Playing around with the redesign of Grace I came up with last week. I’m starting to think “long, powerful neck” might be an enduring character trait in my work
Author: tarah
Sketch: FoRC 2018 Cast Revision
Today, for fun, I decided to recast and redraw the cast for Fauna of Ross Creek, my 2010-2011 webcomic! List of changes:
- Oliver and America are out; they were based on IRL friends I drifted apart from well over half a decade ago
- Rich is now a sea turtle; Grace (as previously seen here and on my other galleries) is a llama. Lobster characters still exist in my world – just, y’know, elsewhere.
- New characters: Mitra (a female harbor porpoise) and Rune (a null lappet-faced vulture). Rune and Teila are in a relationship.
This is all because I recently realized I haven’t done anything with my OCs for quite a while, and I think that might be a contributing factor to the lack of inspiration/creativity I’ve been feeling lately. If I ever decide to reboot and attempt to finish FoRC with this slightly-new cast, it’ll be done entirely using 3D models and – despite that – it will feature visual art that looks significantly less Muppety than the original did.
Icon for Kris/Swolechee
Commissioned icon for @swolechee on Twitter! I’m proud to have done my part to aid him on his path to ultimate fitness!
2017 Holiday Card
Happy holidays to those who celebrate! Here’s the cover of the holiday card Phen and I sent out this year.
Lobstworks Category Cards
Finished rebranding my personal/gallery site (http://lobstworks.com) with both of my current fursonae
Commission for Nouv
…revision A! Switching bodies on a 12-hour schedule is nicely complemented by an unnecessary (yet comforting) wake-up/tuck-in ritual.
Clover/Claudia Telegram Sticker Set
Just finished this 15-image Telegram sticker set for my partner Phen, featuring their deer and bird characters! Each tile encompasses an emotion I’ve seen in them several times per week, so if you’ve been wanting to get to know them, this is a pretty good starting point. Add it now at: https://t.me/addstickers/CloverClaudia
Lobst the Second the Second
Splatoon 2: Vampires VS Werewolves
Off-camera, Marina eagerly shares her interpretation of forbidden ancient texts to Pearl, who remains disinterested for an outrageous variety of reasons
Monogame Test: Text Formatting
Depicted here: A series of rapid-fire test cases for my MonoGame script interpreter’s message box; written on Linux, captured on Windows. Effects include:
- Multiple spritefonts per-line
- Multiple colors per-line
- Movement effects: jitter, sine wave
- Color effects: “Spooky”, “Rainbow”
- Cues to speed-up/slow-down
- Icons/emojis inserted alongside text
- Numerous effects can be combined!
(The color effects will be used in non-HtM visual novel projects; all future versions of HtM will still be in 1-bit, or a close approximation thereof. It looks like I’ll have to manually write the shaders to make it happen and look nice, though.)