Progress on Beast Cut

This is my team's entry in the #FightingGameAprilJam2026, we've made a ton of progress so far and have a ton more to go!

Meet Cliff, a character in my team's project for the #FightingGameAprilJam2026
Designed, modeled and rigged by myself. Paused texturing to focus on animations, but I got a decent amount of those done today, so I'll resume and post an update soon.
In the meantime, please admire his whip-flamberge 👀

...Animations such as this one!
Before ~a week ago, I'd never actually animated in Blender; this was a great excuse to learn and get away from Cascadeur (nothing against it, but I've wanted to limit how much I hop between programs).

Pretty happy with my results so far!
#FightingGameAprilJam2026

WIP character I'm working on for my first GameJam!
He's been a lot of fun to make so far!
#FightingGameAprilJam2026

Meet Cliff, a character in my team's project for the #FightingGameAprilJam2026
Designed, modeled and rigged by myself. Paused texturing to focus on animations, but I got a decent amount of those done today, so I'll resume and post an update soon.
In the meantime, please admire his whip-flamberge 👀

Felt like drawing/designing a dragon oni character or something. Kind of MH/DMC inspired.
Unsure how far I'll take it, but it'd be fun to fully realize and sculpt someday. It was good practice painting scales/horns either way.
Hair or no hair? With reminds me of Lorian from DS3.

Introducing the Smash 3CLSS the brand-new "AI" "upscaler"! Turn Smash 3C into higher fidelity…

No, FUCK IT. I don’t want a sensible parody. The Brawl artstyle is better than this slop. How is the biggest corp in the world plopping out bullshit? Fuck them and fuck AI.

S3C out

This post is how I found out </3

It happened so fast yet also in slow motion. Just insane. I joked to my mom that in another timeline I died, but I seriously feel very, very lucky. That could’ve gone a hundred other ways.

The moment keeps replaying in my head. It was a rush of thoughts like, “I’ve hydroplaned before, I can stop this,” to then,
“I can’t stop it, I’m gonna hit another car”
“Oh god I didn’t but I’m now rolling, is this where I die?”
“Please finish rolling this last time at least so I’m not upside-down”

Hydroplaned on an off-ramp and had an accident. Car rolled 2 or 3 times down a hill. Very fortunately for me, it finished rolling upright, not quite in water, and I wasn’t injured at all.
Surreal experience to say the least. I feel so lucky for the car being my biggest concern.

I’d love to see more of how you handled that! Looks great

Dark Souls Extended Extending vanilla areas.

extremely cool mod and goated modder, they actually gave me the sauce of map editing and did some stuff for the new fading flame

www.nexusmods.com/darksoulsrem...

Cinquedea's now got Beast Claw R2 feints (instead of other daggers' parry R2 feints) and Raging Beast skill to complement its bestial themeing. Feints also allow for a nice quick follow-up incantation cast to keep pressure.

I also made some color corrections to my Royal Swordsman icons. I really spent a stupid amount of time on these... but I have a better setup now. I should be able to knock my future icons out quicker.

Here they are with some vanilla icons. I'm happy with how well I matched the style!

New Alva equipment render icons.
For comparison, here are the crunchy ones from Remastest above. DS2's icons are lower res to begin with, and I think we just didn't bother upscaling when resizing them lol

its kinda crazy how long spears are in dark souls 1

Alva armor revamp.
Improved vertex normals, tangents, culling, weighting, and most obviously, spec maps. I took what I could from Guardian's costume in Nightreign and it came out great!
I'll be doing the icon renders next.

The Immortal armor set from one of my favorite games, Dragon's Dogma! Sovereign's Mantle optional
Always wanted to port over a few armor pieces from DDDA/DDON, it's got some great designs!

Royal Swordsman
Quite happy with how the renders came out!
For my mod, I will be touching up some of the old DS2 sets Nordgaren and I ported to Remastest way back when, as well as of course porting even more.
I also plan to rerender all of the icons in DS1's style for consistency.

Asch next, Asch next!
These are wonderful btw I love them

Slowly, slowly getting closer to completion. I wanted to splice some different angles together for fun.

Slowly, slowly getting closer to completion. I wanted to splice some different angles together for fun.

Still got plenty left to do, but I at least imported the correct weapon finally lol. Had some corrections to make for the difference in length.

All this for a grab I'm gonna have to disable in areas with low ceilings 🗿

Not too bad so far.

Not too bad so far.

This will probably end up being my most ambitious animation to date with how much I have planned for the whole thing haha