/md/ - Murder Drones

>>12195
This is NOT A CONTAINMENT THREAD

> puppet game
> doorguy
> a shadow person
once again, vickers is a walking recycling bin

>>12207
Cube!

>>12210
> just as things were getting interesting, it gets dropped
bad omen prediction: md will teach us why liam never finishes his series

>>12212
Somehow, the patch returned...

Why? I mean don’t get me wrong I love Cliffside and all but this catalog is called Murder Drones not Liam Vickers, feels off topic

>>12582
Anon. Even before this board existed it was always somewhat agreed upon that the discussion or posting of other Liam Vickers shows was okay. If this was a something like a Hazbin general then you'd have a right to complain since it would massively be off-topic

>>12665
this

its all connected anyway
even if only on a meta level

>>15348
Black dogs, atleast the story is complete

With Murder Drones ending soon, what do you think/hope Liam will do next? Revisit an old project? Or maybe start something new entirely? I think it will be interesting either way, since he'll now have completed his own animated show, he should have an easier time with whatever he does next.

>>17298
My guess is going back to 2d animation stuff, which he was doing just before
HOPEFULLY finish C U B E

>>17298
I'm unsure, although it might be something to do with Aliens

>>15348
>>15501
Seconding Black Dogs. The reason it got a decisive conclusion is because it's the most refined of his early longform stuff and because the fetish crowd didn't get overly weird about anything and scare him away. He knew what he wanted from the start and he executed it

>>17449
what crowd

>>17459
Yellow Halogen got canned for future seasons in part because the incest fetish people glued themselves to it.

>>17847
i can see that being the case, but was it ever stated or implied?

>>17847
proof?

>>17877
phat ass

>>17873
I've only heard things secondhand and I think a lot of his original interviews are lost now but that's what I've heard.

>>42212
Holy shit, it's real. He's improved his linework and shapes, imo.

>>12201
walking cum dumpster..

>>17847
>Yellow Halogen got canned for future seasons in part because the incest fetish people glued themselves to it.
I don't think this is the case. While there were some unhinged people in the comment section of Part 9, he still intended to go through with Yellow Halogen S2 well into writing Design Season 3. It was just never fully realized.

Stargazing With Murderous Intent [lofi/chill beats]
Feeling sick today and listening to this while I rest. The SSTWL medley feels really nice. It's also amazing (to me) that he's able to adjust his music into a different genre and make it look easy. With Di being in the picture, I just hope he has the time to complete the concept of Let's Split Up someday.

>>50646
That's fucking awesome

>>50906
>>51209
glad you liked it!

>>12195
I miss Cliffside so much.

>>52570
Did you draw it?

>>53533
yea

>>54471
Would

>>55921
Anon no she will literally melt your brain

>>54471
You could almost do like a carpetbagger kind of angle with the sirens coming in from wealthy shipping hubs. Iirc aren't the sirens in the original Yellow Halogen sort of like secret royalty anyway?

>>57237
It's true, he walks with the swagger of the most background street crosser to have ever crossed a frickin' street.

>>60787
Probably by watching too much anime

>>62650
based kek

>>62650
Peak horror, excellent work drawfren!

>>62836
>>62841
Aye, 'preciate it.

>>62650
DI OOOOOOOUUUUUUUGH MY BELOVED FERAL PIXIE DREAM HIRL

>>62650
All I really need to fix my life is a girl who wants to kill me
Very nice art

>>69004
spooky

>>69004
Scary AND Badass

>>69004
Cool

>>69004
Looks good

>>69033
>>69096
>>69113
>>69193
thanks. i like that it has the X eyes design that carried over to Cynwalker. since they're written as 'pissed off entities', i imagine the hypothetical episode they'd be in would push the horror factor a bit more since they're capable of illusion, telekinesis and some degree of reality manipulation (just based on the stuff Liam left on his tumblr on them)

Liam Vickers - Butterfly Getaway
Honestly cracked me up.

