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| author | (quasar) nebula <qznebula@protonmail.com> | 2026-03-13 09:23:24 -0300 |
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| committer | (quasar) nebula <qznebula@protonmail.com> | 2026-03-13 09:24:53 -0300 |
| commit | 8a12f4c6d7d3c75805c0a9584a3fad35f7055f4f (patch) | |
| tree | e51a2562008537fa00b1356b75b56ea829d3fd4d /album | |
| parent | f94d6062e474f082465b9e78c79e7bba88da7302 (diff) | |
drop "track artist" commentary annotations
Diffstat (limited to 'album')
| -rw-r--r-- | album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml | 44 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/homestuck-vol-11.yaml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml | 42 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/lofam2.yaml | 72 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/lofam3.yaml | 78 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/lofam4.yaml | 150 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido.yaml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/redditstuck-vol-3.yaml | 40 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/sburb-ost.yaml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | album/the-wanderers.yaml | 2 |
13 files changed, 227 insertions, 227 deletions
diff --git a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml index a0f85c9c..bd19cb3a 100644 --- a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml +++ b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Extra: This is no longer true since I recorded [the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGLUBAgOS7E). For the original recording the two handed parts in the verses and the outro were originally done as 2 separate takes for each one. It wasn't until I started the video that I thought 'I could turn these into single parts' and made things really difficult for myself.</i> - <i>PaperArtichokes:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](http://paperartichokes.tumblr.com/post/17340229037/your-name-is-jane-crocker-and-youre-pretty-sure), 2/9/2012) + <i>PaperArtichokes:</i> ([Tumblr](http://paperartichokes.tumblr.com/post/17340229037/your-name-is-jane-crocker-and-youre-pretty-sure), 2/9/2012) Your name is Jane Crocker @@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ Commentary: |- YEA! I wrote a tune under the name Solarbear for that album! - <i>Derples:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://melongifts.tumblr.com/post/21013986036/hey-guys), 4/13/2012) + <i>Derples:</i> ([Tumblr](https://melongifts.tumblr.com/post/21013986036/hey-guys), 4/13/2012) <img src="media/misc/wv-become-the-mayor-of-cans-bonus.jpg" width="171" height="103" pixelate inline alt="Fuck you radiation.png"> @@ -1082,7 +1082,7 @@ Commentary: |- This was my interpretation of a Jake Strife theme. After the intensity of [[Cobalt Corsair]] I wanted to make something fun to listen to, and ended up with this. Imagine Jake English bouncing nimbly from side to side, facing off to wrestle his eager opponent. - <i>Soju:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://sojubrew.tumblr.com/post/12754503873) / [DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/shilloshilloh/art/Homestuck-Jake-English-268874606), excerpt, 11/13/2011) + <i>Soju:</i> ([Tumblr](https://sojubrew.tumblr.com/post/12754503873) / [DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/shilloshilloh/art/Homestuck-Jake-English-268874606), excerpt, 11/13/2011) Obligatory Jake art, 30 min doodle that I took too seriously ;7; --- diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml index b331d52c..dbf90130 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-10.yaml @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ Commentary: |- (yes it was totally that easy.<br> no you can't stop me from pretending this.) - <i>PJ Tush:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>PJ Tush:</i> (booklet commentary) WOW 7 years of Homestuck. I only hopped on this hectic bandwagon in 2011, but it was definitely worth it. I NEVER would have expected to be able to contribute to and take part in Homestuck itself. This is like a dream come true. THAT BEING SAID: CREATA! @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ Art Tags: - Terezi - Dragon Cane Commentary: |- - <i>Kate Holden:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Kate Holden:</i> (booklet commentary) So I may have originally thought this track was about a literal train and been like "I can't really drawn trains..." only to be told it was more like a training montage for John and agreeing that maybe I can actually draw John. I'd been watching a lot of Ruroni Kenshin with the girlfriend on Netflix and because this art was done by me as a last minute switcheroo I didn't have much time, so I did what I do best; I was a piece of weeaboo trash and made this ridiculous fake shounen manga panel in manga studio. @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ Commentary: |- yes RJ literally put this in also Clark I love you but this, I cannot make an exception for. Please go step on yourself. - <i>Shan Murphy:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Shan Murphy:</i> (booklet commentary) This is a Strider song and I just wanted to draw both Strider bros in action.. @@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ Commentary: |- Please kill me. - <i>Mika B.:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Mika B.:</i> (booklet commentary) Being reeled in both by the song title and the clash between the two characters (and the music, of course), creating art for this was exciting. @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ Commentary: |- That sounds ridiculous though. - <i>Sera B.:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Sera B.:</i> (booklet commentary) For this piece I wanted to go really comic book-y, so I leaned towards a Daredevil influence for Terezi (for obvious reasons). Initially, I had her in a more detailed setting in extreme light and shadow, with Gamzee's silhouette looming over her. Totally by accident I ended up deleting the background layers, leaving just the strip of red lava as the orizon-- which looked way cooler than what I had before and gave it the comic-book-cover vibe I was shooting for. @@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ Commentary: |- While [[Harlequin|"Harlequin"]] was the first piece of mine to appear in Homestuck, the first piece I actually wrote for it was [[Aggrieve|"Aggrieve"]], and so I felt it was only fitting to make another mix of it for the final album. Plus it gave me an excuse to try writing it in a metal style! I'm not sure it could still be considered Rose's "official theme" anymore (not after the mountain of excellent music the team's written for her over the years), but I still like to think of it that way. - <i>Rachel Lake:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Rachel Lake:</i> (booklet commentary) Just, put, like, "It was cool to work on this," I don't know! --- @@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ Commentary: |- So, it's "Stride", my little sequel-of-sorts to [[Upward Movement (Dave Owns)|Upward Movement]], featuring samples from [[Moonsetter]] and [[Showdown]], and an updated version of that classic Dave Strider drum loop. - <i>slogbait:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>slogbait:</i> (booklet commentary) Fuck the rug. --- @@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ Commentary: |- And a fun fact: the double kick drum is augmented by a sample of the kick drums used in Septic Flesh's song [[track:anubis-septicflesh|"Anubis"]] to give it that perfect death metal punch. - <i>slogbait:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>slogbait:</i> (booklet commentary) Some of the more "mechanical" designs in Sburb were fricken cool. @@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ Commentary: |- So, you know, here it is. Freefall hems pretty close to my original remix's overall arrangement, except it swaps out all the samples for newly recorded material (all me) and riffs way, way more loosely on the song quotes. This song is older than [[flash:4109|[S] Cascade]] is, and I think the difference between the original version from all those years ago and this is one of the most striking comparisons you can make to show how far I've come. - <i>Nico J. Dolloso:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Nico J. Dolloso:</i> (booklet commentary) I was approached by RJ to do a track art of my choosing for the album and decided to work closely with him for the track "Freefall." The track's subject was the EoA5 flash [[flash:4109|'[S] Cascade']], which was from what I remember a clusterfuck on many levels in the Homestuck universe and for the MSPA wegbsite & Newground's hosting servers. @@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Castle - Unknown.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Kiko B.:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Kiko B.:</i> (booklet commentary) This gentle but haunting refrain from Buzinkai reminded me of those calm-but-ominous moments in my favorite adventure games, particularly a fantastic little game called Cave Story. Given the title of the track, a castle-exploration scene seemed to be a given. @@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ Commentary: |- (I am sure Mr. Doldinger - much like a certain ill-fated group of bullies - never could have seen THAT one coming.) - <i>Alyssa Lee Dalangin:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Alyssa Lee Dalangin:</i> (booklet commentary) I wanted to illustrate Skaian Happy Flight when I heard it because the music was so whimsical and uplifting, I knew doing the imagery to match it would be fun. When I asked the musician what their vision was for a scenario or character, they said they didn't have anything in particular in mind (though they mentioned some influences from The Neverending Story, which Homestuck has also referenced. @@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ Commentary: |- Even so, the DX suffix is a bit of an homage to the traidtion of releasing enhanced versions of old video games. - <i>ranchuppi:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>ranchuppi:</i> (booklet commentary) Catch me on the roof in my mid 30's pwning a 9th grader with a sword. --- @@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ Commentary: |- anyway bye - <i>slogbait:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>slogbait:</i> (booklet commentary) ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ @@ -996,17 +996,17 @@ Commentary: |- This is really Luke's song. I started the project file but he made it his own. The crow noises are mine. - <i>PJ Tush:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>PJ Tush:</i> (booklet commentary) Being so high energy, I wanted to make the piece as colorful as possible, but not unattractively saturated. Initially I planned on reflecting the characters in dream bubbles of their respective colors, but decided to depict them in full mugshot instead. Each character is lightly engulfed in a colorful overlay in front of the chaotic, perpetually expanding infinity of gay space. - <i>Fenn:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Fenn:</i> (booklet commentary) <i>Feel</i> is a very powerful song full of energy. We were inspired by the tension filled events occuring during the 3 year span of time between those stuck on the troll meteor, flying through space towards an unknowing and terrifying future. - <i>Mika B.:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Mika B.:</i> (booklet commentary) When rendering the final rendition of the track art piece, I hoped to give it a complete finish that would accustom the pieces lovely concept art. I enjoyed working to convey the spectacular energy Jade is known to behold, particularly with her hair. @@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ Commentary: |- I don't expect anyone else to be a Maria Schneider fan and also encounter this piece, but if they do, yes I pretty much took the first 4 bars of [[track:evanescence-maria-schneider|Evanescence]] and used it as the basis for the piece. A few other cues came from that piece as well. - <i>Richard Gung:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Richard Gung:</i> (booklet commentary) A chill tune deserves a classy cover. --- @@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ Commentary: |- Oh if you want to check out Justin's work, [go here](https://www.facebook.com/FliteDnB/). - <i>Lunise:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Lunise:</i> (booklet commentary) So I was minding my own business one day, and then all of a sudden Jeremy came and asked me if I wanted to do some art for Volume 10. Naturally, I obliged, and I asked him if he had anything specific in mind that he wanted me to draw for it, and he basically told me to draw whatever came to mind. So I listened to the WIP of the track he sent me a few times to get a feel for what I wanted to draw for it, and jotted down a couple of concept sketches for what I wanted to do! @@ -1195,7 +1195,7 @@ Commentary: |- There's a little bit of Enya influence sneaking in, particularly with all the humming choirs, and then halfway through we go into a bit of Yasunori Mitsuda inspired celtic dance and a little excerpt of [[Darling Kanaya]] before slowing down and ending on the Aggrieve melody again. - <i>Sera B.:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Sera B.:</i> (booklet commentary) When Malcolm told me this was a Rose/Kanaya piece I got hung up on the idea of them having a little dance together in the meteor library. I figured it would be a sweet way to demonstrate the darker, more elegant aspects of the song and its liveliness at the same time. @@ -1230,7 +1230,7 @@ Commentary: |- At least, that's how I'm justifying it. In reality this can be considered a Calliope piece at heart. - <i>slogbait:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>slogbait:</i> (booklet commentary) This is a realy fantastic song that I'd been rooting for from the start, and when given the chance to do art for it I was intent on making sure it got the beautiful art it deserved. @@ -1375,7 +1375,7 @@ Commentary: |- For obvious reasons I decided to drop one of those words when naming this arrangement. - <i>Worthikids:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Worthikids:</i> (booklet commentary) Alex's original request for this art was "so here's the thing......<br> could u draw the what pumpkin logo....<br> @@ -1442,7 +1442,7 @@ Commentary: |- I'm hopeful that you believe in them, as well. - <i>Kiko B.:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Kiko B.:</i> (booklet commentary) Look how far we've come! Beatfox did such a spectacular job combining so many early Homestuck themes here. Listening to "Conclude" for the first time was a major nostalgia rush! diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-11.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-11.yaml index 2fbe1c68..8c3d3295 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-11.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-11.yaml @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: # Sampled Tracks: # - Toby Fox's goat bleat Commentary: |- - <i>Scarodactyl:</i> (track artist, alternate artwork) + <i>Scarodactyl:</i> (alternate artwork) <img src="media/misc/bleat_like_a_goat_alt_cover.png" width="300"> --- diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml index 13cf3c50..f88e2afb 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-7.yaml @@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ Commentary: |- Really though, the main inspiration for this song simply comes from building on the previous Vriska songs that Radiation did. While the brass was a new, spur-of-the-moment addition, the guitar riffs and melodies were always supposed to be reminiscent of stuff like Spider's Claw, Killed by Br8k Spider and MeGaLoVaNia. People definitely seem to associate this song with Vriska too now, so mission accomplished I guess? - <i>Laz:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://lazili.tumblr.com/post/5795672597/vriska-for-dreadpiraterob-im-sorry-i-was-an), 5/24/2011) + <i>Laz:</i> ([Tumblr](https://lazili.tumblr.com/post/5795672597/vriska-for-dreadpiraterob-im-sorry-i-was-an), 5/24/2011) Vriska for dreadpiraterob @@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ Commentary: |- Been a while, but the noises are the horrorterrors being slaughtered - <i>wodnesse:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://wodnesse.tumblr.com/post/5142699227), 5/2/2011) + <i>wodnesse:</i> ([Tumblr](https://wodnesse.tumblr.com/post/5142699227), 5/2/2011) I’m really into this. --- diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml index b38fa2fa..ceb95911 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-8.yaml @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Commentary: |- Okay, Homestuck Volume 8. Calamity. Awesome tune. I don't know what else to say about that. I thought [[track:walk-stab-walk-r-and-e|Walk-Stab-Walk]] was a cool contribution from Erik, and I just wanted to create something that wove that and the honking and all that, and build up to this big showdown moment between Karkat and Gamzee that never happened! You know, we were all just guessing at what [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]] was gonna do next. And sometimes we got it, and sometimes we got it wrong. But at least we got this epic piece of music out of it, huh? - <i>Tavia Morra:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://seeyoutmorra.tumblr.com/post/12054861967/homestuck-volume-8-track-art), excerpt, 10/28/2011) + <i>Tavia Morra:</i> ([Tumblr](https://seeyoutmorra.tumblr.com/post/12054861967/homestuck-volume-8-track-art), excerpt, 10/28/2011) I had a lot of fun working on Calamity which gave me an opportunity to adapt a very classic Marvel comic book style to Homestuck. My favorite part of the piece is the small touch in Karkat’s eyes where the background shows through, coloring them. As [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Bowman]] worked on Calamity I was developing the composition for the art. [[flash:4085|The moment when Karkat and Gamzee lunge at each other]] got my heart racing in the sheer epic-ness of the sight. It had to be the track art. --- @@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Sampled Tracks: - Amen, Brother Commentary: |- - <i>Tavia Morra:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://seeyoutmorra.tumblr.com/post/12054861967/homestuck-volume-8-track-art), excerpt, 10/28/2011) + <i>Tavia Morra:</i> ([Tumblr](https://seeyoutmorra.tumblr.com/post/12054861967/homestuck-volume-8-track-art), excerpt, 10/28/2011) So, Volume 8 came out and I did art for four of the tracks [one of which might look familiar](https://seeyoutmorra.tumblr.com/post/10881819098/thought-they-looked-rather-nice-together). @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ Commentary: |- Frog Hunt was atmospheric and kind of based on, like, a weather report. - <i>Tavia Morra:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://seeyoutmorra.tumblr.com/post/12054861967/homestuck-volume-8-track-art), excerpt, 10/28/2011) + <i>Tavia Morra:</i> ([Tumblr](https://seeyoutmorra.tumblr.com/post/12054861967/homestuck-volume-8-track-art), excerpt, 10/28/2011) Frog Hunt was, like [[Calamity]], one of the more challenging pieces since I opted for a much cleaner (And much more Disney) look for the piece. I totally saw Jade and Dave on the frog hunt, dressing for the part as adventurers and explorers. Jade, in her excitement, may have dragged Dave through a couple of bushes and thorned plants. Referencing Sources: |- @@ -1119,7 +1119,7 @@ Commentary: |- Drift Into the Sun started off as me trying to emulate [the opening choir track](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pv2LgRzvKg) of a black metal EP. Soon some big drums and some spacey guitars found their way into the mix (in my attempts to make something on the line of ambient black or doom metal). Finally, I added Dave’s “blast off” to help Rose with a metal-ified version of [[Atomyk Ebonpyre]] (which people keep requesting a full version of… maybe). This was another track that I had a clear design for, following as best as I could the events surrounding [Rose and Dave’s chat on Derse](https://www.homestuck.com/story/3875) before creating the Green Sun, focusing more on the atmosphere surrounding the debacle than what they talked about. After putting the original version up for the team to see, [[artist:clark-powell|Plazmataz]] offered to spruce things up. And she did. And it was awesome. And then [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] said he could make some crazy drums for the last section. And he did. And it was awesome too. And that was how Virginia was founded! - <i>Zilon:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://notzilon.tumblr.com/post/11926259856), 10/25/2011) + <i>Zilon:</i> ([Tumblr](https://notzilon.tumblr.com/post/11926259856), 10/25/2011) The album art I did for Drift Into The Sun whoop whoop. There were so many wonderful arts and musics included in Volume 8, and I’m incredibly honored to be included on the album! Derse siblings are pretty baller, and Rose is my favorite kid, so it was good times all around. --- @@ -1481,7 +1481,7 @@ Commentary: |- Back when we knew Jade as just GG, I wrote the first part of Carefree Action as a possible upbeat strife theme for her. It never ended up getting used, but other people liked it, and eventually a remix of it ([[Carefree Victory]]) made it into the comic. The original was pretty short, so I lengthened it so that I could eventually get it onto an album. Like [[Sburban Reversal]], I recommended it as a bonus track. - <i>8bitkitten:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://kitten-burrito.tumblr.com/post/11905462064), 10/25/2011) + <i>8bitkitten:</i> ([Tumblr](https://kitten-burrito.tumblr.com/post/11905462064), 10/25/2011) Days before the release of *Homestuck Volume 8,* I lucked out and was offered the opportunity to make track art. I chose “Carefree Action” and wound up with a cute 8-bit tune. It’s a lighter version of [[“Carefree Victory”]] from *[[album:homestuck-vol-4|Volume 4]]*. The 8-bit sound and peppiness of the song gave me the idea of Jade and Dave collecting frogs as they would coins in a video game. