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H. McGill
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Indie Gamedev Artist
Webcomics: Amphiox, RAWR! Dinosaur Friends
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http://hmcgill.art


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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 7d
I will post an extinct animal every day until the 24th!

Day 1: Velociraptor

Chomp chomp! This guy was actually as small as a housecat.

#artadventcalendar #paleoart #art #digitalart #dinosaur #velociraptor
Digital cel-shaded art of a little velociraptor with a big nasty attitude. The velociraptor is posed in an attack position with its mouth wide open, tiny needle teeth ready to chomp. It is colored somewhat like a roadrunner with speckled brown feathers and red eyes. The velociraptor is perched on a square isometric chunk of rock meant to look like a bit of Gobi Desert where this dinosaur once dwelled millions of years ago. Tufts of desert grass stick out from the chunk.
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Day 8: Inostrancevia

It's such a shame that it will be 251 million years before this gorgonopsid can try to fit through a narrow doorway and not realize the bone can't go with them (bonk)

#ArtAdventCalendar #paleoart #art #digitalart #SciArt #gorgonopsid #permian #animal #science #dogs
Digital cel-shaded art of a gorgonopsid, inostrancevia, one of the Late Permian reptilian mammals (or perhaps mammalian reptile). This animal most closely resembles a pit bull’s musculature crossed with a monitor lizard’s splayed legs. It is colored with big brown patches on yellow, orange, and green lizard-like scales, inspired slightly by komodo dragons but more bright and saturated. It’s very freckled and speckled all over with its patches of color migrating into each other. It sits in a pose reminiscent of how dogs sit when they don’t care about being noble: Leaning to one side, legs akimbo, tongue dangling out. It parked its silly butt on an isometric chunk of sea-green limestone. The gorgonopsid has a giant head compared to dogs, proportionally, and in its mouth is the thick femur bone of a dicynodont. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Day 7: Psittacosaurus

Say you're on your daily jog through the forest and then this jumps out at you, like so!

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #dinosaur #paleoart #SciArt #paleontology
Digital cel-shaded art of a leaping psittacosaurus, a bipedal precursor to triceratops. It is largely orange-brown with white countershading on its underside. The dinosaur has small stripes and spots marking the gradiation between its dark side and its light side. It’s jumping over a log and a bush set in some sun-dappled woods in the deep past. Worms inch inside of an isometric square of dirt that grounds the whole scene. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Small etiquette notes on correcting my artwork:

Ask before correcting stuff please!

I might not correct the art directly in the post itself, but may update it behind the scenes for future use

Some stuff is stylized/won't be corrected

You may share similar animals on my art; credit your sources
December 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Day 6: Dickinsonia

Nobody:

Absolutely no one:

The Ediacaran: Flesh plants. Flesh plants! Great wobbling frisbee beasts! Flesh plants—

#ArtAdventCalendar #art #digitalart #paleoart #SciArt #dickinsonia #charnia #geology #science #paleontology
Digital cel-shaded art of a wibbly wobbly Dickinsonia, a weird wobbly lifeform from before the Cambrian era. It looks like a floppy frisbee with bilateral lines sectioning its body into many gelatinous ribs. It lives underwater surrounded by fleshy ‘plants’, including orange charnia with spots and neon green hylaecullulus. Since I’ve interpreted Dickinsonia as a transparent creature, the other life forms can be fuzzily seen through its body. This little scene is set on an isometric square chunk of sandy seafloor. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Day 5: Borealopelta

I went speculative on the ‘red’ coloration of this extremely well-preserved fossil, and I have little information on the fossilized Cretaceous flower I found other than it sort of looked like a tulip?

