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SWORDTEMBER 2024 : WEEK 3

3/4 done! So so exhausted but nearly there, I hope you’ve been enjoying these swords they truly are taking everything I’ve got!! Thank you so much to my patrons for making this possible - I can’t do this without you guys!! ❤️❤️❤️

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Jessseeeeee…..

minecrap

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The choice. This was always the choice I felt was right for jesses character. I adore their relationship so much.

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she can be happy, as a treat

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WOO in honour to celebrate me FINALLY watching murder drones 😞😞 also did that for my fp cuz idk why i js wanted to

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👻 Enter at your own risk 👻

Happy Halloween everyone!

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Marigona Suli

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Resting by the Cabin Window (2021)

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concept sketches of the admins’ cabin area for this comic! i wanted the overall vibe to be very nostalgic and bittersweet, painfully normal (like the cabin just being your average forest hut) with a hint of something deeper going on.

also realised the actual admin cabin has like 6 windows on the front like why did they need so many man,,, putting all those on the door instead

and on request here’s some of the bgs for your potential wallpaper needs! :] (can’t extend the fourth one sadly but it could still work i think)

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You know, a Minecraft Movie could have been a literal masterpiece if you had the right mindset to do it, and I'm not joking. I feel like nowadays studios are afraid of being genuine like a teen is afraid of being genuine. If a movie suddenly gets too excited about something, it needs to put it down so it doesn't sound "lame" or "cringe". You cannot be honest, and you cannot show love or absurdity without pointing out that it's stupid because you think OTHERS will believe it's stupid. So please bear with me:

Currently we have only a teaser trailer, it looks bad, it puts itself down, it's afraid of being genuine, it somehow managed to whitewash Steve (again), and I doubt that it will use things like the End Poem or how it feels to play Minecraft for its themes and story. I hope that I'm wrong, but I'm very cynical. So, let's think about it together.

Minecraft Movie. I saw a post suggesting stop-motion animation for it, and, honestly, it feels perfect, just like stylized 3D animation. Live action actors do not work with how Minecraft looks, and that's okay. Let's do an animated movie.

The plot. There's so, so many possibilities, but the beauty of making a Minecraft animated movie is that you won't ever be able to tackle all the possibilities it brings to the table. The community has made so many stories for the game, so we might as well just think of an "official" movie as a homage to the game and its community. We are adapting the way Minecraft feels.

End Poem, one of the most beautiful things I have ever read. Let's take that and put it in the movie, simple as that. You can only find it by defeating the Ender Dragon, so this will be how our movie ends. If we want it to end like this, then the objective of our protagonists must be to defeat the dragon.

Let's have Steve as our protagonist - not a whitewashed version, just Steve with his actual skin color left just the way it is. He'll represent us as players for our hypothetical movie. Have him wake up in an unknown world, not knowing why he's there. Just like how the game was all the way back in 2009, he's alone in a very lonely and foggy world. We follow him trying to look for other people, and then he has to survive his first night. This first part is both whimsical and a bit scary, because that's how many players felt when they first started it when they were kids, aallllll the way back.

Steve survives his first night. He's horrified, and then he realizes that he'll have to do it again. He doesn't know the "rules" of this world, but he's figuring them out, and the idea of "rules" and "what to do" will be important. Because, at its core, Minecraft doesn't have that many rules. It has no actual objective. You can do whatever you want, and this will be very (very) important.

Steve ends up building a small base with wood. Survives a bit more, and then, someway, somehow, he finds Alex. While he's more careful around things and very thoughtful on how and what to build, Alex is more of an adventurer, following the little tidbits of personality we see from them during Minecraft trailers. They're happy to know that they aren't alone, and we follow them build a very strong friendship and teach each other new things, just like how it is playing Minecraft in real life. They find a village, and find out that maybe they can leave this world, or at least find some answers, if they defeat the Ender Dragon.

From there, we have a good objective. The two continue progressing, and their base ends up becoming a castle, because who didn't want to build a castle when they were kids? And the world seems progressively more alive thanks to their interference on it, thanks to them helping the villagers, thanks to them being the players that they are. If you want more conflict, just add the pillagers as well.

