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Hey #IndieDevHour! ✨
We've got a new dev log for #InvertedSpireVN about our process behind painting character emotions in a realistic style (without polishing over what makes them so expressive in the first place): https://t.co/PCsHGdD4Ln
What do *you* think of our designs?~
For today's #amareteabreak, did you know the #InvertedSpireVN prototype was originally created for last year's Spooktober Jam?
We've got a new dev log talking about the process behind the character portraits. They've changed quite a lot since then!~
https://t.co/JNS1N4ItHA
Just finished watching Secrets of NIMH after multiple recommendations, and can I just say the gorgeously painted, relentlessly ominous background are giving me tons of inspiration for Inverted Spire BGs? #vndev
Hey #IndieDevHour, what do you think of these new character portraits for the upcoming release of our dystopian dark fantasy #visualnovel ~The Inverted Spire~?
#vndev | #amaregame | #InvertedSpireVN
The promised dev log on relationship-building mechanics in The Inverted Spire is out! ✨
Check out new character art, get some goblin romance tips, and find out how we diverge from a traditional VN branching structure into something a little ~thornier~
👉https://t.co/GKZ0QHYJCF
If you see this quickly rt/q with your art and tag some cool artists
@PrinceShamlet @chjorniy_voron @tentacledoom https://t.co/KkYbqda875
In today's news, I continue to fall in love with ornamental borders as a (literal) framing device for visual storytelling.
Bilibin drew on the aesthetics of Art Nouveau, lubok folk art and ukiyo-e prints to illustrate Pushkin.
His iconic style is a major inspiration. https://t.co/MVTloOIsbf
“Derivative” art can be a reclamation when you're written out of existence.
It can be a path to recovery.
And tbh, it can be an absolute joy to indulge your instinct for spite—cackling like an uninvited sorcerer who turns the village wedding party into a pack of wolves.
I found myself gravitating to these fictional outsiders. As is common in my position, I projected unseen histories onto blatant caricatures, and even ambiguous allusions to something I couldn’t yet name.
Nearly two centuries later, the brine of unquestioned beliefs in which his fiction is immersed is as impossible for the critically-engaged 21st century person to ignore as the historically-descended flaws of his contemporaries were to Pushkin himself.