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Ryan’s new short film is finally live on Newgrounds! I spent around a year painting the backgrounds for it. I think it was like almost 130 backgrounds in total 🤯 Here’s a thread of some of my favorites and some of my thoughts!

We started with the bar in the Red Light District. We wanted a warm environment to contrast with the cold winter night outside. The pictures on the wall are actually all photos of Ryan and I from back when we were roommates, just super posterized and compressed.

I believe after those, we moved on to the JR train interiors. These have a colder and more stark color palette than the warm and cozy bar. These also had a lot of compositing going on with moving elements, characters and background assets.

Moving on to the other train scene, this one had a softer and warmer tone. In general, Ryan really wanted the backgrounds to have this kinda hazy, dreamlike quality to them. So I pushed the airbrushing hard to blend and wash out the colors

The big panning BG was a lot of fun! There was a lot of layering for this one to create a cool parallax effect out the train window.