Hey! Been a long time since I updated yall on DOAI. Made this video today explaining the state of things on my second channel for those who are interested!
https://t.co/eOk1ARjsXZ
I know that this is going to be upsetting news for a lot of you, but I am doing it to enjoy the creative process of this story more and to allow myself to do more fun, goofy stuff with Clyde as a character. I hope you all can understand and look forward to meeting a new veldigun!
In light of these concepts being shared, there is an announcement I would like to make in regards to DOAI's story going forward. One that I feel is necessary to it that I fear will upset quite a few of you. As of writing this, Clyde is going to be retired from DOAI 🧵
With Dreams of an Insomniac receiving a new creative direction and essentially being remade from the ground up, I wanted to take the time to share some concept art that was drawn for the series!
Below are concepts for Clyde's DOAI design, and Klaus all drawn by @LyraHorrorz!
To fix this issue, and to give myself more creative freedom, I intend to retire Clyde from DOAI's lore and make him my sona completely. His role in DOAI's story will be filled by a brand new veldigun, who I will be creating from scratch for the PURPOSE of being the main villain.
With Dreams of an Insomniac receiving a new creative direction and essentially being remade from the ground up, I wanted to take the time to share some concept art that was drawn for the series!
Below are concepts for Clyde's DOAI design, and Klaus all drawn by @LyraHorrorz!
A pair of alternate thumbnails for Dreams of an Insomniac volume 1 made for Youtube's new thumbnail testing feature!
The two thumbnails contain artwork created of Lankmann by @/watchfuleyeart for the series!
Adding onto the concept art I've shown so far for Volume 1, here is Winfrey!
For Winfrey, we wanted to make a design that was striking but still carried all of the same traits the character was known for. Mainly the fleshy, sealed mouth that ripped apart when opened.
The final design seen in the video was actually a 2D plane created by @/weirdwock which was put into a blender scene.
The animated plane would be made to look 3D with some lighting tricks as well as the VHS filter which hid the little flaws of the effects
Initial concepts ended up being very close to how the final design would look, with Lyra having a VERY strong idea right from the get go of how she wanted the character.
Multiple sketches and even a rough 3D model were made to give an idea of how the creature would look.