Erin

@midderin.bsky.social

I'm Erin! www.artstation.com/midderin 2D game art generalist Former: PlayFirst, PopCap, Final Strike Current: cute mobile and indie games, twitch streamer merch Occasionally makes pottery Lives in the PNW woods. 💍Married, cat mom She/her

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

I think Nick's right, and there's value in seeing all these amazing looking games... but! I agree that game art direction has gotten worse. Because all the limits are essentially gone these days, there are very few technical hurdles forcing people to make good art decisions.

Nicholas Kole@nicholaskole.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A friend recently was reflecting that they felt art direction in games has gotten generally worse. I think it's a good use of our time & energy to celebrate the fact that while there are a lot of whiffs in the world today, the recent era has also seen some of the greatest of all time

South of Midnight

My legal team is now working on copyright cases against SHEIN. They were the first place that counterfeits of my work started showing up and I am glad to be able to finally go after them. If you have had your art ripped, please contact Justice for Artists. They won a huge case for me last year.

Justice for Artists

Justice for Artists fights for creators whose work has been stolen or copied. We cover legal fees upfront, so you can focus on your art and get paid what you deserve.

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🏳️‍⚧️DEAR TRANS CREATIVES🏳️‍⚧️ I’ll be doing my annual TDOV trans starter pack tomorrow. Why am I posting now? I need 7 of you to reply here today so I have the pack ready for tomorrow. If you want in & I know you, you can just reply with a hello If I don’t, please share your work & what you do. Thanks!

Another big update came out for Paradise Paws today! So here is some new concept art from me. Introducing the game's newest villain, Blair! The expression sheet was too much fun to make. Her in-game character animations came out so so so good.

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New stupid scam alert. Scammers are now reaching out trying to get photos of your face to deep fake videos and con your friends and followers out of $$$ through counterfeit accounts. Fucking ridiculous.

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Now that it is Chinese New Year (happy Year of the Horse!), I can share this matriarchal NPC I designed for Paradise Paws' Lunar New Year event!

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I can finally share this concept art, now that the Firefly Valley has been released for Midas Merge! It's so hard to pick my favorites of these creatures. But it was so fun getting to work with so many bright colors and glowy effects for this garden.

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