Eventually, Steve and Alex have an argument about their points of view. They both want to know what's going on, but their way of doing things are different, and they care a LOT about each other, they're best friends, but who is doing things the "right" way? I don't like the idea of them separating because that happens in way too many movies. I want to see these two stick together, but their insistence on trying to do it "correctly" ends up putting them in a lot of trouble because they can't cooperate anymore. Y'know. How people fight and argue about a "correct" way of playing the game. How we as players miss old Minecraft - or do we? Do we miss the simplicity of older times, or do we miss our childhood creativity and willigness to do whatever comes to mind?

Anyways. A good alternative to this conflict would be either Alex or Steve - I'm leaning more towards Steve - being hesitant at completing the End Portal. He doesn't want to end his "dream", he doesn't want answers or to escape this world (aka leave good memories behind), he wants to stay there, but Alex knows that they can't be like this forever, even if she wants to stay. Regardless, they eventually come to a mutual understanding, and, TOGETHER, they go and fight the Ender Dragon. They win, and then the End Poem happens.

The fight against the dragon wasn't the ending; the realization that there are, indeed, no rules to put them down, or that they HAVE to leave everything behind, is the ending. They hear the poem while sitting next to each other. The world changed because of them, and sometimes it was for the worse, and sometimes it was for the better, but it did become much kinder, and they weren't alone. They don't HAVE to be. Just like how it actually happened in the actual game, through the 15 YEARS since it started to exist, and oh my God it's been 15 years already?! Oh my God-

Anyways. Movie ends with Alex and Steve having a lighthearted argument over what to build next. Steve wants another castle, Alex says that she has amazing ideas for something she's calling a "mob farm", and "trust me, it'll make our lives SO MUCH easier". And they're just being silly, because there are no rules.

Anyways thanks for reading this post, feel free to add your own things to it! Just had to get it out of my chest.

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hiii did you guys know i love minecraft story mode. have jesse and her parents

another version under the cut

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the hurt/comfort genre was invented for them

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Imagine this, if you will:

I invite you over to an A Minecraft Movie watch party as it drops on streaming services. My television screen is quite big, I’ll have plenty of snacks and drinks, feel free to bring a few friends!

You pull up. Knock on the door. I let you inside, say some people have already arrived and they’re upstairs. Make yourself at home. You go up, sit down, greet the other guests.

A few more people arrive.

The lights dim.

A colored spotlight follows me as I enter the room, cross the floor, and take a seat at my PC, connected to the tv.

The big screen flickers to life, displaying Minecraft: Story Mode, seasons one and two, locked and loaded.

Decisions are made by majority vote, we all have the time of our lives. The real Minecraft movie was the friends we made along the way. The End.

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Voice of the Smitten!

Prev Designs: Cheated/Hunted/Cold/Contrarian/Paranoid

And we're over the hill! 6/11 voices done!

Everytime I draw Smitten upset I have to add the most dramatic possible mascara tear tracks, its just a rule. Under the cut are the images without text and the first time I ever drew him! Thanks to everyone who's stuck around, we're over halfway there :)

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We had to write a Mini Comic for my Illustration Class so I did mine based on The Frog and The Scorpion. Hopefully you all know the story! 

But if you don’t know the story… In the original the scorpion stings the frog in the middle of the river. When the frog asks “why” the scorpion says “it’s in my nature” and they both die. I like my ending more.

Done with watercolor and pen and ink nib.

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Voice of the Cold!

Another addition to my voice design series! Pt 1 and 2 here

When imagining how his design would work, I thought of the idea of him being able to calm others down and dull their emotions whenever he wraps his wings around them. Here's an example with poor Hero:

Also, in the animatic of the game using my voice designs that forever lives in my head, his design is usually kept in the dark for fun compositions like this:

Alright, that's it for now! :D

(edit) ack! forgot to include the art without text + the first time I drew cold!

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I love your design of Oppy, even though I hate him with all my might. Either way here's a drawing just for you :3

Cammie thank you so much!!! And despite hating Opportunist, you've rendered him so handsomely, such talent!!! Love love love the crossover and the detail of the card up his sleeve, I'm going to be thinking about this for forever now