Jonathan does UI

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Games UI artist and cat enjoyer from New Zealand. You can check my stuff here: https://jonathancaridia.com

2 panel image, on the left is the runner design and on the right is ability descriptions and diagrams. The runner has a feminine body type posed looking at the viewer and gripping a blue cube. Her upper half has a knee-length light coat with decorative text and graphics, including plus signs up the torso in place of double breasted buttons and QR code-like squares in each lower tail corner. It has a very tall thick collar, taller on one side and open in the front. One arm has a cubic pauldron and a long loose sleeve, the other is sleeveless showing a dark tight underlayer. On the right hip is a boxy utility pouch. Her hair-mold is like a chin-length spikey bob covering one eye, dark on top and purple inside. She has pure blue sclera and glowing pupils. Dark graphics under one eye and her lower lip. Her legs feature a checker pattern around the upper thighs, robotic hinged knees and lower legs that look like thick-soled platform boots. A checker graphic runs up the shin reminiscent of laces, and a cubic design around the ankles. Text to the lower right reads: Personality Matrix: cold, controlling, focused. On the left, the abilities read: PRIME 3 cubelings seek the nearest targets and explode. Prioritise pinged targets. Damaged targets' weapons and abilities offline for a moderate time. Melee and knife unaffected. Long cooldown. TACTICAL Throw a matter cube. Rapidly grows wall at impact site. (Damagable.) Jams closed doors, blocks doorways and windows if detected at impact point. Some sight but no projectiles through small holes in surface. TRAIT 1 (combo with tactical) Jump near surface to create a platform. Crumbles after a short time. Usable by other runners, friend and foe. TRAIT 2 Enemies affected by Frag or EMP grenades are slowed for a short time.
The Bullfrog, a large, stout, flat-headed mecha. It has a spherical lower torso reminiscent of a large pot belly, with a curved seam running along it implying it opens to a cockpit. Scratched and dented, mismatched colours from replaced panels, and covered in graffiti. One arm is heavily armoured and spiked, with a spread-eagle bird emblem and the acronym HRF on its shoulder, signaling its allegiance with the Hearth Revolutionary Forces. the other holds a large hammer over its shoulder. The hammer's head is shallowly spiked like a meat tenderiser, there is a large piston in the rear and a smoking vent on the side. Ribbons and talismans hang from the end of the shaft. Graffitied slogans read "Break the wall", "Free Hearth Now", and "Number 1 Corp Kicker".
Minimalist poster, centrally featuring an open pocket pack of tissues, printed with the words Official accessory for Hamnet, directed by Chloé Zhao, 2025
A slim frog-like mecha with extra, spidery arms, in an athletic hunched pose on all fours looking off to the side. It has a striking 2-tone colour scheme - the head and forearms are a vibrant red, with the rest a charcoal black, the HRF colours. The separation is scribbly, and it is decorated with graffiti. Its head is wide and flat with an organic shape, dominated by 3 large front-facing eyes - 2 at the edges of the face and one at the centre. There is also a 4th inset into the centre top of the head, pointing up. A thin medium-length antenna is on each side of the back of the head. Its hunchback torso has extra armour plates along the back, and a scratched shiny windshield in front, indicating the pilot lies inside. In front is a small bull bar to protect it. Attached to its side is a thin upraised gun barrel of a glue gun. Two long antennae sweep back from the upper back. Its organic-shaped main arms and legs look like slender toned muscle. Large hands and feet give a strong frog impression, as the digits end in big circular pads. Each pad has a yellow ribbon cable, which along with the metallic colour imply they are electromagnets. Thicker round cables wind up the forearm to plug in the inside of the elbow. On the outside of each shoulder are 2 more thin arms each, slightly longer than the mains, ending in tiny 2-fingered hands. The right pair rest lightly in front, and the left are raised, prepared for action. Graffii: On the upper back is "Passenger Princess", referencing its role riding allies around. Lower back armour plate, various thank you messages scrawled in different colours: Best Teammate, IOU, Thanks!, a heart, Lifesaver!, and 5 star support. Back head: bubble lettered word FROG, and the kanji for spider above one eye. A spider-limb forearm has "No-one left behind", and on a shin is "Hop 2 it!" Text below reads: HRF Nagaoi, Ride or Die Companion. Patellar Reflex Induction, K.R.A/GL Ejector, Positive Feedback Link, F.R.O.G. Art: Jonathan Caridia.
