#mawpaw

[proto-jenna]

Olympia and Poxy traverse the night sky, not a care in the world but to be side by side

More concept art for the Rayman fan game I've been working on

[zemellow]

collection of splatoon sketches featuring @s-blast92’s ocs

[bigswigrollerexpress]

Clearly everyone here is so normal.

River belongs to @gothlovecore , Eli belongs to @s-blast92 , Gnosis belongs to Me, MawPaw belongs to @zemellow!!

[asch2inspire]

Hi, sketched something for the witness’s sake.

A majestic beast soaring through the air within a Teensie village while the inhabitants gaze upon it.

[proto-jenna]

Finally finished the first devlog for my Rayman fan game, Hands of Olympia!

You can watch it on YouTube here:

[proto-jenna]

I've been drawing for a Rayman fan game I'm making, and I've been feeling very normal about this somewhat obscure creature from Rayman 3 called the Mawpaw.

It's like a flying plesiosaur with a hand for a face

I had to make a Mawpaw character, so say hi to Poxy!

[proto-jenna]

Been seeing a lot of Rayman headcanon posts, so I thought I'd share mine. This is about his world, and a few characters within it.

First off, every game is essentially a new universe. When the current god entity of the universe dreams, those dreams manifest into reality. Each dream is different from the last, but often similar. Similar enough that Rayman returns every time, but not necessarily everyone or everything else. Each time the universe changes, some things go missing, some things are added, and a lot of things change. None of the characters know this, and they go from game to game, universe to universe, blissfully unaware that anything changed.

For example, Rayman knows Betilla in R1. But in R2 Polokus dreams that Betilla is now Ly, and as far as Rayman remembers, she was always Ly. R3 rolls around, and Rayman has no recollection of either of them because they don't exist in that universe (I don't count Ly's statue easter egg, unless we're trying to make sense of Razorbeard's easter egg too). In Origins, suddenly Betilla's back and it's like she was there the whole time, now she's the one who created Rayman. Ly becomes a forgotten dream, someone nobody was sure ever existed.

Similarly, Polokus and the Bubble Dreamer are different iterations of the same god-entity whose dreams define the world. In R1 and RRR, the god-entity's dream didn't give itself a physical form, and instead is the world itself... or the heart of the world. I also think the god-entity intentionally avoided having a physical form to avoid the wrath of the rabbids.

In R3, the god-entity takes a low-profile physical form that no one would suspect: Mawpaws! Think about it, they can fly to seemingly anywhere, they're big and majestic, sparse and mysterious, and they're always magically there to pick you up if you fall (except for the final boss, which has the ONLY death pit in the entire game). I don't have any evidence for this one, I'm just Mawpaw-kin so I had to include this somewhere in here XD

On a related note, there is a canon connection between Rayman's world and our world, thanks to RRR2. I think Polokus and the Bubble Dreamer are also direct connections to our world, in that they are representations of the dev team; the irl people who literally dream up Rayman's world and make it a reality.

I also think the Magician(s) in Origins/Legends is another iteration of the Magician from R1. Initially I thought he might be another version of Mr Dark, but both the final and scrapped plot don't really support that. I think the Ales Mansay version of the Magician is just a teensie now. Why? Because the Bubble Dreamer dreamed it, and as far as anyone remembers, he was always a teensie. And also probably for the same reason that all playable characters besides Rayman and Globox are teensie re-skins in Origins; because the dev team focused their time and money on making levels, environment art, and fluid controls rather than fleshing out the world and its inhabitants... er, I mean because the Bubble Dreamer only had so much mental energy to dream, and spent it all on the world itself so all friendlies are teensies now.

I think a lot of friend characters don't show up after their debut game because they're never dreamt of again in the constantly changing universe. I think the Bubble Dreamer is always dreaming new things, so inevitably some dreams end up forgotten. In the same way that devs were probably encouraged to come up with new whimsical worlds and creatures to inhabit them with each new game, rather than bringing every minor character back over and over. All of this to say that Uglette and the Globox kids were forgotten dreams, since she was cut from the final game.

Which means, in Origins/Legends, Globox and Rayman are lovers. Sorry, I don't make the rules. They share the same conception of life in polite society, their taste in music, dance, and the arts in general. A friendship grew to legend, and a legend grew to myth. Nothing could keep these two apart. No one gets THAT close to someone without exploring each other's bodies, come on.

[proto-jenna]

Poxy, now in 3D!!!!

I ripped the mawpaw model from Rayman 3 using RayMap

It was all distorted and had to be pieced together. It doesn't bring over any textures, animations, or usable rigging info, so I had to do all that myself from scratch. She's even got IK, maybe I'll make her into a VR avatar. I totally didn't end up working on it till 1am on a work night >.> <.<

But she's all done!

I can't wait to start animating the first devlog for the Hands of Olympia fan game

She's my blorbo, and I love her <3