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Gamescom week, can’t really interact much until next tuesday or so

Some sketches from today

I will be back soon!

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Ah yes, the maniac (me) got her second copy of the artbook this week. (No spoilers)

I will do a proper post of the artbook at some point. I firstly want to read through it fully, I only had time to read like 3 chapters thus far. I scribble with pencil in my standard edition to take notes for a future video. So I won't spoiler anything yet.

But one thing that I find funny is, I got so obsessed with this game that I figured out so much and asked so many questions- That I even have answers that aren't covered in this book. But ofc I'd imagine you can't include everything in it.

If I compare this to a popular artbook like Arcane. That artbook is on another whooole different level. I think there are far more complex reasons the portfolio edition of Arcane has way more stuff than this book. It's only slightly more expensive (and bigger) than SWTD artbook too. Different publishers and all.

Wondering if I should use the stickers or not. But one of them features Raffs (middle one)

I think only thing that irks me is that the posters have been folded. I don't mind the Suze letter being folded. But it's a shame with the Cadal posters. Maybe it's just a me thing tho, I love how the paper feels like.

Also I got signature from Gillespie!!! Raaaaaaa 💥💥

I am now on a quest to get signatures from other TCR devs. I already got John.

Random thing I noticed, is that the holographic foil isn't there. It seems they stopped including it on the artbooks page at some point. Maybe it wasn't good enough or just a random idea they tinkered with that was scrapped.

föil

Overall, I will eat this book now. With ketchup.

You decide if it's worth it to buy the deluxe edition for yourself.

Can't wait to bring this home next week.

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My dear, I have no idea what long, desert roads and dark, wooded paths your brain takes to find inspiration for such vividly evocative art... but they are worth the trip! ☆

Awww thank youuuu ❤️

My brain is something, not even I know where it goes to find ideas.

I know I daydream a lot and spend a lot of time thinking of whack scenarios. But no idea how to explain it abfjwbdjabdbs

Random Blades doodle I did at work. Someone got rid of their ancient 12 year old Wacom tablet and I wanted to have it. I even imported my Krita workspace and everything, but it's slightly inconvenient drawing on this old machine.

My actual work has nothing to do with art. I so wish to work in the industry one day you have no ideaaa.

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Silly chaos

Drawpile session with friends, unholy and chaotic shenanigans

Still awake printing references, before I head out in the morning, raaaaa

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Thank you so much!! It's perfect and looks freaking amazing!!

Connection is lost

Meet Hans in the flesh! Thanks @zeondraws for such an interesting "application" for drawing this character!

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Not much motivation today, so ofc I started drawing at almost 2AM

Pondering about my son Quintor, should I give him some design elements, that help him look like he's Quintessen made. Or well, this Heatwave was once very normal looking. But ofc the Judge was like, let's capture him and turn him into a weapon.

When he was captured, he was just a normal version of him. However, they did so many experiments on him, that he became the most fucked up version of Heatwave you could imagine. His mind is soooo twisted, that you can't do anything but run. Not even Cody can talk to this thing. All it wants, it to capture the sparks of aaaany Heatwave, the Quintessens tell him to get.

Look at this beautifully haunting face. Noooo he wouldn't hurt a soull you crazyyyyy

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Random goofy doodles. Calamitas is my edgy emo deviantart character frfr. I need more orbwave

I forgot to make more of these, had these 4 for a few months now. But I need some printed refs of the others or I will explode 💥

If you ever feel annoyed to look at pictures on your phone for ref and just wanna sketch on your couch- just print the references. Sacrificing my glossy paper for these.

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Small quick post, I need someone who can make a drawing for Hans (either just face or full body) for the swtd wiki, if needed I can pay you too. He's in his 60s and such. If anyone is interested let me know.

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*dying*

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I'm giggling at work

•Transformers Rescuebots stuff I found!

I FOUND *slaps table*

BOTCON 2013, INFAMOUS DRIVE THROUGH VIDEO LESS GO, WE KNEW AB SCREAMER, NOW THE RESCUE BOTS ! I love this

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artbooooook grrrr

Decided to do some small stuff, starting exporting soundfiles from Trots, so I can slowly work on that new video. It will take ages.

So I figured, when I take some small pics for the wiki I might as well do something dumb in the game.

Cor taking a selfie I see-

What's up guys, today we're unboxing my labubu made out of goop, I can't wait to show you all.

There is only one diving bell

Or is it?

She may not have a head or anything-

But with tricks we can pretend she does (by cloning rob)

looking at Rob (from eyeballs perspective)

Mouth

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHY IS HIS HAIR FLOATIN-

Smoll

Hey, hey Rob guess who I am!!!

(Apparently with the photomod you can switch the skeletal mesh)

Nothing too fancy with screenshots for today, hope you enjoy either way!

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SCREAMS

Scrapped mutated versions of characters from the artbook:

Rennick:

Muir:

Addair:

Trots:

I'm happy to answer questions and asks!!

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He can't swim

I got inspired by @whatwooshkai 's "I'd Rather Be Dead" fic and have been pondering about scenarious of Heatwave getting dragged underwater by voices and everything. So the urge to draw something related to it was big.

I love this fanfic so much, I am such a sucker for horror. Can't wait for an update on the next one. It will be a feast.

