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The Help Desk team myself $ewm, $Ikue, and $Thunderstatement have been super busy making sure that all of your General Inquiries and Bug Reports get handled as soon as possible. Our current initial response time is no more than 48 hours this week! We are super pleased to announce that we’ve been doing a lot more than handling tickets lately. We are doing some serious business FAQ Revamping to make sure all FAQs are completely up to date and easy to understand. We are also merging similar FAQs to reduce redundancy to keep the overall FAQ amounts low to ensure it’s easier to find the information you are looking for.
We started the FAQ Revamp last week and we’ve already covered a little over 100 FAQs!! The following FAQ sections are ones we have already tackled or are currently in the process of tackling.
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Art History: Takeshi ObataTakeshi Obata is an award-winning Japanese manga artist well-known for his contributions towards series such as Hikaru no Go, Bakuman, and more. His projects are often in collaboration with writers.
His style is unique among shonen artists, many don't explore fashion when it comes to manga - but his character designs often include fashionable clothing and trendy items. He's known for the extreme detail in his artwork.
One of his most popular works is Death Note, which is well-known globally. Death Note is one of two series where he worked with writer, Tsugumi Ohba; they recently collaborated again for Bakuman. At the time of publishing, Death Note was nothing anyone else had seen before in manga, and received positive views by critics.
In addition to his manga work, he's worked in the video game industry - doing character designs for Castlevania Judgment.
Currently, h

Art History - Interview with Astralseed:iconarthistoryproject: :iconcommunityrelations:
As
part of Traditional Art History Month I will be interviewing some of
the Traditional Art Community, including your lovely TradART Community
Volunteers

Today it's the delightful ^Astralseed, your Community Volunteer for Traditional Art

:iconAstralseed:
Hi ^Astralseed, tell us a little about yourself and your style of Art.
Hi I'm Katy and I am not very good at talking about myself

. As far as my art style goes, I don't really feel that I have a particular style so to speak. I like to dabble in any and all areas of art which I possibly can and just absorb it all like a sponge. I think the style will follow eventually when I am more comfortable with the basics.
What is it that attracts you to Traditional Art?
Traditional art offers a lot of variety and options.

Site Update: Sta.sh Visual RefreshIn our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing weekly Site Updates to keep members informed and to gather feedback. Below is a list of recent changes to the site, bug fixes, and feedback that was brought up by members in the last Site Update.
What's New
Sta.sh Visual Refresh

Today we have released a visual refresh of Sta.sh, deviantART's upload and publishing platform, giving it a cleaner, more modern look. One of the most apparent things you'll notice is a major change in the header, which is now white, to match the rest of Sta.sh. In addition, when viewing something in another user's Sta.sh, the topbar will display their icon and username, to indicate that you are in their Sta.sh and not your own.

In addition, we've made

Celebrating Deviousness - OctoberDeviousness Award
Congratulations to `JCROXAS
Noah's Ark
The new deviantART HQ
The Child of Venus
What is this Awesome Achievement?
The Deviousness Award is an accolade which is traditionally handed out on the 1st of every month to one truly outstanding deviant.
JCROXAS 2011
Dreaming Mug

Celebrating Deviousness - February 2013

Deviousness Award





Congratulations to `Krissi001



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What is this Awesome Achievement?
The Deviousness

More Improvements to More Like ThisBack in August we launched More Like This to Beta, and after taking in your feedback, we made some improvements, which we're pleased to say were met with positive response! Today, we're bringing you even more improvements, both to More Like This results and your browsing experience!
What's New
The quality of More Like This results has been improved on once again!
We've improved the Full View mode by making the description area taller for easier reading. We've also added a More Like This button, so you can easily view more of any results you enjoy.

From the More Like This results page, you can now click on the art you used to find results, then easily browse through that artwork that's like it, either by using

Stock and Resources: Policy ClarificationThe Stock and Resources community is an integral part of deviantART, both for having an active community of its own as well as providing high quality stock to all deviants.
As this community has grown so much over the years, so has the amount of invalid stock and resources that have been provided by some deviants. The Stock and Resources community feels like this reflects negatively on them, the volunteers have a hard time trying to teach people about valid stock and how to use it correctly, and it gives an appearance that deviantART Staff tolerate so-called “art theft” or copyright infringement.
In this article our aim is to reinforce our policies regarding stock and stock use and clear up some misconceptions.
Stock and Resource submissions to deviantART:
What are Invalid Stock and Resources?
In short, invalid stock or resources are anything which you do not have full permission to upload. This incl

deviantART Birthday #devart Hunt 2012!Well, it's early August again, and you all know what that means! It's time for the most epic celebration on the planet: deviantART's birthday! This year is no exception, and what's a dA birthday without an image hunt?
The rules are pretty simple. Below, there are two lists: One containing a small fragment of a deviation, and one of a list of deviants in a number of various different galleries across dA. What you need to do is figure out what deviation the fragments belong to, and by extension, what deviant.
For example, is part of

