My comment :
OK, my last one. I'm probably going waaaaaaaay too far here, but I was inspired and didn't want to stop that train.
It began with my hoodie joke a few comments above, so I started playing with the idea. Of course, it was stupid and went nowhere, so I gave up on it. I saw another direction though, and decided to follow it instead.
I remembered that very early draft that depicted Mark's environment: a drop, a whale, a container. As I’m a huge fan of context, I took those ideas and expanded on them a bit, trying to give some flavor of my own to this description. This resulted in a 100% waterish environment that I envisioned as being rather cold, I blew up the scale of the architecture to add it some grandeur (sorry, I didn’t keep the simple square-ish container), and finally added a whale (a real whale, not an orca ! Yeah !). And then I replaced all the regular textures to add a digital-ish vibe that contrasts with the more retro-ish look of the environment.
I gave Mark the same treatment, dressed him up again (sorry folks !), kept the hoodie for the ice-factor, a few unconventional textures and designs, and basically turned him into some kind of “digital whaler” with a harpoon.
As I said, I’m a sucker for context, and I liked the idea of him catching his whale and using it to travel around (though, at this place, I must also admit that I have no damn clue what the whale’s supposed to mean, as I joined the Discord a bit late and probably missed the origin of it).
So, yeah… waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over the toooooooooop, up the point where it shouldn’t even be here anymore, eh ? I suddenly hear Grampa Simpson shouting “Just eat the damn oranges !!”, so I apologize for derailing the channel from the porn so many are probably expecting to see, and step back a bit again to let others enjoy the stage and share their work