#oddworld aslik

[clobertina]

Abe’s Exoddus in the Ultimate Recap Cartoon style!

Once again, I don’t think it’s 100% exact as the style I’m trying to mimic… but it’s whatever LOL.

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[bosskie]

Tears Meat Bones

Yeah, this is the drawing idea I mentioned on my previous post. (Y) Still being a sketch, even yeah, my sketches tend to be detailed and rendered...

But yes, I have been wondering the relationships between these Gluks and what their roles were in this business. Well, it's obvious that Morguer was one to manage the bone digging operation, Aslik managed the trains, and Brewmaster took care of the brew. It seems like Molluck had the main responsibility of this plan, using Mudokons. Like, his lil wooden doll is burned in the opening cutscene, and he is/was the CEO of both RuptureFarms and SoulStorm Brewery. It really interests me to know how these guys even ended up into this together, like how they did even meet each other and so on.

I also tried to picture their different personalities here. I have been laughing at that Aslik... He just seems be the least serious of the quartet, and well, Molluck calling him an idiot just strengthens this image to me... So yeah, felt like making him being lazy Asslik. Morguer seems to be like an serious business man that doesn't smile much but I made him have a slight smile. And well, Brewmaster and Molluck are more expressive.

I must say that I have somehow started to like Morguer more recently. He just seems like a pleasant Gluk; not sure how to explain it... I feel like Molluck had some respect toward him. But yeah, if I gotta put these SoulStorm Glukkons in my fave order, it would be (no surprise): Molluck, Morguer, Brewmaster, and Aslik. I don't really have much special reasons for this order, it's just how pleasant they feel to me. Man, it would be more difficult to put all the Glukkon characters in order... But I know that, well, Molluck is the number one and Phleg is my least fave one... He is like the only Gluk I cannot really stand... I do like him saying that 'Don't think, drink!' thing but otherwise, I don't like him... When it comes to those AE's Gluks, I somehow like Dripik the most. He is just somehow adorable, and well, I also find Morguer somehow adorable too, though yes, I do find Glukkons adorable in general... But no one is even close to Molluck's adorability! Man, Glukkons are supposed to be ugly (OWI calls them like the ugliest creatures in Oddworld...) but they just give the opposite impression to me... Such cuties doing ugly business. 🫀✨

I just love Glukkons, no matter how evil things they did. And like I have said, if I lived in Oddworld, I would be glad to be Molluck's partner in crime. (Y) When it comes to Oddworld, I just don't really care about moral stuff; just wanna let my dark humour to flourish. I just really love all the darkness in Oddworld. Man, it just came to my mind that I never have said how I loved the thing in SoulStorm's bad ending where that foam extinguisher was shown after the fire started on the train. My dark sense of humour just really loves stuff like that. Oddworld is just like a perfect playground to my mind. (Y)

I dunno what else to really say here... I haven't still felt much better. But I'm trying to keep creating my stuff. Planning to try doing that Molluck sculpt next... It's been so long since I sculpted anything... Welp, if it turns out bad, gotta just keep doing more!

[lesserknownhusbands]

[incorrectexoddusantagonists]

Phleg: I don't have the energy for this.

Aslik: For what?

Phleg: *gestures vaguely*

[ohfugecannada]

I was watching some gameplay of Toby’s Escape and noticed Alf and Toby use Mud like how some people use Man in certain sentences. (I.e. aw mud…)

And yes, I remember that the glukkons in Abe’s Exoddus did something similar. With Aslik referring to Dripik and Phleg as “Gentleglukks”.

What’s funny is that we actually have heard “Man” used in other Oddworld games like Strangers Wrath. I’m not pointing that out in a “this is a plot hole” kind of way, just that maybe it’s some kind of regional thing between eastern mudos and western mudos. Maybe some societies in Oddworld (glukkons and Mudokons) use their species name as slag while others (outlaws, Grubbs, Klakkers etc) use their gender as one(?)

Either way, people who write/draw Stranger interacting with Abe and the other mudokons should take this into account because the results would be comedy gold.

[magicalgrimm]

So some brewmaster drawings and this scenario I thought of where Molluck gets kidnapped and his kidnappers somehow put him in a maid outfit for laughs.

And then his chauffeur slig finds him and he runs away because he’s too embarrassed.

That’s all I got down in my head, anyone else wanna further the plot?

[greasybandit]

Their shuffles..

