Doing Things!

No comic this week woo! Instead we have other important things I've been working on. This is some concept art for the game I'm currently doing the art for. We don't wanna give away too many details before it's set in stone (please see: we're making it up as we go) but it's going to be a game in which a disease will infect the player with different types of mutations giving them increased strength or a ranged bile bomb type attack. Things like that. Also I've picked up Richard Williams' book The Animators Survival Kit, because I'm probably gonna need to learn how to do actual animations and fast. So far it's a crazy awesome, crazy heavy book with some really good character to it.

So all that's taken up a good bit of my week along with working my real job. I don't plan on making this kind of stuff main content for the week so this was just filler for this week. I have some comics I wanna do involving things like Hearthstone, Child of Light and eventually Transistor when that comes out.

Lastly, the Greninja V. Kirby comic was my best comic so far with the most popularity and best reception out of all of them. So thank you guys for sharing it with others and spreading the laughs. Please continue to do so and of course be sure to follow me on Twitter @Toushinu for updates on when I post new content! What do you think of the character designs so far? Sites each progression read as distinctly melee and ranged?

Kirby Becomes A Monster

Kirby now has the power to spit shurikens at his opponents.

I've been wanting to make this comic for far too long. Like many other people I was extremely hyped to see that Greninja was added to the new Super Smash's roster. I've always been a fan of the faster characters in the game and Greninja looks like he's gonna be just that. Also, doing this comic was one of the most therapeutic things I could have done all week. Have you ever just googled "Kirby" before? It's unholy how adorable it is.

Be sure to follow me @Toushinu on Twitter for updates on when I post new comics! Maybe we can ponder the mysteries of life together. Like, where am I gonna get my groceries tonight? Does Kirby ever say no to a meal? When is Mewtwo gonna be announced? All these questions and mooooore!*

*will go unanswered

Five Stages Of Grief As Told By Dota 2

Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. All these ingredients come together to create the maddest little boy!

Games like League of Legends and Dota are so bittersweet to me. On the one hand, it's a game that a lot of my friends can get behind and we can all play together. And they are genuinely fun and deep and get me super engaged with their mechanics. On the other hand, when you don't have a full party, you have to deal with the beast that is the anonymous internet. A terrible beast indeed. With zero consequences, people will say and do anything to anger those who anger them, unprovoked or otherwise. And that is why I have been fairly successful at quitting these games. There are just some days where my friends have this... itch. And when your friends have the itch, you need to help them scratch. Now I'm uninstalling Dota 2 for the umpteenth time. Yaaaay. I do love me some Phantom Lancer though.

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Flapper Gal

So I have no idea whether or not blogger will be compressing this image for me or not. For 100% definite 1920 x 1200 resolution try using this link:

http://min.us/i/ofhsBxX9WwRB

The Evolution Of A Titanfall Player

But honestly this is how I am with every competitive game.

I was really skeptical about Titanfall for a long while. It was a combination of the online only functionality, the lack of a single player campaign, and the fact that I'm terrible at shooters. But I decided to sink the 60 bucks, and I wasn't disappointed (in the game at least, I was still terrible at shooters). It was really fun, the parkour worked really well, and it doesn't feel as gimmicky as I thought it would be. People get really creative with the wall jumping. And playing inside the titans is extremely empowering. You're just like "I WILL BREAK YOUR SOUL" and all "ANYTHING THAT CROSSES MY PATH MEETS DEATH". But then you panic when your robot friend tells you that someone is on top of your titan. There's also a neat power up system where you get one time use cards that give you advantages until you die in a match. So eets fun. Rull fun. But fuck losing.

Apologies for not being able to post a comic last week. Like I said on twitter, it's been a hectic week so I never got around to making the comic, but NO MORE! Every Saturday kids!

Be sure to follow me on Twitter @Toushinu for updates on when I post new comics! It would help me know that there are more than 3 people reading these :D And give me motivation to actually... draw... backgrounds... WOO! Is there any way to get better at shooters? ;-;

The Instrument of Your Doom

You see this shit?! This shit actually happened to me! This game gets my dick ROCK HARD. 

I really enjoyed Dark Souls and Demon's Souls before this, but this moment in Dark Souls 2 was one of the most beautiful moments I've ever experienced in a video game. I don't think I did this justice in this comic, but my little brother and I just... sat there, jaw on the floor as to how awesome this emergent kind of narrative arose. If you want to experience this assetry, this happened in the Undead Crypt.

In other news, this comic made me realize how little I know about anatomy. So many... misproportioned things. But hey. Some constructive criticism would be nice.

