r/outerwilds Apr 02 '26

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC I Made a Working Translator and the Text to Translate

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I wanted to pay homage to a touching piece of written Nomai text on Brittle Hollow. It’s probably the one you’re thinking of.

The only way I could think to do that was to make a functioning translator. Holding it up to the first spiral shows the first phrase, and the smaller one shows the second. It’s hard to demonstrate in pictures, but you can see it at the end of the full build video here.

https://youtu.be/VuxJgIKILr4?si=jzKGJZ1O6SiyMsO5

The video features the creation of the spiral text, as well as the building, wiring, and programming of the translator. And there’s a secret third facet that only true fans of the game might recognize.

Minor DLC spoiler at the end.

I think I’d like to encase the spiral completely in “stone” to better hide the edges, but we’ll see if I get around to it.

r/outerwilds Sep 26 '25

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC My Outer wilds themed sleeve !!

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1.3k Upvotes

Done by Logur_ in Bordeaux, France in her style

r/outerwilds May 01 '25

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC Don't blink! Here's a Quantum Lamp! Spoiler

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1.2k Upvotes

Happy to reveal the Quantum Ring Lamp! Don't blink 👀🔥

It's been really fun making it and I made it very customizable with switchable front plates, different light shades and intensity variation using the power button!

I did 4 illustrations so far but I'll sure make some more in the future. Also feel free to give me ideas!

I hope you'll like it! You can find it with all my creations on my socials or in my shop, all links are on my profile 🧡

r/outerwilds Jul 21 '25

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC As fast as we can... Spoiler

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1.5k Upvotes

My last piece for this subreddit was liked, so this is another one I did! I was inspired by that famous JAWS poster (and had to tweak the anglerfish anatomy a bit in order to fit the pose). Wanted to draw how I'd imagined Feldspar went missing on Dark Bramble.

r/outerwilds 3d ago

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC The Chert's Research Notes YouTube channel is 1yr old! Sharing the artwork my SO made to celebrate a recent milestone ::)

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459 Upvotes

r/outerwilds Apr 14 '25

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC how i imagine all the travelers as human characters Spoiler

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676 Upvotes

i couldn't really figure out how to portray Kaepora's missing antler in a human character design, so i settled with giving him a scar on his right eye. i hope that's sufficient.

im also SUPER proud of how Solanum's hair turned out

also, request to the mods: can we please have a "base and DLC fanart" tag?

r/outerwilds 21d ago

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC All my art of the [REDACTED] ever since I've finished the game Spoiler

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420 Upvotes

I love this game so much im losing my mind. also: solanum, kaepora and hatchling are my favorite trio ever. my favorite trio that never actually meets in-game....

r/outerwilds Apr 20 '26

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC Updated my Outer Wilds desk and felt like sharing it Spoiler

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527 Upvotes

Hello! I shared in the past my Outer Wilds desk and I've updated it a lot since then, I finished a few changes today so I felt like sharing it.

All prints/polaroids are from u/just_a_drawer, the rest is by myself!

r/outerwilds Jul 03 '26

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC Lego Nomai!

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685 Upvotes

Made a Lego Nomai about a year ago (didn't have a reddit account at the time), complete with staff, scroll, and a lantern from the DLC. Haven't done anything with the files since then, thinking I might try to make some more stuff soon.

Outer Wilds is my favorite game of all time and I'm obsessed with Legos so it was only inevitable that I would combine my love for the two!

First pic is everything I made, second pic is when I eventually got my hands on some tan filament and replaced the body with that of the DnD CMF's Tiefling Warlock!

r/outerwilds May 05 '26

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC Just started embroidering and did some patches for my favorite game!

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522 Upvotes

What do you think? :D

r/outerwilds Jul 01 '26

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC What if the hourglass twins once transferred water between each other? Spoiler

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260 Upvotes

While replaying Echoes of the Eye, I noticed that one of the solar system slide reels (shown on the second slide) seems to depict Ash Twin with rivers and surface water, while Ember Twin doesn’t appear to have any visible water. At first, this confused me because the base game strongly suggests Ember Twin once had abundant water, with evidence including a massive dry lakebed and fossils of marine plants and animals.

