Oh yeah, this is also like, A year old!

Wow, this is actually a really cool animation! Its really nice to see Merdax again! He sure gets REALLY huge and strong the more fire he eats. That quality of him makes him even cooler :)

Aye, its why I like the idea of animating him more than drawing him.

Yeah, he is way better animated than drawn, although practically everything is better animated than drawn lol. I really love Merdax. I wouldnt necassarily say what he does is inflation though. Its more like absorption. He doesnt inflate like a balloon when he eats fire (although he does a bit in the beginning), he absorbs the power and energy of the fire and distributes it around his body via growing larger and getting stronger and muscular. You would have thought the wizard would have been smart enough to realize that by then lol.

I've often pondered the inflate/grow thing too. I guess it should be categorized as something different.

I guess you should call it absorbtion growth then since thats what it is. He absorbs the power of the fire/spell, grows, and gets stronger. What do you think?

Yeah I guess. He was much more "ballooney" in the first animation

Yeah, i remember that animation. That was also a really great animation too. I guess you could say he was generating a bigger fire inside him by breathing in thus making him grow? I dont know, just tossing ideas out. Still a great character though! :)

If this project ever gets completed, it would definitely be really awesome. Thanks for sharing!

It would be a fun piece. You are welcome!

I can't wait to see this done!!! I love humungus bodies and horns with little heads!!!!!!!

You may be waiting a reallllly long time!

Awww... why? T,T

I am terribly busy and I literally cant afford the time to work on a project of this scope for the fun of it.

lol eat for the win! XD

Adorable. :p

o3o oh snap this is brilliant.

I'm surprised this is something you're less than excited about - would I be right in assuming that's due to the significant amount of time it'd take to finish, rather than the content?

Either way, I like the concept behind Merdax, and am glad he got the opportunity to meet such an idiotic wizard. :> It would be very cool to see this finished one day (I'd even go so far as to say I'd put some money towards it if you did decide to try doing a crowdfunding thing!) though I'd entirely understand if you chose to focus on other projects instead.

Yes, its a time thing. If you are familiar with "opportunity cost", its the biggest reason why animation is rare on FA. It costs a lot of time and energy to make, time that I could spend making more random stuff that is easier as well as other projects in my non-FA life. I'm sure many artists here are animators, but they figure charging 50 bucks for a color drawing done in a bunch of hours is more profitable (and more likely to be commissioned more frequently) than a short animation costing 350 dollars.

If patreon or kickstarter have an easy, small project crowndfund capability (and if I have enough people interested) I will let you know.

Well that would certainly make a fun little animation. :3

This is quite awesome. I wonder why it didn't appear in my inbox though.

I think its because its in my scraps

Huh, but I still get Scraps in my inbox. Weird.

I like this idea though. Looks okay for a start. ^^

["Merdax eats fire to get bigger, magic fire even more so" also the finger]
{wow, wow wow wow}

Is this downloadable anywhere?

I've only uploaded it here

Aw, he should of let the wizard feed him some more.

Is there a limit to how big Merdax can get?

Probably, but he hasn't reached it yet

Got it!

I do love that tiny head on massive neck sort of things you do mate. It's so delicious.

Hehehehe! I am glad you like Merdax's little idiosyncrasies!

Yeah its pretty great. I did a bit similar recently. And will be doing more soon.