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Character Sprite Question

#1 Post by Chanda »

Hi, my artist and I are having trouble on how one of our characters should look! We're doing a Greek Mythology visual novel for NaNoRenO 2020 this year and we're doing a demo. This character as many know her under the name of Persephone.

I initially had her as black haired with red eyes when one of my friends liked her as blonde hair with red eyes. My artist said we should try white hair with red eyes. So my artist has sent me three concepts and I am having so much trouble deciding! So for NaNoRenO, we are using the flats due to time constraints in the game, but we do plan to continue working after NaNoRenO on this project. I have created a poll with the character so please take a look if you would!

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From a mythology standpoint - Persephone is Hades's husband and lives part-time in the underworld, but she is also the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the harvest. Demeter is often associated with things like prosperity, springtime, and the harvest, as was Persephone before she married Hades.

If you want to decide on her appearance purely from an aesthetic standpoint, or if you have any other reasons for her hair color (i.e. living in the underworld for so long has bleached it or turned it black), that's up to you, of course! It's mostly just a personal preference but I would be interested in seeing attention to detail like that which draws from the myths. (:

Good luck with your game! I love Greek mythology so I'll definitely be interested in seeing it. (And, if you haven't seen already, the NaNo deadline on itch.io has been extended for two weeks due to the circumstances of the world, so if you need extra time to polish your demo you have it!)

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Zelan wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2020 3:49 pm From a mythology standpoint - Persephone is Hades's husband and lives part-time in the underworld, but she is also the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the harvest. Demeter is often associated with things like prosperity, springtime, and the harvest, as was Persephone before she married Hades.

If you want to decide on her appearance purely from an aesthetic standpoint, or if you have any other reasons for her hair color (i.e. living in the underworld for so long has bleached it or turned it black), that's up to you, of course! It's mostly just a personal preference but I would be interested in seeing attention to detail like that which draws from the myths. (:

Good luck with your game! I love Greek mythology so I'll definitely be interested in seeing it. (And, if you haven't seen already, the NaNo deadline on itch.io has been extended for two weeks due to the circumstances of the world, so if you need extra time to polish your demo you have it!)
Thank you for your input! I appreciate your answer and it has given me something to think about with her hair changing. While the deadline has been extended, it helps for me as a writer, but not so much for my artist as she has already made it known that she will be joining another jam starting the 10th. We weren't aware of the deadline extension until after this, but we do plan to continue working on the game, no doubt.

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I voted blonde for many of the reasons Zelan mentioned. Persephone is an agricultural goddess...she is a goddess of springtime and life and the harvest and all the stuff, in that context, blonde makes sense to me...rather than "Gothier" hair colors.
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trooper6 wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:14 am I voted blonde for many of the reasons Zelan mentioned. Persephone is an agricultural goddess...she is a goddess of springtime and life and the harvest and all the stuff, in that context, blonde makes sense to me...rather than "Gothier" hair colors.
Rereading my own post, I realized I somehow forgot to mention that my reasoning also led me to vote for blonde. Sorry for any confusion, spowers.

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