Robits and Robobs

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[aliasmisc]

> About Me

Hello! I'm Alias (she/her), adult, I like robots, objectheads, and pixels! My tag for talking is #jibber jabber, please feel free to block it.

There may be the rare character design or two with mild body horror (multiple limbs/eyes/teeth) which will be tagged with #body horror! Nothing further than that though.

Art software: Aseprite and Procreate

> Art For You

Art trades: Closed.

Artfight: Alias_Misc

> Fanwork

Please credit and/or tag me, it’s not a bother at all and I’ll jump with joy when I see it! You’re free to ship my characters or make fan OCs. Just use basic morality and no AI.

> Human Conditions

A game idea that I like to chip away at! It's a very casual 'whatever seems most fun' sort of deal, so please treat it that way too!

I adore questions (send me them anytime), but I might not answer much regarding plot and character arcs for the sake of keeping some things secret…

Current TLDR:

Roughly a decade ago, the humans of a remote country mutated. The majority of the population couldn’t handle the physical strain and died.

Shell, the player character, has managed to make it to Straystern city but it isn’t going well. In a rare spot of luck, someone offers them a hand by wiggling them into a government job.

The city’s starved for knowledge and technology, but the supply of salvageable loot has boiled down to its last dregs. On the job, explore old homes, wreckages, and overgrown streets to help scavenge and clear out what you can. People are scattered all over the place, though Straystern’s main hub is welcoming enough.

There may be more out there, if you’re able to make the long trip to the old capital, where all the factories used to run.

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WIP, blocking out the motions for the last idle animation for AF!

Trying to keep sprite animation/movement minimal is a fun challenge. Satisfying…

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Got the idea of making a Sydney idle for Artfight stuck in my head and ended up with three variations.

She gets to be special and have those bonus sprites as part of her relationship section instead! Everyone else is staying the same lol.

They’re animated on the website. I just wanted to share because it’s cute :]

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mini dj subatomic supernova

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Exploitation. commission for Vvvy

[collectivelyacoward]

My big sunflower pookie bear DJ dude awwe awwe, he like me fr

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Gift for @robogalaxies of her OC Dorothy with Neon J!

Based Neon’s design here off his initial concept art with a few tweaks for fun :]

Partial process video since I drew over it more on a different canvas for cropping + color adjustments.

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Some WIP sneak peeks to hold me accountable.

Poses are so difficult to think of, but I must learn! I shall!!!

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mayday for for a day in may!!

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Misc procreate animations i did

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the signal catcher 📡

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Trying to draw fast by being messy on purpose, similar to how I did lineless. It’s kind of working!

Literally just random ideas, though two are very loosely inspired by Broken Statues.

I really like this initial sketch, but couldn’t keep the vibe when I kept going :(

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Chapter 5 dark world

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So i ended up REALLY liking @aliasmisc oc's

and also ended up drawing sydney at school lol

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OH SYDNEYYY, HELLO SYDNEY! WOW!

The curve to the neck and the pose you chose are spot on!! She looks wonderful, thank you so much for the surprise gift, agh!!

Don’t mind me taking note of your Artfight account in turn…for no reason at all…

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I'm following your objecthead robot designs. I'm curious about when you said that they used to be humans. I'm curious how does that work in your story? Why did they become robots? Or that's considered spoilers for now?

Ooo! Thank you for the questions! This ended up being pretty wordy so feel free to just skim it!

TLDR: The in-universe reasoning for why the robots became robots are because they were close to and often interacted with machines.

Super long answer below the cut.

How did they become robots: One implicit mechanic of the mutation is that the closer your proximity to the capital city, the stronger the mutation effect alongside a bigger tradeoff of cost and benefit from mutating.

The robots are a special case where most of the mutation ‘energy’ was spent just trying to successfully mutate them into completely inorganic forms, which is both the cost and benefit. It mostly negated itself.

As for why robots, they live in the Technology Sector, where a lot of the factories and machines were being used and developed. Specifically, all of them lived and worked in a company town, so the mutation jumbled them up with the mechanical doodads nearby.

How mutations affect the story in general: Kind of hard to summarize since it’s a large part of the worldbuilding, but here’s some examples!

- Overarching mystery (albeit not the main focus) because I think it’d be fun to naturally pick up information and speculation about it through different characters as you progress

- More logistical problems to even out the rule of cool vibe. Ex. There are literal objecthead characters with otherwise fleshy bodies. Without a head/mouth, they have energy intake issues, so a lot of them are dependent on IVs, which are limited and costly.

Most of the group is malnourished, dependent on the government/holding a job for support, and thus often desperate despite most of them having relatively fantastical skills. It also makes them one of the smaller groups headcount wise since it’s easy to get taken advantage of or literally burn yourself out and die.

- Similar to the above, a bunch of unique and understudied physical forms means getting your health treated and understanding your own body reactions sucks horribly.

There’s a (somewhat mad) scientist duo I have who are actively working on this issue! They’re super fun since they bicker a lot, but I need to get around to redesigning one of them. Gah!

- Body dysphoria’s pretty widespread, although perspectives on wanting to return to the past/human forms depend on the character.

I mentioned this a little in Garrett’s old description (where he hates looking at his body so he tends to cover up), but a more literal example would be @warddokteur’s OC who is a monomaniac about becoming physically more human. Bones and flesh and limbs and such. He will attack you on sight to try to do so.

- Physical appearance can be used for leverage, as you can imagine. Lying and drumming up certain sentiments/stereotypes for some groups, intimidating others, the usual shebang.

- Et cetera et cetera! Lots of characters lots of problems :]

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Fanart of a scene from Ch. 3 of Broken Statues by @raycyel on Ao3! Also big thank you to @pangonaut for sending me photos of the NSR tower interior :]

Partial line art and process video below the cut!

Sketched this back in January when I just started reading! It’s earlier in the chapter when everyone’s just gathered around chatting.

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‘I said I would draw faster this year!’ I plead to myself, tripping and skidding across the floor.

At least I only have the last (cough larger) half of the colors to do for the WIP!

Debating if I want to take a lil break and loosely sketch some other scenes from that fanfic or just finish the big piece asap. Probably’ll depend on my mood.