Yagamimi's "Apron Strings"

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"Apron Strings" is an idea for a game I'd like to make sometime in the future, after my current project "Revenant" has concluded. Unlike Revenant, I'm aiming for a Dreamcast/Gamecube-inspired art direction.

I haven't done a lot of planning or worldbuilding yet, I'm still not totally sure what the game will be yet. I'm intending for it to have a creature raising mechanic inspired by the Chao from Sonic, but in what capacity idk. I've played around with the idea of a branching story but I'm not married to the idea because it could easily end up being way too much. I don't have much of a story yet and I have no idea how it would end. Don't have an engine decided either, could end up being Unity like Revenant, but I've also wanted to learn Godot myself, but no promises.

IM ALSO NOT TAKING ANY SUGGESTIONS

I have spitballed and drafted up some early story/world ideas with Revenant writers BongFish and @guysullivan, but for the time being there's no officially assembled team behind this, it's mainly just me for now. I'm just making it all up as I go, this could end up taking a totally different form by the end. This game is still many years away.

So, stick around for the art and renders and maybe some rambling every once in a while

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people dont even leave little tag comments anymore they just say hashtag art. why do you grow so distant, talkative people

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there's such a massive disconnect between the internal voice i hear when i type things vs how people consistently interpret me that a lot of you must think im just some curt bitch. from this point on read all of my posts in the cadence of dale gribble

alternatively, Super Kami Guru. either works

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a post i deleted a while ago got reblogged by a big account oops. please stay anyway pls look at chabindra

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will update this when i have more presentable art of her, but for now - Chabindra V1-V8*

*Doesn't include the dozens of in-between transitional designs, these are just markers for the various stages of her and the project's development

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so i did a q&a thing on bluesky and im just gonna gently slide this one on over here real quick just in case anyone else has made the same assumption. Look, it's come up enough times that I just have to assume that some of you assume it

tl;dr designed black characters too good, meaning I must be black because the bar for that is in hell. Like im flattered but like please support actually black artists (and try harder with your black character designs lol)

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if i go with black pants i could give her lil leg wraps just so the white is more evenly distributed

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yknow i hadnt considered blue dress + black pants, and now im curious what yall think. keep in mind she'll have the big white scarf/cloak combo too

which

white pant

black pant

Voting ended onMay 7

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hi not a question, more nonrequired suggestion. I think it would be awesome if you posted wireframes of your model wips more, i Personally love seeing what makes up an artists model and seeing how everything is put together. And im really inspired by your style so i'd love to see the thought process behind your models and study them . obvs post whatever you want, just something i'd like to see bc its cool <3 have an awesome day

I've shown some of the wireframes for my finished models before, and this technically isn't the right blog for this but here's the wireframe for my current Chabindra mockup, has way more polygons than the actual model will because im just coloring the vertices to get the design across. The topology is not a factor for concept models like this and i think this is worth showing off, alongside actually optimized finished models

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@yagamimi-string a little drawing of Chabindra since I've asked If i could make some.

First time drawing this hairstyle, there might be a billion too many locks, but i hope it is fine.

Otherwise ive never noticed so much detail in the textures and just wow there is so many little things to account for, but that is quite lovely, just shows all the considerations in the design.

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im ngl her outfit is still kinda iffy to me so im wondering if any of these look better or if i should just stick with how it is

which

white

black

white dress + blue pants

blue dress + white pants

leave as is

Voting ended onMay 6

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not too shabby for a rough mockup

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im doing too much work for a mockup but im not ready to do the actual model until i can actually get a clear look at Yorda's textures from Ico. All I can find was this shitty screenshot of someone porting her to Blender and not even bothering to make it presentable, so I can't even gleam what i need to from this

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have some chabingus

the hair is the only thing that keeps surviving these. im not redoing all that

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Gobl1n (Comms open!) (@goblin616.bsky.social)

Also wanted to have a try on adapting Chabindra into the gloom and bloom of team ico's style myself + a bonus bug with the colors @luigiyaga

you should follow goblin if you use bluesky

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this is a question for any Black artists that follow me (or just happen to come across this), I want to try out a version of my characters and models for Apron Strings in a style similar to Ico, specifically the character Yorda

Any recommendations for achieving this subdued faded out dreamlike look without chabindra and other characters looking grey and dead

Probably won't even be the art direction I end up going with, but the project's still in an early experimental phase and I ultimately just want it to look nothing like Revenant

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fuck me i am not good at colors still. this 1. looks nothing like what im trying to achieve and 2. doesnt look good

yeah this is probably gonna be one of those things that expands into a 2 week long project

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???chat am i getting anywhere at all with this, in fact fuck it feel free to fuck with the colors yourself if you think it'll help cuz im stumped otherwise

i dont know how desaturated this really is because all three of my devices are showing me something different

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at the very least, making her darker is starting to bring it together i think (exact saturation pending)

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entering some kind of flow state, will ask for more feedback when im Done