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MA Art Style Preview: Zoey!
🕑 Added 2023-06-07 17:39:08 +0000 UTC[This post is related to our 2nd big announcement for 2023, showcasing the new art style coming to MA in the coming months. If you missed that big announcement post, you can check it out in full below! Tons of art previews included!]
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ma-art-style-art-82664782
This post assumes you've read through and/or know about that announcement, so let's jump into it! ^^
Today's preview comparison is focused on Zoey, who we have come to learn during the events of episode 3 & 4, is that she's Nathan's cousin. This comes to a surprise to our protag, but it was just as shocking to his buddy upon finding out that his cousin was attending at the school naturally.
Zoey's kind of a oddball, aloof girl who seems lost in her own thoughts at times and doesn't seem to act mature for her age by any stretch. ^^"
We'll dive into details and mentions below, but we'll keep things short and sweet! Questions, feedback and thoughts are always welcomed and will be answered or replied to! <3
~Artist Credits: Lisa
Starting with Zoey's comparison, we can tell that her face shape has been adjusted lightly and ever so slightly had her head increased for proportions, keeping things fairly close across the cast of characters in mind.
In this comparison, I want to play fair and so both sprites seen are using the exact same expressions. This means the new style sprite's eyes are her idle expression eyes, so if you'd like to get a feel for how expressive her other eyes look for being angry, sad, happy, etc. We'll have those to look over in the expression sheet preview a bit further down. :P
One thing that I wanted to stress with Zoey's face and new eyes, was to keep that sense of her being zoned out or giving the impression she's staring off in the distance when talking with her, as if she's listening, but at times you're unsure what she's thinking.
There's some other subtle changes and you might be able to see them better if you use Patreon's gallery view feature at the start of this post, rather than the images shown within the text here.
Clearly looking at her expressions with the gallery feature will be muuuch better here. ^^"
For the most part, we're trying to keep the expressions for characters intact without changing those majorly to how they present themselves in-game currently. There are some extras in here for Zoey that felt fitting, like "Confused Extra" is new. "Zoned" and "Horny" as well are new, even though "Zoned" was originally part of her "Normal" expression, but it seemed fitting to split that.
That wraps up this preview! ^^ We'd love to hear your thoughts on Zoey! We're still taking into consideration of feedback and general thoughts from fans/supporters, to possibly make some corrections later this summer, your voice matters!
Comments
Happy to hear that! ^^ I'd like to think there's some good improvements across the board for the characters with the new style adjustments, but some of the subtle changes help bring out a boost in their personalities, etc too! (Lola as a previous example receiving light makeup.)
Degen_XTR
This feels like a big improvement for her imo.
