Zek, Divine Dragon

I’m really glad I got super into ring racers if only for the fact that it allowed me an opportunity to really engage with spriting and learn more about color theory, lighting, proportioning and more

and I’m excited to finally soon release what I’ve been working on for the past several months

It’s been nearly a year since I released zek, and honestly I’m a lil bit floored by how much both his design and my artstyle progressed since I started working on him,, it’s so funny looking back at his original mega-compressed design now

some sketches for practicing normal art since ive barely done any in the past few months

It’s definitely very sweaty and intense by design but if you’ve ever wanted more from mariokart and/or really really love sonic I’d highly recommend it (it’s free and has absurd amounts of base game and fanmade content too)

lowkey if I really wanted to queerbait people into playing ring racers I’d simply make a banyue racer

and honestly it’s not out of the realm of possibility since I really like him (it’s not happening anytime soon though)

some sketches for practicing normal art since ive barely done any in the past few months

I need to finish Scolipede soon to show it off early since like. honestly I was expecting zavok to be the big feature of the pack but so many people go crazy for Scolipede too

I want to release my modpack soon after star force collection drops, but I very much will need his voice clips to complete him since he’s a vital part of the pack

Hopefully it’s not hard to dig thru the files and get them without recording

I hope someone rips all of omega-xis’s voice lines cleanly really soon after star force collection releases, it’d make my life so much easier

on a more serious note, my hrothgar is now playable (I’m very happy with the lil stun icon in his spinout)

i remembered that i can do anything i want, so i added the cop from onward into ring racers

I’ve been fooling around for a week and still entirely redid my warrior of light (which originally took weeks of dragging my ass) as well as nearly a full set of job stones

I wish my output was more but I suppose it shouldn’t be considered a small amount

Sometimes I feel I’m not fast enough with my spriting but like. Even though I drag my feet a bit while doing sprites it’s still much faster than when I started (and I feel a lot happier with my detailing now too)

lil wip of my warrior of light 🥺 been redoing him over the past week and hope to add him soon enough

one of my current focuses has been returning to my warrior of light (one of my earliest projects) and also making a full set of job stones to serve as followers for him

I liked the part where they showed me in the pokemon presents

felt like coming back to one of my first unreleased projects with a fresh eye and more skills, second one was whipped up in an hour and i already love it more

say hello to an unexpected second racer to be joining ring racers soon, Sasori (a badnik from Sonic CD) is now essentially finished and ready for release alongside Zavok and more

I couldn't resist the urge to work his spritesheet out in a week

It’s funny that this big modpack project spawned simply because my warrior of light couldn’t fit in the default size template

I want to include him after I’m done with the base pack, as well as a separate FFXIV job stone follower pack (with code to change his stats when the stones are equipped)

I have zavok done and omega-xis, Scolipede and sasori (the scorpion from sonic CD) nearing completion, would like to get a couple others up to near-completion status by the end of next month and get them finalized for a proper release

I’m using the dark ADHD tech of juggling 6 or more projects at the same time so I’m perpetually stimulated and staying busy during my procrastination

unfortunately it means nothing will be finished until suddenly everything is finished at the same time

honestly doing all this spritework recently has really made me gain a lot more appreciation for the effort that went into the spritework in older Sonic titles since I’ve been studying them for references an awful lot lately

especially CD, which has such a staggering amount of level graphics

the chrome parts are not technically part of its design, official art and the final full-res ending have his claw and turret circles as cyan but

the original crunchy FMV adds that chrome effect and it’s so stylish I couldn’t help adding it as an experiment

Another project I’m working on for ring racers, may potentially become part of the pack

The dynamax theming is mostly because my character pack will be all large characters, but also because it’s fun to have zek show off his power a bit (he doesn’t need a dynamax spot he can just do this naturally)

a lil WIP of the release image i'm preparing for my ring racers pack heehee

my whole desire currently is just to make a ring racers modpack that caters more to people who love men, but without it being too bara-leaning and non-PG

there’s a lot of characters that just haven’t been done yet that I’m gonna need to step in and make

a lil before and after of the omega-xis i'm working on for ring racers, i shelved him for a while and decided to revisit it with new skills

while im on fire, here's a zavok i finished for ring racers (him, scolipede and more will be playable soon in my modpack coming next month)

honestly a lil bit yeah, this guy was sorta meant to be a sona but i didnt wanna make a dragon or other reptile