Chester's Cheesy Shapes (commission) (Patreon)

FOR THOSE WHO DON'T LIKE TO READ:
Patreon doesn't allow files bigger than 200mb so I had to upload three of my videos to Mega, here's the links:
Fart animated video link
Constipation animated video link
Scat animated video link
First "Dialogue and burp" video in attachments below is a cropped version of a Fart sequence video which has only Chester's dirty monologue and belch in the end, for those who don't like dirtier things. It doesn't exceed the file size limit so I posted it in attachments.

Now more work stuff details.

I'm sorry guys for being silent, I saw whole 3 people unsubscribing and it's a bit upsetting after a good raise of patrons and earnings I had. I'm just very bad at WIPs and constant updates, I'm used to post stuff only when everything is fully finished and this time it took me a while to finish such a big project. I had toothache troubles and also my friend paid me a big visit staying in my place for whole 3 days, I tried to keep working no matter what but still it was quite distracting. I worked very hard and yet it seems people don't like when artists disappear for too long.

This project was really big indeed, like super fucking big, probably one of the most complex and epic art projects I ever had. As you can already see, it's a Chester Cheetah pixel animation commission made for my good friend and commissioner Duncan. The idea was simple, Chester Cheetah resting on his back with massive ass and a good belly, extreme fetish animations with farts and scat similar to the ones I did for Fox McCloud included.

But, as expected, it became something much bigger. Fox McCloud was my first attempt at really serious pixel animation and fart/scat physics, also Chester Cheetah is much more my type of character I dreamt to draw for a long time and only thanks to Duncan I finally got this motivation I lacked to do that, so this time it just had to be something much bigger and more serious.
As a result, I made 404 frames in total which became 50 gifs I needed to create these three big videos, I installed Sony Vegas for the first time in my life to make them and had some frustrating moments which took a lot of time away to figure it out.

Before making this pixel art, I explored two actual old console games about Chester Cheetah for inspiration, "Too Cool to Fool" and "Wild Wild Quest", both released for Sega MD and SNES. You know, I can't perceive pixel art separately from the world of video games so if there's a game about a character I love I just can't resist the urge to make a pixel art which follows this game's aesthetic. Both games are boring to play to be honest but very well made visually, no doubt about it, especially the second one. I took color palette from Wild Wild Quest big sprites for Chester and background from Gator Alley alley from Too Cool to Fool, foreground was drawn by me based on background style.

Making text was another grand challenge here, much bigger than it can seem. You see, I wanted everything to be authentic, so I decided to take a font from the second game, Wild Wild quest. Obviously, this font is unavailable in a standard .ttf font format and even if it was, it has a multicolor design which can be repeated only manually in my case, I can type only with one color fonts in Gimp. So, what I had to do is to gather game screenshots which have writings, find all upper case and lower case letters, cut them and arrange a full alphabet out of them. Game's font is available on Sprites Resource but it's in black-and-white so I used it only for 5 letters which weren't presented on screenshots and colored them manually. I posted few images in the end for better understanding.
After the whole alphabet was gathered I had to make writings manually because it can't be keyboard typed like if it was one of those standard fonts we have on PCs, it means I was copy-pasting letters one by one and moving them in line to make all 39 writings. I felt myself like a printing house worker in a 20th century, you know, newspapers and books were made very similar way back then.
As for the music, it's a "Monkey Pit" soundtrack from the first game Too Cool to Fool from which I took the background for this artwork but not from the exact level from which this background is taken. I wanted it all to match but soundtrack of a different jungle level fitted it much better. Although I didn't like the motif which starts on 00:20 here, it's fine but doesn't fit the animation so I cut it and surprisingly the bit I liked looped perfectly.

This work was also harder than Fox McCloud because Chester has much more well pronounced emotions and a looooot of effort was put in drawing them. I still allowed a lot of simplifications which are thankfully excusable in pixel art (one of the reasons I love it and feel not ready to do not-pixel animations) and Chester's face stays the same most the time but even like that it was still very challenging. 

Gape gifs in the post gallery were made of layers created for fart animations, I just thought that even though farts are good, a clearly visible gape is too good as well so it deserves to be shown without any gases or shit hiding it, also a good way to please those who are not into filthy things, I'm always trying to think about this kind of patrons even though I'm way too horny for obscene stuff lately. 

I very much hope you enjoyed this project and will be glad to see more like this in future! For me it was a big and exciting breakthrough and a very good way to pay my first tribute to my beloved Chester Cheetah! Big thanks to Duncan again for making this real. My next comm is planned to be for him too but for now I'm taking a break to finish two more pages of my Volk comic.