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Howdy! I'm Errn! I draw sometimes and like the Funny.

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Yo-hi! Welcome to Rift City!

Alright, I'm gonna rip the band-aid off a bit here and go a little more in-depth with my worldbuilding project. I developed The Master and Arbino back in June 2024, and since then, I've been building up a whole world and story with them that's been centered around a fictional sport called "Rift Dash" (name pending lmao), that is inspired by different rhythm games.

Ok ok, so what exactly is this "Rift City"? Well, Arbino would be happy to share some brief information below:

Wow thanks, Arbino, so cool.

Yeah so Rift City is Arbino's home and where the majority of the story takes place. Its whole culture is surrounded by art, music, tech, and the sport that Arbino plays. As they learn all the neat tips and tricks from the mysterious "The Master," they start to run into other conflicts with the Rift Dash League they've looked up to their whole life, and things get just a bit trickier than they would have expected. Between having to keep their training with The Master on the down-low, trying to stay on good terms with The League, fighting against their rivals, and figuring out how they're gonna afford groceries for the week, Arbino has a total run for their money.

They'll probably be alright.

I've got a whole world profile for Rift City on Toyhouse, but on god I will actually post about it. I figure some context would be good prior to posting random doodles and whatnot that way you have, like, some clue what's going on. Or at least have a link where you can read more.

What do I want to do with all of this? Dang dude, I'd love to make an animated pilot with this. I currently have an entire outline written out with a little over 50% of the first draft of the script made, but we shall see! I would like to get to working with revisions soon. I'm always hesitant to go on about stuff that's deep in the works, but hey maybe I'll have a change of heart lmao. Showing progress is cool.

Anyways, lecture over. Now you know a little more. Thanks for taking a moment to read if you've gotten this far. :]

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I need y'all to know I only got 3 hours of sleep last night just to work on those Mii doodles from the last post. I was in such a great flow state, you have no idea. So worth it.

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So, Dee's face can't be taken. Great. Awesome. She tries to do some of that warrior stuff with Mia in Greenhorne to help people get their faces back. Cool. Yeah, so The Dark Lord doesn't like that. Seeing as he can't take her face, he chooses to take her entirely instead, partly because he's interested in how he doesn't have that face-stealing ability with her, and he wants to see if having Mia look for Dee will distract her for a bit.

Dee is not the best company for The Dark Lord.

Alright, so jumping a little bit, possessed (aka Darkish Lord) Dee has a surprising amount of control over herself while stuck with The Dark Curse. Her origins and likes influence her design. But while she has SOME control over herself, The Dark Curse has control at any other point. They kinda switch back and forth. One minute, Dee is being benevolent and reasonable, the next she's ripping people's faces off and attacking everyone who stands in her way. Like she's still possessed, ya know? She's aware of everything going on, but she can't quite break out of the evilness of the actual curse. The both share the same thoughts.

But anyways, as such, she chooses to use sports against Mia, The Great Sage, and the Ex-Dark Lord (or Stan) as a way to fight them. Still got that Wuhu Island in her. The fun thing about this is, as stated in an earlier post, Dee is not at all good at sports. So it's not that bad.

I think Dee would even give herself a little normal-ish Mii form to make the sport easier to play. I really can't imagine the massive hands help that much.

Thanks, Dark Curse! So encouraging!

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Another Mii post. I'm gonna go back to doing Wuhu stuff in a minute, but I had additional thoughts back on Dee looking for "The Plaza." So she and her friend Mia travel to Miitopia to see if Dee can recognize anything there that'll help her figure out who she is and where she needs to get back to.

Unfortunately, as they're there, The Dark Lord is about. Dee attempts to take on the role of a warrior with the swordplay equipment she brought along with her (why did she bring that? No one knows), but she ends up getting grabbed by The Dark Lord a bit down the line.

The Dark Lord tries to steal her face to shut her up, but realizes he can't for reasons beyond anyone's understanding.

Mia's gotta go rescue Dee, yada yada (I wanna draw that really bad, but I didn't get to it), and to save Dee, she's gotta actually beat The Dark Lord. I figure she'll get help from The Great Sage.

A thought hit me, what if The Dark Curse possessed Dee as a last resort.

So anyways, Darkish Lord Dee. For whatever reason (I know the reason, but I won't say), the Dark Curse can't fully possess her, so it stays stuck to her as she still has some free thought/control.

Dee's not all that interested in being buddies with The Dark Curse. She just wants to go play ping pong or something.

Mia's definitely not impressed with the situation. But hey, at least it's more interesting than cleaning ping pong balls out of the pool on Wuhu.

