spring/lost

GraphicsGale, Graphire4

There was love all around

But I never heard it singing

No, I never heard it at all

Till there was you

- The Beatles “Till there was you”

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Another emo piece to try to express something (emoemoemo). Been working on this since last week, but my schedule’s been disrupted a bit. I’ve always wanted to let video games inform my work, and not in the sort of obvious “I’ll make a painting of Pac-Man and add some blood to represent the violence inherent in video games as a medium or something hur hur”, but rather in the reverse direction. I hope I did an okay job.

On that note, everything you see here was drawn by hand and then tiled manually. In making this I got a lot more experience than I ever want to have creating textures and trees and all that. It’s hard! Making a character or sprite is easy; you can make it up as you go along. But everyone KNOWS what grass or dirt or trees are supposed to look like; you can’t mess that up or else people will notice! Professional dotters who make trees and grass need some real respect. I can’t believe how many trees I’ve passed by in my video game life without ever noticing them; but that’s the thing, being not-noticeable is a measure of their absolute success. Must be a hard life. Everyone go hug a 2D game tree today.

I was originally thinking of animating this but I got FAR FAR too lazy, since I’d have to manually sync looping snow, water, wind, and birds. I think it still gets the point across. I got lazy with aforemention tree. After spending an entire morning on it, I decided I liked how it looked so much that adding a highlighting layer would probably just ruin it. Sorry it looks a bit strange next to all the other items.