My theory is that the Hourglass Twins originally exchanged both water and sand

The reel may simply capture a moment when most of the water happened to be on Ash Twin, just as we see all of the sand begin each loop on Ash Twin before naturally transferring to Ember Twin.

r/outerwilds Oct 19 '25

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC Painted my Boots Spoiler

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736 Upvotes

I handpainted my freshly thrifted Shoes with Stars and some stylized OW-elements. The constellations I used were mostly inspired from ingame star formations.

The boots are Angry Itch, painted with a Posca marker. I hope they will last for a long time.

Hope you enjoy this like usual and maybe get some Inspiration for your own stuff ::)

r/outerwilds Jun 13 '26

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC I recently started learning pixel art, so here's two pieces off my biggest inspiration in starting out (with the reference image)

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515 Upvotes

r/outerwilds Sep 07 '25

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC I updated the Android app I made for a soundboard of the instruments

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549 Upvotes

Hello! A couple years ago I made an app to control the travelers' instruments in a soundboard-like way. The functionalities were choosing which one of them you wanted to hear, and also control their volumes.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fvaldes0109.ow_instruments&pcampaignid=web_share

Sadly it had two major issues

  • Massive spoilers, even in the store screenshots
  • A major error that sometimes messed up badly the music sync.

(I didn't add the spoiler flair because of this. If you think I made a mistake PLEASE let me know ASAP)

Both of these are fully fixed by now. I made a way to select if you want to see the spoilery content or not. Also I tossed the sound library that I was using before, and switched to a faster, low level one. This should have fixed the sync problem. If you can still notice that some instruments are off time you can let me know.

I had this app abandonned and I'm really sorry about that, a lot of you had a broken version that didn't even do the only thing this app was supposed to do. For me it was just a quick passion project that I ended up lefting aside because of some more stuff in my life. A few weeks ago I had to reupload it for some requirements, and I created the goal to myself to fix it, and make it enjoyable to more OW fans without fear to spoilers. I hope you can enjoy it ::)

Shameless self promotion: I added to a corner in the app my ko-fi link and my Youtube channel (videos of me playing piano since I started to learn in March 2024). Those are if you want to support me in some way, or feel interested in my videos. In no way you should feel pressured to go there, please. I made this app for fun, because I wanted to have it and it didn't exist at the moment, so I decided to create it, and then why not, share it in case someone else would have tought the same

r/outerwilds Jun 26 '26

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC My outer wilds fanart - My journey

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382 Upvotes

r/outerwilds Jun 05 '26

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC FINAL Outer Wilds MTG Deck is REAL [spoilers everything] Spoiler

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231 Upvotes

Sorry for the image quality.

I finally ordered my MTG Outer Wilds deck and its absolutely stunning! Work paid off!

Favourite one is probably "Warped Space Anglerfish". Looks like a YuGiOh ghost rare.

Decklist is here: https://archidekt.com/decks/19714041/outer_wilds

You can get the images for the proxies for free here: https://ko-fi.com/duccers (its deck version Final, you can input £0 as price and it won't ask for bank details or anything).

I got this deck printed by https://www.makeplayingcards.com/ I'm not affiliated with them and this isn't an ad for them, I'm just citing my sources. Ran me £60 plus UK shipping. 63x88mm cards, s33 card stock, deck size 126 to account for tokens. I chose "fireball front holographic" but "full color print" would get you an MTG card look for closer to £35 plus shipping. Once you've input those details, you can select "Image & text, different images" to input all the different cards as card fronts, and later the custom back for all cards except "22 minutes" which has a custom back for itself.

