#beta djmm

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So, Beta DJMM has been infecting my brain a lot lately - just thinking about the posibilities

I Imagine it as this cryptid-bot roaming around the ruins of the plex, leaving a tangled mess of wires in its wake... But also, thinking of where the wires connect to. Because they have to connect to somewhere......... Maybe it has managed to connect itself to the Pizzaplex's main power supply, and that's how he keeps himself operative?

What if Beta DJ was a separate animatronic entirely? I might expand on that concept, I really enjoy the idea. Though I'm pretty sure that our DJ wouldn't be too thrilled about having a weird 'unfinished-prototype-ancestor-clone' of himself creepily roaming around........

I have more lore ideas but I'd like to work on em a bit more first.

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The modern DJ Music Man vs the ancestral, beta DJ Music Man

A detail that kinda inspired me to make this was the fact that the DJMM we have now has a chin that wasn't there in the beta, original DJMM design. And the thing that led me to this piece is that chins are a uniquely homo sapiens aspect (in terms of hominin evolution, elephants and manatees have chins too) in that it's only found in modern humans and it's something that seperates us from neanderthals and every other member of genus homo. That and this was originally going to be a weird de-volution of DJMM -> Bighand -> this weird morganucodon-megarachne thing that would've been his mermay design

lots of "homo" here. happy pride

[wakebymoonsleepbysun]

Am I a toy to you, my love? I need a human's touch, but You don't need me I need a human's touch, but I'm obsolete

Beta DJMM inspired by this song.

Probably not going to do much other than this pic but I have ideas...The more fucked up of which is that his memories (possibly including memories of Y/N if we are to go that route) were uploaded into the new DJMM. Most people think the memories were TRANSFERRED, but they were actually copied. Meaning there are two versions of him now, one who got a new bod and gets to perform and this guy, who now sits semi abandoned in a forgotten part of the Pizzaplex. (They probably have those, if HW2 is any indication.)

Also I'm super fucking proud of this art, I've never done this "lineless" style before and it's probably some of the smoother shading I've managed to accomplish ever...

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*evils cutely*

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Here are some of the other Beta DJ sketches I talked about in my last post!

His design doesn't stray too far from the original reference, but I decided on a more angular design, most prominently the mouth. Lore-wise, they probably went for a more round/friend-shape for what ended up being our DJ

But the Boombox-type face still kicks ass!!

Also, I've been messing about how his arms would work without an entire body to support him. I don't know much about robotics, but I hope my thoughts are easy enough to understand.

The support for his arms would probably need to be much bigger, but you get my point. They all connect to the same support that freely pivots up and down, allowing free head movement.

Each pair of arms should have their own purpose then. The first pair would almost never let go of the ceiling/walls, and the second pair provides support - making both pairs the ones responsible for both keeping Beta DJ standing, and to move around. The third pair would be then free for whatever, probably the ones designed for actually managing the mixing tables and such, so they're most likely the most precise out of the three.

He struggles a lot to move though. He's incomplete and worn, joints are loose and limbs are rusted. His arms probably creak with every inch they shift, so his movements are slow. I can't help but imagine him moving like a puppet on strings (or cables, heh), where the other limbs follow limply along as he focuses on the one he needs to move first, to then move to the next one. Yes, I'm also surprised those gloves haven't been torn already, who knows what kind of fiber those are made from...