Li’l Animus – Part 2

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Mar 132013
 

Welcome back to the Wednesday Mash-ups. I’m a little late today, because I was working on the last piece for this week’s installment. Let’s not waste anymore time then shall we? As always, click to embiggen.

When the Muppets took Manhattan, they introduced the Muppet Babies to the world. It was a neat little sequence that in all honesty would probably have been forgotten if not for the cartoon that it spawned. The Muppet Babies were a staple of my Saturday morning viewing. Today, I continue my homage to that concept of “baby-fying” my characters.

First is Nektara. She really looks happy with her flute. This is my second-favorite piece of this set, though I have high hopes for my idea for Zoë next week.

Nektara

Next is baby Cyran. There are two little challenges I enjoy when I do a new mash-up theme. The first is how to incorporate a wrench into Cyran’s design. I thought a rattle attachment was cute. The dancing wrench and hammer on his shirt came about because I didn’t want him to be wearing a plain t-shirt.

Cyran

The other challenge I mentioned is how to hide Big Oonch’s eyes. I considered having him crying with his head leaning back (similar to the Shazam! piece in the DC Superheroes set in concept) but I liked the ol’ baby bonnet idea better even though it’s probably not a very inspired choice. Also, Happy > Sad.

Oonch

So that’s it for this week. Next week should conclude our look at Li’l Animus

Li’l Animus

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Feb 272013
 

Hey everybody! It’s time for the Wednesday Mash-ups! Last week I said I wasn’t sure I’d have time to work in some new material for the mash-ups. I’d drawn a Battlestar Galactica sketch and wasn’t feeling it. Turns out I just needed to go in a different direction.

In the vein of the Muppet Babies, this week, we start our look at Li’l Animus. I tried something a little different with the colouring this time around. As always, click on a picture to embiggen it.

First, we have Little Sass having fun playing with her favorite tinker toy, Mouser.

Sass

First up is Baby Todrick. Doesn’t he look happy?

Todrick

Last for this week, is Barnababy, just getting ready for a nap.

 Barnaby

New animal babies next week!

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Final Animus IX – Part 4

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Feb 202013
 

Hey hey folks! It’s time for the Wednesday Mash-up again. This week, we conclude our look at Final Fantasy IX. This turned out to be one of my favorite sets. I hope you liked them too. As always, click to embiggen.

Here Sass is as General Beatrix. Beatrix isn’t in the main cast. As such, she didn’t get a full body render pose like the other characters. Finding good reference material was therefore more problematic. I had to go with screen captures from the game. This was not ideal because you didn’t get to see her whole body. The pose is from the final cut scene in the game where you only get to see her from the belt up. The lower half was taken from someone’s cosplay costume.I have no idea how authentic it is.

Sass---Beatrix

Red Rich gets to play the baddie, Kuja. Again, I had to go with different sources to base this piece on. Kuja is featured in Final Fantasy Dissidia (a fighting game on the Sony PSP) so I could have used artwork from that game, but I didn’t feel it fit the aesthetic of the original game as well. Kuja’s lower body gear is…special. I tried to tame it down here.

Red-Rich---Kuja

At the end of the game, Kuja undergoes a transformation. He goes into what the game calls Trance mode. The last piece of the set is therefore Red Rich in Trance mode.

Red-Rich---Kuja-Trance

That’s all for this week. I’ve been mostly focused on the Age of Animus RPG these last couple of weeks as I gear up for a test run on March 2nd. I have no mash-ups drawn for next week so far beyond a first sketch which I wasn’t really feeling. Unless I get more jazzed for the idea, there’s a good chance there won’t be any mash-ups next week. We’ll see how it goes. Have a good week y’all!

Final Animus IX – Part Three

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Feb 132013
 

Welcome back to the Wednesday Mash-up. More Final Fantasy IX this week! As always, click to embiggen.

Here we have Barnaby dressed as Amarant Coral. This drawing posed an interesting challenge in that I just about never draw my characters from behind. It works out well that I feel that Barnaby is the character best suited for this kind of pose.

Barnaby---Amarant

Rounding out the main heroic cast is Popkin as Quina Quen. Quina is a gourmet who loves to eat. I feel Popkin is a good match personality wise.

Popkin---Quina

And so to conclude for this week is my reproduction of the Final Fantasy IX cover poster.

FFIX-Cover

That’s it for this week. What? Popkin is being featured before Sass and Red Rich? What gives? Fear not friends. There’s another Final Fantasy IX installment left to go. See you next week!

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