>>78722
That felt weird seeing a non-liam shaped human

Which of Liam's characters, LVA and SSTWL, could beat Cyn solo?

>>86611
Ponder.
I will not elaborate.

SSTWL creating the best music you will ever hear for absolutely no reason.
Fun mix. Have to admit it's solid, only Ponder's part just felt a little out of place. Daughter Program was extremely on point.

The further into Liam's other works I dive, the more random shit in Murder Drones suddenly makes sense. I'm listening to puppet game and now all the "robots have bio mechanical parts suddenly due to coding" shit has context.

>>90005
What do you mean?

>>90146
The explaination Sarah gives for Ponder's origin, without giving spoilers for Pupoet Game, is basically "shitty coding leads to flesh horrors", which, considering that is also a story where multiple other stories are connected, explains the whole "Solver-infected robots bleed" thing.

>>12944
where is this from? I need to know.

>>91172
iirc, it's deathnote. Also that's a guy

actually this thread is kinda empty, nvm

>>97367
Shows the majority of this board's population came from Murder Drones with no/little knowledge of his previous stuff.
Good stuff by the way.

>>97405
>Shows the majority of this board's population came from Murder Drones with no/little knowledge of his previous stuff.
Well, yes. Cliffside has 16 million views. The entirety of Internecion Cube has 6 million. Even within the target demographic of Murder Drones, that's not an "you've at least heard of this" level of popularity.

>>97367
>>97456
>NTA
Makes me a bit sad honestly, really the only place for Liam Vickers fans here...sorta wish there was more people, but I don't wanna turn into /utg/

I've been meaning to try and connect all of Liam's stories into a single uni/multi verse, but I've yet to watch the rest of SSTWL outside of the first two seasons of Design.

Please remember that this thread exists

Wow

>>97937
Without spoiling things, Liam kind of does that for you eventually. At least for the stuff on SSTWL. Not sure how you'd connect Internecion Cube, Cliffside, and Murder Drones, but there's at least one possible connection between puppet game and murder drones.

Would it be appropriate to post Vickers-Like characters that we come up with on our own, or those of other artists clearly referencing Liam?
I ask only because I've been working on some drawings I've been enjoying but haven't been posting anything in the Drone thread because it's totally non-drone related.
The character is however heavily Vickers-inspired, so what say you fellow Anons?

>>142842
I'd say post them here or create a Vickers-Like thread

>>143247
Ok! I'll post here once I have something concrete finished, don't want to spin off a whole extra thread purely for my own personal autism.

>>142842
I don't see why not

vickers girl supremacy

>>144899
Wow, she looks awesome.

Is she some kind of super soldier?

>>144924
Maybe in the same sense that the YF-23 was a real fighter jet. There's only one of her (at the moment) and her health is delicate and costly to maintain, her full capabilities are unknown and still developing.
Her strength and powerset are completely dependent on the level of nanites available in her blood, they wear out when used and her body can only regenerate them very slowly, she relies on booster injections to keep the levels high.
Without them she's a paraplegic too weak to stand on her own power and unable to maintain a stable body temperature, with just enough nanites to keep her from dying.
Fully "charged" with a superdose of nanites she can do thinks like create near-impenetrable shields, molecule thickness whip-like blades that can shear effortlessly through metal, bench press a truck, levitate, and express a Wolverine-level healing factor.
These abilities only last as long as the nanite overcharge, and rapidly diminish as the extra nanites are consumed.

>>144926
Hmm, so a heavily armed SWAT team can kill her. Even if they all die.

Cool, she looks awesome.

>>144955
On the Vickers girl threat scale I’d put her above Kali but bellow Ic0n.

>>144943
>>144944
It's beautiful. I saved it.

>>144943
>>144944
Anon, will you post the painting process?

>>144962
Damn.

>>144948
She looks like the one who would be on top in sex.

>>144962
Catbox it.

>>145050
>>144965
Very well, witness my horrendous process
https://files.catbox.moe/qyljsq.mp4

>>145103
Thank you, anon!

