My partner and I have tried to do art stuff together. As anyone who read TRANSLUNAR (available for FREE here) knows, most apes have more innate artistic talent than I do. I’m still trying to draw, but I know I’ll never be great at it. So my partner makes these fabulous things in like, five seconds (view them here or on Twitter as @evilbob_mt). In the time it takes me to draw a crude interpretation of a poorly shaded sphere, Evil Bob makes around 14,328 really great ink over pencil sketches.
Lately, it’s been chibis, those little stylized things that punch you in the neck with their cuteness. We got to talking, and came up with an Idea. You can tell it’s important, because the “i” is capitalized. That lead to an evening of character design, scripting, and arguing about the relative shapes of goblin heads. Also, horny viking jokes, but that’s not that far out of the ordinary.
Evil Bob’s recap of the evening made me think that I should say something about it, because I have a sneaking suspicion that I’ll be far too busy scripting for a while to really maintain Fishy Intent. It took a lot not to immediately open up Google Docs and start going when I sat down. But I promised to keep you guys in the loop, so here we are.
When we know more, I’m sure you’ll be the first to know. Now excuse me, I have to counteract the cuteness of the chibi style with some good old-fashioned psychological horror and graphic violence.