[oddclan-askblog]

Molluck, Brewer, and Aslik in the oddswitch au. I drew Molluck tiny this time based on  @ohfugecannada and  francoisl-artblog ‘s head canons  on what gluks would look like without industrialization. Both envision them being short and almost like dwarfs which makes the Glukkons seem more adorable and endearing similar to mudokons in the canon lore. Initially this scene was meant to be reminiscent to the beginning of Soulstorm with Abe having escaped with a small fallowing and conversing with a shaman type figure. Here Molluck and Brewer are bickering over their next steps wearing a mix of worker and tribal garb. 

In  @ohfugecannada ‘s hc Molluck was born free and resents his fellow gluks for not fighting back, especially alchemists as they try to dissuade him from his goal. I agree with them that having  an industrial-outsider protagonist would give a different perspective on the factories and I think that would be really cool for the au. Aslik and Brewmaster could serve Alf and Toby’s roles with  Brewmaster being an alchemist Molluck convinces to join him on his journey? 

I made the symbol on the rock a flipped version of the Magog Cartel’s logo. Its slightly less threatening and meant to resemble the sun. Perhaps Glukkon’s worship the sun and their insistence on doing so only further infuriates the Mudokons? 

[aplagueofsmoke]

SoulStorm art book pics part 1: character designs/expressions!

[bosskie]

Molluck's Office Study

Yeah, I felt like trying out designing Molluck's office. I started this before the kiss drawing but felt like finishing it first. I have no idea when was the last time I drew a proper room... It must have been like a decade ago if ever... So, it was nice to practice drawing a room, but also perspective and light stuff.

I'm honestly not sure about this design but you gotta start from something. I took inspiration from those Gluk offices in Soulstorm but tried some own ideas here. None of those offices really seem to boast, so I took that to another level here. Like, Molluck got red carpet, his statue has own stand and his desk customized and more expensive. That ceiling light design is taken from Aslik's and Brewmaster's offices since I'm unsure about the design of that... I should draw the whole room to figure stuff out better. The 'Molluck watches' theme is also present here since he has multiple (moveable) TV screens in his office but also screens to see how his stocks are doing. Those stock screens are those long little screens where is also that little Magog Cartel flag. I feel like I could have added more stuff but yeah, like I said, I should design the whole room to know better. Once I get better at 3D modelling, I so wanna model his office like I could imagine it!

Oh and yeah, the background: I wasn't sure about it either but the other offices seem to be at some 'safe distance' from the main processes at their places, so not much should really happen there. Maybe he could see some meat processing stuff from there and his products on their way, like those barrels I drew. I also had some more ideas here but just wasn't sure if they actually work, so here's just the base idea. Oh, and now when I look at the background, it gives some Slig Barracks vibe too... The color theme just seems to be present at RuptureFarms too.

Molluck is said to be the Boss of Bosses, so his office gotta look like that! I can imagine him having like a big painting of himself somewhere too... The idea is just that if you entered into Molluck's office, it would make you feel like you are facing 'a big boss', feel intimidated. But well, Molluck alone can feel intimidating to face... But the office boosts it! I just feel like this would fit Molluck since he is said to be into luxury, before Soulstorm (or can you even say that when Soulstorm was the original name of Abe's Oddysee... Well, I mean the final names.), and it seems that this trait is still present since he got that luxury blimp dream. Man, why is this Gluk so adorable to me... I even find his egoism cute, even it's not cute IRL... I just love Glukkons, okay. It's kinda funny to think about how they have always been my top1 Oddworld species... I wasn't even into octopuses before Oddworld.

So yeah, just another concept art practice thing. I kinda feel better about my art right now but I still feel like I have so much to learn and do before I actually feel like I'm skilled, have artistic talent... I'm not sure what I do next but I would like to go back to 3D stuff since I haven't touched modelling since that cigar. I just felt so stressed out about my art skills that I had to stop it for a while... I just felt like my art looks so bad that I must practice drawing/painting... I don't feel like it's good enough still but I could do something else now. I got some horrible great ideas for Molluck models... I just say that I kinda love ugly graphics, like certain graphics of PlayStation 2 games. It would be just fun to create Molluck in different styles, from low poly to high poly, and so on. I wonder if I'm even able to create actually ugly Molluck model, to me... Some people say that he is already ugly, so eh, I guess not; only a bad model then. Yeah, beauty is in the eye of the beholder; like my mother has commented one of my Molluck works that he ain't beautiful but the painting is great while for me Molluck is such a beauty (but my work ain't...).

