Advanced Education with Viktor Strobovski

Today's been quite a day. Not only did I rank first for the third time in MK Tour, but I managed to draw one of the guardian abominations in the span of a single session of going out, and in less time than it takes for my computer's battery to run out. It's not the one that always gets memed by MrDrNose on Discord (you know the one), but I'm about to get to that one. So anyway, SPOILER ALERT BY THE WAY, let me introduce a character that decided to make like a normal meatball aaaaaaaaaaand cook the flesh on it. Meatball, but it's in Russian. And since it's spoilers, I may as well show a character I already drew a few months ago at the same place I drew this one: Allie the Teddy. Like, same location. Apparently it's rather good to draw sprites there.

SPOILER ALERT: YOU MUST LOG IN BEFORE PROCEEDING IN ORDER TO COLLAPSE THE POST. Like, seriously, you can't fully appreciate AEWVS after having spoilers instead of facing the content head-on first-time. Plus it's a horror game with unexpectations.

So anyway, here you go.

Here's the modified one:

Yes, it is difficult to simultaneously use ghosts and backgrounds, and there's a few things I want to fix about Albert. Anyway, now that I look at it, it is quite simple, unlike it's raw counterpart, Version 0.1.1b Freek-a-del'ka, which had a bloody raw meatball. Honestly, I preferred that one, but I do see how it's kind of low-quality. I think I realise why Phonty and Fleshy are being redesigned, but still, you gotta admit those eight big threatening sharp legs were great. I'm starting to find that I'm using more colour shades for the characters, like Phonty and Fleshy (again), since they need better lighting. Also, as it turns out, I'm doing something frowned upon for most of my sprites: pillow-shading. It's the one where you just shade around the outlines. But still, ambient occlusion really works in a game with a lack of light sources and shadows. Anyway, yeah.

OML I need to redo the backgrounds and the shadows.

So, I wanted to do something in time for my birthday, but I didn't have much time, so I decided I would draw another character. But nearly every character with a tangible personality has been drawn already, and the only one I've drawn that doesn't have a personality is the Puppet. I decided I would draw him because he was ugly. Oh, and also Granny, who's a little bit more interesting even though she barely has much to say for herself.

So I considered my options. We had...Smile Wolf...Doggos...the Priest...Baldi...literally anyone from BBIEAL...those two guardians...the Gingerbread-Men...the Followers...the Watcher...and then Phonty. Meh, I just decided to do Phonty, because at least he's the partner of the most round character in the game: Erie. Even though she's also flat. Literally.

So I was going to do some stuff, but I didn't do it in time for my birthday because I was too late, so I decided whatever, I guess I'll just do it for Halloween which was like just two days later. But what do you know, I barely gave myself an opportunity to do anything, especially in the heat with my computer amplifying itself with it! And then when I had the opportunity, the totally poor cats were harassing me so I gave in and wasted a bunch of time. A bit over half an hour. You know, I don't think I would've finished in time anyway. Now it's 1:30 AM (don't judge me, I have no personal schedules at all) and Halloween's already gone and it's November. But whatever, here you go.

Drew Phonty in...maybe a bit less than an hour, who was an absolute pain to measure because of his tendency to have to sit on stools if he's not standing up with his legs out. And he's a lot further below head height in AEWVSCC than AEWVS and I don't even know if his size is different, so that was unreliable. For now, I just did the current version of Phonty. I can see now why you decided to redesign it after seeing an identical phonograph in another game. Must be a stock model. But why give him just six round legs this time? I liked him better when he had those eight big threatening sharp legs.

Everything looks awry now. Angell's head height compared with the ceiling is higher in AEWVS than with the tiles and sprites. Something is definitely wrong.

So, um.

I just had this great big idea to accurately measure characters relative to Angell's face* without having to try to get the angle just right.

So I went and downloaded XMouse Button Control to lock the Y axis.

Then I went back to AEWVS, which crashed three times, locked the mouse and guess what?

It didn't work.

What a waste of downloading time.

It would've been WAY easier to just go and backup my save data and use an earlier version of AEWVS.

Waaaaaaaait a minute...! You need Version 0.0.6 which is not available for download, right? And the earliest version I have aside from 0.0.1 and 0.0.3 is 0.0.7, isn't it? Dang!

*This was my method for drawing every single one of the characters so far, including Helpscreen, Viktor, Marzia, Alice, Laura, Mix, Cleany, Grandma, Puppet, Erie and Al.

Just because people don't show any signs of knowing what's going on doesn't mean they don't.

Only idiots assume others.

Also, the figurative distance between BBIEAL and AEWVS, quite frankly, discomforts me.

So.

Wait...*ahem*

So! Remember the time I first drew Erie?

Yeah I did say I had to redesign it, just like mrdrnose did for the last 13 times.* As soon as I drew that, I knew it was going to look terribly out of proportion as soon as you looked at it from another angle - or even just the front. I mean look. Anyway, I redesigned it, and it looks much better now. Can't believe it took me this long to notice how she has two claws on her right hand, not three. Oh and by the way, I didn't actually take that long to do it. I just had a lot of things to do. This endeavour started, like, what? 4 months ago?

yeah im a person of consistency. Oh, and you do NOT want to see what it looks like against an unclarified background.

Anyway, there's something I want to talk about quick. I've started to notice that Erie's quite an out-of-place character in AEWVS for three reasons:

1. Erie doesn't like Viktor, despite him, Erie and/or Helpscreen seemingly representing mrdrnose in some way. Kinda wanna know if some of them do.
2. Being a librarian just doesn't suit her. She may have a librarian job, but it's clearly a pain and also something totally not her niche. I mean, she doesn't even read any of the books. And no matter what book you give her, she shreds it anyway. Why can't she just shred all the books at the library herself?
3. If you've seen mrdrnose's Twitter or social media where he does random stuff about Erie redesigning herself and doing random things post-game, you'll see how casual, and, dare I say, unsuitable for a horror game she is. (I don't even remember the way I was going to say it to begin with but there. This is my main point.) She's not scary or terrified or anything. She's just an angry robot that chokes you with her claws, demands you around and then swears at you once she's done with you.

Now that Erie's already in AEWVS and established connections with Phonty, Alice and some others, the game just wouldn't be the same without her. She needs to get more involved or do something that's actually scary or sad, or at least have darker secrets or an unsettling journal in her room. Also another point I couldn't think of any way to say properly.

I still have some questions (not just about your random choices I want to be endarkened** about, mostly about all the redesigns and other odd things), but you know what? I think I'll just wait for you to get back to me.

So...um. Bye!

*DISCLAIMER: I didn't count.
**As opposed to enlightenment. Actually, come to think of it, I meant it in the same vein. Don't really want to be "in the dark".

Here's some more offensive posts to make you even more pissed about everything. ...Maybe. Oh and I'm not just saying that because you don't approve of my decisions, or because Erie (privately(?)) advocates R34.

So, just how many times did you redesign Erie over the course of AEWVS?
Because I literally just did this but I think I'm gonna have to as well.

The disproportion of literally everything kinda worries me but oh well. I did my sprites pretty much larger than many others I see around (Level Up's Baldi sprites are still way bigger though - like, disproportionately big too) but even so, there's still seemingly so little room for facial details. what the heck.