Hey folks! Tanya here, while Alexandra is on vacation. Meanwhile, Tarn and Zach are heads-down integrating interface into their various menus, because... drumroll please... we have an artist working on making new icons and interface elements! In fact, she's a new artist, so please welcome Carolyn Jong, a Dwarf Fortress player and pixel artist, as well as Guido (perhaps better-known among some sprite artists as Neorice). Carolyn, Jacob, and Guido will all work together to get the game fully art-ified. Speaking of which, Guido drew a few new strangers we can show you. Asked about them, Zach says "Deep under the ground, and in the farthest wilds, there are strange people. Like feral beasts they spend most of their time thinking about food and romance, ignoring the irrelevant, such as your dwarves. For they are not ordinary people... they are animal people. It's best to keep your distance and let them be, for one day they may come to you looking for adventure!" So, feast your eyes on some top-tier animals and the animal-people they correspond to: [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//34693670/94d5329ffde856a0fd2df07cd8a64d367a7f1d77.png[/img] Tarn particularly likes the snowy owl person, and called them, "a good chonky floof". We can all agree. What animal-people are you looking forward to most? Any favorites from your playing in Classic? Tomorrow, I'll try to prioritize showing a preview of at least the first few answers in the comments in a reply, assuming those exist somewhere in the sprite sheet I have...! OK going back to work, Tanya (Captain of Kitfox Games) P.S. If you're subscribed to [url=https://www.kitfoxgames.com/sendy/kitfox-subscribe]the Dwarf Fortress newsletter[/url], you might have seen this post some hours earlier in your email inbox.. though I suppose it also didn't properly explain who Guido is, and the image would have been less... polished, let's say. You win some, you lose some.