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- wins game of the year at the Canadian Game Awards
- wins best art direction & character design at the Canadian Game Awards
- wins games for impact at the Game Awards
- wins outstanding achievement in animation at the D.I.C.E. Awards
- wins best character animation at the Annie Awards 
- wins best new intellectual property at the BAFTA 
- WINS A PEABODY AWARD for the immersive and interactive category
Outcome: “Microsoft/Xbox reportedly shut down Compulsion Games, We Happy Few developer for South of Midnight.”
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- wins game of the year at the Canadian Game Awards
- wins best art direction & character design at the Canadian Game Awards
- wins games for impact at the Game Awards
- wins outstanding achievement in animation at the D.I.C.E. Awards
- wins best character animation at the Annie Awards 
- wins best new intellectual property at the BAFTA 
- WINS A PEABODY AWARD for the immersive and interactive category
Outcome: “Microsoft/Xbox reportedly shut down Compulsion Games, We Happy Few developer for South of Midnight.”
With his best (and only) friend gone, an eighteen-year-old Lucas struggles to right himself from an emotional tailspin. He finds company in his late-night wandering... as well as a peculiar sense of deja vu. Whether this goes anywhere good remains to be seen!
(These characters are from Forever Gold. Itaja is set to appear in Episode 5!)
ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds
I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study
after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines
et voila
and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)
and now, the birds
Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus
Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius
hoo boy, ok *out of breath*
GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!
this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render
speaking of obnoxious coverts:
bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata
the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it
Madam....
birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female
pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr
*melts into goo*
BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus
genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??
nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)
in other news, I am losing my mind hairline
SHE'S DONE!!
Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis
my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on
this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏
*does a little jig*
BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos
the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise
ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!
Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹
aaaand another one bites the duck,
we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos
the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you
power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,
the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis
and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.
Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp
thanks for the reminder, kid
at long last, we've reached the end...
Bird number 14 out of 14,
The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius
thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.
i'll see y'all soon :')
I'll be part of an art exhibition in Luneta Art Fair this coming Saturday-Sunday Feb 7-8!! The venue will be in the Noli Mi Tangere garden :] drop by to support me n my classmates if you can :D The theme and exhibit name is Sonder
Big thank you to @salidummay for help with references and details for the second painting!
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as of now, paralives on a sliding scale between rpg and life sim, but the scale is tipped almost completely to rpg…
Outing my OCs for pride month… [webcomic] [patreon]
1. It's my birthday 🎂
2. here's my annual Prisma drawing ❤️
LMAO paralives has been released in early access for like 2 days and already sims modders are paywalling mods for it
So the Paralives Para-Maker✨
Firstly, Paralives is AMAZING for an early access game with a 15 man dev team 🥰 I haven't had tons of time to play just yet, and I know there is TONS of room for improvement (that will happen in due time), so these are just my initial thoughts on the Para-Maker specifically.
I wanted to touch on something that I find sorta important.
Dark skin paras...😬
Now, I'm not saying anything about liking or disliking the artstyle because I think custom content will be able to fulfill people's needs and styles eventually. However, their vanilla options for dark skin are...not good.
Above is my attempt at making my sim Nyanaath. It took me waaay too long to make her look decent, even with the customization options for the skin highlights and such. It's always the first thing I notice; dark skins suffer from the same thing they suffer from in other games (both in the early Sims games and other character creator games). And that's a lack of detail. As an artist I can tell you it's because you cannot take a light/pale skin and simply darken it waaay down with a colorwheel without losing Every. Single. Detail.
Dark skin reflects light differently than lighter/fair skin, so when you darken it without considering that, it looks flat and undefined.
This was honestly something I noticed was lacking from the beginning when people were discussing the Para's stylized looks.
Dark skin Paras should not look like Mr. Popo from DBZ next to light or fair skinned Paras. This is something easily (relatively) fixable by making a separate category for brown and dark skins that have the proper detailing built in by default—or even just making some body detailing you can add to get rid of that flatness without having to pile on tons of makeup to brighten highpoints on the skin.
I also have my gripes with the fact that I can't get certain facial features without a preset. But again, more face and body sliders are something easily added. But I write all of this to say;
PLEASE GIVE THEM YOUR FEEDBACK! And don't be rude about it! This is what early access is for, so let your voice be known 💗
god the gender customization in paralives is the fucking DREAAAMMMMMM gender being completely separately set from body type n pronouns. no clothes separation. one uniform frame. being able to pick out chest & bottom shape regardless of gender and of body type. height not being affected by gender. voice not being affected by gender. body & facial hair not being affected by gender. absolute fucking peek
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