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Kill la Komic

Sweet baby Jesus I love this anime. You may have to click on it to actually read it though :c if I make it any bigger it looks like poop

I heard about it a while ago but never got around to watching it, then watched about 7 episodes in a row a few days ago, instantly fell in love. That's when my friend decided to shit on me with his poppycock pessimism, even though it makes all the sense. The animation is gorgeous, and even though I only know about enough Japanese to talk to a 5 year old about the weather, the voice acting seems solid. Lots of yelling definitely helps. This anime is so, ugh, yes.

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 WE HAVE TO BEEEEE AS ONE!

Also, the song this comic references is Before My Body is Dry

Midterms Are Like Finals' Nasty Babies

When I take my finals I'll be sure to have paramedics standing by.

This story is partly true, except for the part where, ya know, my dog talks, and I learn that he's great at ventriloquism. I was studying for a test when my dog walks up and gives me the most judgey stare he's ever thrown me, yawns, and walks away. He makes me very sad.

I'm so happy I got this last week over with because now I can enjoy the perks of Spring Break in New Jersey. Like wishing the snow was gone, wishing you weren't at work, wishing you could go to the park and enjoy whatever "nature" was, wishing the snow was gone.

Be sure to follow me on Twitter @Toushinu for notifications on when I post knew comics! Maybe you'll get to see some nudes. Not mine of course. Cuz that's haha... that's weird, who... who even...




OH NOES I accidentally clicked the post button on a Friday ;-; Well you, uhh... You're not gonna tell anyone right? This secret is between you and me.

Why I Hated The Witcher

I didn't exactly hate The Witcher. I think its a great game but... Jesus. Triss was the bane of my existence in that game. I couldn't even get to the Kayran because every fight she was involved in, resulted in her killing me. And those of you that have played The Witcher 2 know that this is towards the beginning of the game. No amount of mods could have saved me... I'd like to give it another go eventually.

I know I'm a tad late on this one, but ya know. School. Work. Sleep.

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Grindin' All Day, Grindin' All Night

My god this took so long =.=

So with this, I want to announce that I'll be posting new comics every Saturday (not including this one cuz dammit, you got your comic already). Video game related or otherwise.

So like I said in the last post, I really am enjoying Bravely Default. But one problem that I'm running into is how insanely easy it is to just grind your little heart away without even paying attention to the game. I had a similar problem with the new Exp. Share in Pokemon X/Y, but at least you had to input commands in order to progress. Preparing for bosses in this game once involved me handing the game to my younger brother and telling him, "just walk in a circle while I make a sandwich, I already set the battle commands". Regardless the game is still pretty awesome. I luv it 4evar.

Follow me on Twitter @Toushinu for notifications of when I post new comics! Maybe I'll talk about other things. Maybe not. Narcissism is a hard thing to work through.

This is my last Bravely Default post I promise...







...actually we'll see.

Bravely Default

So I got Square Enix's Bravely Default the day it came out, with a friend of mine and well wasn't that the worst idea I ever had. I hadn't been able to put the game down until recently when I realized how much work I wasn't getting done. So to get it out my system while still feeling productive, I made my own lil avatar c:

The game is outstanding. The music is great, the combat is fun as shit and the environments like cities are hand illustrated so they look fucking gorgeous. It's hugely reminiscent of Final Fantasy 3 in the way it plays and progressess, but it has so much more substance than FF3 hoped to have. Hands down one of my favorite games on the 3DS right under Pokemon, and right above Link Between Worlds. Pick it up if you have the chance.

It'd also be really sexy of you to follow me on Twitter @Toushinu for updates on when I post new content. Maybe we could go grab something to eat afterwards?

Animation(s?)! \'ani-MER-sherns\

So because I had nothing else to do this Winter break, I decided I'd start getting into animation! I had this really nice idea I was really into and I started working on it, up until I realized that I didn't know anything about animation. So, I thought I'd reel it back a bit and just do a quick animation of something. 

That "quick" animation turned into about 7 days of working for about and hour or two each day, and learning about animation for another hour every day, and has manifested itself into the second long pool of barf you see above :D 

This is the start of something beautiful. or at least, something slightly less atrocious than what's up there '___'

Things I learned
-this takes quite a while
like I said before, this takes forever, this was only 24 frames and I was animating on two's (if my phrasing is right)
-even though frames appear for a fraction of a second, details still matter
when I was doing certain things like the clumpy hair, I disregarded the necessity for consistency in abstract forms, but after watching it back during the later stages of production, I realized that structure in that kind of thing still matters. The hair is going ALL over the place :x
-there are a lot of "drawing the same thing slightly more to left" situations
especially when you want things to look like they're bouncing slightly from recoil or whatnot

Lemme know what you think!