Hey featuring the characters I helped make!

Much gratitude to Brendon T.’s art direction and feedback, Andrew S.’s evolution tech for Fish Legs and the Crossy team for their feedback and work towards this update!

I set up and made lots of evolutions for Fish Legs based on suggestions and my own addition/takes haha

Just know that I updated old and current Dino World characters too! And I made a lot of new dinosaur characters plus I’ve been revising some rejected ones from the 2016 version I did too – but most didn’t make it 🙁

I hope there’s a chance for them in the future but this is out of my control (I am just an artist, I do not lead). I’ll keep trying if there’s ever an opportunity. There’s no guarantees unfortunately. Ultimately peeps should continue to suggest things via support or the Crossy Community discord or write up a kind and respectful email to the Crossy official support email ;P

I don’t know if I’ll ever get spare time at work, but one day I need to document all the rejected characters in Crossy Road. I made a lot that didn’t make it. Trying to accept my sad/hurt/oof feelings…it happens when I care too much and can’t dissociate ;P

Once again I am happy this world got a revamp so people don’t see nor criticise my first Crossy dino world from 2016 (where there was no art direction and I was just learning) haha

Leonie rambles about…

• in the past two weeks, I was trying heal from viral and then bacterial eye infection (it ended up being both eyes)
  • stayed away until it healed up
  • was in pain, there were some days I couldn’t keep my eyes open and was trying to not spiral
  • need to do a post infection health check by an optometrist (not GP this time) in the coming weeks after a longer while
• self care is a lot to juggle and I’m just trying :’)
  • many things are just something to manage….
• I’m quite frustrated and tired that I can’t really opt out of genAi shenanigans forced upon us everywhere in life, work, services and other forms
  • UGHHHHH there’s no point listing them
  • yes twitch is one of them
  • people are working against some scrapers of Cara too
• fire emblem: fortunes weave (coming next month)
  • keen to watch someone stream this ;P
  • become white birb (Eshmel)
    • though why does the female protagonist have more skin showing again while the male protag is fully armoured huh??
  • I do find the “fight the demon lord” as the bird protagonist kind of boring as a base story
    • are the other 4 protagonists not matter as much??
  • people joking about doing Eshmel only runs (ie not bother with the 4 protagonists)
• Beast of Reincarnation game
  • watched the start and parts of it and lost interest – the story wasn’t really compelling
  • it’s really close to NieR: Automata…. with the one song they keep playing over and over and the story premise
    • even the japanese voice actress for Emma is 2B’s voice actress
  • english dub does feel wooden
  • it doesn’t bring anything new to the “Souls like” genre and apparently it’s not hard enough
  • apparently you can’t recentre the camera behind the protagonist too?
• watched a lot of the Big Walk game from 3 different people
  • because I have no close friends for this
  • I have not seen the end yet as the 2 streamers I’m watching are taking their time with it due to gamescom or vacation or not lining up schedules
  • it’s a long game 12 hours ish so it’s a commitment
  • it’s a really good and chill puzzle coop game with close friends
  • it is not a friend slop game where you improv the fun moments and it’s a one off session
    • it’s more about walking and working things out with friends
    • it’s apparently boring to some streamers too
• man not much people (whom I know) are posting on bluesky anymore
• why is web hosting so expensive…I paid the bill for this blog and website and OOF
  • I need to be more frugal; there’s so many bills, fees and taxes to pay in the coming months 🙁
• I am trying to cut down on comfort/stress snack food too
  • I’ll see how I go next month – after my supply runs out that is :’)
• Why You Can’t Ignore Your Emotions and Just Do the Thing
  • I’ve had some days where I just freeze and don’t want to do anything more and just stand there
    • I zone out and am just utterly exhausted, mentally and physically
    • I think that’s the end of my work week and the day after work too……..
  • yeah the task does always win and as a result I don’t allow my feelings to process
    • my feelings get suppressed usually or I’m bargaining with myself
    • trying to forget that my ego and feelings are hurt and humbled
  • I am a strong perfectionist too
    • am super harsh on myself, take failures and mistakes personally
    • I get territorial over the tasks I’m doing at times because I get too attached…
      • and in a team work setting, I need to let go because it’s not mine alone :’)
  • I care too much sometimes
    • I do strive to keep it neutral and dissociate/distant myself once someone takes over too much
      • my survival mechanism I suppose
    • ultimately solving the problem is most important
  • sometimes I can’t let go though and get sad and hung up over it
    • I keep it to myself and delay processing it too – and then I end up ruminating too much for days…
    • I need to keep my silly, resentful hurt ego in check and get humbled ;’)
    • it’s been happening wah :<
  • it’s an ongoing journey of managing my ambition, high standards, self worth and the bigger picture
    • I tend to hyperfocus on the details and occasionally get distracted by other styles
    • I don’t want to burn myself out over this either and grow resentful
    • not sure how to deal with this as this is a “mental health and self worth as an artist” matter
      • and it’s for me to manage
      • but I don’t think suppressing it is the way
      • so here I am typing it and maybe I should discuss it hmm
  • there was a time where I was so burnt out that I didn’t care about quality and wanted to pass the baton to another artist instead
    • I don’t want that extreme happening either
    • I think I feel this happens when my morale is down in the negatives
      • or I’m doing tasks that I really don’t enjoy…
  • choose to reframe things and move forward with things you can control and do better
    • but then I’m still fixating on what I can do better and not appreciating what I’m doing good at
    • ahhhh
  • the video says do your own creative thing to protect your own creative joy
    • well I’m still working on my discord emotes at a snail’s pace
    • my eye infections delayed it further too
• I want to get some art and learning going but I don’t want to push myself to more deadlines/timer in my own personal time as well when I already do with work and external life deadlines :'(
  • my anxious nervous system can’t take it if everything has deadlines…
  • I do want to ramp it up in small chunks day by day or every other day
  • manage how I spend time on the internet (trial and error) and minimise/take out romance slop in my life
  • hey it’s unlikely I’ll experience relationships (will I ever……wah)
  • yet I don’t want to get addicted/carried away by unrealistic fictional romance
• now I’m conscious about my tense/stressed/sore jaw and achy shoulders UGH
• am not going to games week…
• existential and wondering if I’ll be managing my random waves of loneliness forever
  • :’)

I’m tired, I need to do more things after this and sleep soon so take care ahhh

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