A nifty add on for all those who don't want to see the old art ANYWHERE
Just posting the link to a firefox add-on called 'My image here'. You select an image from your computer and choose to use it to replace an image on a website. This way, you get to see the image you want everywhere - including the pets page. (I personally use it on my chibi wyllop - hagane did a super cute overlay for me and I like my pink version better than the current version xD) Of course this only would help firefox users, but it's a start!
Just wanted to answer/respond to a few points:
And I cannot understand why the decision would ever be to make something that will almost certainly displease many of the current owners...A revamp should keep all the best-loved parts of the old pet, not throw them all out the window while creating something dramatically new.
Ok, the decision was actually made to revamp this pet last year, but I knew it was popular, and I wanted to be better at the whole drawing thing before I attempted it. The sketch sat on my computer for a year - and I showed it to a lot of people and was given the affirmative. The mouth removal was always going to happen, I didn't think it limited me artistically at all. I didn't /feel/ limited. I like the mouthless design feature on the kora, I have 9 other pets with mouths to work with to fill my 'having a mouth' quota.
Ok, so I'm not sure why you would say that I made the decision to displease people. On the whole, I made every decision possible on this pet to please the majority of people whilst keeping in tune with the species. I feel like you're implying I intentionally set out to ruin the pet - and I know you don't mean to and you're upset because a pet you love isn't the same anymore, but I'm going to just respond with the fact that I did actually try really hard to make a mid ground on this pet so that it would be up to date and still have the same feel of the old pet. If you think I failed on this, then I'm sorry, but I did try. Looking at the news posts on subeta, and a bunch of the posts here, as well as on the forums it would seem that I did actually PLEASE a lot of the owners of angelic koras, as well as create a few new ones, so I don't think it was an unsuccessful revamp at all. I think I did keep a lot of the feel of the old one - but a feeling is something everyone sees differently, so the feeling you got from it is likely different to the feeling other people got from it. I suppose that's just the way it goes.
I think the old owners should always be considered first. There are lots of other pets for everyone to choose from, and it's exciting when the artists are working on new pets and new colors. I think more attention should be paid to those. Let people who love their pets as-is KEEP their pets.
As far as new pets and colours go, all mine are done for December. I have left the angelic kora until it was literally the second from last revamp I had to do of my angelic pets. I drew the first one over 4 years ago - my second ever pet I believe. Or maybe it was my first. Either way, I am always working on getting my pets done. I didn't put this over a pet of mine that needed it more. And I really do consider the old owners, so much of the time. I feel like it's all I do sometimes, is think about what the old owners are going to think, and I put my heart in to these pets trying to make them as happy as I can. Again, it can't always work, but please don't assume that I'm not thinking about the users.
One of the things that bothers me I suppose is that back when Rah first decided that koras didn't have mouths, she mentioned something about the Angelic Kora being speshul with Angelic powers that it could have a mouth... I suppose that was just a made up mock excuse and was long ago that she probably didn't think seriously about revamping Angelic anyway.
I think this was the chibi kora I was talking about. Deformed chibiness letting it keep the mouth. Which was indeed a made up excuse for the chibi at the time, I'm still not sure where I stand on the chibi. It's my favourite pet on the site, and I've had one for 5 years, and I don't know what to do about that revamp at all. But I have always thought seriously about revamping both pets, it was just a case of waiting until my skills improved so that I could do them justice.
One other thing - I keep seeing the headgem glow being mentioned as not being there...but it is? I'm not sure what you're talking about. I put a glow on it!
Anyways, I was pretty much prepared for this reaction. I knew whatever I did to this pet /somebody/ was going to be upset, because I've seen all the threads that said the kora was one of their favourite angelics even years after I drew it. I get that dodgy art to someone can be beautiful art to another, and that is fine. Don't feel you have to stop ranting, I just want to maybe put the thought in your heads that I was really not trying to piss you guys off! Happy Holidays! Time for Eggnog