http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/forums/show/7.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net I don't know the criteria of selecting material for the monthly update, but I wonder if I could make a request for the upcoming one--could you feature clips from some of the more obscure Canadian cartoons that you've logged, from shows like [i]Mischief City[/i] and so on? I ask this because one of the things I appreciate most about your work is that you take notice of and record shows that many of us have never heard of and would never see without your efforts. Thanks very much!]]> http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/76/228.page http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/76/228.page GMT of the dvd

the original dragons name was helogg

the man into dragon tf was supposed to feature humour as the man tf'd into a smaller dragon but budget
constraints nixed that

the peasants at the beginning are not the same as the peasants in the
people revert clip

its inspired by the star wars movies

the script is part of a trilogy

the leading man is a welsh horsewranger
who seems to have done some stunt work and other roles in the
finished product

this one was originally clocked in at about 2 hours 20 minutes
but budget constraints sent some
of it to the cutting room floor]]> http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/73/224.page http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/73/224.page GMT http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/72/219.page http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/72/219.page GMT
This update has 264 new clips and 350 thumbnails has been either rendered or re-rendered, as from a few month ago, I've started to recreate the small 100x66 thumbnails to bigger version.

For the new versions of the site, I had those small one stretched to 150x100 and 320x240 to accommodate the new layouts. This is why some thumbs and previews look sharpers than other.
For example, this is a old one: Project Altered Beast and this one is a new one Martin Mystery. Each thumbs are saved in 3 resolutions: Native (the original size of the clip), previews (320x240) and thumbnail (150x100). So, for each clips, 3 images are taken and resized.

But, at least, this update has an higher transformation / show ratio and also include one of my favorite animated series . Guess which one it is. :)

All Dogs Christmas Carol
All Dogs Go to Heaven
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
Broken Sword 3 - The Sleeping Dragon
Codename Kids Next Door
Codename Kids Next Door Operation ZERO
Enfant Qui Voulait Etre un Ours
Garfield His 9 Lives
Jane and the Dragon
Kid Paddle
Kirikou et la Sorciere
Kong
Krull
Kull the Conqueror
Land Before Time, The Series
Little Mermaid the Series, The
Martin Mystery (one forgotten clips, but the whole thumbnails remake)
Merlin The War of the Dragons
Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The

Yes, Kong was my favorite. The show had a lot of transformation into anthropomorphic characters, from dinosaurs, to tiger, to chimera, you name it. All giant anthro monster. A worth seeing to all anthro fan. Have a look a the griffin. Isn't he cute :)


I'm also pondering about running a 3rd contest for June. Those updates are really taking time, and for one thing, making the thumbs mentioned about, editing excel spreadsheets in order to publish those updates, sorting through everything aren't really the the most fun things to do. And getting pretty much no feedback, negative or positive, make the ROI rather low on the site. Some support back through another Dragoniade contest would really cheer the work a bit more.

Considering the results from the last one, I'm thinking applying the KISS rule. So a plain Philippe/Dragoniade transformation, maybe with a simple theme (outdoor, surprise!!,etc) with 3 bases prizes and participation prizes. First get 60$, second get 40$, third get 25$ and I would raffle among the non-winner and the sequence winner 5 prizes 20$.

I'll check the feedback to see if I should go ahead with it or not.

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On a less positive note, I'm not sure I feel like helping anyone anymore. Or just being generous with online people. I feel like everytime I do, I end up being burned one way or another.

4 examples.

1-
Back in 2004, before heading to Anthrocon, a friend announced his computer was getting deprecated and he really need a new one. His couldn't run Doom 3 at the time and he wanted a PC that could. I had access to OEM materials and the CAN/US dollars ratio was really low (0.70 US for 1 CAN), so I could get him a system for about 15$ cheaper than from a store. He said it was fine, and before heading to the convention, got the parts, assembled it, and hand it to the convention. We agreed that he would paid me after the con, since he was a seller and the previous year, he said he had like 3000$ sold. But at the end of the con, all he could give me was HALF of the amount, about 400$ and that he woulds pay me in the months to follow. I agreed, since we were friends, but I had a bad feeling.

