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Francine Illustrator Worked as Art Director on Slave Zero X Artist on Descent of Lunaris Mail witnesstheabsurd@gmail.com Portfolio - http://artstation.com/witnesstheabsurd

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Warmup repaint of a frame from Betterman featuring the Imperfect Brahman

22.01.2026 18:30 — 👍 205    🔁 41    💬 4    📌 0

The best of MOTU died with Earl Norem

22.01.2026 18:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Warmup repaint of a frame from Betterman featuring the Imperfect Brahman

22.01.2026 18:30 — 👍 205    🔁 41    💬 4    📌 0

If you want to get hands on with my next game, request playtest access today! There are a couple of weirdos I designed in the playtest content I'm excited for you to meet....

21.01.2026 16:35 — 👍 47    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1
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Join the Descent of Lunaris Discord Server! You're invited to the Descent of Lunaris Discord! Are you a fan of classic dungeon-crawling turn-based RPGs? Join us! Investigate a signal emanating from deep within the moon and fight through a dark…

Join our Discord: discord.gg/QUXnMzHWgB

Request access to the play test: store.steampowered.com/app/3824720/...

#DungeonCrawler #IndieRPG #IndieGame

21.01.2026 16:03 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Join the Descent of Lunaris Discord Server! You're invited to the Descent of Lunaris Discord! Are you a fan of classic dungeon-crawling turn-based RPGs? Join us! Investigate a signal emanating from deep within the moon and fight through a dark…

Descent of Lunaris is a classic dungeon-crawling turn-based RPG inspired by Wizardry and Shin Megami Tensei.

We are currently in development and our first play test is in progress. Request access for a chance to explore the playtest.

Join below ⬇️

#DungeonCrawler #IndieRPG #IndieGame

21.01.2026 16:03 — 👍 30    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
Dragon Master Knight

LIGHT / Dragon / Fusion / Effect • Level 12 • ATK: 5000 / DEF: 5000

"Black Luster Soldier" + "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon"
Must be Fusion Summoned. This card gains 500 ATK for each Dragon monster you control, except this card.

Dragon Master Knight LIGHT / Dragon / Fusion / Effect • Level 12 • ATK: 5000 / DEF: 5000 "Black Luster Soldier" + "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" Must be Fusion Summoned. This card gains 500 ATK for each Dragon monster you control, except this card.

Dragon Master Knight

12.01.2026 17:00 — 👍 47    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1
Magnum the Reliever

LIGHT / Fiend / Fusion / Effect • Level 8 • ATK: 2800 / DEF: 2000

1 monster Special Summoned from the Extra Deck + 1 monster in the hand
You can target 1 "Polymerization" Spell or "Fusion" Spell in your GY; place that card on the bottom of the Deck, then draw 1 card. When another card, or its effect, is activated (Quick Effect): You can banish 1 "Polymerization" Spell or "Fusion" Spell from your GY, then target 1 card on the field; destroy it. You can only use each effect of "Magnum the Reliever" once per turn.

Magnum the Reliever LIGHT / Fiend / Fusion / Effect • Level 8 • ATK: 2800 / DEF: 2000 1 monster Special Summoned from the Extra Deck + 1 monster in the hand You can target 1 "Polymerization" Spell or "Fusion" Spell in your GY; place that card on the bottom of the Deck, then draw 1 card. When another card, or its effect, is activated (Quick Effect): You can banish 1 "Polymerization" Spell or "Fusion" Spell from your GY, then target 1 card on the field; destroy it. You can only use each effect of "Magnum the Reliever" once per turn.

Magnum the Reliever

12.01.2026 16:00 — 👍 46    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 2
Talons of Shurilane

LIGHT / Illusion / Effect • Level 6 • ATK: 2100 / DEF: 2050

If this card battles a monster, neither can be destroyed by that battle. You can only use each of the following effects of "Talons of Shurilane" once per turn. During your opponent's turn (Quick Effect): You can target 1 Fiend or Illusion monster you control, except "Talons of Shurilane"; return it to the hand, and if you do, Special Summon this card from your hand. When your opponent activates a card or effect that targets your card(s) (Quick Effect): You can target 1 monster your opponent controls; return this card from the field to the hand, and if you do, destroy that monster.

Talons of Shurilane LIGHT / Illusion / Effect • Level 6 • ATK: 2100 / DEF: 2050 If this card battles a monster, neither can be destroyed by that battle. You can only use each of the following effects of "Talons of Shurilane" once per turn. During your opponent's turn (Quick Effect): You can target 1 Fiend or Illusion monster you control, except "Talons of Shurilane"; return it to the hand, and if you do, Special Summon this card from your hand. When your opponent activates a card or effect that targets your card(s) (Quick Effect): You can target 1 monster your opponent controls; return this card from the field to the hand, and if you do, destroy that monster.

