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H. McGill
@hannahcomb.bsky.social
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Indie Gamedev Artist
Webcomics: Amphiox, RAWR! Dinosaur Friends
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Day 2: Diplocaulus

One of my personal favorites! I love this guy’s head. If he existed I would have to make friends with someone who owned one so I could look at it every day.

#ArtAdventCalendar #paleoart #art #digitalart #SciArt #amphibian #animal
Digital cel-shaded art of a diplocaulus, which is an ancient amphibian with a wide, boomerang-shaped head. The diplocaulus is depicted underwater in some kind of pond, floating over a chunk of pond dirt that contains underwater plans and fallen fern leaves dissolving into green muck. The animal has orange spots on its dark green skin, and the light of water overhead dances across its form.
December 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I will post an extinct animal every day until the 24th!

Day 1: Velociraptor

Chomp chomp! This guy was actually as small as a housecat.

#artadventcalendar #paleoart #art #digitalart #dinosaur #velociraptor
Digital cel-shaded art of a little velociraptor with a big nasty attitude. The velociraptor is posed in an attack position with its mouth wide open, tiny needle teeth ready to chomp. It is colored somewhat like a roadrunner with speckled brown feathers and red eyes. The velociraptor is perched on a square isometric chunk of rock meant to look like a bit of Gobi Desert where this dinosaur once dwelled millions of years ago. Tufts of desert grass stick out from the chunk.
December 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Why would a fish god be in a volcano?

This Dunkleosteus was consumed by an abyssal vent over 350 million years ago...Before the volcanic island breached the ocean's surface! It is the oldest god in the volcanic pantheon from my game about extinction.

#gamedev #art #sciart #paleoart #madewithspine
Concept art of a giant flaming dunkleosteus skeleton, animated by magma flesh, leaping into the air over an erupting volcano. The scene is drawn in a 2D cel-shaded style with heavy emphasis on saturated blues and super-saturated red and orange colors. The dunkleosteus's bones are all blue like volcanic rock, and its jaws are molten orange, and its eyes are made of blue fire. Distantly, through a purple ashen haze, the rest of the island paradise can be seen, but who knows if it will stay pleasant for long in the wake of a godly volcanic eruption.
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Do any other game artists prefer designing backgrounds and settings to characters?

I'm really happy with how my game's tropical islands turned out. (If only all my characters were islands, too!)

#gamedev #indie #art #digitalart #nature
A digital painting of panoramic-style view of a very very distant, enormous island, clearly volcanic in nature. The style is painterly cel-shading with lots of soft shadows and highlights gradually building up into each other. The point of view is from high up, with a little bit of mountain and close vegetation including acai trees and various bushes visible. The island itself takes up most of the composition,with its vibrant blue mountains, lush forestry in the foothills, and a little spiraling spit of sand curling around a small patch of ocean. The ocean is glassy, sky-blue, and smooth, perfectly reflecting clouds above.
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Playing card designs for my roulette game about recently-extinct animals on a volcano! Numbers indicate how far you can move

1 - Wiggle like Hallucigenia
2 - Crawl like Tiktaalik
3 - Leap like Archeopteryx
M - Enlist the "help" of monkeys

#gamedev #indie #digitalart #design #paleoart #sciart #art
Digital playing card done in the style of a typical Bicycle playing card, only with prehistoric animals instead of king/queen/etc faces. This card features a big white number 1 with a blue border, surrounded by red hallucigenia with white spikes and yellow tentacles, yellow flowers, on a black field. Digital playing card done in the style of a typical Bicycle playing card, only with prehistoric animals instead of king/queen/etc faces. This card features a big white number 2, with a yellow border, surrounded by blue tiktaalik with white eyes and geometric scale patterns, and red diamond/yellow sunburst designs on a black field. Digital playing card done in the style of a typical Bicycle playing card, only with prehistoric animals instead of king/queen/etc faces. This card features a big white number 3 with a red border, surrounded by fancy yellow archaeopteryx with blue and red highlight feathers, with a tail made of hearts, on a black field. A special, minimalistic playing card with a black M surrounded by yellow, blue, and red borders in that order, with a monkey’s face and attacking palms pointed towards the viewer aggressively. Text under this graphic reads ‘MONKEYS’ in capitalized black Futura.
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Behold! One of the four ancient gods residing in the volcano-themed game I am making:

Quetzalcoatlus northropi

This god is the most aggressive member of the volcanic pantheon, so watch out :)

#gamedev #art #paleoart #pterosaur #dinosaur #digitalart #spine2D #sciart
Screenshot of an open Spine document depicting a great, horrible quetzalcoatlus northropi (giant pterosaur) lightly and delicately descending from on high over the maw of a brightly-lit volcanic surface. The pterosaur has been drawn in a cel-shaded 2D style with bones of blue volcanic rock, a membrane and flesh made out of bubbling orange lava, and a great eye lit with green fire magic. Quetzalcoatlus has long wings typically made of skin flaps and it has an unusually long, crooked neck for a pterosaur. This one's wings are outstretched like a ballerina's arms just as she lands a difficult jump with grace. Same Quetzalcoatlus northropi character as previous image. Now the god is attacking: Wings up as though charging forward through the air, neck down, mouth open in a scream. Behind it, the volcano erupts with one big, concentrated burst of lava, like a column of light. Choking ash clouds spread behind the eruption.
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Sure. You can have a little boiling lava dropped from the sky, as a treat

