I have the tendency to fall in love with a franchise, give it all I have to offer in means of art and writing and whatever, view everyone else's art and writing, listen to the music for hours, create my own characters, ponder the plot, and once I've milked it for every last thought I lose interest and it takes a back seat.
Don't get me wrong, I will never 'not care' about these universes-- Ecco the Dolphin, Oddworld, Pokemon, Bully, Phoenix Wright... I just get way too over-excited about some things and I'm easily motivated.
Right now, I'm playing Abe's Oddysee through again. It's actually not all that difficult once you've memorized timing... I pretty much sped through Rupture Farms and the like, but I chose Scrabania first for the express purpose of putting off those HORRIBLE rooms in the Paramonian Temple where you have to jump past some bats and boulders swinging back and forth and holy shit it's just crazy hard.
Here are some things I've done:
- After that screen with the bats and boulders, I finally got to the other side, but I was too excited and I ran and ran right into a pit.
- I did that three times.
- I jumped for a bird portal and missed. (It takes a super kind of stupid to do that.) I was promptly eaten by a Slog.
- At the end of the Paramonian Temple Trial, where all you have to do is chant to open a bird portal, I accidentally scared the birds away.
I've also been experimenting with Slig behavior in Abe's Oddysee. Specifically, I wanted to see if there was any pattern to whether or not they could recognize that a coworker was possessed. Alf explained it by saying that Abe wasn't very in control in his powers back then and as a fanatic I find that a really fun detail (I'll have to draw it).
I couldn't find a pattern of any sort. Some of them would notice straight away, say freeze, and shoot. Others, less commonly, would only notice after you greeted them. It was most common for them not to notice.
Anyway, about drawing, I'm not rediscovering art but I'm starting to draw Oddworld stuff again. I enjoy drawing fanart that has something going on in it that you can think about for at least a moment. So here's what I started working on:
Sketch:
WIP: I'm playing with coloring ways a lot here. The slig's skin is totally shooped, heh. I'm thinking I might actually color it over again with a different style to experiment. This one feels 'wrong.'
Edit: I'm such an air head. I didn't even explain what's going on.
Somewhere in Paramonia I found myself able to bring a possessed Slig right up to Abe and Elum. I don't know, I can just picture Abe turning to look at himself through the eyes of someone else and being like o.o because he's just like that.
It was so much fun, it's a shame it wasn't like that in AE, but I guess the sligs were just mroe suspicious and trigger-happy then since Abe's rampage had already begun.
