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Hello, everyone! I'm working on a linear murder mystery / thriller VN inspired by Umineko: When They Cry. The summary:
We're looking for a background artist, preferably with a painterly style, to do backgrounds for the inside of the hotel. Most of the story takes place there, so there'll be maybe 20 scenes, some with day/night variants, and they ought to look consistent. The story is set in the present and the building was built in the 60s and then renovated as a hotel in the 90s, so it's going to be a cozy but modern interior.A family trip in a haunted hotel goes exactly how you’d expect with a synopsis starting with “a family trip in a haunted hotel”.
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Murder. It goes murder.
Some more info:
- The story is already written. I'm about a third of the way through adapting it from prose (~45K words) to VN form now, but there's no worry of the project being abandoned for lack of material.
- Our creative consultant, Mimi the Alpaca, is also our character artist. We currently have concept art for the main characters; a background artist is our main missing piece right now!
- I am a coder as well as a writer, so we're equipped to handle any Ren'Py challenges that might come up.
- The final VN will be distributed for free, with the option to pay $X (undecided) for a "fan pack" consisting of production notes, concept art, the few original songs we'll have, and the original prose form of the story.
- I understand that 20 scenes is a lot; rest assured that I'm expecting this commission to be on the order of months. I'd rather have someone consistently in for the long haul than someone who cranks out 6 backgrounds in a week and then disappears.
If you've got questions, please reply here or message me. Same goes if you're interested; please include your rates and a sample of your work.
I'll leave you with a screenshot portraying the main characters, using birctreel's nice notebook theme as a placeholder GUI. Thanks for your consideration!
