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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 5h

Volcano mouth good fit for animal baby

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 6h

Today I've completed a major game board glow-up! First picture is the very first artwork I developed for my game. Second is the refined, polished new version.

Come play on my volcano!

#gamedev #art #digitalart #indie #illustration

First draft of a video game asset depicting a game board that resembles a volcano. It's not very well-rendered. It's drawn in a very simple cel-shaded style with mostly black outlines. The lava inside is wrinkled, jagged, not very bright. The rim of the volcano is solid with no delineation for different spots on the board to move a piece. Off in the distance is a rudimentary attempt to draw a chain of small islands covered with forests with mountains springing from them, although it's not very refined. The water texture on the ocean waves is very painterly and seems too close to the foreground.

Revised artwork based on the previous. The main elements are still there: A volcano top openly bubbles with bright, searing lava, with distant tropical islands beckoning the viewer to relax. Notable changes to this artwork include separated spots for players to clearly see where they are moving their pieces. There are more mountains nearby, and the islands look much more distant. The ocean texture has been toned down to a glass-like sheen. A little shore spit and distant beach forms are more softly rendered in the shadows of distant island mountains. More vegetation has been rendered on the volcano itself, so that players don't forget that this is a chill, green place in which to fight each other to the death.

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 1d

You can probably guess what happens when you throw a playing card into a volcano

If you can't guess...this is what happens

#gamedev #animation #digitalart #indie #art

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 4d

As far as I can tell on my Home feed...Some Youtubers are just like, mindlessly grinding anatomy diagrams or something, like they're bulking up at the gym

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 4d

I know soooo many people who only study human anatomy and create pinups (nothing but pinups!) because the only thing they enjoy is...studying human anatomy and making pinups lmao

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 4d

RE: figure drawing discourse, if your style is does not need to depict 3D characters believably inhabiting 3D spaces, focus on silhouette definitions and clarity of story/character

The anatomy drills are for people who enjoy doing them, and want to portray the illusion of 3D people on a 2D surface

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 17d

My first attempt at a ambiently-animated illustration! With a few more tweaks, this is going to be my volcano game's title screen background.

#gamedev #art #animation #illustration #thylacine #mammoth #dodo #tortoise #dinosaur #spine2D #madewithspine

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 6d

I'm a 2D gamedev artist working with my spouse to make little games. Our latest one will feature cute animals and the opportunity to murder your friends on top of a volcano!

I primarily create layouts and illustrations. I am learning 2D rigging and 2D animation.

#portfolioday #illustration #art

Full illustration in cel-shaded, digital art style. It depicts many animals fleeing the ashen clouds of a volcanic eruption, in which the skeletons of ancient prehistoric gods lunge out after them (quetzalcoatlus, dunkleosteus, apatosaurus, and T. rex). The illustration is primarily blue with some pops of color for each animal. The doedicurus (prehistoric armadillo) is grayish-green as it leaps ahead of an enormous T. rex's snapping jaws. The yellow thylacine springs out a bit further ahead. Closest to the viewer is a green Pinta Island giant tortoise, which is probably for the best since it is going to be too slow to escape without a head start. Next is a screeching purple-headed dodo with a yellow beak. An orange woolly mammoth charges forth behind the dodo, trumpeting as it goes. Up overhead are a troop of brown and white capuchin monkeys jumping down from...who knows where.... A giant T. rex charges forth out of the clouds with lava-red teeth, ready to eat them all if it catches them!

A serene digital illustration structured more like UI, drawn in cel-shaded digital art style. On the left is a crater full of lava for the game's losers to sit and bemoan their loss, fringed by dark ash clouds. In the center and foreground is a rock podium for the winner. For the purposes of this image it's the dodo, today. The purple-headed, orange-bodied dodo leaps ahead cheering its own good fortune. A beautiful island sunset paradise awaits the dodo for winning the game of roulette.

A cel-shaded, digital art style portrait of a yellow thylacine, with three different expressions. The first is the animal looking neutrally at the viewer with a 'blep' (small tongue coming out just slightly from its mouth). The second is the animal as it is very happy with a bigger blep, eyes closed, ears down in a nonthreatening way. The third is the thylacine opening its jaws to reveal sharp teeth, but it seems more like it's interested in what's going to happen than being particularly hostile.

Screenshot from a Spine2D interface depicting a 2D dodo rig mid-jump, wings up and feet out, ready to land and rain havoc on tis foes.

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 7d

unleash your inner dodo

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 7d

Watch out!

Dodo attack

(Animation from my in-progress game about animals fighting on a volcano)

#gamedev #digitalart #animation #dodo #madewithspine

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 9d

I was happy -with- the tree but it was a little bit ambiguous tbh

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 9d

I was so excited about some major progress and technical breakthroughs that I was making on a painting and when I tried to share to a non-artist friend I was like "wow I really just spent 8 hours painting a tree, and have literally no followup to make this an interesting conversation"

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · Aug 30

Which animal would you be? Pinta Island Tortoise, Dodo Bird, Woolly Mammoth, or Thylacine?

(These are all the player characters in my game about playing roulette on a volcano!)

#gamedev #art

Cel-shaded digital art of a bright green Pinta Island Tortoise's portrait. It's somewhat stylized to look like an animated character, but mostly looks naturalistic in its design. The tortoise looks happy but also fairly neutral.

Cel-shaded digital art of a Dodo Bird's portrait. The Dodo mostly hews to scientific reconstructions, but has been given bright purple feathers in front and orange feathers in back, as well as a fancy pompadour on its head.

Cel-shaded digital art of a stoic Woolly Mammoth's portrait. It's been drawn based on scientific reconstructions of the animal, but the luscious eyelashes have been exaggerated, as well as the deep caramel pool of the eye.

Cel-shaded digital art of a Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger)'s portrait. It mostly looks like old photographs of this extinct animal, including a big soft nose and plaintive eyes. The yellow of its fur has been exaggerated and it also has a little bit of cheeky tongue sticking out of its mouth.

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 11d

Trees are to environmental design as horses* are to drawing

*bicycles too

#gamedev #art

Crop of digital art depicting a variety of Açaí palm trees reaching into the sky with their numerous, fluffy green fronds. They are set against a backdrop of a bright blue sky and blue mountainous rock in the distance. These trees are extremely annoying to render because of all the fussy little leafy bits.

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 17d

My first attempt at a ambiently-animated illustration! With a few more tweaks, this is going to be my volcano game's title screen background.

#gamedev #art #animation #illustration #thylacine #mammoth #dodo #tortoise #dinosaur #spine2D #madewithspine

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 23d

One Drive is infuriating

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 23d

(This is not a subskeet this is meant to come across as a genuine desire for a blorbo)

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 23d

I wish I had an original blorbo character that I didn't mind drawing and posting publicly hundreds of times, who was just a big cutie with no other work associated with them