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Looking for BG artist for kinetic novel

A topic by komehara created Oct 24, 2023 Views: 97
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https://itch.io/jam/once-upon-a-time-vn-jam/topic/3183563/looking-for-composer-for-kinetic-novel

Hello, we are now looking for a background artist for my kinetic/sound novel that I previously described here: https://itch.io/jam/once-upon-a-time-vn-jam/topic/3183563/looking-for-composer-for-kinetic-novel

I copied the summary below so you can see it directly:

“Bloody Tale” is a comedy drama that mixes classic fairy tale with action fantasy.

“A princess has been locked in a dungeon to be granted protection from an evil dragon, and no knight has been coming to the rescue for seven years. When a fairy offers to grant her a wish, she asks for a weapon and escapes to go home – and kill the dragon.”

Backgrounds will be seen once on new scene introduction, then mostly behind the NVL text box, so they don’t need to be very detailed. I aim for simple sketches with plain colors, focusing less on realistic details and more on the atmosphere of the different places, such as:

  • castle inside (bedroom, corridor, stairs) - ancient and new one
  • castle outside (courtyard, drawbridge) - ancient and new one
  • abandoned city
  • active city
  • forest
  • burnt forest
  • cave

These are the key locations but we don’t need to have one background per scenery, we can pick a few ones and cut the others depending on the budget (I usually had 2 backgrounds made for a one-month jam, so that would make 4 for the 2 remaining months).

As fallback, it will be possible to complete missing backgrounds with generic abstract backgrounds or even process photographs with free license.

This is a small moodboard the character artist prepared for the different types of environment:

  • left column for sketch and line style - don’t mind the details
  • right column for colors and mood. Also a bit of shape, as I’m good with slightly cartoony design, esp. from the top-right picture

If you are interested, you can reply here and also contact me on either:

Discord: (removed to avoid spam after jam)

Email: (removed to avoid spam after jam) (Subject: “Once Upon A Time VN Jam 2023 - BG Artist”)

You can check out my previous works: https://komehara.itch.io/ especially Spirit Link which is a VN made with Ren’Py.