Author Archives: Janina

Update: Work & Business Fashion

June 5, 2022 18 Replies

With today’s big update 24 items have been added to the SP-Studio!

You can go for a more professional office look now with a skirt suit, a bottom shirt with a tie and single ties with stripes and polka dots. Four different types of name tags can be found in the “accessories” category as well. I have been redrawing some work related outfits from the old SP-Studio because I did not like their look anymore, and there are several completely new ones. Dress up as an astronaut, pilot / captain, sailor, firefighter, paramedic, city wok guy, Raisins girl, priest, police officer (long & short sleeves) or nurse. Or how about an apron or a bulletproof vest to combine with any other shirt? I hope you enjoy this update. 🙂

Update: Mechanics & Medicine

April 11, 2022 2 Replies

I turned the second Steampunk update into something a little bit different to make it more useful. 14 new items have been added today!

Prosthetic legs and arms as additional body parts. To make them work I also added the option for hands and shoes in two different colors. The leg is on the same level as the pants, so you can have it on top of them or under them (depending on what you pick first).
Five new tools: claw hammer, combination pliers, screwdriver, cogwheel, spirit level.
Three types of medicine: a single pill, a pill bottle and a bottle of medicine (or poison?).
The doctor’s coat is back in improved form with a fitting headlight / mirror.

Update: Steampunk

February 28, 2022 2 Replies

After my vacation and a busy month of work I am back with a new SP-Studio update. But I wished the year had started better. The events of last week overshadow everything now and my thoughts are with the Ukrainian people during these horrible times.

If you look for some distraction I prepared new Steampunk related items for the SP-Studio… and perhaps a second Steampunk update will come next week, so feel free to suggest more.

2 pair of boots: laced and buckled
3 shirts: Tailcoat, striped vest and underbust corset
a layered skirt, a steampunk top hat and a braided updo as a new hairstyle

Happy holidays!

December 24, 2021 6 Replies

The final update of the Christmas special is online and I hope it brought you joy! 🙂 Happy holidays and a happy new year to all of you! I am taking 3 weeks of vacation now.

This was an exciting year for me in positive as negative ways. After the successful relaunch of the SP-Studio I was super motivated to draw new updates. But my health issues came in the way, and I am deeply grateful for the patience and support of the SP-Studio community when this slowed me down. It took longer than expected, but when I am back from my Christmas vacation I can finally return to the topical updates I had to delay. So I can promise you some exciting surprises in 2022. Finally I want to send special thanks to my Patreon supporters and everbody else who donated for the SP-Studio this year. You are the best! If you like what I do and now want to support the SP-Studio as well you can read more about this on the FUNDING page.

Christmas Special 2021

December 1, 2021 85 Replies

Every day from December 1st to December 24th a new surprise update is waiting for you! Last year I took a break because of the relaunch, but now the beloved annual Christmas Specials are back. For 24 days I will draw all kinds of new backgrounds, clothes and other objects to give you more possibilities to build your pictures. The old Christmas Specials can be found here.

And the best part is: YOU can request new items for these updates! Upload them to the Wish Voting gallery and if I like them they will appear there. Then everybody can discuss them. Popular ideas have a high chance to appear in the Christmas Special. But I will also include surprises from older requests which are not in the gallery.

I hope you enjoy the updates! Of course I am happy about feedback, so tell me about your favourites. 🙂

Why ads returned

November 30, 2021 5 Replies

Since I want to stay transparent here is a quick post to talk about why ads are back. My goal with the SP-Studio is to provide a fun tool that’s free for everybody to use. There is no subscription model, micro payments or anything like this. But I need money to run this project. After the relaunch in 2020 the ad banner I used for many years was deactivated and I hoped voluntarily donations might rise. But they did not, and so I have to activate it again. The ad is not visible in mobile view and has the small shape you are used to from the past, because I don’t want to annoy you. Thanks to my loyal Patrons and PayPal donations I think I can avoid bigger ads. So thank you very much to everybody who supports the SP-Studio!

Please deactivate your ad blocker for SP-Studio.de to make this work.

Drag and drop is back

November 26, 2021 5 Replies

While I am preparing the Christmas Special Lars coded another useful addition for the item options: You can now move items with drag and drop!

In the old version of the SP-Studio it was easy for me to implement this, but it turned out to be way more challenging without Flash. Applause for Lars who made it work anyway! You now have the choice to use the arrow buttons, the arrow keys on your keyboard or your mouse cursor to move an item. On mobile devices it works with touch control.

This is the final update before the Christmas Special will start on December 1st. The Wish Voting Gallery has been updated, so make sure to like and comment on your favorite ideas! Of course you can still submit your own wish here. And check out the new blog sidebar. 🙂

Update: More costumes

November 7, 2021 48 Replies

27 SP-Studio items have been added to the “special costumes” category!

This big update brings back many beloved costumes from the old SP-Studio in improved form: Fantasy outfits, superheroes, Halloween costumes, fake muscles, swimwear,… I used more shadows and highlights on some of them, but you can turn them off if you prefer the flat look. Of course you can also change the colors for everything. Three completely new costumes have been added as well. Black is beautiful, so I hope you like the dark outfits inspired by Black Panther, Darth Vader (Star Wars) and Yennefer (The Witcher). With Darth Vader and Black Panther I wanted to finally provide fitting shirts for the existing masks and Yennefer was chosen in a poll by my Patreon supporters.

Update: a mixed LGK update

October 13, 2021 31 Replies

Lars is on fire! Our favourite React developer added even more features to the SP-Studio:

Improved rotation: You can now choose to rotate an item clockwise or counter-clockwise.
Repositioning the options: In the desktop view a new arrow icon lets you pin the options menu to the top of the page. This can be helpful if you don’t want it to cover the item list.
Two new items: And as a little thank you for Lars I included bigger round glasses and a smart watch. The new SP-Studio gets better with every update and I appreciate his help a lot.

You can find Lars’ personal website here: https://lgk.io

Update: Language, SVG and more

September 26, 2021 12 Replies

Lars (LGK) coded useful new functions for the SP-Studio!

A language switcher was added to the bottom of the main page. Until now the language was only determined by your browser settings.
A button for the default character was added. After deleting all items you can now bring back the blue default character instead of building from scratch.
You can now save SVG files. They have the best quality and can be edited in specialized software. Because of my trouble with art theft it was no easy choice for me to allow these files. But I trust you to always mention SP-Studio.de as a source when you use my drawings for your own projects. Please show this respect for my years of work by adding a back link when sharing pictures based on SP-Studio assets. Under no circumstances I allow to just steal and share my assets (like the backgrounds) on websites like DeviantArt.