So tonight I decided I would install Corel Painter X and make a somewhat permanent switch from Photoshop to color all of my artwork. After 4 hours I whipped out this piece of Sephiroth, Final Fantasy VII's resident badass.

Hands down, the most badass villian since Skeletor, Mumm-Ra and Megatron to ever grace anyone's television screen or fan-fic. I love Sephiroth! To be quite honest, at one point as I was wasting away a good 80 hours or so playing Final Fantasy VII back when it first came out on PSOne, I kinda wanted to be Sephiroth.

Wonder what people would say if I had legally changed my name to Sephiroth Jones?

Labels: Anime, Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth, Video Game

Ok, so it's day 4, but I decided not to wait till the last minute to do something...something I'm quite guilty of actually. Anyway, DiC's version of RARE's Battletoads characters.

PSYCHOTRONIC! COSMORIFFIC!

So, there was only one episode...a pilot to be exact, written by David Wise, whom nerds like me know as the guy that wrote a lot of the Fred Wolf Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons in the late 80's and Batman The Animated Series, and if I'm correct, is still writing cartoons today. DiC's version was pretty campy. I'm not saying the game wasn't, cause it was, unless you're talking about the Super Battletoads Arcade game, which is quite bloody and violent, but the show just couldn't stand up against the Turtles. They were just too popular. The cartoon also changed a few things as well. The kids had their original names from the game, and even the toad forms names were kept, but, they made them high school students, not game testers...take that back. They were high school students obsessed with video games. Professor T-Bird sounded like I'd always imagined him to, as did Princess Angelica and the Dark Queen. I think if someone tried to do it again, it'd be pretty successful. I also think that the calls to Gamestop and such would start all over again about pre-ordering a copy of Battletoads for the Wii, with a complimentary Wii strap, lol.

LET'S GET WARTY!!!!

Labels: Battletoads, DiC Entertainment, RARE, Video Game

Because I foolishly entered Udon's Darkstalkers 15th Anniversary Tribute book thinking I actually had a shot of getting in...yeah, confidence was pretty high for a little while. I hadn't heard back so I'm guessing it's pretty safe to say it's not going in so I'm gonna post it for everyone else to see. It's of my all time favorite character, Jon Talbain, cause werewolves kick ass. I saw a couple of other entries that didn't makes it in as well and they were pretty frickin' phenomenal so it makes me wonder what kind of masterpieces were actually picked for the book, or if all the pieces were actually done by actual comic book artists that worked for Udon or other studios, which gave all the rest of us hopefuls no chance of getting picked, even though they were asking all fans to do stuff. I'm pretty sure most of what's in there will be by actual studio and comic book workers, but this is mine. And though it's not perfect, the hours upon hours upon hours I spent on it make it all worth it to me. Don't care what anyone else says, this is my masterpiece. I could die tomorrow and be satisfied with myself, lol.

Labels: Anime, Capcom, Darkstalkers, Jon Talbain, Manga, Video Game, Werewolf