Oh jeez, I wonder who spent *literal hours* trying to make sure this art wasn't stretched in the lobby and is now overly familiar with the shape of Dva's eyes
Story time:
Animation for this season was so hard. How do we make Tracer "Talon" when you could also use that pose with any other skin? What even IS evil Tracer? We had the widest range of ideas for this whole season that took a surprising amount of lore debate before we started.
@_chloi
I live inside the CHAZ and my parents are more worried about the homeless population getting food donations than when I called wheezing from tear gas coming into my apartment.
@C1EMTYNE_
It's a lot of things: who got stuff last season, who's getting things the season after, what partnerships may be happening, who fits in a "set" with other skins, does the theme feel right for a hero, do we have an idea we LOVE. Its a very complicated network of details and data.
A not insubstantial amount of research went into this emote before we locked in on Thank You. Super fun trying to explain to our localization group that we needed the JSL for "Get Good" and then having to write out a business-formal explanation about the phrase.
The worst? part is there was no chance to exchange info with my team. I was typing my contact details when my slack access got cut. Now it’s just hoping they see this in the sea of shouting
@UMochi_
Animation concepts are basically a post-it note, maybe a .gif or reference video, and a "director approved" star if it's the idea we like. Waaaaaay less exciting than skin concepts!
@little_corvus
: "Send me reference pictures and Pokemon you like."
Me: "Okay."
Little Corvus: "I have distilled your essence into a drawing."
Me, to everyone in a mile radius: "LOOKITHOWCUTETHISIS"
Dear 15 year old me, in the basement, playing WoW and not really having anyone to share in the excitement of how creative that game made me feel:
We made it.
They finally mailed me everything that was in/on my desk at Blizzard and I don't want to open this box, like if it's still packaged up I can take it in on Monday again.
@VERGUCO18
I mean for the animation content. We try to keep any Emotes, Victory Poses, or Highlight Intros true to the heroes: things Tracer does aren't things Widowmaker would do because they are different personalities. But for the Mirror Universe, suddenly everything was backwards!
Happy 7th anniversary to Critical Role! This show has been a comfort, a creative push, and a source of connection to a lot of new people. Thank you
@TheVulcanSalute
for Yasha, this is one of my favorite cosplays!
The Angel of Vengeance shows no mercy!!! 😈
I'm so incredibly happy everyone's seeing the first glimpse Mythic Mercy! I had the pleasure of designing all of her visual effects including her new wings!
#Mercy
#Overwatch2
#Overwatch
#Mythic
#VFX
Still processing a ton of emotions from yesterday. Thank you for all the love on this costume. Though I didn’t take home a win, I am proud of myself for how much I have grown.
@tutuve8
Once had a little girl ask me if I was a fairy and I told her I was a magical princess. She asked if I new Elsa, so I wrote down a little letter I promised to deliver when all the princesses had our next sleepover.
@tk10jr88
@_chloi
I mean if you want to pay for the moving service to pack up my apartment, sure. My LITERAL home is contained within the CHAZ, just like six other apartment buildings.
I'm not an animator but I am a producer for animation, so I took our annual gamejam time and made an Overwatch "Producer" highlight intro. Safe to say my team were proud, disappointed, and promptly took Maya away from me.
@artofel
I remember the guy in college who said women only got internships because they have boobs.
I also remembered his name when Recruiting said he had applied to the studio I worked at, and they wondered if I wanted to vouch for him.
gamedev is funny because you can work with someone for years before you casually find out in a meeting they did something like create the Xbox boot screens, they were the model for a game character, that they rigged Godzilla, or that they worked on the first game you ever played
@LawofTD
No one at the New Yorker has a teenager anywhere in their life. No kids, no nieces and nephews; they just went from child to 28 and skipped that whole time of their lives.
Oh no I have more props to share. BY FIRE BE PURGED.
Sadly he no longer lights up, but this was my FIRST from scratch prop build. Oh god I’ve learned so much since but I still love this one
#WorldOfWarcraft
I had a PTSD episode when out with a friend. She guided me to her apartment, chatting about dumplings, while I couldn’t form words or tell which way was up. She kept me distracted from falling all the way into the attack.
Tell your friends what to look for so they can help you.
@goosonesq
This is the real “arigatou”! We wanted to do something sassy for Kiriko but trying to blend tone into a sign language we weren’t experts in was a dangerous prospect. Better to do it right!
@beccahallstedt
A dear friend of mine regularly commissions artists and gives them all the same prompt: "a business bear". He's got a whole wall of art in his home of all the different interpretations
Reinhardt’s Rocket Hammer from
@PlayOverwatch
, my biggest prop project to date. I learned so much from this process, and am already applying it to new things. Catchphrase!!
#overwatch
#cosplay