Twinkle Twinkle Little StarT

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Music by Armin Jusuframić, performed 2025, https://arminjmusic.com/

Thank you so much for this fantastic dark ambient reinterpretation!

The original version of this comic-animatic was drafted around 2010.

Dead Space was the game that motivated me to buy my first proper gaming computer back in the 2010s.

Back then, during a gaming party with some friends, one of them introduced us to Dead Space which he played in his Xbox 360.

I was Blown away. I was unaware of the advancements in horror gaming and loved the immersive environment and creature designs. So I started saving for both a custom gaming computer from a small PC building business(a Rig which would also serve me for art and design) and a physical copy at an Office Depot (I didn't know of Steam until the sequel came out). While I was setting apart the money to buy my gaming rig, thanks to the immense hype and anticipation I started drawing the original version of this comic.

This scenario was drawn thanks to the lore that my friend who owned the game at the time, told us while he was playing, and I also listened to the lullaby posted here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpYz4EQVo1w&list=RDbpYz4EQVo1w&start_radio=1,

Something to note is that, prior to drafting the original version I didn't see the marketing trailer, I didn't watch other gameplays or youtube videos, I didn't check the Wikia, and the character references for drawing were scarce on the internet. As you see that version was left incomplete. I was lacking some art skills, and the figures and books from the game were not very available in my country until much, much later. I got my PC and my game and forgot about it for a long while.

I picked up this fan art piece, after many years as it was a fun exercise in graphic narrative, and now I learned a bit of extra skills to properly finish comics.

For the storytelling, I took inspiration from the Lullaby and used the lyrics as symbolisms to narrate the sequence within these pages.

This is the tought process and break-down of the panels you see:

Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star (glowing eyes)

How I wonder what you are (a lifeform, a necromorph)

Up above the world so high (necromorph falls from the ceiling)

Like a diamond in the sky (Necromorph's glowing eye+ The Miner looking up)

When the blazing sun is gone, (Sun=Miner's life)

When the nothing shines upon, (Darkness=Miner's death)

Then you show your little light (Little light=Infector's Proboscis, sign of reincarnation/life, tunnel of light while dying or near death)

Twinkle, twinkle, all the night. (All the night=Time Passing, transformation ongoing, preparing to return to life as a new form)

Then the traveler in the dark, (Isaac)

Thanks you for your little spark, (living monster=uncleared area )

He could not see which way to go, (path unexplored, exit level is near)

If you did not twinkle so. (if Isaac didn't find a living Necromorph)

When the blazing sun is gone, (Marker blocks sunlight)

When the nothing shines upon, (Darkness=Marker is the source of the nightmare)

Though I know not what you are, (the necromorph looming behind)

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. (necromorph glowing eyes, little star= a lifeform)

I haven't checked newest sources or lore expansion to see if what I "saw" in the lyrics was accurate to the story's representation XD. But still, wanted to finish this. Thanks so much for watching! I hope to get/play the reboot and buy its artbook soon!