Mike Harvey

#MeetTheDev Mike Harvey here. I'm a freelance clean up artist, character designer, and animator (5 years EXP). I worked on @WayForward's Mighty Switch Force 2 & Shantae Half Genie Hero, and Team @Sonic2HD's Sonic 2 HD. I'm constantly learning new skills and I love what I do!

@Emilie_loveurs True. I'm not on social media all that much anymore.

@AWMikeHarvey Pretty Dragon!!!!! Also, it been a long time i don't see you post here.

Basic sketch of Lilac on a bench at Shenlin Park. Looks like she saved a spot for you. #FreedomPlanet #GalaxyTrailFanArt

@CheckBackLater1 Uh... I didn't think this one through... I just thought it was a cute idea for Easter.

@AWMikeHarvey ...who laid the egg?

Since it's Easter (a little late on my part), I thought it would be cute to draw Lilac holding a water dragon egg. 5 minute sketch before I rush to work. #FreedomPlanet #GalaxyTrailFanArt

@OcanhaBrazilBoi @Kidgarcia7 As a matter of fact... I have a theory that the Kingdom Stone is/was actually an egg made from Dragon Spaceships.

@AWMikeHarvey @Kidgarcia7 That looks suspiciously Kingdom Stone- shaped... Are you implying something here, Mr. Harvey?

@Crimsonfloofeon Thank you.

@AWMikeHarvey Fastest response in the west lmao (Seriously, a notification popped up showing you posted after a long while, how can I not?)

@Erichbarnes2 How y'all respond so fast!?

@AWMikeHarvey She is so cute

@Crimsonfloofeon I just posted this?!

@AWMikeHarvey Pretty dragon!

@YomiQuinnley 5 second rule!

I woke up and forgot to put my coffee pot under the coffee maker. My floor is covered in scalding hot coffee juice and grinds. 🙃

I need to get back into making game animations again. It's been a little too long.

@drawligator Drawligator is gonna become a Restligator. Get well soon.

Last week I fell and I sprained my foot, now that I could start to move again I caught a cold and I'm back in bed, just end me already ＿|￣|●

BIG DAY!! WE START THE SONIC IDW COMIC SERIES! LIVE: youtube.com/live/NUx29Obtp…

@EblastGraphix45 Always On. Bet Vector!

I'm telling you guys. Always Bet On Vector! #SonicTheHedgehog #vectorthecrocodile #chaotixcasefiles

@Moksuri0815 That would be the cutest thing ever! I kinda wanna draw it!

@AWMikeHarvey It would be so funny if she started playing along with the film noir aesthetic after hearing vector

I love the Chaotix Casefiles so much, and I hope a detective noir trope like this one happens soon! #ChaotixCaseFiles #SonicTheHedgehog

@LanolinFan No prob. It's was a joy to draw this.

@AWMikeHarvey First thing I thought of when they announced it with a noir aesthetic. Thanks for bringing it to life!

@UnknownPhantasm Absolutely. I love classic film noir so much.

@AWMikeHarvey I feel like it’s a must with anything involving a film noir aesthetic lol

Drew a quick sketch of how I think Spade would look in an alternate, future Freedom Planet.. uh... thing. Obviously, I was inspired by a very specific smooth criminal when drawing this smooth criminal. I like this look for him. #FreedomPlanet #GalaxyTrailFanArt

Been a while since I posted anything. Been studying and working. Anyways, felt like drawing some Freedom Planet fan art to end the day. Lilac, age 21. #FreedomPlanet #GalaxyTrailFanArt

@YomiQuinnley So incredibly happy for you Yomi. Live your best life to the fullest and enjoy your home!

This moment marks the biggest change ever in my journey, and I don't know how to express the feelings I'm going through right now, but I want to try. For all of my life, it's been surrounded by the inability to be myself, or truly find happiness. Parents who never wanted me and told me to just 'be normal' followed by constant physical, mental, and sexual abuse. People I thought who were friends who told me who I was supposed to be. Who told me to stop ever going outside their bubble of acceptance, and was disgusted of me for even thinking I was anything outside of their normality. And roommates who were intolerant and bigoted, often taking their anger out on me or constantly making my life hell even through the latest hours at night. People have always asked me why I work so hard, why I never seem to rest in this space. At first, Vtubing was only a passion, and I never lost that desire to do this just for fun. To this day it's the best time I've ever had. But thanks to my amazing community and friends, it swiftly became a career. I saw a chance to make something of myself, to finally have a chance to maybe afford a place to call home. It was my chance to finally escape it all and maybe, just maybe for once, feel like I'm not constantly in fight-or-flight mode. Constant panic attacks became less frequent, being autistic felt less like a stigma, my cptsd was more manageable, embracing myself in gender and appearance even if it was through vtubing and even for once dressing the way I always wanted at a convention. Vtubing has given me a chance to finally live. Not a Hell with an abusive family. Not a tiny bedroom of a prison with people who hated me. But instead, a genuine place I can finally be myself fully, just as Vtubing gave me the courage to finally start discovering who I was. And even better, to spread that encouragement and hope to others, to remind them they can do it too. That as painful as this world can be, there's always hope for those who keep fighting. I never take for granted the friends I've made, and the support of my community. It's gotten difficult at times to reach out because of how hard I worked to make this living possible, but we're here now. I never truly spoke about the Hell I've been through to get here, how before all of this I even made an attempt because for 30 years, I thought my life was just always going to be this painful. The community, my friends, my agency, they all made it possible. Thank you for helping me find freedom and the peace I always wanted. All I can do is lay on the floor, stare the ceiling and cry hoping this isn't a dream. I'm home. I'm finally home.