#trying to emulate

[odetoscavengers]

i think one of the major things i see with modern games/artists that try to replicate a late 90s/early 2000s low-poly style is that they tend to go a bit too hard into readability. All the games I've played from that time have a style sort of characterized by the fact that their texture is more 'complex' than the actual 3D model itself, which sort of causes objects/enemies/npcs/whatever to often look stretched or largely ambiguous about what they're actually supposed to be. Like don't get me wrong a lot of people are ignoring that sort of texturing on purpose because they want their art to be readable (which makes sense, and can lead to very visually pretty results when done correctly) but I am a bit sad to not see practically anyone trying to replicate what games at the time actually looked like. It's especially sad to see game like dusk or gloomwood not go 100% into this because their subject matter would greatly benefit from it imo. Just think about how many games at the time had these almost eldritch, otherworldly set pieces and motifs! they had those because their models were often hard to decipher and kind of gross looking because of the limitations of the technology they had to work with, and so rather than just going welp the game looks bad oh well, they made creature designs that actually worked with this. none of this ultimately matters but I am kind of tired of seeing so many games made that try to emulate this style that don't understand why it existed in the first place.

[marblegroves]

The Accolade (life series ver.)

[mumblesplash]

comics as an art form make me insane. they’re so difficult to do well. there’s so many different ways to make sequential art work and most of them are deeply unintuitive. onomatopoeia that feels completely ridiculous to put down often reads seamlessly. panels on a page become a fractally nested image composition challenge that’s only possible to lose because if you do a good job no one will notice. you have to direct the readers’ eyes on a specific path across the page but also account for the fact that they won’t follow it. comic time isn’t linear. if the order of events isn’t crystal clear the story becomes incomprehensible. sometimes you need to do this on purpose. all this for a medium almost universally considered less effective than animation and less respectable than plain text. even its own name doesn’t take it seriously

[thelostmoongazer]

more figuring out how i wanna draw the Lamb :3

[bridgekc]

ace trying to comfort luffy after a nightmare

(plus an actual drawing i made cuz i got inspired)

[pigswithwings]

companion pieces about connection

[johnnyshrine]

★ 045 // “Vintage Valentine”

[everydaylouie]

Art Block

[ladysantos]

a morning stroll 🌻

[villainartist]

character sheets i made for my relativity falls fic! im a grauntie may warrior, id die for that whimsical old lady

[h1tmanmode]

damn egbert pause for a second that rat can bang out a tune

[cthaehart]

Guinea Pig

[cloud-ya]

back on werehog bullshit due to unleashed recompiled

[alyssumsun]

baby’s first dtiys xoxo - go do @jeonseoguu’s challenge this was unspeakably fun <3

[dulaari]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Crossroads of Time (1995)

(credit: Diamond Longplays)

[pigswithwings]

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