#moth animula

Be aware that these are super early concept ideas, especially on wing details, they can change.

Yeah it came so close for a while, didn't it? Like, from peeking at the poll, the swallowtail was popular and in the lead for a while, then axolotl design gained traction, and then the papillon rose in votes too. It did get really close for a while, and I was worried there was going to be a tie or 3 way tie.

But I am happy with the swallowtail design winning, honestly, the 3 most popular picks were the ones I liked the most for the butterfly animula, and I was struggling to decided so that's why I did the poll.

And I'm glad others really liked them too.

But I am just really happy to have a definitive base for the butterfly animula to work off of. And swallowtail is a good one! It's an actual butterfly breed that gives me a lot of options for color ideas and wing designs, which I will for sure be experimenting with the wings more as this was more a rough draft.

And for the other most popular takes, I will try to incorporate them a little as I do like them. I have an idea for a firefly animula I haven't started designing yet, so the axolotl could may be a starting base for it, just got to tweak the wings to not be so butterfly themed. I also wouldn't mind trying to design a salamander animula so it could also go there, and could even creatively keep the wings as in European myth, the salamander is a fire fairy (probably won't but could be fun to consider).

While I couldn't exactly do the papillon design as that would be butterfly exclusive given it's name means butterfly, I did have a thought to literally play off wolf spider for the spider animula and a canine could be kept in for the bugs/arachnids.