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shoomlah · 5 days
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Realizing I never shared the obsessive little Myst island I made in ACNH! Extremely proud of the little details, all of which take up an obscene number of my island’s custom design slots😬👍
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shoomlah · 12 days
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Sometimes you just gotta buy a dumb little thing ♥️
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shoomlah · 14 days
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the other two edits I had to make, which are still hilarious to me:
Sandtroopers ALWAYS wear their SD-48 survival backpacks NO EXCEPTIONS
Jawas ALWAYS have two crossed bandoliers, NO EXCEPTIONS
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Hello Claire! I was wondering if I could ask about a bit of one of your pieces. In the Mos Eisley Morning piece, there's a bit of writing on the right-hand side (above the astromech). May I ask what it says? Thanks!
it says "KARK JABA" or the equivalent of "FUCK JABBA" in Huttese—Disney made me take it out for the final, unfortunately. 😅
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shoomlah · 14 days
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Hello Claire! I was wondering if I could ask about a bit of one of your pieces. In the Mos Eisley Morning piece, there's a bit of writing on the right-hand side (above the astromech). May I ask what it says? Thanks!
it says "KARK JABA" or the equivalent of "FUCK JABBA" in Huttese—Disney made me take it out for the final, unfortunately. 😅
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shoomlah · 1 month
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Back in college my friends and I had a Valentine's Day tradition where we'd all make valentines for each other from our respective fictional crushes, Secret Santa style, and it RULED💘💘💘
(Benry valentine courtesy of the ever-enabling @fearsomebeast)
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shoomlah · 2 months
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A lot of hay is being made over the fact that they're changing the lineart on some of the UCs (ones you describe as being drawn with the pen tool). Most notably, the Faerie Ixi you designed. What's your take on that?
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So it's tough! I love them, but those earlier pen tool pets just don't scale as well—and don't really match the style standards that would get set in place less than a year later. When you zoom into the vector files you can reeeeally see how the fidelity drops when you aren't seeing them as 150x150px gifs:
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the pets drawn with the brush tool, however, are clean enough that you could use 'em right out of the box:
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It would take a deft hand to re-draw the pen tool pets with weighted lines and maintain the appeal of the originals, but I do think it's totally doable! And they absolutely should have kept the coloured lines, c'mon now. 😑
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shoomlah · 2 months
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Vermes pt 3: Queen Mud, a hydra deciding, an above-ground traveler, and a strange sage.
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shoomlah · 2 months
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You worked at Neopets? THE Neopets? That sounds incredible. It is awesome finding details on the arts and production behind such a huge childhood favorite.
Are you able to talk about how it was like?
I absolutely can, if you have any specific questions!
In the meantime this stream I did with fellow ex- staff Snarkie and SoupFaerie a couple years back is a pretty fun primer, where we shared a whole bunch of old photos and art:
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I keep saying we should do another one of these, agh!! It was super fun, but I am unfortunately also... super busy. 😅
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shoomlah · 2 months
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GOD I forgot I also kinda pre-designed the Gnorbu? We'd occasionally have the entire team churn out ideas for new pets, and some of my designs got looped into the 2005 April Fool's joke:
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People liked the llama enough that it got plussed up by Anthony and turned into a proper pet the next year👍🏼
OH DANG they're bringin' back the old UC art over on Neopets!🙌🏼🎉
My last summer working at Neopets was 2007, which was riiiight on the eve of the big conversion—I rarely kept track of my more basic paintbrushes (purple, rainbow, checkered, etc), but I sure as heck kept track of all the PBs I designed that required full redraws:
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I do not think I realized until this moment how many ixis I drew, apologies to all other pet species 😔🙏
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shoomlah · 2 months
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OH DANG they're bringin' back the old UC art over on Neopets!🙌🏼🎉
My last summer working at Neopets was 2007, which was riiiight on the eve of the big conversion—I rarely kept track of my more basic paintbrushes (purple, rainbow, checkered, etc), but I sure as heck kept track of all the PBs I designed that required full redraws:
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I do not think I realized until this moment how many ixis I drew, apologies to all other pet species 😔🙏
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shoomlah · 3 months
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travel sketchdump, turns out flying to Spokane for work and then to London for the holidays means a whoooole lot of downtime for sketchin’
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shoomlah · 4 months
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For everyone who's been asking after prints of my Good Omens/OFMD pieces, they're now available over in my INPRNT shop! The Good Omens piece is available as either one single wide format print or as five matching prints, since I'm indecisive and want to give you some options.
👇🏼 (link to the store is on my profile, aaaand right below where it says Source: inprnt.com since tumblr is a nightmare about off-site links) 👇🏼
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shoomlah · 4 months
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WELP add him to the list
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shoomlah · 4 months
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my new poster for the 30th Anniversary of Myst, available over at the Cyan store (link in the source and the comments)! This imagery has been indelibly inscribed on the inside of my eyelids since I was a kid, so it was an absolute joy bringing it to life in a more official capacity. 📚
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shoomlah · 4 months
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Forgot to share the last thing (last thing that isn't under NDA, at least) I was working on before leaving Valve: hand-lettering for the Dota 2 Ringmaster reveal trailer!
Who was I to resist the siren call of circus posters🎪🎪🎪
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shoomlah · 5 months
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I’ll never forgive the pandemic for robbing me of this during development on Half-Life: Alyx
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shoomlah · 5 months
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Friday was my last day at Valve.
Leaving a job full of people and projects you love is always hard, but I have a pretty good reason for it this time around:
Next Monday is my first day at Cyan.
Feels appropriate to announce this on Riven's anniversary, the game that is entirely to blame for who I am as a concept artist and Art Director. WHO WOULD I EVEN BE if I hadn't had my 11yo mind blown by the little wahrk gallows counting toy in the Rivenese schoolhouse??? It's a mystery.
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I can’t talk about what's on the horizon just yet—short of helping to get Riven out the door—but I’m thrilled to finally be a part of this studio, officially, after thirty years of wistful pining. If my ancient Riven fanart is anything to go by, it's been a long time comin.'😎
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