Time to close out 2025 with the last update of the year!
Custom Sprites: made various gallery fixes thanks to a site visitor who sent me a list. I also made some adjustments to a couple of sprites.
– Shao-lin’s Road: adjusted Wanpyou’s proportions
– G.I.JOE: Made the new Stalker calm stand sprite a bit taller. I’m still going back-and-forth about how tall the new G.I.JOE/soldier template should be (somewhere between Street Fighter Alpha/Zero height and Marvel-Capcom height), so I’ll have to make a more solid decision before I do more.
I’ve been going almost non-stop since October (or earlier) and haven’t really had much time to relax, so I’m taking a bit of a break before I get back to work on the site and videos. The first 2026 update for this site will probably hit in the last half of January.
Current plans for 2026: The few I’ll admit to working on are easing back into making line art on a regular basis (AI sloposphere be damned) and some new image generator fun. And, because people are surprisingly demanding it, more Nutroll! Thanks for coming through in 2025 and hopefully 2026 will be a better year!
Outside news:
Sadly, it looks like River City Ransom: Underground is going to be delisted soon, so buy it on Steam while you can. I backed the Kickstarter and it’s still one of my favorite unexpected series returns, especially for a beat ’em up. I hope the people who worked on it can find a way to get it back out there later.
A public demo for the IKEMEN-powered “CAPCOM vs Square: Parallel Destinies” fan game is available on the project’s website!
There’s a video up for Astro (a.k.a. Scorpion) in the Final Fight Forever (ver 0.33) OpenBOR project!
The download link is on the video’s page. I was honored to make some of the select portraits for the project, and Astro’s may be one of the best I drew. I downloaded the latest version and definitely plan to see how he plays when I get the time.
While it’s no surprise that there’s a toy-related update waiting for you on Christmas Eve, the real surprise is that you’re finally getting some game-related sprites!
Custom Sprites:
– Toy Pop: new gallery with brand-new sprites of heroes Pino and Acha!
– G.I.JOE: adds new pose for Hawk with a modified “calm stand” base (like a few other G.I.JOE original 13 characters this year) and updated his 2019 sprite to match it.
– Princess of Power: (added Dec. 25th) Glimmer
The new sprites and mini-logo were added to the main GFX Generator, where I made the pic at the top of this post. Also, a new background with the Playmates Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toyline was added to the Group, Vs., MvC ending, 88×136, and box screenstyles!
ToyBoss: I planned to have more pictures, but pre-orders of two of the figures that were going to be in those pictures have been delayed (the Kirby Nendo reissue got delayed to next May!). But today’s update finally adds pics of the Punisher/Nick Fury two-pack based on Capcom’s arcade game, and retaking the line-up of the Konami X-Men with the new Cyclops/Marvel Girl two-pack. But I also made huge progress catching up on Jakks’ Sega figures, finally getting the Altered Beast Werewolf, Shinobi Joe Musashi, Golden Axe’s Gilius Thunderhead (now I have him in TWO scales!), and Streets of Rage’s Roo! Jakks’ scale for these hover around 5-inches, but I think some fit in with other scales. I took a few pics to show how they look next to 52Toys 4-inch scale Capcom line. So while most of them look big compared to the others, the Werewolf fits.
Whatever it is you celebrate around this time of year, I hope it’s a good, safe, and peaceful one!
At the end of the 25th Anniversary update for ScrollBoss, there’s a sprite of my character Nutroll, in the same pose he was in for his new sprite in January. The difference is that his sign now had “11-11 ILLVEMBER” written on it. Today is the eleventh day of the eleventh month, so now it’s time to celebrate the first ever ILLVEMBER! That means two things. First, it’s time for my characters to get some long-overdue attention. That means everything from the Illmosis Network of sites is fair game. It also means ILLMOSIS, my art site that hasn’t had an update since 2020 (and the less I think about that year, the better) finally got an update today with new pixelart and a gallery page to show the ScrollBoss characters who debuted here. But I also have an update to put here, too!
Custom Sprites – Illmosis: A new sprite of my first superhero M-Wave and an almost-new sprite of Nutroll have been added. He’s moved the sign, but what happened to the rest of his mask? You’ll get an answer at the end of this month.
Mini-logos – Illmosis: New M-Wave logo added. Also the old Nutroll logo was added, I forgot to put it on that page over a decade ago.
The new sprites and mini-logo were added to the GFX Generator, where I made the pics at the top of this post.
There will be multiple Illvember updates on illmosis.net through the rest of the month, and at least one more update with that theme here as I add more new work of my characters. I’ll see if I can find a way to contribute to Karnovember this month.