#dinosaur #art #ArtAdventCalendar #digitalart #paleoart #SciArt
Digital cel-shaded art of a Borealopelta, an ankylosaurus most well known for being ‘mummified’ in stone. The dinosaur sits in an isometric, square chunk of sunlit meadow, surrounded by purple tulip-like flowers stretching upwards. The borealpelta is largely peach-colored with neon pink knobs lining its armored shell. It barely fits on the chunk of earth. Its long tail, which lacks the typical ‘knob’ associated with ankylosaurs, curls around the resting spot from behind. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Day 4: Rhamphorynchus

The beaks on these guys make me so uncomfortable!… so of course I drew it

#ArtAdventCalendar #paleoart #SciArt #pterosaur #digitalart #art
Digital cel-shaded art of a rhamphorynchus, a small shore-dwelling pterosaur known for its bent beak and mouth full of sharp teeth. It has two membranous wings attached to its long pinkie finger and a narrow tail that ends in a spade shape. The pterosaur was colored with inspiration from a red-footed booby, and features a blue and magenta beak to accent its largely yellowish/grayish body. The pterosaur dips its toe into a bit of tropical ocean water, which is contained inside of a stylized ‘cube’ of the animal’s environment. Watermark on the image: http://hmcgill.art
December 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Day 3: Kentrosaurus

Gave nighttime coloring a stab for this big critter — otherwise I am going to end up with a lot of green jungle-dwellers in this set

#ArtAdventCalendar #art #digitalart #paleoart #dinosaur #SciArt #paleontology #stegosaurus
Digital cel-shaded art of a kentrosaurus, a stegosaur notable for two big spikes poking out of its shoulders. The kentrosaurus browses an ancient African jungle at night under the light of a crescent moon. It leans against a cycad while perched on an isometric, square chunk of forest earth with trailing roots. Everything is painted with stylized blue and teal tones. The moonlight catches briefly on the kentrosaurus’s spines. Watermark on the image: http://hmcgill.art
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Day 2: Diplocaulus

One of my personal favorites! I love this guy’s head. If he existed I would have to make friends with someone who owned one so I could look at it every day.

#ArtAdventCalendar #paleoart #art #digitalart #SciArt #amphibian #animal
Digital cel-shaded art of a diplocaulus, which is an ancient amphibian with a wide, boomerang-shaped head. The diplocaulus is depicted underwater in some kind of pond, floating over a chunk of pond dirt that contains underwater plans and fallen fern leaves dissolving into green muck. The animal has orange spots on its dark green skin, and the light of water overhead dances across its form.
December 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I will post an extinct animal every day until the 24th!

Day 1: Velociraptor

Chomp chomp! This guy was actually as small as a housecat.

#artadventcalendar #paleoart #art #digitalart #dinosaur #velociraptor
Digital cel-shaded art of a little velociraptor with a big nasty attitude. The velociraptor is posed in an attack position with its mouth wide open, tiny needle teeth ready to chomp. It is colored somewhat like a roadrunner with speckled brown feathers and red eyes. The velociraptor is perched on a square isometric chunk of rock meant to look like a bit of Gobi Desert where this dinosaur once dwelled millions of years ago. Tufts of desert grass stick out from the chunk.
December 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Hello new followers! If you're bored and like free webcomics, here's mine!

It's a complete short story about a ruined world full of alternative energy...and magic doom eels.

(Includes detailed transcripts on every page)

amphiox.hmcgill.art/comic/amphio...

#webcomics #amphiox #comics #indie
Image depicted is the cover to the webcomic, Amphiox. It's a black cover with criss-crossing blue serpent coils taking up most of the background. The coils writhe around each other with faint glimmers of scales highlighted, before vanishing into darkness. This is a teaser for the beast that will be encountered and explained within the webcomic. Layered over the writing coils of the Amphiox is its tail, oddly centered and still compared to the rest of its body. An amphiox's tail ends in a fin with rounded tips. The fin's color is a bright, bioluminescent gradient composed of yellow fading into bright skyblue, before tapering into a darker cerulean. The tail has vibrating red highlights. It casts a rainbow of highlights onto its own scales. Attached to this tail are two more, lesser pectoral and dorsal fins, in cerulean blue. The pectoral fin pokes out near the tail, and the dorsal fin is further up, and larger. White text overlaid on top: AMPHIOX H. McGIll http://hmcgill.art
June 2, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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Why would a fish god be in a volcano?

