Blue feathers

This mod is made by Maymour. It’s not finished yet though, it still have some bugs and hasn't much stuff.

This mod adds things from “Animal Jam”, the game created by WildWorks (Smart Bomb Interactive) and National Geographic.

List of features and items:

1. New mobs:

- Koala When killed drops Sugar Cane. Not attacking.

- Bunny When killed drops Carrot. Not attacking. When attacked runs away quickly.

- Wolf When killed drops Bone. Not attacking.

- Phantom When killed drops Ink Sac. Not attacking (but I think they’ll be attacking in the future).

2. New items:

- Spawn Eggs: Koala, Phantom, Bunny, Wolf

- Paw Gem and items made with it. Paw Gem Ore, Paw Gem Block, Paw Gem, Paw Gem armor and sword.

Paw Gem Block craft:

Armor craft:

Sword craft:

- Boomseed and Boomseed Gun

You can throw Boomseeds by yourself (but there’s a bug: if you’ll throw it repeatedly, you’ll be blown away from the map), or using Boomseed Gun. With boomseeds you can blow up the ground and enemies.

Boomseeds can be found in grass.

Boomseed Gun craft:

Phantom Stone

Not sure what is it for. Most likely it’s just a decorative item because there are no crafts using this item (but might be that they’ll be added in future, I don’t really know…).

Also, this mod adds two biomes: Jamaa and Phantom Abyss.

Animal Jam animals spawn in Jamaa biome only. Also, in this biome you can find Paw Gems (but they also can be found anywhere else).

So I made myself a challenge: to make a decent-looking Sonic FC using original Sonic artwork. I've used an artwork of Amy for that.

So this albino echidna character came out of that challenge.

And, to be honest, it wasn't really that difficult. The design is not really that original-looking, the idea of it came to me fast (I was inspired by design of Tikal) and I wasn't really thinking about changing it much... But still, if I'll think about some redesigning, it could be a not bad looking character! Such way of making yourself a character can be not bad if you're trying to make a concept of the character. You can make a fast concept of your idea, then you can edit or remove some parts of it, and then draw it yourself.

Here are some tips that I’m using myself. They might help you if you ARE thinking about using an original Sonic artworks for making your character:

It will be much better if you’ll use a black-and-white picture (like coloring pages). It’s not a problem to find it.

To make it normally colorable in MS Paint, re-save it as monochrome BMP and save it back to 24-bit BMP (THEN you can save it in whatever format you want). Now you can color it without any problem.

If you want to change some elements of the picture (like changing clothes, adding hairstyle, etc), it’s better to use “line” and “curve” tools instead of “pencil” and “brush”. It’ll make your edits look more accurate.

More MS Paint tips: For Windows 98/XP ; For Windows 7

Also, it’ll be much better and more creative if you won’t be using standard MS Paint colors. You can look for some color palletes at some websites, like COLOURlovers (I know there’s lots more websites, but it’s the only one I know and using), or you can even use photos and take colors from them to make your own color pallete.

If you’re thinking about designs of clothes, hairstyle, etc, you can look up some on the web instead of making something primitive. You’ll have lots of choices and ideas.

Also, I would suggest you to look for more animal species instead of using hedgehogs/foxes/bats/cats only. There’s lots of other good species to use, just check them out. No, I’m not telling you that you CAN’T use those species, I’m just telling you to look for more. What if you’ll like a seal instead of hedgehog, for example?