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November 2022 Battler Designs Fully released! What's coming next
🕑 Added 2022-12-16 00:28:05 +0000 UTCHello and good afternoon!
With the update of the Legends of Japan suggestion the November 2022 battler design release phase has been completed.
It took a lot longer than predicted, but that was because along the way I pretty much finished cementing the techniques I spent the whole year studying and finally being able to apply and consistently replicate and stabilize, and I think the results do speak for themselves, November 2022 is effectively a turning point and sets the road ahead for all future Librarium releases!
Characters have a lot more "character"so to speak and I think the Librarium style is finally well defined, polished and distinctive enough to continue the road ahead!
As for what's coming next with these releases complete, I more or less intend to pick up where the original plan left off:
-Grind through pending October + November Librarium Animated designs
-Grind through November 4-dir map sprites
-Create our December 2022 battler designs ( which as mentioned in the previous post, will be all picks of mine with creatures which I feel Librarium is missing, I will problay do another bunch of Ancient Japan characters and Yokai, since Librarium has never really had a pack for that, definitely stay tuned)
I've been working super hard and sleeping very little and time still feels like it just slips by and is never enough, but such is the nature of art isn't it?
Regardless, you can definitely stay tuned for more work as I continue to publish it!
I also plan to answer several messages I haven't been able to reply due to the grind on the November 2022 designs, but you can expect that response soon, sorry for the delay!
Librarium's mantra up to this point had always been the quest for a stable attractive style, I think it's a fitting turning point to change that mantra's focus towards the Librarium browsing and organization experience next!
please stay tuned for more as usual, spread the word, spread the love, thanks for your continued support and interest!
Comments
Ækashics
very soon they will be! Been working on cutting them up and rigging them, this week will be all animation for the bundle! :D
I was already wondering if I somehow missed the animated versions. But based on your comment it seems they are not available yet.
Ækashics
yes, same as usual! Now that the december designs are wrapped up, the rewards will be created and released in bulk while the poll runs :)
James Marion
do november designs get 4 directional sprites, the animated get animated, and whatever else is usually done?
Steve Fox
AMAZING JOB <3
I love these designs, it has been improved so much from previous years, SO MUCH. Do you plan to redraw the old dryads? I think they were from 2018, a magician, a warrior and an archer.
Reistaroth
As always, a consistent and impeccable work. Congratulations on all these great visuals! Take time for yourself to rest anyway. Ah ah old japan, Yokai, I approve ;D
KrimsonKatt
You can thank those designs on yours truely, as I suggested them. AKsprites brought my ideas to life and I couldn't be happier. Didn't suggest the dryads tho but all the rest of the ones you mentioned (legends of japan and wardens of hell) were ones I suggested. Glad you like them!
Cryswar
You know what, yeah, I think you are hitting a good style! I'm digging it. The demon lady and dryad girl are super cute, and the samurai guys look hella dope too.
Alice Robinson
As always your work is fantastic!
CrisR82
I don't know what it is, but I really like dryads as a species in general...and your designs for them are really awesome!
Ryf
Also I fully support your choice in not having any polls for december and releasing your picks instead. I think it would actually be great if there were months where sometimes you decided what the battlers released would be. Often times there would be a really interesting group of battlers released (like the updated titans) but only a couple of them would be released making it feel "incomplete". I think it would be a great idea if you took a poll month off every now and then to "finish" a set instead of waiting for the whims of the poll voters for a set to finish.
Ryf
The designs look amazing as usual! Really looking forwars to the animated battlers release!
