Kate Solbakk

@protozoaprincess.bsky.social

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Microbe artist specializing in soil life. Currently building a game where you play as a microbe 🦠 Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3650410/Cellscape/

A screenshot from a microbe themed video game set in a soil environment, with hand-drawn artwork. There are soil particles of various sizes, strands of fungal hyphae, protozoa and bacteria.
A large crab spider hiding among vetch flowers, with a bumblebee hovering just above it.
A group of hens eating red berry slush treats out of ice cream boxes.
A hat with strips of sticky fly tape on top. Several deer flies are trapped in the glue.
Reddish-pink long tongue-shaped plants covered in hairs with droplets of liquid at the tips, growing in a mossy bog.
Deep pink foxglove flowers on a tall stalk with a rocky slope in the background
A pale calico cat lounging on her back on a patio table next to a vase of yellow flowers.
A stalk with sparse white orchid flowers in sunny meadow, with diverse grasses and wildflowers
Metallic green weevil standing on the tip of a small tree branch with a folded stem and rolled up leaf.
View from a garden chair with a laptop, sunny blue sky and hilly Norwegian rural landscape in the background.
Dark field microscope image of compost. The image shows scattered debris that looks somewhat glass-like, ranging from colourless to soft gold and brown colours.
A chicken standing on my knee getting ready to grab my lunch
A screenshot from the game Cellscape, showing a chaotic feeding frenzy of bacteria and protozoa
A microbe-themed video game in progress demonstrating a parallax background with hand painted soil layers.
A screenshot of a Unity game in progress. The character, a rotifer, is bending to the side but there is an outline left behind because colliders were not set up correctly.
A screenshot from Unity’s sprite editor showing a section of a game character with animation rigging in progress.
A screenshot of a 2D video game in development, showing a newly constructed border made of detailed painted soil clumps.
A screenshot from a microbe game in development with a large number of identical flagellate protozoa facing the same direction
A demo of a 2D video game where the player controls a small protozoa character swimming through a soil environment, eating bacteria until it divides and then gets caught by a ciliate predator.
A demo of a top town 2D video game in early development. The player character is a small microbe with simple white line art on a black background. The player swims around eating bacteria to grow and eventually divides into two cells.
A partially complete drawing of a turtle rotifer using stippling technique in black ink on white paper with a 02 Micron pen. The view is top down, and the drawing is highly detailed.