Greyscale:

WIP screenshots:

And ofc, the initial sketches:

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I have never made a proper review of Siren's Rest as I didn't know how much my view matters with it (I always think of myself as lesser, even tho I shouldn't). I know this game soooo well that I played through it with ease.

It felt like I was returning home and it gave me some sense of calmness swimming through the rigs remains.

(much yapping under the cut)

I thought I'd be more terrified of the siren, but that wasn't the case. Apparently some people who don't know this game well enough got stuck because it was too dark for them. Meanwhile for me it was a little hard to see at times. But I clicked the tab key to locate where I needed to go. I don't know if one can call that "cheating". If I click that button to find where the next dot is located.

When I first saw the trailers I already had a suspicion, that we won't get more info on crewmembers we know very well already. I felt mixed at first, but this gave me more insight on who else must've been there when everything fell apart.

Seeing the "coral" was also interesting, it made me question what happened to the ribbons we've seen throughout the basegame. At first I thought it was real coral, but after the AMA I realised it wasn't the case. Especially when I took a closer listen to the heartbeat you can hear in Accommodation later. Makes it feel like it's literally still there, but you don't get hurt if you go near this "coral".

If we take my post about the movie annihilation into account, that probably explains some of the shapes biology- I think Mhairi and Rob were already infected from the start. I don't know if Hans would be infected. Because I don't know how big the "range" of the shape/siren is. And I think Mhairi breathing in the "air" inside the airpocket is probably smth to confuse people and make them think, that this is the reason the hallucinations appear.

I really wonder what the rob hallucination was about. Perhaps it reflects Mhairi's worries she has had.

But I think playing through this dlc made me look at every single detail I could find. Trying to find anything for theories I've had before, or connect holes in my knowledge. Like at first i thought us finding scoobys body was contradicting, since there is an infected version. But the infected one named scooby is apparently someone else, as one of the devs answered in the AMA.

I didn't expect the DLC to be packed to the brim with lore or be even longer than the basegame or smth. I always wonder how much time the studio even had to make a DLC within a year, considering this also meant upgrading the game to a newer version of Unreal Engine (This can bring new random bugs to the basegame, which many people thankfully reported). And I remember they're also working on another game that will release this year.

Like after Version 1.5 came out together with the DLC, only after a week they released Ver. 1.6 with major patches and major changes within the game. Objects were moved, the ending scene was edited (At first crewmates simply stood around with a blank stare in 1.5, but suddenly in 1.6 Finlay even walks into view before Mhairi looks back and notices the other crewmates).

I ask myself, how much did they crunch to release the DLC? Or even the patch? Did they crunch at all? I just know crunching is very common and a huge problem within studios, at least big ones I think. How much time did they spend in total to make this DLC? Already having the basegames engine etc makes things easier, but adding new things like the umbilical cord can mess things up quickly.

I try to watch videos and read articles whenever I have energy, to understand how studios operate and for example how the viewers/fans react to new games/dlcs. A lot of people I know were disappointed of the lack of lore on their favourite characters. But I don't know what my opinion is on it. Seeing the mixed reviews on steam made me nervous if it would affect the studio (before it became indipendent very recently, sumo digital wanted to turn TCR into a support studio for other games, which would've made them unable to release new unique titles, or perhaps unable to do anything more with swtd?).

I personally loved the DLC a lot, also because it meant new content inside the gamefiles (my eyes widened when I saw how many new soundfiles were added and also THE UNUSED LEVELS YEAAAAHHH). And after the 5th replay it really felt like home. Like bruh now I wanna cry and idk why it makes me so emotional. Like idk, it feels like visiting friends, after you haven't seen them for months or even a year. *sobbing*

And ofc now we have the siren and I can bully- I mean interact with it and experiment around. The moment I realised it freaking squeezes itself into tight places my heart dropped to my legs. It can't squeeze into all of them, but some parts of the level was specifically designed so it could do that.

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Since I was living under a rock for a few weeks I didn't notice some silly edits people made on the swtd wiki. You must know I am extremely strict, when it comes to people adding and removing gibberish to pages. I don't tolerate it

But please look at this, this was the funniest thing I've seen and I think it deserves to be mentioned. I was literally laughing so HARD in a VC call just now LMAOOOO

HELP THE EMOJIS

TEN UNNAMED SONS KHWEDOJHWSOIJSIOWJW

But yes, pls no silly edits. I banned both people.

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FELLAS

ARTBOOK ARTBOOK

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING HANDS IN THE AIR THEY'RE COMING

BOOOOOOOOOOK

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SWTD artbook has further delays. But I tell myself this gives me more time to work on other things because goodness I'm busy.

Trying to work on swtd stuff isn't possible due to comm, and then I wanna do transformers stuff and then I wanna do other random bus doodles. And then I have a completely unrelated hobby that also needs my attention, especially tomorrow when new furniture arrives raaaaaaaa

Zero time to work on the swtd wiki I feel guilty. Same with the Voiceline video I have zero tiime.

Take this drawing I did today, let's see how far I'll come with commission work this week. When it's done I should have more time freed up 💥

I love this sm

And for those wondering, the unpacking video of SM will come out next week most likely. Person who's editing it is extremely busy this week!