I’m working on a personnal project called “Octa Solis” (just little stories taking place in a solarpunk city)! It turned out pretty good i think but in my next concepts i’d like them to be a lot more solarpunk in the designs
Ultimately I’ll try and animate it! 😁

  • JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    I’m not sure if this will help, but I put together a list over on the writing wiki of elements that people in solarpunk spaces previously said they’d like to see in solarpunk art/writing.

    The list is here. Your art is already conveying tons of cool solarpunk elements so this may be kinda redundant or not rigorous enough. Semi-related, I always want to emphasize salvage and reuse in solarpunk so I might point you to a list of ways parts from cars could be reused.

    • OctoLumia@slrpnk.netOPM
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      3 days ago

      OH ! This is some gold mine your giving me here ! this will be incredibly useful, thank you so much ! you have quite a lot of content already in the list ! honestly, when I’m researching for solarpunk elements a lot of solarpunk images tend to be AI junk, picturing the same ideas over and over again (there is so many It’s so sad) so having people direct ideas and what they’d like to see in a solarpunk futur is such a blast (and much more inspiring) ! thanks a lot !

      • JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net
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        3 days ago

        I’m so glad! I love digging into the gritty details for worldbuilding so I’ve been having a lot of fun formalizing my own notes and building out new pages. Pushing back on nonsense trends (and eventually AI) is a big part of why I started researching and making solarpunk art! I spent a lot of time trying to croudsource input before I did a scene - the same way you’re doing, and I think it’s an important part of getting it right.

        • OctoLumia@slrpnk.netOPM
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          16 hours ago

          Yeah, I feel you… I mean what really gave the impulse to my desire to dive into this project was the fact that the fantastic solarpunk animation “dear alice” is actually a damn ad for dairy products… that’s so dystopic haha, “nonsense trends” is really great wording about this. I had absolute sparks in my eyes when I watch that video, and the product placement made it fake and inauthentic Your pieces are so cool, i’ll do my best to add my own contribution to the art created by all the hearty artists who have worked to make people dream 💪