It came out of nowhere, but but bro Kirono drew some top tier art of Sazae-Oni!

I love Aseprite to death, but every now and then you want to try out new things, test the waters. I love using Krita for non-pixelart raster images. Years ago it got some animation tools so I finally sat down to take a crack at them.

While I don't hate the results from a solid day's work, Krita was work flow issues, especially when compared to Aseprite. I think my biggest gripe is that there's no keyboard shortcuts by default for any of the animation tools. Beyond that, setting the keyboard short cuts doesn't always work as intuitively as you might expect. Eg, I set enter to start/stop the animation, but start the animation always takes precedence, so I would have to set a different keybind to stop. Between that, and having to maintain the keybinds and settings between multiple workstations, I just can't jive with Krita for anything other than static images.

Over time the Krita animation tools will improve, and I'll still like it, but for a pixel art game, and for pixel art animations, Aseprite is the way.

There's so much work to be done, that adding more characters is actually pretty far down the list. On the flip side, making new characters and thinking about how they would fit into Yokai Grill is the most fun part.

When it comes to Japanese folklore there's no shortage of inspiration, and I have a running list of characters to make. Two of these characters are Mezu and Gozu, the Horse Face and Ox Face oni that Torture and serve in Jigoku. The immediate picture i get when I think of them would be a fit, buff horse girl, and an immensely busty cow girl. I couldn't not draw them up.

It's fun to draw toned abs, and they give you he feeling she could crush your head between her thighs. I also really like how her hair is a fluffy curly mohawk, like a horse's mane. It's also a given when you have a horse girl that she has to have a gigantic horse futa dick. It's the law. ♥ I definitely want her to be smug, confident to a fault, with a libido that makes the other girls look like saints.

Gozu, I didn't have as clear of a picture for. As I started sketching her out I was thinking it would be fun for her to have boos so large the restaurant didn't have a uniform top to fit. Having them get in the way when she tries to write down an order is a nice thought to imagine. A character made for unlimited squish works. I don't know if I want her to be a haughty ojou-sama, or just eternally pissed off. I feel like an ojou-sama doesn't fit, and pissed is just boring. Maybe haughty bitch would be a good compromise?

One way they could fit into the game is for them to be yakuza loan sharks, collecting debts for their boss. Once the debt is fully paid, the boss doesn't need them anymore so they come work in Yokai Grill. I kind of like this idea as a reward for completing an objective, but in this situation they would almost be newgame+ characters, so they would have to be SUPER COOL.

With that, I hope to update again soon. See you next time yokai bros.