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Haam-Gallah (Bird Concept)

L: And this concept is smoothly becoming a canon…

This bird magically filled the hole in the tCoL plot. It was a tiny hole, but important indeed xD

Weird place

F: And animation for this mysterious scene is completed! We have already revealed the rough animation and concepts of it to you earlier ~

Birbs Concept

L: I had a hard month of art-block and lack of time, but it’s finally over (I hope). Grimm and me are on dacha: everyday we walk in the woods and the fields, talking about the tCoL plot and discussing characters, creating new concepts and rethinking old ideas. And also playing in Monster Hunter Stories 2 👀 Well, it’s inspiring, so I randomly generated a few Shang-La mount birds.

So, what are these birbs for… Maybe you remember the concept of Latorian cars. We reach the point in...

More Final Roui concept

L: Now Roui has more Final Route concepts now! Which of them do you like most and why?

Crisis

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Two facts about Kariom

L: I don’t remember if we ever posted it xD

Sketches

L: Some tCoL sketches! Read captions~

Sualokin Character Reference Sheet

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L: I made this sheet a month ago or so. I don’t know if you recognized this character, but you definitely know who is it… 

She is not very accurate in hiding her identity. And she will try not to use her original form since it drags a huge amount of energy.

I was inspired by Bowlen's pyt...

Summer~

Hello again, guys! We are alive and slowly working, as we mentioned in the previous posts.
So we do have some new content to share with you, including the new music for Act 3 of tCoL, assorted sketches, and animation! We will be posting some of these today and later during July.
Thank you all for your support and for staying with us even now when we're on our short vacation. It means a world to us <3  

Matrie concepts!

Some lore about Elbalyamians~

Canonical coatings on the 2nd page.

(Русские версии в прикрепленных файлах)

Summer news

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Dear friends!

The last months were rich in a variety of events for our team, so we did not manage to work as hard and productive as we did in the pre-release weeks. We understand that you want to know how Roui's story continues asap, but we ask you to wait a bit. We need some rest - from the long winter, from everyday worries, from crunches that we suffered for a pretty long time. Summer is a season full of adventures, and we're always looking forward to it. It i...

Juny's tail - [DONE]

And it's finished!

Tsourai Clans

L: A small reference for tsourai clans: who is who and what are they doing (:
First of all, all clans are ruling by the Queen or the King. They have their own elite, the knights, who look totally different from tsourai of their clan (sualokins’ knights are calling Cefeids, etc).
Every clan are mastering its own Craft, using a power of ink. Tsourai are merchants and exchange things they create with things made in other clans. It helps tsourai clans to survive in bizarre environment o...

Black Pilgrim

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G: Sometimes, we go back to our personal characters from the Shang-La universe, which have nothing to do with tCoL. And since we have been reading a lot about ancient culture lately, I suddenly wanted to design Black Pilgrim's human form. 👀
I sketched a portrait of him (top right), and Lins just played with it and finalized the rest of his appearance, and in the end, we really liked the result ❤ Thanks to Lins, he also has 3 amazing outfits now! I LOVE THESE SKETCHES A LOT.

New bg + animation finding

G: I, Lins, and Fjo are working on the stuff for upcoming tCoL materials, so this is one of those new backgrounds. This time it will have an animated smoke in it, to add a mysterious, magical feeling. The smoke will be colored with smooth transitions of blue shades so that the smoke looks almost like a light veil fading in the dark of night. 

Meschent

G: Just a small gift for Lins <3 

Raakel eating (unfinished animation)

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Here is the idea for Raquel's sprite animation, which we left unfinished.

F: I sketched this animation when I first became a member of The Broken Horn team and got involved in the project. At that time, we were just thinking of more complex animations to add to the game. There were a lot of different plans that went into work or were thrown away, depending on how they worked with our resources and did they fit the already existing visual style or not.

So, we faced ...

A Farewell Dinner (WIP)

G: Lins redesigned Otta (marked with green color here) recently, and it inspired me to draw all nomes we have now together~ They are drinking the traditional El-Balyamian beverage (made for them by mortals, of course) - the dark beer :D It is a bit different from the Earth beer, but still really close to it, so you can imagine the taste.

But let's put the fun aside. The story we are talking about is from the very ancient time of Shang-La. Meschent (on the left) and Memfier are ready to...

Whoop

L: Roui is a patient guy, but this time his hand slipped.

Memfier

G: I wanted to create my very own nome too! So I have this guy now, named Memfier. He is based on the falcon but I wanted him to look kinda heavy/mighty. But even if he looks like a furious beast, he knows how to control his temper. 

He is the nome of fields of reeds, both the real ones and those sahash and humans wish to find in their afterlife. That's why he has a simple, dark color of his fur and feathers, reminiscent of earth and mud.

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Glashtin

L: Their design is not very complex, so the reference is simple too~

Sketchdump

A collection of sketches I found in my folders in Procreate~

The most valuable part here are stryhas!

Sketches

G: I'm slowly working on my personal sahash character, a parba from Ayelahai and on his cute fish-like-predator-pet. I will tell more about them when I can, but you may find this guy familiar - it is Lins's design she made for the Mare's stage scene. She gifted me this guy later because I fall in love with his whole look and I'm soooo happy about it. <3 He's amazing.

Candy

L: Well, yeah, I'm concepting her Maverick-person.

I want to make her a middle aged woman, though these sketches are still not reflecting my design. She is a determined tsourai, who is eager to find the sualokin King and ask him for a power she lost! Her willing to make a new glashtin clan makes her an unstoppable and fierceful warrior, who don't hesitate to raise a sword against the Leatters... 

Wait, the sword? Where did she get it? 

Let it be a fairy ta...

Selearga

L: I've been working on the myths about the Deceased Moon lately.  This creature (we still call them "vimba") is a base of that myths and also religion. 

We'll tell about it more in the game, I guess. Anyway, if this info will be too much overwhelming, we'll just publish it on ToyHouse (:  

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What about Selearga - this creature is female in one version and male, so his name pronounces as Selearg. Duality is an important part of the Shang-La lore and Phollie ...

Lazy's tail - done

Thanks to Fjo for her hard work again! 

Mermey-Themed Sketches

L: Alongside with young Roui, I was thinking about his Nourian friends, Mermey in particular. If we would make a short spin-off in visual novel (or short manga maybe?) format, telling about Roui’s past back in Nouri, Mermey would be the protagonist. She is an independent, cool and tough lady, a patron of many singlitarians and a decent ancestor of her true-parbian family. Behind this noble look she has a soul of adventurer, and if you get know her better, she will appear as a funny girl, wh...

Cutscene Animatic

L: Something in progress for the Act 3 👀

Drobeski House

L: It's my Birthday today! I drew nothing for myself, so I just post this screenshot with progress on Drobeski's family house, which will be seen (maybe!) in Act 3. 

As patrons know, this background was drawn a long time ago and we edited it many times, but never been happy with the final. So we took some rest and refresh the bg, added more textures and more...shittines x) Drobeski family's house is a bit filthy, but their home is cozy. They just don't expect any guests.  

Some news~

L: This month was so busy, we were barely finding minutes to get rest! We completely moved into new place and now we are trying to make some decorations to make the place looks cozy (it literally looks like construction site right now). That's why we made so little updates here this month and I'm sincerely apologise for that!

Anyway, Grimm and me were working on the Act 3 in our freetime. Many things were added and reworked, and I guess you will see a lot of updates - and str...