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Crazy Croquet
🕑 Added 2021-02-18 01:15:37 +0000 UTCDear Insane Children,
Joey's delivered an excellent illustration depicting Alice engaged in a battle-for-life game of Croquet Forever. As described in the scene text for this game, it doesn't really matter if you win or lose, live or die, because this game just goes on forever and ever.
Forever and ever... kinda what it feels like with all the organizing and unpacking we're doing here after the move. But we're down to the last pile of boxes... and I built a temporary storage place for them so I could clear out the Live Stream Room for its next stream.
Did someone say LIVE STREAM?!?!?! Why, YES! Now that I can actually see the walls of the new Live Stream Room, I will start the process of getting everything ready for our next Live Stream. Martin says he's OK to make the perilous journey to the far edge of Shanghai on Thursday, February 25th. That's Wednesday for those of you in the US.
We'll have tons of new art, design, and BD updates at that time. Be sure to mark your calendar!
In the meantime, be sure to let us know in the comments what you think of Joey's latest!
For my part... I was expecting something a little more... Dante's Inferno as a setting. Maybe just a bit more "battlefield" in tone and setting. But maybe this more colorful setting can work? What do you think?
Speaking of battlefields...
Don't recall if I previously shared any of the new variations on this scene in which Alice runs and fights her way to the Queen's Castle through an ongoing battle between Card Guards and Chess Pieces. There are about 1000 different renderings and alterations on this image... but I think (?) this was the latest variation from Adam. Norm and Omri are also working on it... to bring more "fight" to the scene.
All of these are illustrations of the Asylum narrative - the story guiding the art and design going into the Design Bible.
And regarding the Design Bible... Alex recently gave me a sneak peek at the work he's doing on that... and, WOW. It's looking really amazing. Part graphic novel, part art book, and part design document... If it finishes like it's started... I think even non-fans of the Alice universe will be engaged and entertained by it. We'll be sharing that with the Insane Children soon (within a month or so).
Exciting times!
From Shanghai with a Live Stream Room to Set Up,
-American
Comments
Saleh Abu-Rashid
The first poster is amazing.
Lucas Severin
Im excited to get back to the live streams, also anyone up for Croquet
I love the croquet game idea, though that image does seem a touch too cheerful lol, but maybe all it needs is an ominous sky and some more shadows? I love the chess v cards image and look forward to seeing it in final form.
Nicholas Brokaw
Your birthday is on the 26th? I’ll see if I can remember. If not, then here’s me saying “happy birthday” to you now!
Nicholas Brokaw
Ooh I hope so! That was fun! 😀
Nicholas Brokaw
I agree with what Greg has to say about not making the environment a grim and horrible wasteland. Especially since Alice will just have gone through Judgement, it would be good in my opinion to break a little away from all the redness. Definitely make it a point to keep the general theme though, which I feel like this image does a job of. I did get an idea of how to make it a bit more uneasy too: some of the balloons should have some blood sloshing around in them and steadily streaming out of the bottom. And maybe they could occasionally pour it on the track to make it slippery, or perhaps they could pop when getting near Alice and cover her in blood - getting splashed with hot sticky blood while being forced to play croquet sounds like a pretty sinister punishment to me.
I've always been a fan of bright/colorful locations contrasted against the horrible events happening there, that conflict creates a sense of unease that fits perfectly with the tone of this series (though to be fair, it was more prevalent in AMR than AMA). Making things all grim horrible wastelands kills the mood real fast. And a stream on the 25th? That's a one-day-early birthday present, how kind of you American and Martin!
Lucky Dragon ‘She.They’
Oh did you ever get a chance to listen to the unofficial Crowd Design meeting AsteriaVisual put on?
Lucky Dragon ‘She.They’
Been too long since the last live stream. I’ve been going through American withdrawals.
