Leo Mafra

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[leomafraart]

Jean is trasnsported to the Arcade inside an interplanarian. Interplanarians are colossal flying worms who travel between the Material Plane and the Submaterial Sea. Little is known about them but some believe that, from their behavior, they have a mysterious connection to the Underworld, antigravitational powers, and the secret of interplanar shifting, through the breaking of the Metaphysical Barrier.

[leomafraart]

The arcade floats in the ocean contained between the Material Plane — domain of the palpable and concrete, dependent on Lavoisier's laws, where ideas are subjugated to thoughts, and the fantastical can only inhabit the unconscious — and the Underworld — domain of the dead, of the fictitious and oblivion. This ocean is called the Sub-Material Sea, and it shares characteristics with its two neighboring planes, thus giving the inhabitants of the Underworld physical bodies and sensations, and can be accessed by inhabitants of the physical plane through unconsciousness. The Arcade, in the midst of the great red sea, is characterized as a space between our concepts of life and death, carrying characteristics of both without being either.

[tujiux]

Lady " " du Mer

[leomafraart]

Jean is the game's main character and who the player controls in their adventure. His Arcade outfit, the result of a union with his childhood stuffed animal, is a visual representation of obtaining his "pearl" upon crossing over to the lower plane. This outfit, which the character wears for the rest of the game, contains elements linked to sleep, dreams, and childhood imagination, such as his hat that resembles rabbit ears, his slippers like big furry paws, his skirt, quilted and padded like a blanket. His design and personality reflect his place in the story, his quest for knowledge, his non-belonging, entering adulthood as a transitional and confusing stage of life, and the search for answers in his own imagination.

Hope you like it! 💜

[plastiboo]

[leomafraart]

This year I majored in Visual Arts at UFRGS and as a graduation project I created a demo for a game called Lilac House Arcade. For this game I developed a story, gameplay, dialogues, concept arts, wrote codes, modeled characters and props, exploring the practical and theoretical part of creating games and interactive artistic experiences. With it, I tried to approach themes of the strange, intervals, otherness, memory, our relationship with the spaces we attend, and aesthetic subversion. I intend, simultaneously with the completion of the demo, to share my creative material and a bit of the process of the different characters and the world that I developed. I also want to thank, in addition to my professor Marina Polidoro, the artists João Bragato and Matheus Schwartz who were my mentors in their Worldbuilding course and the rest of the class, the Haunted PS1 community, and each fellow artist and friend with whom I shared this process, who were encouraging and very inspiring to me. Hope you like it! <3

[70sscifiart]

Bob Pepper’s 1971 cover art for The Islar, by Mark Saxton

[leomafraart]

Throwback to my first game at the end of 2020 when I decided to create a lil short game project.

In this demo the main character and her little friend have to escape a corrupted colossal fractal ever expanding construct, that’s also consuming the main character’s mind and dreams, awakening and distorting forgotten memories.

I am curious to revisit this project with what I learned since them, in a sequel of some kind. I bet it would make a cool PS1 style 3D platformer.

[leomafraart]

Throwback to my fanarts of Milla Vodello and Sasha Nein from Psychonauts, one my favourite games ever with some of the raddest concepts and character designs.

[70sscifiart]

Karel Thole

[josiahmoore]

[vintagegeekculture]

Theater display for “Cat People” (1942). 

As many film students know, this was the movie that invented the “jump scare,” created not by the director, but by editor Mark Robson. The way he did it was, he had continuing movement in one direction, a through line in a direction between cuts, and then had something come in parallel to the continuing movement. This resulted in a jarring sense shock and fear. The jump scare was extremely rare prior to the 1980s. 

[70sscifiart]

Rowena Morrill cover art

[vintagegeekculture]

“Aelita, Queen of Mars” (1924)

[leomafraart]

Prophetic fanart I did using the Hellboy meme for ExU last year 🧡

[leomafraart]

Hello World!

I’m a Brazilian artist interested in visual storytelling, including games, literature, fashion and anything sci fi fantasy! 🖤