I'm really spitballing here. Thought it'd be fun to draw them doing some adventure stuff. Maybe they'll find that plaza some other time...

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Piss off the CEO of Rift City's largest record label and you get ✨problems!✨

Mob, said CEO, does not take kindly to any criticism made by those who are less than him... which, by his definition, is everyone. Classic.

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Not the right license, Dee.

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Ok Mii art dump bc I got invested in Mii lore once again in my life. Thought it'd be fun to characterize the female default Mii, especially since she was on my 3DS Tomodachi Life island and super fun. Calling her "Dee" (ya know, short for Default), she wakes up on Wuhu Island one day, having washed ashore, and she has no clue how she got there, but she keeps talking about having come from some sort of "Plaza" that no one seems to know anything about.

She makes a friend named Mia (like Mii-uh haha get it I'm so not clever LMAO) and they hang around Wuhu Island for a while, playing sports and trying to get Dee to remember anything about what she did before ending up there.

Dee isn't the most outwardly expressive person, but her actions tend to speak louder anyways. She's... actually not the greatest at sports, but she at least tries when she feels like it! Also she can't balance on a bike very well and WILL fall... possibly off a cliff side. Wuhu should really put up guardrails.

At some point, I think she'd travel to Miitopia (yea I headcanon Miitopia and Wuhu Island and the Tomodachi Life island and all that are on the same planet) to try and find some semblance of the "Plaza" she's looking for. Of course, she gets a total shock when she sees Miis with dyed hair, bright eyes, and face paint. She has never seen Miis with so much brightness and detail to them before! It takes her some getting used to, and she may even consider getting her hair done...

(This is like a play on how she's from the Wii era, now experiencing Miis from the Switch era. Fun!)

Anyways yeah lil Mii ramble over. I love Miis so much. Have Dee annoying The Dark Lord.

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Oh hey yeah, I also make music sometimes. I gathered the nerve to post this song on YouTube. May post the others too. :]

Wanted to make a theme for every district of Rift City. If you can figure out what the little three-note tune is at the beginning, I'll give you a virtual hooray.

This was the first song I had made using Repear, and though I didn't end up having time to master it, I figured I'd just throw it out there anyways rather than let it continue to collect dust. I made it for that VR game I had made a post in the past about. It was fun to make! Tried to do a little synthwave, almost regal-sounding tune to match the theme of the Quest District- a place that is the heart of Rift City's many monuments.

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I happened to be listening to this song while watching my Miis dance and it was too groovy to not capture.

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Peep the new profile appearance- I don't think I've changed that since, like.... a long time ago.

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Wowowowow I've been doing all kinds of stuff in the background, I honestly forget I have a Tumblr. I would like to post more original character stuff, but I have a classic ol case of wanting to only post fully colored/lined stuff, and OC stuff is difficult to get off the ground here. But idk, I should probably just do it anyways.

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Toyhouse and Bluesky!

Hey guys I've been doing a lot with OCs and stuff. I've been putting a lot of that on my Toyhouse account. I've got a big world that I've been working on called Rift City (well ok, that's the name of the place the story takes place in; it's not the whole world) that's inspired by VR tech, VR games, and EDM (most notably on the indie side of things). It has become my greatest fixation over the last year, and I wanna share it more with people outside of Toyhouse and Discord lol.

I also made a Bluesky! I'm gonna post art and stuff there too, so feel free to follow me there!

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I keep forgetting that I can just Say Things on here. Like it doesn't have to be purely pictures. Call me the social media whiz over here.

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Happy Halloween! Drew some lil things with Arbino and The Master for the occasion.

(The picture on the piece of paper represents a Camellia song titled "Ghost" for those who would like context)

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Renders of my two OCs, Arbino and The Master, made with Autodesk Maya!

The Master's model was made by Jules while Arbino's model was made by me.

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If anyone has been wondering where I've gone, I've been doing a lot of work on OC stuff. Arbino and The Master have been the only guys on my mind for the last year, and I've been making all kinds of art with them- even a VR game.

Been learning a lot thanks to these two doofuses in my head. Didn't think I'd ever be so inspired by Beat Saber, a game about hitting cubes, in my entire life.

The model of The Master was made by Jules while the Arbino model was entirely made by me. All animations were performed and motion captured by me. Who knew developing a VR game by yourself could be so fun (and also make you wanna bash your head into a wall)?

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Animated attack to ring in Artfight 2025. Song is The Master by Teminite and Boom Kitty, and characters are by @errnimations

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I AM BLOWN AWAY 1000%!! THIS IS SO AWESOME, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!! THE MASTER AND ARBINO LOOK INCREDIBLE!!

Thank you for this super awesome attack! I am but a stain in the concrete from this.