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@anzyll
Been getting into animation recently. Also made a reference for my character Sestakova. :) She can drain people's bodily energy and has homophobia heterochromia in her eyes. Here's some more information if you're curious. I was inspired a lot by playing Mindwave, and while I've done hundreds of pixel art animations, it felt like a whole new beast to draw each frame properly. I feel good about it though. :)
My Fairy/Ground star-nosed mole Pokemon concept for a contest. It eats gems underground and converts them into a fine dust, which it uses for special attacks, shooting them out of its nose. I made this in about 6 minutes. Species: Snoke
Type: Fairy/Ground
Ability: Tinted Lens
Moves: Strange Steam, Earth Power, Power Gem, Wide Guard Other Moves: Flamethrower, Dig, Fury Swipes, Fairy Wind, Meteor Beam, Wish, Healing Wish, Aromatherapy, Aromatic Mist, Helping Hand, Rock Blast.
HP: 50 ATK: 64 DEF: 64 SPATK: 122 SPDEF: 61 SPEED: 138
Artfight 2025
Artfight 2025
OC owner - @anzyll ~ https://artfight.net/~Anzyll
"He went hoarse"
My le ArtFight card.
Amelia
What percentage of your characters are female/male?
100% Female, 0% Male
75% Female, 25% Male
50% Female, 50% Male
25% Female, 75% Male
0% Female, 100% Male
I'm the person with only non-binary characters.
(I personally have around 28% female and 72% male.)
Bunch of random character references I've drawn this week for my game / ArtFight. (L -> R) Sestakova, Acheron, Qeird, Lauren Dylan, Rat Boy, Vanguard And here are their in-game sprites for posterity.
Some random stuff from a project that's probably dead, which I was working on with a friend who lost interest. Maybe I'll reuse it somewhere in the future. The idea for this character was a cowgirl who was mangled during a train heist when her brother blew up the track. I was having trouble giving her a name, but I was going to title her "The Iron Hoof", and have her kicking be one of the central mechanics, working as sort of a dash and attack simultaneously. She had big horseshoes on the bottom of her feet, and would leave a huge hoof-print on doors she kicked open.
Her deal was that she was presumed dead after the train bombing, but returned with a horribly mangled face and respiratory system to take revenge on her old gang. "Iron Hoof? You look more like an iron lung!" was some dialogue that stuck out a lot in my head for her. The idea was a sort of time-trial platformer using a shotgun and kicking to speedrun stages. In-between stages you'd meet silly characters and help them with little quests and such.
The enemies were named after numbers in Spanish, but with a G as the first letter. So Goon #1 was Guno, Goon #2 was Gos, and Goon #4 was Guatro. "Gres" probably would've been a more handsome man with a shotgun, but development stopped before I got to him. The weird alien-looking man on the far right was an NPC known as "Mr. Grey", the town's undertaker. Not sure what he would've done, but I liked the idea of someone that you weren't quite sure whether they were an alien or not. He was inspired by a book series I read as a kid called Hamish X, where there were secret service agents that were basically androids/aliens named things like Mr. Candy and Mr. Sweet.
Also had some fun ideas for NPCs, mostly based on in-jokes.
Won't spoil too much else about it in case I want to bring it back in the future somehow.
For my next post, I thought I'd ramble about something random and uninteresting; so there's not particularly anything new going on. The second area of my game is an underground city inside of a Labyrinth, heavily inspired by Greek mythology. While it's inspired by Greece, it's also heavily inspired by typical nightlife shenanigans, shady dealings -- an entire city of back alleys. I've drawn inspiration from a lot of things for this area, and it's definitely the most dense thing I've ever made, not just with content, but also with characters I love and really want to be able to show other people. So for this little spotlight blog, I decided to choose the two I was working on right now: Lazlo and Brock.
