MMMMMM

So over the past few months I've been working on a big level over in Little Big Planet 2. It's called MMMMMM and mimics the controls and difficulty of the game VVVVVV. It is by far my best level yet and I encourage you all to check it out.
Level Link: http://lbp.me/v/ywjws6
Its got decent ratings, but is very hard and very long and few have been strong and brave enough to finish it. It's a pretty deep, complex beast my level. so I figured I'd make a map, like all good 2d games. So here it is. the fruits of my labor: the entire game map.

MMMMMM Map

Also still alive, plodding through language barriers.

I too am still alive. I haven't spent much time honing my creative talents, unfortunately. I have been spending most of my free time studying like mad, trying to improve my Japanese. I feel as though after living here for as long as I have, my level is no where near where it should be and I must catch up and fast! I am improving slowly, but it's a constant effort. I'm currently in the process of making vocab cards for everything I can't remember (which is a lot).
Other than that, the usual; work, party on occasion, wander around...
Same old, same old.

Still Alive, Creating in Little Big Planet

So I haven't really been drawing much lately. But I have definately still been creative. I just finished about 100 hours of level creation making a level in Little Big Planet 2. LBP is a great game and tool for unleashing creativity. I made a level about an alien planet being attacked by another firey alien race, and you the hero have to help them get it back.
This was a lot of experimentation with the new LBP tools. but I tried to make it fairly interesting, by constantly throwing new tools and combinations of tools that I think players might not have seen before. In the past I've had a problem with making levels too hard. hopefully this time around it's a little better.
Please check it out. LBP is a great game. here's my level link so you can see how it's doing and add it to your LBP queue:
http://lbp.me/v/xhh19d

Just One of Those Days!

You know the ones I mean.... Hehehe!
Just a doodle I did today and decided to colour.

Struggling the Apocalypse

Struggling the Apocalypse

Became inspired to draw. Gryph and I had been playing around with a story, this is a depiction of a scene I came up with near the end. Shown is some of the heroes looking upon the tower from the middle of the wasteland. The sky forebodes the difficulty of the continued journey.

Draw! Challenge #5: Gluttony and Winry

Winry somehow gets stuck on a date with Gluttony!!

Ok, I have a lot of excuses, but I'll save you from all of them. Short of it is I didn't spend much time one this one, that's why I rippled the BG (like heat) and it looks bad... plus some other flaws/incompletions I wont point out.
But it was still fun to spit this one out. I wanted to give tribute to one of the best anime series Fullmetal Alchemist which just ended last week. Gluttony is a bad guy with a never-ending appetite, and Ed in the back there is the hero who not until the last ep hooks up with Winry (on the right). I tried to do Ed's chibi self... I think I was only moderately successful. Oh I also found that surprise is a hard expression to nail... it appears that I got closer to awe or something.
Ok that's it... I'll try to squeeze more time in next week.

Draw! Challenge #5

Taking an other's work and making it your own is quite a challenge. I thoroughly enjoyed last week's cross-over theme. In lieu of this, I propose this weeks challenge to be another fan-art piece of sorts...

The Unlikely Union

This week, we will be taking characters from other works and pairing them in a romantic situation (a wedding, a date, a good old fashioned snog fest, etc). These characters can be from the same comic, game, anime, etc or from different ones. The goal is to match two characters who would make very unlikely lovers.

Exclusion: Last week's crossover inspirations are excluded from this week's challenge. Wolverine, Spiderman, Mario, Pikachu, Yui, and Yoko are all off-limits to both artists in this challenge.