Momma's a better option

Alright friends here's my solution, if the worm is potentially too phallic for a YouTube thumbnail, and the mother is too boring, we'll get the middle ground between them. This was actually my own mother's idea interestingly enough. I was casually explaining to her the nuance of this particular dilemma one day, and she simply said, "Why not make the image a transition between the two?" Here we are. Maybe the worm image wouldn't cause any issue with YouTube? Maybe. However I feel like it would be in my best interest not to risk it 🤷‍♂️ Thus I present to you a (probably) better option.

Here's a small concern with this image- I might not even use it in the game. I don't think I want to have the whole animated transition play out in this "profile dialog screen". As a reminder, this is the image that will pop up when the player goes to talk to the mother, and I do not want to go through the arduous process of animating the transition between a human and a worm in this amount of detail. I don't want to animate even a small part of the transformation. I do love to draw, but my patience when it comes to animation is not as strong 😐

What I was planning on having happen in game was a much quicker and completely unseen transition: One day you see the mother as a human. You step into the home the next day, and she is a worm. If I stick to this original plan, I wouldn't even end up using this picture (of the transition to be exact).

What I could do instead is allow the mother to look normal at the start, then at a later part of the game the player can walk in on and converse with the mother while in mid transition. Then the next time they see her, she would be completely wormified.

The three photos above are what would be seen while conversing with the mother in each of those three periods. Not in order, as you probably have guessed.

Soooooo Idk what do you guys think, would It be a mistake to NOT have this image in the game, as originally planned? That's really what I'm trying to decide.

I am starting to work on a script for the next video which will cover this portion of the game's development, so that will be my focus for the next while. My goal is to have the next video out before the new year (or sooner if I'm lucky and focused), I really hope that I can make that happen 🤞

I love you guys, stay cool 😎 don't turn into a worm