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Agama's deviantART gallery

When I first found it over a year ago, after an hour or two of search, I thought I shouldn't give anyone the link. The reason was that I thought people would then bother her about coming back, Prison, stuff like that. Yesterday I realized it makes no sense to hide it, because people here aren't idiots and they've accepted her decision about leaving long ago already. Knowing that, the only reason for me to keep her gallery a secret would be pure selfishness. Therefore, it's time to share this link with you.

For people who somehow managed to avoid any information about Agama until now, many years ago she was a JJ2 tileset creator who contributed to our community with 4 masterpieces, namely Heaven, Egypt, Swamps of the Sleeping Jaguar and Sirius (aka Dimensions). Worth noting is that the four tilesets make the top 4 of J2O most reviewed tilesets, and all are rated above 9. According to her words in the Moonblaze's interview with Agama, all of them are made in MS Paint. Currently Agama's nickname is Olven, she claims she forgot everything about tileset creating and now it seems the only thing she draws is furries (she also did draw them during her presence in the community - meaning that she has more than 10 years of experience now if I'm not mistaken).

The gallery (take a while to browse, the drawings on the front page aren't as good as some older ones imo)

I ask you kindly to not spam her with comeback requests or anything tileset-related. I share this link just so you can please your eyes with some great quality anthro art, if you want you can of course start a conversation with her, but please accept her decision.

Also, I'm putting here an email she's sent to me, in case it might answer some of your questions:
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Hello Ementaler,

wow, how did you find me? I didn't know there are some bindings left between my J2O nick and this one.

I just read the article and I feel really honored. Making tilesets was a great fun and a bit of experience for me, it was cool to do something that made sense because people actually did use those tilesets... But I'm afraid there won't be more. It was great fun for me to spend my free time besides studying but now I'm a full-time working person and don't have time for making tilesets anymore. Besides I've forgotten everything about tileset greating anyway... All those tricks in color palette (though I believe nobody's playing JJ2 in 256 colors these days) and even more. Now I'm looking at the time I've been creating those tilesets and am happy to see one great part of my life behind me.

Agama isn't dead but... she simply doesn't have that much time anymore...

I believe there still can be more people who will come to the community and create some kick-ass graphic for JJ2. There are still lots of possibilities (like increased tileset size in the game addons). I'm amazed the community is still alive, the game itself was released like... 12 years ago? Wow...

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Olven (aka Agama)
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I do not know much about Agama, except that she made a few really awesome tilesets. but I guess she was respected at the time, so it's nice to hear something from an oldie legend.
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You did not "find" any "secret", considering you could easily find it by looking at Jazz related drawings at DA (apparently the episode image she drew is gone now?); also making a hugeass thread about someone's DA gallery is borderline creepy.
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You fool, now that you revealed to us her secret internet safehouse, we shall force her out her hideout and, ferried over by helicopters, cybernetically chain her to the dreaded J2O. At last, her personalized, specifically designated cell room shall have a purpose once more. I'm afraid we simply can not allow her tileset generating proficiency slip from our hands again, especially not at today's economy.

You hear me, "Olven"?! Your liberty filled, carefree days at which you could draw furries at will are over.

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You did not "find" any "secret", considering you could easily find it by looking at Jazz related drawings at DA (apparently the episode image she drew is gone now?)
As simple as that sounds, why in this case am I the first person from our community to get in touch with her? Other than that yes, I do realize there are ways to get to her dA account, otherwise I wouldn't get to her dA account. Logical, don't you think?
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Because, the rest of us leave people alone who leave the community?
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Ain't nothing too special, I came across her gallery at least a year ago and relatively easily recognized her. I can't really appreciate her pictures that much, not the style or themes I particularly like personally, though I acknowledge that they're really good technical-wise. With all this said, I don't find it worth this big of a mention, but if you insist and she doesn't mind, okay then.
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