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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 7h

Feels like my reach here somewhat shrunk a bit so as an experiment, I'm going to forbid myself from talking about or reposting the latest pixelart

For those of you who see it, I hope you enjoy it :)

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 7h

Umbrella Friend :)

#pixelart

A 5 colour pixelart of a pink anthropomorphic creature wearing an oversized blue sweater, blue boots, black shorts and long white socks.

One of the socks is all crumbled just under their knee. They are holdin an umbrella and are slightly smirking.

They have rounded whisker-like shapes sticking out of their cheeks, somewhat like an axolotl, and their long hair uses similar shapes. They also have two slightly diamond-shaped ears at the top of their head.

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 9h

The culmination of my "stranger of paradise-posting" bit is getting my flatmate to play it through sheer exhaustion of me talking about it, and him actually liking how it plays

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 9h

All that to say : quickly thrown together aseprite textures + fast modelling based on reference + vertex colours work really nicely with a limited palette!

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 10h

this is for project "A Normal Wednesday". I used a building from where I was born as a base at first and then I realised I'd prefer waiting until this weekend to actually start working on it, so I gave up pretty early on

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 10h

testing out a little workflow to see how it could maybe look with barely any effort put in it and...

It's promising! I might actually make a thing in the next few months

A 4 colour black and white 3D render of some kind of brick building. Its corners are rounded and it acts as a gate/arch.

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 14h

I can't speak spanish, so unfortunately I have to rely on auto translation, but I'm horrified by what I read.

MS was already known as problematic for its disastrous handling of Metroid Dread (forced in person work during the pandemic, non credited workers...) but this is the definition of abusive

☀️Blissy☀️ @blissy.bsky.social · 20h

🔴Exclusiva: entrevisto a diez trabajadores de MercurySteam para que cuenten lo que está pasando desde dentro desde hace meses: crunch, despidos, malas prácticas y muy mal ambiente laboral, entre otras cosas. Hoy, portada de 3DJuegos:

www.3djuegos.com/juegos/blade...

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Christie 🖤 @ndchristie.bsky.social · Jan 9

Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source

Screenshot of Tamagotchi Party On! In game newscast naming Violetchi president

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 22h

Thinking about this post again; I think I'll take part in portfolio day next month, for once

_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · Aug 24

I just want to quit my job and make a little 2.5d platformer that looks like this, but unfortunately, that's not how it works... :(

_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · Jul 16

I love working in 3D, actually?????

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 1d

I'm still going through Lightning Returns, and I'm pretty torn on it. It just feels like nothing is happening at all despite me finishing two main quests so far.

On the other hand, I really hope the ending with the "let's create a new world" plot point will be funny... please please please please!

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 5d

I launched King's Field to show people the Playstation's mind-boggling effects and they were right, I am mind-boggled because there's one more of them than last time

so either they can do skeleton-mitosis or this IS mind-boggling

A screenshot of an early, somewhat crude-looking first-person PS1 game. It features three yellow skeletons in a room below the one where the player is located.

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · Jun 19

Hémianopsie and tinnitus.

This one was a blast to make; hope you'll like it as well :)

#pixelart #blender

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 1d

I know I might not really have the luxury of just waiting around due to my AVM, so I'm just crossing my fingers that someday, I'll be able to work on all of my silly ideas without the stress caused by everything else.

Or at the very least with said stress being less prevalent, hahaha

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I had infinite time to draw, model and all that stuff.

I wish I could flesh out my little worlds instead of keeping them in my mind.

I hope I'll be able to share them with you someday, whether it's IsoMetro, A Normal Wednesday, Pappala Story or Through Everending Mountain.

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Margaux Saltel @margauxsaltel.bsky.social · 1d

Le FIBD commence à annoncer la programmation, il est bon de rappeler le boycott toujours d’actualité par les auteurices !

Une tribune inter-syndicale vient de sortir :

www.humanite.fr/culture-et-s...

EXCLUSIF : le festival d’Angoulême s'apprête à reconduire 9e Art+ et déclenche la fureur des auteurs de BD - L'Humanité

La société 9e Art+, actuel gestionnaire, est donnée favorite pour remporter l’appel à projets et s’autosuccéder à la tête du rendez-vous international de la BD. Certains aut...

www.humanite.fr

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family computer @sukinapan.bsky.social · 1d

they're having a blast

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 2d

And while I'm at it; I'm extremely happy with how I do lineart now! It all started with a small "jaggies" experiment, but I'm happy I stopped looking at clusters in outlines as a "mistake" and am instead fully embracing them now

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · Oct 27

Here's a lil experiment to mix jaggies in my usual process to see if it could lead to interesting lineweight results! (second pic is without thick outlines)

#pixelart

a simple portrait of a demon character with messy orange hair. Their skin has a blueish tint and they're sticking their tongue out

This picture is the exact same, but the additional outline isn't present, which makes the use of jaggies more obvious

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 2d

Today's progress! Featuring an alternate palette for funsies as well (again, colours are anything but final!)

🤗

A pixelart of an anthropomorphic character with long, rounded-off "whiskers" and similarly round hair. Their ears are located atop their head and are somewhat diamond-shaped. They're wearing some kind of oversized hoodie and are holding an umbrella in their right hand (left-side from viewer's perspective).

You can see a subtle smirk on their face.

The pixelart is present twice; one instance is using a blue and yellow palette, while the other one is using a pink and green one!

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 2d

I think I'll eventually land on something, but the blue palette is what I usually use for 4-colour pixelart before choosing colours, and using a yellow as a fifth colour is a good way of having decent contrast with it!

The other one is a quick exploration using pink for the base :)

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 2d

And while I'm at it; I'm extremely happy with how I do lineart now! It all started with a small "jaggies" experiment, but I'm happy I stopped looking at clusters in outlines as a "mistake" and am instead fully embracing them now

bsky.app/profile/dead...

_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · Oct 27

Here's a lil experiment to mix jaggies in my usual process to see if it could lead to interesting lineweight results! (second pic is without thick outlines)

#pixelart

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 2d

this takes a whole lot longer than stuff like my togore/hornet sprites, simply because I put a lot more work in the details and making sure everything looks great, especially at 1:1 res.

speaking of which, tip from meself : ALWAYS look at your 1:1 sprite when doing antialiasing/lineweight work :)

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 2d

Today's progress! Featuring an alternate palette for funsies as well (again, colours are anything but final!)

🤗

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 2d

Still thinking about the bookshop clerks who saw me buy like... 8 of them in a week...

_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 2d

Each and every time I read a new volume of Witch Hat Atelier, it destroys me a bit more inside but gosh, I just cannot stay away from such a beautiful manga

If it wasn't for one of my siblings already getting the grimoire editions, I'd buy those in a heartbeat, even if I already own the normal ones

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_Deadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 2d

sometimes I truly have the worst ideas (adding an umbrella to a pixelart piece)

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