A slim mecha, with digitigrade dog-like legs, and one arm missing, replaced with an array of antennae, dishes and multi-lensed cameras. The one hand holds a crossbow pointed downwards with twin sets of arms, making it X-shaped, holding a twin-headed arrow with sparks arcing between the two heads. There is a quiver of arrows with different heads on its back, one resembling an RPG warhead. It is in a police livery half painted over, and covered in graffiti slogans and graphics, and dirt. The head is flat and snake-like with a thin wrap-around visor, antenna on one "ear" and a V-shaped fin on the other. It has some small extra scope optics attached with a strap, resembling an eyepatch. It wears a chequered tasselled cloth around its neck, with a pin featuring a spread-eagle bird attached. On the upper arm holding the crossbow is a piece of retrofitted armour, a grid of metal like modern tank cage armour. Below the quiver is a mechanical loading arm for the arrows. There is a glowing orange window in the centre of the chest partially covered by the neck cloth, presumably looking at the reactor. The chest and hip area have a number of angled stand-off metal bars, and the hips have a little light on top of each, one red and one blue. There is a yellow taser-like weapon holstered on the inner thigh. The slim legs end in 3 little claws. On the main large round piece of the sensor array, is a smiley face and graffiti saying "Smile! You're on camera". On the back-mounted quiver is a kingfisher icon, on one thigh is scrawled ACAB and on the other "No Pasaran!!" On the side of the crossbow is "deny, defend, depose" and a crown with a red line through it (no points for subtlety). Behind the mech is the word Diamondback in outlined graffiti font, partially obscured. At the bottom is text reading: HRF Diamondback - Track and Trace Hunter. Adaptive Intrusion Suite, Volt Pistol, Trojan Override. Art: Jonathan Caridia. Lancer: The Mech RPG. And some copyright information.
A bipedal digitigrade mecha, with a solid triangular torso and spindly 3-jointed arms. One arm holds a wood-finish bolt-action pistol over its head, and the other has a long curved metal board strapped to it, containing a variety of mines ready to deploy. The mines have messages scratched into them: "From: HRF (heart)", SURPRISE!, and an owo face. It has a large roll cage over its torso-mounted cockpit with rounded windshield. Graffiti on it reads "If you can read this, say your prayers!!" Rope is slung over its shoulder, tied to a variety of explosive devices. Its top edge is covered in vibrant plants, possibly as camouflage. On one shoulder, a mine with robotic legs and antennae perches. Its right side is roughly painted red, and on the right shoulder is scrawled "Union Strong", and Moria in hand graffiti style. Embedded in the left side of the torso is a deep chute with studded cylindrical mulchers at the bottom, leading to complex machinery with a delivery chute at the bottom, like a vending machine. Inside the chute is an arrow pointing down accompanied by the text "TSC + Fasc" and on the outside is scratched "Feed Me". Below this on the lower left thigh is scratched "ACAB - All Corps Are Bastards". Text at the bottom reads HRF "Agama" Guerilla - Question Every Step Scurrier Modifications, Liberator Pistol, High Explosive Charges Art: Jonathan Caridia
A large, squat, hunchback mech in an upright quad-leg configuration, clearly made from mismatched, damaged parts and patched-on armour plates, and covered in dirt, rust and grime. It has one large arm on one side ending in an armoured fist with two small flames atop it, and on the other it has 2 mismatched arms, one holding a sledgehammer with ends glowing with heat, and the other attached to a large shield resembling a bent car radiator. Its top and chest armour is made of a huge bucket scoop from a digger, cut diagonally to reveal its horned head and a series of glowing pipes and exposed reactors. Around its waist are a series of mismatched vents radiating steam. Its four thick legs are also mismatched, with the two most visible in front ending in a shoe-like foot and a flat, circular piston-suspended platform with 4 toes arranged evenly around it. Both are covered in patched bare metal armour plates. It also is decorated with graffiti, consisting of the symbol of the Hearth Revolutionary Forces (a large red bird) on the chest armour, and the above the head the slogan "Burn bright the fires of liberty". There is a large red Anarchy symbol on one thigh. Text at the bottom of the image reads: HRF Hellbender, Heat Based Tanking. Ash Overflow Vents, Intervention Tempering, Superheated Sledgehammer. Art: Jonathan Caridia. LANCER: The Mech RPG
