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HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 31

ReNDoG x Borderlands

Minecraft youtuber Rendog in the style of Borderlands. he is wearing a yellow environmental suit over his usual outfit and has a bright turquoise visor with metal frames that resemble pointed dog ears on the sides of his head. On his belt is a bad that has the GigaCorp colors. Behind him is his own name in a large, all caps yellow font that spans across the image on a slight diagonal. The font has a weathered texture and a thick black outline. The entire image is on a pale purple gradient background.

For Rendog I chose the first-person looter shooter video game series Borderlands!

Ren's base this season reminds me a lot of Borderlands (at least so far). With its desolate landscape, eccentric naming conventions, and industrial buildings put in place by a morally questionable mega-conglomerate, it would fit right in as a setting in one of these games.

Borderlands is an incredibly fun (and funny) game series that I highly recommend playing if you've never picked it up before. However, the games have a lot of adult humor and are very violent, though the violence is played for laughs. If you're familiar with the character Deadpool, Borderlands has a very similar energy.

To learn more about Borderlands and see my style references, continue below the cut.

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Borderlands is a series of first person looter shooter games set in an open world with a procedurally generated weapon system. The plot of the games follows a group of protagonists with various abilities who complete missions and explore the planet (usually a place called Pandora) in order to find and unlock a fabled treasure trove called a Vault. These Vault Hunters (shoutout Iskall) are not exactly heroes, but as the player you have the option to help people along the way.

There is a lot more to the Vault Hunters' adventures throughout the games that just looking for treasure. Each game has an engaging plot and memorable characters, but the the core gameplay for the entire series is this: shoot, kill, loot a badass new gun, rinse and repeat.

Borderlands is a blast to play and no two playthroughs are exactly the same. It's also great fun to play with your friends and has an excellent multiplayer mode. The series also has a unique aesthetic that makes it look like you're playing in a 3D comic book. The effect is really cool.

Style references:

A screencap of a Pandora setting from Borderlands 3. In the foreground is the player character, who appears to be a young woman in big chunky armor. In the background is a gas station that looks like its bolted together using rusted junk from various other gas stations. The building is sitting in the middle of an orange brown desert with large jagged rocks sticking up from the ground. There does not appear to be anything else nearby.

The games take place mostly on Pandora, a desert planet which has a lot of abandoned industrial buildings and machinery from various intergalactic corporations. Most of what the companies left behind have since been looted and incorporated into ramshackle towns populated by the locals.

An image of Handsome Jack on a grey background that has the texture of splattered paint. Handsome Jack is a well kept man with clean clothes, an expensive looking watch, and shoes that look like converse. Picture a fintech startup guy but put him in a scifi western setting. Notably, Handsome Jack is, in fact, handsome, but his face is a lifelike mask of his own face bolted in place on his head. You eventually find out why he has a mask for a face in the games.

This is Handsome Jack, the primary antagonist from the second game. The games use hand-drawn textures for the characters, which create the comic book-like feel.

The word Borderlands in a big, blocky, all caps font. The font is on a diagonal across the image. The text is bright yellow and has a weathered texture. The letters all have thick black outlines.

The Borderlands title design.

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I adore how this one turned out it was very difficult and I am really proud of myself I am especially proud of how I was able to incorporate the yellow GigaCorp environmental suit into his design in a way that looks good with his red shirt and bright turquoise visor plus I even managed to include the dog ears without giving him actual dog ears since in a Borderlands setting they would have likely been something like an actual dog's ears stapled to the sides of his head and that would have been much too grim for Ren anyway this one of my favourite pieces for this month Thank you to the organizers of Hermit-A-Day May This challenge was loads of fun and I definitely learned a lot rendog RentheDog hermitcraft hermitaday

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