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Anne Ballaran
@anneballaranart.bsky.social
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Hello! I make 2D #art for games, animations & other visual media. I specialize in asset prod & world building. 😊 (she/her)

Games:
Something Haunted (Ursa Minor With Love)
Crashlands 2 (Butterscotch Shenanigans)

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Anne Ballaran @anneballaranart.bsky.social · Jul 26
Hello! I make 2D art for games and animations. This is a screenshot from the indie game we're working on.

I'll be sharing bits and pieces of our gamedev adventures as well as my personal art learning journey. Nice to meet everyone! :)
A young girl and a small creature standing on top of a crashed plane in a lush and flooded city
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bscotch.net
Crashlands 2 just got a MAJOR update! Update 1.2: "The Hardcore Scramble" adds new pets and base-building items, an expanded world map, and even new ways to play the game! We're most excited about the new "Scramble" Mutator, which rearranges tons of stuff so each playthrough is unique. Check it out!
Crashlands 2 Update 1.2: The Hardcore Scramble
YouTube video by Butterscotch Shenanigans
www.youtube.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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bscotch.net
Crashlands 2 is out NOW!

Thanks so much to everyone who supported us on this journey, and I hope you love the game as much as we do 💖💖💖

💻 Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1401730
🍎 App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/id152...
🤖 Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Crashlands 2 on Steam
Slap your way across a vibrant world where interstellar friendships are the key to your survival. Befriend eccentric aliens, craft bizarre weaponry, and stick it to the man in this sequel to the award...
store.steampowered.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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sachinteng.bsky.social
A world without Trans people has never existed, and it never will. More than visibility, we need safety 🏳️‍⚧️
Portait of a woman covered in sludge. Only her arms are uncovered. But within the sludge, her face and body are partially visible, revealing a floral pattern on her face and body, pink and white flowers on blue background. This is a repaint of an illustration I did a decade ago. In the original there in equal sign superimposed at the bottom of the canvas. The equal sign is still there, but it is empty now.
March 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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lazynezumi.com
Lazy Nezumi Pro update 25.03.27 adds locking and other new features to the Perspective Ellipse ruler!
It also adds support for TVPaint 12, and adds a workaround for an XPPen wintab driver bug that was blocking pen input.
lazynezumi.com/news2025#03.27
#LazyNezumi #Photoshop #ClipStudio #DigitalArt
March 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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bscotch.net
Sam (our lead artist/creative director) chats with @shauncichacki.bsky.social of VICE about Crashlands 2
Sam Coster, Creative Director for ‘Crashlands 2’, Details How the Sequel Is Bigger and Better Than Ever (Interview)
'Crashlands 2' is finally making its debut after 9 years, and I had a chance to chat with the Creative Director about how it came to be.
www.vice.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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ianmcque.bsky.social
Digital painting, a barge approaches a run down wharf. An elderly couple await with their cat
February 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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saralanart.bsky.social
I recently got permission to share some more stuff I did for an unannounced IP back in 2022 - some BG paint (not my layouts) and some other concept and asset stuff. I’ll post the portfolio link in the thread if you’re interested in seeing more! 🏙️🌱
A cool toned room in shadow, light streaming in through a window in one spot. There is a bed, a simple desk and chair, and a stovetop and simple kitchen counter. Knick knacks and clutter lie in various places. A vibrant but calm outdoor daytime scene of two shuttered buildings, one is perhaps a diner, the other a small townhouse type building. There is a chain link fence with a car behind it on the right. Some paper trash is scattered on the sidewalk. A page of subway car concepts, exterior and interior, with some prop callouts A concept for a factory interior (2D platformer style) - it is in shadow but some light streams in through unseen windows. It is made up of a subdued neon palette, with some graffiti on the wall, and some plants growing on dilapidated structures.
February 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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devinkorwin.bsky.social
Red Flag
January 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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maryamsefati.bsky.social
January 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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simzart.bsky.social
Welcome Back. 🐕
Two friends, a witch and a dog, finally hugging again in a sunny day.
January 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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bscotch.net
New Crashlands 2 trailer just dropped. And it includes... a LAUNCH DATE!?!?!

(April 10)

And launch PLATFORMS!?

