Four, four, four Shift-JIS drawings for the price of one! Our resident Shift-JIS expert, Kalcha, ordered these four Hallowe'eny characters to line up and get festive for MIST1016, and boy did they jump to it! Shift-JIS works like the ASCII art we all know and love, but the characters are not fixed-width – and they include Japanese ideographs, here seen only composing the body of the spider. (Fear not, those corner swastikas merely denote good fortune in an Asian context.)
We only just regained contact with him a couple of weeks ago, but Reanimator (now reNM8R if you will) has hit the ground running in the fashion of someone who fell into a cryochamber in 1995 and landed in 2016. Looking over his standard and NSFW galleries of MUX portraits, this particular piece jumped out as seasonally appropriate and so in it went to the MIST1016 Hallowe'en artpack, released yesterday: a lady might well go to the costume store in search of a scary bat costume, but sadly, all they’ll find is the makings for a “sexy bat” one. Well, fine then! Here’s your sexy bat! Just try not to, uh, visualise the logistics in too great detail. (In fact, the bat-woman represents a friend’s avatar giving the piece its name – “Dancing Echo”. But could I resist going down that road? I’m not made of stone!)
