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And now for a little ditty I call The Phosbat Rag...

Hello, I'm Scruffy. I'm a musician who wrote the updated music articles on Pikipedia, and now I'm here to create some original content!

My Pikipedia page.

My YouTube channel

My gallery of images for Pikmin Forever

My game is Pikmin Forever. It's a conclusion to the story arc of the canon Pikmin series, with some new Pikmin types, new gameplay mechanics, and huge Challenge Mode and Sandbox modes. I'm modeling and rendering all of its concept art, and I'm composing its soundtrack! It'll all show up here as I complete it.

IMPORTANT: If you have render or music requests, please keep them Pikmin-themed! That's what this wiki is all about!

Userboxes

Hi! If you are my friend or would like to be, you can now parade around with these userboxes, created at the graces of my friend Neocraftz1553!

{{ScruffyFriend}} gives you:

This user is a friend of the amazing artist and musician, Scruffy!

{{PFUserbox}} gives you:

This user loves Pikmin Forever!

Music

Pikmin Forever

Requested

The main theme to Pikmin: Attack of DeathSpike.

Other

Gallery

Blender studies and artwork

The Workbench, a potential Challenge Mode area.
The Blues Pikmin band.
Aerial flyover of the Sunset Islet.
Sunset Islet in the afternoon.
Sunset Islet if the Pikmin tree were made of glass.
Paper Pikmin.
A Purple Pikmin in a deceitfully vibrant scene.
A Calcified Crushblat knick-knack.
The Peckish Aristocrab near its doom.
A preview of Daybreak Glade from Pikmin Forever.
A map of Daybreak Glade.
A more detailed map of Daybreak Glade.
A movie poster-style render of Olimar.
A movie poster-style render of Louie.

Thanks for the requests so far, keep them coming!

Pikmin 2 modifications

Awakening Wood flooded halfway with water.
Same as before, but with even more water.
A view from under the water.
Some Red Pikmin in first-person.
A view of Awakening Wood in first-person.

Requests

If anyone has requests for music or CGI images, don't hesitate to put them in my talk page! I have capable software and a lot of experience, and I'd like to give your ideas some musical and visual background. Keep in mind that, the more detail you put in your request, the closer I can get it to the idea in your head.

Music composition comes easier to me than image composition, but I welcome any and all requests!

IMPORTANT: Please keep your requests Pikmin-themed! That's what this wiki is all about!

Some notes:

I use Sibelius, Notion, Studio One, and GarageBand for my musical compositions. These are all paid applications; I would still recommend them if you want a pretty capable music product without actually hiring people to play a piece. Sibelius (and Finale, but I prefer Sibelius) is the end-all notation program for professionals; it is insanely good and I am humbled on a daily basis by its scope.
I use Blender, GIMP, Autodesk Sketchbook (the free version), and Autodesk Pixlr for all my photo composition and editing (all of those applications are free; I'd recommend them for getting ideas out of your head and onto a 2D or 3D world).

Some caveats:

Nintendo doesn't want anyone to use their copyright, but they don't really enforce it. That being said, I would prefer if have your original music requests posted before your requests for arrangements of Pikmin music; I don't want to abuse their passiveness to YouTube remixes.
The more complex an image you desire, the longer it will take me. I do not yet have the tools to rip or view models from the original games, so please bear with me as I build most of my images from scratch. Don't expect the full 3D Valley of Repose the day after you request it (or the month for that matter). Pikmin requests I can definitely handle, and enemy/item requests take longer but are still doable. I can also make area previews, as in a small scene depicting part of an area. Each request helps me learn more about optimizing my computer for composing or rendering.

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This user supports Nintendo.

