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Torture (Trigger Warning)
Dear Insane Children, Do you remember your childhood? I once heard that when adults can’t remember their childhood, it suggests the memories were not worth keeping – that perhaps there was pain, sadness, and/or abuse in the past. I have some happy memories. Also, some are painful. And lots of gaps in between. Never knew…
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Alice: Asylum Narrative Outline Version 2
Dear Insane Children, It’s here! The second revision of the Narrative Outline for Alice: Asylum. THANK YOU, to our Insane Children for making possible all the art, writing, design, and production that went into making this document possible. This is “Alice: Asylum” in script format – the document that will drive the production of the…
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Better Dangerous than Meek
Dear Insane Children, Adam finished the illustration in which we see the Shadow Self become Alice’s dominant personality. This is described in the Narrative Outline as a protective action by her psyche. And it explains how/why it is that the Alice we know (from the games) is actually Shadow Alice. The Child Self has been…
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Keanu Reeves in Alice: Asylum?
Dear Insane Children, Well… kinda. Many of you have joked in the past that Alice’s dad looks a bit like Keanu Reeves. So Omri went ahead and pasted Keanu’s face into this Christening Scene. Of it he says: i hate the cartoonish proportions so i’m pushing everyone into a more realistic style?we got Priss, Bumby,…
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Behold! The Clock Tower Battle 2022 Calendar Print.
Dear Insane Children, Feast your eyes on the final form of the 2022 calendar print we have been talking about recently. A pretty good image for the calendar I’m sure you’ll agree, as all the action takes place at the top of the image. First an important note for all the coming options you need…
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Turkey in the Oven (attempt 2)
Dear Insane Children, Joey and Omri finished “Turkey in the Oven” (kidding, kidding… I think the official title is “Fire House”) and it turned out great. And just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday! Speaking of that holiday… while we don’t exactly celebrate it here in China, it is a tradition to cook lots of…
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Who Needs a New Desktop Background?
Dear Insane Children, Answer: You do. You need a new Desktop Background! And Omri’s delivered a final version of “The Funeral” just for you! This scene is taken from the Narrative Outline in a section where Alice imagines the scene of her parent’s funeral… an event that she wasn’t allowed to attend. The narrative reads: …
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2022 Calendar Ponderings!
Dear Insane Children, Font Lord here with a simple question.Transparent or not? As some of you may know, we are going to do a 2022 Calendar Print, and as you can see from the above image, we’re wondering if the date box at the bottom should be solid as shown on the left, or should…
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Evolution of an Illustration
Dear Insane Children, A quick one this morning. Just sharing these two images to show how our artists go back and forth to sketch out an action sequence and the relevant static illustrations. Norm is really good at this – as you’d expect from someone who works professionally on comics and graphic novels. These images…
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This Is Fine
Dear Insane Children, Joey’s working on an illustration from the Alice: Asylum script in which we see child Alice fleeing her family’s burning home. The idea is that she’s supposed to make it out alive – otherwise, there would be no first game, no second game… hell, we wouldn’t be here talking about all of…