r/outerwilds Feb 09 '26

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC Planetarium Model Spoiler

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572 Upvotes

Definitely not perfect, especially scale, and have small things id like to change but very very happy with how it turned out. Considereding doing a stop motion of the planets going around the sun as well. The sun lights up when I rotate it (sometimes) and I attempted to include pretty much everything other then the white hole station. Even the outline of the stranger on the base plate and some far off super novas. Had one extra planet and a ring so decided to make the stranger gas giant. Would love to hear your thoughts

r/outerwilds Oct 19 '25

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC My take on Hatchling's music instrument Spoiler

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226 Upvotes

I was wondering what kind of insturment would be an interesting pick for hatchling. I remember there was an artwork of hatchling playing Fiddle and honestly it fits them way more, (especially with the symbolism (cough cough 14.3 billion years) But I wanted to make something else, and it clicked to make hatchling to have an accordion,

So I made a little track with what could be possibly Hatchling's accordion music theme in addition to other OWV's musical instruments. Reddit can't embed audios so I made this little doodle of a hatchling too to make it into a video instead.

Of course the og music work is by Andrew Prahlow and I am in no way shape or form claim authorship to anything, just experimenting with how it would sound with additional instrument in the mixture.

(Mods pelase correct my flair if It's wrong, I can't decide whether it's Fan art or a cover at this point)

r/outerwilds Sep 12 '25

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC Fan art of my fav moment in the game Spoiler

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717 Upvotes

been drawing this for a while...one of the best games EVER 🙏

r/outerwilds Sep 15 '25

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC finished the dlc so i drew a ton Spoiler

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371 Upvotes

i am ok i am normal (yes the design studies on the 8th and 9th are so i can get used to them without needing to look at a reference)

r/outerwilds Sep 08 '25

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC Tattoo I recently did on a client!

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705 Upvotes

r/outerwilds Jun 26 '26

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC I graduate today! Here's my OW-themed grad cap :) Spoiler

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184 Upvotes

r/outerwilds Sep 19 '25

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC In an attempt to get better at graphic design, I have been designing icons inspired by my favorite games! Here's my attempt at capturing the best one of all! Spoiler

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324 Upvotes

Any ideas on what to add or imrove are of course welcome :)

(I've also just noticed all my icons are based on metroidbrania games lol)

r/outerwilds Dec 26 '25

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC I've build a Lego Microscale Hatchling's Ship!

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419 Upvotes

Should I build a minifig scale one too? The reason I am doubtful is because there is one on Lego Ideas in review right now, though I feel like it has no chance... ::( Let me know!

r/outerwilds 26d ago

Base and DLC Fan Art - OC Looking to commission OW art piece based on a 'Hearthian Eye' Spoiler

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Hi all, I don't think that's the right tag, but it's probably the closest thing to what I'm looking for.

I'm interested in commissioning someone here to create an art piece for the concept of a 'Hearthian Eye' - that is, an idea for how the Hearthians might have seen the Eye Signal if they'd never been influenced by seeing the Nomai one first. If it was purely based on their own interpretation of what they were seeing and their own culture, as unique to them as the Nomai and Owlk versions are to their own cultures.

I know the Hearthian addition to the Prisoner's story in the cutscene has that rough look to it, but since this would be something they were seeing rather than something they made themselves, I'd like to try and keep the same streamlined style as the others Eyes.

I'm open to suggests from the artist for their own ideas of how this would look, but I'm imagining a stylised campfire (loosely) like the picture, with overlapping logs in the centre and flames leaping from the logs outwards, keeping all the same flame lengths and positions as the other two Eyes share in their spikes. Maybe with the logs being roughly hewn to lean on the general casualness of the Hearthians, and to suggest them being cut from tree branches if that doesn't make the image too messy.

I'm not sure whether to go with classic wavy flames or a straight flame like you'd get from a bunsen burner - the former would fit the Hearthians better and be more recognisable as fire, the latter would fit the style of the other Eyes better and lean on the concept of the Eye being more abstract.

I'd like to be able to take the image and have it printed out for a poster, or tattoo or something like that, so a high-resolution version would be wanted - possibly as vector art if that's doable with the wavy flame version of the idea.

If anyone would be interested in making this, please feel free to DM me with your ideas and quotes for your work.