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fruzmig · 1 year

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i was commissioned by @molemanninethousand to draw the creatures that zigzag and yzma would've summoned in their films for his newest video yzma vs zigzag!

#the thief and the cobbler #the emperor's new groove #supai #supay #art tag #commission

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molemanninethousand · 3 years

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I felt compelled to make this battle specifically to make up for the absolute travesty that was MERB #14... again; a rather fitting intention for a matchup based on themes of redemption.

Davion Tynarious Brown (Arbiter) and Damien Malkavian (Zuko) each did a fantastic job here.

I originally wanted Master Chief to make a short appearance opposite Aang’s, but I couldn’t figure out what to have him say to justify him showing up without being an active participant in the battle, unlike Aang’s “tip” which lends itself to an obvious character-relevant pun to serve as its punchline.

For a time prior to this matchup’s conception, Arbiter Vs. Martin Luther was actually in my shortlist of ideas, but after learning the extent of Luther’s antisemitism I figured that comparing him to a fictional action hero wouldn’t be an appropriate approach to a historical person with such a mixed legacy.

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resonx · 9 years

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Another super-big battle, initially conceived as a vicious skewering of my most hated book that I ever had to read in school but ultimately ending up as more of a straight parody, which may be for the better anyway.

Plus, it’s far from all just about Orwell or even Orwell and one other source, as I also got to incorporate:

• A familiar (half-obscured) face making his triumphant comeback.

• A great literary antihero for whom 1984 would have been much better if it had included someone similar.

• A character from one of the few books taught in school that I actually kind of LIKE, a perfect sympathetic counterpart to the pure evil of Big Brother and, the more I think about it, possibly one of my favorite antagonists ever.

Lastly: Gotta love that thumbnail.

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fruzmig · 1 year

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here's a wolverine commission i did recently for @molemanninethousand's new harley quinn vs x-23 video!

#art tag #commission #wolverine #marvel

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fruzmig · 2 years

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Since I haven't posted body horror over here before I'm putting this under a keep reading, but here's my artwork for Albert Wesker vs Sephiroth of a zombie Aerith in the style of the Resident Evil zombies for @molemanninethousand

Thanks again for commissioning me!

#cw body horror #art tag #resident evil #final fantasy #aerith gainsborough #ff7 aerith

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fruzmig · 3 years

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Here's the art I did for Gordon Freeman vs Duke Nukem by @molemanninethousand thank you for commissioning me for this one!

#gordon freeman #alyx vance #nuke dukem #half life #art tag #molemanninethousand

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molemanninethousand · 3 years

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Using here the two incidental memes I made based on the developments as my platform for sharing my serious thoughts thereon:

Upon first hearing the announcement, I immediately felt blind rage and made an extremely ill-advised public post on DA which caused a longtime acquaintance to unfollow me, a move that I quickly came to regret even notwithstanding that alienated response.

The Sephiroth DLC, unlike a certain something revealed around this same time last year (I won’t dignify it with name-identification), is content that should have been in Ultimate... at launch. Given its initial absence and the resulting massive lack of Final Fantasy content, though, I’d gotten my hopes up with recurring fantasies (no pun intended) of an update that would do the franchise justice; key word: franchise. This does not do the franchise justice; it does one game justice.

However, given that the addition of franchise-wide representation based around a character from a different installment would have resulted in the VII content still remaining nearly as lacking, I’ve come to be able to understand this decision; they wanted to use the opportunity to flesh out the one part of the game that was conspicuously incomplete. In hindsight, the kind of more ambitious FF implementation I was hoping for would probably require a more substantial development process than the format they’re using for the DLC to be fully realized, i.e. a Castlevania-scale inclusion, the likes of which was clearly only on the table during the game’s pre-launch development.

In hindsight and in conclusion, this is neither the worst DLC choice the game has seen, nor the worst possible commonly-advocated choice Square Enix could have gone with.

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fruzmig · 3 years

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I designed this fusion of Garnet from Steven Universe and Firestorm from DC for @molemanninethousand‘s video Garnet vs Firestorm, go watch it!

#art tag #garnet #steven universe #firestorm #dc comics #commission #garnetstorm #Molemanninethousand

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molemanninethousand · 4 years

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This idea had crossed my mind before, but I was previously hesitant to try and bring it to fruition since I had never digitally drawn the likeness of a preexisting character before and wasn’t confident in my ability to make them look right, even by the very loose standards of this meme, and it took a prolonged period of extreme boredom, in which I haven’t been able to work on any videos due to long-term technical issues, to get me to go ahead and take a shot at it. Needless to say, it turned out looking considerably better than I’d anticipated and was very fun and cathartic to make; now that I know the ease of the drawing aspect involved, I may very well make more meme images of a similar technical nature to this going forward...

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molemanninethousand · 3 years

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Casting this one was a tricky yet fun process, as this is in fact my first battle since early Season 1 to be recorded entirely through online contacts, albeit only by technical virtue of a certain one-line cameo in Universe Vs. Bates being recorded in-person. I was planning on having David Ohlsen as Gordon Freeman, but he refused to meet with me at this time due to ongoing apocalyptic circumstances, and while I could have feasibly directed him through a remote means of real-time communication to obtain the same results as meeting him in-person, I decided to fall back on finding someone on Reddit for the sake of vocal variety and establishing new contacts. Huge thanks to one Matt Barr in that regard.

Duke Nukem was an incredibly daunting part to cast due to how distinct his voice is, and my dealings with one Robert Zaleski nearly fell through based on his abysmal initial set of recordings for the role, whose unworkable quality was due to poor initial communication on my end regarding how he would need to go about the recording process. Mr. Zaleski is apparently a “real” rapper, so it makes sense in hindsight that he would have underestimated the sheer degree to which the vocals in my tracks are edited timing-wise; once I explained to him that he didn’t have to worry about real-time rapping flow at all, things went smoothly from there.

