cold static overload

dinoburger's new account. accidentally deleted the old one. fyi I am an adult 👍

[abberantmachine]

Silvio 🦋 they/it 🦋 (formerly, dinoburger/dino-burger)

I'm an artist who primarily focuses on fan art, operating on stolen Aboriginal land.

I like games, old men, robots, gay nonsense, what-have-you. I am an adult so I will probably talk about adult things - not in graphic detail mind, but you know, some discretion advised. I may also make really stupid sex jokes from time to time. And I have a tendency to curse very liberally.

Also my memory isn't the best, if I repeat myself or end up paraphrasing someone else that'll be why.

It might take me a while to get to messages, too, but all of them are appreciated.

Art tag

Ko-Fi/Commissions

Art Archive (WIP - has almost everything I've ever done on it, coding just leaves something to be desired)

if you're into Look Outside please look at my little side-project Fragmented! It's a mult-media project with a combination of comic pages, writing, sprites and non-linear passages - specifically revolving around Frederic and Fabrice.

Heart of Pyrite (WIP, on the back burner atm - a site specifically for TF2 lore shenanigans, archive has most of this stuff but it's an attempt at giving it more context)

Other sites: Bsky, Itch.io, squidgeworld (Ao3 mirror)

I'm happy to let folks use my fan art for personal accounts and passion projects (PMVs and the like are fine by me) but preferably with credit.

[abberantmachine]

[dashamanych]

SHE'S GETTING THAT MAGICIAN AHH

[cutecipher]

as a feminist i support recreational abortion

[cutecipher]

i have mixed feelings about competitive

[cutecipher]

*maddest ive ever been, eye twitching* thats baseless. its something else actually.

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[abberantmachine]

How big are the tiles pixel-wise?

the ones Frankie appears to use are 16x16 pixels and the other one I used for demonstration is 32x32 pixels 👍

a lot of the early rpgm programs used similar dimensions - rpgm 2000 was 16x16 (so like OFF, Yume Nikki, Space Funeral) and VX Ace had a 32x32 tileset (the original Hylics, LISA… probably others that aren’t coming to mind)

the later versions of the software use different dimensions though, I assume for Look Outside by default the overworld is more like, 64x64, since sprites are scaled up by 200%

[abberantmachine]

OK I think I figured out something else that's interesting -

from looking at his videos, I think Frankie uses a 16x16 checkerboard grid to eyeball the size of his sprites

most human adults are about 6-7 tiles high, 8 tiles seems to be the upper range

I think it's a bit clearer to see with a 32x32 grid actually

pretty much all of them fall between 3-4 tiles high in this case

might be a worthwhile guideline to set up.

[elierlick]

There is still time. It's never too late to transition.

[abberantmachine]

I'll do a bit of a play-by-play since the video itself is a little hard to make sense of on its own: here's Frankie's speedpaint of the leech-man sprite

he typically starts off with a black silhouette done with a chunkier pixel brush and roughs out a bit more definition

he really does "paint" with pixels, building up in layers, giving extra attention to the mouth - he also changes the lower body a couple times, so blocking things out in rough strokes gives him more freedom to experiment with the overall shape

it's interesting because you see also in the David sprite speedpaint, after getting a rough sense of the initial shape it looks like the face gets more attention - so he works from head to body, or in this case top to bottom.

as he goes over adding more highlights and extra detail, he uses the opportunity to clean up the outline - all LO sprites have a 1px black outline, but black lines are also used for things like separate limbs, items of clothing and distinctive creases

the legs take their final shape a bit later than the head, and again, the head gets preference for highlights and extra details comparatively.

like ok this is pretty lengthy but it's also interesting to compare the hilariously scuffed rough draft sprites of the Eugestor sequence to the newer cleaner ones - because it's actually Nestor's throat-mouth that gets the most detail in these, rather than his face, and it gives you a sense of how Frankie blocks out colour.

like it's clear that initially, getting the details of Nestor's face exactly precise was less important than conveying the visceral horror of what he does to Eugene, particularly since his face is heavily deformed and distorted anyway.

[abberantmachine]

............ok actually Frankie's LO sprite speedpaints on youtube Aren't Great tbh. it's hard to get a good idea of what he's doing for the bulk of them and they kind of bother my eyes because of how much he zooms in and out.

like clearly they are just slapped together from stream footage and not produced with the intent of demonstration, which is fine but probably isn't great if you wanted to see what he's doing without having to wade through masses of footage from his streams.

[symfysen]

boops and pointed fingers and weird vibes

[piksiew]

bacteriography portrait of Five Pebbles I made from yeast , mold , acrylic paints and other stuff i found

[magopescao]

Dancing mercenaries!! 🕺✨

[abberantmachine]

I have more thoughts about this but let me leave you with these for now, to be continued?

[titotastic]

Sup tf2 tumblr!! Got a work in progress of a lip sync animation with Scout- just gotta clean it up n all that >:3

[cutest-silly-nb]

inside me there are two lungs. and one liver. one stomach. a few meters of intestine. there's a lot inside me actually

[cutest-silly-nb]

this is the funniest thing i've read all day

[abberantmachine]

ok... would anyone be interested in some tips for Look Outside style emulation? I think I've talked about doing it before, but like, idk

I thiiiink there's quite a lot of misconceptions about how to replicate the style, and it's a shame because there are quite talented artists who clearly just aren't as experienced specifically with pixel art that could use a couple of pointers....