>>144996
She would actually be quite shy, she’s a virgin. Two years of terminal illness immediately followed by a traumatic medical procedure, six months of physical therapy and a year of confinement away from any outside human interaction has left her totally isolated.

>>145931
Nice
>>145932
Very nice

>>145103
where did that yellow ref come from?

>>144899
>>144926
real crysis 2 vibes
dead man walking, but also super soldier

how do you keep making cool shit with cool designs
more bugdrones when?

>>146741
I think somewhat the same way Liam does, I hold onto character concepts for years at a time, rolling them through multiple permutations, adding or pruning things from them, but keeping some kind of underlying theme.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been brainstorming characters with another well known artist from the threads, one whom I look up to and whose input I value greatly. Those idea swapping sessions got me out of a creativity rut and spun off several characters and a setting similar in concept to Design or Internecion Cube.
I’ve already got enough ideas for it that it could be its own entire thing, I had been fantasizing about a webcomic even, however considering my time constraints it isn’t realistic. Unlike Liam who made his first animations for college and then got Murder Drones as a professional job, my irl employment is totally unrelated to my art hobby and it’s a full time gig.
To get the more fleshed out artistic training to take on something as ambitious as a webcomic I’d need to basically put my entire life on hold, which simply isn’t possible anymore.

Bugdrones when someone makes a cool request that interests me.

>>146757
NTA, but remember that a decent number of successful cartoonists managed to get toeholds despite less than stellar interplay between their employment and aspirations (Bill Watterson comes to mind)
The bigger trick then trying to carve out snippets of time here and there to formulate a comic would probably end up being marketing it, your art's further along than a lot of people and you'd probably only need to hammer out a truly finished product for a pitch to get funding, with less fleshed out ideas of where to go from there

>>148991
>>148993
>>148996
I am DIGGING the suit design
Downright EXCAVATING, FRACKING

Also: MARCY! And Y too i guess
> nigh dormant nanites
Oh cool, she can be as accident prone and indestructible as her drone counterpart

>>149751
Glad you like what I've been cooking Anon, I need to make some refinements and all of these are super WIPs that are going to be redrawn over the weekend, but I do feel like I've settled on a set of themes that I like and can draw regularly.
More to come soon.

>>150163
Why are you posting uncensored pussy

>>148991
>>148993
>>148996
Their design is just gorgeous, anon, if you ever start doing your own project, it will look awesome.

>>150835
This art makes my neurons work extremely actively.

>I do what i want, because, I can
Holy based.

>>145932
nice bush

Thinking whether or not to draw Yvonne in a Bundeswehr uniform.

>>150901
She'll look lovely.

>>150901
The flecktarn one or parade version?

>>151403
>>151405
>>151406
Why is magnolia making out with a femboy though 🤨🤨🤨
Kinda gay ngl

>>151498
That is a Yvvoneoid not a femboy

>>151403
>>151405
>>151406
Hot damn state department bitches.

>>151403
>>151405
>>151406
> Yvonne getting bodied in a fight and resorting to DIRTY TRICKERY

>Murder Drones, But Khan Fucked Yeva

Wake up

I'm in the wrong thread...fuck

[X] [X]
U

Where's my Cube green?

>>176798
She's young, but I'll still say it: mummy.

>>176874
she's a kraut, not an egyptian

>>183764
Damn, that's rare. Wonder if anons would even notice.

>>183764
At what cost?

>>186025
Looks very nice, realyl

>>183764
holy BASED

>>186025
It looks very beautiful. I hope you'll be posting more of your work here, anon.