(Steam, App Store, Google Play)

Wishlist it on all the things! crashlands2.com
Crashlands 2 - Release Announcement Trailer
YouTube video by Butterscotch Shenanigans
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January 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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alexdiboine.bsky.social
Here's a cover i made for a comic book anthology themed around the Intimacy of knights ! ( link to the kickstarter in the replies ! )
An old balding and dishevelled knight takes a bath in the middle of the woods, using his armor plate as a bathtub, his helmet as a shower head and his warhammer as a soap holder
January 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
anneballaranart.bsky.social
A spellcaster dances and creates various spell shapes with bewitched string. Leaning more into the things that make drawing fun for me. 🙂✨ #Art #Illustration
Digital painting of an elaborately dressed spellcaster dancing wildly and forming shapes with string. Digital painting of an elaborately dressed spellcaster dancing wildly and forming shapes with string.
January 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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bscotch.net
The year's almost over, and it's been a BUSY ONE trying to get #Crashlands 2 finished up. This year-in-review post gives a glimpse of what #gamedev is like for a small team on a big project!
2024 Bscotch Wrapped | Blog | Butterscotch Shenanigans
Entering the year of Crashlands 2!
www.bscotch.net
December 12, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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ashravenblu.bsky.social
I had to snip out my favourite moment from #TheGameAwards. @laratlarian.bsky.social's words echo the heart of every developer. The industry needs to listen.

We just want to make cool stuff for people.

#indiedev #gamedev
December 13, 2024 at 5:04 AM
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michaelarias.net
HAND-PAINTED 💪🏼

From a promo DVD, #Tekkonkinkreet BG crew at work 🏗️ I see Hideki Nakamura, Akemi Konno, Hiroyuki Itō, Keita Sakai, Makoto Shiraishi, and of course the great Shinji Kimura. (Many previously worked on Steamboy with Kimura.)

🎼 = #Plaid 🎉

#AmerBeton
#鉄コン筋クリート
#anime
December 11, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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luciet.bsky.social
I'll be a bit quiet while I update my social links and get used to bluer skies, but if you'd like to know more about my work as a French narrative game localizer, check out www.lucieteulieres.com 🦉

It has fabulous owl art by the equally fabulous @anneballaranart.bsky.social
Lucie Teulières | Narrative video game localization
www.lucieteulieres.com
December 6, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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fatbard.com
Hey everyone! We're Fat Bard, a music & sound design duo w/ 10+ years of exp. in games. We're now opening our 2025 schedule, so give our website a look and reach out if you'd like to discuss a project!

Website: fatbard.com
Contact: hello@fatbard.com

Now Playing | Designer from Simple Planes 2🎶
December 4, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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kanaratron.bsky.social
📢 EEEP!!! MYTHWRECKED is OUT NOW

After *3 years* my next indie game (following Röki) is OUT NOW on Steam, Xbox and Nintendo Switch...

🏝️ Explore a secret island
⚡️ Meet the gods of legend
🔎 Uncover the truth, behind the myth
December 5, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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b0skoop.bsky.social
Inside the swampy shelter from the Brood game that will never see the light of day
December 3, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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ianmcque.bsky.social
Digital painting - aerial view of a city at night, gothic buildings among the urban sprawl. A river runs through it. Dark blues and orange street lights.
December 3, 2024 at 7:08 AM
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alexdiboine.bsky.social
Some months ago the Saltenpepper team and I decided to finally give up on the game project, none of us had enough time or resources to put into it and i realised i was completely done with it.
I'll put together a book of all my work on it as a send off.
Here's some never seen stuff in the meantime
November 30, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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ramiismail.com
I want to make a personal appeal for the beautiful new game of Palestinian gamedev @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social. As nobody will fund a game about the 1948 Nakba, Rasheed is crowdfunding via launchgood.com/1948. I've been doing production advice on the game pro bono, and it deserves to exist.
An appeal for Dreams on a Pillow
YouTube video by Rami Ismail
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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adamcoster.com
I just keep having to make new GIFs for our Crashlands 2 page on Steam, so I tried out @tauri.app and managed to make a GUI version of the Steam GIFs Generator! Makes that little bit of #gamedev much easier.

Nothing fancy, but works great! Get it here: github.com/bscotch/stea...
November 26, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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allisonperryart.bsky.social
Um wow... was not expecting this positive of a reaction to a simple QRT about Dissolve Mode in our Carol & the End of the World BG paintings! 😳 Since y'all seem to have liked that so much, I thought I'd put all the pages of the BG Paint style guide I drafted in one thread! 🥰
November 19, 2024 at 8:58 PM