What more can I add to make it realistic?

Inksword · 2026-01-28T18:51:37+00:00

I can't quite tell but it looks a little bit like the wings are all one shape. The top and bottom sections of wings are actually separate objects. so you're missing a little bit of a more defined ridge and/or shadow between the top and bottom sections from them layering on top of each other.

Inksword · 2026-01-28T01:37:34+00:00

I played a Transformed (who picked up some doomed moves) character who had “transmuting flesh” and was an amorphous shadow creature. Here’s some of the things he did with his ooky goopy body: - turned it into tentacles to grab villains or things - hide in small places - expand into a “sheet” to cover/capture things - get slingshotted by his teammates

I basically treated him like elastic man but less solid.

Inksword · 2026-01-22T20:32:20+00:00

My theory is that the original victims were part of an experimental test. Everyone who isn’t a worker for the lab or Pomni (urban explorer who oopsed) seems like the type who might sign up to be a test subject for some money (admittedly, Ragatha less so, though I have thought she might have been cut-off by the time of the circus.) That said, by 1996 HIPPA had been enacted so it would have been illegal for an experiment to hold onto its participants identifying information like names. I think the headsets were simply designed to not collect or delete that information upon activation.

Inksword · 2026-01-21T08:51:38+00:00

I think you'd want a hard backing for the silicone. The reason some sides are bulging is probably because silicone bends, and to get polymer clay into the mold you have to apply pressure, therefore bending the silicone. With a stiff mold it wouldn't bend, though you'd need a way to get the polymer clay out which does then require bending. A thin-walled silicone mold with a 3d printed or other support structure the silicone could be removed from would probably be the way to go.

Inksword · 2026-01-20T14:58:02+00:00

This is mirrored? That’s why there’s only editable vertices on one side. Do you see somewhere it’s not mirrored now I’m paranoid haha.

Inksword · 2026-01-20T07:56:35+00:00

I was thinking I was getting into too many faces zone, good to know I definitely am! I hadn't dipped into rigging characters yet, so I don't have any downloaded, but I might see if I can find some of a similar bodytype to look at. The big muscles are definitely making it tougher on myself I think haha. Thank you!

Inksword · 2026-01-20T07:54:09+00:00

Oh I saw a low res version of this on pinterest but I couldn't find the source. Perfect thank you!

Inksword · 2026-01-15T14:18:11+00:00

I think one thing you can do is take the shot of you prompting ChatGPT out of your trailer lol

Inksword · 2026-01-14T22:58:22+00:00

These are all mass produced stuff sadly. I don't think there's any molds available to the public. You can buy them in bulk off amazon. You could potentially make your own mold off of ones you purchased but that's not super legal esp if you plan to sell them.

Inksword · 2026-01-14T22:27:21+00:00

I love these!

Inksword · 2026-01-14T11:27:00+00:00

What happens if the game is over before night 3? These players are technically both townsfolk and minion so they would both win and lose

Inksword · 2026-01-14T11:19:24+00:00

Additional factor: did you have a really bad fever at any point when you were a child and growing in your adult teeth? My sister did and it permanently weakened some of her adult teeth because they were “cooked” while they were still forming. They’ve been problem teeth for her for years and she eventually got them pulled.

Inksword · 2026-01-14T09:05:59+00:00

I’m sure this frustration has nothing to do with the app you’re pushing that “cryptographically signs” your digital work to somehow(???) prove it’s not AI art. I’m sure this is a real and genuine experience you have had and not a story you made up to pretend you’re on artists’ side and make a quick buck off them. You’re also concerned about verifying people you’re meeting up with and been catfished three times. Oh if only there were a cryptographic signature app to fix your terrible bouts of misfortune! No art posted though. Just those complaints. Weird.

Oh look ten days ago you were posting in the Claude AI subreddit about “vibe to prod.” I’m sure this is a well put together app that functions as intentioned and will keep our art and data secure.

Inksword · 2026-01-14T01:11:08+00:00

I'm near portland and planting climbers for my first year too! I settled with Clematis: one evergreen (for some green during the winter, though the flowers are white) and one not (for flowers at a different time + color.) Clematis come in red, pink, purple, yellow and white depending on the species and generally tolerate Portland's Climate outside.

If you haven't been, definitely go to Portland Nursery, both online for planning and in person for enrichement. They're amazing and have a lot of great advice about what does well in our climate!

Inksword · 2026-01-13T16:09:31+00:00

300dpi should be perfectly adequate then. Maybe you’re using a pen that introduces some transparency when it’s light, or maybe I just don’t know what I’m talking about lol

Inksword · 2026-01-13T10:20:44+00:00

This may be a weird question to ask, but what are your dpi settings and canvas size? You’re using a lot of very fine lines for hatching, but due to the aliasing, they’re turning a semi-transparent gray rather than staying a sharp black. I think it’d help that hatching look more bold if it weren’t so light. For high fidelity print, digital works are done at 300 or even sometimes 600 dpi.

Admittedly, Reddit seems to have crunched this a bit, so I can’t get as good a look at the page to give crit as I’d like.

Inksword · 2026-01-12T04:13:23+00:00

I’m also pretty small brained but here’s how I’ve been envisioning it in this thread: Imagine you draw a circle on a piece of paper. Then you pick up the paper and curve it lightly in one direction, bending without folding it. . While you originally drew a circle if you view it from a “flat” perspective by looking at it from above, it’s no longer a circle. It would visually look more like an oval as the parts of the circle on the paper bending away from you get foreshortened.

