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Melo

@letitmelo.bsky.social

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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 · 4h

Alexander didn't invent wet-on-wet and you can't copyright techniques.

Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 6h

I'm interested in how they plan to do prewritten adventures. FabUlt is VERY DIY and pushes you to homebrew out the gate. I think that can be a little intimidating for new GMs, but I think modules can be too restrictive. Sounds like these are going to be frameworks that you can build on. I dig it.

Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 6h

You're never too old to become a Christmas Cake.

Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 6h

The character creation is such a sweetspot of low number bloat but lots of customization. Letting players create the setting and fill in details of a scene turns the game into a writer's room. The tools for scaling monsters and treasure to player level are fantastic. The GM advice chapter is perfect

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 6h

I'm really, really happy Fabula Ultima seems to be getting its flowers. I think it's the most impressed I've been with a TTRPG. That barnburner of a Kickstarter is very well deserved, and even if you're not a weeb, I think that system offers a really compelling framework.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 6h

I dunno why you'd make that conclusion, Natalya is a classic American name.

Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 7h

When Mo was born the staff put a blue/white/pink striped wrapping on her head, and I'll admit for a split second I thought "huh trans flag" but because I'm a normal person I remembered "oh those are just the regularass baby colors" and went back to not being fucking weird.

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 1d

LOL

so #nintendo is stealthily shoving the trans political agenda and nobody has noticed it?

video without context with trans flag colors everywhere from nintendo america

you people better sart noticing patterns
just like netflix

carbon monoxide leak

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 13h

Mind you, we've been practicing, I've been troubleshooting, the help tools are actually really good, we have a human we can email for support, for over two years.

Now I'm wrapping up and I get this long list like

"how do I record them vertically"

😶

Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 13h

And for two and a half years I've been like "hey, I'm shooting something else, I'm working on something else, take the wheel on this remote shoot" and every time Something went Weird.

So I leave in a few days and he sent me a laundry list of things he doesn't know.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 13h

I start a new job on Tuesday and I'm transitioning a bunch of old tools/licenses to other designers

We have a platform for recording remote interviews, and two years ago I spent an afternoon teaching this guy how to use it. Every bit of info I relayed got interrupted with "yea what you said got it"

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 22h

Hell yea!

Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

See, but you can absolutely do it! If you follow along, it's like building a Lego set. The thing is Bob had knowledge of color mixing, of nature, and of tools, and he could convey all that in easy steps for laymen.

The performance of it is a whole other thing though. That's real talent.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

This is what the democratization of art looks like.

Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

Small Brain: Bob Ross is a great artist

Big Brain: Bob Ross' art style is basic, rudimentary, and prescriptive to the point that anyone can copy it

Large brain: if anyone can copy it then everyone can make art

Galaxy Brain: Bob Ross is a great artist

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

www.pbs.org

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James GHOULizio @theswweet.blackskycomra.de · 1d

It sure would be great if literally any of the BlueSky staff would be approaching a fraction of this level of professionalism. Shout out to Rudy and everyone on the BlackSky team.

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

You're one of The Good Ones 💯

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

I would love an art house character piece, like something totally different, but I don't have that kinda faith and I'm kinda expecting another "Marge and Homer/Bart and Lisa have a big fight" thing again 😬

Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

Every idea I have for a "Simpsons Movie 2" is kinda moot because the show's renewed for four more years so a finale won't happen and literally any other kind of story has been done already.

Best I've got is a time-space reboot or a St Elsewhere reveal that resets the whole shebang.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 1d

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

I've been going through something of a career crisis since this summer and the one thing grounding me is that I've got years and years of good people in my corner. Don't want to annoy anyone with tags but if you're reading this and we did a thing I almost definitely mean you.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of absolutely no game book publisher PR snafu happening right now, can I just say how grateful I am to have partnered with colleagues/peers/publishers with decency and integrity?

Obviously good business is good business but it means a lot to work with good people who make me feel good.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

I hope it's nothing then.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

I see the connection to Pikmin music but not much else connecting to the series.

Rosalina's getting marketed hard between the Galaxy rereleases and the upcoming movie. Character design lines up (bang's curving to right eye, sides of hair flaring out, colors).

Probably just lolrandum tho

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

Mom's gonna get Disney'ed

Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

is this baby rosalina before she gets spaced away

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d

Close to You – Nintendo www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsuf...

Nintendo drops animated video

explains nothing

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