This month I joined a team for a special edition of O2A2 VN Jam as a sprite artist, and the character you see above is the result!
O2A2 2023 Queer Edition Jam
Winter 2022, looking ahead to 2023
Happy New Year, all! First off, I’d like to share my last few personal works of 2022.
I finally completed the main sprite for Erika, AKA the Phantom, for my Phantom of the Opera visual novel adaptation. I had a lot of fun researching late-Victorian mourning gowns for her costume. At one point, I was really into the idea of having a veil attached to her hat, but I nixed it for practical reasons. It would have obscured her facial expressions too much and been difficult to deal with in Live2D animation.
This piece I knocked out relatively quickly during the time I had off for the holidays. It’s inspired by a lot of the reading I’ve been doing lately about medieval women mystics and “female homoeroticism” (for lack of a better term) in the Middle Ages.
I have several goals/activities planned for 2023. Starting in late January, I’ll be taking a short course on graphic novels. I love sequential art, and I’m really interested in creating some – so this is me taking the plunge. I also, of course, am going to keep working on my visual novel project, now titled Beneath the Opera House. There are only two more basic character sprites to go before I have art for the complete cast. I’m looking into commissioning a couple of short original tracks for the soundtrack as well. A Phantom of the Opera story has to have good music!
Sprite with 2 outfits
The last couple of months have been rough for various reasons, but I finally finished this sprite for my unannounced visual novel project. Elaborate bustle gowns are simultaneously really fun and a huge challenge to paint.
Shop launch!
My print shop is now open! Head over to BigCartel to grab one of my hand-printed linocuts!
IMPORTANT: Unfortunately, I can only ship within the US for now, since international shipping is exorbitantly expensive… If you’re outside the US and are interested in a print, please email me (meagantrott@gmail), and we can discuss.
Spring 2022 Update
The new full-time job on top of an ongoing freelance contract has been keeping me very busy, but I’ve still been making time for my own work! Since last update, I finished a new sprite for my VN project, made headway on another one, and tried out linocut printing for the first time since high school art class.
I’m planning to open an online shop soon for selling my lino prints. I will update here when it’s time to launch!
Long-Overdue Update
Apologies for the radio silence over here! I’ve been really distracted since I started new full-time job late in the year while also keeping up with a couple of freelance contracts. I continue, however, to still be hard at work on my personal VN project. I’ve completed one new sprite since the last update and also started another one.
Prima Ballerina Sprite
One more sprite completed for the visual novel I’m working on! Follow @UlalariaGames on Twitter for updates.
Lady Dimitrescu Pin-up
My partner recently played through the new Resident Evil, and I had to get the fanart impulse out of my system. 😉
Ballerinas Sprite
I’m very excited to show off the first completed sprite for an as-yet-unannounced visual novel I’m working on. These gals are some minor characters who appear in the first scene. I plan to give them a simple idle animation using Live2D soon.
Follow @UlalariaGames on Twitter for updates on the game!
Client work: Fire Mage alternate pose
Here’s some new work I completed this week! It’s another character sprite for my client Brian’s fantasy visual novel. This is an alternate pose for the fire mage from this post awhile back.
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