On Blue Horizon's imagery re: moon, stars, diamonds and more versus a recent popular indie animation.

09/26/25:

Since I wound up discussing with someone, just noting it down briefly (versus a new popular indie animation)--

I debuted Antonio Chandrani-Rivera and his Chandrani family's uniform and some of the diamond imagery July 2024 and even earlier than that, particularly via Blue Horizon: Bright Days, Sad Days Comic 3.

Antonio's initial Chandrani uniform design with a lot of stars, moons and waves near the bottom. It's a deep blue. He has brown skin, falling oceanic blue hair, and red eyes. He looks pouty.

Though I don't like referencing much due to the subject matter (self-harm warning), first time I utilized diamond imagery was late 2023 and near January 2024 with Alejandro's wrist-band in this drop of early sketches.

an implication of alejandro's arm outlined in pink upon light sky blue, and upon his palm a caterpillar trying to reach a soft orange shell, with a pink flower blossom nearby, pink petals surrounding the caterpillar, little sparkles in pastel rainbow color, each its own color, and on middle finger a light spring green butterfly with soft sky blue coloring and blue eyes and lining, on the forefinger little blue droplets of water, and a lavender ring on pinky finger. on his wrist is a wristband that's teal with three little orange fishes surrounding a multicolored sparkle.

So the imagery overlap with the recent popular indie animation is a coincidence.

I mostly focus on moon + star imagery as well as adding both Indian deity and Muslim imageries due to finding it interesting and fun, as I've talked about a few times prior.

The choices with Layla's suit colors are on purpose, though. (Both Americana + Bangladeshi, etc.)

I won't be low-keying any of the imagery I've utilized thus-far since around '23 just because of overlap! Some usage of certain imagery will increase, particularly Antonio and Nasir versus the likes of blue guts, since it hits key motifs above and doesn't look too realistic:

Antonio Chandrani-Rivera is hanging upside down as The Hanged Man, with a rope of dark blue entrails from an Eye Psyche capturing him. His little baby the aquamarine Sally the salamander heart demon is trying to burn it off him and seems soon-to-be-successful. The pink-colored iris of the eye with spring green rounding its outer edge and spring green pupil is noticing Sally. Behind him is a lot of blue-toned entrails and blue-toned sands falling. Antonio has red brown skin, red eyes peering sweetly at the person before him, and has his arms crossed, seeming rather confident. He wears a dark blue wetsuit and has one leg hanging and another simply crossed against his knee, showing a lot of thigh. His dark blue hair like waves fall down. The card reads XII (12) above and "the hanged man" at the bottom with shell and teardrop designs surrounding it. The outer card is a rose pink.

nasir hadid-salah has light bronze skin and wears a silvery-brown suit with pink tie. he has a very short cropped silvery afro and golden eyes staring a little morosely at the viewer. he stands with the fall of dark blue to aqua stands with curious violet-pink threads drifting from his feet. there are dark blue sands behind him and lighter blue sands above that look a little entraily. there are dark blue masses drifting toward him from above that look entraily too. there is a closing gold psyche eye staring down at him and wide red and silver psyche eyes staring up at him, all a part of the guts.

(These were dropped early August 2025 here and here.)

[There's further imagery and references I'm not going into (I do notice the Americana imagery), but overall those are my focuses.]

That's all!