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RATE MY SETUP! It’s Chandra Cassini’s lab for the home base area in Unstable Scientific.  She studies the cosmic microwave background radiation, searching for signs of early collisions with another universe!

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I created a system in Photoshop in order to generate sprites of custom NPCs with a wide variety of assets such as hair and clothing, all without writing a line of code! 

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Lev and Tau’s Vacuum Resonance Soliton lab, tiny island edition.  Making progress on the game Unstable Scientific!

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The Big Bang (2007) 

ink, watercolor, prismacolor marker

It’s an abstract depiction the big bang of the human mind when we began to use symbols to think and communicate with each other.  I’ve always been really fascinated with the idea of what it must have felt like as an early hominid when language began to be used for the first time.  Nowadays it seems that transition wasn’t so cut and dry - we’re discovering that animals may have capability to understand basic abstract mathematical concepts.  But if you don’t have to imagine too hard to see how even a single idea can transform our understanding of the world so much that it’s like moving from black and white into color vision.  To be able to think in a way that lets you more easily store and recall ideas, and to share them with others more easily must have been a pretty huge change.

I made this at a time in my life when I wasn’t doing any pencil sketches, I just put the ink down right on the paper.