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml index 1283b559..a7202f88 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-9.yaml @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - track:fin-induction Commentary: |- - <i>Kiko B.:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://kingcheddarxvii.tumblr.com/post/24963011080/since-the-album-is-out-now-i-guess-its-okay-to), 6/12/2012) + <i>Kiko B.:</i> ([Tumblr](https://kingcheddarxvii.tumblr.com/post/24963011080/since-the-album-is-out-now-i-guess-its-okay-to), 6/12/2012) Since the album is out now I guess it’s okay to post this! @@ -308,11 +308,11 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Aggrieve (Violin Refrain) Commentary: |- - <i>Tavia Morra:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/24975873399/my-homestuck-volume-9-contributions), excerpt, 6/12/2012) + <i>Tavia Morra:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/24975873399/my-homestuck-volume-9-contributions), excerpt, 6/12/2012) RJ gave me the reins on this one. At first I was drawing it in the same style as a later track ([[Before the Beginning and After the End]]) I did art for, but then it quickly turned in to a painting. This palette in particular was fun and challenging to work with. I'm happy with the end result, since it looks like the Batterwitch is cackling as the world burns down around her. - <i>Tavia Morra:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr ask](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/27279482413/i-love-ugly-betty-your-song-for-homestuck-volume), 7/15/2012) + <i>Tavia Morra:</i> ([Tumblr ask](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/27279482413/i-love-ugly-betty-your-song-for-homestuck-volume), 7/15/2012) > i love ugly betty, your song for homestuck volume 9! were you inspired by crystal castles? @@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ Commentary: |- Just in case one or two of you might not know, this song and fifty other great Homestuck tunes are all released together on [Volume 9](https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-9)! - <i>Nic Carey:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://tynic.tumblr.com/post/24964072895/full-version-of-the-track-art-i-did-for-clark), 6/12/2012) + <i>Nic Carey:</i> ([Tumblr](https://tynic.tumblr.com/post/24964072895/full-version-of-the-track-art-i-did-for-clark), 6/12/2012) Full version of the track art I did for Clark Powell’s track Austin, Atlantis, as seen on Homestuck Volume 9 (get it now go go go music music music) Review Points: @@ -788,7 +788,7 @@ Commentary: |- Started as a sequel to [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|Upward Movement]], before [[artist:andrew-hussie|Hussie]] skipped over that entire sequence, which made me try to build it into a general Dirk theme. Sort of like a rise to power, from princehood to kinghood, or sommat. Maybe even a character theme, though I can't really make those calls. - <i>Tavia Morra:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/24975873399/my-homestuck-volume-9-contributions), excerpt, 6/12/2012) + <i>Tavia Morra:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/24975873399/my-homestuck-volume-9-contributions), excerpt, 6/12/2012) This picture started with an innocent suggestion from [[artist:rj-lake|RJ]] who imagined Dirk riding a [super hang on motorcycle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Hang-On) to this song. I took the idea over to [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]] who then helped me develop the picture to what it became, suggesting the [FF7 motorcycle chase](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUUbp-4kKMA) as inspiration and to turn the motorcycle in to Sawtooth. --- @@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ Commentary: |- And that's Encore! Hope ya'll enjoyed that little trip back down memory lane! - <i>Bea:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://beesmygod.tumblr.com/post/24962863472/oh-ok-i-can-post-this-now), 6/12/2012) + <i>Bea:</i> ([Tumblr](https://beesmygod.tumblr.com/post/24962863472/oh-ok-i-can-post-this-now), 6/12/2012) oh ok i can post this now @@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ Commentary: |- As I've mentioned before, I really like finding ways to combine themes. In this case, I combined 'Explore' and 'English' in a style inspired by the sailing theme from 'Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker'. (It's easy to miss the theme from 'English', since it's a lot more upbeat and in a major key.) I don't use brass a lot when I write, but I think it came out well here. - <i>EsfiArt:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20180407051347/http://kiddybro.tumblr.com/post/24963870530), 6/12/2012) + <i>EsfiArt:</i> ([Tumblr](https://web.archive.org/web/20180407051347/http://kiddybro.tumblr.com/post/24963870530), 6/12/2012) WELP GUESS IT’S TIME TO POST THIS NOW @@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ Commentary: |- What was excellent about working on this track is it's one of the first instances in a while where I had really freed myself from any preconceived goals for the song's form and just decided to write a track from start to finish and see what felt right. I ended up at sort of the golden length - the song begins to loop at 2:15, making it still functional as video game music, and fades out by 2:39. [[artist:tavia-morra|Tavia]] pointed out to me that pop songs that run a bit short of 3 minutes tend to be incredibly satisfying, especially for a first time listener, as they ask for your attention for an amount of time that doesn't wear you down. Out of all my tracks for Vol. 9, this is the one I find the easiest to listen to on a loop. - <i>8bitkitten:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://kitten-burrito.tumblr.com/post/25391031646), 6/18/2012) + <i>8bitkitten:</i> ([Tumblr](https://kitten-burrito.tumblr.com/post/25391031646), 6/18/2012) I was thrilled to get the opportunity of illustrating your music. It’s always so gosh darn fun. =3 @@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@ Art Tags: - Dirk - Derse Commentary: |- - <i>Tavia Morra:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/24975873399/my-homestuck-volume-9-contributions), excerpt, 6/12/2012) + <i>Tavia Morra:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/24975873399/my-homestuck-volume-9-contributions), excerpt, 6/12/2012) You ever have one of those days where the pen and photoshop just seem to be behaving? I was having one of those days and as a result this picture of Dirk happened. He's holding a Derse flag with the pointy end coming at the viewer. This man means business. --- @@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Before Before the Beginning Commentary: |- - <i>Tavia Morra:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/24975873399/my-homestuck-volume-9-contributions), excerpt, 6/12/2012) + <i>Tavia Morra:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/24975873399/my-homestuck-volume-9-contributions), excerpt, 6/12/2012) This was one of the last track art pieces I did that I had a lot of fun with. I didn't really know what I was doing when I went in, but as soon as I had laid out what Alpha Kid went where, the colors instantly stood out in my mind. I really like the way this one came out. --- @@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ Art Tags: - Davesprite - Fenestrology Commentary: |- - <i>8bitkitten:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://kitten-burrito.tumblr.com/post/24980972616), 6/12/2012) + <i>8bitkitten:</i> ([Tumblr](https://kitten-burrito.tumblr.com/post/24980972616), 6/12/2012) This soothing track sets the atmosphere for Davesprite, Jade Harley, and John Egbert as they cross the Yellow Yard. UuU --- @@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@ Art Tags: - Roxy's home - What Pumpkin? Commentary: |- - <i>Tavia Morra:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/24975873399/my-homestuck-volume-9-contributions), excerpt, 6/12/2012) + <i>Tavia Morra:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/24975873399/my-homestuck-volume-9-contributions), excerpt, 6/12/2012) This is another one that RJ let me do whatever I wanted on. After thinking about the title of the track, I remembered the moment in Homestuck when we all finally found out the answer to the infamous question ["What Pumpkin?"](https://www.homestuck.com/story/4853) And what a heartwarming answer it was! To me, this was one of the most gentle tear-jerking moments in the comic to date. It just made sense to draw. --- @@ -1220,7 +1220,7 @@ Commentary: |- Oh, iRRRRRRRRECONCILA8LE, I was so happy with that one. I would have liked to have seen the, uh, the [attempted merge](https://www.homestuck.com/story/4829) between Tavros and Vriska go on longer, and wrote it as soon as I saw it happen - wrote, like, the first chunk of it before the additional guitar with Thomas Ferkol on it. And then when they updated the comic and the two of them [immediately blew apart](https://www.homestuck.com/story/4837), I had no choice but to cap it off with the sound of, you know, the whole thing (pfwhoosh) popping apart, and a random honk in, just for the sake of keeping you all on your toes. (dramatic honkscare) - <i>8bitkitten:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://kitten-burrito.tumblr.com/post/24981766963), 6/12/2012) + <i>8bitkitten:</i> ([Tumblr](https://kitten-burrito.tumblr.com/post/24981766963), 6/12/2012) I wanted to compliment Bowman’s rockin’ Tavrisprite theme. }::::) --- @@ -1472,7 +1472,7 @@ Commentary: |- In the [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|commentary collection]], the above entry is annotated "semi commentary, ask for more". - <i>Kate Holden:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://faisdm.tumblr.com/post/24961982520/well-homestuck-vol-9-is-out), excerpt, 6/12/2012) + <i>Kate Holden:</i> ([Tumblr](https://faisdm.tumblr.com/post/24961982520/well-homestuck-vol-9-is-out), excerpt, 6/12/2012) Well, Homestuck Vol 9 is out! @@ -1618,7 +1618,7 @@ Commentary: |- And of course, you can find Requited published on [Homestuck Volume 9](https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-9). - <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://dodostad.tumblr.com/post/24961331999/track-art-for-requited-by-clark-plazmataz-on), 6/13/2012) + <i>dodostad:</i> ([Tumblr](https://dodostad.tumblr.com/post/24961331999/track-art-for-requited-by-clark-plazmataz-on), 6/13/2012) Track art for Requited by Clark "Plazmataz" on Homestuck volume 9! I was told to draw whatever I wanted so the piece is a nod towards the track art on [[Serenade]]. I'm not very good at romantic pictures but I did my best! :3 --- @@ -1643,7 +1643,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Princess of Helium - Zadira.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Tavia Morra:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/24975873399/my-homestuck-volume-9-contributions), excerpt, 6/12/2012) + <i>Tavia Morra:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/24975873399/my-homestuck-volume-9-contributions), excerpt, 6/12/2012) This was the first track art I had done for Volume 9, but at the time I drew it I didn't know it was going to be on the upcoming album. [[artist:clark-powell|Plazmataz]] played [[track:jane-dargason|a track]] she'd been working on outloud for me and asked if I wanted to do art. I jumped on the opportunity and got a lot of painting practice in with this one. I'm super proud of this one, since it was the first picture in a while that had a strong palette. @@ -1692,7 +1692,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Moonsetter - Zadira.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Hanni Brosh:</i> (track artist, [DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/saffronscarf/art/Moonsetter-308076636), 06/13/2012) + <i>Hanni Brosh:</i> ([DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/saffronscarf/art/Moonsetter-308076636), 06/13/2012) Track art for Moonsetter on Album 9! Moonsetter is one of my favorite songs that Radiation's ever done so I was PRETTY GLAD he asked me to draw art for it. @@ -1765,7 +1765,7 @@ Commentary: |- The art was done by the fantastic Worthikids who I only just recently discovered! They actually made it a while ago for the original Volume 5 version. I messaged them about using it for this version. Go check them out! - <i>Worthikids:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://worthikids.tumblr.com/post/22111816772/i-wanted-to-make-something-for-candles-and), 4/30/2012) + <i>Worthikids:</i> ([Tumblr](https://worthikids.tumblr.com/post/22111816772/i-wanted-to-make-something-for-candles-and), 4/30/2012) I wanted to make something for [[Candles and Clockwork]], @@ -1839,7 +1839,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Cairo Overcoat - asmolfirefly.mid' Commentary: |- - <i>Lauren Ross:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/luzerna/24965609113/track-art-for-cairo-overcoat-by-eidolon-orpheus-on), 6/12/2012) + <i>Lauren Ross:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/luzerna/24965609113/track-art-for-cairo-overcoat-by-eidolon-orpheus-on), 6/12/2012) Track art for Cairo Overcoat by [[artist:thomas-ferkol|Eidolon Orpheus]] on the new album!! @@ -2036,7 +2036,7 @@ MIDI Project Files: Files: - 'Stargaze - asmolfirefly.pdf' Commentary: |- - <i>Tavia Morra:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/24975873399/my-homestuck-volume-9-contributions), excerpt, 6/12/2012) + <i>Tavia Morra:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/24975873399/my-homestuck-volume-9-contributions), excerpt, 6/12/2012) Nick Smalley approached me about this one with a very specific image for this one. He wanted a night time version of Lexxy's wonderful [[media:misc/together.jpg|Beta Kids image]]. I had a lot of fun sprinkling details in to this image. I think the part that makes me smile most is little Minihoof curled up on Dirk's chest. --- @@ -2069,7 +2069,7 @@ Commentary: |- Oh, Another Countdown, of course I put a little cap on the [[Another Jungle]] thing, with a revisitation of Mark Hadley's [[Sburban Countdown]]. - <i>Emery Ferguson:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/24967352479/cheezfergur-so-the-other-day-my-friend-michael), 6/12/2012) + <i>Emery Ferguson:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/24967352479/cheezfergur-so-the-other-day-my-friend-michael), 6/12/2012) So the other day my friend Michael Bowman asked me to put together a piece of artwork for the next volume of Homestuck music, depicting Jane Crocker's last few moments on Earth before the spaceship arrives. diff --git a/album/lofam2.yaml b/album/lofam2.yaml index 56121323..f526dc9d 100644 --- a/album/lofam2.yaml +++ b/album/lofam2.yaml @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Commentary: |- Hi there!! Welcome to the second LOFAM. Kind of sounds like some really gangster hiphop group or something. Anyways this is a song I made JUST FOR THE ALBUM!!! Wowee. There's a lot going on here. There's the intro which is like Lord English taking a proverbial shit on everything by existing or something like that, then it sort of BLEHs and goes into the main part of the song. Right off the bat you've got [[Sburban Jungle]]'s marimba part played backwards on a piano, and then there's some stuff from [[track:the-paradox-paradigm|a fan song]] that I don't remember the title of. THEN there's stuff from [[track:empirical|Condy's song]] off [[album:tomb-of-the-ancestors|the unofficial ancestor album]], and some stuff from some other things. There's basically a lot of things!! It's a very thing filled song. - <i>Skylar:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Skylar:</i> (booklet commentary) paige told me the song was about doc scratch, the condesce and lord english, and since the track was titled chronology i tried to show some sort of a progression within the track art while expressing some of the background of each character. --- @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ Commentary: |- Jackpot was originally "written" by me for [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|the Homestuck music contest]]. I say written in quotation marks because at the time all I had was a cool bassline and a title, I was in a complete musical slump on what to do with the piece, and so I turned to my friend Shadolith for help. Shadolith not only helped to come up with better ideas for the song, but actually finished most if it on her own. I'm really glad she did though, otherwise the song would have never been finished, and it wouldn't be playing in your ears right now! - <i>8bitkitten:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>8bitkitten:</i> (booklet commentary) Here's my track art for "Jackpot"! It's a Roxy strife theme, and since we have yet to witness such an event in Homestuck, let's make believe. ;3 --- @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ Commentary: |- Before making this song, I had wanted to do a remix of [[Doctor]] for a while. There are so many remixes and different versions of this song that I knew there were infinite possibilities when it came to remixing the song. When it finally came time to start, I wanted to go for the *spacey,* electronic, •hardcore* sounding style that I attempted a little bit with [[Electrocumulus]]. This song actually turned out much better than I expected. When confronted for a name for this piece, I wanted to name it something like [["Planet Healer."]] I decided to just swap out a few synonyms and voila, Satellite Physician was done! - <i>grayscaleOddysey:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>grayscaleOddysey:</i> (booklet commentary) This track and cover art was featured in the Homestuck/Zelda fan adventure, Legend of Homestuck, as John's theme. --- @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Commentary: |- I was kind of using this as a break from the bigger projects I’m working on. Most of the time on this was spent playing the harmonics part wrong, because harmonics mess with my sense of where notes should be on guitar. - <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>dodostad:</i> (booklet commentary) I can admit that I had no idea where this was going when I painted it. I don't think I've ever drawn clouds before either haha. --- @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ Commentary: |- The hardest part was deciding between RamBUNNctious and RABBunctious. - <i>Dawn Davis:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Dawn Davis:</i> (booklet commentary) I love Lil Seb he's my baby.<br> I'm proud of this it was really fun to do =w= @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ Commentary: |- *AS IF SENSING THE CHANGE IN THE CAPTIVE CREATURE'S DEMEANOR, THE ASCENT SEEMS TO STEADY AND SWIFTEN.