B Shoots; CLAY Jumps!

I sewed a hat.

Have a Merry-o Christmas! Woo hoo!

Zeke and Julie
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
(aka Zombies)

Halloween Countdown Day 31

Happy Halloween!

A Pirate, a Pumpkinhead, and a Witch
Animal Crossing Series

Halloween Countdown Day 30

Trick or treat!

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Halloween is rapidly approaching, and B Shoots; Clay Jumps! will be celebrating with a very special Halloween Countdown. Everyday in October I’ll post a new Claymation .gif of a ghastly ghost, goblin, ghoul, or other creepy-crawly from the world of video games.

As always, your requests are welcome. Click here to send your request through Tumblr, or e-mail JakeSpencerDesign@gmail.com.

(And if you haven’t already, play Be Good!)

Dwarf
Faxanadu

Halloween Countdown Day 26

Remember your mantra.

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Halloween is rapidly approaching, and B Shoots; Clay Jumps! will be celebrating with a very special Halloween Countdown. Everyday in October I’ll post a new Claymation .gif of a ghastly ghost, goblin, ghoul, or other creepy-crawly from the world of video games.

As always, your requests are welcome. Click here to send your request through Tumblr, or e-mail JakeSpencerDesign@gmail.com.

(And if you haven’t already, play Be Good!)

Dark Fiend Charles the Third
Viewtiful Joe

Halloween Countdown Day 25

Bats tend to be among the least imaginative creatures in video games, right alongside such boring, ubiquitous fodder as rats and slimes, yet there’s something about the little touches to Charles’ design that make him so interesting. He’s an urbane bat who lives in a coffin, yet he’s no Dracula. He’s a batman, but he doesn’t fight crime in Gotham City. He almost looks like a werebat; like a cryptozoological outcome of crossbreeding a vampire and a werewolf.

Oh… oh no. This can’t be! I’ve reduced a character I thought was pretty cool into the starting point for some really disturbing Twilight slash-fiction. What have I done!?

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Halloween is rapidly approaching, and B Shoots; Clay Jumps! will be celebrating with a very special Halloween Countdown. Everyday in October I’ll post a new Claymation .gif of a ghastly ghost, goblin, ghoul, or other creepy-crawly from the world of video games.

As always, your requests are welcome. Click here to send your request through Tumblr, or e-mail JakeSpencerDesign@gmail.com.

(And if you haven’t already, play Be Good!)

The Devil
Devil World

Halloween Countdown Day 24

Well, the Devil got my world and the Devil got my lives
And the Devil got directions and the Devil got red eyes
I’mma playin’ knock-off-Pac-Man on a Famicom cart
But it’s kinda complicated and it’s hard, hard, hard

Oh, clay is me, indeed.

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Halloween is rapidly approaching, and B Shoots; Clay Jumps! will be celebrating with a very special Halloween Countdown. Everyday in October I’ll post a new Claymation .gif of a ghastly ghost, goblin, ghoul, or other creepy-crawly from the world of video games.

As always, your requests are welcome. Click here to send your request through Tumblr, or e-mail JakeSpencerDesign@gmail.com.

(And if you haven’t already, play Be Good!)

Yawn
Resident Evil

Halloween Countdown Day 22

One day in the Capcom offices circa 1995...

“Hey, check out this new boss I’m designing.”

“Whoa! It’s a big snake!”

“Yeah, it’s covered in nasty pustules, and it’s poisonous, too! Pretty scary, huh?”

“Sure is! What are you going to call this monster?”

“Hmm… Well, it opens its mouth really wide before it strikes, sooooo… What about ‘Yawn?’”

“Genius!”

“Right? It’ll open its mouth, and then it’ll try to eat you.”

“To a snake that size, I bet Jill would look like nothing more than a sandwich.”

“…What did you say?”

“What? ‘Jill Sandwich?’”

“You magnificent poet! Wait here! I’m going to get a pen. Oh, this is going to be good!”

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Halloween is rapidly approaching, and B Shoots; Clay Jumps! will be celebrating with a very special Halloween Countdown. Everyday in October I’ll post a new Claymation .gif of a ghastly ghost, goblin, ghoul, or other creepy-crawly from the world of video games.

As always, your requests are welcome. Click here to send your request through Tumblr, or e-mail JakeSpencerDesign@gmail.com.

(And if you haven’t already, play Be Good!)

Mark and a Dead Monster*
Monster Party

Halloween Countdown Day 19

Sorry, I’m clay.