#Gamedev #digitalart #art #animation
October 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I adore how sprite texture packaging looks and this one's giving me so much Halloween energy

#gamedev #digitalart
Clipped screenshot of an absolutely massive sprite texture packaging sheet. It features an assortment of disembodied animal parts, including skull caps, teeth, bones, claws, and jellybean-red blobs of lava goo. It's color scheme is mainly bloody reds, ghoulish greens, and nocturnal blues.
October 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Today I've completed a major game board glow-up! First picture is the very first artwork I developed for my game. Second is the refined, polished new version.

Come play on my volcano!

#gamedev #art #digitalart #indie #illustration
First draft of a video game asset depicting a game board that resembles a volcano. It's not very well-rendered. It's drawn in a very simple cel-shaded style with mostly black outlines. The lava inside is wrinkled, jagged, not very bright. The rim of the volcano is solid with no delineation for different spots on the board to move a piece. Off in the distance is a rudimentary attempt to draw a chain of small islands covered with forests with mountains springing from them, although it's not very refined. The water texture on the ocean waves is very painterly and seems too close to the foreground. Revised artwork based on the previous. The main elements are still there: A volcano top openly bubbles with bright, searing lava, with distant tropical islands beckoning the viewer to relax. Notable changes to this artwork include separated spots for players to clearly see where they are moving their pieces. There are more mountains nearby, and the islands look much more distant. The ocean texture has been toned down to a glass-like sheen. A little shore spit and distant beach forms are more softly rendered in the shadows of distant island mountains. More vegetation has been rendered on the volcano itself, so that players don't forget that this is a chill, green place in which to fight each other to the death.
October 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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You can probably guess what happens when you throw a playing card into a volcano

If you can't guess...this is what happens

#gamedev #animation #digitalart #indie #art
October 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I'm a 2D gamedev artist working with my spouse to make little games. Our latest one will feature cute animals and the opportunity to murder your friends on top of a volcano!

I primarily create layouts and illustrations. I am learning 2D rigging and 2D animation.

#portfolioday #illustration #art
Full illustration in cel-shaded, digital art style. It depicts many animals fleeing the ashen clouds of a volcanic eruption, in which the skeletons of ancient prehistoric gods lunge out after them (quetzalcoatlus, dunkleosteus, apatosaurus, and T. rex). The illustration is primarily blue with some pops of color for each animal. The doedicurus (prehistoric armadillo) is grayish-green as it leaps ahead of an enormous T. rex's snapping jaws. The yellow thylacine springs out a bit further ahead. Closest to the viewer is a green Pinta Island giant tortoise, which is probably for the best since it is going to be too slow to escape without a head start. Next is a screeching purple-headed dodo with a yellow beak. An orange woolly mammoth charges forth behind the dodo, trumpeting as it goes. Up overhead are a troop of brown and white capuchin monkeys jumping down from...who knows where.... A giant T. rex charges forth out of the clouds with lava-red teeth, ready to eat them all if it catches them! A serene digital illustration structured more like UI, drawn in cel-shaded digital art style. On the left is a crater full of lava for the game's losers to sit and bemoan their loss, fringed by dark ash clouds. In the center and foreground is a rock podium for the winner. For the purposes of this image it's the dodo, today. The purple-headed, orange-bodied dodo leaps ahead cheering its own good fortune. A beautiful island sunset paradise awaits the dodo for winning the game of roulette. A cel-shaded, digital art style portrait of a yellow thylacine, with three different expressions. The first is the animal looking neutrally at the viewer with a 'blep' (small tongue coming out just slightly from its mouth). The second is the animal as it is very happy with a bigger blep, eyes closed, ears down in a nonthreatening way. The third is the thylacine opening its jaws to reveal sharp teeth, but it seems more like it's interested in what's going to happen than being particularly hostile. Screenshot from a Spine2D interface depicting a 2D dodo rig mid-jump, wings up and feet out, ready to land and rain havoc on tis foes.
October 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Watch out!

Dodo attack

(Animation from my in-progress game about animals fighting on a volcano)

#gamedev #digitalart #animation #dodo #madewithspine
October 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Trees are to environmental design as horses* are to drawing

*bicycles too

#gamedev #art
Crop of digital art depicting a variety of Açaí palm trees reaching into the sky with their numerous, fluffy green fronds. They are set against a backdrop of a bright blue sky and blue mountainous rock in the distance. These trees are extremely annoying to render because of all the fussy little leafy bits.
October 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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My first attempt at a ambiently-animated illustration! With a few more tweaks, this is going to be my volcano game's title screen background.

#gamedev #art #animation #illustration #thylacine #mammoth #dodo #tortoise #dinosaur #spine2D #madewithspine
October 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Sky T. rex says 'hi'

Sky T. rex is a god who can appear in my roulette-based board game...

