Mystic_Ode

伝国璽は、犠牲のカプセルの刻印と女王の剣に沿ったルーン文字の 1 つと比較されました。 The Heirloom Seal of the Realm compared against the markings on the sacrifical capsule and one of the runes along The Queen's Sword.

@zackmannx.bsky.social あなたがデザインしたルーン文字について、何度も話題に出して申し訳ありません。デザイン過程について何か覚えていらっしゃいますか？中国の篆書体からインスピレーションを得ているのではないかと考えています。具体的には、ある人が伝国璽を見せてくれたのですが、そこに描かれている人フィギュアだけでなく、カプセル全体に広がる櫛状の形にも見覚えがありました。

この古代の中国の文字のスタイルは、犠牲のカプセル、エレベーター、女王の剣のために設計されたものに非常に近いように感じます。ただ、外国人で、この分野について正式な教育を受けていない私には、判断が難しいです。

Unusual Sirius image

A concept storyboard. Ico is bound at the wrists by cuffs, and being taken up to the altar, where a statue stands. Pushing him along (occupying the margin area of the sheet), is an adult wearing cloak and hood, with a skull face visible in profile.

ICO Trivia #21:
In an early storyboard concept, one of the priests has what appears to be a skull mask on, below their hood.

#ICO 【参加者募集中】ICO25周年記念アンソロジー - かげやのイラスト - pixiv ＩＣＯ25周年記念アンソロジーを発行いたします。25周年(ニコ）にあやかり「笑顔」をテーマに、みなさまの笑顔あふれた一冊を作成したいと思っています。今年の冬コミで頒布予定です。詳細はＸ(@ico25t

Artists who can effectively communicate in Japanese may want to look at this. There's a chance your work could be approved for inclusion in this fanwork anthology for ICO's 25th anniversary! Deadline to join: 3/31/26

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Ico (from ICO) does end up having a tagging problem, yeah.

A concept storyboard. Ico is bound at the wrists by cuffs, and being taken up to the altar, where a statue stands. Pushing him along (occupying the margin area of the sheet), is an adult wearing cloak and hood, with a skull face visible in profile.

ICO Trivia #21:
In an early storyboard concept, one of the priests has what appears to be a skull mask on, below their hood.

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Tall narrow illustration of a sword inspired Wander’s sword from Shadow of the Colossus. Many distinct objects, artifacts, trinkets, foliage, and swirling details fill the background. This is a hand-drawn digital illustration in full colour

New swords illustration series! 🗡️ This one inspired by Wander’s sword from Shadow of the Colossus. (and more swords to come… ) #shadowofthecolossus #illustration #sword #digitalart

Long illustration of a sword inspired by Shadow of the Colossus. The sword is framed by ferns, doves, lizards, feathers, and a ceremonial mask. This is just the inks work in progress and not the final illustration

A new swords illustration series in the works 🗡️ #shadowofthecolossus #inks #drawing #wip

But so long as they had fun with it and learned something about the process of texture replacement, I can't really be too critical. It seems like a playful experiment, judging by the screenshot. I don't think this was really made to be the definitive texture upgrade.

I frankly expect to see bright idolatry of SotC's symbols from members of this community, so to be honest, the most upsetting thing to me is that they gave Yorda pupils.

The old riso printer was fighting hard. #riso #illustration #digitalart #ico #fanart

uh oh, i got those shadow of the colossus and team ico brainwoims again

I forgot to share my custom feed.

You can use it to find and connect with fans of not only ICO, but Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian!

I have to manually moderate the feed to avoid off topic posts bypassing the filter, and it can't track every post about the games, but it's very useful.

if there were a way to distill this feeling in a bottle, i'd douse myself in it like a perfume

it's this simple, nostalgic, faded twilight of passed time that i want to share in my own writing; even if just to capture a speck of that hidden place between memory

You can find other SotC covers on the site, though they might be easier to find if you used the Japanese title: ワンダと巨像 (trans lit. "Wanda and the Colossus").

To clarify, for all these artists I've listened to almost all their discography and I encourage you to explore for yourself, if you like. See what sounds good to you.

But if you prefer, I can also list some specific tracks from each.

Mm, I see. Moving to music tends to be my 'exercise' more often than not. So that speaks to different experience with music and visualizing it, I think.

Still, I'll point you to Anaïs Mitchell, Carter Vail, and The Crane Wives.

That's unfortunate. Could I recommend some artists I listen to? Or do you lack motivation to listen to new songs, generally?

I think I remember you saying you don't pay much attention to lyrics in music. But matching lyrics to scenes is entirely what motivates me to create AMV edits. And if I can give metaphorical or abstract lines a more literal connotation through the visuals, that's where I get a lot of satisfaction.

Maria and Shadow surely played with a Gerald's spare glasses once. This is true to my understanding of events now.

Yesssssss. It's a great look!

This translation service also takes longer than, and is far less accurate compared to, the machine translation feature I have by default on my android phone.

A photograph of Edge magazine issue 142, featuring “Ico 2” (which would later be renamed Shadow of the Colossus). It shows the first colossi from the game with the main character riding a horse towards it

Edge Issue 142 - November 2004

Ico 2

Big, ugly, beautiful:
Sony rebuilds the platform game

#EdgeMagCover

"If Ueda and his team achieve what they've set out to... if it succeeds at retail - then Ico becomes relevant again, and gaming can start to learn everything about storytelling, maturity and the soul, everything it should have learned the first time around."

I didn't know anything about Lifeline before visiting your site, so we're in the same boat, I suppose! Happy to see we stumbled into a knowledge exchange!

i love weird nerds on neocities making pages for obscure games

Absolutely check this out. Especially if you've never heard of this title.

I see Ico and I just wanna stand across a room holding my hand out going HUUAUAAAAAHHH at you

Anime Symphony accueillera aussi Michiru Ôshima, que l'on connait bien avec Wayô Records pour avoir conçu un concert avec elle en 2011 ! Compositrice très prolifique, connue pour ICO, Fullmetal Alchemist et même Godzilla !

13 Juin prochain à Paris ♫
🎟️ animesymphony.net/tickets/