Nihils

Nihils

@exnihils.bsky.social

Illustrator, Concept Artist. From Paris. Read my open digital comic here: read-empire.com

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"And to build, we needed energy, so we used the stars. Transferred their light and heat. Sacrificed everything. For Hécatomb." - Link to this digital manga in my bio.

"Until of the original planets, remained only a vague memory and that their body made up the heart of Hécatomb, yet so small in this time compared to now." - Link to this digital manga in my bio.

"So to enlarge the structures of the Empire, we transformed the forests and the mountains, the moons and all the matter that we could find." - Link to this digital manga in my bio.

"But these ideas materialized into structures which, branches of a growing tree world, widened, thickened. And from them came new branches, which also created new ones, and so on... " - Link to this digital manga in my bio.

"Then distant stars were colonized, and solar systems linked to each other by roads, like empty filaments, ideas of paths through which we traveled the Galaxy." - Link to this digital manga in my bio.

"So Hécatomb kept spreading. First, to the few systems around us. Little by little, transformed, terraformed, integrated into the Empire." - Link to this digital manga in my bio.

"But can we think otherwise than with absolute? Each time, new beliefs imposed themselves on me in place of the old ones. And my Empire took their image, and changed according to them." - Link to this digital manga in my bio.

"It is possible that some things are impossible. Maybe the world is infinite, but maybe it's not. So maybe there is an absolute." - Link to this digital manga in my bio.

"And becoming able to convince anyone of anything, I learned to break my own beliefs one by one, even the most intimate, the most essential. " - Link to this digital manga in my bio.

"And little by little, the impossible things also changed. The wildest dreams came true. In ten, a hundred, or even a billion years, all the limits, the physical laws and the beliefs that I had sometimes constructed myself were disproved. All the absolutes." - Link to this digital manga in my bio.

"But while death prevented all my loved ones from seeing their certainties shattered by time, I stayed alive, and saw everything change." - Link to this digital manga in my bio.

"Every step of the way, I thought it was the last, that I had reached the end. Limited by something unsurpassable. That the Empire was at its peak, stable, at last." - Link to this digital manga in my bio.

"Every step of the way, I thought it was the last, that I had reached the end. Limited by something unsurpassable. That the Empire was at its peak, stable, at last." - Link to this digital manga in my bio.

"With technical development, villages became cities, which grew and ended up joining together, conquering the whole planet. Until the unknown had to be sought elsewhere. So I went beyond the sky, and ten thousand years after I first saw them, I ascended to the stars."

"In the beginning, there wasn't. So there was darkness, and silence, peace, freedom, anarchy, cold, chaos, happiness..." - Link to this digital manga in my bio.

"And at the heart of the Empire, growing at the same pace as me from the empty plain which saw me born, grew..." - Link to this digital manga in my bio.

The next chapter will start tomorrow, it is called "Croire, croître". Illustration is the animated version of the growth of the world. - Link to this digital manga in my bio. - #DigitalManga #WebComic #DigitalArt #SciFiArt #Video #Animation

This is the end of the chapter 2, "Ascension" and the animated version of the ascension of the character. - Link to this digital manga in my bio. - #DigitalManga #WebComic #DigitalArt #SciFiArt #Video #Animation

This is the end of the chapter 2, "Ascension" and the animated version of the ascension of the character. - Link to this digital manga in my bio. - #DigitalManga #WebComic #DigitalArt #SciFiArt #Video #Animation

Here is the work in progress for the previous image. - Link to this digital manga in my bio. - #DigitalManga #IndieComic #DigitalArt #SciFiArt #EpicFantasy

"And if I was able to unify all the nations, all the religions, all the countries, all the peoples, and thus achieve the dream of any conqueror, it is because this incontestable superiority imposed my legitimacy for everyone." - #DigitalManga #IndieComic #DigitalArt #SciFiArt #EpicFantasy

"the most efficient. In everything. My existence became a subtle perfection." - Link to this digital manga in my bio. - #MangaArt #ConceptArt #Environment #Video #Multimedia #AfterEffects

"I sculpted myself while remaining obsessively the same," - Link to this digital manga in my bio. - #MangaArt #DigitalComic #DigitalArt #Sketch #Character #Dance

"I perfected the control of every part of my body," - Link to this digital manga in my bio. - #MangaArt #DigitalComic #DigitalArt #Sketch #Character #Dance