Hmm, Wonder What This Machine Could Be For...?

Hmm, wonder what this machine could be for...?

Ooh! A toy! ...Do foxes play with cat toys? Who knows! It's cute either way.

Well, that was certainly an unexpected surprise on Pokemon Day today! A new Legends game, and it's based on Gen 6 instead of 5... A surprise, to be sure, but undeniably a welcome one. I was going to make some art of my entire Kalos team to celebrate, but I scaled it back to just one—my starter from Pokemon Y, Kitsune the Delphox. Finally, she'll come back home. Timelapse below the cut!

World 1-1 Start!

Here's Pete again, with another character I'm surprised I haven't shown off yet—Professor Neon Greene! Well, he's a Junior Professor, working under his father Forrest Greene, but a professor nonetheless. Aside from famed scholar Thomas Devlin Bear (now the megalomaniacal T.D. Bear), he's the leading influence for Ghostie becoming such a science-oriented kid. Whether it's astrology, chemistry, or dimensional exploration, Neon knows... well, a decent amount in the subject. Most of his recent research sits squarely in geology. In case you're curious, the half-green-half-yellow color of his fur is hereditary, and it's basically heterochromia. Like Ghostie, Neon was based off a Game Maker version 6 sprite of an entirely yellow teddy bear, made half-green by me because at the time it was one of the coolest things I could think of to enhance a character. Pete's based off a GMv6 sprite, too! Though his had no embellishments, just a blue ghost with red eyes and black markings that were either teeth, stitching, or a moustache—which I dropped quick as he became his own thing. (Man, I wish I could find those sprites so I could provide comparison, but Game Maker version 6 seems to have nothing substantial recorded online...)

Nothing like a good massage after a long day... Or, judging by the time this is being posted, a long afternoon? These two are some of my old SoulSilver Pokemon, Toasty the Typhlosion and Shawn the Ampharos. I've always characterized the latter as being head over heels for the former, though Toasty wouldn't fully appreciate her affection for a while. Below the cut is a collection of little sketches of the two, surrounding this piece in the original sketchbook! Happy Pokemon Day!