I've been having a shit month. But I wanted to make things better, really trying hard. Was talking with a friend about past projects, and it just reminded me of my teens.
I started on the web as a sprite artist, doing a lot of personal OC work. Doing my own designed, though as some of you know I specialized in doing Sonic 3 style sprites. I spent nearly 8 years making these, thousands of sprite pages custom and edits. I put so much work into them. All lost from a kid's mistake. accidentally destroyed my HDD that had it all on it. That was 7 years ago .-.
I feel old. I know I'm not but I really feel it. All the websites I posted those sprites and that work on are defunct, gone, the archives long deleted. The image hosting sites long since cleaned their database. It's hard for me to wrap my head around it, how so many years of my life amount to literally nothing. No evidence I ever even created anything during that time.
It's like that part of me, that kid I was, doesn't exist anymore. I wish I could go back and save it in a more secure way. Any secure way.
~sighs~ Things change, time moves on, and the internet is definitely not forever like people say.
In vain hope, I want to ask again, ANYONE, literally ANYONE who might have my old work.. please... if you were a member of "The Mystical Forest Zone" Forums, or "The Forest Defense Initiative" Forums before they closed, and MIGHT have saved my stuff for a comic, my username was "DTF", my characters were "John Prower" and "Rider The Dog"
Rider is REALLY who I want back.. I had a 200+ Sprite sheet made for him.. He was almost video game ready. I put the MOST work on him. I actually did remake a single pose of his sprite.. from memory. and I'm pretty sure it's perfect. But I want that full sheet.
If anyone recognizes him, and might have even an old version of his sheet.. it's a long shot... it's been more then 8 years... ~sighs~ just lemmy know.