A year after, after having done nothing to pay me more than a 40$ commission, he tells me he had a commission from a great professional artists he was stuck with. Value: 175$ The person he bought it for declined, so he was with a commissions he couldn't pay for and he asked me if I could take it, in order to lower the PC dept. I was reluctant, because all 100$ and more commissions I had in the past were total disappointments. But he told me that person was a real professional and I wouldn't regret it. So I accepted... to learn a few weeks after that I needed to contact that artist and that he was living in California, only taking commission in person at conventions or through telephone. I was rather pissed, considering I live in Canada, am french speaking and trying to contact someone in the US would be a real pain. He agreed to act as an intermediate, calling him and meeting him during conventions with my info, then get the commission and send it to me.

Well, we're now in 2010, 7 years after the initial deal, and I still haven't gotten the commission, not paid back. The commission, 3 sheets of inked paper, was photographed together and mailed to me as a 'proof' it was done, but never shipped. And the remaining 200$, no sign I'll ever see it either. Last time I talked to the guy about his business practice, I got a FUCK YOU for not agreeing with them. So, helping this guy had cost me 375$US to learn NOT to deal with him, or his partners as he can't keep them, in the future.

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2-
The second one started in 2004. An artist roommate and manager contacted me looking for cartoon references. His friends was mostly doing furry cartoon (Looney Toon, Tiny Toon, Road Rover, etc) fan arts, so reference would help him. I sent him quite a bunch of files and in return, he had his friends drew a Dragoniade Taur picture. Next year, he asked for more clips, saying he woulds do the same. Since my previous experience with him was positive, I agreed. Some time after, he came to me asking for some money to lend him to and that he would pay me back, either in cash or commission. Since he was one of the few to keep contact with me and actually gave something back, I agree. Time passed and, like all furries, took more than he could chews.

When he said he was opening commission, having shown to me what his friends has been doing in the past years since he promised he woulds pay me back, he asked me if I would add a commission too, in order to boost the original 55$ handed before and the clips. I now know I should have said "NO! pay me", but he had shown me his friend was working and getting better, so I said yes and added 45$ to it. Total, according to him: 45$ + 55$ +20$ worth of clips for a 120$ commission. But he is your typical furry, asking others to do their work and doing nothing back. Up to now, and I've gotten excuse like 'J had an accident and spilled the water for the painting on the commission', 'the supply are getting late and J is trying a new medium', 'J stuff are packed since we moved' and had gotten a lot of 'I lost my job, because I'm the best programmer and all non furries are idiot' (a typical furry excuse for being an ass and getting fired for it). So another 120$ and wasted time lost.

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3-
Third one is about 'gift'. One things I've got a few time are booby trapped gift. One was from a 'friend', which I got a birthday gift in 2004, and, for the next 2 years, continuously told me he had a gift for me, on his desk, ready to be mailed... And I never got it. The same guy also, when I got a gift from a friend of both of us, went to tell that person I hated his gift. The gift in question was a furry gift, with content that wasn't safe for work. Not really my kind of stuff, but I thanked him for the gesture. When I told that friend about me not being the best gift, he told that person I hated it. Lets say that this didn't helped our relation between the 3 of us.

3.5-
One more recent was for Christmas. Someone contacted me, asking me what I would want for Christmas. I asked why and he told me he wanted to give a few gift for the holiday. I thanked him, saying that simply an art from him would be the best of gift. In good gesture, I asked him what he would like to get, and had his gift delivered. New year eve, and no word. I asked him if he had gotten my gift and he said he had. He also said he didn't had gift for me. Later, I realize he was simply fishing for gifts. Just like the other person.

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4-
The last one for tonight was about a friend that needed some help. He needed some web space, I was able to put him in contact with an host. He needed some poses references (sitting, grabbing for an invisible tail, etc) for his drawing, I provided some. He told me he woulds get me a drawings for all the help I was giving him. Since we are friends, I didn't hesitate to do that. But now, all my commissions we planned in the past are on hold, each time I ask about the drawing, he gets elusive. But he gets plenty of quick commission by others and those get done. I guess doing work for a friend that helped is less important nor profitable than the current streak of commission.