* Update: A fellow Tumblrr (Tumblrer? Tumblror? How do you label one who Tumbls?) has called me out on labeling this beast a spider, insisting instead that it is a crab. I sent the following reply:

I’m looking at a JPG of the Monster Party scene in question, and you’re right - that is no spider. A crab, though? I’m not seeing it. It appears to have the head of a Tyrannosaurus or a bird, two long hind legs, a tail, and weird round things on its sides. I don’t know what that is, but it’s neither arachnid nor crustacean. My vote is that it’s a distant relative of Crocomire from Super Metroid.

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Halloween is rapidly approaching, and B Shoots; Clay Jumps! will be celebrating with a very special Halloween Countdown. Everyday in October I’ll post a new Claymation .gif of a ghastly ghost, goblin, ghoul, or other creepy-crawly from the world of video games.

As always, your requests are welcome. Click here to send your request through Tumblr, or e-mail JakeSpencerDesign@gmail.com.

(And if you haven’t already, play Be Good!)

Baron von Blubba
Bubble Bobble

Halloween Countdown Day 17

Baron von Blubba is actually quite silly looking. His movement is jerky and predictable, and he’s not especially fast. To the untrained eye, he’s not very threatening at all, and yet it doesn’t take long to learn that the Baron is one of the most terrifying foes in all of video games for two simple reasons:

1. He is immune to all attacks.
2. He can only be deterred if you complete the current stage or if he kills you.

And he will kill you. So if you hear the music increase its tempo, it’s in your best interest to follow suit.

Hurry up!

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Halloween is rapidly approaching, and B Shoots; Clay Jumps! will be celebrating with a very special Halloween Countdown. Everyday in October I’ll post a new Claymation .gif of a ghastly ghost, goblin, ghoul, or other creepy-crawly from the world of video games.

As always, your requests are welcome. Click here to send your request through Tumblr, or e-mail JakeSpencerDesign@gmail.com.

(And if you haven’t already, play Be Good!)

Pious Augustus
Eternal Darkness

Halloween Countdown Day 16

THIS CAN’T BE HAPPENING!

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Halloween is rapidly approaching, and B Shoots; Clay Jumps! will be celebrating with a very special Halloween Countdown. Everyday in October I’ll post a new Claymation .gif of a ghastly ghost, goblin, ghoul, or other creepy-crawly from the world of video games.

As always, your requests are welcome. Click here to send your request through Tumblr, or e-mail JakeSpencerDesign@gmail.com.

(And if you haven’t already, play Be Good!)

Bomamba
NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams

Halloween Countdown Day 15

NiGHTS into clay.

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Halloween is rapidly approaching, and B Shoots; Clay Jumps! will be celebrating with a very special Halloween Countdown. Everyday in October I’ll post a new Claymation .gif of a ghastly ghost, goblin, ghoul, or other creepy-crawly from the world of video games.

As always, your requests are welcome. Click here to send your request through Tumblr, or e-mail JakeSpencerDesign@gmail.com.

(And if you haven’t already, play Be Good!)

Big Boo
Super Mario Series

Halloween Countdown Day 14

Maybe I’m over-thinking this, but what is the origin of the Boo? Not from a design perspective - everyone knows it was based of a Nintendo-employee’s wife - but biologically, where does it fit into the Mario ecosystem?

Okay, I’m definitely over-thinking this. Anyone who seriously tries connecting the dots when it comes to Nintendo games is grossly misplacing their energy (I’m looking at you, Zelda timeline theorists), but at the same time, Nintendo generally goes to great lengths to explain the living dead.

It’s been made clear by official canon, for instance, that ReDead are not walking corpses, but rather magical beings crafted to look like walking corpses. I don’t believe Pokémon has ever been definitive about the nature of ghost-types, but we all know that the skull on Cubone’s head comes from its deceased mother. Even the Mario series itself has shown the progression from Bowser to dead Bowser to Dry Bowser.

Boo, though - was it always a ghost, or is it the spirit of some poor Goomba? These are the questions that fuel my insomnia.

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Halloween is rapidly approaching, and B Shoots; Clay Jumps! will be celebrating with a very special Halloween Countdown. Everyday in October I’ll post a new Claymation .gif of a ghastly ghost, goblin, ghoul, or other creepy-crawly from the world of video games.

As always, your requests are welcome. Click here to send your request through Tumblr, or e-mail JakeSpencerDesign@gmail.com.

(And if you haven’t already, play Be Good!)