The Story Nerd

I’m down for any feedback you guys are willing to give, I don’t draw traditionally often but wanna get better! #drawing #artchallenge

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Comedy

Horror

Action

Adventure

Romance

I’m doing Artistic Autumn (more info on @storynerdstudios.bsky.social) and forgot i have this account to share art so

I love seeing WIP stuff like this! More please 🗣️🙏🏿

Animating for Next Wave is making me remember how much I enjoyed animating back in the day. Might do some more animations at one point, maybe

To me, animation is the most draining part of game development. I love animation, and the final project usually makes me proud, but after three or four solid animations, the last thing I wanna do is make another one 💀

Next Wave is helping build my endurance for it though, so that's good!

Okay, now I'm done with daily art. There probably is more, hidden in some games somewhere, but I'll post those some other time, cause I don't feel like digging through even more, but I'll post more art when I have it!

Thank you! Gonna be working on it more today and tomorrow, hopefully posting the results by then too!

Early blocking of the Next Wave title animation, gonna smooth it out much more and make the blue thing look more like actual water. Most of the work I'm doing in general is blocking/storyboarding, trying to have most if not all of the animation done by the start of July #animation #pixelart

Another Detective Liz idle animation (for some reason). Even though she doesn't have powers, Liz is incredibly smart, and designs some of her own technology, including her impact-multiplying gloves! They amplify her already-abnormal physical strength to match her foes. #pixelart

Tomodachi Life is all that matters 🗣️🙏🏿

Detective Liz's idle animation (only plays once or twice usually). Detective Liz lives in a world where super-powered individuals are becoming more and more common, but Liz herself has no such powers. That said, relying on her own human ability, she takes on superpowered enemies. #pixelart

The character design for Detective Liz, a character I've been sitting on for a while, and one I already have some more concrete plans for. I have a few art pieces on her, so I can yap about her lore, but she was actually created during a writing class of mine. #pixelart

Only just now realized it uses white for the background of a PNG, my fault gang 💀

A soul warrior, a character in a game that I have no idea if I'll ever actually make. Basically the concept was a Christian fiction metroidvania with Souls-like combat, since I think the vast majority of Christian fiction games are kinda bad most of the time? Never got further than this. #pixelart

An old birthday gift for a friend when I was still learning animation and pixel art. I think it's very meh now, obviously can do better, but I'm not mad at it considering what else I was making at the time. My friend likes vampires, if it's not obvious. #pixelart

Speaking of old branding, this is a REALLY old PFP for my channel. Twas before the screen head was ever a thing, and back before I had grown out my hair too (I have dreads now0. This was also made pretty early into my foray into making #pixelart so it uh...it sucks to be honest.

The old intro to my YouTube channel, using the old branding and such. I was really proud of it initially, but I dunno, nowadays it feels really boring, not to mention most of YouTube moving away from intros for the most part. I still like intros but meh, the meta I guess #pixelart

Thank you! 🙏🏿

Another old character I never actually used. Same as the last one, might use the design for something in the future, but no plans right now. #pixelart

A character I made a while back that's probably going to show up somewhere in some shape or form? I don't really know, as the original project they were made for has been long since canceled, but I don't hate the design so we'll see I guess. #pixelart

Even though it didn't win anime of the year (for SOME reason), I really love Frieren, and I made a comic crossing over with one of my favorite video games, Elden Ring! I hope there's some crossover between the fans of both of them though #pixelart

This is an old prototype of the CDawgVA game that I've been playing around with lately. I still kinda wanna do something with it, cause I found it fun, but I don't know, Punch Punch Punch and Next Wave are my focuses right now. Maybe it'll just be a free time project? #gamedev

The victory animation for the CDawgVA fangame. In all honesty, it was just attack animations chained together. Since I was removing the attacks in favor of more platforming focus, I wanted to use the animations for SOMETHING. If i ever come back to it, I'm probably ditching this tbh #pixelart