Photoshop – cat naomi

The Blademistress Trials

admin — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 22:46:00 +0000

a sword and sorcery adventure game

made in Unity

ongoing

The Blademistress Trials a video game currently in development by myself and my partner, Jack Becker. It’s a Legend of Zelda-like adventure game featuring sword-fighting and time travel.

Set in a world of floating islands, Mun, a young swordswoman meets an angel, Antiquity, and they depart on an adventure about time, immortality, apocalypse, and learning to let go.

Coming soon to itch.io and Steam.

On Stained Glass

admin — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:47 +0000

part one of the Terminus storyworld
made in Twine
fall 2021

Trucy Carlisle is second heiress to the Nwaeri-Carlisle Corporation. After a torrid fight with her aggressive and frequently apathetic father Robert Carlisle, she’s kidnapped off the streets by the Glass Rose. After being told that her father refused to pay her ransom by their leader Marcellus, she joins the Glass Rose to spite her father and help the rebels steal a device known as the Bio-encryption Key.

You play as Trucy and navigate her through escaping the bonds of the Glass Rose and the heist of the Nwaeri-Carlisle Tower. While doing so, your relationship with your father and mysterious Marcellus hangs in the balance, and not all is as it seems.

Part one of the Terminus storyworld, On Stained Glass, available to play here. Part two, At All Costs, written by Mitchell Phillip.

Finest Hour

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 23:57:00 +0000

a Submotion Orchestra album cover remix.
made in Photoshop
fall 2021

For this album cover, I’ve chosen to remix an album cover of a favorite artist of mine, Finest Hour by Submotion Orchestra. Submotion Orchestra is a UK-based electronic group with very heavy R&B and jazz influences. The original 2011 cover features an old version of the band’s iconic dandelion icon in black on a red background. To remix it, I’ve taken a photo of a real dandelion and altered it to match a similar aesthetic of both the Finest Hour cover with a similar teal and red color scheme of another album, Alium. Further still, the band often chooses to portray themselves as a lineup of 6 or 7, with their singer being the only one of them not portrayed entirely in silhouette. At the bottom of my remixed cover, I’ve placed such an image of the group made to blend into the shadows of the background.

Black Lives Matter @ ACDC

admin — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:08 +0000

a proposed mural
made in Illustrator and Photoshop
fall 2021

High up and across from the Atlanta City Detention Center lies a vent-lined wall on MARTA’s Garnett station. Here, I place a mural with an aggressive but simplistic message, with the hope that it may be visible by prisoners through the small slitted windows available in the building. Black Lives Matter, a popular phrase and hashtag encompassing the modern grief of Black people in the face police brutality, is written with a bold but handwriting-esque font. The iconic raised fists are shackled by handcuffs with breaking chains. This creates a call to action of breaking literal and metaphorical chains, urging both prisoners to stand up for themselves and onlookers to help break down the prison industrial complex. Furthermore, as a political message, I chose to give the mural a more graffiti and spray paint-esque look, as opposed to the clean lines more represented on positive, uplifting murals.

#whackhistorymonth

admin — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:38 +0000

a fictional campaign for Tierra Whack
made in Blender, Photoshop, and Illustrator
fall 2019

In February and March of 2019, Tierra Whack launched a social media campaign under the hashtag #whackhistorymonth. During this month, she released five brand new singles directly onto her twitter: Only Child, CLONES, Gloria, Wasteland, and Unemployed.

Here, I use a simple calendar to touch upon critic and audience receptions to the songs. The cover art of each single is pinned on the date of their release. Information delivered includes critic’s reviews, lyrics, fan tweets, and a view count on Unemployed’s music video.

Doubling down on the theme of the writing process, the album art features the same infographic and notebook-calendar, but placed into a still scene. Here the calendar is now riddled with objects strewn and placed atop it. The objects are rendered in 3D, and vary in realism in their textures in order to evoke Whack’s brand of surrealism.