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Visual Development

Systematic World Building

The Philosophy

Whether it's a tabletop system, a narrative card deck, or an indie game, immersive worlds require more than just assets—they need a cohesive visual language. Characters must feel like they share a lineage; environments must tell a story before a word is read; and the aesthetic rules must hold true across every card, screen, and campaign.

The Approach

WellerVision develops visual ecosystems. We move beyond single illustrations to create aesthetic systems that give your world identity, depth, and commercial viability.

Our Focus:

Examples below

Projects

Market Tarot

Market Tarot

Symbolic Character Systems for Card-Based Design

A 22-card tarot deck exploring occult archetypes through Gothic stop-motion aesthetic and vintage tarot presentation. Features memento mori imagery, dark folkloric creatures, and medieval symbolism.

Demonstrates systematic approach to symbolic visual language, character variation within cohesive rules, and how to build a complete deck that feels unified.

Applications: Tabletop games, card-based mechanics, narrative-driven indie games, tarot-inspired systems, collectible card design

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Crumb Canvas

Crumb Canvas

Darkly Whimsical World Design

Character and environment design for narrative world set in magical realism exploring themes of ambition, existentialism and the human condition.

Demonstrates: Character design systems, environmental storytelling, world-building across narrative formats, tonal consistency (dark whimsy), translating visual worlds into motion

Applications: Indie game worlds, Kickstarter campaigns, narrative-driven design, character-based franchises

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Byzantine Christmas

Byzantine Christmas

Aesthetic Exploration & Thematic Visual Storytelling

12-part visual series exploring Byzantine iconography, sacred geometry, and medieval illumination aesthetics.

Demonstrates: Style reference development, thematic visual systems, aesthetic range within dark/atmospheric work

Applications: Historical game settings, thematic consistency, art direction exploration

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