obviously this is still rough and proportioned because i am allergic to having anything complete and ready to use

i wonder if i should give it additional normal “death” flops or try to draw this from multiple angles like i have been making me do with other monsters. the returns on those seem to be quite diminishing but it is still always neat to suddenly see one from a weird viewpoint. but i also obviously have been spending years on largely irrelevant cosmetic elements and tend to forget that other people who might have been interested in this at one point don’t have the same connection to it as i do and probably can’t maintain interest in it as an unfinished product for 5 10 20 years like I can

while the flop was always boring, i quite liked the old “extreme death,” but it really depends on the flower. if i give the flower a stem then i can probably attach it to the prancing frames without needing to make separate left right frames just for the dumb flower. hm hm hm you can’t see the pupils following the flower in the new version, maybe i can make the head turn instead.

i was quite proud in 2004 of how i amended the doom pallete to have the more cartoony fire colors without that ruining any existing graphics, and now they have been completely overwritten, yet somewhat ironically with colors that produce a far more surreal explosion more in line with what i would prefer now anyway, and without much thought i based the new explosion on this, slightly. Not too much, since the old explosion was stolen: the fore piece is from the 1992 sega spiderman arcade game and the other is from final fight, since i was obsessed at the time with stealing graphics from other video games and it also being possible to tell where i stole them from, in contrast to now where i am obsessed with wasting way too much effort drawing everything fresh even when i myself already drew it once.

the 2004 old spof, inside the game, during its explosive fate fires out separate blood objects in a circular formation but I might have the new one launch doughnuts or maybe cupcakes. alas the only visual evidence of this appears to be terrible from inside a video i exported in 2018 but you can perhaps vaguely see purply objects apart from the purple on the spofnemitz sprite itself. this will be important dumb day.