Oh, and while painting this (I don't always know which word to use since I rarely do actual line art... I more like just paint it on the same layer as the colours, you know. Like that kissing drawing has no line art, it's all just a part of the painting.) I realized how all the Gluks have multiple books in their offices in Soulstorm but Sekto has also lots of books... So, Glukkons and Oktigis like to read, or they (also) like 'book aesthetic'? But that's why I imagine Molluck having some books at his office too (I wonder what kind of books...) too. I assume they got much brain power, so gotta give the brain some food! I really wonder what Molluck can do with his huge brain...

But yeah, I'm not sure what else to say but that I just feel like I love this Gluk more and more... It feels like my mental image of him get 'clealer' and more detailed day by day, making me able to well, not also draw him better without reference, or understand his face better in reference material, but also imagine his 'presence' better, like if I was actually with him, making him feel closer even it's all just fantasy. Like, I didn't really use any reference to his face here which is rare actually because his head is just challenging to draw... I just feel so good with him... I could just go on and on about Molluck but I think that this is enough for now... I just love him so much and the image of him my brain has created, like he lived inside my head. I hate and love my mind. (Y)

[spoocyshrub]

While I'm on the topic of Glukkons today. Have a thing from Oddwords' Library collection/Archives of the Dear Alf segments. after having the leak of both Abe's age and the possible one for The Keeper.

((Dripik is highlighted because I'm looking for evidence for another post for another time. Please Ignore that))

Obviously this is old information and ties to the Abe's Exoddus games. But Brewmaster AND Aslik were brought back into Soulstorm. Could still apply for those two morons.

And as always. Take Alf's advice with a grain of salt. especially with this kind of context.

[incorrectexoddusantagonists]

Aslik: I trust you.

Dripik: You do?

Aslik: Yes, I trust you to do something unbelievably stupid at the worst possible time.

[incorrect-oddworld-quotes]

Dripik, to Phleg and Aslik: Gentleglukks, on the extremely small chance that Abe guy gets us, there’s a secret I feel I gotta share with you...

Aslik: uh... yes, Dripik?

Dripik: ...I did not care for the Oddmother.

Aslik ...what?

dripik: I did not care for it.

Phleg: How can you even say that!?

Dripik: I did not like it.

Aslik: DR- Dripik, that film is is perfect-

Dripik: Thats what everybody says, its always oH My oO-

Phleg: Robber Dirnero, Al picsshiro, I MEAN-

Dripik: I-

Phelg: MARLBORA BRANDOK???!!!

Dripik: Fine, Fine actors. Didn’t like the movie.

Aslik: but why?

Dripik: couldn’t get into it.

Aslik: Okey, explain yourself, Dripik; what didn’t you like about it?

Dripik: it insists upon itself, Aslik.

Aslik: What??

Dripik: it insists upon itself-

Aslik: What’s that supposed to m-

Phleg: THATS BECAUSE ITS GOT A VAILD POINT TO MAKE! ITS INSTSTANT!!!

Dripik: it takes forever gettin’ there, an- and ya spend six an’ a half hours and- ya know I can’t even remember what happened, I don’t even remember the endin’-

Phleg: YOU FORGOT THE ENDING?!?!?!?!?!

Aslik: How- How can you even say that if you weren’t even paying attention? That doesn’t seem fair-

Dripik: I- I have tried on three separate occasions to get through it, an’ I get to the scene where everybody’s sittin in the Eee Zee chairs, and-

Aslik: yes! That’s a great scene. I love that scene! Perfect in every-

Dripik: I have NO idea what they’re talkin’ about. It’s like they’re speakin’ a different language or somthin’. That’s when I black ou-

Aslik: Well you know what??? DRIPIK??? Those characters aRE SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE OF S U B T L E T Y!! THE LANGUAGE A BRAINLESS, TRIGGER HAPPY, BIG MACHO WANNBE INBRED LIKE YOU COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND!!!!

Aslik: -stops to catch his breath through gritted teeth-

Phleg:

Dripik:

Dripik: ...I liked The Mollah Pit...

Aslik: ...whatever...

Phleg: ...I liked that one, too.

[ohfugecannada]

Who can say fuck: Oddworld edition 2.0

A much needed update to this old meme.

Edit: almost forgot Dripik.

[magicalgrimm]

Here is something nobody asked for; daddy Molluck. Even Molluck wants nothing to do with it.