* - <i>Dawn Davis:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://playerprophet.tumblr.com/post/25887727392/art-for-lofam-2-b-i-was-going-to-do-more-but)) + <i>Dawn Davis:</i> ([Tumblr](https://playerprophet.tumblr.com/post/25887727392/art-for-lofam-2-b-i-was-going-to-do-more-but)) Art for LOFAM 2. B) @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ Commentary: |- He was a good dog, and the best friend anyone could ever hope to have. - <i>Lunise:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Lunise:</i> (booklet commentary) I was inspired by the pesterlog on [page 6758](https://homestuck.com/story/4858). Even though I had heard konec0's track long before that update, when I listened to it again to get an idea for what kind of track art I'd like to draw for it, all I could think of was that pesterlog about alpha Jade. @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ Commentary: |- I wrote Unforgiving Terrain shortly after [[album:the-wanderers]] album came out. It was just an excuse to have fun with sound design and listen to [[Carapacian Dominion]] over and over. It's called Unforgiving Terrain because titles are hard. The project file is called <i>Frozen Ruins</i> but I guess I didn't use that name because I ended up not including [[track:frost-vol6]] like I had planned. - <i>Cap:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Cap:</i> (booklet commentary) After the original art file crashed like a piping hot baby on a meteor, I decided to create an Egyptian hieroglyphic-ish piece for this song because you know, DESERTS and WANDERERS and WOW JUST GOSH. But I also wanted to add in some of WV's little chalk drawings too because it's cute! I mean, come on. Look at them, being happy and carefree and unaware. Yes, I know deep in my heart that this story will have a very happy end. No doubts about it. \*insert evil laughter here\* --- @@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ Commentary: |- that's it - <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>dodostad:</i> (booklet commentary) I thought about drawing Vriska and Aradia, but somehow this song reminded me of Jade. I don't remember seeing much art of her and Bec so I thought I'd fix that! --- @@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ Commentary: |- Rejected alternate title: 'All the colours of the rainbow (are delicious)' - <i>Maddie Haines:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Maddie Haines:</i> (booklet commentary) I saw the name Rainbow Rebirth and immediately wanted to do something cool with Kanaya and her fairly new rainbow drinker status, since I was pretty dang sure that was what the title was referencing. Since it was her care for the matriorb that led up to her transformation, I thought it made the most sense to include it, as well as rainbow colors, obviously, into this picture. --- @@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ Commentary: |- [[Flare]] has always struck a place in my heart, for many reasons. [[artist:clark-powell|Plazmataz]] has always, always impressed me, but Flare just evoked something simply raw in the depths of my mind; I knew then that I had to use that feeling as a kind of empathy towards the Beta kids. Though it was used in a specific moment in canon, I chose to write lyrics from the point of view I could most appreciate -- the pain associated with love when life hands you something you don't know how to survive. - <i>fueledbyanimation:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>fueledbyanimation:</i> (booklet commentary) I have been listening to Horizon's renditions of Homestuck music with her lyrics for a while now, and Flare has always been my favorite one she did. I hoped I could make a picture that represents the feeling of closeness beween the four kids in getting through the game that I feel in the words she wrote. --- @@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ Commentary: |- <img src="media/misc/commentary-here.png" width="300"> - <i>Spectrumfizz:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Spectrumfizz:</i> (booklet commentary) <span style="font-family: Comic Sans, Comic Sans MS, cursive">dude come chekc this out hummusr is like one of my favoprite musicans so i made a thnig for this MAD TRACK</span> --- @@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ Commentary: |- Electrocumulus is a remix of [[track:pyrocumulus-kickstart|Pyrocumulus]] by [[artist:rj-lake|RJ Lake]] and was my first ever attempt at remixing an official Homestuck track. Looking back, I have no idea why I chose to remix this song in particular; it must have just been stuck in my head that day. As one could gather from the title, this remix is supposed to be an upbeat, elecronic remix. As I was composing, it seemed to turn into a dance track of sorts. The genre still fit my idea, so I kept going. I think it was a rather successful first Homestuck remix. - <i>plaidcushion:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>plaidcushion:</i> (booklet commentary) The songs this was remixed from are associated with Skaia and the battlefield, but I thought that Electrocumulus was way too high energy and fun for something like that. I decided to go for the next best thing- John speeding through Skaia and plowing through clouds in his Dad's car! As it turns out, exploded clouds are also rpetty fun to cut out with a scalpel. --- @@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ Commentary: |- Around the time I finished [[Rust Maid]] and [[Orange Hat]], I was approached for the inclusion of the remix in LOFAM2. While I was happy to have the opportunity to give people the download so many of them clamored for, I really, really had to fix so many of it's glaring issuse, and as such I remastered it for the album. - <i>devonianecho:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>devonianecho:</i> (booklet commentary) [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] has always been one of the most memorable pieces of music in Homestuck, forever representing a (if not the) quintessential "strife" theme. With this in mind, I think I had almost too much freedom in choosing the conflict I wanted to depict in this piece. Initially, I was going to make it John vs. Dad [[flash:90|from Act 1]]... but that ended up being a little too underwhelming in comparison to the song it was for. So, in the end, I settled upon focusing the piece on a determined-looking John about to face down the underling horde at the beginning of [[flash:4109|Cascade]]. I'm pretty happy with the end result. --- @@ -1082,7 +1082,7 @@ Commentary: |- My goal was to mash up as many Gomestuck songs as I could. I ended up mixing 12 together. I really think the part at the end with [[Black]], [[track:showtime-original-mix|Showtime]] and [[track:beatdown-strider-style|Beatdown]] works well, and I discovered that Showtime is the Homestuck equivalent of [[Guile's Theme]]: It goes with everything. - <i>AS:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>AS:</i> (booklet commentary) Listening to Fighting Spirit the first time kind of got me nostalgic for the old Strife pages, with their chiptune music. You know, waaaay back in the beginning of the comic when the Beta kids were still on planet Earth and were being harassed by trolls. So nearly a year later, I figured that a strife page would make for an excellent cover. Admittedly action poses have always been a weakness of mine, so I probably drew each kid at least twice for this cover until I was satisfied. Still though, I'm happy with how the art came out. Hopefully I did this awesome track justice. @@ -1118,7 +1118,7 @@ Commentary: |- Irradiated is really an identifying track for my work, I've been told before that this track is the first that came to mind when mentioning my callsign SparksD2145. Similarly to a good portion of my work [[Black]]/[[track:liquid-negrocity|Liquid Negrocity's]] leitmotif plays a prominent feature in the composition, providing the base melody for the entire track. The idea for Irradiated spurred from [[flash:2927|Jade: Enter]], as a high-velocity and energetic track with none other than Jack Noir at the center; my goal was to take Black and give it a different feel. After a short hiatus, my track Irradiated featured in [[flash:fan-animation-homestuck|my first tribute animation]] [on youtube](https://youtu.be/hnG10rk9lqg) for Homestuck. - <i>Spectrumfizz:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Spectrumfizz:</i> (booklet commentary) Irradiated is among the first homestuck fanmusic tracks I ever heard, so I was very pleased to be able to create art to accompany it on LOFAM2. I decided to draw inspiration from AutoDevote's [[flash:fan-animation-homestuck|first HS fanimation]], which to this day remains one of my favourite homestuck videos. I'm not particularly apt at composition or shading or several other things, but I'm pretty happy with what I accomplished here. --- @@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@ Commentary: |- That one terrible LEGENDARY ENDLESS DVS SAX song I made almost went on the album instead of this and I felt like paying tribute to it, so that's where the little sax riff came from. - <i>Lunise:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Lunise:</i> (booklet commentary) I had the feeling that I had to meet some pretty high expectations when I was called upon to draw this one, so I was pretty nervous about doing it. I spent a long time mulling over how I was going to go about drawing this track art after I completed the art for [[track:stalemate-play-the-rain]]. We don't know nearly as much about the denizens as we do about the kids or the trolls or even the carapacians, but I took what we do know about the beta kids' denizens and ran with it. @@ -1254,7 +1254,7 @@ Commentary: |- Though [[Sburban Jungle]] was the first song to hook me on [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Michael Guy Bowman's]] music, my heart lies with [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido]]. [[Dawn of Man]] is a favorite of mine from that album, and it also happens to be a partial remix of Sburban Jungle. In the Homestuck tradition, the natural thing to do then was mix them together, along with a cameo from [[Exodus]], featured in [[album:sburb-ost|SBURB]]. The instruments are based primarily on Dawn of Man, bringing in some of Sburban Jungle's mallet percussion and a few of my own additions. The result is Sburban Genesis, a song ultimately inspired by the mysterious origins of the game and its multi-universal legacy. - <i>plaidcushion:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>plaidcushion:</i> (booklet commentary) This really sounded like a night time kind of song to me, which I think went nicely with the baby frog Jade finds on her island as a kid. He's a pretty cute little guy, but his role carries a lot of weight, so I think he fits the song pretty well. --- @@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ Commentary: |- Quite possibly the saddest piece of music I've ever written. This was what I was originally going to use for the fan album, but I decided to drop it half way through making it on the grounds that it didn't sound like a Homestuck song. Jack Noir (and by extension, Bec Noir) always struck me as a tragic character. The way I see it, he's always violent because of the abuse he receives from the black queen. He's physically shut down all other emotions save for hatred because as far as he's concerned, there is no such thing. However things change for him when Bec becomes prototyped. He suddenly has a heart and has new feelings. Bec's influence taught him what it's like to feel for someone else, although Jack desperately tried so hard to ignore these feelings. When Jade died, Jack finally knew what it felt to lose someone so close to your heart. A tragic character indeed... - <i>Corrina:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Corrina:</i> (booklet commentary) Given the fact that the song references [[track:the-beginning-of-something-really-excellent|Jade's theme]], I thought that I'd go with something that has to do with the characters' relationship. In the picture, I had originally intended Jade to be a sort-of ghost image, as if she wasn't really there. I wanted to show that Jack was alone, but I later changed that aspect, despite how much I loved the idea. Making her more faded created imbalance in the work, and the details were also washed out. --- @@ -1340,7 +1340,7 @@ Art Tags: - LoHaC - LoFaF Commentary: |- - <i>Nekachen:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Nekachen:</i> (booklet commentary) When I listened to Four for the first time, I imagined the entire Incipisphere as if it were one of those cool panoramic views of the universe. The title more than likely relates to the planets the kids arrive upon in the Medium, so I decided to use that aspect to create the basis of my idea. I recreated most of the planets from scratch while using references, used *tons* of Photoshop effects to create shading and light sources, and utilized stock images to create what I believe represents the "Four" planets within the Incipisphere that the song centers around. --- @@ -1518,7 +1518,7 @@ Commentary: |- This is... this is I don't know. I think [[artist:charles-neudorf|Neudorf]] told me to do this, so I did it. It works pretty good. - <i>doctoroftime:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>doctoroftime:</i> (booklet commentary) The song was a Gamebro remix and I had just figured out that Bro Strider probably writes Gamebro so it was obvious that a *Professor Layton x Homestuck* crossover needed to happen. I looked at the covers of the Layton games and basically just went for it. @@ -1708,7 +1708,7 @@ Commentary: |- So again, thank you [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew]] and everyone on the music team; both for that opportunity and for all your creative work which inspired me in the first place. Thanks [[artist:erik-scheele|Jit]] for offering some last minute advice (though I didn't get a chance to implement half of those suggestions...). And, of course, thank you [[artist:lizawithazed|Liza]] and [[artist:lambda-elise-merryberry|Xzaz]] for organizing this second Homestuck Fan Music Album; your dedication and enthusiasm is truly an inspiration. - <i>Racheme:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Racheme:</i> (booklet commentary) This shows little John asking his older self if they saved Dad from the game. I wanted to reflect some inner workings in John's mind, he still thinks about his only family rather than simply drawing him as powerful and never giving up like in most pictures. --- @@ -1734,7 +1734,7 @@ Commentary: |- Here's hoping for a happy ending. - <i>Fortnight:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Fortnight:</i> (booklet commentary) First of all- I love this track, it sounds to me like the start of something new, with hope and high expectations thrown in. I drew this track art based off that mood and also [[flash:82|the unnamed flash from Act 1]], [page 1982](https://homestuck.com/story/82). --- @@ -1846,11 +1846,11 @@ Track Artwork: - Doc Scratch - 'cw: body horror (abstract)' Commentary: |- - <i>Nick Tucker:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Nick Tucker:</i> (booklet commentary) This is my favourite song on the album, and I ended up doing two track arts for it. This one is better, I think! I decided to use Doc Scratch because the song was about the Green Sun, and out of all the characters associated with it, I felt Doc Scratch best suited the song. - <i>Nick Tucker:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://irespectfrogs.tumblr.com/post/29846492656/corkscrew-sundown-by-trogg-i-started-completely), 8/20/2012) + <i>Nick Tucker:</i> ([Tumblr](https://irespectfrogs.tumblr.com/post/29846492656/corkscrew-sundown-by-trogg-i-started-completely), 8/20/2012) Corkscrew Sundown by [[artist:trent-west|Trogg]] @@ -1897,7 +1897,7 @@ Commentary: |- Jane's theme was my third and final entry into [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a|the HS music contest]], conceived and completed less than a day before I made my submission. It obviously didn't make the cut, and Jane ended up receiving a much more badass theme in the form of [[Cyan Beast]]. At the time when I wrote the song (around January 29, 2012), we really didn't know much about Jane beyond the fact that she was a nice girl who enjoyed baking. I tried to give her a theme that was quaint and melodic, not too energetic like my other submissions; compared to most of the other characters, Jane is very down-to-earth, which I admired. Structurally, it loosely parallels [[Fuchsia Witch]], which was originally titled "Jake's Theme." - <i>positivelymorbid:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>positivelymorbid:</i> (booklet commentary) When I first listened to it, I thought it was a really calm, tranquil song, so I thought maybe Jane relaxing. The more I listened to it, the more adventurous it sounded. Then it hit me, why not Jane having a picnic in LOCAH, picnics are relaxing and adventurous. Overall, I enjoyed the song, and I really enjoyed drawing this art for it. --- @@ -1935,7 +1935,7 @@ Commentary: |- I remember it being a week of musical hell for me, but I'm quite proud of the end results. Perhaps one day, I'll be able to rerecord it with a proper quartet. One can dream at least. - <i>Reid Slater:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Reid Slater:</i> (booklet commentary) I wanted to represent the beta kids reaching their godtier status while mixing in the royalty theme that Samm's song gave me. Samm said to me himself that he thought of the crowning scene in Narnia and the four thrones, and I thought it was suitable to represent them with crowns, holding the Skaia they influenced and looking content and almost relieved in each other's company. I wanted to create something happy and a little bitter-sweet, which was the feeling I got from Samm's track. And I wanted to show that sort of unity and friendship the kids have, even after all they've been through. @@ -1967,7 +1967,7 @@ Art Tags: - Green Sun - Space Commentary: |- - <i>nappotuna:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>nappotuna:</i> (booklet commentary) Listening to the song, I immediately wanted to do something involving Jade doing something cool. When I asked [[artist:trent-west|Trogg]] about it, I learned that the song was actually based more so on the Green Sun. I didn't want to just trash my current progress with Jade so I changed things up a little. Added the Sun in the back, changed the light sources into more green-like tones, et cetera. @@ -2060,7 +2060,7 @@ Commentary: |- I wrote *Elegy for a Thief* back in August 2011, inspired by the evocative image of ghost-Vriska standing in the snow outside John's house. After re-arranging it into a solo piano piece, I sat on it for a while. Eventually I began to work on another remix, but forgot about it. Then the song was nominated for Land of Fans and Music 2, and I rushed to polish up the song now that I had better tools and more skill. But I'd lost the original file, and the only remaining part of the scrapped remix was the right-hand piano notes (luckily, those were the most important part of the song)! The new remix is exotic and a bit hypnotic, symbolizing John and Vriska's journey through the surreal and fantastic memory-realms of the afterlife. - <i>Cap:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Cap:</i> (booklet commentary) Originally, I planned to do a sentimental image of Vriska standing in the snow, but it turned out pretty lame. Then I figured hey, since I'm making something for a fantastic song for an amazing troll, why not make the piece almost as gr8t as her? So the snow idea melted and turned into this bizarre, dreambubble-ish creation! @@ -2208,7 +2208,7 @@ Commentary: |- I began "Finale Strife" as a long, slow-burning build-up song for the final battle with Lord English, in a similar vein to ["Finale Toccata"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKiQ8m4C_CY) from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. That, however, didn't pan out, and it ended up turning into a fast-paced, high-energy strife theme more in the vein of ["The Curse of Sorrow"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uJhva1jvWw) from Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (the only Castlevania game I've actually come close to beating), especially the organ, electric guitar, and snappy drum kit. The main melody has some resemblance to the Black King's theme from [["Rex Duodecim Angelus"]] by [[artist:malcolm-brown]], but not enough to qualify as a remix or arrangement. - <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> (booklet commentary) I initially had no idea what I was going to do for this song. I skimmed through the tracks and noticed this one by Willow Ascenzo (who did some of my favorites on [[album:coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a]] like [[Teal Hunter]] and [[Violet Mariner]]), and I was instantly sold probably because of my love for pipe organs. Anyway, for a lack of better inspiration, I used the description left on soundcloud - "Final battle with Lord English." Tie that to Aranea's mentioning that Jake was destined to beat Lord English, and I had my inspiration. The lineart took much longer than it should have since my tablet had been freaking out and I haven't gotten the new one yet, but the coloring went quite smoothly. --- @@ -2258,7 +2258,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Ballad of Awakening Commentary: |- - <i>Fitzwibble:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Fitzwibble:</i> (booklet commentary) When I first heard this song, I got this sense of... I guess you could call it grand scale? Glorious grandscaliness? No wait that's dumb. I wanted to do something that captured that feeling, and it made me think of the panel where we see Prospit rising over the towers of the moon, and I could just imagine Jade flying around and marvelling at this amazing view. I hope I did the song justice! --- @@ -2331,7 +2331,7 @@ Commentary: |- Since then I feel that I have improved significantly and so I've given the old remix a quick reworking. Whilst I think that structurally the track is a little too similar to [[track:showtime-original-mix|the original]] and if I were to make another remix I would do things quite differently, this piece was the one which began to outline my chiptune style which I've since developed with my other Homestuck tracks. My main influences with chiptune are from the SID and Yamaha chips found in the C64 and Sega Mega Drive respectively, and as such many synth and percussive elements from each can be heard in my work. - <i>fueledbyanimation:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>fueledbyanimation:</i> (booklet commentary) To fit a remix of one of my favorite Homestuck themes, I wanted to make the Strife scene between Dad and John in my own style, while still holding somewhat true to the original. A remix of the art as well as the song. --- @@ -2414,7 +2414,7 @@ Commentary: |- This song chronicles Eridan's thought process and a