Now, Brock and Lazlo aren't anything particularly standout, as far as characters go, but that makes me feel like they exemplify the standard. They're not mindblowers, they just dudes. I made them in around 2019-ish. It was notably before the Techbro boom in popularity, which I will try to avoid naming for fear of bots and blocked words. I thought it would be really funny to have two guys in a basement somewhere, mining some coins, just totally lame dudes. Brock, the orange-haired one, was originally called Bob Musk, which in the current day and age would be just the corniest overused joke ever. The name Bob came from YouTuber Muyskerm, who I felt he somewhat resembled. His surname, Fuller, is a parody of Ferris Bueller, and his titular Day Off. Brock Fuller is sort of a corruption + jumble of Ferris Bueller, who kind of exemplifies the devil-may-care attitude of the residents of the city of Labyrinth that Brock lives in. I wanted to make a character who would attack you with a calculator; doubling and subtracting stats and HP, adding buffs, dividing damage, etc. When I was a kid I imagined having "calculator powers" once or twice in math class -- my fault for reading so much Rick Riordan. Percy Jackson's weird pen sword probably rubbed off a lot on me, gave me a great appreciation of both Greek culture AND urban fantasy, both of which play in heavily to this area. For Brock's clothes, I wanted to do a sort of "business casual" look, like someone who doesn't know how to dress but is trying to look professional. For colours, the orange hair came naturally, but I just knew I had to give him Joker colours for his shirt and tie.
Good old purple and green. The Joker (2019) movie was still rather new at the time, and all of the memes had me thinking about it. 'Course, I've never actually WATCHED Joker (2019), but I don't think he wears purple in the film, so my brain kinda autocorrected to Heath Ledger's. Better design either way, if you ask me. Techbros and Joker go together like arson and kerosene. Lazlo is comparatively more simple. I really wanted to give him one of those "not really a tuxedo" t-shirts. They're so incredibly lame, but also so incredibly charming at the same time, it really screams "nerdy 20-something" to me.
His face was on a whim, I can't recall exactly what inspired me for that sort of "teeth hanging off the bottom of a top lip" overbite sort of look, but if I had to guess it was probably at least partially Futurama.
My art was subconsciously influenced by the stupid mouth shape that Matt Groening makes an unfortunate amount around the time, it always pissed me off because I don't ACTUALLY like how it looks. It took a lot of restraint to sort of pull back my art style from this big-lip sorta overbite exaggeration that was really common in my circles at the time, and Laz is a product of that, but one of the few that I think I actually nailed in regards to it. That said, it's very possible that I just accidentally and unintentionally ripped it from something I can't name at the moment. His name however, was directly inspired by Camp Lazlo; wow, we're 3 for 3 on references to things I've never watched. I think all I know about Camp Lazlo is that at the end they reveal that one of the main characters was a fraud from an insane asylum the whole time, which is definitely the kind of energy I vibe with for gags. With his face, I felt like he'd fit in on that show... and also maybe if he was an animal of some kind. His surname, Doherty, was just the surname of someone I used to know IRL as a kid. He looks kinda similar to my old friend in some ways, though thankfully not due to his ungodly overbite. For Lazlo's power, I believe I was heavily inspired by Shin from Dorohedoro, due to this panel where Shin cuts off his arms to find the "magical smoke veins" inside of them.
(Smoke in Dorohedoro, for those uninitiated, allows the user to perform magic.) I thought it was interesting that Shin could just do this and get away with it. It occurs in a flashback, in a world with magic, so it's clear when he cuts his arms off that they'll come back, but it's still quite an impressive stunt to perform surgery on yourself like this. How the fuck did he even cut off the second arm? Isn't one arm enough? I couldn't tell you, but it leaves quite the impression. Back on topic though, I thought it was quite interesting to have a character based on this and "phantom pain", where you can still feel the limb as if it's still there, despite it not being. So, Lazlo can emit smoke from where his arm was severed, and use it to create a new giant arm made entirely of smoke. I assume if he were to lose a second arm or leg or such, it would also be replaced with smoke. Maybe if he was decapitated, he'd survive with a smoke head, sort of like an Elsen from OFF.
It is the most important element, after all. I do enjoy portraying people with disabilities rather normally, and Lazlo is a nice usage of that. I really enjoy having him wave with his missing arm, for example. Makes the world feel a bit more real to me.
That's right fuckos, I lured you in with 5 consecutive smaller posts about women, and then sucker punched you with a literal essay about my WEIRD LITTLE MEN. ...Sorry.
Fia Entymol, also known as "The Sand Dancer", is a charismatic enemy bounty hunter in my game. She came from across the known world to participate in a tournament, and using her signature weapon "The Embalmer" and skills that she learned from years of dancing, she's putting it all in to win. She is a geomancer, and can loosely control rocks, dirt and sand that she touches, usually through the base of her feet. She prefers sand, having grown up in a desert, and with her power not being particularly strong enough to lift anything larger. I wanted to make a character that felt like they'd come a long way to be there, which I think worked well, as her Egyptian vibe heavily contrasts the sort of North Atlantic energy the rest of the game brings. In her home country, she is socially pressured to dress much more conservatively, so she really enjoys travelling abroad, and having a stage name and persona. Her catchphrase, "FE -- Good as gold." would probably work better if FE wasn't the symbol for iron, however. I also made my first 3D model recently in Blender, because I thought it'd be funny if I could make her do the Club Penguin dance.
