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First look: new SP-Studio mobile app

September 24, 2020 5 Replies

The development of the new SP-Studio made huge steps forward during the last two weeks. Lars started with coding the mobile version, the design changed a lot and it looks so good already that I cannot wait to show it to you. So let’s do this! A SPECIAL FIRST LOOK LIVESTRAM!
https://www.twitch.tv/zwergimbikini
Saturday, 26.9.2020 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CET)
I hope many of you will join the chat to dicuss the new design and functions. And yes, there will actually be a mobile app for the new SP-Studio! This Progressive Web App will not need an app store – you can just put it on your home screen. The plan is to make it work offline, but it will also download the latest updates automatically. I’m super excited about this and I hope you’ll like it as well. See you this Saturday!

News about the new SP-Studio!

September 13, 2020 8 Replies

It has been a while since my last detailed update about the SP-Studio remake (or just “new SP-Studio”) development. The reason for this was that the situation became rough during the last couple of months and I wanted to wait until I knew for sure how the future looks like. Now I finally feel optimistic enough to tell you more about the current state of development and plans for the upcoming months:

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More Twitch livestreams

March 22, 2020 3 Replies

SP-Studio Twitch live stream A big thank you to everbody who joined me for the test last Friday! The next livestream will again take place on my Twitch channel. We will chat and work on ideas for the upcoming SP-Studio update about historical fashion.
March 22nd at 18:00 UTC

I realized I am really bad at drawing when I have to talk at the same time. So please don’t expect an amazing art stream! 😉 I focus on rough sketches and clean up the details later. But your feedback is important! And I just want to chat because right now many people might need a place to connect with others if they cannot leave the house. Please follow me on Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or check the forum if you want to join the livestreams in the future. I won’t write an extra blog post every time, so this way you won’t miss an announcement.

My first live stream

March 19, 2020 2 Replies

Surprise! Currently many people are sitting at home and might be a little bit bored. So I want to try something new. I will stream while I am drawing stuff for the SP-Studio. So if you want to join me, follow this Twitch link:
https://www.twitch.tv/zwergimbikini
Friday, 20.3.2020 at 18:00 UTC

Check your local time here. I will try my best to talk in English, which might be really funny for you because I never get a chance to practice. 🙂 Of course you can ask questions or make suggestions about what I should draw. Please don’t expect any professionalism, because I never streamed before. This is a first test. If it works and anybody shows up at all I might do it again with a different time.
Correction: I mixed up CET and UTC at first. This is now fixed.

Moving

November 23, 2019 1 Reply

You might be waiting for the rest of the movie outfits… Unfortunately I had no working office during the past weeks, because I was moving houses – and it took longer than expected. 🙁

But now I’m back! My walls are painted, the desk is in its place and the computer running. Even internet is working. So today I was able to finally launch the voting for the current picture contest and the next content update will follow just in time before the big Christmas Special will start on December 1st.

DeviantArt: sp-studio-art

April 16, 2019 3 Replies

If you are interested in some of my artworks related to SP-Studio updates you might want to follow the DeviantArt account sp-studio-art. It is an old account I initially used to collect my custom drawings of South Park characters in a gallery, but it was inactive for several years. I revived it now to have a place for my SP-Studio related drawings.

Usually when I work on a new costume based on a famous movie, tv show or video game I draw the whole character. Then I split it into different parts for the SP-Studio categories. But sometimes my drawings are more detailed than what would fit the SP-Studio. Or I return to a drawing later and improve it just for fun. My DeviantArt account shows these “improved artworks”. Some of them are similar to what you can build with the SP-Studio, but many parts will look better (like Rocket Racoon’s fur) and there are even characters I never used for SP-Studio updates (like Bowser). So I feel like it might be worth collecting them. And since I do not delete old pictures you can also see my very first drawings when you scroll down, which might be funny to look at. 😉

A look back – and next steps

January 6, 2019 14 Replies

Happy new year! I hope 2019 started great for you and will bring you a lot of joy.
In this blog post I want to tell you about my plans for this year and look back on the last one. 2018 has been very exciting! Back in January I announced my plans to replace the old SP-Studio with a “remake” that won’t rely on the dying Adobe Flash plugin anymore. To make this possible I had to ask for financial support. This step was neccessary to safe the future of this website and I am incredibly thankful for everybody who decided to donate. My minimum goal was reached and I even found help with the coding. During the following months Kai Wegner helped me to build the base of the new SP-Studio and I worked on the design, learned how to deal with the new coding and started to convert and improve the old items.
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SP-Studio Remake: Preparations

November 21, 2018 4 Replies

The SP-Studio remake is making progress, but unfortunately there is nothing new to show you yet. I mainly do things in the background which are very time consuming but boring to look at. So I thought about what I could show you in a blog post… and came up with this “little” text about how to convert an old SP-Studio item into a new one. Perhaps some of you are interested in “behind the scene” stuff like this. Otherwise I apologize in advance for boring you. 🙂

For every SP-Studio item I follow these steps…

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Thank You Patrons!

November 19, 2018 Leave a reply

It’s #ThankYouPatrons day, and I want you to know how important your support is to me!
Because of you SP-Studio.de survives. And I hope this brings a little bit of joy to people from around the world who build their own characters. This internet can be difficult to deal with, so I always wanted to create a welcoming place for everybody who wants to be creative. To make this happen I tried to keep everything on my website for free for those who cannot afford to pay anything. Voluntarily donations are the only way to achieve this.
Since I announced the plans for the SP-Studio remake to save its future nearly one year ago I received many donations via Patreon and PayPal. They made it possible for me to start working on the SP-Studio remake and pay for the software I needed (Adobe Animate and WebStorm). Thank you so much!

SP-Studio remake: First look!

August 17, 2018 16 Replies

Time to talk about the current state of the NEW SP-Studio! I did not do this earlier because I wanted to wait until the important parts actually work. I already noticed a decline in donations, because of course you want to SEE that I am working on something. So I am very happy to tell you: We have a beta version!
Before I go into more detail I want to thank Kai Wegner who is helping me with the development. Luckily for me he is an absolute pro when it comes to the things the SP-Studio needs, like doing magic with svg files. Kai is coding the base for the SP-Studio remake in Angular2 and helps me to understand as much as possible for being able to edit it by myself. Since I am no actual coder there was no way for me to manage this without help, because building it in Flash was completely different.
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