H. McGill

My preferred gift to receive is food!

That sounds cute! I’ve been wanting to do a monthly challenge but I always find out the prompts too late to build up a buffer

#ArtAdventCalendar In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…

Artists & Art lovers!

Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!

Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24

They arrived...way too fast. I was kinda looking forward to anticipating a Wednesday delivery over the week (!)

But they came with a sorting sheet and color tester page so I did that for like thirty minutes

No regrets

It’s a ‘purchase 74 gelly rolls for bulk pricing’ kind of day

But the bigger question is, is that stripy kitty belly a trap, or is she a sleeper agent to trick people into petting bellies?

I can't help but ask why this creature's name got changed, I'm so curious!

So far my 2D rigging workflow is like:

1. Attach physics constraints ASAP
2. Wiggle the bone chains around!!! WHEEE
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3. ...Deep regrets
4. Remove physics constraints ASAP

My MTG-playing spouse saw this and went "Ohhh, so he did THAT card"

(checks your portfolio) Ohhhh you're the Slay the Spire guy, that checks out!

You deserve the beautiful house! ✨

Thank you so much! I would be happy to see you around if we get it polished enough for an open playtest

It’s a digital board game that takes place on an island volcano that operates like a deadly roulette wheel Each player controls 4 recently-extinct animals which need to avoid eruptions and other players. The last animal standing gets to reincarnate back into the ecosystem

A digital painting of panoramic-style view of a very very distant, enormous island, clearly volcanic in nature. The style is painterly cel-shading with lots of soft shadows and highlights gradually building up into each other. The point of view is from high up, with a little bit of mountain and close vegetation including acai trees and various bushes visible. The island itself takes up most of the composition,with its vibrant blue mountains, lush forestry in the foothills, and a little spiraling spit of sand curling around a small patch of ocean. The ocean is glassy, sky-blue, and smooth, perfectly reflecting clouds above.

Do any other game artists prefer designing backgrounds and settings to characters?

I'm really happy with how my game's tropical islands turned out. (If only all my characters were islands, too!)

#gamedev #indie #art #digitalart #nature

Watch out!

Dodo attack

(Animation from my in-progress game about animals fighting on a volcano)

#gamedev #digitalart #animation #dodo #madewithspine

just don't make any wishes and you should be okay

Digital playing card done in the style of a typical Bicycle playing card, only with prehistoric animals instead of king/queen/etc faces. This card features a big white number 1 with a blue border, surrounded by red hallucigenia with white spikes and yellow tentacles, yellow flowers, on a black field.

Digital playing card done in the style of a typical Bicycle playing card, only with prehistoric animals instead of king/queen/etc faces. This card features a big white number 2, with a yellow border, surrounded by blue tiktaalik with white eyes and geometric scale patterns, and red diamond/yellow sunburst designs on a black field.

Digital playing card done in the style of a typical Bicycle playing card, only with prehistoric animals instead of king/queen/etc faces. This card features a big white number 3 with a red border, surrounded by fancy yellow archaeopteryx with blue and red highlight feathers, with a tail made of hearts, on a black field.

A special, minimalistic playing card with a black M surrounded by yellow, blue, and red borders in that order, with a monkey’s face and attacking palms pointed towards the viewer aggressively. Text under this graphic reads ‘MONKEYS’ in capitalized black Futura.

Playing card designs for my roulette game about recently-extinct animals on a volcano! Numbers indicate how far you can move

1 - Wiggle like Hallucigenia
2 - Crawl like Tiktaalik
3 - Leap like Archeopteryx
M - Enlist the "help" of monkeys

#gamedev #indie #digitalart #design #paleoart #sciart #art

Screenshot of an open Spine document depicting a great, horrible quetzalcoatlus northropi (giant pterosaur) lightly and delicately descending from on high over the maw of a brightly-lit volcanic surface. The pterosaur has been drawn in a cel-shaded 2D style with bones of blue volcanic rock, a membrane and flesh made out of bubbling orange lava, and a great eye lit with green fire magic. Quetzalcoatlus has long wings typically made of skin flaps and it has an unusually long, crooked neck for a pterosaur. This one's wings are outstretched like a ballerina's arms just as she lands a difficult jump with grace.

Same Quetzalcoatlus northropi character as previous image. Now the god is attacking: Wings up as though charging forward through the air, neck down, mouth open in a scream. Behind it, the volcano erupts with one big, concentrated burst of lava, like a column of light. Choking ash clouds spread behind the eruption.

Behold! One of the four ancient gods residing in the volcano-themed game I am making:

Quetzalcoatlus northropi

This god is the most aggressive member of the volcanic pantheon, so watch out :)

#gamedev #art #paleoart #pterosaur #dinosaur #digitalart #spine2D #sciart

I guess I will chalk it up to learning how in real life, given the option, you actually kinda maybe want to hang out with a carnivore, since an herbivore has absolutely everything on the line in situations where it sees fit to defend itself

Hoping to have some open alpha testing soon (and maybe a little party via livestreaming)

Actually funny thing from playtesting, everyone sees how short the pterosaur god's fuse is, so they all hop onto the brachiosaur god's land

This of course means the brachiosaur is often the first god to pop out swinging, when it was intended to be the rarest god with the highest patience

Screenshot of an open Spine document depicting a great, horrible quetzalcoatlus northropi (giant pterosaur) lightly and delicately descending from on high over the maw of a brightly-lit volcanic surface. The pterosaur has been drawn in a cel-shaded 2D style with bones of blue volcanic rock, a membrane and flesh made out of bubbling orange lava, and a great eye lit with green fire magic. Quetzalcoatlus has long wings typically made of skin flaps and it has an unusually long, crooked neck for a pterosaur. This one's wings are outstretched like a ballerina's arms just as she lands a difficult jump with grace.

Same Quetzalcoatlus northropi character as previous image. Now the god is attacking: Wings up as though charging forward through the air, neck down, mouth open in a scream. Behind it, the volcano erupts with one big, concentrated burst of lava, like a column of light. Choking ash clouds spread behind the eruption.

Behold! One of the four ancient gods residing in the volcano-themed game I am making:

Quetzalcoatlus northropi

This god is the most aggressive member of the volcanic pantheon, so watch out :)

#gamedev #art #paleoart #pterosaur #dinosaur #digitalart #spine2D #sciart

My first attempt at a ambiently-animated illustration! With a few more tweaks, this is going to be my volcano game's title screen background.

#gamedev #art #animation #illustration #thylacine #mammoth #dodo #tortoise #dinosaur #spine2D #madewithspine

Hi, we just met but GEORGEINGTON is now the highlight of my day too

I mean that's how my cat views basic, casual petting so, checks out

It's a bit frustrating because I don't know whether Idolon is going to be a comic or a video game yet, or whether I should repackage Amphiox as a scenario in whatever kind of game Idolon would be

Spent an evening working through a new Amphiox script, titled 'Idolon' for now because that's the second of like three very weird concepts that the reader needs to understand in order for the plot to work

The first concept was 'what is an amphiox' so that story was called... amphiox

Are they psychically petting each other?

Sure. You can have a little boiling lava dropped from the sky, as a treat

#Gamedev #digitalart #art #animation

Clipped screenshot of an absolutely massive sprite texture packaging sheet. It features an assortment of disembodied animal parts, including skull caps, teeth, bones, claws, and jellybean-red blobs of lava goo. It's color scheme is mainly bloody reds, ghoulish greens, and nocturnal blues.

I adore how sprite texture packaging looks and this one's giving me so much Halloween energy

#gamedev #digitalart