Animal Crossing Fan Designs Creepy Cryptid Villagers Including Mothman
An Animal Crossing: New Horizons player shared some wonderfully weird crossover art this week, imagining famous cryptids as Animal Crossing villagers. The unique designs of the anthropomorphic animals in the game has inspired a lot of creative art from Animal Crossing fans, who often create crossovers with other art styles and elements of popular culture for their designs. With over 32 million copies sold, the game's massive popularity has resulted in it having one of the most active artistic communities in gaming.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons includes over 400 different animals across 35 species that can take up residence in a player's town, all possessing one of several different personality types. Ten villagers total can inhabit an Animal Crossing island, where they can be befriended by the player. While the game does offer a large amount of species, the character list contains very few mythical animals, save for a few exceptions, like unicorn villager Julian and dragon villager Drago. Cryptid creatures — animals of folklore like Bigfoot whose existence has never been substantiated — make no appearances on the Animal Crossing character roster.
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Twitter user Killskerry shared cryptid-inspired Animal Crossing art this week, designing five famous cryptids reimagined as villagers. They've recreated cryptids from all over the map, from California's Fresno Nightcrawler to the Chupcacabra of Mexican legend. The most famous on the list is arguably the West Virginian Mothman, whom they've cleverly drawn wearing a lightbulb t-shirt. The user has drawn inspiration from some of the aesthetics of existing Animal Crossing villagers while adding their own
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