bit of his history leading up to his death, and examines why he made the decisions he did. I think there's a lot to his character people normally forget and I just wanted to expand on his motivations a bit. - <i>prismatic-void:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>prismatic-void:</i> (booklet commentary) The first time I heard the song I thought it described Eridan perfectly. It's about being left behind and distrusted by the only people he ever put faith in. He's angry and selfish and decides to forget about them in favor of his own goals. I wanted to show him essentially walking away from the ghosts of his past and doing his best to ignore how much they've hurt him. --- @@ -2484,7 +2484,7 @@ Commentary: |- When I started "Ave Dei Novi" (a song made just for Land of Fans and Music 2), I fully intended that it would be the biggest, strongest, most well-composed, best Homestuck fan composition I've worked on to date, a sort of capstone of Homestuck fan music. The first [[album:lofam|Land of Fans and Music]] had two of my early songs on it, and I felt it was appropriate that I do my best and show how far I'd come in a year for the second album. "Ave Dei Novi" takes its cue, partially, from the bombastic and incredible Gundam Unicorn soundtrack by Sawano Hiroyuki, especially in the orchestra and percussion grooves, which I worked very hard on. I think I'm most proud of the bongo groove breakdown in the middle and the [["Atomyk Ebonpyre"]] section near the end. Those two parts ended up especially fantastic. - <i>xkoraxayomex:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>xkoraxayomex:</i> (booklet commentary) Overall I feel that the artwork suits the piece in terms of relativity and presentation. I think it looks refined and somewhat detailed, but there is room for improvement. When I read the title for the piece, Ascension, I automatically thought back to Jade's god tier, as it is simply gorgeous and I just love it. It was a milestone for her becoming an even more essential character in Homestuck. @@ -2616,7 +2616,7 @@ Commentary: |- A lot of people have asked me whether or not I'm going to make a second Homestuck track. And as much as I love the motivation from fans to do so, I don't think I could handle trying to one-up a piece like this and failing. So, here's to you, Homestuck. - <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>dodostad:</i> (booklet commentary) For me the song was about alpha kids, no question about it. It took me a long time to come up with a composition that I liked and that seemed to fit the song. LOOK OUT FOR THE MILES JANE --- @@ -2644,7 +2644,7 @@ Commentary: |- The vocal lines were an afterthought. Actually, no, they were less than an afterthought. They weren't actually something I thought I should include at all, but the assignment had a requirement of at least four recorded audio tracks. I threw those lines together at home on Cubase (I don't actually have a Mac, let alone Logic!) the morning the piece was drew it, slapped them onto the piece with Logic that day and got the assignment in just in time. But in the end, I think they enhanced the feel of the piece, so I'm kind of glad I had to chuck them in there! - <i>Spectrumfizz:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Spectrumfizz:</i> (booklet commentary) This is probably my favoured piece from my two more serious ones. I wanted to make a layout reminiscent of an actual planetarium, and I think I achieved that well (the "strings" hanging up the planets are simultaneously that and the kids' houses built up towards Skaia, which indicates that I kind of overthought this). I'm actually pretty fond of how the tiny Beat Mesa and Prospit's moon turned out. diff --git a/album/lofam3.yaml b/album/lofam3.yaml index 7ff76b2c..522c5680 100644 --- a/album/lofam3.yaml +++ b/album/lofam3.yaml @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ Art Tags: - Calliope - Lord English Commentary: |- - <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>dodostad:</i> (booklet commentary) I want so very badly to draw cherubs, Lord English chasing down poor Calliope. @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ Commentary: |- I wrote this song as an art exchange for redux on the forums who wanted more [[Sunsetter|sunsetter]] remixes. - <i>awakesleeping:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>awakesleeping:</i> (booklet commentary) When I first saw the track's name on it's own I thought of Caliborn's planet quest, but I thought this song was too upbeat for that, so I went with a Derse and Prospit's moons exploding and the Alphas reaching godtier. I really enjoyed drawing Jake and Jane's face. Drawing Derse and Prospit was quite the challenge but I hope I managed something recognizable! I tried to include some pixely elements and most of the godtier update (unfortunately I couldn't find a place for Jake's crotch but hey we all know why he's so shocked). --- @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ Commentary: |- Of course, this track being so old, I'd long since deleted the original FL Studio project file during spring cleaning, so I didn't have access to any of the MIDI data (the same thing happened with [[Sign of the Scorpion]]). I couldn't even properly remaster the song since I no longer had a lossless source. That's why I made a brand-new arrangement of the piece for LOFAM 3 that captures the piece's ouriginal beauty and romantic feel while only adding to its richness and elegance. Both [[Dance of Thorns]] and [[Endless Climb]] are hinted at in the composition, and while there aren't any quotes from [[album:alterniabound|Alternia/Bound]], the stately elegance of the piece is meant to recall Kanaya. - <i>rosesarecrimson:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>rosesarecrimson:</i> (booklet commentary) This was a piece where I had the concept from day one. I knew that the piece ought to be ballet-inspired, given the prompt. Grimdark Rose and Kanpire were aesthetic choices - I wanted their duet to be balanced, with neither one taking the background role, and the duality suited the theme nicely. --- @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ Commentary: |- Warweary Villein is a song about my personal favorite character. Inspired by Toby Fox's [['Mayor Maynot']] it is about how such a little dude can be such an inspiration for a massive call to arms. My favorite part about the piece is the harmonies. The song was also revamped for the LoFaM3 album and completely remade from the ground up. Hope you enjoy! - <i>piskomil:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>piskomil:</i> (booklet commentary) He's on a walk with his citizen-cans. They're having a lot of fun if you couldn't tell. @@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ Commentary: |- [[Sburban Jungle]] has been stuck in my head since the moment I first heard it in Homestuck, and the rest of [[artist:michael-guy-bowman|Michael Guy Bowman's]] work is equally memorable. For this piece, I chose to mix Sburban Jungle with [[69423]] from his album [[album:comfortable-bugs]]. As for the title, well, I'm thinking of a number [[track:bowmans-credit-score|between 450 and 850]]... - <i>sayachan-art:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>sayachan-art:</i> (booklet commentary) This music gave me a ton of inspiration for the track art but I ahd to draw a lot of different things and concepts before I actually came down to what I really wanted. For starters, [[Sburban Jungle]] has always been the music that kick started the game for the kids. For a beautiful track like this I felt the need to be a bit more abstract, so as the kids rise up, they bleed this colourful and glitchy glitter and the image itself follows the sequence of the Zodiac Signs (Trolls amde the kids), Green Spirograph (Beta Kids session) and the game reset which amde the Sburb logo red (Alpha kids session). --- @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ Commentary: |- also sousa is the best - <i>rosesarecrimson:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>rosesarecrimson:</i> (booklet commentary) I knew from the minute I read it that I wanted it to look something like a Russian propaganda poster. The toughest thing about this was the over composition. Turns out it's reallllllly hard to get a rectangular composition to translate to a square. --- @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ Commentary: |- This is intended as a walkabout track.<br> No guitars this time. - <i>awakesleeping:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>awakesleeping:</i> (booklet commentary) This piece has a bit of back story that I made up and I suppose I might've been more than a little self-indulgent here with my otp, but it's what the song made me think of. So the idea is that Dirk and Jake are adventuring together on lomax with Sawtooth and Squarewave (who are providing the hip hop backdrop). I imagine Dirk would be very controlling during tomb raids and such, taking the leader role, or at least being manipulative in some way. I think this would really make Jake feel uncomfortable and.... (wait for it) uncertain about his feelings towards Dirk. I think the songs vibe really matches this as well with the cool electronic instrumentation (Dirk) and the walk around looping anxiousness of it (Jack and his adventuring). --- @@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ Commentary: |- Excluding the actual production, the subject and title of the song, "Medium", really stood out to me while I was making it. The Medium holds all of the planets, all of the life, and all of the excitment of S___b. Actually, it holds everything that there is about the game. So, I wanted to make the song sound vast, but I also wanted it to be a bit more personal. Maybe "vastness of the mind" could be a good description. All in all, I'm satisfied with the song, and I hope whoever hears it will be as well. - <i>Scarodactyl:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Scarodactyl:</i> (booklet commentary) I really enjoyed working on this one. Trying to get the entirety of The Medium into the canvas in a coherent way was an interesting challenge. --- @@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ Art Tags: - Snowman - Alternia Commentary: |- - <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>dodostad:</i> (booklet commentary) I imagined this song would fit Snowman perfectly, so I tried to squish dramatic moonlight and her into the same square and this is the end result. @@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ Commentary: |- HAA HAA HEE HEE HOO HOO HAA HAA HEE HEE HOO HOO HAA HAA HEE HEE HOO HOO HAA HAA HEE HEE HOO HOO HAA HAA HEE HEE HOO HOO HAA HAA HEE HEE HOO HOO - <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>dodostad:</i> (booklet commentary) I originally drew this on a post it note, and it kept reappearing in weird places and scaring me. It was a sign I had to paint this, I think. --- @@ -943,7 +943,7 @@ Commentary: |- Sign of the Scorpion is an old track of mine, about maybe 14 or 15 months old, and while I'm legitimately proud of a lot of compositional elements, the mastering and production horrified me looking back on it. Like [[Dance of Viridian and Violet]], I'd long since deleted the project file, since it was just a one-off Homestuck song that I figured I was unlikely to ever need again, so I made a new arrangement of the piece from scratch, taking elements I liked from the original and putting them in a new context. It doesn't quote any Homestuck themes (I don't believe the original did at all), except for a brief mention of [[Spider's Claw]] right at the end. The new arrangement has a bit more of a hard-rock feel and toned-down orchestral elements, making it a bit more reflective of Vriska as a character. - <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> (booklet commentary) I did a track art for [[track:finale-strife|one of Ascenzo's songs]] back in [[album:lofam2|LOFAM2]] as well and also the art for [[Rust Apocalypse]]. So, when I saw two songs by them on the available songs for track art, I couldn't really help myself. Their songs are great. I know you like it, I can tell. Hope the track art seems suitable, and that you'll enjoy that as well. I have nothing else to say on the matter. That's it. --- @@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ Commentary: |- <small>a pumpkin is a type of gourd that is the pun</small> - <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>dodostad:</i> (booklet commentary) I loved the sound of this song but had a hard time figuring out what to draw for it, but whenever in doubt draw a sad Roxy inside a pumpkin. --- @@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ Commentary: |- This is a song for Aranea Serket. I originally set out to make this piece for a Hero of Light, mainly for Rose at the conception of the piece, but as I got further into making it, it became clear it was not a "Rose" song. Although I think this song goes off on too many tangents (not sticking to a particular melody or motif throughout the song) I find it suiting for Aranea due to her tendency to jabber away at any chance she gets, often changing the subject multiple times. Or maybe I just made that up now to make it seem like I did it on purpose...The world may never know. I have also been thinking about making a sort of "sequel" set of songs to this one for Vriska and Rose. They would be called "Fortune Stealer" and "Fortune Teller" respectively. - <i>Elanor Pam:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Elanor Pam:</i> (booklet commentary) Aranea. --- @@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ Commentary: |- Early last year, I had developed a Rose album. Now, it's kind of split into two things: an independent concept album that'll be released sometime early this year and this. Stitching two tracks from the ex-Rose album together + one track I finished yesterday (and streamed at one point), I created The Metamorphosis, divided into three parts: Treading the Line, Harbinger of the Outer Gods, and The Solar Ascendancy. Together it lasts about 10 minutes, but this post will just be a preview since there is a chance this might find a place with a future album. - <i>Racheme:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Racheme:</i> (booklet commentary) This beautiful track and it's title is very direct that this is about Rose and how far she has come since Act 1 so I just drew what it told me, I hope it is okay ;; --- @@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>GameBro and GameGrl work the crowd at the Slam Jam, with a little help from QCD.</i> - <i>plaidcushion:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>plaidcushion:</i> (booklet commentary) This is simultaneously the best and stupidest thing I have ever created. Thank goodness for the 90's. --- @@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@ Commentary: |- A 'quick' fact, I had planned to continue the [[track:killed-by-br8k-spider|Killed By 8r8k Spider]] section through over the top of the [[Unite Synchronization]] ostinato, but when I played back the section after the high G, stacatto F into the ostinato, I felt a powerful urge to just get straight back into the final version of Eden, which was written on whim straight into that 4/4 pattern and more fluidly in B minor. It feels like a new life has been breathed into Eden because of it, and I'm so happy to be the man to have done it! - <i>azuzatori:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>azuzatori:</i> (booklet commentary) scoot did piano<br> i drew piano @@ -1348,7 +1348,7 @@ Commentary: |- Many of my recompositions tend to be experiments with lemotiffs, and Electric Fireflies is no exception. While largely focused around the light flicks of piano melody within [[Firefly Cloud]] and the song itself by [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik "Jit" Scheele]], I found my experiment to take a course of it's own. I tried to follow Jit's carefully integrated elements of [[Doctor]] to discover that his method employed a much more flowing and intertwined realization of instrumental melody; this was something I felt that I did not achieve. I felt refreshing to observe what can only be described as mastery of melody, theme and atmosphere. It was a pleasure to make this piece. - <i>Elanor Pam:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Elanor Pam:</i> (booklet commentary) Sketched and colored in Paint Tool Sai and color adjusted in Photoshop. @@ -1387,7 +1387,7 @@ Commentary: |- The Blast is a song written from Aradia's perspective regarding the 'sollux killing her hyped up on Mind Honey' incident. It is about her about to blow up about telling everyone that it is 0kay. The song was written mostly as a 'Can I write a simple and effective only 4 chords song' and I think it was successful. The song was revamped for the LoFaM3 album and completely remade from the ground up. Hope you enjoy! - <i>RaChoTamer:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>RaChoTamer:</i> (booklet commentary) Oh man. "The Blast". I really love this song. Seriously, Snortrax is a very lovely musician. Go listen to his other stuff after you listen to this album! @@ -1418,7 +1418,7 @@ Commentary: |- Me jumping the gun on making a land theme for Dirk. Had put it forward for [[album:homestuck-vol-9|Vol. 9]] as just a track about him but didn't make the cut. Held onto it for a while hoping I could find some way to make it better, but it's aging on me. - <i>inimitable-nectar:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>inimitable-nectar:</i> (booklet commentary) I listened to the song on loop while I was drawing. I think it ended up being about 36 plays long. --- @@ -1469,7 +1469,7 @@ Commentary: |- I made this shortly after LOTAK was first revealed, and I wanted to capture the pressure and paradoxical claustrophobia of that huge space blanketed by a heavy, inert atmosphere. I started with the drums, which were just an attempt to create a kit from scratch that I didn't entirely hate, plus a ton of reverb. Next came the atmospheric elements - the distorted tremolo synth, the piano, the echoing synth bleeps which to me are a signal intended to guide the player, decayed over the aeons the planet has waited for Dirk's arrival, and the nearly-metronomic hat-click to reinforce the sense that, now that he's here, his limited time is rapidly ticking away. Finally I tried a few string melodies for the middle section, but simply nothing says 'towering ancient remains of a lost civilization' as effectively as [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik Scheele's]] [[track:ruins|Ruins]], so I stole it and added a sort of contrapuntal harmony underneath. And now I give it to you. - <i>fueledbyanimation:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>fueledbyanimation:</i> (booklet commentary) I was beyond excited to get to be part of another fan album, especially to be drawing for a song connected to Dirk's planet, since he's one of my absolute favorite characters. Every kid/troll's planet reflects them and also challenges them at the same time. LOTAK is one of the more dangerous planets, with its constant raging lightning storms and the most powerful denizen at it's center, fitting for Dirk who is a determined, skilled fighter. The planet is also a contrast, a planet full of tall buildings for someone who grew up in an ocean surrounded by nothing. I really wanted to show LOTAK as an extension, or part of, Dirk himself. The song itself gives a sense of floating, or as the music artist said themselves, a very spacey feeling, so I tried to capture this as well, with the overview shot of the planet that Dirk appears to be floating over. I hope that others who look at my piece will feel I managed to picture the song well in my drawing for it. --- @@ -1494,7 +1494,7 @@ Commentary: |- I wrote Contention as a strife theme for Dirk Strider. It's synthesized entirely with FM patches ripped from a ROM of Sonic The Hedgehog 2 and converted to FM8 format, in keeping with the Sega Genesis inspired style of Dirk-related songs like [[track:anbroids-v2|Anbroids]]. The rhythms in this song were largely inspired by the drums in the song ["Tung, The Icelandic Lesbian"](https://lapfox.bandcamp.com/track/tung-the-icelandic-lesbian) by Kitsune^2. I've always been a big fan of heavy 6/8 two-against-three rhythms played with Sonic-style drums, so the choice of time signature for this track was a no-brainer. - <i>Cadalyst:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Cadalyst:</i> (booklet commentary) Here we see Dirk, the Prince of Heart, preparing to clash with the Imperial Drones sent by HIC to dispose of him. His loyal and steadfast retainer, Sawtooth, seeks to thin the enemy ranks while Dirk meets the opposing force head on. A fierce and devastating battle ensues, yet the Prince prevails. For now... --- @@ -1515,7 +1515,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Three in the Morning Commentary: |- - <i>Elanor Pam:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Elanor Pam:</i> (booklet commentary) Snowman and Spades Slick. @@ -1546,7 +1546,7 @@ Commentary: |- <big><p style="font-family:'Comic Sans', 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">BWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEeeeeeeeeeflareee<b>eeeee eeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEE EEeEEEEEeeeeEEEEEeee</b></p></big> - <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Veritas