#gamedev #art #dinosaur
Cropped screenshot of cel-shaded digital art, depicting an enormous T. rex skull parting through clouds in order to bite from the heavens. The skull is made of blue volcanic rock with bright, glowing, lava-red teeth.
September 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Which animal would you be? Pinta Island Tortoise, Dodo Bird, Woolly Mammoth, or Thylacine?

(These are all the player characters in my game about playing roulette on a volcano!)

#gamedev #art
Cel-shaded digital art of a bright green Pinta Island Tortoise's portrait. It's somewhat stylized to look like an animated character, but mostly looks naturalistic in its design. The tortoise looks happy but also fairly neutral. Cel-shaded digital art of a Dodo Bird's portrait. The Dodo mostly hews to scientific reconstructions, but has been given bright purple feathers in front and orange feathers in back, as well as a fancy pompadour on its head. Cel-shaded digital art of a stoic Woolly Mammoth's portrait. It's been drawn based on scientific reconstructions of the animal, but the luscious eyelashes have been exaggerated, as well as the deep caramel pool of the eye. Cel-shaded digital art of a Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger)'s portrait. It mostly looks like old photographs of this extinct animal, including a big soft nose and plaintive eyes. The yellow of its fur has been exaggerated and it also has a little bit of cheeky tongue sticking out of its mouth.
August 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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How it started vs. How it's going

#gamedev #thylacine #art #animal
Screenshot of two animal profile illustrations of a thylacine, done in a cel-shaded digital art style. In the first illustration, the yellow thylacine has its ears down in an agreeable way, its little tongue poking out under a big wet nose, and its eyes squinting the way a dog squints when it's happy. In the second illustration, the thylacine has been converted into some sort of horrible lava beast, complete with volcanic rock skeleton inside of a lava body. Its eyes and ears are on fire. Its teeth are molten hot. And oh, 2025 has clearly sort of been terrible to this poor creature.
August 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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I'm so excited to be able to share my clownsona, Skep Skipley, designed and drawn by the amazing Kat Tuesday!

Read Kat's amazing comics here: kattuesday.com

#art
A digital art cartoon of sad clown with medieval jester trimmings on a bright green background. The clown, Skep Skipley, wears a woven basket lid with a drooping sad clown face painted on it, with exaggerated eyebrows, red nose, and red lips. Skep's snood is yellow with concentric sketchy purple bands, long enough to dangle the tiny silver bell near Skep's ankle. Skep's tunic is motley, with the left half being yellow and the right being red, and the long droopy sleeves alternating against that. The end of the tunic has spiky crenellations. Skep's tights are also motely in the same yellow and red colors, ending in long floppy pointed boots of soft leather in the grass. Skep holds a prop in each hand: A stick with a fake bee tied to it, and the saddest bouquet of pink flowers you've ever seen. The artwork is signed 'Kat 2025'.
August 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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What have I DONE

#gamedev #art #animation #madewithspine #spine2D
July 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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She's okay now!!!

#gamedev #art #animation #madewithspine #spine2D
July 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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I don't even know what animal this is anymore

#gamedev #digitalart #softwaregore
Screenshot of an in-progress Spine2D rig. This is clearly some sort of shaggy muppet with Rayman-style legless feet. Its body is a hairy shape that would make Cousin It wonder whether they're related. It has its butt on its face and eyes are in the butt cheeks. Its bottom jaw is going AAAAA and showing off some elephant molars. Take pity on this creature, for few will.
July 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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18/19, 19/19, 20/19 (whoops there are twenty imps total, not just nineteen) These are three imps interacting with each other in a single illustration. Alt text in image is essential reading on this one.
Most prominent is a baby-looking imp on the back of a toad-like imp. The baby-looking imp has antennae and is whipping the third imp from on high. The spotted toad-like imp has a weirdly human but melted face, and it’s struggling to stay upright on four webbed feet. The third imp is very small and looks like another one of the half-insect, half-tree root imps, but drawn very faintly. Not much detail can be made of it except for a silhouette.
July 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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17/19 This is a very large, ogre-like imp grinning behind itself with very pronounced, arched eyebrows.
Its hairstyle appears to be scribbled flowers poking straight out of its scalp. It has a squashed-in nose, claws on its fingers, and is gesturing with its left hand, left foot held aloft. It carries a metal lantern with a crossbar in its othe rhand.
July 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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16/19 This is another scratchy-looking imp that is half insect and half tree root system.
This one is pretty small and slim without much definition to its face, except for two bulbous insect eyes. Its antennae are very long. Its arms are a mass of tree roots, and it supports itself upright with five tree root legs.
July 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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14/19, 15/19 These are two imps, one of which is dancing on top of the other one.
The dancer looks like a semi-nude woman wearing nothing but a decorated skirt, long hair flowing out behind. The second imp is a fat weirdly-aged baby flat on its back, happily resting while the first imp does ballet on its large belly. It, too has long flowing hair, and two appendages that are most likely antennae but might be dragonfly wings.
July 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM