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Illustrator, Animator & Designer Past work: Pencilmation, Retronauts, Kotaku, & more Views posted are my own Portfolio, Art blog, etc: linktr.ee/letitmelo 📧: [email protected]

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · Jul 8

It is once again #portfolioday and I'm hungry for work!

My name is Greg Melo, and I do illustration and design for books, editorials, podcasts, comics, social media and more!

Portfolio: gregmelo.com
My comic: mnmcomic.com
Art blog: pixelpulp.tumblr.com
contact: [email protected]

Illustration of a mindflayer turning the corner in a dungeon hallway. On the other side of the corner is a human paladin, an elf thief, a gnome alchemist, a human ranger, and a wolf, preparing to get the jump on the mindflayer. The ranger and wolf are running from a mysterious tentacle coming out of a doorway.

Promotional image for the second volume of Rey Estaban’s NES Endings book. The cover features various illustrations by me, including:

-Trevor Belmont, Sypha Belnades, Grant Denasty, and Alucard watching Castlevania crumble in sunset.
-Bowser buttslamming Mario
-Ryu Hyabusa and Irene watching a temple crumble over an ocean scene
-Mike from Startropics with bananas in his ears
-Mega Man looking up at a projection of Proto Man’s face in the countryside as wilt’s UFO flies away

Illustration for an episode of Retronauts featuring the Nintendo DS game "The World Ends With You". The game's protagonists and monsters are in an abstract visual landscape of graffiti, DS screen/style windows, and audio visualizer shaped like a Tokyo cityscape.

Sonic the Hedgehog running through three time periods of Palmtree Panic.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 2h

(I think the demon they were painting trees for might be a Big Bad which is a weird way to introduce him like 18 episodes in lol)

Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 2h

I haven't seen super saiyan blue yet but we're still in season one. It's kinda on that Friendship is Magic juice where you realize the one-off episode about apples or whatever just introduced canon that'll come up later.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 2h

Rapunzel says "what if I add color to this tree for once" and the art teacher just gaslights her saying she won't know what color to use and where to use it and Rapunzel just freezes in anxiety.

Like, legit mentor abuse.

Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 2h

There's an episode of the Tangled series with an evil art teacher who starts an brainwashing cult that makes everyone paint the same dead tree over and over in a pledge of allegiance to a dead sorcerer and it's legit terrifying??

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 3h

It's spooky season, the forces of the great beyond command you to read spooky comics.
mnmcomic.com/comic/m1-cov...

M1 Cover

Visit the post for more.

mnmcomic.com

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 3h

What's a scooby these are my original characters mnmcomic.com

Monsters & Mysteries

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mnmcomic.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 4h

4 years

How it How it's
started going

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Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social · 20h

NEW BLOG POST!

This time I'm talking about systems-driven narrative design and how YOU can tell a story with your gameplay, whatever that gameplay happens to be. We start from Bananza and build into a systemic approach anyone can use.

www.nathansavant.com/post/systemi...

Systemic Narrative: A How-To Guide

After my last blog post on Donkey Kong Bananza, I threatened to take what I’d learned and tell you how to do that for yourself. Well here I am, looming in the shadows with the knife of knowledge in my hand. Waiting just for you.Now you may look at this blog title and think to yourself “But Nathan, Bananza doesn’t really have a systems-driven narrative, why are you talking about that topic?!” and to you I would say “welcome to my unhinged corner of the internet, you must be new here!”. Donkey Kon

www.nathansavant.com

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 21h

video games

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Nova Crystallis @novacrystallis.com · 22h

Bravely Default 13th Anniversary illustration by Rika Okazaki:

Text reads: 13th Anniversary!! Bravely Default Flying Fairy

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · Mar 11

“How about it, Magus? Can’t you give him a more fitting form?”

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

That one Lauren Phillips meme.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 2d

I think today’s Monsters & Mysteries update has the dumbest lore reveal that I’ve been sitting on since chapter one.

Latest page:
mnmcomic.com/comic/m4-p9
Chapter start:
mnmcomic.com/comic/m4-cover

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

Massachusetts is the kind of state where you can go from 80°f to 30°f in the span of three days

Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

Oh totally. Absolute Wonder Woman has been fucking lit. That whole line has been generating the most heat in years.

Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like DC is finally getting its head back in the game

Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 2d

Jim Lee promises that DC will never use AI, saying "AI doesn't dream, feel, or make art."

Iconic Artist Jim Lee Takes Firm Anti-AI Stance at DC Comics

nerdist.com

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

If you'd like to support my spooky fantasy comics this holiday season, ultra HD pages go live on Patreon. Uncle Game Master accrued some expenses this month.
www.patreon.com/c/GMtheGM

Get more from Melo on Patreon

Scribing spooky fantasy adventure comics

www.patreon.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Drake sitting there reading about how good the judge thought the song was and how everyone really enjoyed it

The song contains lyrics explicitly accusing Drake of being a pedophile, set to a catchy beat and propulsive
bassline. "Not Like Us" went on to become a cultural sensation.

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🦊remy/emi✨ @remihime7.bsky.social · 2d

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Djamila Knopf @Polaris #196 @djamilaknopf.bsky.social · 2d

It's October! My "Wizard and Dark Academia" reference pack is available at www.djamilaknopf.com/store. It includes 100 carefully selected, high-resolution photos of books, unique trinkets, dark hallways, crooked cottages, Gothic architecture, and more.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 2d

IGN gives it a 7/10 because the levels are too hand-crafted and the genre becomes counter-culture until it becomes hip until we all start craving levels put into blenders again.

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Vindexrix @vindexrix.bsky.social · 2d

Art is fundamental human expression <3

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 2d

New game came out that looks 100% my kinda shit but of course it has to be a goddamn roguelike

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