Talons of Shurilane

10.01.2026 11:00 — 👍 26    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Dungeon crawling on the moon? Of course there are rats...

These rats...are built just a little different. Here is a tiny showcase of its idle and basic attack animation.

What do you think of one of our low level enemies?

#ClassicRPG #Dungeoncrawler #IndieRPG

05.01.2026 19:16 — 👍 81    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 0
The art depicts a teenage angel with long wings and a prosthetic arm. He holds brushes and spray cans for graffiti. It is surrounded by skeletons of archaic fish and metal pipes. On the background is a tyrannosaurus skull with cherubs and Old Testament angels painted on it.

The art depicts a teenage angel with long wings and a prosthetic arm. He holds brushes and spray cans for graffiti. It is surrounded by skeletons of archaic fish and metal pipes. On the background is a tyrannosaurus skull with cherubs and Old Testament angels painted on it.

The Lost Generation of Angels

05.01.2026 19:11 — 👍 4847    🔁 1251    💬 47    📌 5

That's 100% why he's named that, yes

05.01.2026 19:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh yeah this happened in 2025

02.01.2026 17:06 — 👍 156    🔁 14    💬 5    📌 0
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Art vs Artist: 2025

2025 was kind of a long series of battles, but unlike last year we ultimately won all of them. More challenges in 26 and i'm tired but prepared. Very proud of the work I did, even if a lot of it can't be shared yet. Thank you so much to all who showed me patience. Godspeed!

31.12.2025 15:54 — 👍 241    🔁 49    💬 4    📌 1
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2026 - The Year of the Horse. I identify strongly with horses, so i'm hoping this will be my year! #馬年

31.12.2025 19:20 — 👍 445    🔁 155    💬 1    📌 5

I will sincerely miss the owner, who ran the place with his son who looked like a mini version of him. He knew my order by heart and would start making it as soon as I entered. When I showed him a scan of the marble pattern from the other wall he said it looked "like the cosmos".

31.12.2025 19:41 — 👍 59    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The texture in the bg here which some might recognize from other pieces this year was something I scanned with permission from the faux-wood laminate finish on the counter at a local fish n chips shop. Sadly the shop itself has closed now and the counter in question was destroyed.

31.12.2025 19:38 — 👍 115    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 0
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2026 - The Year of the Horse. I identify strongly with horses, so i'm hoping this will be my year! #馬年

31.12.2025 19:20 — 👍 445    🔁 155    💬 1    📌 5

You can see that design in Descent of Lunaris! It's one of the many maany enemies I painted over the last year... bsky.app/profile/unis...

31.12.2025 16:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Art vs Artist: 2025

2025 was kind of a long series of battles, but unlike last year we ultimately won all of them. More challenges in 26 and i'm tired but prepared. Very proud of the work I did, even if a lot of it can't be shared yet. Thank you so much to all who showed me patience. Godspeed!

31.12.2025 15:54 — 👍 241    🔁 49    💬 4    📌 1

I think Betterman is my favourite show now

29.12.2025 00:47 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

It's coming..... it's coming....

29.12.2025 00:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Away from my tablet

29.12.2025 00:21 — 👍 323    🔁 57    💬 9    📌 0
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This year I got exactly the tinned cornish monkfish with aleppo chillis I wanted

27.12.2025 22:21 — 👍 84    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

It's a long story but SZX exists in part bc the Vita died early and consequently my career only happens the way it has if the Vita has no games

26.12.2025 20:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy Birthday!!

14.12.2025 11:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In an ideal world Tetsuya Nomura is the *least* self-indulgent and maximalist auteur in the space. I feel like very few people understand how to process art or engage with a work beyond being a mute passenger who sighs in exasperation when they aren't waited on hand and foot.

12.12.2025 18:47 — 👍 89    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

Fantasy should be sincere and self-invested and indulgent and complex and idiosyncratic and chiefly, unapologetic

12.12.2025 18:44 — 👍 148    🔁 32    💬 2    📌 0

It felt very specifically modulated to try and court a "Fantasy-skeptic" crowd with a veneer of "Respectable/cinematic" realism. I'm so tired of the school of design that approaches an infinite canvas as though it's shot on a greenscreen.

12.12.2025 18:38 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Without having played it and without wanting to demean e33 as a product narratively, mechanically and certainly not visually it doesn't punch above the weight of scores of other rpgs from the JP industry, it just earned legitimacy by using the correct palette of UE5 compliant "cinematic" motifs

12.12.2025 18:19 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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