What inspired you to create XFD?

I've always had an interest in snowboarding thanks to video games from my childhood and noticed a lack of them in recent years. Even in other media like animation or comics. (Although some indie projects have started to pop up lately which is great!)

While I was in the process of brainstorming a personal character design project for my portfolio, the idea naturally came to mind!

How did you come up with the name?

The name was a tricky one lol, it had to be short, striking, and cool, while explaining what the sport is.

After gathering a bunch of words like "Top", "Max", and "Super", I landed on XFIRE DASH. It has elements of the Speed, Trick and Combat roles, and the X is taken from X-Games - which is what the sport is inspired by.

Who created the Logo?

detetiive on BlueSky - Please check out their work! 💙

How is the project progressing? How many characters and teams to you plan to make? 

Because of my freelancing job, I work on XFD in my spare time when i'm feeling inspired, so progression is slow but I'm always thinking about it.

I'm currently working on getting the XFD Staff sorted, then after that, I plan to make an adult team that I've had floating in my head for a while.

One day I'll get around to conceptualising how the actual Championship works too and what it may look like 😅 it's been difficult figuring that out.

Any chance of turning it into a bigger project?

I'd like to, but the project is still early days as I slowly iron out details and characters.
I don't want to put any pressure on myself to make it into something either, I just want to have fun with it! If I find the time to expand the project, that's great; if not, that's fine too.

I have been toying with the idea of an animatic, or a short comic, but that's it.

I'll always be extremely proud of how much work I put into XFD as someone who doesn't create original work very often.
I wanted to create something for myself and I definitely achieved that goal.