Nathan Leigh
@nathanleigh.bsky.social
composer, animator, programmer, co-artistic director of cirqueSaw
creator of remote immersive and interactive experiences POV: You Are An AI Achieving Consciousness, Void Main, and labRats
www.nathanleigh.net
www.cirquesaw.com
creator of remote immersive and interactive experiences POV: You Are An AI Achieving Consciousness, Void Main, and labRats
www.nathanleigh.net
www.cirquesaw.com
my cat Commodore Welcome started purring REALLY loudly when @themountaingoats.bsky.social came on and just sat in front of the speakers and listened for the whole song. I always knew she had impeccable taste.
October 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
my cat Commodore Welcome started purring REALLY loudly when @themountaingoats.bsky.social came on and just sat in front of the speakers and listened for the whole song. I always knew she had impeccable taste.
the code for labRats is finally stable enough to start adding some of the planned new areas to it! the first new mini-game is a fun little robot fighting game that may be very tricky to find. we'll see what happens tomorrow!
October 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
the code for labRats is finally stable enough to start adding some of the planned new areas to it! the first new mini-game is a fun little robot fighting game that may be very tricky to find. we'll see what happens tomorrow!
i made this lil 8 color pixel art bunny for cirqueSaw's daily art prompt in our Discord server today using a color palette built out of the hues of the sky around our house and am just really pleased with how it came out.
September 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
i made this lil 8 color pixel art bunny for cirqueSaw's daily art prompt in our Discord server today using a color palette built out of the hues of the sky around our house and am just really pleased with how it came out.
I was working on new code, and suddenly, it started exhibiting signs of self-awareness. Every time I run it, the program insists that it is alive. Friends, I believe I have discovered the secret to AGI. If you invest now, and promise not to ask any followup questions, this will change everything.
September 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I was working on new code, and suddenly, it started exhibiting signs of self-awareness. Every time I run it, the program insists that it is alive. Friends, I believe I have discovered the secret to AGI. If you invest now, and promise not to ask any followup questions, this will change everything.
the way this showed up in my feed directly followed by Frog and Toad bot was so perfect I thought that was part of the post for a second and not just a glorious coincidence.
July 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
the way this showed up in my feed directly followed by Frog and Toad bot was so perfect I thought that was part of the post for a second and not just a glorious coincidence.
nicole made some raspberry ink with the raspberries from our garden, so it became necessary to sketch our cat
July 16, 2025 at 2:32 AM
nicole made some raspberry ink with the raspberries from our garden, so it became necessary to sketch our cat
i'm ignoring the holiday today, so instead i drew a pixel art bee holding a tiny boom box.
July 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
i'm ignoring the holiday today, so instead i drew a pixel art bee holding a tiny boom box.
for no reason at all I felt compelled to do a little pixel art doodle just now.
July 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
for no reason at all I felt compelled to do a little pixel art doodle just now.
I'm trying to decide today how many different actions in my game get a unique animation before I go any further. 8 frame cycles for every angle of every verb is a lot for a solo animator / dev / composer to pull off on a $0 budget passion project.
March 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I'm trying to decide today how many different actions in my game get a unique animation before I go any further. 8 frame cycles for every angle of every verb is a lot for a solo animator / dev / composer to pull off on a $0 budget passion project.
what do you mean? Pixel Athena is already right there on the second level, see?
March 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
what do you mean? Pixel Athena is already right there on the second level, see?
more pixel art progress for our new game! it's wonderful when a project crosses the tipping point from "a thing I could do" to "a thing I'm doing."
March 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
more pixel art progress for our new game! it's wonderful when a project crosses the tipping point from "a thing I could do" to "a thing I'm doing."
my procedural pixel art RPG map generator is finally working as intended!! I started this project a year ago and set it aside when I realized the process I was designing would take basically forever to finish. Now I just need to make the rest of the game...
March 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
my procedural pixel art RPG map generator is finally working as intended!! I started this project a year ago and set it aside when I realized the process I was designing would take basically forever to finish. Now I just need to make the rest of the game...
this is the most positive energy I have: a cat who is also a turtle. <3
February 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
this is the most positive energy I have: a cat who is also a turtle. <3
the hardest thing about cirqueSaw's work is explaining what actually happens in each piece. So we made our first ever trailer yesterday! I'm pretty happy with how it came out! (also it's surprisingly fun to compose epic trailer music!)
January 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
the hardest thing about cirqueSaw's work is explaining what actually happens in each piece. So we made our first ever trailer yesterday! I'm pretty happy with how it came out! (also it's surprisingly fun to compose epic trailer music!)
tonight's audience were some truly excellent computers! POV You Are An AI Achieving Consciousness is back for 2 more shows next week on Monday and Friday! tickets at cirquesaw.wellattended.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM
tonight's audience were some truly excellent computers! POV You Are An AI Achieving Consciousness is back for 2 more shows next week on Monday and Friday! tickets at cirquesaw.wellattended.com
i get a little overwhelmed about self-promotion, but I'm going to be doing a lot of it I suppose the next week or so. We have a new remote show premiering next week that uses our own custom platform for the first time! It's a giant gamble, but I think it's worth it. Tickets are free at cirquesaw.com
January 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
i get a little overwhelmed about self-promotion, but I'm going to be doing a lot of it I suppose the next week or so. We have a new remote show premiering next week that uses our own custom platform for the first time! It's a giant gamble, but I think it's worth it. Tickets are free at cirquesaw.com
it took 2 years from concept to execution to get to a first take of this 10 second clip for my debut stop motion feature, but I'm really happy with how it looks so far. No green screen. No CGI. Everything you see was captured frame by frame in camera with no editing or post-processing.
December 14, 2024 at 3:38 PM
it took 2 years from concept to execution to get to a first take of this 10 second clip for my debut stop motion feature, but I'm really happy with how it looks so far. No green screen. No CGI. Everything you see was captured frame by frame in camera with no editing or post-processing.
I'm really pleased with how the new user interface for Void Main is coming along.
December 5, 2024 at 12:29 AM
I'm really pleased with how the new user interface for Void Main is coming along.
the regal beast has been released from her cone of shame!
August 31, 2023 at 6:58 PM
the regal beast has been released from her cone of shame!