Sorry for the latest rant, but I was holding on those for too long and I had to empty my bag. This time, I'll spare you the Brutal Beast rip off out of the set of other burned situation. But if you wondered why I'm so negative online and about furries, those are 4 situations that left me totally biased about helping a furries online.]]> http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/70/216.page http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/70/216.page GMT
All in All I am just excited the site is being Updating slowly and steadily]]> http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/69/215.page http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/69/215.page GMT
A while back you posted a list of TF scenes on metamorphorum. It listed recent TFs from shows that had happened in between the closing and revamp of your original site. I found the list very useful, since I was able to catch many episodes that I otherwise would have never noticed.
If you still have this list in a format that can be easily copied and pasted, could you post it to this forum? It would be a useful resource. Thanks very much.]]> http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/68/210.page http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/68/210.page GMT base using the a)space between the bikini top and bottomb)the height of
Brian andc)the width between two cracks in the cave entrance
to get the percentages each tf image of the wife needed to be adjusted
to get them all to the same proportion size

Though the artist called it a short tf
I suspect that for a artist to do
a)get humour out of a taletype thats noted for angsty cursed tragedy
b)get all the characters in a believable dialog
c)put in the minor background details
d)hint at her growth spurt by the shadow that shows up above
the cave entrance as Brians mom hangs up on him at the bottom
of Page 2

was either one of those lucky coinciding of lots of stuff
or not quite as short as it looks at first glance]]> http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/67/208.page http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/67/208.page GMT Live Journal.

It's less than than 6 days before I jump over another decade. Time sure fly by when you keep yourself busy. I wonder if this one will be different than the previous ones. I've been seeing people left and right giving celebration to others. I hope thing will be different this time, or if my theory will be proven. Though I have my old ghosts to deal with regarding this.

One thing this nostalgia reminded me, were all the books about transformation I went through when I was a teen. Some of those are the well known Fighting Fantasy series. I used to go through them at the library only to locate which one had transformation in them. This is sort of why I added the book section to the site. But since they were from the library, I never got my hands on a book to keep for myself. Only the excerpt of the transformations, and a list of book.

Until now. Some time ago, someone posted a compilation of the transformation in the Fighting Fantasy series. Last week, I pulled that list and compared it to my own list, adding the missing entries, removing the duplicating and finding the right title compared to mines, since my list was based in the french publication of those books. This also made me realize that some good Transformation publication were only available in french, like the Metamorphose series (Metamorphosis). As the name implied, it's FILLED with transformations and transformations is the main plot of the, sadly incomplete, series.

I've ordered a few books, which are arriving. But a lot of those are quite old and hard to find. So, if anyone have access to any of those book, from their neighborhood old bookstores, or their personal collection, and can have them for a FAIR price, let me know. I would be interested in completing my collection.

Also, if you happen to know of any extra books I could add to this list, let me know, with the series it belong to, it's publication number and title. I know Eala posted a few years back a scan of a transformation theme Goosebumps adventure book, so there must be other outside of the Fighting Fantasy format.

Here's my list so far, with what I own. Any help would be appreciated


Fighting Fantasy (Puffin Books)
=====================
3: The Forest Of Doom
8: Scorpion Swamp
[size=9][color=orange]16: Seas Of Blood (OWNED)[/color][/size]
[size=9][color=orange]19: Demons Of The Deep (OWNED)[/color][/size]
[size=9][color=orange]25: Beneath Nightmare Castle (OWNED)[/color][/size]
26: Crypt Of The Sorceror
[size=9][color=orange]29: Midnight Rogue (OWNED)[/color][/size]
[size=9][color=orange]33: Sky Lord (OWNED)[/color][/size]
[size=9][color=orange]36: Armies Of Death (OWNED)[/color][/size]
[size=9][color=orange]37: Portal Of Evil (OWNED)[/color][/size]
[size=9][color=orange]38: Vault Of The Vampire (OWNED)[/color][/size]
[size=9][color=orange]42: Black Vein Prophecy (OWNED)[/color][/size]
48: Moonrunner
[size=9][color=orange]49: Siege Of Sardath (OWNED)[/color][/size]
53: Spellbreaker
57: Magehunter
58: Revenge Of The Vampire