>>186025
Epic

>>186025
Niceu
Looking forward to more of this setting

>>144899
the suit kinda looks like doomguy's armor from 4

>>186288
Huh, I hadn't thought of it like that but now that I look I can sorta see it, with the two-tone military greens and desaturated orange highlights.
It is meant to evoke a military theme, with the various labels and markings implying a sort of prototype state, as well as emphasize her physical frailty with the medical equipment hanging off her like at any moment she might need to be administered drugs with the clasps and buckles and obvious zippers and seams and lack of bulky armor implying that the whole thing could be stripped off of her quickly by nurses or scientists.
You can note that each arm and each leg piece has a sort of clasp where the green transitions to black, each of those clasps holds that whole part of the suit on and so any one or all of them could simply be unclipped and tugged right off the limb beneath if necessary.

Black Dogs and Yellow Halogen were pretty good not gonna lie.

>>187363
Two sexy kitty:3
>because why not
Holy based

>>187363
SEXbians

>>187769
Damn sexy xenos.
>>187770
Fucking staring into my soul.

>>187792
Alredy looks like peak, anon.

>>187792
Awww

Who will fire the first shot and create the first Non-Murder Drones Liam Vickers greenfext?

>>187920
We talking greentext of another existing Liam story, or just a new story following the common Liam conventions. Because I could do the latter since I'm already simmering ideas for my own Liam-esque story.

>>188327
I did mean the first one, but now I'm intrigued by the latter

>>188328
I'd need to simmer on a prompt for something from an existing Liam story, and probably go back and re-listen to it a few times to capture the characters correctly. As for the latter I'm the procrastinating retard who's slowly (glacially slowly) working on a story called PREDATOR/PREY, starring this bitch
>>144899

>We're in for a new grentext in Liam style
>And they're gonna be sexy
That's why I love anons.

>>188334
I look forward to it, your stuff has the good vibes in them

>>190324
>>190325
Holy sex.

So considering that Murder Drones was essentially the same story that Liam had been trying to tell forever with his other abandoned projects, what is the possibility that he's going to do something new?

>>190487
I've noticed that the whole fandom is unironically assuming that Liam's next show will also be about a monster girl with a manic smile and a cute guy she wants to fuck.

That's not saying much of course, but I also think Liam will use his old formula and just change it up in some parts, though I'd also like to get something brand new as well.

>>190324
>>190325
hell yeah

>>190691
>>190692
Very nice
> pray

>>190741
YAnon basically lent her to me, and we just bounced some ideas back and forth about general things about Yvonne comparing her to the other PREY Subjects and how she'll be personality-wise.
I haven't written anything except the little character bios further up in this thread and less than a page of very loose notes.
I bounce ideas off of my friends all the time, some of them cook up into full character concepts, greentexts, stories, etc, most just simmer in the back of my mind.
I couldn't call what I've done with YAnon and others a collaboration, not because I don't value their input but because PREDATOR/PREY is mostly an aesthetic draped over the bare bones of a story idea as of this moment.

>>190711
>>190712
Holy Stalin, she is just sex.

>>191421
my man you gotta hone up on your proportions
> stapling yourself
brings up memories of hideous destructor

>>191669
I did see some of their videos, along with some other online tutorials, mostly on basic shapes and poses but the longer it goes the more I lose interest and can't pay attention. I found it more motivating to draw if I just visualise the rougher stuff in my head plus look at other artwork both MD and non-MD related for a pose/object/etc. and figure out things as I go.

>>191705
Eh, whatever. I just draw for fun, don't really care if it might look weird.

>>191783
Mate, be real, do you have some sort of ADHD?

>>191856
Maybe? I dunno, it's hard for me to keep paying attention if a tutorial just keeps going.

>>192135
i still think you should do some practice specifically for it
seeing your own improvement is a great a feeling

>>191413
PREDATOR/PREY
Prologue 1/?