A scratched and patched up ninja-looking mech. Parts are mismatched colours as though replaced with different coloured sources, like a cheap panel beating job. There is duct tape wrapped around its left thigh and calf. Its right arm contains a thin spiked pile driver and ends in a clawed hand, and its left holds a long, slightly curved sword behind its back with black blink energy bubbling off it. It's wearing a hooded cloak which makes its body invisible, with a rainbow iridescent sheen. The sword is distorted and visible through it. It has graffiti in places - HRF sprayed on the right thigh, HARP with 3 harps crossed out in red on the shoulder, BANGARANG scratched into the left upper arm, and "AGI ❤" marked on the lower right arm. Text below the mech reads: HRF "Jiraiya", Wraith in Shadow. Stilletto, Shadow Clone, Blink Sword, Flash Step. Art: Jonathan Caridia
Screenshot of text that reads "Agnes Tachyon: Horse"
Man smiling and pulling a reverse V hand sign over a fresh grave
Dwayne The Rock Johnson eyebrow raise
A lizard-like quadrupedal mech with light smokey limbs and tail made of nanites, covered with protective cages and posed aggressively looking at the viewer. It has 2 large, angled smokestack-like cylinders protruding above either shoulder, covered in small holes and leaking the same smoke that make up the limbs in loops and whirls. Another at the back has the thick smoke tail snaking out of its end. There are protective curved metal plates to about halfway on all of them, covered in a variety of graffiti and tags, including the name Jeff, a kickflipping long lizard (the titular Olm), a flaming skull and a small sheep. The head is flat and angular with protruding, long slit eye lenses, and a hatch in the middle of the forehead. A gridded bull bar wraps all the way around the head. There is a bright orange antenna extending back from the left side of the head, with many spikes along it, like a sparse feather or fern. The body is contained within a roll cage like a stock car, tapering at either end, and with X-shaped supports. Along the top pipe is written "No Cages On H7", referencing the homebrew's planet Hearth-7. Smoke strands from the front and rear legs weave through the side bars. The body consists mainly of series of cylindrical drone bays arranged like a 6-pack of cans, with lens doors in the top. One is open. Haphazard armour plates are on the sides under the cage. Flying above the mech is a quad-copter drone carrying a stack of thick pancake-shaped mines. An opening in the front with two guide prongs can shoot them out. Drive fans are disturbing the smoke from the top of the nexuses. Floating to the left of the mech, there's also a small dense ball of darker nanites formed into floating shields, linked by a thin strand to the front left shoulder nexus. At the bottom is text reading: HRF "Olm" Nexus of Defence Nanodrone, Symbiotic Interdiction, Mineprinter drone, Chaff Charge Nexus And the author and game name to the right.
A skinny mech in a half-crouched stance with a lowered long gun in its hands, couched in its shoulder. The other shoulder's armour has a big X of tape over it. It has scratched and faded paintwork, a red layer over blue (lore being it's stolen tech from the Hearth Revolutionary Forces' opponents, the TSC, painted over TSC blue with HRF red.) It has mismatched legs, one a replacement stapled on mid-thigh which is no more than a knee joint and thin piston lower leg with a paddle foot. It is wearing a visor down with three glowing lenses in a triangle pattern, with one on our left being twice as big as the right two. two fins jut off the side of the visor like ears. Out the back of the head leads a thick bundle of thumb-thick cables kept together with cable ties, that lead down into the side of its gun-shaped weapon above the grip. The gun is rifle-sized and had tape on the stock, symmetrical spikes along the barrel like a puffer fish. A jellyfish is scratched on the side. (This is a reference to its original name, Irukanji.) 6 small barrels peek out a smooth cowl, arranged in a 3x2 pattern. It's darkened towards the end. On its back is a conical generator with glowing loops of string-like wisps coming off its bright back end. Similar wisps are scattered over the Krait's entire right side. The generator has a missing side panel with visible glowing components and cables inside. It has a wide, stubby armored tail. There are glowing copies of itself just behind the main image which match the generator glows, intended as a teleportation effect. Text at bottom reads: HRF "Krait" Blink and you'll miss it "Hawkeye" Visor, Averter-Class Nexus, Reactive Warp Modification Art: Jonathan Caridia LANCER: The Mech RPG LANCER is copyryight Massif Press. This Illustration is an unaffiliated third party work for the Hearth-7 Homebrew project.
