11 months ago

Mmm... I changed my mind. This one's better.


Soooo, this is basically all the progress I've made since the last time I posted here This little project's taken a back seat at the moment while I slowly sort my life out, but I'll be back chipping away at it again as soon as I stop feeling guilty about having free time!

I went all the way back to the drawing board in the end, after I looked through a bunch of things I drew right before I gave up on art because I sucked, was never improving and would never develop my own style.

I actually think those old drawings were pretty good, it's obvious I was getting better with each one, and they distinctly all share a style. Who'd have ever thunk?

So I had a go at re-capturing it while I was trying to re-learn how to even just do a rough sketch, and ended up here. The short one's a first draft of the soon-to-be-very-tiny top down sprite version, whose running animation I absolutely will not overcomplicate to the point of butchery this time.

I still don't know what I'll end up settling on, but I do like this version way better!

#vector #vectorart #vector_art #topdown #top_down #animestudio #anime_studio #sprite #warlock #boredoftaggingalready



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Aaand I went with something totally different Of course! Next - actual sprites, probably.

Waaay better. Also, wriggly physics hair! She'll get an idle animation and even wrigglier hair eventually, but now I've fixed all the rendering bugs and remembered how to animate, maybe it's time to start adding content... can't avoid it forever, right?

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Presenting as promised... one sprite! This is the first time I ever felt like I got the top-down angle right, so I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself. Now I get to do the fun part!

πŸ†Meet the winners of the Narrative Jam presented by Game Jolt and @NEOWIZ_QUEST ! Where every story finds its voice!

Finally! an asset for this actual game instead of an old, unrelated one! I kind of hate it she keeps going momentarily bald, and how have I made her legs so weird, and I really need to make it transition nicer between directions... but it's a start!

Oh no... time has accidentally happened. Again. And now I have to totally restart the art direction because my style is more like this and not really anything like the sprite I drew so now I kind of hate it.

πŸ₯‰βœ¨ I won 3rd place in the Narrative Jam! ✨πŸ₯‰

My game Luna Magica made it into the winners of the Game Jolt + NEOWIZ jam Γ’wΓ“ They really loved the worldbuilding and the dark magical-girl vibe, πŸŒ™

Thank you so much to everyone who played it! #GameDev #JotaDev

Aaand... tadaaaa! Scene changes, plus saving and loading from JSON!! Need to fix the glitchy player animations (and my save/load functions are pretty hacky rn), but it's 2 more steps closer! #pixelart #vectorart #MonoGame #XNA #Spine #Esoteric #CSharp