Unae:</i> (booklet commentary) <p style="font-family:'Comic Sans', 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">"i don't usually make art<br> @@ -1583,7 +1583,7 @@ Commentary: |- Although [[track:MeGaLoVania|MeGaLoVania]] is an awesome track for [[flash:3297|[S] Wake]], I felt that it didn't really tell the story of how Aradia arose, and eventually faced Jack and vanished through his frame into the realm of the Green Sun. And with my love of [[psych0ruins]] and [[Liquid Negrocity]] / [[Black]] leading me to sessions on the piano playing around with the song, a steady chain of events started forming as I played around with the medley. Imagine the events of Aradia's half of [S] Wake playing, plus those pages that come a little while after where Aradia stops Jack in time (note the 'ticking' of the high notes late in the piece!) Of course, I had to pay homage to the original track used for the flash. What you hear is played live, too! (albeit through a MIDI keyboard) Many thanks to [[artist:david-ellis|Lunatic]] again for providing assistance - it's insane the air this guy's got. - <i>laroone:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>laroone:</i> (booklet commentary) Since Aradia came back to life she's been entertaining nuts, and I had this image of her sitting with a calm smile on her face while Jack is trapped and PISSED. I thought it would be fun since Aradia takes everything so in stride, and when she first becomes God Tier she freezes Jack mere seconds before he kills her, with a big smile on her face and no worries. I wanted to go with something like this, Jack being trapped in 'time' and Aradia sitting by sweetly. --- @@ -1614,7 +1614,7 @@ Commentary: |- This was a collab between me and Cullen! I had a ton of fun working on this with him. It was his idea initially to mash up a few songs featuring DD. I didn't really expect it to turn into a dubstep piece as I had no experience making the genre at all! - <i>plaidcushion:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>plaidcushion:</i> (booklet commentary) I wanted to go with a simple but striking design that worked on two levels: the large diamond with the grey layers, which looks good as a thumbnail on a small ipod screen or similar, and the silhouetted shadowy type DDs that are more apparent when you view the art at full size. I'm really happy with how well it worked out! --- @@ -1635,7 +1635,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Tentacles Commentary: |- - <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>dodostad:</i> (booklet commentary) A friend of mine made a plush squiddle so I decided to let it have a moment to shine! Also this song is the cutest thing what the heckie. @@ -1742,7 +1742,7 @@ Commentary: |- Great perspective work on the art. - <i>queenoftheantz:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://queenoftheantz.tumblr.com/post/48054358055/my-track-art-contribution-for-lofam3-for-a-song)) + <i>queenoftheantz:</i> ([Tumblr](https://queenoftheantz.tumblr.com/post/48054358055/my-track-art-contribution-for-lofam3-for-a-song)) My track art contribution for LOFAM3, for a song called Sketches in black. I hope they will like it! c: @@ -1826,7 +1826,7 @@ Commentary: |- I wanted to ruin [[track:iron-infidel|Samm's song]]. Mission accomplished. - <i>Kate Holden:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Kate Holden:</i> (booklet commentary) Let's be 100% clear here, I freaking love prog rock, so I was pretty pumped listening to this tune over and over while drawing this one. Every piece of track art I've done for this album has been a little different. This one was the easiest to do and only took an hour because this kind of inked comic book art is my bread and butter. I felt that something bold and comic bookish would fit well since it has that epic kind of scope prog rock gets across. Remember how in the eighties the X-men seemed to spend most of their time in space participating in big Space Opera stuff? I wanted to do something like that. @@ -1868,7 +1868,7 @@ Commentary: |- Thanks also to sayachan for the exceptional track art. - <i>sayachan-art:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>sayachan-art:</i> (booklet commentary) This song takes me back to when Rose was trying to escape her impending doom and get into the game and then when hearing [[Flare]] I find myself thinking about the tumor, it's countdown, her death and ascension and it makes me realize how much she has grown. So, what I tried to imply with this cover is how that fire she was trying to evade eventually became the flames of the green sun where she accepted her fate and arose anew. --- @@ -1897,7 +1897,7 @@ Commentary: |- *900pm<br> butts per minute* - <i>Kate Holden:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Kate Holden:</i> (booklet commentary) I had been wanting to make a full set of functional, repearing titles anyway for use in maybe making a simple platformer, so I decided to make use of them and create a sort of "If mspa was a game in the 16 bit era" thing. The spirtes were also an excellent opportunity to test out the sprite base I've been working on making from scratch. --- @@ -1924,7 +1924,7 @@ Commentary: |- It's a battle for dominance between Caliborn and Calliope. - <i>Caliboner:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Caliboner:</i> (booklet commentary) All I really have to say is that I have never worked as diligently on any art piece, as I have on this. I spent, what, two months psychoanalyzing a painting of a skull, covered in blood. I had several friends critique it through the process, and eventually ended up with this. @@ -1946,7 +1946,7 @@ Art Tags: - Twin M9 Berettas - Hope Commentary: |- - <i>Elanor Pam:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Elanor Pam:</i> (booklet commentary) [[artist:veritas-unae|Veritas]] wanted to use [[track:disk2-lofam3|my Together at Last pic]] for this track (since [[track:together-at-last|that one]] already has track art) but I thought it was too contemplative for this song. Hope Remains has something of an "ongoing chase scene" feel for me. So I offered to come up with something more active. Then my comp's power source went and burned... good thing I have a tablet at work! And that work on this day was slow to a ridiculous degree. I had but few interruptions while drawing this one. Whew, crisis averted! @@ -1978,7 +1978,7 @@ Commentary: |- But really, it was never meant to. - <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>dodostad:</i> (booklet commentary) The song is very uplifting, but you can't really draw Handmaid without making her glare really hard, can you? @@ -2031,7 +2031,7 @@ Commentary: |- We started this song back in January 2012, during one of our regular hanging-out-<i>probably</i>-drinking collaborative sessions. We got talking about the fact that [[track:frost-vol6|Frost]] had been remixed a couple times (once by us, and [[track:meltwater-lofam|the other]] by [[artist:elaine-wang|orngje223]]). One of us (probably Nick) wondered what Frost would sound like as a really cliched remix, to which Jeremy sarcastically pointed out that the only people who ever remix Frost is himself and his friends. This idea was, obviously, a total joke; nevertheless, we kept at it. The song ended up getting to a point where we realized the joke had been lost, and something awesome took its place. To put it simply, what started out as us dicking around ended up becoming one of the coolest songs we've done together. - <i>devonianecho:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>devonianecho:</i> (booklet commentary) Doing art for a dance remix of [[track:frost-vol6|Frost]] wouldn't have proved tricky if not for a perplexing (but very cool) track title. And so, here we have Jade and some frogs integrated as part of a... metaphoric-circuitboard-type-thing by Echidna. I think if you imagine the song set to a trippy frog-gathering montage on LOFAF with this imagery, you'll get a better idea of what I was aiming for. At any rate, I'm really happy with how it turned out, and I hope I've done the track the justice it absolutely deserves. --- @@ -2071,7 +2071,7 @@ Commentary: |- 4:00-4:13: One jump cut later, Dualscar is left adrift in a lifeboat as Mindfang's ship, a little worse for the wear, vanishes into the fog. - <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> (booklet commentary) Oh look, it appears I've done yet another track art for Ascenzo. I'm kind of like Willow's artist stalker. --- @@ -2125,7 +2125,7 @@ Commentary: |- In fact, people liked it enough that it was nominated for LOFAM 3, no more than a year later. Having improved a lot by that time, I decided to touch it up a little, and this version is the result. I didn't really change all that much, besides adding and tweaking a few instruments, but I hope it sounds better nonetheless! - <i>Lunise:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Lunise:</i> (booklet commentary) My interest in doing Homestuck fanart has waned over the past few months, but I will always have a soft spot for the exiles no matter what. So it is only natural that I do goofy exile art for an [[Explore]] arrangement! Even though I was seriously burned out on art in general when I did this, I think it turned out okay. Goofy, happy exiles always turn out okay! --- @@ -2160,7 +2160,7 @@ Commentary: |- <small><small>oh for the love of god!</small></small> - <i>Kate Holden:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Kate Holden:</i> (booklet commentary) I actually did two pieces of potential art for this, both featuring Dave and Jade fighting Bec Noir, since it seemed appropriate for an intense boss tune featuring a theme associated with Jade. There was a duller version of this as well as a more comic bookish one. A panel of friends agreed that this one read better, but it was a little flat, so I started brightening it and tweaking it, but still wanted to convey '8-bit', so I started playing around with a square brush throwing in this Darwina-esque square noise, which I thought looked pretty cool. It has been remarked that Jade firing an assault rifle in the air in front of a volcano is metal as shit. That's probably my favourite commentary on the image.) @@ -2204,7 +2204,7 @@ Commentary: |- My first attempt at a dubstep song, from my ill-conceived dubstep phase. It took a ton of time, an entire new drum pack, and ultimately, a new laptop to finish. It's not my favorite song I've ever made--it doesn't sound like a real dubstep song, in my opinion--but I learned a lot in the process of making it. - <i>Lunise:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Lunise:</i> (booklet commentary) I HOPE YOU LIKE GAMEGRL @@ -2242,7 +2242,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Stargaze Commentary: |- - <i>plaidcushion:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>plaidcushion:</i> (booklet commentary) Starblaze is a really cool track, and I'm really pleased i got to make the art for it! I tried to stick with the same format as the art for [[track:stargaze|the song it came from]], but a bit more lively- It made me think of the Alpha kids hanging out together at night, lit only by the glow of their lanterns from the tower in LoCaH. diff --git a/album/lofam4.yaml b/album/lofam4.yaml index c05901d3..59395607 100644 --- a/album/lofam4.yaml +++ b/album/lofam4.yaml @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ Commentary: |- Producing Merge was one of the most exciting projects I'd worked on in a long time. Kouta and I made a great team, and working with her pushed both of our boundaries well beyond our comfort zones. We got a lot of doubt from our friends about working with the caw and meow samples, but we were sure it was the perfect way to bring the song together. We were also heavy-handed with leitmotif from the original soundtrack, focusing on blending them in a way that was both interesting to listen to and recognizable. This was made with the utmost care, so give it a listen or ten. - <i>Circlejourney:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) I drew this immediately following [[flash:8087|[S] Collide]]. Kouta later asked to use it as the track cover for Merge on SoundCloud, and I was happy to oblige. I'm honoured that they saw it as a fitting image to accompany their (very impressive) track. --- @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ Commentary: |- Rather than embodying a sense of mystery or adventure (as most Medium-related music tends to), I wanted this track to feel like home—something that this webcomic has become for me. - <i>RaChoTamer:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>RaChoTamer:</i> (booklet commentary) This was such a fun song and it reminded me of one of my favorite parts of Homestuck - the fun and adventure. It feels so welcoming and warm and triumphant, and I really tried to capture that here! --- @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ Commentary: |- This song was written to celebrate the reunion of Rose and Roxy in the 4/29/15 Homestuck update! It was so sweet and triumphant, so I tried to reflect that in the music. The main melody is structured kinf of like a call-and-response between the two of them. - <i>Nights:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Nights:</i> (booklet commentary) Rose and Roxy's interactions are some of my favorite parts of Homestuck, the best of which is their meeting after [[flash:6901|Gameover]]. I've resketched and redrawn this way too much since I wanted to give this very nice track some justice. Originally the idea was much more different, I was going to draw roxy running towards rose with skaia in the background, but I changed it to match the canon scene better. Overall I'm pretty happy with the final product, I hope you guys like it too! --- @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ Commentary: |- A little piece I put together, thinking about the broken moon of Prospit during the final battle between Jack and PM. - <i>Brawlitup99:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Brawlitup99:</i> (booklet commentary) The song that Mmetafour made was an electronic 8-bit style mix, so, logically, I took the role of drawing (or rather, "spriting") the art for this track. As you may know, the song symbolizes Prospit from A6A6A1 after it gets destroyed, so I did two scenes in one: Jane and Jake after their godtier transformations, and our heroes encountering Jack English for the first time. Come to think of it, that act was really messed up, wasn't it? Anyway, the song is amazing, and I really liked how the art came out. I hope you enjoy it too! --- @@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ Commentary: |- Also, I think the artist for this track wanted to make it have to do with John/Roxy? Which isn't really what I initially had in mind, but it's cool and it works. Death of the Author and all that. - <i>yazshu:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>yazshu:</i> (booklet commentary) i went through like fucking 5 variations of this art before i just decided to fuck it and do vaguely johnroxy retcon sequence that was at the bottom of the subreddit for some time. all of the others involved davesprite but fuck blorange. also please dont notice how lazy i was and i used the color blending tool on the tree when everything else was with the pencil tool. --- @@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ Commentary: |- The main motif was taken from midnight suffers... A bluesy jazz type theme that was made with no real direction intended. This song is not necessarily "catchy", but at least it has direction and sounds good, which is always nice! Some of the most prominent instrumentation involved DVS saxophones, loud crazy drums, a heavy bassline, sharp synths and a really loud piano chord progression in the background. It's all crazy stuff. - <i>Calicorn:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Calicorn:</i> (booklet commentary) I chose Midnight as my track art, mostly just because of my love for Intermission. The song is absolutely fantastic, but since I'm not the most creative person around it took me a while to come up with any concrete designs at first. I was originally going to start off with a 50/50 bust drawing of Slick and Jack, but I soon discovered that might be a little too bland. I ended up listening to the song a dozen more times until I sketched out the base idea for the finalized idea. The main challenge had just been lining everything and getting the perspective to look pretty alright, although I'm not really an expert on perspective or composition. Either way, I'm really happy with how the piece turned out, especailly with the lighting on Slick himself. --- @@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ Commentary: |- I'm actually not a huge fan of this song. See, I more or less made the whole album [[album:cyclica|Cyclica]] in a couple of days, and this short "here are a bunch of melodies over the [[Flare]] arpeggios" only took me an huor or two. I really think there are parts of Cyclica that are better (if you haven't listened to Cyclica yet, you should do that; you can find the full album [on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME3r64_NsnM)). A bunch of people seemed to like Dersite, and it made it onto [[album:cool-and-new-greatest-hits|Cool and New Greatest Hits]], so here it is I guess. The violin note holds are unrealistic, the synth is weird as fuck, the piano is bad. But everyone liked it. Except for [[artist:veritas-unae|Veri]]. Veri didn't like it. Bless you Veri. - <i>plaidcushion:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>plaidcushion:</i> (booklet commentary) I wonder what life was like for the carapacians, floating out in space away from everything going on on the battlefield as it got prototyped. Seems kind of lonely. --- @@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ Commentary: |- It's about the Condesce, obviously. It's vaguely about her conquering a planet? The natives fight a long fight and then they just barely win! and everyone is reflecting on their loss and then she just glasses them or whatever she does. There's [[Crystalanthemums]] mostly because it seems to be the default badass-trolls theme. Also that is some badass art. - <i>Circlejourney:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) The prompt I received with this track was "the Condesce (conquering planets)". The bubbly synths and unusual harmonies called to mind a geometrical design of neons against blacks, and I thought a logo-esque look suited the rather propagandistic vibe of the title. (Am I overthinking things? Probably.) @@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Gold Pilot - The Blind Prophet Commentary: |- - <i>Adamantist:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Adamantist:</i> (booklet commentary) the Blind Pilot is leading what is left of his people through unknown lengths to a new home, albeit despite his own will. lonely encaged flighting spirit with a glimmer of hope. digital whispers of draining life. that is what I felt the Blind Pilot is. @@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ Commentary: |- This track has quite the story! It was originally meant to be fake "loading screen" music, to accompany a parodic video on the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]] youtube channel about Overseer v3 (a web-based sburb web game, whose development team I used to be part of) being shut down by [[artist:what-pumpkin-games|What Pumpkin]] (though the C&D was later found out to be fake). The project fell through, so I continued working on it and posted it on the LOFAM Discord server, where it got approved (thanks [[artist:lambda-elise-merryberry|Lambda]]), though the deadline had technically passed. - <i>Chumi:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Chumi:</i> (booklet commentary) it sounds like a song for the beginning of a cool adventure! so that's what i drew :o --- @@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ Commentary: |- Some trivia: this song was named after an update discussion thread on the old MSPA forums. Apparently, that thread was in turn named after [a TVTropes page](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Retconjuration). Also, alongside a [[Homestuck Anthem]] quote at the end, the music box refrain featured throughout the song quotes [[track:windchime-foley|the foley]] on [[flash:82|Homestuck's title page]]. That's both because it's where the retcon arms first appear, and because I always wanted to reference those windchimes. Now you know! - <i>William Leonard:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>William Leonard:</i> (booklet commentary) I've always loved the 'John's retocn adventures' section of Homestuck, and I think it has to do with how it leads both the characters and myself along a brisk rollercoaster of twists and turns, through unknown paths - this sense of adventure is what I tried to convey in this art. --- @@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ Commentary: |- This song is for [[group:canmt|Cool and New Webcomic]], but I like it a lot and a lot of people like it too, so I want the world to see it. It is inspired by a lot of the new-age synthpop, which itself is inspired by the 1980s. In this time of rapid community music projects being built I want y'all to remember; we're all musicians and that is the blood that festers throughout the body. We're all alike in our different ways. love you all thanks have fun :> - <i>meigender:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>meigender:</i> (booklet commentary) Formation has a very 80's vibe to it, so I decided to aim towards more of a Hotline Miami feel for the accompanying artwork. I'm not sure how well I achieved that, but I figure a combination of bright colours and guns is at least veering in the right direction. --- @@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ Commentary: |- At the time I wrote this song it was mostly theorizing, but it's held up through the years (thankfully), so I took the chance to rework and record it for this album! It was a struggle to record, and there's a thing or two I would change, but I still think 2012 me would be pretty damn proud, haha. Finished, not perfect, as they say! Homestuck did so much for me creatively. I'm glad I could be a part of this tribute. - <i>shu:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>shu:</i> (booklet commentary) the track is really pretty in a melancholic and reminiscing way so I wanted to encorporate things from earlier in the comic (the tree, the hanging scalemates, and the pink flowers) into a sadder scene that's near the end? The tree's also a clever metaphor for branching paths and al that lol and also it looks cool --- @@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ Commentary: |- Originally, this piece was written for a good friend of mine, [[artist:patmandx|Patrick]]. He was running the fan adventure [[flash-act:loftlocked|Loftlocked]] at the time, and I'd supplied the comic with a lot of music in conjunction with [[artist:rnd|Kurtis]] (who is also on this album! Check him out!) Pat had approached me to write a haunting refrain for a harp playing character, Eliza. This theme would eventually form part of several songs written by Kurtis and myself, and the most prominent of which, Lamental, was made into another song, [[Infinity's Lament]]. It is a fun, jovial melody that turns darker as Eliza becomes less sure of herself and her playing. However, in a Homestuck specific context, consider Rose playing the rain, plucking strings but quickly finding herself at odds with her own land quest. Who knows? The beauty of music is that you can make your own interpretations. - <i>Circlejourney:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) This track was initially left open to interpretation but being in contact with Veri, I asked him for a recommendation for its subject. Apparently, while Glide was oriinally composed for a fan adventure, the main motif features in a large and yet-unreleased track concerning Alt!Calliope. Veri ultimately decided that I should draw Alt!Calliope, which I was happy to, seeing as Calliope is my favourite character in Homestuck and in dire need of more fanart. @@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ Commentary: |- This song was originally written for FLSA's [[album:weird-puzzle-tunes|Problem Sleuth album]], however those of you who've heard the original may notice some subtle differences. This song is meant to be a theme for late-game PS, with the first half representing the over-the-top surrealism of Higgs Bonehead's sacrifice, and the second, the far more interesting rush to beat DMK. I pretty much spent the ages 10-12 listening to Daft Punk and Digitalism near-exclusively, and I think the influence shines through pretty clearly here. The second half is a slight nod to the rush of [[flash:5252|[S] Dirk: Unite]] and [[flash:5238|Synchronize]], which I feel is stylistically similar to the pacing from the end of PS. - <i>Elanor Pam:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Elanor Pam:</i> (booklet commentary) The futility of a sacrifice, the chaos of a final battle, the wrath of an arbiter, the finding of love after death, the absolute ownage of a sharply written missive. All these and more contributed to making the epic ending of Problem Sleuth what it came to be known as: a confusing clusterfuck of hilarious and completely insane shenanigans. --- @@ -977,7 +977,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Danger! High Voltage Commentary: |- - <i>Elanor Pam:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Elanor Pam:</i> (booklet commentary) This was very much a test-bed for photoshop brushes and adjustment layers I had yet to touch on, all while putting the speed in speedpaint. @@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ Commentary: |- This started out as an attempt to make a song in the style of [[artist:death-grips|Death Grips]], but ended up going in a different direction. It was a challenge to try and make something equal parts creepy and danceable. - <i>Elanor Pam:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Elanor Pam:</i> (booklet commentary) For the last couple of months my computer has been sitting on a small folding table as my house undergoes a bunch of scattered repairs, which made deploying my tablet a tricky situation. Thankfully I've been buying art markers piecemeal—they're very expensive in my country—and had enough colors to paint a troll! But when it came to a background I and my limited palette both failed miserably, so in the end I had to take the drawing to photoshop and figure things out with a mouse anyway. Whew! --- @@ -1046,7 +1046,7 @@ Commentary: |- Some other facts about this song: Quite a bit of the instruments (I'd say about 80% or so) are modifications of default Garageband synths/presets. This is the first song I've ever made that regularly causes audio overloads on my computer from just playback. The name, "Pilotwave" comes from when it was going to be vaporwave, I named the project file that and it sort of stuck. Special thanks goes to everyone that listened to it and helped me with balance/mastering issues, and extra special thanks to AroSoup for their amazing art! - <i>AroSoup:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>AroSoup:</i> (booklet commentary) This took a really long time. --- @@ -1150,7 +1150,7 @@ Commentary: |- I was listening to [[album:strife-2|STRIIFE]] right when it came out, then I thought, "Hey, this is fucking amazing" so I was inspired to make a [[artist:tensei|Tensei]]-esque song. Its success is still unclear, but I like it. I hope you enjoy. - <i>Griever:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Griever:</i> (booklet commentary) So. Let me just say right now that [[artist:nights|nights]], the one who first thought up these fantrolls and drew them up for the [[album:strife-2|Strife 2]] album, is top tier at character design. These guys were all really fun to draw and I'm glad that they came out as well as they did, honestly. They're all very differentiable from other fantrolls and just look really nice. Read nights' comic, [[group:oceanfalls|Oceanfalls]], because it is good and has nice character design/art in it too. @@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ Commentary: |- "how do I make a future bass song without sounding generic or like a total douche?" you don't, youre a douche. Accept it and move on with life. The only saving grace this track has is the tempo. Most future bass is 130 or 144. Nah fam, we're going 150 on this since 150 and 175 are all I know. This track was exclusively made with harmor and maybe 1 serum. Fuck the system, and fuck my CPU since like [[exsanguinated]], FL crashes 3/4 of the times I try to open the tracks. RIP the dream. - <i>Trufflemeep:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Trufflemeep:</i> (booklet commentary) is this what drugs look like? i hope this is what drugs look like. --- @@ -1272,7 +1272,7 @@ Lyrics: |- (It's easy, Jack! Just bring her with you! That's all I'm sayin') (Make her a member of the midnight crew) Commentary: |- - <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>dodostad:</i> (booklet commentary) I was asking around for iconic rock album covers to base the art on since it was rather classic rock take on the midnight crew. Someone said Nirvana's Nevermind and I laughed and laughed and went with it @@ -1307,7 +1307,7 @@ Commentary: |- Anyways, I'm gay! Bye! - <i>Circlejourney:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) This track has a climactic and solemn feel that, for me, seems to suggest the chillingly peaceful scenes preceding the violent turn of events in [[flash:8127|Act 7]]. As the quietest and yet most significant event in EoA6, I chose to depict the scene of PM and the Mayor climbing the Forge to cast the ring in, against the looming light of Skaia. @@ -1379,7 +1379,7 @@ Commentary: |- This song was made, unsurprisingly, during one of the many Hiatuses that Homestuck had over the years. I wanted to capture the feeling of hopeful waiting combined with the sadness that came with the lack of content. - <i>Trufflemeep:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Trufflemeep:</i> (booklet commentary) The song was made during the gigapause, if the timestamp on soundcloud was right. So, I drew part of the scene where the gigapause left off aka [Terezi getting the shit kicked out of her](https://www.homestuck.com/story/6838). --- @@ -1441,7 +1441,7 @@ Commentary: |- Initially, I was going to compose this as one of those classic "ironically bad" songs, which I love dearly. At some point, it became clear I was going to drive it in a bit of a different direction, and then a few more directions, until I'd pretty much done a sick 360 degree spin across the musical canvas that is FL Studio. Wow that was kind of a weird metaphor? All in all, what you hear is what you get, and that's pretty much all I have to say on the matter. I don't want to take up too much of the commentary space, so I'll leave the rest of it to Nick and... uh, well, yeah. - <i>Nick Tucker:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Nick Tucker:</i> (booklet commentary) I sketched out two versions of this art, the clean one and the "meme one", which was more popular. And that's pretty much entirely understandable. Also, the title bar is based off the spine of a PS1 game. @@ -1688,7 +1688,7 @@ Commentary: |- I'm a bit fuzzy where this song came from. I made this sometime in the summer of 2011, and I remember sending it to [[artist:alex-rosetti|Alex Rosetti]] as a token of my appreciation for his work shaping the musical palette of the Squiddles universe. The friend who got me into Homestuck (now Alex's partner and roommate) came up with the title. I think this was the last thing I made in Logic Pro before my ill-fated stint bumbling around in FL Studio for the latter portion of 2011. I love you Logic, I'm sorry I ever left. - <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>dodostad:</i> (booklet commentary) Honestly don't know what to say about this one. I tried very hard to do pixels. --- @@ -1711,7 +1711,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Spider8ite!!!!!!!! - Lotus Commentary: |- - <i>Phil Gibson:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Phil Gibson:</i> (booklet commentary) Vriska is gr8 and thank goodness she saved all of space and time so we could hear this album @@ -1733,7 +1733,7 @@ Art Tags: - Roxy - Cats Commentary: |- - <i>Trufflemeep:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Trufflemeep:</i> (booklet commentary) The music reminded me of a disco party, so I tied that in with the name of the song and created the most fabulous fortune-telling session I was able to. It's OOC because Roxy knows that only nerds half-ass their wizard cosplays. In reality it would be a proper tunic, silk closure beard, and 230% more glowsticks. @@ -1808,7 +1808,7 @@ Commentary: |- I wrote this pretty soon after [the Openbound walkaround](https://www.homestuck.com/story/5263), and it was the first fansong I really felt amazingly proud of. Gotta love that sadstuck. - <i>Nights:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Nights:</i> (booklet commentary) I needed to draw something equally cute for this cute track. I made this almost exclusively with MS Paint save for the final effects on the art, which were done with SAI. --- @@ -1831,7 +1831,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Atomyk Ebonpyre - Derse Dreamers Commentary: |- - <i>Elanor Pam:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Elanor Pam:</i> (booklet commentary) For this piece my only goal was to express the same soft dreaminess of the song itself. And to draw Joey, of course. Where's she going to in this dream? @@ -1858,7 +1858,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Penumbra Phantasm Commentary: |- - <i>Amethyst Barron:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Amethyst Barron:</i> (booklet commentary) A space werewolf with reality warping powers would be terrifying and I wanted to reflect that. Also I really like drawing drooly sharp teeth. @@ -1876,7 +1876,7 @@ Commentary: |- Very slightly hints at [[track:penumbra-phantasm|Penumbral Phantasm]]. (thank you [[artist:lambda-elise-merryberry|Xzaz]] for reminding me what song that was!) - <i>Amethyst Barron:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://amethystbarron.tumblr.com/post/165345797882/track-art-i-contributed-for-the-song-grimbark-by)) + <i>Amethyst Barron:</i> ([Tumblr](https://amethystbarron.tumblr.com/post/165345797882/track-art-i-contributed-for-the-song-grimbark-by)) Track-art I contributed for the song “Grimbark” by Willow Ascenzo, on the recently released Homestuck fanalbum “Land of Fans and Music 4!″ @@ -1929,7 +1929,7 @@ Commentary: |- For extra fun, play this in sync with the original version of [[Requited]]. - <i>Josefin B.:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Josefin B.:</i> (booklet commentary) [[Requited]] has always been a song associated with the Leijons for me, and since I had trouble deciding which one to draw I went with all three. I figure they all had love stories central to their narrative, but not necessarily happy ones. The word "requited" can taste bitter, especially to Disciple, since her love certainly was requited... I added a red string to show that they're all connected, but also how tied they all are to this bitter word. @@ -1951,7 +1951,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Gold Pilot Commentary: |- - <i>yazshu:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>yazshu:</i> (booklet commentary) Now, this art. It's something im proud of in a sense. Great background. Half-decent Becs. Too much going on, maybe, but i think it works well for the vast expanses of space. Space, however, does not have much in it. It might be a bit counterintuitive for that reason. Space is always really fun to draw though, so thats why i went a little bit overboard. Great song, too. Am very glad I did art for it. Yeah, thanks oj for making this fantastic remix. @@ -2042,7 +2042,7 @@ Commentary: |- <img src="media/misc/one-and-a-half-midnight-bonus.jpg" width="150" warning="blood, eye horror"> - <i>Selan Pike:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Selan Pike:</i> (booklet commentary) LET THEM FIGHT --- @@ -2069,7 +2069,7 @@ Commentary: |- For centuries, the bottom of the deepest seas had been shrouded in mystery and superstition. Some say it's a hostile place inhabited by the strangest creatures. Others, that it's a prison for the most dangerous outcasts. Legend has it that the only hope of ever getting out of there is a mask, that every deep sea creature has been craving for years. A mask they say, everyone is prepared to fight for, and risk their lives to possess. But the only way of ever finding out, is to go there and see for yourself. - <i>Selan Pike:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Selan Pike:</i> (booklet commentary) Look, I should never be allowed to draw Bionicles. --- @@ -2092,7 +2092,7 @@ Commentary: |- AKA The One Time I Sold Out to LOFAM, Ringleader is a Crowbar song I had a lot of fun throwing together. I tried incorporating aspects of jazz and rock solbos, in addition to experimenting with a 7/8 time signature. I'm pleasantly surprised at how it turned out, considering how obtuse the concept felt to me when I was first planning out the track. Blah blah blah check out [[group:canmt|cool and new webcomic]] please - <i>Nights:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Nights:</i> (booklet commentary) Crypt's songs are always a delight to listen to, I'm so happy I got the chance to do art for one of them. (Plus it's a Crowbar track! Objectively the best Felt member. This is fact not opinion.) --- @@ -2172,7 +2172,7 @@ Commentary: |- Many thanks to all the amazing fan musicians who populated the sheet music thread back in the day. So many of those scores were invaluable to me. Also thanks to TheOtherN on musescore for their incredible transcription of [[track:watercolour-pendulum|Watercolour]], [[artist:alex-rosetti|Alex Rosetti]] for the [[Pondsquatter]] MIDI, [[artist:max-wright|Max Wright]] for Gods of the New World sheet music, [[artist:nate-tronerud|Nate Tronerud]] for the [[For Beforus]] sheet music, [[artist:tensei|Tensei]] for the [[Rouge on the Rox]] MIDI, [[artist:circlejourney|Circlejourney]] for the [[track:just1c3-r41ns-from-4bov3|JUST1C3]] MIDI, and [[artist:marcy-nabors|Marcy]] for her incredible melody notating skills. - <i>Selan Pike:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Selan Pike:</i> (booklet commentary) I think it makes a statement, and that statement is, "I've been playing too much Persona 5", or perhaps "I hate drawing musical isntruments" @@ -2283,7 +2283,7 @@ Art Tags: - LoPaN - 'cw: alcohol' Commentary: |- - <i>Nights:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Nights:</i> (booklet commentary) I'm really happy with this piece! The music sets a uniquely nice atmosphere on LOPAN, which I hoped to capture in this art's composition and colors. (Also the glass is just water, I promise I don't condone underage drinking, please don't call the cops) @@ -2312,7 +2312,7 @@ Commentary: |- Also, this cryptic crypt song was partially based on [[Sburban Jungle]] and cryptically took inspiration from Sburb OST's [[track:outer-reaches|Outer Reaches]] cryptomnesially. The song does not have anything to do with cryptids. That's Quest Crypt. - <i>sweetjegus:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>sweetjegus:</i> (booklet commentary) The A6A5A1x2combo is -apart from being a mouthful- a very introspective breath after a wild, high-octane sequence. My early draft for this piece featured all four alpha kids on their respective devices, but it felt too engaged, too connected. I think this song is more reflective of solitude (the solitude that comes despite being in simultaneous chat conversations with two other people), and I hoped to convey that. --- @@ -2372,7 +2372,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - track:sunslammer Commentary: |- - <i>YoItsCro:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>YoItsCro:</i> (booklet commentary) This was quite an interesting piece to work on; I was trying to do something with perspective though you know, practice will eventually take someone far! Anyway, here's Jade. The green sun is in the corner because outside of paying mind to the spacey environment, it somewhat references her whole god tiering ordeal, which essentially meant the first guardian bonus pack. @@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@ Commentary: |- This track was made for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team's]] [[album:canwave|CANWAVE]], an album entirely of Homestuck vaporwave parodies. This song in particular is a vaporwave edit of [[Endless Climb]], hence the name. I tried to extend the vaporwave feel beyond just slowing the song down, splicing and editing the original song in interesting ways, adding 80's style instruments, and utilizing pitchbend and other distortion effects to provide an uneasy feel. The result is something that transcends meme status and enters "dream status," if you will. Actually that sounds kind of dumb. Forget I said that. - <i>SplitSuns:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>SplitSuns:</i> (booklet commentary) The track art is a parody of [the cover](https://web.archive.org/web/20160217082002/https://vektroid.bandcamp.com/album/shader-complete) of the vaporwave album ["Shader Complete"](https://vektroid.bandcamp.com/album/shader-complete) by Sacred Tapestry. --- @@ -2478,7 +2478,7 @@ Commentary: |- I've learned to mix and match certain sections of a song to a better over composition. As for mixing, I had my music tutor (A semi-popular DJ) listen to the track and give their feedback. I then used this to make the overall song so much better. - <i>tempest2k:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>tempest2k:</i> (booklet commentary) So this art is for Airtime Asasult, which was originally named Dave v John, which is a boring as heck name if you want my opinion. There was one slot left for art and when I saw this posted in announcements I decided to take it. I haven't drawn John or Dave as much as I have my favorite Homestuck gals, so getting things right was a bit difficult at first. I started work on this in June and as time went by and I got more done, I was getting better with my art style. If I had went and finished this in a day, I don't think it would've looked nearly as good as it does. The idea came from me thinking about how John and Dave would battle. I figured Dave would abuse time travel and John would be able to retcon around, making for an interplanetary fight between good buddies. The top drawings of John and Dave are intended to look silly, as it's not likely they're fighting over something