A chunky pot-bellied mecha with a large hammer held over one shoulder. Spiked, raw metal armour on one arm, flat head with glowing eyes, tree-trunk legs with two-toed feet, and a jury-rigged reactor in the right side of its chest, cables leading from it to under the shoulder and fiery light spilling from a diagonal slit. Mismatched body plate colours with scratches and weathering, and graffiti messages: across the right of the belly, "Free Hearth Now" scrawled in all caps, and "Irori" in bubble text. On the left shoulder, the initials TSC with 18 checkmarks below it. "Justice" is underlined handstyle on the left unarmored forearm, the Anarchist A in a circle on the lower left leg, and a roughly sprayed spread-eagle bird on the lower right arm plate. The hammer has a thick iron shaft, with cloth pennants and two small gold rings tied to the end. The body has a smoking vent in the side and a few thick cables running to it from a smaller secondary box where it connects to the shaft. The head is a geometric square shape, ridged with large shallow pyramid shapes like a tenderising mallet. on the opposite end is a cylindrical shape that looks a bit like a piston head. In the lower part of the frame is some text in a bold sans serif geometric font that reads: HRF "Bullfrog", Momentum-Gathering Wrecking Ball. Power Hammer, Graveltrap. Molyneux "Molly" Plasma Charges. Jonathan Caridia. Lancer, the Mech RPG. Behind it all is large outlined graffiti text that says "Bullfrog" again as a decorative element.
Book spread in the style of a medival illuminated manuscript, with large ornate drop capitals and watercolour decorative banners and florals. First page reads: Premise Spengland. A land filled with beauty and mystery, from its shining lakes to verdant forests and cerulean snow-capped peaks. A land of humanity, who struggle, who laugh and make war and drink and sing. A land of monsters and spirits. A land of legend. Tales tell of the ancient Sky-Kings who came with gifts most wondrous and terrible, among them the machine-armors piloted by our gallant knights. While their workings are mostly lost to time, among many other wonders they struggle on, kept by the faith of those remnants with the scraps of knowledge to keep the kingdom’s sole miracle printer churning out - GET ON WITH IT! Oh fine, how’s this? It’s a medieval feudal society where Union contact was made and then lost, leaving remnants of tech to make things interesting. Spengland, or Space England, is ruled by King Arthur the Fifth, and mech pilots serve as his knights. Arthur recently had a dream in which Christian God told him to find a lost ancient relic to bring glory to his kingdom - the Holy Leviathan Assault Cannon, known for its golden sheen, Radiant damage and most virtuous +1 to hit. However, he is much too busy to get it himself, so he posts a Quest on the Royal Craigslist for knights brave and cunning enough for the job. Running this adventure This adventure is intended to run in one session (not including character creation), consisting of an estimated 4-6 hours depending on experience, number of players, combat reinforcements used and how into the roleplay and japery everyone gets. It is silly and about 73% Monty Python by weight, so you have been warned. It contains a series of narrative challenges resolved with skill checks, followed by a single combat. The challenges drain the players’ resources whether they succeed or fail, to simulate a more traditional mission. ...oops out of charactr
A tumblr post by user portentsofwoe. Large title "This Day in Art History" followed by a picture of Edward Hopper's 1942 paining "Nighthawks", depicting four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner's large glass window - two men in dark suits and hats, the server in white and a lady in a red dress. Underneath is text reading: "June 7th, 1942: Edward Hopper completes his best known painting, the seminal Nighthawks. When asked by a Chicago Tribute reporter about the philosophical meaning behind the diner having no clearly visible exits Hopper responded, “Shit. Fuck. I did it again. Goddamnit. Fuck. Not again. I did it again. Shit." and slammed his hat on his leg." (This is a humorous invention by the original poster and did no really happen.)
After Effects UI work in progress of an Overheating heat gauge