Robin McCall

thank you! i've been infected with brainworms compelling me to churn these fuckers out :)

Final thumbnail draft 3, the only change is the location of the watcher. I honestly think I like this one more TBH.

Final thumbnail, with the watcher made equal distance from the text on the right and boxes on the left

Then here it is, the Final version of the thumbnail, I wanted it to feel sparse but purposeful. The boxes on the left do a lot to fill the space without it feeling random.

That's it end of thread, hope you found it interesting! More importantly I hope you liked Sam's video because the shit rules.

Here's Caim's sword and mark I used for the final.

Watcher image I used for the central figure I really love how flipping it makes it underlit and waaaaay more menacing in the final piece.

Concept art of Caim, used for thumbnail.

Screenshot of Furiae, used for thumbnail

I REALLY wanted to get one of the watchers as central figure because I adore them. I think they're one of the coolest looking things in a game ever, but they never really fit in the original thumbnail we made.

Final thumbnail draft 1

Final thumbnail draft 2

I felt really inspired looking at the cover and when I got home threw this together. I did two different treatments on the white text just to try it, but the first one just looks a lot more interesting.

KFCMC by KFC Murder Chicks, I don't think this album is available anymore.

But again I wanted to give her more options, I was walking my dog and listening to some music and then, Mad God by KFC Murder Chicks came on.

Official art of Furiae, used as a central figure in the thumbnail

Honestly I forget what this art of Caim and Angleus comes from but I love it. I erased the red parts to make it sit more seemlessly in the piece and was really happy with how it came out.

I believe the text on the left hand side is from some of the novellas, the figures of Caim and Furiae I used come from these pieces of offical art idk where the images I used for the background are from. I believe they're both from magazine ads.

This End of Eva poster was the key point of inspiration.

I knew she was wanted to talk about End of Evangelion as a point of inspiration. I asked her "what's your favorite EoE poster, that isn't THAT ONE". Sam sent me this! I color picked off it for the background and tried to match the font to the one used in Eva.

Unused thumbnail complete

Unused thumbnail early draft

So before we got to the one we ended up using, Sam and I hopped into a call and this is what we came up with this. It's much more dense and textured, I liked this one a lot but I felt like Sam wasn't 100% satisfied with it/ I wanted to give her more options.

YouTube video by Trans Witch Reviews Drakengard: You Can (Not) Save Them

Hey ya'll, my buddy Sam just released her long awaited Darkengard review (it's great BTW). She let me make the thumbnail for it and I wanted to discuss the process behind making it! 🧵
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YouTube video by Trans Witch Reviews Drakengard: You Can (Not) Save Them

DRAKENGARD: YOU CAN (NOT) SAVE THEM IS OUT NOW

youtu.be/rVi_iSHo0fA

I HOPE YA'LL ENJOY :)

Get excited for my friends, they make cool stuff!

And I help if they ask.

Screenshot from Phoenix Wright of a gun being pointed at the camra with the caption "Merry Christmas"

Thanks @iammachinegirl.bsky.social

I don't have my headphones so I'm just looking at shaky cam soldier men but yes

I remember you saying you suspected Weapons was based on a short story, out of curiosity what short story was it?

On this day 14 years ago, the "Darkstalkers are Not Dead" panel was originally shown by Yoshinori Ono at the 2011 Capcom’s San Diego Comic-Con Street Fighter x Tekken panel. The panel is displayed below.

When I made the fake SJ monthly cover I had this issue with Ichigo on the cover right next to me, but then I realized I stole the idea for Ultimo have a green/ yellow sunburst from his debut issue.

I ended up using this for the song list but with the colors muted, I think it's idea wise a perfected version of what I was first going for. But again it makes the gay of the series a little too on the nose for what I wanted.

Here are some alternate versions of the third one just slightly different backgrounds.

this was my first attempt, really rough. Leans a little too hard in to the queerer aspects of the video (light spoilers) than I wanted the thumbnail to. Also it's just busy and hard to read.

other thumbnails options, just really wasn't feeling this one

YouTube video by Robin. Stan Lee's Weird Shonen Manga

I made a video about Stan Lee & Hiroyuki Takei's manga Ultimo, it's pretty alright.
youtu.be/_aRo1lmPU_k