Fighting Fantasy (Wizard Books)
=====================
[size=9][color=orange]8: The Forest Of Doom (OWNED)[/color][/size]
[size=9][color=orange]13: Sorcery! 3: The Seven Serpents (OWNED)[/color][/size]
14: Armies of Death
[size=9][color=orange]15: Sorcery! 4: The Crown of Kings (OWNED)[/color][/size]
[size=9][color=orange]21: The Eye of the Dragon (OWNED)[/color][/size]
[size=9][color=orange]28: Spellbreaker (OWNED)[/color][/size]
[size=9][color=orange]29: Howl of the Werewolf (OWNED)[/color][/size]


Steve Jackson's Sorcery
=====================
3: The Seven Serpents
4: The Crown of Kings


Clash Of The Princes
=====================
2: The Warrior's Way


The Cretan Chronicles
=====================
3: Return Of The Warrior


Warlock
=====================
8: The Floating City


Défis et Sortilèges
=====================
1: Caïthness l'élémentaliste ??????
2: Keldrilh le ménestrel ??????
3: Péreim le chevalier
4: Kandjar le magicien ??????
5: Les Héritiers de Dorgan ??????
6: Le Sanctuaire des Horlas ??????
7: La Huitième porte ??????
8: L'Ultime réincarnation ??????


Métamorphose
=====================
[size=9][color=orange]1: L'Homme aux cent visages (OWNED)[/color][/size]
[size=9][color=orange]2: L'Oracle de Balkh (OWNED)[/color][/size]


La saga du prêtre Jean
=====================
1: La forteresse d'ALAMUTH


Golden Dragon Fantasy Gamebooks
=====================
1: Crypt of the Vampire ??????
2: The Temple of Flame
3: The Lord of Shadow Keep ??????
4: Curse of the Pharaoh ??????
5: Castle of Lost Souls ??????
6: The Eye of the Dragon


Dungeons & Dragons: Endless Quest
=====================
4: Revenge of the Rainbow Dragons ??????
15: Under Dragon's Wing
13: The Dragon's ransom ??????


Star Challenge
=====================
1: Planets in Peril


]]> http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/62/195.page http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/62/195.page GMT
book quest of the fair unknown author gerald morris blonde esmeree the cursed beauty]]> http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/61/194.page http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/61/194.page GMT
so when i came across a short story from 1985 titled 'lazy dragon' in
great masterpieces of terror and the supernatural
i was intrigued with the tale of a
4th generation chinese american born in 2010ad coming back as a ghost in 2010bc china
and serving as a refuge for a lazy dragon hiding from a rather stern and murderous
master of dragons,who sends out hit dragons to off dragons caught awol on the job.

considering the short story's publication date its either a hong kong metaphor or alludes to social tensions of 1980's
mainland china

the refugee dragon in question can size shift and in the end is still defiant as the big guy hurls
a lightening bolt to destroy him]]> http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/56/171.page http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/56/171.page GMT
I have asked that the video posted here not be reposted on other video site, like You Tube. For that reason, I watermarked my clips.

I guess the message wasn't clear enough. I just noticed that account: http://www.youtube.com/user/kike640jr

That person has been posting the latest update in his section. Of course, leechers are defending that person http://www.metamorphose.org/thread/show.htp?threadid=10638&se0=thread&se1=show

Is it too much to ask to have a bit of respect to those who contribute content? Why do people have to steal all the work of others and try to cash on it. That person sure didn't go through the work of recording the TV broadcast, capturing it to his PC, trimming the video down, encoding it then put it on a website of his own.

