If you can't watch the youtube videos ehhhhhh don't worry about it.
The premise of the project is "appreciating the NPCs and fan passion of Omori", so all the characters with only a line or two of dialogue. (or more, main characters are included, but it's primarily ABOUT NPCs.) Every artist gets to draw 1 NPC, they have to draw 3 frames of it so it's animated kinda like the game is. Then they're put in a book like the Foe Facts from the video game.
Every artist draws it in their own artstyle, because it's showcasing how cool it is we can get 500 people together to collaborate just over the fan love of Omori.
The only problem was getting 500 people.
"hiii! this is skylar, we’ve talked a bit in the nightshade server :)
i'm working on a pretty big collaborative project for the 5th anniversary in a little over a year... and since i’m impressed by your analysis and art alike, i was reaching out to see if you'd be interested in helping.
i have pretty much all of the resources and organization done already, i just don't have a big enough reach in the fandom to work on recruiting mods and contributors on my own, so i'm now at the step of reaching out to people i’m already familiar before i launch it publicly. i hope you understand since we’re both pretty new in the community :)
of course, you're not obligated to partner with me on this, or even participate at all! i know you’re probably busy with your ask blog and everything; it shouldn’t be too much of a time commitment. just let me know if/when you'd like me to send you what i have! thank youuu <3"
At first how we reached out to people was very local. Skylar talked about it to people she knew from discord servers, asking people personally if they were interested in drawing a character for it. She also created several social media accounts: Youtube, Tumblr, Instagram, Bluesky, Twitter even... So every once in a while we'd get some people we didn't personally invite. Mostly it's just people we reached out to and their friends.
It even had its own website!
Skylar had made a picture of her friend fact for Curtsey before anyone was invited as a demo example.
The first finished entry from someone who wasn't Skylar was my brother, who I invited!
So, yes, drawing is a big step of it. Making a picture takes a while and getting 500 different people to draw for you requires a lot of networking and/or popularity. However, it's far from the only
ing. That's just from the artist's side.
The other thing we needed was to write 500 entries also. Interesting, indesputably in-character, illuminating friend facts that all fit within the space limit.
That's kind of difficult, especially given Omori has to talk in them. For most of them, it's no big deal. He's a little edgy, and the creator of the world, so he gets to dictate the fantasy. A little cold, a little bit of dark humor, that part is easy.
The hard part is when you get to any characters that aren't silly.
There's seven layers of metaphor to everything and Omori actively resists acknowledging any of it. So you need to keep that- the metaphor, and Omori's rejection of it. ...but also in a way that only goes off of canon understanding with very little ability to stretch or else people would think it's wrong.
As such we have a lot of rules for writing him, and what the other party members are allowed to say.