zavok is essentially finished and functional ingame, just need to round up his voice lines and tweak a couple sprites a bit (posted a lil video of it in my discord, id post it here but bsky would eat it alive) Scolipede next, zekpack soon

I have zavok mostly done, but honestly work is doing a number on me and I’m too mentally and physically tired to finish the sheet for now but I need to find a way to get more comfy with doing the head turn sprites since I’m starting to near the point where I will be finishing several things soon

that main girl from kakegurui would have loved Balatro

this robot master design contest had some really cool entries but. my biggest biggest complaint is that if this ever happens again, capcom *needs* to choose a better template to work with, purely because the amount of vacuuming/maid women designs ive seen is so absurdly high

I really struggle with focus when it comes to refining pixel art, it’s been so difficult to get myself to actually finish my current plate but I wanna get zavok out soon enough, I’m trying to persist even thru the urge to do literally anything else

well i unfortunately didn’t make it into the top 20 for the robot master design contest, but that means i can at least show him off here proper all things considered im very happy with how most of him turned out

The plane probably!

secretly I got really into the Mean Girls musical during the height of my FFXIV phase so I’m actually sitting on a lot of AMV storyboards of my warrior of light and zenos (the mean girl) that I need to actually fully realize someday

there’s no choice in seating for this flight, you’re seated next to Zek

two more days until the robot master design contest results… the competition was extremely fierce and I fear my submission didn’t have as much of the professional flair that some others did, but hopefully I still have a shot

I don’t even rly play FFXIV at the moment but I can’t stand how SMN got no fun new button and every patch they simply add another tiny bit of potency to its 2 minutes 😭 fingers crossed for literally anything next expansion

Might study Arceus’s design a lil more, I don’t wanna make Zek’s design too busy but I wanna try and capture a lil more of whatever makes Arceus look elegant and striking,,, it’s hard to cause I don’t wanna change tooooo much of Zek, might add some spikes or change his legs a bit

I unfortunately think I might actually be starting to be really cracked at Sonic crossworlds, it only took playing it roughly 15 hours in the past couple of days It’s not perfect but I’d take it over mariokart world any day with how fun the drifting is

sonic crossworlds is so funny cause like. the game has one meta build that’s extremely fun and rewards skilled play and feels satisfying to use, and it’s so overpowered that it manages to somehow be balanced in the sea of overpowered items and forced rubberbanding the game throws you into

thinking about king of red lions again.., i should play wind waker more, if only for him if things continue to go well he may even end up as part of my modpack since I’ve been really obsessed with him

sonic racing crossworlds's main theme sucks so much but at the same time i could listen to it for hours on end, i unironically have it set to always play on the first and third lap of every level and will listen to it during every race, its lowkey a comfort song

various things I’ve been toying with heehee, I do need to finish all these sprite sheets soon and I’m probably starting too many but. just messing around with things atm

sorta in a lil bit of a pickle with Zek’s design, I think it’s in an alright spot but part of me wonders if I should lean into the arceus side a bit more, and also perhaps make his darker parts a bit starry I just have been in such a mood to see him be very regal and divine

purchased pacman world 2 repac on a whim cause it was on sale, honestly its such a strange experience? the game has some changes or additions that break the flow a bit, but overall the game still feels like an improvement on the original gameplay-wise in most aspects

Llama for a new year

this sprite is a WIP from months ago but I think it was a good starting point for king of red lions, gonna give him his royal clothes tho to keep it classy (plus a lil WIP sketch from yesterday to get the idea across) I’m probably gonna draw him clothed more often in general, he’s a king after all

king of red lions is on my mind again,,, need to draw more of him (maybe with zek as well) and I kinda wanna progress with the WIP of him I was working on for ring racers

Trying my best to get back on track with spriting, hopefully some iteration of my mod pack will be ready within a month (zavok and Scolipede are guaranteed additions)

I think Megaman 10 might be kinda worse than 9, maybe it’s partially because I’m playin it with proto man but. It’s kinda sad that they made him take more damage to balance him since the game is still improved by the charge/slide and yet they were clinging onto MM2 style gameplay so hard

lil spritework of the sonic OC ive been workshopping, got a mostly finalized design and maybe he'll even make it into my modpack someday

