Little to no plot this time, just design process stuph.
This picture is roughly based on Plasma-Dragon's "Stepping out of reality for a bit". I got bored and decided to put my own spin on that idea.
Plot-wise, I originally wanted this picture to be "Cam and random tech group agreed to lock him in a hypno sim to keep him from becoming something worse" as an artistic way to vent about how I feel over people meta-ironically overreacting to recent events, but instead this ended up being a design practice and I am very happy with (and prefer) how this picture turned out.
The right pic's aesthetics are based on Y2K Futurism aesthetics, more specifically a branch called Chromecore where almost everything was unapologetically chrome. Barring the Spongebob joke for a minute, if you remember the first Nintendo DS model, that Robot Dog or some robot pet toys, or the average flip phone from the early 2000s, you'll know what I'm talking about. CD players and mentioned cell phones from the early 2000s are the main inspiration for the pod's external design. The VR headset and the walls have some motifs combined from the Blobject aesthetic in that time. The headphones are based on an old Bose headset from that era as well.
After all that hard work on the right picture, I figured simplicity was the way to go for the left. I initially wanted to try out a simple white and purple, wavey dreamscape with some cone-shaped mountains, but I got lazy and settled for floating circles. I was somewhat inspired by the wallpapers that came on Mac OS 9, which I guess fits in with the Y2K Futurism motif. I even added a CRT-like filter on it as well to fit the virtual reality setting. Also note that Cam's eyes are normally brown. They are purple here because he's under the hypnosis program after all. >w>
I am really proud of how I did the picture overall. I would love to do stuff like this more often.
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...There's something about a specially-designed pod that always gets me, like being a toy on display, being part of a particular scene in a sci-fi movie, or maybe part of a book displaying technology from that era. Hmm...
Cam Wolfcat the Mewtwo is by me. Mewtwo is a Pokemon species by Gamefreak, Nintendo, and TPCi.
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