#aitrus

A Bunch of My Work on Riven (2024) Alongside Comparable Riven (1997) Fanart from My Childhood

Model/materials for Gehn's costume | My middle/high school art of Gehn

Model/materials for Cho's costume | My 9th grade art of Cho

New Marvelous Designer pattern/drape for Atrus' costume | Various high school drawings of Atrus (including chibi Atrus, what a moment in time)

Concepts for Catherine's hair styling in Riven | 9th grade art of Catherine for my "Myst: The Animated Series" website on Geocities

Costume concepts for Aitrus & Ti'ana's imager recordings | Early college art of young Aitrus & Ti'ana

My model for the Gate Room beetle viewers | My own childhood Age concepts where I just inserted myself as the megalomaniacal false god figure instead of Gehn

Concept/model for the Moiety's shrine to Catherine in Tay and modular designs for Rivenese grave markers | Some of my college concepts for traditional Rivenese masks

Models for the chalkboards in the Jungle Island schoolroom to teach local Rivenese children the D'ni language | My own D'ni language notes from when I was a kid

And I'll have to do a WHOLE thread about the complexities of making all the journals for Riven, but for now:

My hand-lettered pages for the journals in Riven | My own childhood Myst journal

Some of my character/costume designs & models for the Riven remake!

When I joined Cyan last year it was primarily to figure out what the next game was going to be—I was going to letter the journals for Riven, sure, but then buckle down and focus on the company's future. But it turns out when you're a tiny indie studio, and your entire art team is swamped, and you have a ship day LOOMING in the not-so-distant future, maaaaaaybe it makes sense for Claire to stretch her concept/3D legs and fill in some gaps. 😅

About Aitrus!

Honestly I do love him a lot as well! I think the problem with him largely comes from the book itself being rushed and not written all that well and Aitrus suffers from lack of character development as a result.

(source: myluckyseven.net / wraithlike )

“I haven’t read book of Ti’ana in like at least ten years, so if this is inaccurate forgive me, this is the best I could do from skimming to the first description I could find, my poor memory, and that one picture of Aitrus from riven.

Her hair was auburn but then the shading kind of fucked it up weeellllp.”

I also felt a certain lack of depth in the side characters.  I think those details sometimes got sacrificed for the sake of the narrative’s pacing. Or perhaps the setting eclipsed them - in the same way that the environment in Myst is a character, there was a great deal of description devoted to the architecture and geology of each Age.