He just took the clip away and lazily uploaded it on You Tube. No mention to the original contributor, no link the site. And while I do all the work, leech like him simply get all the positive feedback.

If you notice any transformation video having my watermark, PLEASE, remind the person that this clip was not made by him and he should, at least credit the source and link back to it or otherwise, delete it.
If that person is stubborn, then be stubborn back too. It's people like him that bring back the "Is TF dead" once in a while. It's people like him that make people quit. And it's leech like those who defend him that make everyone keep their work for themselves.

It's going to be a 3 days week-end. I was planning to do extra work on the site, but I think I'll just take those day off instead. I'm getting feed up to having constantly defend my work and getting nothing back in return.


[img]http://www.shadowlordinc.com/Dragoniade/images/crestcolorBG.jpg[/img]]]> http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/55/170.page http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/55/170.page GMT
However, there's something new. People who have followed the site know that this is the 3rd formats we went through since the site started.

The first one was a plain HTML where everything was static and had to manually be updated in notepad or any basic HTML editor.
The second one was made in PHP with a database backend in order to simplify the update, sorting and categorization.
The third, and current one, now use Java on Tomcat with a database backend for a more persisted format and a more interactive service.

Some of the features were removed or added from one version to another. And the nostalgic were wondering what happened to those feature and the other site.
Well, after getting a few demands about the old site and the old gallery, and since everything back then was all static, I decided to code a small servlet that would feed a website from a big ZIP archive. And thus, Shadowlord 1.0, which I branded "Legacy", with its 62709 files, fita in a 800Mb zip file.

The nostalgic and those wanting to see what the site looked back between 1999 and 2003 can now access it at http://legacy.shadowlordinc.com/
It contain some old stuff that is now long gone and were first hosted on Shadowlord back then.

Enjoy and feedback is appreciated.]]> http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/52/163.page http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/52/163.page GMT With this update, I have officially started uploading my contents and new contents. In this case, the new content was Soul Eater and Batman the Brave and the Bold.

What is different? Up until now, all the clips I had uploaded were the one Stonegate contributed. Since the site started, both of us were putting our clips together, one have having access to clips the other didn't and vice versa. As of now, all the *shows* that Stonegate was the only contributor has been upload.
All the future update will be of either new shows not yet displayed on the site, or my own clips from show we both contributed to or where I had the exclusivity.

How much has been uploaded so far? About 26 GB and 4673 videos, excluding the preview files. And there's still about 65 GB to go through. That's a lot, but as they saying gows, slow and steady win the race.

So, bare with me as I keep updating and put new content online. Support is appreciated too.

How can you support? There's many way. First, you can donate by following the link in the footer. Second, you can donate arts. I'm a sucker for self transformation, as my previous transformation commissions and contest demonstrated. So any TF of me http://www.shadowlordinc.com/character.view?Character.Id=409 would also be welcomed.

What are the plan for the future? Other than uploading new contents, I'm working in my hiatus period on the search engine for the site. On a more longer term, I plan to redo the layout, ditching the black and grey 'Stonegate' style for a more light theme. I may also start a livejournal page for the site, to announce downtime and such.

Also, Kyreeth has fixed a big problem that was causing a lot fo slowdown on both this site and others Furvect site. Thanks a lot Kyreeth. All is much faster. Keep up the good work.

Discussion and feedback can be posted here]]> http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/50/160.page http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/50/160.page GMT
Also referces the Alien movie

Far more importantly it references
-Moses leading his people to the Promised Land

-the Gulf War I video game mentality controversy]]> http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/46/153.page http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/46/153.page GMT
Basically, the series is about a kid who turns into a car when he becomes warm and back to human form when he gets cool. This of course causes problems in his daily life, especially when he turns into a car in the house or something.

Anyway, someone on YouTube put up a bunch of clips of him turning to and from car form: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9jdbdXTgxQ&feature=PlayList&p=B3A6D00E46B1E599&index=3[/url]]]> http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/41/137.page http://www.shadowlordinc.com/forum/posts/preList/41/137.page GMT