>"Nothing...at all?"
>"I'm very sorry Mrs. Hayes, but total immune system regeneration is still extremely new and, frankly in Magnolia's case the chances were very slim. In a normal case of immune deficiency the hospital probably wouldn't have even authorized us to try. As it is there isn't anything else we can do here, I've corresponded with the seven other specialists who have been working with your daughter over the past two years, and our consensus is...that we've exhausted all the conventional and most of the exotic treatments for Metchnikoff Syndrome. My advice would be to, ahem-, transfer her to hospice care and...ah, spend as much quality time with her as she...has left."
>"Time? H-how long...?"
>"In all honestly Mrs. Hayes, my colleagues and I are astonished by how long she's held on already. To be totally transparent, the hospital only gave us special dispensation to attempt immune regeneration because based on the progression of her symptoms compared to other cases, the Dean of Medicine and I agreed that her case should already have been terminal by the time you came to see us. She's already held on a month longer than our most optimistic estimates."
>"So you're saying..."
>"We don't honestly know, Mrs. Hayes, right now she's OK, she was able to eat a little this morning. The renal failure isn't progressing any faster than predicted, and while I can't predict how...it...will happen, the most dangerous thing is of course infection, followed closely by pulmonary hemorrhage ah, that is bleeding into the lungs."
>"Doctor Collins...are you absolutely sure there's nothing else you can do? We don't care about the costs, we'll go anywhere, try anything at all...please...my daughter..."
>"Well, there might be one place left we can send you...but are you sure? I don't want to dissuade you but Magnolia might be more comfortable...ah well. Here's their card. For what it's worth, I hope they can do something for your daughter, Mrs. Hayes."

>Magnolia turned the expensive feeling plastic business card over and over in her hands
>It was almost more like a credit card, but without the usual numbers or signature line on the back, embossed into the face of the card was a sharp, impersonal looking logo: "B.M.N Blue Mesa Dam Nanomedical Institute" and bellow it, smaller and with stark white letters contrasted against a fancy sword motif "Subsidiary of Calibern Research & Development"
>The motif held her attention, each way she tilted the card it faded to a different shade of blue, one way storm blue almost grey, then reflective silver, then a deep iridescent beetle blue
>A pothole jolted the car and nausea surged up from the pit of her stomach, cold sweat instantly springing out on her forehead and she screwed her eyes shut, counting backwards from ten and battling to swallow the bitter copper taste that surged into the back of her mouth
>"Ma, we almost there? Need a puke break soon..."
>She hated the cross country drives, hospital to hospital, state to state almost every other month for the past year. Each drive had become progressively worse as she got sicker. This time she'd been unconscious for most of it, but that wasn't a comforting sign. For the past week catching her breath had become increasingly difficult, and the rare bouts of vomiting that used to strike only once or twice a week had started coming on at least once a day. Today she'd already thrown up twice, both after trying to eat some of the bland, sterilized food her mother had packed for the trip. Both times it had come up clotted with blood.
>Her fingers fumbled with the card, they felt cold and mostly numb these days. Half of the problem, the doctors explained, was anemia which made sense. The other cause, according to Doc. Collins was nerve damage. They'd never seen it before because nobody with Metchnikoff had lived long enough for it to take hold.

>The road abruptly evened out, and Magnolia risked a glance out the window.
>Ahead of them the dense woods of the Blue Mesa wildlife preserve were cut abruptly by a massive, imposing, supermodern security wall, thirty foot tall nets of thick metal cable suspended between thick plasti-concrete pillars crowned with dimly glowing red warning lights converging on a solid looking brushed steel security gate.
>"I think...we're here Maggie..."
>"Great, I'm gonna get out and puke now."

>>195178
Apologies for being slow on this, weekend was crammed with chores because overtime work backed up my schedule, but I did promise last week to get some writing done and I hope this is at least enough bait to keep any readers interested until next weekend.

>>195178
Great start, I'll be waiting for the continuation.

>>195179
> weekly updates
Yeeees

>>195522
Teutonic Maid. Beautiful.

Isn't this thread supposed to be about Liams' works?

>>195817
other liam stuff and other liam stuff accessories

>>195817
It is, I put out feelers prior to posting any of my OC shit if anyone thought it would be too off-topic in >>142842 post. Reaction to that question and the first post seemed generally positive.
The greentext story and characters I've been working on are directly inspired by several of Liam's own works, however I will spin off a containment thread for Liam-Inspired art, stories, etc if other posters here find what I'm posting to be disruptive or too far off topic.

