Diodia
@astygiansump.bsky.social
30-something; they/them; white; the burned out husk of a once would-be Character & Creature Designer; anything you can spare is welcome: https://ko-fi.com/astygiansump
love how wow's gone from one of the few games with an actually pretty crazy selection of playable races to please enjoy our 25th elf recolour, yours for only $29.99
i wonder what kind of person i would be now if Yorshka, or the character whose assets she ended up repurposing, had had an actual storyline in DS3 (as seemingly originally intended) and i hadn't spent a decade feeling disappointed that one of Fromsoft's best designs (to me) went to waste
Diodia@astygiansump.bsky.social · last mo.... for context, DS1's Priscilla and DS3's Yorshka (pictured) both got demoted to optional content despite the devs having bigger plans for them originally* * confirmed by Miyazaki in an interview in Priscilla's case, just speculation based on datamining for Yorshka
you would not believe how much time i spent trying to perfect this stupid 2-in-1 sword concept (only to end up not even using it)...
Diodia@astygiansump.bsky.social · 4w agolmao out of everything *this* is what art of mine ends up on pinterest...?
lmao out of everything *this* is what art of mine ends up on pinterest...?
love being into shit nobody gives a shit about and the few who do are into it in a way i do not want to be associated with
at this point it might be more accurate to call "soul remains" my last hurrah...
Diodia@astygiansump.bsky.social · last yr."soul remains", taking place within an artificial afterlife of (indirect) alien make, was probably my most valiant attempt at a setting to date, repurposing a lot of older ideas and/or designs i liked and just generally delving into many of my favourite concepts. alas...
they're revealing a surreal fantasy RPG starring a weird 7 ft tall dragon lady any moment now
sketch doing better than finished (to the best of my ability) art kind of stings...
the excuse i'd come up with for Ilistirgue to keep traveling through the plane was at some point she resolves to ask *everyone* how they'd rather the plane was, believing she can change it in such a way as to make them all happy
it's sad that the better i got at modding ffxiv the less invested i grew in it (it was more of a symptom rather than the cause, the story kind of lost me after 6.2... exactly 4 years ago tomorrow, jesus christ...)
can't wait for datamining to unearth that she was Duskbloods' main (non-player) character during development until the literal last minute (i'm joking, there won't be any datamining)
seeing Duskbloods gameplay (the way the characters are straight up flying, specifically) makes me wonder if there actually was some truth to that "leak" that From are making an angel-themed game (that Guardian from Nightreign might also have been an allusion to)
oh, completely forgot there was supposed to be an eclipse...
turned 34 today and not doing well mentally, physically or really in any regard ✌️
i'd call this progress were it not for the fact i half-assed the dress so badly i don't think it'll rig well in the slightest...
Diodia@astygiansump.bsky.social · last yr.actually managed to not only make, but also rig (even if rudimentarily. blender did most of it automatically) a model of her! a herculean feat, considering it's me we're talking about here
every now and then i remember how squandered (i think) Dizzy GuiIty Gear feels relative to how cool she is conceptually and have to shake my head in disbelief...
it's messed up that like 90% of dragon girls in media are either from Arknights or that fuckass maid anime, neither of which pushes their designs beyond slapping a tail and horns onto otherwise average anime girls much, if at all
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