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+[[File:Phosbat at the Piano.png|thumb|right|150px|''And now for a little ditty I call The Phosbat Rag...'']]
 Hello, I'm Scruffy. I'm a musician who wrote the updated [[Pikipedia:Music|music articles on Pikipedia]], and now I'm here to create some original content!
-[[:pikipedia:User:Scruffy|My Pikipedia page]]
+[[:pikipedia:User:Scruffy|My Pikipedia page]].
 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDoKh1xoqKDfUr3YxQBs_1w My YouTube channel]
-My game is [[Pikmin Forever|''Pikmin Forever'']]. It's a conclusion to the story arc of the canon {{c|Pikmin series|''Pikmin'' series}}, with some new Pikmin types, new gameplay mechanics, and huge Challenge Mode and Sandbox modes. I'm modeling and rendering all of its concept art, and I'm composing its soundtrack! It'll all show up here as I complete it.
+[[Special:ListFiles/Scruffy|My gallery of images for ''Pikmin Forever'']]
-I have just begun with designing enemies, but the game is on hold for a bit while I complete one big project for it. This is a secret project but it shouldn't take too much longer. I will post it here when it is finished!
+My game is ''[[Pikmin Forever]]''. It's a conclusion to the story arc of the canon {{c|Pikmin series|''Pikmin'' series}}, with some new Pikmin types, new gameplay mechanics, and huge [[Pikmin Forever/Challenge Mode|Challenge Mode]] and [[Pikmin Forever/Sandbox|Sandbox]] modes. I'm modeling and rendering all of its concept art, and I'm composing its soundtrack! It'll all show up here as I complete it.
-'''IMPORTANT:''' <span style="color:red">If you have render or music requests, please keep them Pikmin-themed! That's what this wiki is all about!</span>
+'''IMPORTANT:''' <span style="color: red">If you have render or music requests, please keep them Pikmin-themed! That's what this wiki is all about!</span>
+{{clear}}
-==Latest Render==
+==Userboxes==
-[[File:PF Preview Glade of Daylight.png|thumb|right|450px|The Glade of Daylight.]]
+Hi! If you are my friend or would like to be, you can now parade around with these userboxes, created at the graces of my friend [[User:Neocraftz1553|Neocraftz1553]]!
+*<nowiki>{{ScruffyFriend}}</nowiki> gives you:
-This is still not my secret rendering project (that's at maybe 60%), but this certainly was a doozy. It's a little preview of what I would want the [[Glade of Daylight]], the first area in ''[[Pikmin Forever]]'', to look like. Up until now I've been using Blender's internal rendering system to produce my gallery here on Pikmin Fanon. This is my first Pikmin render with a different, more mature render engine that comes with Blender, called Cycles.
+{{ScruffyFriend}}
+{{clear}}
-The textures may look a bit noisier than my previous renders here, but that's because Cycles does a much more intensive and accurate job of bouncing and calculating thousands of light rays off of surfaces, and the more samples taken a surface, the smoother the image (this was with 200 samples of light calculation per pixel, to optimize performance per second). Cycles also allows shader combinations, which gave me some realistic grass, pottery, and the various organic skin materials. Finally, it has a better method of setting the camera's depth of field, producing a nice blur across the little pond. Seriously, look up some images people render with Cycles; it gets very photorealistic. If my poor little computer had a better graphics card then images like these wouldn't take long at all. But as it stands this is a once-in-a-while render.
+*<nowiki>{{PFUserbox}}</nowiki> gives you:
+{{PFUserbox}}
 {{clear}}
 ==Music==
-===Pikmin Forever===
+===''Pikmin Forever''===
 *[https://youtu.be/qYBBeN1gbGg Main theme]
+*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlJhO9pzSac Day 1 Tutorial]
+*[https://youtu.be/SQ3abtVrlWs The Lipidon's theme]
+*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-d0xnDUNzE Mycelial Burrow]
 ===Requested===
 *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxe7b--6Lvk&feature=youtu.be The main theme to Pikmin: Attack of DeathSpike].
+===Other===
+*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55I9JIST2NA Formidable Funk]
+*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPpKhpkKVqo Tropical Storm]
+*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPbRPJ7WJeM An arrangement of The Impact Site theme]
+*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br2IUt8DfFo An a cappella (sort of) arrangement of the End of Day themes]
+*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiO86NF9FbA An Excerpt - Short ''Pikmin 3'' Animation]
+==Gallery==
+;Blender studies and artwork
+<gallery>
+PF The Workbench.png|The Workbench, a potential Challenge Mode area.
+Blues Pikmin.jpg|The Blues Pikmin band.
+PF Sunset Islet aerial.jpg|Aerial flyover of the [[Pikmin Forever#Sunset Islet|Sunset Islet]].
+PF Sunset Islet.png|Sunset Islet in the afternoon.
+PF Sunset Islet glass.jpg|Sunset Islet if the Pikmin tree were made of glass.
+Awakening Wood Pulp.jpg|Paper Pikmin.
+Pikmin Stylized by Scruffy.png|A Purple Pikmin in a deceitfully vibrant scene.