>>196094
IMO while the letter of the law says this is for other LV series, the spirit of the law has accepted this thread for vibes based offshoot OC and non-drone stuff
Plus the activity is so sparse there's plenty of space for both

TBH im open to anything Liam related, and yes that includes OC's and all of the other stuff too

>>195817
The vast majority of anons have been familiar with Liam's work for a while, and have been wanting a full project from him for a while, so we definitely wouldn't mind getting something inspired by him.

>>144948
in this pic specifically her suit reminds me of the B&Bs from MGS4

>>196763
MGS was one of several inspirations for her design.

>>196765
nice, can she kill me while dry humping me like the B&Bs can?

>>196887
You'll see a lot of how she kills when I get to that point.

>>198788
>>198789
Hot

>>198788
>>198789
Mmmm, tasty stuff.

>>195178
>Consciousness returned in a series of waves of pain, starting from her her guts and radiating outward, pain in her chest as a too-liquidy cough forced its way up her throat and out her mouth reeking of clots and iron
>The pain started to throb in time with her pulse, her overtaxed heart felt like it was beating up against the inside of her ribs, the ribs were a throbbing cage, and a vicious slow wave of pins and needles started at her elbows and moved down until it reached the numbness in her hands and subsided
>For some wavering, watery period of time she swam between sleep and wakefulness. Too slowly, the pains began to recede and she could faintly make sense of things one sense at a time.
>There was a cool, clinical feeling softness underneath her...she wasn't kneeling on the rough cement with sun beating down on her back, every tendon knotting as she prepared to throw up...this felt like some kind of bed, a plastic-feeling sheet covered her and the air had the unmistakable dry chill of being heavily conditioned
>She tried to shift her body slowly, one numb distant finger at a time, encountered a fresh throb in her wrist and the familiar invasive under-the-flesh shifting of an IV, a shift at the crook of her elbow implied the presence of yet another IV, more shifting revealed two more, one piercing her leg...that was a new one, and another uncomfortably slithered against the inside of her collarbone, the needle piercing neck just where it met her shoulder
>Her eyelids felt like lead panels, the muscles shivering with the strain of cracking open, panic needled her because for a few moments she saw nothing but vague red toned blurs
>Something warm and moist rolled down her cheek, the blurs swam slowly into shape as she concentrated all of her effort on bringing her eyes into focus
>"Oh she's awake! Nurse, someone! Oh baby your eyes...oh my God"
>Something white filled her vision, softness dabbed her cheek then pulled away blotched red

>Awareness wavered again, human figures Magnolia couldn't quite recognize seemed to leap across her narrow field of view in fast forward, somewhere far away from her a machine made a complex pneumatic sound
>Cold liquid fire trickled through the IV line in her shoulder, pain faded and fell to the back of her mind, and her vision assumed an abnormal sharp clarity, she heaved herself upright barely feeling how the deeply indrawn breath rattled deep in her lungs
>There were two other people in the room, she focused her too-sharp eyes on them both
>One was her mother, she looked...older, much older than the last two years should have made her, there were stress wrinkles around her mouth and at her forehead, her eyes looked sunken, her hair, which Magnolia had always thought of as beautiful looked brittle, and was shot through with gray. The woman who had run with her and laughed with her and who sometimes felt more like an older sister to her had been shrunken by grief that Magnolia had barely noticed until now...
>The man on the other hand...looked as though he had rolled off of an assembly line for "trustworthy physicians", salt and pepper beard, short and cut ruler straight, hair similarly grayed at the temples but almost as if the age were cosmetic, steel rimmed spectacles, brushed chrome stethoscope, brushed chrome belt buckle...like he was only playing a doctor on TV

Ok this is like a half-update, but there will be a second one later today after I've slept a bit.