Rounding out the cast are Patrick Maddox as the G-Man, who in all honesty probably did the best job of an impression out of anyone here, the ever-reliable Stacey Patrone as Alyx, and Elise Golgowski, A.K.A. Mothra within my series, cameoing as GLaDOS. When approaching her for the bit part, I seriously considered planning a third version of GLaDOS Vs. SHODAN starring her, but I ultimately don’t plan on moving forward with that; I feel that I kind of missed my chance for that by making a revision with only one role re-recorded instead of improving the whole thing, both of whose titular roles do indeed sound quite shitty to this day.

Regarding the structure and scripted events of this battle, the original plan was for Duke Nukem to finish the song with a terrible verse following Freeman’s disappearance, and I was looking forward to the challenge of intelligently writing a verse designed to be bad on purpose; there easily could have been quite a few inside jokes referencing my own genuinely terrible early lyrics there. Then Half-Life Alyx happened; I must again stress that the ideas for my battles are often formulated years in advance of me actually coming around to their realization, and this one had been floating around in my head for a particularly long time.

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molemanninethousand · 4 years

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...And in the event that he somehow does, I will - as I’ve promised elsewhere before, and I quote - eat my shoe.

In all seriousness, as a Smash fan with ridiculously high personal standards for what I want to see in the future, this is really the one common suggestion of a new third-party franchise (which is basically all I want to see going forward) that gets me irrationally annoyed for a few reasons; rant incoming:

1. It’s just not legally feasible; Nintendo would have to reach out to make an unprecedented cross-licensing agreement with Disney, who are of course notoriously protective of their properties, such that it’s honestly an anomalous miracle that Kingdom Hearts itself exists as is.

2. In the event of Square Enix contributing again, what they need to add is, without question, more Final Fantasy content, as it’s the most underutilized franchise currently playable in SSB by a glaringly massive margin, and the original elements of Kingdom Hearts comprise what is, for all intents and purposes, a Final Fantasy storyline, which raises the question of why someone would choose to vouch for an iteration of the franchise that’s tied up with all kinds of licensing issues from Disney over the dozen-plus other iconic Final Fantasies that have no such legal complications and frankly have far better stories and characters much more often than not.

3. I find it hypocritical that the fandom which is generally so vehement against the inclusion of any content not specifically from video games, such as exemplified by the image from which most of the composite text shown here is taken (I’ll trust you probably know the one, provided you’re an invested fan who pays attention to memes such as this), would present such high demand for a property that comes inextricably bundled with such content.

4. Regarding anyone and everyone who is suggesting that Kingdom Hearts be used without any Disney elements whatsoever, my oft-repeated analogy is that doing so would be like adding a character from Guitar Hero and including no music whatsoever.

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molemanninethousand · 3 years

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I’m legitimately floored over how quickly this came together; I think the preliminary process of going through both series and compiling and sorting all the footage to be used might actually have taken longer than the actual video construction.

Thanks again to everyone who helped make this battle happen and come together as it did, as thanked in the previous, audio-based posting about it.

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molemanninethousand · 3 years

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...And, after nearly a full year and a half of languishing in audio limbo, here it is at long last! It feels very good to finally catch up with something that was this so long-overdue.

Huge thanks go out once again to Fruzmig for by far the most ambitious art project she’s contributed to my series to date, being the first (and realistically likely to remain only) originally-designed rapping character created specifically for my series. Long live Garnetstorm!

It felt really nostalgic to revisit the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise while making this; I’m really impressed that it’s apparently still running to this day, and from what sense I can make of it, the card game has grown absolutely out of control with its competitive mechanics over time, such that someone like me who was well-versed with its rules upwards of a decade ago is now clueless to the workings of the modern version. Like, seriously: what the actual fuck is a pendulum summon?

Gogeta was strongly considered for inclusion back when this was being written, but the problem was that both of his components are more prominent characters than himself and only form him on a few specific occasions, unlike the battle’s title characters whose fused forms are their primarily iconic ones. Ruby and Sapphire and Ronnie and Stein were conceived specifically to be Garnet and Firestorm, respectively, whereas Goku and Vegeta were obviously both around for many years before ever fusing.

Blue-Eyes, on the other hand, wasn’t held back from making the cut by any such problems on account of his identity being functionally the same as that shared by all three of his components, making him the ideal candidate for the third party since he’s effectively a single character yet is still an iconic example of a fusion.

Here’s to keeping the MERB ball rolling in 2021!

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molemanninethousand · 3 years

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As of this upload, consider MERB as back in active business once again.

Special thanks go out to several people here:

TheFearRaiser, who now has the distinction of being the biggest YouTuber to participate in my series to date and who gave an amazing performance here as Light Yagami.

Shiyu, who is decidedly not a very big YouTube channel (yet), but likewise did an exceptional job as Misa.

BatHunterofDevon, a personal acquaintance whom I met through discussion over the Aldrivers series, and a dedicated YouTube Pooper. If you can remember any particular YTP based on Danganronpa, it was probably made by him.

Fruzmig, for making the artwork which, again, is in turn conceptually based on Mary Doodles’ artwork of ERB’s Bob Ross Vs. Pablo Picasso.

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molemanninethousand · 3 years

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I’m very pleased right now to have managed writing this next battle in such a timely manner; as tends to be a recurring pattern for my output, the process started out very slow and tedious before picking up rapidly as progress started to be made.

As of now with this posting, I’m hoping to have the audio made and released before the end of January.

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molemanninethousand · 4 years

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I saw that posts about Mordecai being a simp were recently trending, and this is what I immediately thought of.

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