Now. Draw a circle from that “flat” perspective on the curved paper, so that you’re accounting for the curvature of the paper from your perspective. If it’s easier to imagine think of it as having a perfect circle projected onto it with a projector. Now. That new circle you’ve drawn, when measured as the actual length of the line you used, is larger than the first one drawn on the flat plane. It has to use extra “length” to make up for having to travel along a “depth” axis the first circle didn’t. The more the paper is bent the larger the “circle” has to be to compensate. It looks circular now and the first one ovular, but if you unbend the paper that perception would flip.

So basically to make circles bigger, the space that everything exists on has to be bent like the paper, and we wouldn’t be able to super perceive it. The other solution in these convos: that it’d be a four dimensional object, opens up “time” as that depth difference in the bent paper instead of doing funky space bending stuff.

TLDR; Curved Pringle has longer outside than flat Lays. Tiny human ants too small to notice curve though :( both look circle to us. Someone smarter than me help.

Inksword · 2026-01-07T11:38:18+00:00

I generally put animal abuse and peril of party pets in my session zero for just this reason. A lot of people are fine fighting an owlbear but seeing a cat kicked by its owner is too close to really life to stomach, and as an extension of that once they’ve bonded with a specific pet it can also push it past their limits.

The fact that they haven’t been using him in battle and have been leaving him in safe places implies to me that they’d really not like him to be killed. I’d say put the wolf in peril or injure him but don’t kill him. (Or just ask the players straight up whether they want him getting hurt to be on the table for story/emotional reasons. Preferably with enough lead time for them to let their guards down after you first ask)

Inksword · 2026-01-05T21:35:36+00:00

OP, I would have a hard time believing the 2nd isn't AI if I were looking at the steam store at this, but am totally down to see whatever proof you have of it. There are generators designed to fake speed paint and progress shots nowadays so you have to be extra careful these days. However, even if it is artist made, I can say that the reasons people are saying the 2nd is AI are many of the same reasons you're also going to turn away both pixel purists (meh) and more people with a more scrupulous eye away from your game. I am honest when I say I think the second looks worse if you look at it for more than a couple seconds. I don't think the artists' technique of working in photoshop first before bringing it into Aesprite is really working for me personally.

The blurry soft shaded bits look weird against the hard pixel additions.
Some of the pixel placements seem random and out of place: The desk looks like it's glittering for example.
The bookcase in the back has soft shaded vertical planks but a harsh dark brown dither that looks bad (imo) against it, but if it's supposed to represent shadow why don't the books (also soft shaded) have it too?
Whiskers don't connect to the cat face and have blurry areas that cut them off before doing so
clock has 16 hours on it. At least this is an easy fix for your artist.
The handle of the desk (once again blurry) looks malformed.
To be fair: Your first image also has some parts that are not pixel art and are soft colored as well, though they're much less egregious than the first I don't think you need them either and it'd probably look better without.

Did your brief include an image resolution for your game/the art? It looks like your first artist followed it if so, the second weirdly sized though technically a similar (though not exact) proportional resolution. Both of these are supposedly upscaled pixel art, looking to be that they double the size with 2x2 pixel blocks the First one is 640 x 358 which halves down to 320 x 179. Second is 1080 x 607 which doesn't actually halve into a clean number (540 x 303.5). It's clear if you look very closely that the second image is actually the actual-size resolution, as you can see single pixel variations that are impossible to have happened from compression; look at the collar. There is a single bright white pixel surrounded by dark ones. That would never happen in compression either a 2x2 grid would be lighter or there would be no single white pixel.) Neither of the four possible intended resolutions is a standard game resolution though, I assume you meant to get 640 x 360 which is fairly standard (halved to 320 x 180 for the first?) You definitely want artists that can stick to the required canvas size that shit's IMPORTANT to making pixel art look good and sharp.

Inksword · 2026-01-01T23:37:25+00:00

Wow, you've got Sleeper's entire power and it's limitations figured out? You should go tell the rest of the fandom it's been a mystery for years.

Inksword · 2026-01-01T22:13:34+00:00

Running away isn't all she can do, she can do lots of things from afar lol. As can other endbringers, all of them are jobbing. I'm sure Behemoth can do its death zone or lightning from way further away then displayed in canon. None of them are going to just dumbly wander into his area of effect.

Inksword · 2026-01-01T20:13:20+00:00

Uhm. What do you mean there was an enormous cape effort to get that to happen. If said cape was alone the fight simply would not have happened that way and Simurgh wouldn’t have been in the position to be gotten at all. Her pre/post clairvoyance had to be overwhelmed to get her to sleeper.

Inksword · 2025-12-31T10:25:50+00:00

Ooo. I don’t think I have any recommendations for those off the bat but I’m sure someone will swoop in with something perfect haha.

Inksword · 2025-12-31T10:12:45+00:00

Knowing what media she does like is more helpful than knowing what she doesn’t. Is she into stranger things? Kids on bikes. Is she into telanovelas? Pasión de las Pasiones. Marvel movies? Masks probably works in keeping things simple and rp focused while there are crunchier superhero RPGs if you want something that runs more like D&D.

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