Eleven years ago, Halloween fell on a Friday and I made that the theme of the update. Now I’m bringing that energy back in more than just the sprites in this final HorrorThon 2025 update!
Custom Sprites:
– Friday the 13th : Jason Voorhees (walking) and unnamed running counselor.
– Halloween: Michael Myers/The Shape – 1978 top of the stairs pose
– Splatterhouse: Terror Mask boss (giant mask version)
part 1: Remains of the Night
Custom Sprites:
– Mega Man : Skullman
– Castlevania: Dhuron
– Splatterhouse: Splatterhouse 2 Zombie
part 2: Creature Features
Custom Sprites:
– Darkstalkers: Demitri (scratch-made idle pose)
– Castlevania: Medusa
– Horror – Critters: The Crites (just the small ones, for now)
All new custom sprites and mini-logos were added to the fake screenshot makers/image generators that I used to make the group shot at the top of this post. Dhuron is in the “Castlevania skeletons” character slot.
One more day of horror left!
Arcade Quartermaster has the new shrines up, with one for Smash TV and Sky Destroyer!
part 1
– Horror – The Craft: completely redone Nancy Downs hovering (“Surprise”) sprite.
– Marvel Comics: New Scarlet Witch spellcasting pose
– Illmosis/ScrollBoss: An updated version of the new ‘cos-ladies’ Witch sprite I added last week and a second version in a slightly more traditional-looking witch outfit.
Stay tuned, there’ll be a second themed part of this update added later today. The title: On Leather Wings. Pretty sure some comic and cartoon fans can guess at least one of the sprites in that batch!
All new custom sprites were added to the fake screenshot makers/image generators that I used to make the group shot at the top of this post. The cos-lady witches now have more palette separation for their outfits.
Can’t have a HorrorThon without a teaser video, can we?
Over a dozen new static sprites for the site (that’s not even counting alternate versions of them) and more new animation than usual will be in the main video.
The HorrorThon kicks off next week, but here’s a little something to get you
GFX Generator: The new 2025 theater lobby with posters chosen by site visitors has been added to the Screenstyles with multiple background choices: Group, Vs., Marvel vs. Capcom ending, Box 160 x 192 pixels, and Comic 88 pixel. In the Box and Comic settings, I made an extra version that crops to the two movies that got the most votes: Dawn of the Dead and Evil Dead 2.
As a bonus surprise, I’ve put an early version of a new sprite into the “ScrollBoss – Cos-ladies” character: a witch! For now all you can do is change the color of her skin, hair, eyes, and laces while she wears an all-black outfit. She’ll have more extra palette powers (and possibly other surprises) when she’s updated during next week’s HorrorThon! Speaking of which, here’s a taste of the new pixel art that will stalk this site during the marathon:
A few small things added before have been added as we September behind and get ready for this year’s HorrorThon in October.
GFX Image Generators: Bishimon, Bulleta/BBH, Demitri, Donovan, and Felicia have been updated with their idle/standing sprite from the original Capcom games. I’ll be adding the other characters’ idle poses soon.
ToyBoss: a new picture with the villainous half of Capcom’s Marvel Super Heroes roster in Marvel Legends form. I finally finished getting all the parts for Blackheart a little while back, got Shuma-Gorath/Gargantos on Sunday, and took a quick pic of all the villains. That makes Marvel Super Heroes the first fighting game roster I’ve ever finished!
update: October 1, 2025 2:49AM EST:
idles added for Hsien-Ko/Lei-Lei, Lilith, Lord Raptor/Zabel, Pyron, and Q.Bee.
What started as an effort to add more to the image generator/screenshot maker’s Marvel vs. Capcom 1 ending options turned into a Secret Wars update with some new sprites. Basically the theme was a secret even to myself while I was working on most of it.
The new sprites and mini-logos were added to the GFX Image Generators, which was used to make the image at the top of this post. New options were added to the Marvel vs. Capcom ending found in the fight-size generator.
– backgrounds: a rocky Battleworld stage based on two ads for the toyline
– frames: Marvel Super Heroes arcade ending, and a new custom Secret Wars frame.
– sprite layouts: a new “beat ’em up – 2 players” option, used in the pic at the top of this post.
Coincidentally, Capcom’s MSH line-up features 6 (Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Wolverine, Doctor Doom, Magneto) of the 8 characters that made up the Mattel Secret Wars toyline’s first year. That stray thought started the whole chain that led to nearly everything in this update.
I’ll be one of the guests on the the Dire’s Place YouTube stream this Saturday, and the topic will be 90s cartoons! The cartoon I chose to talk about has one of the characters from this update!