+Glassblat.png|A Calcified Crushblat knick-knack.
+Aristoclay.png|The Peckish Aristocrab near its doom.
+PF Daybreak Glade.png|A preview of [[Daybreak Glade]] from ''Pikmin Forever''.
+Daybreak Glade map.png|A map of Daybreak Glade.
+Daybreak Glade map final.jpg|A more detailed map of Daybreak Glade.
+HD Captain Olimar.png|A movie poster-style render of Olimar.
+HD Louie.png|A movie poster-style render of Louie.
+</gallery>
 Thanks for the requests so far, keep them coming!
+;Pikmin 2 modifications
+<gallery>
+Half Flooded Awakening Wood.png|Awakening Wood flooded halfway with water.
+Flooded Awakening Wood Test.png|Same as before, but with even more water.
+Flooded Awakening Wood Underwater.png|A view from under the water.
+Pikmin FPS1.png|Some Red Pikmin in first-person.
+Pikmin FPS2.png|A view of Awakening Wood in first-person.
+</gallery>
+{{clear}}
 ==Requests==
 If anyone has requests for '''music''' or '''CGI images''', don't hesitate to put them in my talk page! I have capable software and a lot of experience, and I'd like to give your ideas some musical and visual background. Keep in mind that, the more detail you put in your request, the closer I can get it to the idea in your head.
-Music composition comes easier to me than photo composition, but I welcome any and all requests!
+Music composition comes easier to me than image composition, but I welcome any and all requests!
 '''IMPORTANT:''' <span style="color:red">Please keep your requests Pikmin-themed! That's what this wiki is all about!</span>
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 '''Some caveats''':
 *Nintendo doesn't want anyone to use their copyright, but they don't really enforce it. That being said, I would prefer if have your original music requests posted before your requests for arrangements of ''Pikmin'' music; I don't want to abuse their passiveness to YouTube remixes.
-*The more complex an image you desire, the longer it will take me. I do not yet have the tools to rip or view models from the original games, so please bear with me as I build most of my images from scratch. Don't expect the full 3D Valley of Repose the day after you request it (or the month for that matter). However, here are the original models I do have access to:
+*The more complex an image you desire, the longer it will take me. I do not yet have the tools to rip or view models from the original games, so please bear with me as I build most of my images from scratch. Don't expect the full 3D Valley of Repose the day after you request it (or the month for that matter). Pikmin requests I can definitely handle, and enemy/item requests take longer but are still doable. I can also make area previews, as in a small scene depicting part of an area. Each request helps me learn more about optimizing my computer for composing or rendering.
-**Olimar and Louie from ''Pikmin 2'', and Olimar and the Pikmin from ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''.
-**The Beady Long Legs, Raging Long Legs, Segmented Crawbster, Titan Dweevil, and Waterwraith (not the original rollers).
-**Bulborb Larvae, the three adult Bulborbs from ''Pikmin 2'' (not the original hair on the Hairy Bulborb), all dwarf Bulborbs from ''Pikmin 2'', and Water Dumples.
-**The Careening Dirigibug and Cloaking Burrow-nit.
-**Bomb rocks, boulders, and chiyogami paper.
-**The full Awakening Wood, the backgrounds in caves (although I'm not sure how well those work), and [[Pikipedia:newtest|newtest]].
-**The clovers and Glowstems from ''Pikmin 2''.
-**The Insect Condo.
-**Onions, pellets, the Iridescent Flint Beetle, the Burrowing Snagret, the Hocotate ship, the Swooping Snitchbug, the President, and the Wollywog trophies from ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''. These are (except for Onions) the original models, but they cannot be posed and some of their texture UVs need resolving.
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-[[Category:Users]]
+{{clear}}
-== Re: Re: Render Request ==
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+{{PikFan23Friend}}
+{{NeoFriend}}
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+{{Nintendo}}
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-Sorry, for not being Pikmin related :( But I'm really happy that you do it anyway :D Thanks man!
+__NOTOC__
-It would be awesome if you could show me some progress every now and then (via Skype or something like that)!
-I would have another render request though (This time Pikmin related), but I always feel really bad when
-I give people so many requests, because I exactly know what it's like to have too many D: (I'm doing similar stuff to what
-you do, but in 2D) It would be an Ice-Pikmin which just have the default Pikmin model in a icy-transculent coloration, and
-a Green Pikmin, which have a similar model to purples, but only in green and with cacti-like spikes, both with leaves/blue flowers.
-But you really, really don't have to do the last two, it wouldn't be too important. It's more important that your schedule isn't
-too full.
-- {{User: Sunny1506 }} 09.29.2015 14:51