Another massive category of work in Project Dragon that needed plenty of concepts outfits! Near the end of the project we felt the character creator needed some key options right off the bat that felt expressive of the range of playstyles/fantasies we anticipated

Out of gratitude for the enthusiasm and energy of the Project Dragon petition, I'm breaking from sticking purely to sharing pet concepts and tossing up another one of our mounts! Thanks everyone in the #BringBackProjectDragon tag- it's been great to see love for the project

Character design hack! To get nuance and a sense of life into your characters, secretly base them on your friends and tell no one here are , , my friend Tanner, my wife (tho she has like…10 different ones )

We planned to tell the story of our characters through cinematics that were driven by the aesthetics and motifs of their cultures. Leadona & Gran's intergenerational conflict played out via quilted patchwork!(And Leadona herself got a revised half mask and cape along the way)

Now that you know about the Purrans, it's time to meet Leadona! 4th of our 5 Inner Lands heroes, and the leader of a Purran theater troupe. Alongside her companion Gran- a grumpy haunted mask animated by the spirit of her grandmother #ProjectDragon

Purran theatrical tradition was inspired by masked Italian renaissance theater (commedia dell'arte), and each mask correlated with an on-stage archetype! They told their story through of their wanderings via the patchwork on their garments- each patch a memory. Elders collect 9-

Alright! TIME FOR CATSProject Dragon had 5 playable races scoped for our launch in the starter region- Humans, Fauns, Wyvarr, Valekin Purrans! Our cat folk were a culture of traveling performers with a rich tradition of theater-

In the early days, John Loren & I both put our heads together and started writing up lore to give us a framework to jam on for concepts. The Wyvarr emerged, gruff with hearts of gold. Cave dwelling worshipers of the Undersun, the fire at the worlds core

And you knew this was coming. What would Project Dragon be without playable Dragonfolk?? We called ours the Wyvarr and if you could define my comfort zone, it would absolutely look like this

Playable race I had the most fun fleshing out? Gotta be our floral folk, the Valekin. Such a rich vein to mine, trying to pull from trees, flowers, mushrooms, fruits and veggies all in the service of personality and world building. What's your fav?

Naturally, we had humans (like Effie!)But things got more interesting exploring "how far can we push the rig while inventing fantasy races?", then I pitched "if we just added a muzzle, we could get better dragon and catfolk", and THEN the gravity of "WHAT IF THEY WERE KIDS?" hit

One of the first creature ideas I pitched at the start of Dragon was the Pinoceros, and it stuck! Erika & I went on a walk in the woods talking about the project, our early memories of playing pretend in the forest, favorite rpgs, and by the time we got back the pino was hatched!

crash oldmandicoot

My project, that I've been pouring my heart and soul into for 3 years, has just been cancelled at phoenix labs and myself and the entire incredible team have been fired. We were weeks away from announcing- I'm just numb and heartbroken, but I'm definitely available for work now

Eyyy my Khan card for set 4 has been revealed by !

Hello please qrt with an art you are proud of

Nina Cortex is my favorite design in all of the crash canon- once upon a time I did a quick take on an anti-Nina where instead of a human with robot hands she was a robot with human hands

really bummed to hear Crash Team Rumble is sunsetting already- had fun playing and hoped for the best, I had my fingers crossed Nina and Pinstripe would get a chance to shine

Little piece I did on the spot for the demo last weekend at

mascot collection

Now that Sonic Prime is all out in the world, I wanted to show a glimpse at some of the work I was blessed to contribute to early visdev on the show! Getting to spend a little time with these characters was a childhood dream

Once upon a time 90s parents hated having to sit and watch their kids watch Barney and a shovelware game went viral where you murder Barney in cruel and unusual ways and it had no meaningful cultural impact and anyways that's Palworld hope this helps

This palworld discourse is reminding me of the time some dude reached out to ask to use my fan art in a deliberate Splatoon rip off, and when I said "no." he said "ok we are going to rip you off and them too" and "there's only so much we can do"

Wife appreciation post! She's not posting here lately, but has been doing EXTREMELY delightful stuff over on her tumblr and it makes me so happy