This Dunkleosteus was consumed by an abyssal vent over 350 million years ago...Before the volcanic island breached the ocean's surface! It is the oldest god in the volcanic pantheon from my game about extinction.

#gamedev #art #sciart #paleoart #madewithspine
Concept art of a giant flaming dunkleosteus skeleton, animated by magma flesh, leaping into the air over an erupting volcano. The scene is drawn in a 2D cel-shaded style with heavy emphasis on saturated blues and super-saturated red and orange colors. The dunkleosteus's bones are all blue like volcanic rock, and its jaws are molten orange, and its eyes are made of blue fire. Distantly, through a purple ashen haze, the rest of the island paradise can be seen, but who knows if it will stay pleasant for long in the wake of a godly volcanic eruption.
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Why would a fish god be in a volcano?

This Dunkleosteus was consumed by an abyssal vent over 350 million years ago...Before the volcanic island breached the ocean's surface! It is the oldest god in the volcanic pantheon from my game about extinction.

#gamedev #art #sciart #paleoart #madewithspine
Concept art of a giant flaming dunkleosteus skeleton, animated by magma flesh, leaping into the air over an erupting volcano. The scene is drawn in a 2D cel-shaded style with heavy emphasis on saturated blues and super-saturated red and orange colors. The dunkleosteus's bones are all blue like volcanic rock, and its jaws are molten orange, and its eyes are made of blue fire. Distantly, through a purple ashen haze, the rest of the island paradise can be seen, but who knows if it will stay pleasant for long in the wake of a godly volcanic eruption.
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Artists & Art lovers!

Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!

Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
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November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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It’s a ‘purchase 74 gelly rolls for bulk pricing’ kind of day
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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So far my 2D rigging workflow is like:

1. Attach physics constraints ASAP
2. Wiggle the bone chains around!!! WHEEE
...
...
3. ...Deep regrets
4. Remove physics constraints ASAP
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Do any other game artists prefer designing backgrounds and settings to characters?

I'm really happy with how my game's tropical islands turned out. (If only all my characters were islands, too!)

#gamedev #indie #art #digitalart #nature
A digital painting of panoramic-style view of a very very distant, enormous island, clearly volcanic in nature. The style is painterly cel-shading with lots of soft shadows and highlights gradually building up into each other. The point of view is from high up, with a little bit of mountain and close vegetation including acai trees and various bushes visible. The island itself takes up most of the composition,with its vibrant blue mountains, lush forestry in the foothills, and a little spiraling spit of sand curling around a small patch of ocean. The ocean is glassy, sky-blue, and smooth, perfectly reflecting clouds above.
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Watch out!

Dodo attack

(Animation from my in-progress game about animals fighting on a volcano)

#gamedev #digitalart #animation #dodo #madewithspine
October 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Playing card designs for my roulette game about recently-extinct animals on a volcano! Numbers indicate how far you can move

1 - Wiggle like Hallucigenia
2 - Crawl like Tiktaalik
3 - Leap like Archeopteryx
M - Enlist the "help" of monkeys