Megaman 9 really surprised me on replay, despite having no slide/charge it’s very well designed with fun bosses (even buster-only), fun levels, a really strong OST and a fortress that balances having you use weapons to progress without being too miserable I just feel sad that-

workshopped a lil sonic oc/sona(?) after talking with friends about it,,, not fully locked in but im happy with how he looks so far

looking back on fond memories from 3-4 months ago of of loading up a fresh save file for the first ring racers 2.4 beta, unlocking gear 3/vicious mode early and proceeding to get my ass thoroughly kicked by the massive difficulty spike from 2.3 insane how much the game changed (for the better too)

thinking about zek and wondering if he might artificially limit the reaction time of his body when racing with others to make sure its a fair race but then started thinking about how he would probably get rid of those limits when racing against his trio to make sure they know their place

I really love Arceus a lot but it’s very funny how he doesn’t exactly seem to be much of a caring god usually, really everything I’ve read of him paints him as very cold, untrusting and vindictive

there's some really fierce competition from a lot of skilled artists but i really hope my robot master gets into the top 20,,, waiting until january 30th will be tough

Okay guys I'm done! I wanted to get this done before new years hit for me, but I spent time with my family until midnight..,,.,..,,.,. So... new years gift for @zekrenard.bsky.social !!!!!! Hope he and everyone else enjoys reading! #writing #giratina #zekrom #arceus docs.google.com/document/d/1...

thinking about Rockman 4: Minus Infinity again,,, such a high quality and immense romhack that it kinda ruined other romhacks for me by comparison If you’re a Megaman fan consider checking it out, it’s excruciatingly difficult but such a memorable piece of fan content www.romhacking.net/hacks/910/

even tho I think Megaman 10 is overall a better game, been listening to the OST and I think 9’s blows it out of the water 9 has a lot more attitude in its composure and it just feels a lot more robust in comparison, especially ones like concrete/magma man’s themes imo

gonna finally have a lot of free time heading into new years so I need to finish my robot master design submission and try to get my zavok/Scolipede sprites into a playable state I also need to somewhat redo omega-xis, not entirely but. he definitely needs to be a bit larger

it’s always so wild to me that each stage in parappa 2 has a secondary song/melody that you’d only ever hear ingame if you’re nearly about to lose, and then they have that same melodies in the level select even though you could reasonably play the game and never hear them otherwise

me listening to the dissidia golbez voice lines and whenever I even as much as hear the exact grunts used for Zek’s voice I can feel my neurons fire like the wojak pointing image I sometimes forget that Zek actually has him as a voice claim (tho I think Zek wouldn’t be quite as… exuberant)

@zekrenard.bsky.social loves torturing me with comments like these ones in vc

lowkey wanna do smth for christmas,,,

oh, and if you find any red coins out there, make sure to grab those too

no joke my grandmother fed me three different desserts in a row when I visited her for christmas today, I feel insane

coming back to ring racers after a long hiatus and maybe playing an entirely different game (crossworlds) actually inadvertently helped since im finding tighter and cleaner lines a lot more easily i still need to derust but thankfully claimed at least a couple plats today with little issue

both parappa games are very good, but I think um jammer lammy has the upper hand as far as almost all the levels being full songs with full lyrics, as opposed to many levels in parappa being verse after verse of instructions plus the call and response with vocals and guitar is still so unique

lowkey I get a lil excited whenever I see Zek’s mod get new downloads, especially hoping he’s gotten more people into Ring racers in general I have a lot more characters planned for next year to hopefully get more of yall interested

posting the full redone zek rotation I made for my ring racers mod since I never bothered to before,,, i love seeing him spin

posting the full redone zek rotation I made for my ring racers mod since I never bothered to before,,, i love seeing him spin

been playing this MMX-style indie called Gravity Circuit and it’s rly good, feel like shilling it cause it’s half off (and already rly cheap) and has rly great sprites/gameplay, it’s been on my mind rly hard and I lowkey kinda wanna learn to speedrun it a bit store.steampowered.com/app/858710/G...

got sonic crossworlds a few weeks ago and had fun but I lowkey feel like I’ve had my fill after 20ish hours, the drifting/snaking is fun but playing in higher level lobbies is a slog when I’m still kinda new to it, bagging is such an issue and LVL4 drift is almost required for the I-frames

omega-xis finally getting clean voice lines and a good HD model in the star force collection,,,, its dumb that he's a preorder bonus but ive definitely locked it in already unfortunately this may mean i delay the RR mod for him until it releases so i can get clean voice lines + touch up his sprites

zek would probably be somewhat like banyue from what I’ve seen of him