RSSArt Inspiration: Cave Story
7 March 2024
This post was originally made on Cohost.
Favourite works of all time excluding your own? (Also your own too~!)
Time for another work i love!
Cave Story was a humongous influence on me when I first played it as a teenager, and I continue to find Daisuke Amaya's pixel art deeply charming and inspirational. I love how he draws portraits, especially furry characters, and I think that's somewhat evident if we compare this screenshot featuring King to the way i tend to draw eyes.
What I find most delightful about the artwork in Cave Story is how much gets done with such small palette sizes. The artwork has a very distinct cel shading style which emphasizes the shape and texture of characters, which works so wonderfully for the rabbit-like mimigas. (One of many influences for how i was originally once upon a time a rabbit furry.)
And it should be noted that Cave Story also contains some absolutely gorgeous illustrations, all of which come after the ending of the game, but are so expressive in a way which continues to influence me deeply. Look how great these all look, and all using so few colors!:
Also it should be noted that we all love Curly Brace because she the cute robot girl who we all want to date. Thankfully one of my gfs just looks like Curly Brace irl.
what's it like having curly brace as ur gf
Pretty great not gonna lie. Although weirdly enough i end up getting carried more often than the other way around