, so the answer would be ~TorsadesPourFoi.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to form a list of who the images belong to, in the order that the images appear in this article. Your deadline? Midnight Pacific Time, August 7th 2012. When you think you have your answers, send them, via note, to ^Astralseed before the time mentioned above.
The image fragments, for your perusal:
Your list of deviants:
`shuttermonkey :devbuz

Today is our birthday!Happy Birthday deviantART!!! As you can see from the official birthday announcement we've got a lot planned today! We've also announced, our first ever Creative Grant Recipients!
Below is a list of events hosted by Community Relations, come party with us!
Contests

July 31 to August 10 - 12th Birthday Card Contest
July 31 to August 30 - Chinese Horoscope Contest
August 1 - August 7 -

If you have any deviantART Related news you'd like to share, shoot a note to ^ladygagz.
This issue covers July 22nd to July 28th, 2012
News
Official deviantART
Site Update: Refunds, Sneak Peek of More Like This by $danlev
This week's site update involves the discussion of an upcoming feature, More Like This!
Stock and Resources: Policy Clarification by $dxd
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This article serves as a monthly collection of news and is a way to keep you updated within the deviantART Related gallery!
The dA Related Community News
dA Related news submitted by ^ladygagz:
A Week in dA Related - #50, #051, #052 and #053DD Suggestion Guidelines (Revised July 18th)

Rock, Paper, Scissors!Next game is set for 6:45 BST, 1hour and 15 minutes from now!
Becoming a tradition, almost, and first put forth by the awesome `shuttermonkey, Tuesday August 7th will see many Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournaments in :#devart: throughout the day, where you are all invited to come along and hang out in :#devart:!
This is how it is going to work:
-> The first 16 deviants to post the secret word announced in the chatroom will be chosen to participate before each Tournament begins.
-> The game is similar to Rock, Paper, Scissors, but, as this is the internet, we will be using these emotes: :O, :P and :D in which...

beats

, and

beats

-> Two deviants will battle each other out (a pair at a time) until one deviant moves on to the next round after winning 2 out of 3 rounds. If there is a tie, we will go for sudden death!

N.B. You will be disqualified if: a) At

An Absurd Interview with LaurenKitsuneWelcome to Absurd Interviews: Even better than the Spice Girls making a come back

Mmmmm! Do you smell that? It's like a sweet scent of Pina Colada in the air. What must it be? It must be our guest for today!
She's a cool girl who one day got to meet Julia Roberts... though it seems it wasn't a very pleasant experience.
Aaaanyway, since it seems I'm getting more and more lame at introductions, let's go straight to the interview, aye?
Kids! This time I bring you:
$LaurenKitsune
Hi Lauren! How are you today? You had your birthday recently how was it?
Hi, Thiefo! My birthday was 99% great! I have had a curse over me for 3 years to have sucky birthdays, the first of which happened in 2009, where I invited 25 people and rented out a whole wine bar...then sheepishly told the manager he might as well let other guests in after 5 people showed up.
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Hunger Games Control Room Concept Design by `Rahll

Mon Aug 27, 2012, 10:17 AM

Remember the control room scenes of The Hunger Games? Did you know the concept work for that control room and the 3D displays was done by our very own Reid Southen (`Rahll)?

Reid is a senior member on deviantART who has been on the site for six years. Reid is also doing concept work for Jupiter Ascending, an upcoming 2014 sci-fi film.

He had posted a journal about his work on the Hunger Games back in February, but wasn't able to upload his work right away. He posted this deviation to his deviantART gallery yesterday:

"I had the pleasure of doing a lot of design work on the control room in the movie, from the interfaces to the holograms and such. Hybride in Montreal did a great job bringing it all to life, and it was fun seeing their tests and the final result.

I spent a lot of time time designing specific interfaces for certain scenes in the movie, and while a lot of that didn't make it in, it was cool to have to think through the sequences and decide how the gamekeepers would create things and manipulate the arena.

You can read a little more about it here in an interview with my VFX Supervisor Sheena Duggal."

Still from the film: