Mechanical Madlad

《21 she/her》 I'm an artist and musician. I make things as I please. If you trash the kitchen, you have three seconds to leave.

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Bolts4Brains Update:

RUN! GOGOGO! THE BRAINS. THE BRAINS WERE HANDED OUT.

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Bolts4Brains, Last Update (7/14/26):

GaH! I'm sorry I haven't been as active here with B4B as I was with Paranormal Powerhouse. (ﾉω･､)

I have 3 shots left. I'm currently working on the most time consuming, but the other two are very simple shots of the Minireenas and BonBon.

When I'm done with everything, I have a teaser that I've been sitting on since like before the halfway point that only I would think to make.☝️😼 That will be posted with the link to the YouTube video on all of my other socials.

Anyway, as I'm working on this shot, it took me painting the background straight from the cutscene to notice how much the sidewalk and drain doesn't make sense. (Man I'm just sticking to the source. Shows' already on the road. -_-)

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3d isn't so hard if you already know the basic animation fundamentals. It's just digital stop-motion with a couple extra hurdles.

Idk how to do particle effects, so pretend there's electricity coming offa his fingers.

That's my headcanon Ennard voice btw. I made myself. Under my bed. With a box a scraps. I don't think I posted that here either. 🤔

In other news, I'm almost done with Bolts4Brains! (Ignore the longness of these transparent PNGs) Just got the last chorus and a couple shots from the beginning to finish up. 💥

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So this guy has been collecting broadcasts of the DiC Sonic shows, (mostly SatAM at the moment) and I cannot get over the difference in picture quality between someone's cheap vhs they got from the video store in 1994, and Wildbrain's own footage. Look at how much the colors pop on the left one dude omg (T▽T)

(Watch the whole thing for yourself. )

I've seen cels from SatAM, so I know Wildbrain's has the right coloration. (Duh.) But their footage of the Blast to the Past episodes look a little washed out for whatever reason.

[kittyishere0]

Happiest day

Edit: Forgot to put this earlier so I’m going it now lmaos

Inspired by paranormal powerhouse by @masquayla-the-splendid

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JOON🗣

Have I posted Jangle here? I don't remember.

("Wai, I thought you shipped Roxannard. Why's Ennard included in Mangle's pathetic yearning?" A thousand Hanahaki disease animation memes‼️🧙‍♂️👉💥)

I understand why some fans don't like Ennard's only documented official pronouns being he/him, but consider: Nonboynary(pictured,) demiboy, masculine agender/gender fluid.

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Idea I've had for a while.

Kosperry has only drawn Lefty out of the Scraps. It is peam, however, the most over-designed and under-designed characters, of which he's drawn their derivatives, are right there. I can almost see how they'd look.

Literally, I had a vision. Here you go. :>

Even if Molten Freddy canonically looked like this, it would only benefit him.

I also really liked the idea of this vers of Fnaf's Ennard kicking Baby out with a gogo gadget boot to the head. There's only like 3 drawings of him, but I just feel like it would be something they'd do.

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Bolts4Brains Update: 4/16/26

Man I've just been leaving you in the dust with this one huh.

Well. Good news! The video is about 75% done! I've gotten the instrumental break and a couple shots from the 3rd chorus completed so far this year. It seems further away when you're the one working on it.

Here's what I did in the past few days.

Here's the entire chunk that took me a few months.

Yeah yeah I know, it's a little quiet. The speaking parts are supposed to be something happening in the background, but the visuals make seem like it's the main focus. Don't worry, the full upload will come with car insurance.

I cannot get over how the Ennard lipsync turned out, oml.

I was gonna be like "see that's how he just pulls his mask and button outta nowhere, he just has it strapped to him." But I thought the silhouette was more important, and it's like 1.2 seconds.

This goes by pretty quick. This is my explanation as to why Michael doesn't go flying when the scooper hits him. He just sent off Baby, who still has a good amount of endoskeleton in her, and he's standing right where she would be. Ennard comes back around, and Baby gathers the rest of herself, including the card you took out of her arm and put into HandUnit.

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This has gotta be the best thing I've animated

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Okay, not so much artwork, more so much an art direction idea I had, regarding my Fnaf Direct-to-Video interp. The idea that the style would change based on where you are in the timeline. I've briefly talked about this in the post with my Scrapby/Molty designs, but I made a timeline of changes with universal rules.

I wanted to add visual exmples, but they'd be really small and squished together. Maybe if I approach this in a different format like a powerpoint or a video. Least I can see it in my head. ♪～(´ε｀ )

Other things would affect the style too, like ofc the vibe the game itself is giving off. That's why I made Fnaf 4 the game so different than what would be the minigame segments and "era that is only spoken of," because it's just undeniably how I've always saw it.

Core 4 to Fnaf1 PreMike is usually my default style, so I got a few more areas to expand upon. [B4B is animated in this default of mine, because 1) I didn't think of this when I started it. 2) I was already familiar with this kind of project with my Sonic SatAM animations, so doing that with a deadline, I'm gonna stick to what I know.]

Also when I say "2000s grime" or "colors like they had second hand smoke," I'm reffering to this phenomenon that I've never heard anyone mention, until Schlatt said it in a Chuckle Sandwich video like 3 years ago.

(I felt so vindicated lol.) And I swear it has something to do with the visual difference between digital and traditional animation specifically when the switch-over was recent. On top of that, the substance of the shows are in this uncanny valley of relatability, so it feels extra weird. Like the writing and visuals have changed, but in an unexplainably subtle way.

Which is perfect for this idea. That's the kind of tone I want here. (I like my vibrant colors, though.)

☆ミ

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Have I ever told you about my rarepair that I've had for like 3 years straight?

Rarepair. Jumpscare.

He's got a real big HEART. Ehehehe.

I might've. I forget. ┐('～`;)┌

Listen. It's genius the longer you think about it. Non-canon, obv, I know how fnaf ships work.

Okay this drawing in particular was kind of everywhere. I wanted it cel shaded, but everything else looked good airbrushed, but I already liked how the cel shaded areas turned out, so now I have this.

Render I made as reference, because I had 2 obstacles and caved. Sometimes I should stick with readability over anatomical accuracy. 🫩

Few more for the road

Literally, the video is from 2023.

[miss-amy-eve]

do you see the vision

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CAPTAIN N. MENTIONED. 🗣💥

I always loved this characterization of Mother Brain. As opposed to what, Other M? Does that count? Idk I just stick to the classic style Metroid games, and I heard Samus' characterization was bad in OM. Aosth Robotnik teaming up with her would make such a good episode. 👀 They'd both turn on eachother, that's for sure, but I have no idea who'd be first! (Probably Robotnik.)

He and Wily too!! Omg they'd be butting heads.

I might be biased🤭, but Scratch and Grounder might slightly out-do King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard, on the account that they're robots, and they're used to a tricky target. Most of their incompetence is usually when Sonic and/or Tails are in the picture, so they pose a decent threat to the regular mobians if they're not outsmarted, which isn't a hard task at all.

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Fun fact, a lot of Fnaf characters got slight remodels over the years. I first noticed this with Chica in UCN, but apparently this goes for a handful of characters, according to people who are like super accuracy experts. It's mainly her eyes and head, as far as I can tell.

(Left column is Fnaf1 and the trailer. Right column is UCN and a merch render.)

To further exaggerate the difference I was seeing, I drew. As usual.

I noticed, because the things that were changed were the things that initially creeped me out, which is also the reason she's like my second favorite.

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I keep thinking about this one in particular.

Trying to figure out how Kos would draw them maskless, knowing his endo designs typically resemble organic skeletons and/or wrappings, but the other part of me wants their stupid large overbite with those fork prong teeth, and uneven buggy eyes. His mask is definitely restraining that tongue tho. What?

Here's some regularnnards.

Complete opposite situation. It's not a mask day, but maskless? Fo sho.

☆ミ

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i demand more splatoon stuff (im sorry, i love splatoon and ur art is awesomeee)

Yeah they are fun (*´ﾉ∀`*)

(That one was from a VRC screenshot ^)

Nsnshd I always try to draw them in a Mario cartoon way, but the only thing I got to go off of is the bloopers. :']

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Acid reflux Freddy, and Baby's Halsey/Melanie fueled angst phase after one rejection.

I like the idea of the art style changing depending on where you are in the timeline, but that takes a LOT of commitment. 😵‍💫

The Scraps have this weird gritty YK2 vibe in my head that I have a hard time categorizing. It's not exactly the frutigers, but it's not all grunge either. I even have a pinboard. Like,,,?

🤨👆 waszis? Cuz I been calling it punky cyber-bling.

Anyway, the 2000s thing was super easy to determine and crank up with Scrap Baby, because she has the most locked-in design.

Her strandy hair on model made it hard to draw her highlights flat. I didn't wanna cheap out and make them these big blocks of color one after the other either, because her hair is obviously 80% orange.

It's so dependent on when you think SL takes place, and whether Fnaf1 is before or after,😭 but I KNOW The Split happens somewhere in the late 2000s...I can feel it...

So um, thanks Scott, for being so detial oriented with Baby, let's see Molten Freddy.

I didn't feel like full rendering him. Lol

I like the excuse of Scrap Baby's design compared to Molty's being that she's more observant of what the people are doing, and wants to fit in with the trends, and Molty's just here for a good time. Lol he's got a few accessories, but that's for their own sake of keeping semblance of who they were, and their own diy physical aid/protection. Not much style. Mostly comfort. Both of them got dressed up at a car junkyard.

So I always wondered why he had the molten metal thing and Ennard didn't, considering people's reasoning for that being the amount of remnant. So, that can't be it. My reasoning is that most of their cooling system was Baby's, so when they kicked her out, that put them at a larger risk of overheating. I like to think of it being something that's triggered by emotion. Like it's their equivalent of an adrenaline rush, but they have a harder time cooling down.

Also he has bear mannerisms, and moves like a snake. His temperature matters for his fluidity though. If he's not all warm enough, he'd move around like a mole. If he is, he can slither around, and be as gloopy as a lava lamp.

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Yo yo yo what it is bolts 4️⃣ brainlets

It is Chrysler Eve eve, and I got a merry WIP for you.

...Omg merry WIPmas. 🤯

I got a story with this one dude oml.

So this was the original background.

Not as well defined, right? That's because it was literally a few scribbles in the sketch, and I thought I could wing it and cook.

Haha. News flash: The more something is of your own creative freedom, the more you're gonna need to draw your own references, and vividly. So I did that.

The visual inner machinations of the Funtime's minds would of course take on some circus and theatre motifs, I think. The added decor that is starkly contrasting with the blues/greens is because of something that doesn't belong in there inhabiting it.

You don't see the background in full, and I made the prong pedestal a separate layer because relativity. I also like to think that the level/amount of decor would be a nice subtle indicator of how much a ghost kid remembers.