A sequence of YouTube thumbnails. It's... a little too visually involved to give good but concise alt text, unfortunately. Below is the text in the image:
"This thumbnail actually diverged into two—a more out-there version (The ones on top) and a more 'traditional' YouTube thumbnail version (The ones on bottom). Both are being tested."
"The top set were my first attempts. I had the idea of having the Hourglass Twins in an actual hourglass, a vision I wasn't quite able to realize. Here we're following rule of thirds pretty closely, with Daniil's face bisected by the two-thirds boundry in the final."
"I like the way the text leads the eye through the composition in the final one on the right."
"With the bottom set I wanted the emphasis to be on Daniil's face, so it's centered, with the Hourglass Twins on either side. As you can see below, I also tried versions with Daniil's face spirtalling into itself—good symbolism, but harder to parse."
Thumbnail progression for my last video! Which, of course, you can find here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_0U...
It's getting screwed over by the algorithm right now, so if you like #OuterWilds or #Pathologic3, consider watching! Please! I need views like Daniil needs morphine.