#gamedev #indie #digitalart #design #paleoart #sciart #art
Digital playing card done in the style of a typical Bicycle playing card, only with prehistoric animals instead of king/queen/etc faces. This card features a big white number 1 with a blue border, surrounded by red hallucigenia with white spikes and yellow tentacles, yellow flowers, on a black field. Digital playing card done in the style of a typical Bicycle playing card, only with prehistoric animals instead of king/queen/etc faces. This card features a big white number 2, with a yellow border, surrounded by blue tiktaalik with white eyes and geometric scale patterns, and red diamond/yellow sunburst designs on a black field. Digital playing card done in the style of a typical Bicycle playing card, only with prehistoric animals instead of king/queen/etc faces. This card features a big white number 3 with a red border, surrounded by fancy yellow archaeopteryx with blue and red highlight feathers, with a tail made of hearts, on a black field. A special, minimalistic playing card with a black M surrounded by yellow, blue, and red borders in that order, with a monkey’s face and attacking palms pointed towards the viewer aggressively. Text under this graphic reads ‘MONKEYS’ in capitalized black Futura.
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Behold! One of the four ancient gods residing in the volcano-themed game I am making:

Quetzalcoatlus northropi

This god is the most aggressive member of the volcanic pantheon, so watch out :)

#gamedev #art #paleoart #pterosaur #dinosaur #digitalart #spine2D #sciart
Screenshot of an open Spine document depicting a great, horrible quetzalcoatlus northropi (giant pterosaur) lightly and delicately descending from on high over the maw of a brightly-lit volcanic surface. The pterosaur has been drawn in a cel-shaded 2D style with bones of blue volcanic rock, a membrane and flesh made out of bubbling orange lava, and a great eye lit with green fire magic. Quetzalcoatlus has long wings typically made of skin flaps and it has an unusually long, crooked neck for a pterosaur. This one's wings are outstretched like a ballerina's arms just as she lands a difficult jump with grace. Same Quetzalcoatlus northropi character as previous image. Now the god is attacking: Wings up as though charging forward through the air, neck down, mouth open in a scream. Behind it, the volcano erupts with one big, concentrated burst of lava, like a column of light. Choking ash clouds spread behind the eruption.
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
hannahcomb.bsky.social
Behold! One of the four ancient gods residing in the volcano-themed game I am making:

Quetzalcoatlus northropi

This god is the most aggressive member of the volcanic pantheon, so watch out :)

#gamedev #art #paleoart #pterosaur #dinosaur #digitalart #spine2D #sciart
Screenshot of an open Spine document depicting a great, horrible quetzalcoatlus northropi (giant pterosaur) lightly and delicately descending from on high over the maw of a brightly-lit volcanic surface. The pterosaur has been drawn in a cel-shaded 2D style with bones of blue volcanic rock, a membrane and flesh made out of bubbling orange lava, and a great eye lit with green fire magic. Quetzalcoatlus has long wings typically made of skin flaps and it has an unusually long, crooked neck for a pterosaur. This one's wings are outstretched like a ballerina's arms just as she lands a difficult jump with grace. Same Quetzalcoatlus northropi character as previous image. Now the god is attacking: Wings up as though charging forward through the air, neck down, mouth open in a scream. Behind it, the volcano erupts with one big, concentrated burst of lava, like a column of light. Choking ash clouds spread behind the eruption.
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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My first attempt at a ambiently-animated illustration! With a few more tweaks, this is going to be my volcano game's title screen background.

#gamedev #art #animation #illustration #thylacine #mammoth #dodo #tortoise #dinosaur #spine2D #madewithspine
October 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Spent an evening working through a new Amphiox script, titled 'Idolon' for now because that's the second of like three very weird concepts that the reader needs to understand in order for the plot to work

The first concept was 'what is an amphiox' so that story was called... amphiox
November 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Sure. You can have a little boiling lava dropped from the sky, as a treat

#Gamedev #digitalart #art #animation
October 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I adore how sprite texture packaging looks and this one's giving me so much Halloween energy

#gamedev #digitalart
Clipped screenshot of an absolutely massive sprite texture packaging sheet. It features an assortment of disembodied animal parts, including skull caps, teeth, bones, claws, and jellybean-red blobs of lava goo. It's color scheme is mainly bloody reds, ghoulish greens, and nocturnal blues.
October 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Sure. You can have a little boiling lava dropped from the sky, as a treat

#Gamedev #digitalart #art #animation
October 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM