Nick Thornborrow

What can I say 🎶 Except no thank you 🎶

There’s so many more Canadians I’d include! Seth! Chester Brown! Lynn Johnston! Jeff Lemire! It’s an embarrassment of talent up here.

In chaos mode: Make all the IP public domain. Let me remake Alien with bits of wool in my craft cupboard.

The internet will react to this the regular amount.

Wow.

Happy birthday! What a gorgeous dog you have! She looks so sweet!

Amazing! They’re lucky to have you!

A bookshelf in a book store. Three copies of a book entitled “Did You Hear What Happened in Salem?” Are positioned with the cover facing forward. The cover illustration depicts two nervous puritan girls whispering. The tone of the illustration is spooky.

First time seeing “Did You Hear What Happened in Salem?” out in the wild.

Ever do that thing where you mute your audio in a zoom call to cough politely but you actually were muted to begin with so you just unmuted to cough your loud athsmatic cough? Me neither.

Looks like it was an amazing trip! Also congrats!

They don’t run it anymore, and today I’m feeling wistful and nostalgic for the Sinclair family’s haunted house.

One year in high school I got to participate as a creature in one of the rooms and gosh it was so fun and actually kinda scary cuz you don’t know how people will react. I got slapped hard for scaring a lady a little too good.

As a kid I had no idea how they did the transformation trick. It was pure terrifying magic.

They had a two way mirror trick that transformed a beautiful woman into a raging ape creature who would bend the bars of her cage and lunge out at you JUST as the lights go off. Perfect timing. Run by volunteers for charity!!!

Like this was a volunteer event held for decades, and every year they’d expand on the story of the SINCLAIRS. A fictional wealthy founding family of my home town who dabbled in the occult, FAFO-ed with mad science, and maintained a private zoo of exotic monstrosities.

It was a winding tunnel set up in the basement of the community hall, fully decorated and staffed by costumed volunteers, and IT HAD LORE.

There was a charity community run haunted house in my hometown growing up and it was the best.

Same. Time is divided into two parts: Before I saw this trailer and after. I still refer to it from time to time two decades out. The books are just as stunning. So oversized you practically fall into the panels.

YouTube video by Alex Alice Alex Alice's Siegfried - animated trailer HD remaster

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8agE...

This trailer for Alex Alice's gorgeous comic book has never been topped. It hasn't.

... Is this where I'm forced to confess I didn't finish BG3 and have only ever heard about this moment from friends? Is this how it ends for me?

Years ago when I played Red Dead Redemption, and lyrics began to weave into the score, I thought it might be one of the most memorable aesthetic choices in a game. Then along comes Scylla in Hades II belting out "I am going to CLAAAAAAAAAAW out your EYEEEEES and DROWN. YOU. TO DEATH."

a two-bodied specter sprang forth from Persephone's fury. This specter drives mortals to madness with her airy apparitions as she appears in weird shapes and strange forms, now plain to the eye, now shadowy, now shining in the darkness— all this in unnerving attacks in the gloom of night. O goddess, O queen of those below, I beseech you to banish the soul's frenzy to the ends of the earth, show to the initiates a kindly and holy face. 5]

Just like with Hades 1, Hades 2 has me going down a Greek mythology rabbit hole! I’ve dusted off my copy of Edith Hamilton’s book. And this Orphic hymn about Melinoë goes hard.

Way to go!

I don't want to sound corny, but seriously: Thank you. I like making it and don't know why I held back from sharing it for so long.

Fresh intro for the newcomers! I’m Nick, concept and storyboard artist, 17 years in game dev, BioWare veteran, illustrator and most recently cinematic director at Humanoid Origin before its unfortunate closure. Here’s some of my personal art. Barbarians are my comfort food. Unroll for more.🧵

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I was very low key about it last week. Baby steps.

not me worrying too much about what my friends think.

So dope

Happy birthday! Hope it was a good one!