If you hadn’t noticed, every day I’ve been adding more pictures of Ayano’s Krystal cosplay. Apparently everyone wanted a photo or six. Richard L has been sending me lists of pictures DAILY, if not bi-daily. Thanks so much to him for looking through countless galleries. He also found us another video appearance.

After over a year, I’ve created another Krystal fanfilm. I put a lot of effort into it. It has a very interesting effect towards the end. “A Girl Like That” is by Lucas Prata. The music was edited to remove a verse (because frankly there isn’t enough footage of Krystal to manage all three verses). Hope you enjoy!

Direct Link

Downloadable HD Version

I added a page for Ayano’s Krystal Fursuit. It has several new pictures and a couple of video appearances I found (like this one at 3:51).

Direct Link

Ayano’s Krystal Cosplay Page

Yet another cosplay of Krystal appeared at Further Confusion 2010 (which is still going on). Kat the Leopardess sent me a link to this image on lynard’s FurAffinity page. I don’t know if lynard is the wearer or just the photographer, but since the show is still going on, we’ll probably see more images, and possibly videos, later. If you find out any info, as always, please let me know!

As you can see, this suit uses skin-tight thick cloth with different colored fabric to represent fur patterns (and the tattoos!). A hard plastic facial mask and wig make up the head. The wearer has a very realistic staff, but the suit appears to be missing the tail entirely.

Updates
As indicated in the comments, Rabbit in the Moon told me that the cosplayer is of Japanese origin, and Ayano (spelling?) is her name. Ayano has been to several previous furry conventions, wearing such costumes as Mithra and Renamon. Also, though you can’t see it, there is apparently a tail on this costume! <3

New picture from Shep! Krystal finally enjoys her sandwich.

(Thanks Richard L!)

(I have a lot of other pictures and some video to show, but I will save that for tomorrow.)

I’ve updated both the traditional and rendered lists. I’ve removed missing fanarts (especially those from FA, since it turns out my 404 detector doesn’t work with FA). I’ve transferred those fanarts I found to be in the wrong list into the appropriate list. I corrected a couple errors here and there. I’ve also gone through all art up to and including Black_Berry (so far) in order to: add favs, remove “non-art” as I define it, added additional warnings where appropriate, and removed fanart that on second consideration are not in line with the KA’s policy against mature imagery.

What do you take away from this? Well for now, you can find my favorites for most of the first page of the traditional list are up to date.

Tomorrow, I plan to finish the script for sorting fanart (it’s more complicated than just using a normal sort function). With that done, I can finally integrate the new fanart posted recently. I can also update the missing fanart page with the fanarts I removed tonight. Wish me luck. Otherwise, I’ll probably go through around 1 page’s worth per day, adding favs and all that. Then it shall be DONE! Never again will I have to go through every single fanart manually.

(To those of you who don’t care about the fanart updates, sorry, there will be just a few more of them, and then we can move to other news, ok?)

Update:
Scripts finished.
README for everything finished.
Integrated latest update into the lists.
Finished the fav/checking process for the fanarts on page 2 (just 6 more to go)

Final Update
All favorites/warnings/mods complete on all lists.
There should be no more fanart updates until I add new fanart (probably a few weeks).
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I am so tired at looking at fanart!

After spending my evenings for the last couple days clicking links, I’ve gotten the traditional and rendered art completely separated.

I might have missed something (I’m only human). If you see something in the wrong list, please let me know.

I plan on going back through the lists once more and correcting a couple things. I’m going to remove all photoshop art (taking and modifying official renders), photoshopped icons, screens from mods featuring Krystal, and the few cases I detected where I mistook another character for Krystal. Also, many fanarts went missing since I last checked in December. Fortunately, I can automate that process.

Oh! And I still have to standardize the warnings and add my favorites. So much to do!

Finally, though I have added the new rendered fanart (posted a couple days ago) into the rendered list, I haven’t yet done the same for the new traditional art. This is because I haven’t yet the integration script, which itself requires a specialized sorting script. Once those two major functions are done, the process of doing fanart will be about as automated as it can be.

This fanart update serves as a test of my new system of obtaining and sorting fanart. I’m still writing functions as I go, but the difficult work is behind me. The final major function to write is a specialized fanart sorter, and a related function to integrate two fanart lists. Because I’m missing those, it may be a little while before I can integrate the traditional art list into the main list.

For the first time, traditional and rendered art has been separated. I also went ahead and marked my favorites as part of the process. The quantity of favorites found here are representative of the quantity of favorites I will make on the main list when I get around to it. Enjoy.

Oh, and notice how the pink doesn’t show up. That’s cause they are ALL new, so there’s no point in adding that.

Traditional Art

Rendered Art

4 years ago today, the Krystal Archive was born. *Confetti*

Everyone, thanks for coming to the site! Please comment about what you like about the site, and what you would improve.

You asked for it, well you’re getting it. I’m in the process of drastically changing the way fanart is displayed.

New Features

• Favorites are indicated with a star icon, for those of you too busy to look through all the links
• Warnings only show up if you want to see them, just hover over their icon
• Standardized warnings to give you a more consistent idea of what to expect
• Colored borders are used to differentiate DeviantArt links from FurAffinity links, and so on
• The “NEW!” fanart text has been replaced by a subtle shade of pink

Later, with the help of some volunteers, we’ll get the tranditional art seperated from the 3D rendered art, because you demanded it. Also, when I get it working, there won’t be any favorites yet picked, because I haven’t yet gone through them to add that data. That’s something I’ll do on my own time later.

Unfortunately, I can’t finish the update without breaking things on the site, so for a few hours to a couple days, the fanart lists may or may not be working.

Updates
5PM – The missing list has been updated to the new format, if you want to have a look.
8PM – The hosted page has been updated, the “unlisted” list page has been deleted (most of the content is now gone), I created a new page for the eventual list of rendered fanarts, and I created a page explaining the new standardized warnings. I’m now working on the script that will turn the main fanart list into the pages you see in the main list. This takes longer than the other lists because of the sheer number of fanarts there. I’ve done it before though, so it shouldn’t take too long.
12:40AM(next day) – Done! The main list has been updated to the new style. I also added a few favorites in there, so you can see the feature. It’ll be a while before I can add a bunch of them.

It looks like Team Wolf wins this time! Although there was a technical difficulties for Team Fox, they lost 5 hours. They may try and bring it back later, but we don’t know.

For now, final score (unless Team Star Fox comes back):
Team Fox: 1670
Team Wolf: 2515
Donations so far: $140 (You can still donate, PLEASE DO!)

Thanks to both teams for their dedication and entertaining performances. Here’s Team Wolf saying goodbye to the camera before shutting down for a long, long rest.