YoruPoru is a young, internationally renowned artist who works with digital imagery. She is so hot right now. Her latest project is a series of digital photos which she makes using the video game Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. She calls the project "The Adventures of the Team of Crazies".

       The Team of Crazies is an ever-expanding cast of characters created by YoruPoru. The members of the team have their own stories, and they also join together in the game world with characters created by other players. All these characters serve as subjects for YoruPoru's unique and brilliant artworks.
       To learn more about the Team of Crazies and to view the full collection of photos in the series, please visit the links below:

• YoruPoru's Photo Albums - Imgur  (main page with latest episodes)
• Photo Adventures of the Team of Crazies: Season 2 - GameFAQs

       Archives:

• TheTeamofCrazies Photo Albums - Imgur  (five episodes from S3 and S4)
• The Photo Adventures of the Team of Crazies: PS4 Series - GameFAQs
• The Adventures of the Team of Crazies: PS3 Series Finale - GameFAQs
• The Adventures of the Team of Crazies: Season 3 - GameFAQs
• The Adventures of the Team of Crazies: Season 2 - GameFAQs
• The Adventures of the Team of Crazies: Season 1 - GameFAQs

       The collection of artworks in the gallery is intended as a sample of YoruPoru's work which showcases not only her talent but also her range. In addition, every effort was made to include a large selection of characters from other players of the game. I personally perused YoruPoru's entire oeuvre, painstakingly picking pictures to present to the public. With other artists this task might have been a chore—you have no idea how hard it is to be a master curator!—but with YoruPoru's work it was always a joy.
       Having chosen the photos for the gallery, we began work on their restoration. While the untouched images are all superb, we felt that some did not achieve their full potential as a result of the capturing process; we sought to make subtle improvements so YoruPoru's artistry could truly shine. Initially, I hired a promising senior restorer from Zaragoza, Spain to do the job over several months. However, when I saw what she had done I sent her away immediately and had my assistant Deidre perform the restoration, with my supervision.

       Early in 2015, I had finished another exhausting day of work when I passed by my assistant, Deidre, and glanced at her laptop. I expected to see her reading a low-brow fashion article, illustrated with snaps of some reality-TV floozy—just another instance of the cultural malaise against which I battle every day. Instead, what I saw on her screen smacked me right in the gob. She was looking through a collection of images, and each one was a triumph of art! The composition, the color, the use of light and shadow... as I gazed over her shoulder, I could not help but think of the vaulted genius of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Liefield. But who was this artist?

       Deidre explained that the artist went by the pseudonym YoruPoru and that she used a video game to conjure up these masterpieces. What's more, rather than selling her work for great sums on the contemporary art market, she generously put them online—free to one and all. I staggered home in a daze. What could I do about this discovery? In bed that night, I tossed and turned, until a flash of inspiration struck me. I bolted upright and shouted, "It belongs in a museum!" After pausing briefly to wonder why I, a master curator, did not have such an idea sooner, I got up immediately and began making the arrangements for a new gallery to display and preserve this artist's finest work.

       I placed call after call to potential financiers that night; some did not appreciate being awakened in the wee hours of the morning and were shockingly rude. Long story short, I found it difficult to secure funding despite my reputation and wealth of contacts. But soon I found a group of investors from a unlikely source—the Pacific islands of Vanuatu. They wanted to build the gallery in Port Vila; I tried to explain that it might be difficult to attract the contemporary art community to such a location. Although they were unmoved, they put forth another idea: a Web site to launch along with the gallery, so the world could visit the gallery online. I agreed, and soon construction on both projects was up and running. On September 6th, 2015, I was pleased to announce the grand opening of the YoruPoru Gallery.

       Knowing nothing about cyberspace page-making, I sought help in finding someone to create the gallery Web site. A friend recommended his son, who would build the site for a refreshingly low fee. I had my suspicions from the start: this pale youth arrived in shabby dress and I sensed an odor of cannabis emanating from him. That said, his initial work was acceptable. Soon, however, my fears were confirmed. One day he simply quit, complaining about my helpful micromanagement on his way out the door. He had not completed the guestbook section of the site, so I was forced to get Deidre to help me set something up on an external site which was frequented by YoruPoru's fans. Although the site "guestbook" is now archived such that further signatures cannot be added, you may read it by clicking the link below:

• Guestbook for the YoruPoru Gallery - GameFAQs

        Soon after the Gallery's grand opening, an unusual gentleman visited. I was out acquiring more kitty litter at the time, but Deidre reported to me that he was a portly man, oddly dressed, who asked to pay the entrance fee in gold: so eager was the look on his face that Deidre allowed it. He proceeded to spend many hours exploring the gallery, and on occasion gasps of ecstasy could be heard from his direction as he viewed the artwork.

       We thought little of it until several weeks later. One morning I was reclining outside by the Dragon's Tooth sculpture, gathering my thoughts. Suddenly a shadow passed over me, accompanied by a gust of wind; just as suddenly, all was calm again. But as I looked up, something floated down from the sky and came to rest on the pavement near me. I was most flabbergasted to discover that it was a section of newspaper with a review of this very gallery! I wasn't familiar with the publication, but the critique revealed the reviewer to be keenly perceptive, with superior taste. All in all, it is a wonderfully imaginative and insightful piece. Was our unusual visitor responsible for it?

       We include the review here for your enjoyment, but of course you may wish to explore the gallery yourself before reading it:

• YoruPoru Gallery Review in The Gransys Guardian

       On Christmas Day of 2015, the shadow of an airship appeared over the Dragon's Tooth sculpture outside the gallery, and a jetpack fell unceremoniously to the ground. It gave me quite a fright! Thankfully, the occupants of the airship were visiting not to conquer the gallery but to celebrate the holidays and YoruPoru's birthday, the day after Christmas. Click on the airship on the Navigation Map to experience the holiday event yourself and behold the generosity of YoruPoru and the rest of the Dragon's Dogma community.

       After the holidays, my assistant Deidre returned from her suspiciously long vacation time with her family, so we were able to make the final arrangements for a major expansion of the gallery collection. On January 8th, 2016, the gallery reopened with new selections of YoruPoru's work, taken from the art she had created between the time the gallery initially opened (in September) and the end of 2015. Most sections of the gallery were updated to include double the number of artworks; on the gallery Web site, the new sections are denoted with yellow buttons. Oh, and we also hired a new janitor.