Platform Site Update

 

Aaaand the updated Platform website is done!!! Complete with a new layout, updated content, and a URL that actually makes sense! Let's celebrate with this creepy creepy infographic I made about Sehens.

This all stems from the fact that old Google sites is, sadly, going away, and I really hate the look of the new service. So, I've gone through all my old Google sites and deleted the ones that I no longer use (with many a tear...) But the Platform is something that I still use, so I needed to find a new place for it. So I tried out Wordpress, and I think I was able to make something even better than the old version! It looks much cleaner. It'll still be sad to get rid of the old site, though -- so much of the Platform world-building was written for that site, since I was fifteen and writing whatever came to the top of my head just to fill space (and only later came to flesh it out). Ahh, youth.

I also went and updated a whole lot of pages while doing this, since so many of them (looking at you, cities page...) were painfully outdated or very bare-bones. So, the cities, religions, and culture pages have been completely overhauled, and the species and Sehen pages have received some major updates, too! All this updating really made the site transfer an undertaking, though -- it took me almost two weeks to get everything ready. But now it is! Yay.

My wrists hurt. A lot of these updated pages are long...

Mama's Gun MAP Part

 

These are just... Very fun to make. 

I think it's because they're so short, honestly -- I can make a 30 second, independent project and experiment all I like while not feeling roped into any long-term commitment. Just a nice little way to test stuff out! Very fun. And it was also fun to get to draw some of my favorite aesthetic elements in this one: ominous Victorian architecture, harsh lighting, unnerving animal symbolism, and Sehens. 

...Only three of those are things that I actually like to draw, though. Oh my gosh, the backgrounds in this thing. You see how every shot has a fish-eyed background with no straight lines? That serves two purposes. Firstly, I can write it off as adding to the weird unnatural feeling that I'm going for. But secondly, if my lines are a little out of place because I just flew by the seat of my pants when drawing them, no one notices. But if perfect two-point perspective is off, then everyone notices. 

Either way, I'd say this is my favorite MAP part I've made! Of two, but still. I'd like to do more in the future! As always, I've written more about the project in the video's Youtube description, but for the sake of being redundant, I'm gonna cut it short here. Enjoy!

Getting a Kick out of It

"I don’t think that there’s any possible way to give enough context for this to make sense or be funny without monologuing for paragraphs and paragraphs, so I’m just gonna post it as is. Have Nobles getting kicked in the face by Alka – not as something that happens in cannon, but as more of a metaphor for something that actually does. Even if it doesn’t have much humor value by itself, I’m proud of the poses!"

 - 2019 Brennan


Because drawing her flipping him off is a bit too literal for my tastes.

"The Sehens"

"Why are all the actual paintings I make so tall?

Anyway, this is a quicker thing, but I’m happy with it anyway! I wanted to showcase all of the Sehens (well, half of them are only silhouettes, but still). From left to right and top to bottom, they’re Rimewell, Ellesheba, Octalabrous, Alkavire, Soylent, and Blikivallian."

 - 2018 Brennan


And then I just never stopped drawing Sehens.