Acheron, the Greek river of pain and woe. While trying to design this character based on the prompt I had a decent amount of trouble. My first take was a sort of clown that cried blood, and I disliked it enough to totally drop working on them for like a year. When I finally came back to it though, I feel like I nailed every member of the band. It's unfortunate that they were designed to be side characters, I really love them all, particularly Acheron. While I was having trouble, I tried to imagine what a pain elemental would be like. Maybe something like Darkest Dungeon's Flagellant?
Someone who inflicts pain on themself and others? It was a cool idea, but I didn't have much for it. Then it hit me; what if I just make it someone to whom pain is inflicted? A sort of pain elemental? What if I just made her a girl with hemophilia and a bunch of pretty pink bandaids. The girliest pain elemental you've ever seen.
I drew this and fell in love with it. She sucks. Notably, she's not a high schooler, she's around 20 years old, I just wanted to use that sort of outfit. I was thinking of literal sailor outfits at the time; she's based on a river, y'know. But now I justify it by being the only outfit she has left that isn't drenched in blood. As you can see in the first picture here, which was the first sketch, she was originally going to have a skirt, but when I went to make the overworld sprite, I had finished it, and I realized that I'd simply forgotten to add it. I was focusing on the bandaids on her legs and only noticed near the end. I had to pick between two design elements, and I felt like the skirt was just less interesting, so I ditched it.
Normally I don't enjoy character designs of women in their underwear, since they're usually crass or shallow or just pornographic in nature, but I didn't feel like I hit any of those benchmarks, so I let it slide. Often my characters have special powers or abilities; not her. She just sucks.
"Season 2" outfit for my character Lucille "Brightcide" Sestakova. I was trying to envision an outfit for a sort of "cat burglar", and I ended up on this sort of vampire magician look. She is neither a vampire nor a magician; if anything she's closer to a cat burglar and a musician, but I thought it was pretty cool, so take that.
I don't want to spoil too much about her, but she's one of my favourites, and she really likes whipped cream.
Styx and her mostly-willing boyfriend Cocytus, though they aren't officially "together." In my game's universe, everybody is born with a special ability, and these two are no exception. Inspired and named after the Greek rivers of the underworld, they serve as river guardians of an underground society. Styx's ability is known as Dealmaker, which allows her to force "deals" upon unwilling people so long as she can get them to shake her hand. These deals could be as simple as a fair trade, or as specific as the opposing party gaining a seafood allergy. As she's the one who decides what the deal is, touching her hand is probably the worst decision you could make. However, childhood friend Cocytus wasn't lucky enough to escape her grasp, and couldn't leave if he wanted to. Despite only being 27, a deal with Styx has reduced his hair count to a measly three, due to her plucking one out every time he does something that upsets her; intentionally or not. While not an ideal situation for him, he hasn't tried to escape yet, and doesn't particularly mind her being overbearing towards him as long as he can get some time alone. Cocytus' ability is breathing extremely cold air (-58C), which he can transmit a considerable distance by yelling. A literal bone-chilling scream. He also gambles a lot.
Sunshine, the airheaded altruist. An antagonist by pure happenstance, but probably one of the best "enemies" you could hope to have. Works at the Colosseum as a referee, "pit babe", and first responder.
Based on the concept of true Altruism, Sunshine can use her power to give, but not receive. A common criticism of supposed "altruism" is that it's theoretically impossible to be truly unselfish in making a decision, like how getting a present for your friend's birthday might be as a way to make yourself look good, or it makes you happy to see them happy. I wanted to make a character who was literally incapable of being selfish, sort of inspired by that old 2000s movie Ella Enchanted, but without the weird slavery aspects. Just someone who was ALWAYS happy, and thus wasn't too perturbed by missing out or losing anything she would give away to someone. Her power is based on this as well; let's say you got a cut on your hand. She can transfer over the "cut-free" state of her hand to you, and take on your cut for you. The alternate outfit is a "Season 2" concept, for how she'd look after the events of the story.
