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Tested an ipad and did some sketches ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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I wanted to explore new techniques with After Effects with an older illustration. It just really makes the scene alive I think ! I also added sound, and yes I took some sounds from Disco Elysium because I was looking for vintage phone operator sounds and I found nothing more exploitable than Alice's lines :'D

Find more of this universe/characters on this blog!

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Some character concept art for a songstress character (with a biiiiiit of mentioned backstory, and a bit of punk).

I still kinda struggle with her hair and dress so her design isnt fixed-fixed yet !

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I thought I could draw some drama/intense action scene while no scenario is being virtually written c:

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Characters Expressions Sheet !

I tried giving them more perosnality. My goal in writing is to make them as complex and nuanced people as they can be, despite their kinda simple design.

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Little illustration re-using the telephone neon concept I made.

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Some neon signs I designed for the city ! That still doesn't have a name, thinking about it.

It's a retrofuturistic city, between steampunk, streamline and retropunk. I'd like to show in the building and styles, the changes made by quick successive industrial revolutions.

Thinking about it, I should have added some broken neons here and there, especially for the most shady places c:

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Funky little Anka & Mad as AC characters :)

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Small and innocent ! I also tried to think about some backstory when doing those.

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Aging states

I don't know why on this particular piece but you can feel FMA used to be one of my big references in art at the beginning of my art journey :') Some ghosts really chase after you for a long time...

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A sketchy set of portrait made last year, just vibing, to clear my head after work. Ended up my favorite piece ever of those two !

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Girls in their natural habitat.

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I did some adjustments since the first version of Anka's work and living place. I guess this SCREAMS "Retro Private office". However I didn't want to go too much cliché and do something too grey. There is a bit of color here and there that makes the place not too depressing.

Also I don't know why but I really wanted a weird shaped big window like this...

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I gave absolutely everything I had back then when I did the living place designs !

It IS a big chunk of work but I genuinely enjoyed create spaces as if they were a character of their own.

Here, I guess you can easily know from one glance who this room belongs to.

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The clothes were set quite fast at the beginning, but some details needed to be set. When I did that sheet I didn't have any idea to enhance Mad's suspenders buckles with a specific design but now I do, can't wait to properly design them ! :)

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An experiment with a little more realistic style.

It kinda helped setting some facial features.

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The story is a detective story in a retro-futuristic city.

I'd like Anka to be a streetsmart and Madeline a country girl fresh from outside, to get a big contrast with how they live, work, walk, interact in the city...