...a bonus of a "I've come a long way baby", have the old M_M 2004 sprite of Franko as well as the previous respriting attempt I did in 2010 that didn't go beyond a single sprite.

Of which I have no idea how to properly shade, unless it's just me.

Also, see ya like, around nearest Monday.

Something tells me that an early august release of the update may be sort of likely, then again this may depend on a few factors I'm not sure would I be able to control. Now granted this is mostly because I decided I would as well release what I'd do as mostly is after doing some more stuff (as of this post both movesets are basically complete) and perhaps relay the shading fix for another update after the one I'm working on right now, provided I'd still feel like it at this point.

As workable (while simple) the walk cycle may be, apparently I may barely have any idea on how to shade certain animals.

And I certainly don't quite know how to certain animals from certain angles, maybe it's just the usual me tho'.

Hey AlexSin did I properly fix one of the legs?

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Based on the mold of Heita's Jumping C/or the Heavy Punch going off my conversion), this is another case with the unusual perspective (this time for the chest) and I have a feeling I may have screwed that up, maybe it's just me tho'
It's also been a while since the last time I've shaded and it certainly shows

Took some inspiration from a certain Vampire's crouching medium for this one.
Yes, 'throw'. The Axe would actually leave Dink's hand and be lobbed at an angle unless Dink ends up physically hitting with the Axe before it would get thrown (as well as when there is already a thrown Axe on-screen). I should perhaps do the unique recovery frames for the state with the Axe still in the hand.
Part of me doesn't feel satisfied with the windup pose, but I'd guess there's the usual "maybe it's just me".

You know that super in the old Most_Mysterious version that had Dink jump up high doing this spinning fire kick and yahooing? This is about to come back in some form as well.
Given the unusual perspective I was going for, part of me feels like I may have accidentally made him a midget or something
And yes, obviously the fire effects aren't added in yet

Tried to do a little bit like Sol's anti-air here but I'd guess you know how my attempts to emulate other animations usually go

Not pictured is the bomb itself

Not pictured are the fire effects that would grace this part of special

I think I would make this a crouching heavy slash, given what I did below today:

I may end up mangling this a bit as I dunno if the follow-through is weird or it's just me. And by the way yes of course this move would have Dink move forward with this.
I think I should probably do something about the way he holds his sword.

Yes, this animation is actually unfinished as of this post as for quite some time I wasn't able to figure out what kind of recovery motion should I do for this animation (only just recently I got an idea I would try to go with but as I only just came back to this animation as of the time of this post this would come in the gif later). I'm torn on whenever should I make this a crouching "light" slash or a crouching "hard" slash. Usually crouching hard slashes are usually sword uppercuts, but I've once planned the Forward+"Punch" command normal to be a sword uppercut and man sometimes I donno quite about my movelist planning ability. Then again, maybe it's just me.

So the guy just won the COTM award, and given how little-to-none there is ANY full-scale fanart of the character (boxart and a youtube thumbnail of a mondorake video that follows the boxart quite a bit is the most I could find really) I figured I could give doing a full-scale piece a shot. As you can see I've cheated quite a bit by posing the vectors I use for the sprites and then rescaling everything from his waist to huge levels and giving some retouches there and there. Being the first time I tried to do an ilustration of this scale I had limited idea of how much more detail I should've added into the piece, and then there's the matter of me venturing into this uncanney valley thing. Oh well, at least whoever doing these COTM graphics can always just reuse his portrait (in itself the crop of the boxart really).

Dink would regain control as soon as he Sheathes his sword back to his backpack

Anim timings may not be final

I was quite in a sour mood while doing this anim - having a rough week and all - and it sort of reflects that in this anim compared to the other two anims on this post, maybe it's just me tho'.