Hello everyone, it’s been a minute since I’ve updated you all on what I’ve been working on but I’m finally making the time to share a bit more of that here.
2025 has been a crazy year so far (both in fun creative ways and in scary fascist ways) and I’ve been putting all my energy in the things that matter the most to me, one of the top things of these being art. At the end of last year, me and Hex set an intention to go full on this year with their project Voidxwitch, investing a lot of energy and time to do our best work so far both in terms of music, music videos and live performances in order to try to get the project off the ground.
VOIDXWITCH projects
In January, we released Bitch on Bitch and it’s accompanying music video which got an amazing reception on youtube. In parallel we were deep in the pre-production of our next release, which is gonna be our most ambitious yet.
In February I worked on designing and putting together the set for that next release’s video along with sourcing and making some props to dress the whole thing and create the perfect 90’s basement for it (you can see what it ended up looking like in the photos). In the process i learned out to build flats (fake walls), figured out how to hang heavy decor elements over actors safely, how to shoot green screen scenes, how to use a dolly and much much more. It’s been so exciting to finally be able to do all those film-making things that I’ve been reading about and seeing in making of documentaries. We also hired someone to shoot some behind the scenes of the process of shooting that music video, so we could share the process, teamwork and the creativity involved in making that whole vision come to life.
In addition to all that set building and shooting, I’ve been doing a bunch of 3d modelling and game design / coding for the same release. We can’t shoot a music video in a 90’s basement with a big CRT TV and a Playstation without having a proper game for the character to be playing :P I only needed to do a couple animated scenes of the game for the video shoot itself, but I’ve been building the game more and more ever since with the goal of making it a real little game that we could release at some point in the future.
If some of you are interested I could share more details on the process of designing the game, preparing the 3d assets and making the whole thing work. I’ve been working with blender and godot, both open source software and the process has been very fun overall, I’m really impressed how making games feel more accessible now than when i first tried like 10 years ago.
Pious Rot
A couple things have progressed the fantasy world I’m working on with my friend Sedge too. After a good round of playtesting and feedback from a couple people provided us with much needed info on what parts were missing and what worked, we set out to add characters to the world, along with more details for locations and rumours about them. I also made a couple of random tables to help DMs flesh out adventures and add interesting and varied encounters and obstacles in the way of the players.
It was also really humbling and motivating to read all the nice things that people had to say about the world and what stood out to them in terms of the themes and the intent behind it. The anti-colonial aspect, the focus on community over individuals and the animist undertones resonated with people and that’s really what matters to me the most in the whole thing.
Oh and I also started to put all the lore, items and locations on the pious rot website for everyone to use before we get the books done. And I’ve put a selection of the illustrated illustrations i did for it on it’s own page on my website too.
Apart from those projects, I’ve been healing my broken finger and doing physio to regain more mobility in it. it’s gotten much better now and I was able to resume tattooing this month. It’s been great to see my studio mates again and some of my usual clients.
I also took some photos around my neighborhood while it was covered with heavy fog earlier this year, you can see the result here .
I hope the beginning of the year hasn’t been too rough for you, and thanks again for the support :)