serious. Anyway this was really fun to do and I hope you enjoy the rest of the album and junk! @@ -2503,7 +2503,7 @@ Commentary: |- This track is a joke. It doesn't have a serious purpose. But it is, in fact, an 8-bit track I worked quite hard to make sound good. If you love 8-bit and [[artist:rj-lake|RJ]], then this is the track just for you! - <i>artist:kobacat:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>artist:kobacat:</i> (booklet commentary) so i worked on this art way back in the beginning of the year just to see if i could contribute to the album and made a piece of art i'm pretty happy about, i don't really do art stuff so this was a first for me but im glad i could have worked on the album in some way still. it was pretty fun working on the art in general, coming up with the idea was pretty quick after i heard the song, but the hard part was trying to draw lil [[artist:rj-lake|rj]] for the art (with a trackpad, dont use trackpads), and after a few revisions i think i got it to a pretty close style to the original. anyway glad i could help work on the album, and hope you dudes all enjoy the rest of it @@ -2587,7 +2587,7 @@ Commentary: |- I really like Arquiussprite; he gets me at a fundamental level. He doesn't swear, he is super into technology, he loves horses, and is just all around a pure sprite; too bad Andrew BYBooted him into Lord English. why do that to a pure horse boy - <i>Griever:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Griever:</i> (booklet commentary) Jojo and Homestuck sure do have a lot of things in common, don't they? Themes of predestination, weird time shit, luck being used as a weapon, a guy without the use of his legs, horses everywhere in a certain part...it's all kind of weird and interesting. So that's why I did an EPIC JOJOKE for this trackart. If you don't understand what's going on here, read some more Jojo, I guess. Or don't. Look, Hors is a great, funny track, and this is the dank artistry it deserves as accompaniment. You're welcome. --- @@ -2685,7 +2685,7 @@ Commentary: |- Homestuck has been a heck of an adventure, one that I had the privilege of watching firsthand for some number of years. I am honored to be able to pay a tribute to such a beautiful thing with my comparatively small contribution to this project. A million thanks to [[artist:andrew-hussie|Andrew Hussie]] and all the artists/musicians who put in so much work to make the comic into what it became. It truly was something really excellent. - <i>Rebecca Peason:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Rebecca Peason:</i> (booklet commentary) The End of Something Really Excellent brings a lot to mind. To the end of the story, to the end of the adventure, end of the game, the fighting, the dying, etc. Listening to it I thought of when The Beginning of Something Really Excellent [[flash:1026|played in comic]] and started there. The concepts jumped but in the end, I wanted something that speaks to the end of the harrowing journey playing this game was. What a relief it is that the fighting is over and for now can be left behind. @@ -2745,7 +2745,7 @@ Commentary: |- this track has been in the works for a very, very long time (since 2014 i think?). feels good to finally get it out. the longest and most ambitious track i've ever made, telling the story of the cherub siblings in three movements. enjoy, love from jo psithurist, xoxox - <i>SmashCooper:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>SmashCooper:</i> (booklet commentary) I'm really glad I had the chance to draw track art for a cherub song since Caliborn is probably one of my favorite characters in Homestuck. I tried to fill this up with as many pieces of imagery of the cherub's journeys to god tier, all framed within a beautiful clock ready to be smashed with a crowbar. Side Note: Caliborn's gun was superbly hard to draw and now I can see why Hussie used a jpg image for it as often as he could. --- @@ -2769,7 +2769,7 @@ Commentary: |- This track almost didn't see the light of day. I submitted it for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team's]] credits music contest, and ended up pulling an admirable 3rd place. At first, the track wasn't going to be used in the credits mix (partially due to recieving 3rd place, but also because it fell short of the 7 minute length requirement), but, after a miracle on-par with the birth of Christ took place, Resend was just barely able to squeeze in due to a mandatory meme credits addition. - <i>yazshu:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>yazshu:</i> (booklet commentary) originally this song was going to be replaced by [ocean man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcaPiiFZu2o), per my request. it wasn't. fuck you [[artist:bambosh|bambosh]] --- @@ -2838,7 +2838,7 @@ Commentary: |- 🅱️ - <i>Circlejourney:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) This is a highly stylised representation of [[flash:8127|Act 7]], with Alt!Calliope creating the black hole that consumes the entire universe, and John reaching for the knob of the door into the new universe. They circle around Skaia, neither pulled into it nor escaping it, but trapped in the loop of its inscrutable machinations. This scene is set against an image of Paradox Space cracking at the edges, which also resembles a cracked disc: the final disc of Homestuck, shattering at the edges, foretelling of the destruction of the story itself. @@ -2878,7 +2878,7 @@ Track Artwork: Referenced Tracks: - Crystalmethequins Commentary: |- - <i>tti:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>tti:</i> (booklet commentary) dont do drugs @@ -2941,7 +2941,7 @@ Commentary: |- This track was originally made for the Cool and New Music Team's ["Cool and New Homestuck"](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXVVm-BDvr9G2C_sk0OSKpZuxGzsIAh-) project, remixing and parodying the various Homestuck Flashes. In case you can't tell, this song is a parody of [[Time on my Side]]. I mostly played it straight to the original song, changing the instrumentation and adding some twists of my own. Of course, there's some jokes thrown into the mix as well, such as the [[track:axel-f-crazy-frog|Crazy Frog]] theme song, [[Waters of Nazareth]], and other subtle additions. All in all, I hope you like this song! It's good enough for [[artist:tensei|Tensei]] to say "this is pretty good," so make of that what you will. - <i>Ephemerald:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Ephemerald:</i> (booklet commentary) When I saw that Thyme on My Fries' art was still unclaimed, I knew what I had to do. This is the result - a love letter to the song and the Flash it's parodying. @@ -3001,7 +3001,7 @@ Commentary: |- But in all seriousness, the wildly different sections of the song was more accidental and natural than anything else. I like to think parts of the song imply the introspection and humanity behind Dave and Dirk's cooldude persona, like the comic often demonstrates to us. And if not, at least we get a couple minutes of cool blues scale noodling. - <i>piskomil:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>piskomil:</i> (booklet commentary) Radness is a rad song so it needed a rad track art and what is more rad than alpha dave soaring through space on unreal air? but there's also a bit of playfulness to the song which is why I added those shitty statues of liberty. Imagine dave with pockets full of shitty statues of liberty just tossing them down on the planet as he flies by. --- @@ -3023,7 +3023,7 @@ Commentary: |- made for redditstuck. homestuck is bad - <i>yazshu:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>yazshu:</i> (booklet commentary) since july 20th, 2016 i have made trackart for many variations of this song. i helped [[artist:cryptanark]] create [[track:conflict-question-mark|the very first mashup of this song]]. i have drawn the characters from a comic i dont even like that much more than my own. when i was sent the spreadsheet, and i saw it sitting on there, unclaimed, i knew i was the only man capable of doing this. thank you emelia k for creating my entire career. --- @@ -3047,7 +3047,7 @@ Commentary: |- This was one of my first truly good songs, having distinct sections. Also included my first guitar solo. At the time of creation, I was playing VVVVVV, and is now one of my favorite games of all time (the music being especially good). I hope y'all enjoy. - <i>Mags:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Mags:</i> (booklet commentary) The pairing of aggressive electric guitar and elegant violin immediately made me think of the similarly aggressive-but-elegant PM, and the snazzy chip tune flair inspired the pixelated art style. --- @@ -3103,7 +3103,7 @@ Commentary: |- This song started out as a test to see if I could replicate that bassy blare from every major action film trailer from the past six or so years. Then, it evolved into a [[Rhapsody in Green]] cover, and the rest is history. While making this I had the image of the Midnight Crew's casino burning down as Spades struggles to escape, then I re-thought it over with Lord English's arrival into Jack's body, then Jake's battle against the leprechauns, until I eventually decided, "as long as it's Felt-themed, this song is about it". There are a few references to Felt-based songs in here, too. The aforementioned Rhapsody in Green, the eerie variation of [[English]] from early on in [[Carne Vale]], the opening from [[Afraid of the Darko]] (although quite drastically rewritten for a cinematic vibe) and a hopeful piano reprise of Carne Vale as a reflection of the first defeat Jake had left the Felt with. Then it concludes with the tail-end of English, because the Felt never truly stay down. - <i>sonotcanon:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>sonotcanon:</i> (booklet commentary) snowman a la mal from inception. credit to [[artist:grace-medley|power]] for the concept! --- @@ -3150,7 +3150,7 @@ Commentary: |- This song was inspired by the cosmogonical aspects of the MSPA universe(s), and by those universes' cryptic curators. - <i>Selan Pike:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Selan Pike:</i> (booklet commentary) GPI: Fondly regard Selan spending too much time fiddling with the background --- @@ -3217,7 +3217,7 @@ Commentary: |- I think I'm more or less satisfied with the end result, even though it hardly resembles jungle (as a music genre, not, you know, [[Sburban Jungle]] or anything). Anyway, I hope you like it. - <i>Andiavang:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Andiavang:</i> (booklet commentary) "Boom boom boom boom<br> I want you in my room<br> @@ -3248,7 +3248,7 @@ Commentary: |- This was my first foray into dubstep, and looking back on it, I could have done a lot better. I wrote this as a sort of mock-up "flash soundtrack", hitting a lot of different styles at different points in the song. At the time, though, I was experimenting with a lot of different things, and it's actually pretty good for what it was. This was also my entrance into sampling, which helped me get the experience needed to start writing newer, fresher material, by listening to other peoples' far better material. - <i>AS:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>AS:</i> (booklet commentary) [Typheus may not be pretty to look at, but he is not a bad guy at all!](https://www.homestuck.com/story/3953) --- @@ -3280,7 +3280,7 @@ Commentary: |- A lot of people helped me to get this song into the state that it's in now, and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank them. Thanks to [[artist:viko-rifeo]] and [[artist:kusoro]], who both had some really great ideas on mastering and percussion that ultimately didn't make it into the final song; to [[artist:wheals]] for giving it a final name, and ESPECIALLY to [[artist:seijen]], whose mastering made the final product much better than I could have ever thought. And of course many, many, many thanks to [[artist:circlejourney]], whose art is indescribably fitting and amazing. Finally I'd like to thank the LOFAM team for all their help and support, y'all are a bunch of great people and its been an honor to have this opportunity - <i>Circlejourney:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) The track is clearly about the Ultimate Alchemy, which I also find it very evocative of. I took that prompt on as faithfully as I could. @@ -3346,7 +3346,7 @@ Commentary: |- The song was made with a particular narrative in mind, with each section of the song signifying another step in the juju's journey. [Crowbar leads the Felt on Alternia, crowbar in hand.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/1273) [Slick steals the crowbar](https://www.homestuck.com/story/1275) and [opens the Felt vault,](https://www.homestuck.com/story/1322) [distorting spacetime.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/1337) [Kurloz finds the crowbar in a memory and hands it to Gamzee.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/5308) [The meteor reaches B2,](https://www.homestuck.com/story/6278) and [the crowbar is given to B2 Jack Noir.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/5804) [He destroys his prison,](https://www.homestuck.com/story/5816) [then fights some kids and himself on top of a building.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/8036) [He and the crowbar are sucked into a black hole.](https://youtu.be/Y5wYN6rB_Rg?t=948) [The juju is thus brought to a dead Earth.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/5441) [Gamzee again hands the crowbar to his lord, Caliborn.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/5492) [With the crowbar in his possession,](https://www.homestuck.com/story/5495) Caliborn trudges through his Sburb session, planet by planet. [He builds an ensemble of loyal leprechaun people,](https://www.homestuck.com/story/6192) [including Crowbar himself.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/6022) Finally, the crowbar is given back to Crowbar, [who will later lead the Felt on Alternia.](https://www.homestuck.com/story/1273) With so many diverging timelines in the intermission alone, we are left to guess whether the cycle will repeat again, or be cut off. - <i>Griever:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Griever:</i> (booklet commentary) You know, the great thing about Homestuck is that a lot of panels are so iconic that Hussie more or less traces over them to make a new panel, and it still looks great, and people love him for it. And this self-referential quality extends to fanworks, to. Makes my job easier. @@ -3386,7 +3386,7 @@ Art Tags: - Dirk - LoTaK Commentary: |- - <i>Nights:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Nights:</i> (booklet commentary) Another very nice track for the Alpha kids' medium, this time for LOTAK. Unlike my other art pieces on LoFaM, I used SAI for this instead of the usual MS Paint. It's a nice change of pace to be working with another art program. @@ -3420,11 +3420,11 @@ Commentary: |- It always struck me how different alt!Calliope was from her friendly, happy-go-lucky counterpart—she almost seemed like a different character. Alt!Calliope had given up on ever feeling happy or fulfilled. She only had a single solitary purpose left to her: to die. I wrote this song as a melancholy elegy for a lost soul. - <i>Quietserval:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Quietserval:</i> (booklet commentary) A representation of alternate Calliope's journey to achieve her ultimate goal. - <i>Circlejourney:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) I love dealing with dark foreground figures against bright backgrounds, so this was fun to add the final touches to. I got a sense of what Quietserval was going for with this drawing from talking to them, and tried to realise that in its fullest. --- @@ -3452,7 +3452,7 @@ Commentary: |- Dream bubbles allow the various players of Sburb a chance at an Everlasting life. I wanted to illustrate the feeling of traversing these bubbles and exploring the infinite possibilities they create. - <i>PatManDX:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>PatManDX:</i> (booklet commentary) When I hear the song, it's a no brainer that it was about Roxy in the dreambubbles, being a remix of [['Even in Death']] and all. What was tricky was figuring out what exactly to show in the track art: what angle, what aspect of the dreambubbles, and so on. I didn't want to make the art too busy, so I went for a simpler piece that showcased one of the grander moments of the [[flash:4486|'Roxy: Sleepwalk']] flash—where the music swells as Roxy falls into that dream bubble. Pinks and purples were used cause they pop on the black, and they're nice mysterious colors. --- @@ -3471,7 +3471,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Corridors of Time - Crystalanthemums Commentary: |- - <i>dodostad:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>dodostad:</i> (booklet commentary) I was just trying to capture Aradia to the sweet tunes of the song! @@ -3509,7 +3509,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Courser - Black Hole / Green Sun Commentary: |- - <i>Circlejourney:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) This track was reassigned to me after the original artist dropped out. I decided to further extend the image formed of [[Crystalendofgames']] and [[track:ultimate-alchemy|Ultimate Alchemy's]] track illustrations after several people expressed assent when I aired the idea on the LoFaM server. @@ -3613,7 +3613,7 @@ Commentary: |- This song didn't actually start out as a Homestuck song when I was first making it. It went from tune stuck in my head, then into a random song that I was calling Metallic Mayhem, then into Flare, then into a practice in motifs, then into what is now apparently my most popular by far! - <i>Scarodactyl:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Scarodactyl:</i> (booklet commentary) I have wanted to do something like this for a long time. Final Fantasy 6 is a big inspiration for me, particularly the in-battle sprites and backgrounds. Homestuck, with its numerous great designs, seemed like it would be really fun to render in this style. When I saw Strife Mayhem on the song list I knew what I had to do--a large-scale battle with lots of characters to match an amazing battle song with lots of leitmotifs. I pulled a few elements from my previous track arts which were sort of stabs in the same direction, particularly the background from [[track:medium-lofam3|Medium]] and the handmaid from [[Maidswap]]. The GUI is also a bit of a reference to [[track:strife-mayhem|the previous track art]] for this song on Cool and New Volume 7. --- @@ -3684,7 +3684,7 @@ Commentary: |- If some of you thought this was [[le canrival]] from Cool and New Webcomic's V8LUME, then you'd be right! I initially made le canrival as a Cool and New Webcomic track, but the folks over on the Land of Fans and Music team took some interest in it. So, we arranged to have it put on the next LOFAM, under a new, more classy name. - <i>0ysTezy:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>0ysTezy:</i> (booklet commentary) this track art you see right here took over two months of work as we needed to space out time for other projects as well. the setting takes place in the land of tents and mirth as shown. The experience of creating this project was sorta stressful but fun. it was mostly stressful for me since I had many other things I needed to work on. EllenZarael worked with me over the course of the drawing. --- @@ -3733,7 +3733,7 @@ Commentary: |- Ok, here's another fun fact then. The title of the song is a play on the FreshJamz player which has the fruits on its interface, the Homestuck song [[Hauntjam|"Hauntjam"]], actual fruit jam, and the fact that it is a song (i.e. "jam") about fruits. Neat! - <i>sweetjegus:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>sweetjegus:</i> (booklet commentary) Open your heart to the fruity embrace of Apple Girlington! I have the fondest memories of Jade's fruit mishaps back in Act 3 and a soft spot for fun and twangy tracks, so Fruitjam was the perfect storm. Her outfit is drawn from cubewatermelon's [absolutely adorable Apple Girlington design](https://fwugradiation.tumblr.com/post/33361755348/cubewatermelon-happy-birthday-to-toby-radiation), and I've kept to the Touhou art tradition of contorted angles within a dramatic flying object vortex - but updated, now, for a lurid fever dream ft. the chlorine-headed personification of an apple. @@ -3785,7 +3785,7 @@ Commentary: |- This piece was originally [[track:rozepiano|for CaNMT]], although it was still about the character Rose Lalonde. Perhaps you're wondering why someone would release a track on CaNMT, before putting it on LoFaM, but that was due to my joining LoFaM after this song was published. I worked on this song for nearly 2 months, so the production was a pretty complicated process - but at least I could finish it. It doesn't matter how long it took, what matters is that it's done. Originally, using pianos wasn't a part of my plan - the step before it was to use violins and Pavellion strings, because violin is Rose's instrument. But I couldn't pull it off so I switched to extremely romantic pianos midway through production. However, if I did take the pianos off I feel this track would've suffered a lot of pain, barring its size. In the end there really wasn't much that survived of my original image of this track, but I'm still happy with what I ended up