Superjustinbros
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Hello everyone, it’s been a while and I hope all of you are doing well. Unfortunately for me I fell way, way behind schedule because of a sudden hard drive failure mid-September and I had to get a whole new Macintosh to work on six weeks later. To make a long story short, I lost everything I was working on and I had to resort to having a few fellow members of the SRB2Kart community dig through Discord logs and locate WIP’s I had shared. On top of that I spent quite a while re-downloading all the programs I had and reconfiguring everything back to my specifications.
In the end I was able to reconfigure and get back into the swing of Photoshop and finish the pack’s newest racer, as detailed below, as well as finish the first batch of OC revamps for a later release (I’m currently seeking out VA’s so that’s why it’s not ready for the public just yet). A few other WIP’s were also recovered and I put them aside until I’m ready to dive into finishing them up for real. With how focused 2020 was on fixing up existing racers, 2021 will be leaning onto finishing up the V2 era of the SJBCP and getting some new faces into the pack. Revamps, if any, won’t come until much later.
That said, it’s time to introduce the pack’s newest addition:
Track from Dreamscape Gardens
Yup, it’s none other than Neku Sakuraba from Square Enix’ little RPG wonder The World Ends with You. I originally planned to get him done much sooner but the aforementioned hard drive failure and having to adjust to what was in all intents a new computer really set me back quite a bit. Having to make three OC’s at the same time and use Garry’s Mod of all things for references didn’t help either in the slightest. And with how much time he took to complete, there was a point where I went from “wanting to experiment with the sprites more” to “just wanting to get it done so he can move onto another character.”
Alongside Neku, two clipping/layering errors were fixed on both Hatsune Mike and Popcorn Robot (the latter also getting a small color update). Every racer’s filename was also updated with a “SJB” tag to make finding them in the file browser slightly easier. For those that host/play with the Abridged pack, the Vinesauce streamers were removed due to my growing distaste for the sprite work and a strong desire to give them a much-needed respite from scratch. Unlike with Kid Chaos when he got redone back in mid-2019, Vinny and Joel are still present in the full pack since I think the sprite work is serviceable enough there to warrant keeping them there. Besides there’s only so many times I can redo the same two sprites before I’m better off just redoing them completely from scratch.
Otherwise that’s all for now. I’m going to take a bit of a break or at least fool around with some of my other WIP’s and non-Kart stuff before I begin the next major addition(s) to the pack.
In the end I was able to reconfigure and get back into the swing of Photoshop and finish the pack’s newest racer, as detailed below, as well as finish the first batch of OC revamps for a later release (I’m currently seeking out VA’s so that’s why it’s not ready for the public just yet). A few other WIP’s were also recovered and I put them aside until I’m ready to dive into finishing them up for real. With how focused 2020 was on fixing up existing racers, 2021 will be leaning onto finishing up the V2 era of the SJBCP and getting some new faces into the pack. Revamps, if any, won’t come until much later.
That said, it’s time to introduce the pack’s newest addition:
Track from Dreamscape Gardens
Yup, it’s none other than Neku Sakuraba from Square Enix’ little RPG wonder The World Ends with You. I originally planned to get him done much sooner but the aforementioned hard drive failure and having to adjust to what was in all intents a new computer really set me back quite a bit. Having to make three OC’s at the same time and use Garry’s Mod of all things for references didn’t help either in the slightest. And with how much time he took to complete, there was a point where I went from “wanting to experiment with the sprites more” to “just wanting to get it done so he can move onto another character.”
Alongside Neku, two clipping/layering errors were fixed on both Hatsune Mike and Popcorn Robot (the latter also getting a small color update). Every racer’s filename was also updated with a “SJB” tag to make finding them in the file browser slightly easier. For those that host/play with the Abridged pack, the Vinesauce streamers were removed due to my growing distaste for the sprite work and a strong desire to give them a much-needed respite from scratch. Unlike with Kid Chaos when he got redone back in mid-2019, Vinny and Joel are still present in the full pack since I think the sprite work is serviceable enough there to warrant keeping them there. Besides there’s only so many times I can redo the same two sprites before I’m better off just redoing them completely from scratch.
Otherwise that’s all for now. I’m going to take a bit of a break or at least fool around with some of my other WIP’s and non-Kart stuff before I begin the next major addition(s) to the pack.
