01.10.09This is Qiqo’s brain… on Critter Crunch



Early on in Critter Crunch’s development, 1/2 of the dynamic art duo responsible for the beautiful visuals you will see in game decided to take Bigg’s and toss him in a mixing bowl with the character designs from some other games… Click here to see more of Qiqo’s ideas.


99% of the art & animation you see in Critter Crunch was created by 2 people: Nick “Qiqo” Stephan and Sylvain Coutouly. Yes, these guys are crazy awesome. Yes, they are sorta like Jesus.


When Qiqo began working on the HD version of Bigg’s, he got so into it that he decided to see how Bigg’s would look if he starred in other awesome games. The result is the following image, which we call “The Wall of Biggs”.



Once we saw what Qiqo’s awesome drawings, we couldn’t help but think how amazing it would be to see a Kratos-Biggs (or Biggstos) slaughtering critters with his chain-sword tongue, or Sackboy-Biggs (Sackbiggs) complete with facial animations a la LBP.


While we’ll never get permission to put these ideas in the game, Qiqo’s different concepts still turned out to be super-rad. Click on the image for a nicely high-res version, and stay tuned for more Qiqo & Sylv blog posts.

NOTE: Just to be super clear, we only added Fez in this batch because Fez is super cool, and we love Polytron, not because it is coming to PSN. Maybe we should have added more non- playstation characters….. sorry for the confusion! Peace and Love.


14 comments for “This is Qiqo’s brain… on Critter Crunch”

  1. starblinky says:

    oh man, this would be the coolest thing in the universe if these were playable skins. Especially for online play!

    So awesome! I cant tell what game the bottom right one is from or the green one on the top.

    So cool though, my fav one is the Sly Biggs!


  2. kris says:

    Oh, just to be clear: Fez (as far as we know) is not coming to PSN. We can only dream about Fez on PSN sometime in the future, but we just tossed it in there for kicks.


  3. guitain says:

    Please go down on your knees and beg Sony to put these in the game, because they are way to awesome to NOT have!

    I like the sly smile of the Altaïr Biggs! =D And the Ökami-one is… interesting =P
    Fave is… SoTC, just because you put it in there! And seeing a happy Colossus is a rare sight =’(


  4. kowhoho says:

    You guys absolutely HAVE to make these playable! I would pay money for each and every one of these skins!


  5. sol says:

    oh man, PLEASE make these available in the game somehow! So awesome!!!


  6. Grub says:

    I would buy these in a heartbeat. Seriously, you should find a way to get these into the game as DLC, they are way too awesome not too. :D So cool!


  7. Quakeulf says:

    I featured it on my blog as well! Colonthree-power! :3


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  9. PSN_Tokeio says:

    I would totally buy these! DO EET!


  10. Luillo says:

    Omg… I’d also pay for this skins… for the Versus Mode it’d be awsome if they were some skins avilable and this are well terrific…


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