL, Clueless and Cameron Dallas that look like they are part of the Ink style. Unfortunately, they are not. In addition to being assets created for IP stories (and not eligible for release) they are also not actually Ink assets - they just look like they are. For a brief period of time our internal team was working in a style that was a hybrid of Ink and Limelight that allowed us to speed up our story production. This style was never intended to be released publicly and the items won’t work on Ink or Limelight characters.

“How is Ink outdated?”

As a mobile platform we have to innovate and update our technology to stay current and competitive. Ink was built on a more technologically advanced system than Classic and Limelight is more advanced than Ink. Each of these art styles is accompanied by an underlying (if behind-the-scenes) technology upgrade allowing our storytellers to do more. These updates also make it easier and faster for us to create more assets. With each new style our artists learn more and are able to improve our production pipelines. Several of the most requested features from our community, like different body types or freckles are simply not easily achievable on our older styles - to move forward we need the freedom to expand and change so we can grow.

A good analogy for this is the development of animated films over time. Early animated feature films were hand drawn as was the standard at the time. Then later on films like Beauty and the Beast or Aladdin started using a combination of hand drawn animations and CGI because that was best tech available at the time. Now films like Moana or Coco are done entirely in CGI, the new standard for animated films.

This is analogous to what is happening with Episode art styles. We don’t stop loving our styles, but we have better tools available to us. Our goal is to always be expanding and updating the underlying technology for our platform to stay current. Our art will always be storytelling, but the tools we use to tell those stories will continue to change and develop.

Thank you!"

Please can Episode stop the confusion?

benaiah.episode · September 30, 2018, 11:24am

Some of the tattoos aren’t appearing for me

Atreus · October 3, 2018, 6:18pm

Am I the only one where the body/hip tattoos aren’t appearing in the app? When I preview my story the sound waves tattoo doesn’t show up?

HappyDaisy · October 6, 2018, 9:22am

Hi.
First of all, thank you for all your continued hard work giving us updates and new contents to work with.

Though, I must say I’m a bit confounded to why you make tattoos as a piece of clothing, instead of letting it have its own label or at least putting it under accessories(?)

Same issue with the previous beard release - why make it part of the face strukture(?) instead of just adding a beard category (like for hair). This way all beard styles aren’t available for all faceshapes, and you have to change face shape every time you want it to grow/get shaved which messes up the estethics…

<3

jasminesofia4 · October 6, 2018, 8:09pm

With there be any for INK, 'cuz I honestly prefer INK than Limelight. But hope to see more amazing updates!

Lunar_Rose · October 6, 2018, 8:26pm

Nope, ink will no longer be updated

episode.burger · October 6, 2018, 8:35pm

GamrrGuy:

From my understanding, they’re gonna do quite a few more INK updates then when they are finished they will focus on Limelight alone.

PETITION: More Ink!

Hey everyone, we’ve addressed this before on the old forums. I’ve reposted our response here for your reference.

"Hey guys!

We understand the community’s love for Ink is immense, and we appreciate the dedication to the style. However, Ink is built off of older tech that we just can’t keep supporting as we grow and improve Episode. Limelight is a newer, easier system to work with that allows us to make new clothes and other assets more quickly.

“Are you discontinuing Ink and shutting it down?”

Nope! Ink will still be available for your stories and we will still have our own Ink stories to finish. We do need to stop developing new features and community art specifically for Ink as a style. This isn’t the end of Ink and we aren’t shutting it down. We are continuing to work through the existing closet and will release everything that we can moving forward. In order for our platform to advance and improve the way we write stories, we need to focus on developing Limelight. With the help our community we hope to improve Limelight over time.

“Are you ignoring our requests?”

We love Ink too and we hear all your love and concern about its future. The decision to stop developing Ink is one instance where the voice of some of the community is not in line with the long term goals Episode has as a platform. To continue to develop Ink would prevent us from adding to Limelight and improving our platform in the future.

“Can you give us all the hidden stuff from Ink?”

We’re working on it! We’ve gone through every Ink asset we have and it turns out the list is longer than we thought. Previously we told you that we would be releasing Ink items until at least the end of 2017 and we are happy to say we still have more sets in the queue for the coming months. Unfortunately we can’t give you everything that has ever been made for Ink. There are certain pieces in the catalog that we just aren’t able to release and they fall into three general categories:

Any item that was ever in a gem choice has to stay restricted.

Anything that was created as a part of a celebrity likeness or specifically for an IP story (Demi, Mean Girls, Clueless, PLL, Dolan Twins, etc) has to stay restricted due to the terms of the agreements we had in order to make those stories.

Some items we make never really work correctly (the male athletic body and face are examples) and can’t be released because they can break your story, cause crashes or generally give readers a bad time.

Lastly, some of you have mentioned items in stories like PLL, Clueless and Cameron Dallas that look like they are part of the Ink style. Unfortunately, they are not. In addition to being assets created for IP stories (and not eligible for release) they are also not actually Ink assets - they just look like they are. For a brief period of time our internal team was working in a style that was a hybrid of Ink and Limelight that allowed us to speed up our story production. This style was never intended to be released publicly and the items won’t work on Ink or Limelight characters.

“How is Ink outdated?”

As a mobile platform we have to innovate and update our technology to stay current and competitive. Ink was built on a more technologically advanced system than Classic and Limelight is more advanced than Ink. Each of these art styles is accompanied by an underlying (if behind-the-scenes) technology upgrade allowing our storytellers to do more. These updates also make it easier and faster for us to create more assets. With each new style our artists learn more and are able to improve our production pipelines. Several of the most requested features from our community, like different body types or freckles are simply not easily achievable on our older styles - to move forward we need the freedom to expand and change so we can grow.

A good analogy for this is the development of animated films over time. Early animated feature films were hand drawn as was the standard at the time. Then later on films like Beauty and the Beast or Aladdin started using a combination of hand drawn animations and CGI because that was best tech available at the time. Now films like Moana or Coco are done entirely in CGI, the new standard for animated films.

This is analogous to what is happening with Episode art styles. We don’t stop loving our styles, but we have better tools available to us. Our goal is to always be expanding and updating the underlying technology for our platform to stay current. Our art will always be storytelling, but the tools we use to tell those stories will continue to change and develop.

Thank you!"

Please can Episode stop the confusion?

INK will be updated, just not at this time.

Lunar_Rose · October 6, 2018, 8:39pm

What do you mean? It says that they are releasing all of the hidden stuff and then they are going to move onto LL? (That was also sent in March so they have already finished INK with a few extra additions)

episode.burger · October 6, 2018, 8:44pm

Man, sorry lol.

cc_episodewriter · October 30, 2018, 8:28pm

why can’t they all have the same tattoos???

decembermaria20 · October 30, 2018, 11:31pm

They only released one for Ink and it’s only for males.

Daniel_Brown · November 29, 2018, 5:36am

Wow! Incredible! Thanks!

Bella8 · January 19, 2019, 11:52am

Same! I wanted to use the heart sound wave tattoo and when I preview it in the Episode app it won’t show on my character, then when going on outfits it’s on the character then!

Bella8 · January 19, 2019, 11:55am

I want to use that tattoo in my story, and I have but when I preview it in the epsidoe app that hip tattoo won’t show, what do I do??

Bella8 · January 19, 2019, 11:57am

That sound wave tattoo won’t come up on my character on the app, I don’t k ow what to do