My Email Address: tani_tiger@yahoo.co.nz

Janurary the 1st

Happy 2009 everyone!

Wow, this year sure has gone by! Well to me anyways....

But anyhow, I really do think 2008 was quite a good year. Earned quite a bit of money, for my new PC set (which I am still really pleased with), and lots of other things like a digital camera, games, art supplies, etc. And I also improved a lot with sculpting in only a year too, which I'm happy with as well. And art? Well I suppose so, since it usually improves each year anyway. But most of all, the thing between me and Steve... which is the most important to me :) and we're still going strong too and working on things together.

I suppose there's the downsides too, such as not being able to travel to Australia this year, as I had to pay a lot at the dentist. And also the surgeries I had which have given quite a bit of pain and making eating not so fun. But lately I am starting to heal, so it's not too bad now. And the surgeries are important. I won't even bother counting bad online things since those are nothing but childish squabbling that doesn't effect me anyway hah.

So yeah, I hope all you out there have had a good year in 2008! And an even better year for 2009 coming up. I'm pretty sure 2009 will be great for me myself.

TaraC.

Well this huge picture here? It was originally intended as the Christmas picture but I made it more of a Summer Holiday themed picture, as it is summer over here in New Zealand and X.Treme Island has similar weather to here. So yeah, I hope you guys like it! You can either click the pic here to see the bigger Wallpaper sized version of it, or just see it in the digital art section.

It took me a few weeks to do, and I got to complete it since I've been at home most of the time in the last 3 weeks (Since I can't go to work) so therefore, a lot of time to draw! I put as much effort into this as possible as you can see. And the original file is 5400x4200 pixels! So it's massive, heh. Largest pic I've ever done, and the original PSP9 file is 139MB. I also drew EVERYTHING myself. No cheap picture tubes or brushes used! Besides ones I made myself, which I made grass and sand brushes for use here. Everyone and everything is proper shaded too.

Amazingly, PSP9 did not slow down at all as I worked on this, because I have a lot of ram on my PC. But sometimes PSP9 can't handle large images (Since the program can't use too much memory), but it did well with this one. I suppose I am pleased with this, it's also a celebration to me and Steve for merging our series together, but don't worry. the OB Series are still largely the same and wont have any huge changes. We'll be doing stories together though.

The characters featured are... Crunch, Tani, Steve, Chris, Rouge, Chayenne, Tasha, Tackle, Tayna, Collide, Tawna, Raymond and Clover. The whole entire Crunch family (blood related relatives) and who is Chayenne you may ask? She is the new sister me and Steve made up for Crunch as I cannot use Crystal in my series anymore.

Happy New Year everyone!

Welcome to X.Treme Island, where tons of Fanart and original artwork can be found, as well as the 'Outcast Bandicoot' series staring 'Crunch' from the Crash Games and the upcoming 'Age of Anthro' series.

This website is (c) to Tara Cross, as well as all original characters while Crunch and the other Crash characters are (c) to Vivendi Universal.