Mutagenesis - Process journal VI
Added 2021-05-22 08:49:41 +0000 UTCi'm still plodding through this project whenever i'm not at work and still making gradual progress through the planned 35 pages. most major illustration components have been finished now, aside from the cover art.
above is logo design incorporating the fictional language i created earlier, some final art and page layouts of the "player ships", and misc experimentation in design and my fake CRT effect. i've been studying the twitter account CRT Pixels to help me with this, which presents the way in which games used to look and how they were designed to be seen that way.
it's strange to think about how much time and effort i've placed into this when originally it was just going to be a fun little thing on the side (but i should know myself better than that by now, lol). however much of that time has been used on developing new techniques and exploring totally different artforms, learning about the games i'm using as inspiration and the hardware they ran on, and the culture of games media at the time in the form of gaming magazines and enthusiast-published computing zines.
this, and thinking about the project and my modus operandi itself. how i'm consistently drawn to "obsolete" artforms in which the limits of digital/traditional media dictate firm boundaries on what can and cannot be made, and how those boundaries can be incorporated or exploited to create unique art. the appeal of "7.5/10"-type media: film/TV and games that dared to express interesting themes, settings, or ideas that otherwise flopped on release due to stunted execution or other problems, and become lost and buried. the influence of nostalgia that exists internally or is loaned and learned from the nostalgia of others, gradually becoming something else entirely that lives only in the interiority of others. that sort of thing.
anyway i had my 2nd covid shot yesterday and i feel rough tonight so i'm going to stop myself from writing any more. thanks for looking <3