with. Lightfall was my first song published anywhere, so you could say this is a big song for me. - <i>Nights:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Nights:</i> (booklet commentary) I envisioned the scene of Rose playing on LOLAR for this art as well as the song. I can't count how many times I redrew this piece before finally getting it to look good, since I'm only a beginner at drawing scenery. I'm glad it turned out nicely in the end though. Also I gotta say, doing art for your own songs is kind of weird. :p --- @@ -3810,7 +3810,7 @@ Commentary: |- The base idea for this song's groove came about in late 2011 when I noticed the repeated piano riff was just an E-flat blues scale [[artist:toby-fox|Radiation]] messed with, and I started laying it over a Latin-style chord rhythm and liked what I heard. I thought to myself, "this must be what it sounds like when the Midnight Crew just jams", and before I knew it I had a remix idea in my head. Something I've always loved about the original mix I did, poorly executed as it was, was how it took an idea we know to be so dark within the Homestuck universe and turned it into a light, relaxing, foot-tapping piece, something the Crew might have done in happier times. - <i>Daniel McDonald:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Daniel McDonald:</i> (booklet commentary) It's been long enough since I made this image that I don't have much that I can remember to say about this, beyond feeling like I really nailed Boxcars' face. --- @@ -3834,7 +3834,7 @@ Commentary: |- This song was originally made for the [[group:canmt|Cool and New Music Team]], but I went with a much more Homestuck slant than a cool and new one for this track. I wanted to take [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|Upward Movement]] and change it into something more EDM and techno, so I chopped and screwed traditional strings and mixed them with the powerful drum tracks and synths you hear in the song. I wanted to include motifs from both Dave and Nepeta as they're two halves of Davepeta's whole. I also incorporated caws and meows for the same effect. Finally, I put the Undertale track [[CORE]] in the song because of that one scene in [[flash:8087|EOA6]] ([you know the one.](https://youtu.be/Y5wYN6rB_Rg?t=670)⁠) There's an additional reference at that point if you're listening carefully! Although this song was challenging to make, I think it turned out very well in the end. - <i>Shadok:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Shadok:</i> (booklet commentary) this used to be [[track:collision-course-davepetas-movement|a normal edit]] of [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|the Upward Movement cover]] but [[album:greatest-hits-2|greatest hits 2]] happened on the cool and new music team so i decided [[track:collision-course-davepetas-movement-greatest-hits-2|to redo it]]. i experimented a lot with the shading but in the end, i kept something simple --- @@ -3862,7 +3862,7 @@ Commentary: |- This art was made in like five hours on Christmas 2016 when i yelled at nights to make some John/Aradia art for Revisit/Rewind (it being based off [[Ascend]], with its iconic John/Aradia art). That's basically the plot of The Christmas Carol and by writing this seven months later I'm now the Ghost of Christmas Future. I'll let Past Nights (the Ghost of Christmas Past) fill you in on the rest: - <i>Nights:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Nights:</i> (booklet commentary) <img src="media/misc/nights-revisit-rewind-1.png" width="268" height="93" pixelate inline alt="Four Discord messages from nights: im doing the background / the bg is just / a giant dick / ok"><br> <img src="media/misc/nights-revisit-rewind-2.png" width="289" height="47" pixelate inline alt="Two messages: john and aradia are too lewd / theyre touching hands"><br> @@ -3921,7 +3921,7 @@ Commentary: |- Homestuck Sonata was written around the time we were submitting pieces for [[album:homestuck-vol-10|Volume 10]]. The idea was to write a piece that loosely followed the sonata form with [[Homestuck Anthem]] being the first main theme and [[Penumbra Phantasm]] (via [[FantasyP]]) being the second. It's also intended as a left hand practice piece so the left hand is much busier than in most of my other work! - <i>Sozzay:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Sozzay:</i> (booklet commentary) This idea came to me after scrapping a few rought drafts. Originally I planned for an artwork starring an original hero, but decided to change it to something involving John because his associated instrument is a piano. It was a difficult piece to draw, but I am very happy with the finished result and feel I created something really dynamic. --- @@ -3943,7 +3943,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - White King Commentary: |- - <i>PatManDX:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>PatManDX:</i> (booklet commentary) [[artist:rnd|RND]] and I used to collaborate on projects years ago so we've become very familiar with the other's work. When I first heard this track, back about 3 years ago, I knew I had to do the art for it. The song felt very grand and frenetic, while giving a sense of regality and awe, so I did my best to capture those feelings into the track art. I knew that I had to put in the White King as the main focus on the picture, since the song is a remix to [[track:white-king|a certain other song]]. There is a great emphasis on texture and desaturated colors, to help make the piece feel almost like a worn tapestry. I added a bloom filter to add to this effect. @@ -3991,7 +3991,7 @@ Lyrics: >- (I will rise, I will go so far and) Even in my death Commentary: |- - <i>Sam Garcia:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Sam Garcia:</i> (booklet commentary) This song is about the beta kids so i drew them like if they were in a cd/disc. I did it like that because the transitions between different moments of the song reminded me of a movie or song playing. So basically i drew this how i thought a cd for homestuck would kind of look like. diff --git a/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido.yaml b/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido.yaml index c9e84e5e..fe00b032 100644 --- a/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido.yaml +++ b/album/mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido.yaml @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ Commentary: |- *(Continued in [[track:chain-of-prospit]])* - <i>Tavia Morra:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr ask](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/105490726789/what-is-even-the-art-for-dawn-of-man), 12/17/2014) + <i>Tavia Morra:</i> ([Tumblr ask](https://www.tumblr.com/seeyoutmorra/105490726789/what-is-even-the-art-for-dawn-of-man), 12/17/2014) > what is even the art for dawn of man diff --git a/album/redditstuck-vol-3.yaml b/album/redditstuck-vol-3.yaml index f1ad245d..58572a51 100644 --- a/album/redditstuck-vol-3.yaml +++ b/album/redditstuck-vol-3.yaml @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Commentary: |- I made this song because of Evan’s conversation with Josh, which particularly struck me. It leaves a lot of room for potential character development; in fact, it gives me the impression that Evan will reach a breaking point, hence the more powerful end to this track. Evan tries so hard to please that he may just end up isolating himself. - <i>HeyItsKane:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>HeyItsKane:</i> (booklet commentary) I decided i was going to do something without lineart for once, and i’m honestly surprised that it wasn’t completely terrible. --- @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Commentary: |- Jazz... jazz is good. I decided I wanted to make a jazz-funk style track for the Land of Casinos and Hedonism, and indeed, for a while the project file for this track was just called Jazz-Funk.als. I worked out the chords at the piano, and had a lot of fun working out the bass part, which is intended to drive the track. - <i>David Burt:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>David Burt:</i> (booklet commentary) Do not let the title of this track deceive you, this is a land of Blackjack and hookers. The blackjack is rigged, and the hookers like to dance. They’re also green and feel like pool table felt. @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Commentary: |- so glad this fucking song is done - <i>BlueChaos:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>BlueChaos:</i> (booklet commentary) First time drawing a background, and it probably turned out to be shit but let’s enjoy this amazing track @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Commentary: |- I just really wanted to make a song for Tomesprite, so I did. I think I finished it a couple of days after Tomesprite was revealed. It was also fun playing with synths, which I hope to do more of in the future. - <i>HeyItsKane:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>HeyItsKane:</i> (booklet commentary) My main focus was going into more detail with tomesprite’s face. Admittedly the sev i drew could probably have used a bit more work, but the thing’s already done. --- @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ Art Tags: - Prospit - Derse Commentary: |- - <i>Memory//REWRITE:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Memory//REWRITE:</i> (booklet commentary) This was 99% procrastination. I was too busy playing with my Korg synth up to the point that I spent about 30 minutes actually making this piece --- @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ Commentary: |- not even joking, this song is actually about religion and how evan’s qualities embody it as a whole. see if you can figure that one out fuckers - <i>Quinn Harlock:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Quinn Harlock:</i> (booklet commentary) I just did what I thought looked cool, with help from Gordian. @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ Commentary: |- This was originally supposed to be in the Windwaker soundfont, but I gave up on that after five minutes. Instead, I used my trademark saxophone that I stole from [[artist:kal-la-kal-la|Kal]], as well as my trademark accordion/melodica/bandoneon. And also my trademark Kapp’n guitar, which also happens to sound really good as a bass. Additional shoutout to SGM drums for being good in literally everything. Man, I love soundfonts. Anyway, this song was a lot of fun to make, and hopefully fun to listen to as well. - <i>Set0Kaiba:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Set0Kaiba:</i> (booklet commentary) Ass kicked by a statue, who doesn’t have feet. or hands --- @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ Commentary: |- As seconds pass into minutes and minutes into hours, the dreary tedium of amusing oneself can begin to wear one down. <i>Attendre</i> attempts to capture that boredom- inflicted deterioration. - <i>Bin:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Bin:</i> (booklet commentary) Husr gave me free rein over track art, more or less, which was probably a bad idea on his part, considering the end result. It's a bit of a loose interpretation of "waiting for time to pass," but I think it still embodies the central themes of frustration and tedium. Anyway, sprites look bad when you rotate them, so I put a radial blur over the whole thing so people would thing it was intentional. You tend to pick up on these kinds of tricks when you're a master artist like I am. --- @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ Commentary: |- Big thanks to the other people on the Redditstuck album team, I couldn’t have made it sound good without them. - <i>Radical Dude 42:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Radical Dude 42:</i> (booklet commentary) <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, cursive">It’s sev as a shitty samurai. He made the armour himself.</span> --- @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ Commentary: |- the original gordian rs song. finally here performing for you - <i>Gordian:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Gordian:</i> (booklet commentary) wow another art with words in the background. hilarious and original @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ Commentary: |- I started this one way back in April, so I’m glad that it finally gets to see the light of day. The process was very similar to [[Saoshyant]], mostly consisting of messing around with drum patterns and going ham with the strings. The Touhou Japanese influence started to leak in after a while, and I was powerless to stop it. For the majority of the song, the melody is driven by a koto, with support from a shamisen, though they switch places in the latter half. The shakuhachi makes a brief cameo in the middle, because the weebs have their hands in everything. Finally, I’m officially suing [[artist:gordian|Gordian]] for stealing this song. You’ll hear from my lawyers. - <i>XenoZane:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>XenoZane:</i> (booklet commentary) This art brought to you courtesy of GIMP's "Smooth stroke" feature --- @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ Commentary: |- I endeavoured to express a feeling of ‘stasis’ with this track. The title comes from the name of a song by Sufjan Stevens, [‘For the Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWb_sK18pgw). When first I heard the song I had no idea that Paradise and Ypsilanti are the names of towns in the US State of Michigan. As such I assumed Ypsilanti was some sort of term that referred to purgatory, corresponding to paradise. And that’s what this track is meant to represent, my idea of what ‘purgatory’ sounds like. Distant echoes in caverns of ice. What does that have to do with Redditstuck, you might ask? You’ll see. - <i>Lazicful:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Lazicful:</i> (booklet commentary) After a lot of artistic consideration I ultimately decided to go with the 2 things that come to mind when I hear stasis and icy cave; stalagmites and bricks, for what is more static than a brick? I also thought to myself, ”what would be a fitting choice of color for such a cool, cold cavern?” Blue! Blue is a very cold color, it all added up! And so I decided to make the image purely consist of blues, to truly convey the isolated feeling of a desolate area with truckloads of “stasis”. The track utilises a lot of, bear with me here it’s going to get a little music theory-y, “echo and reverb”, noises that are supposed to simulate sound hitting distant walls. And since the echoing is so intense, it made sense for the area to be positively huge! @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ Commentary: |- the trap drums were originally a joke inspired by TYBP but i think they work unironically - <i>Austinado:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Austinado:</i> (booklet commentary) I wanted to make something that wasn’t just in the MSPA style for this track. Sadly though I’ve been doing nothing but MSPA style due to working on Vast Error’s EOA1 for weeks before I was meant to do this so I feel the end product isn’t the best representation of what I can do. I really like the shading I gave DD here though. @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ Commentary: |- who knows how this will ever be used ;0 ;0 ;0 - <i>HeyItsKane:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>HeyItsKane:</i> (booklet commentary) This is a heart-rending image showing fan-favorite satellite mere moments before tragedy struck. @@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ Commentary: |- this song isnt that old. insert joke about [[group:canmt|CANMT]] leitmotifs here. lmk if it sucks - <i>Quinn Harlock:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Quinn Harlock:</i> (booklet commentary) Idk i just like sev, so i chose this one. Since it was just Sev as the cover, I thought of doing the most important thing about him so i did him with his Time Instrument. Not much else to say i guess. @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ Commentary: |- Though the mellow piano technically comes from Earthbound and the clarinet comes from the Megadrive soundfont, the aesthetic is pretty blatantly on display here. If you’re not currently experiencing an immense bout of NOSTALGIA, you obviously have no business listening to music at all. - <i>Radical Dude 42:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Radical Dude 42:</i> (booklet commentary) <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, cursive">Past Luke is stylin’, yo.</span> Review Points: @@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ Commentary: |- the original german-title-gordian-song. hope you like it - <i>Radical Dude 42:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Radical Dude 42:</i> (booklet commentary) <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, cursive">Altair is the calm <em>in</em> the storm.</span> @@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ Commentary: |- I was playing about at the piano when I found this chord progression, and I thought it was pretty pleasing. Ran to the computer, clicked in the chords and improvised over them on the accordion, then added the rest of the instrumentation and mixed it. I was aiming to give the whole piece a cosy, nostalgic feeling, like a fond memory of something past that one might calming. The e-piano with delay reminded me of the Volume 1 track [[Colt Blooded]] by jjpollution, which was written as a theme for Luke, and I figured Gallopsby to be something that would be associated with happy memories for Luke. - <i>Radical Dude 42:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>Radical Dude 42:</i> (booklet commentary) <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, cursive">Old horsograph</span> --- @@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ Commentary: |- this was actually a song about Chelsea to begin with - or at least, my interpretation of her character, and not a canon representation. In a way, it’s about how relatable chelsea is, to me. this is me basically saying “it’s not lore you dunkass”. - <i>ConstaChymic:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>ConstaChymic:</i> (booklet commentary) I was gonna make the image just like I do other drawings, but then I remembered that most of the artstyle for HS related stuff is no AA lines, so I made it pixel lines. This kinda made it not turn out the way I wanted, because I’m terribad with pixelated lines, but I dont really think I wanna change it. @@ -700,6 +700,6 @@ Commentary: |- With this track I attempted to embody the eerie feeling I associate with Derse. The track is in 7/4 because that’s the best time sig, with various industrial drum loops that were originally in 4/4 cut together to create the beat. There are various elements that aren’t in sync with the rhythm of the track and are more textural than anything else, intended to represent the sound of things heard far away. The piano track is particularly inspired by the piano from the song [‘Condition Oakland’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWRdSSZNGCE) by Jawbreaker. - <i>HeyItsKane:</i> (track artist, booklet commentary) + <i>HeyItsKane:</i> (booklet commentary) I decided I wanted to try and do a detailed image of derse, because the song is about derse and i’m apparently a masochist. diff --git a/album/sburb-ost.yaml b/album/sburb-ost.yaml index e9ce5ffb..beccb66d 100644 --- a/album/sburb-ost.yaml +++ b/album/sburb-ost.yaml @@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ Commentary: |- Possum Owl Lizard Fox Mouse<br> Cow Mongoose Hamster] - <i>8bitkitten:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://kitten-burrito.tumblr.com/post/36549710464)) + <i>8bitkitten:</i> ([Tumblr](https://kitten-burrito.tumblr.com/post/36549710464)) This is my track art for the recently released Sburb OST! diff --git a/album/the-wanderers.yaml b/album/the-wanderers.yaml index 2403cb36..a81c3618 100644 --- a/album/the-wanderers.yaml +++ b/album/the-wanderers.yaml @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ Commentary: |- Fast forward a year or two. Some discussion with internet friends had led me to find that old flash game again, and I heard my old favourite tune in all its glory (significantly less glorious than I remembered; nostalgia does that to you). Still, it showed me the main place I was going wrong, which was that I'd neglected harmony. All of the three or four lines of music that piece had were monophonic, making a really drab sound, while what I needed where chords. A stupid mistake? Sure, it was, but then, I wasn't that good a musician when I first wrote the piece. I started over, applying all the experience I'd got both from writing music and simply listening to it with a critical ear to get my main contribution to the Wanderers album, and something I could be proud of. - <i>Emi:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://averyniceprince.tumblr.com/post/7604455794/httphomestuckbandcampcomtrackwe-walk), 7/14/2011) + <i>Emi:</i> ([Tumblr](https://averyniceprince.tumblr.com/post/7604455794/httphomestuckbandcampcomtrackwe-walk), 7/14/2011) [[artist:rachel-locklin|Rachel]] asked me to draw for one of the tracks for the new album, and I honestly couldn't have been more honored!!! ;____;;; I had always wanted to draw the exiles, so this was a perfect opportunity hehe \*U\* --- |