Bobcat's Domain

I may be returning, who knows?

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I forgot I had a Tumblr

I usually ignore emails, since they're usually adverts anyway. Turns out accounts don't auto-deactivate. Guess I might come back here. It's only been, what, a year?

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Userpage of Bobcat_That_Aint_Bubsy -- Fur Affinity [dot] net

hey all, sorry for the lack of updates in months, but i've been acting primarily on FA, rather than here. I make SFW and NSFW art, although almost entirely SFW art (unless you guys want me to draw NSFW, if you want to know how i reconcile this with my religion, check out the journal post on my FA)

for a while, i even forgot i had a Tumblr.

i've since converted to Buddhism and started looking inwards.

I won't really post on Tumblr anymore after this, i'll probably just be a lurker.

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Not such a drag, huh? by Bobcat_That_Aint_Bubsy

Yeah i drew this whilst very tired, still figuring out how the human part of anatomy works. anyway, i'm uploading this to scraps so ...

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recent roughs I drew. I've uploaded them to my furaffinity too ( Userpage of Bobcat_That_Aint_Bubsy -- Fur Affinity [dot] net)!

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Bubsy Doom mod

So, ya wanna be a video game star? The first thing you wanna do is download this mod right here. Does what it says on the tin, adds Bubsy in

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spent every chance i had at college practicing drawing Gex's head, to practice proportions and unique head shapes. i figured out a quick way to get the proportions right after attempt 3, hence the quick construction sketch. attempt 4 isn't perfect, but much closer to the source material.

still got a long way to go, but progress is progress.

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second ever YTP, slightly better sentence mixing

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First ever poll

Which of these failed mascots is your favourite?

Bubsy T. Bobcat

Awesome Possum

Gex

Aero the Acrobat

Blinx the Cat

Voting ended onMar 6, 2024

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chronicling my fursona development pt 1

What could possibly go wrong? well it's quite simple - many, many things. I've started using Bubsy as a reference material (my fursona is a bobcat after all, kinda a cross between Dixie Mae Carlyle and Bubsy), and i've been making notes on what makes him "work", and i've been doing that with Eric W Schwartz's art for ages (my fursona used to be a skunk, is all). to summarise what i've learnt so far: large eyes and a mouth can make a character more expressive. you don't need complicated eyes to convey emotion - even just the pupil can convey a lot. large cheeks are helpful with some felines - not just rodents the simpler the design, the better.

The 90s clearly had the right idea when it came to character design.

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my first ever YTP has been completed. it ain't great, but it's decent for a first attempt

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obscure mascot platformers

I wish they'd made a comeback, to be honest. You don't see them much anymore, and whilst many were kinda bad, they had potential (can't be any worse than Blinx, after all). With modern hardware, we could have more vibrant graphics and more cartoony sort of sprites. Remaking Bubsy: Claws Encounters Of The Furred Kind or Gex could be a great move, all things considered - especially if they were multi-platform.

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hot take:

Bubsy 3D is overhated. sure the controls suck, and the graphics aren't as good as SM64, but it was started development at a time where there weren't really any 3D platformers, and by the time the main rivals to Bubsy 3D were announced, there wasn't enough money in the budget to start from scratch. In other words - it was destined to be somewhat mediocre, but it wasn't especially bad - at least in context. furthermore, Bubsy doesn't even talk that much outside of the tutorial, so even if you do find his voice annoying, he isn't as talkative as people say.

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Fun Fact about Gex

In Gex: Enter The Gecko, Danny John-Jules voices Gex in the UK release. Danny John-Jules also being the same guy who played Cat in Red Dwarf and Officer Dwayne Myers in Death In Paradise.

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Bubsy in Doom???

I'm very tempted to make a Doom wad where you play as Bubsy the Bobcat. I'd have to learn how to program for GZDoom, but I'd add in the voice lines from Bubsy 3D. What could possible go wrong?