#max mao

[hiddenmangaka]

A redo of a fancomic based off a RREEEEAAAALLLLYYYY old flash animation series I followed! It’s called “XIN” and it as made by Steven Lim and Max Mao of Lifepoint1 Entertainment!! (If anyone is interested, it’s on YouTube!) I made an unofficial continuation and never really got to finish it 🤪

I got nostalgic and decided to draw it! Enjoy~!!! 💚💚💚

[suethor]

buffy the vampire slayer oc masterlist

Name: Maxine “Max” Mao

Age: 17

Film/Season: 2-??

Ship: Spike

Faceclaim: Kristin Kreuk

Fic Title: Lux Aeterna

Summary: Years of being best friends with Xander and Willow leaves Max no choice but to dive headfirst into the world of vampires upon the arrival of new student Buffy Summers.  Chronically late, ceaselessly energetic, and endlessly pessimistic, Max had enough on her plate before fanged offenders started popping up around every bend and turn.  Imagine how bad things get when she develops a crush on one of them.

[yvie-draws]

Lifepoint1 started making content again and that makes me a happy bean. 

So here’s one of the gals from their old Kazahana project...kinda. She doesn’t look like she belongs in that project based on all the fairy tale colors and overly poofy poof poofs. 

[yvie-draws]

Oh boy, long hair Min

[yvie-draws]

More quick practice with Hassei, originally created by Max Mao at Lifepoint1

His concept art had him with more wild hair so I went for that rather than the shorter hair he had in the flash that featured him

[yvie-draws]

With Lifepoint1 having some life put back into after years, I got an urge to draw some of their characters. So here’s a lone Nathan (Nathaniel Jenson) from SURFACE. 

No alt outfits for him just yet. 

HERE is a link for their main website. It’s a little empty atm since they’re revamping it but it has links to all their Youtube/Newgrounds/social media outlets so you can check out their stuff. 

[whiskeyii]

Back in my day...

Every so often, I get an urge to look up old webcomic artists who I read ages ago. Most of the time, they seemed to have either dropped those comics, or in worse cases, dropped off the internet altogether. Webcomics were a big, BIG part of my middle school life; I read everything from Inverloch to Earthsong (the first having finished and moved on to bigger and better comics; the latter is still ongoing) to things like 9th Elsewhere and A.I. Illusions (the artist for 9E ended up in the hospital and hasn't been heard from since 2010, while AIA was dropped in favor of other original comics). Of course, I'm sure there are lots more I'm forgetting, but the worst offender, for me, isn't a webcomic, but a flash animation. See, back then, newgrounds.com was the shit. If it was cool, it was on newgrounds. There was an animation duo back then called life.1, or lifepoint1, whichever you preferred. Though most famous for their XIN series (which was about delinquent students at a delinquent school taking down the big bad authorities who ran the school) and their Kazahana works (one guy leaves his ridiculous fortune to the sole survivor of a HUGE family feud with thousands of members) for the sheer RIDICULOUSNESS of the fight scenes (and not really in a good way), my favorite piece of theirs was called Surface.

The premise is simple: 7 people are dragged into another dimension for unknown reasons. Each seems to have their own inner struggles to deal with, but this magical world runs on a timer. What happens at the end of that countdown? Who knows! XP LiFepoint1 was made up of two people: Steven Lim and Max Mao. While Steven Lim seems to have moved on to making games for popovergames, Max Mao has vanished into the ether. It's a shame, because this is the series I always keep thinking back to, wondering "what if...?" Maybe one day I'll sit down and answer those questions for myself! XD

Anyways, that's it for my nostalgia trip. Just felt like jotting this down somewhere, because Lifepoint1 (and Surface) fans have pretty much scattered to the winds these days, and I don't have anyone to complain to. :P Here's the first part of Episode 1, if you're interested, though be warned, it hasn't aged very well AT ALL. The blond guy might sound familiar to avid indie gamers--he's Lucien Dodge, the VA for Dust in the game Dust: An Elysian Tale, and he's Vincent Court in Bravely Default: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJH2NlESwxw