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most obscure nintendo character of all time

he should explode, put a splat bomb in his birthday presents it'd be funny

After the grizz fight

hey I finally drew all of the promokids

yeah the eyes are meant to look like stringer cursors

calamar brainrot never stops

cal

I think he does air tricks with the spawn point like it's an antigravity skateboard (or at least tries to)

it's sweet seeing this bumpkin trying out newfangled gadgets and doohickeys

calamar only has one braincell

calalalalalalalalalamar

ain't doing the shoendals

thanks arorin and octocharger for help on the pose

you know I had to do this

every artist gotta do the arms crossed pose at one point

is it just a vision-

-a painting of my mind

🦑🐙

u can decide if its steph, cal and ane or hornmet, shady and 8-bit i don't mind either

Random doodles :)

hehehe enjoy!!

"running low on eggs, time to execute plan B"

callie probably can fling others up a skyscraper

they're probably the only two in the group that can keep smiling even when situations are most dire

for callie this positivity is a mask, for cal it's no mask even if he think it is

C4L4M4R is just a collection of traits that make him the absolute worst at poker

(oh BTW, calamar and anemone are siblings)

takotruck

tried a good amount of stuff that's new to me for this lol

surprised I haven't drawn her before cause cal and tako are meant to contrast eachother

MORE NEO 3 CALAMAR

just a chill calamar

yeah his eye being partly transparent is intentional, let's just say his ability to read people like a book is just to catch up to everyone else reading him like a book

soon

best promo squid

pov: you just beat a yagawa shmup

I'm here to draw kay0ss

winged the shirt pattern lol

Horizontal and vertical reading

Here I will explain the concept of horizontal and vertical reading.

Vertical reading

Consider the following chart:

Many novices will see the above and think of the patterns as “1-3 roll + some other notes.”

This is an example of vertical reading, where the chart is divided vertically into patterns. In this example, it has the advantage that you don’t need to think too much about the 1-3 roll in the left side. On the other hand, since you are not paying attention you are much more likely to be mindblocked. That is, you are more likely to subconsciously develop a bad habit of hitting incorrectly.

Horizontal reading

Next consider the following picture, which is the same chart but subdivided differently.

Keep reading

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

a student and a teacher

aint doing the legs lol

thanks avoidaboo for helping me out with marie

headcanons

-due to calamar and marie being charger users with missing siblings (anemone is cal's older sister who left the promokids to destroy grizzco from the inside), they're buddies

-even if calamar does not know anything about the squid sisters, never listened to any of their songs

-deep cut tho? cal is their strongest solider, he listened to their entire discography daily and can play it front and back

-marie is calamar's mentor throughout the events of ROTM, yes she has made a drill where cal must recreate that part at the end of splatoon 2 where marie shot the hypnoshades off of callie, calamar thought it was a prank at first but marie was dead serious

-calamar has tried to prank marie, but she no sells these pranks

fighting for the future (with a revenge arc in there somewhere)

I could've not mentioned my adoration of shmups on this blog

just in case I find a following here and decide to release an indie shmup to a group of unknowing fellas, I think the jumpscare would be funny

but I'm going to be fr with ya

battle garegga is the greatest game ever made

also here's my twt

https://x.com/jgn_ext

hellsinker's manual is intentionally obtuse, in part for thematic reasons, but also in part to emulate the experience of trying to read the manual after buying a new game in an unfamiliar genre and forgetting like 90% of it before you play

in this section, tonnor finds the single most complicated possible way possible to explain "you have seven lives. if you get hit, you will lose one life."

this is followed by the single line

Hellsinker isn't a "haunted game" and I don't think it's worth lying to people about that, but it's still really fun to watch someone clear rusted dragon for the first time and go through the exact same series of emotions as the game reveals what hands it's actually willing to play

while I'm on a STGposting kick, here's some lesser-known Hellsinker. soundtrack trivia that I couldn't justify putting in their own posts, pulled partially from old blog entries and also just the game itself (dude trust me)

stuff below the break is written without trying to avoid spoilers, because otherwise it'd mostly just be a huge block of censored text

see below list for bonus notes on certain points

in at least one instance, hiranyon (the name TONNOR was using at the time) played with the idea of having the boss themes start in mono and then explode outwards into stereo after the boss entered the stage. in the end, he opted for the music to make use of hard L/R panning instead, to represent the boss entering through the centre

Segment 1L Boss (F. Rex Cavalier) was titled Keep your dignity, and if that phrase being the title didn't give it away, hiranyon outright confirmed the foreshadowing to be intentional in a blog post talking about writing the song

Segment 4 Boss (Rusted Dragon) was titled Fade away. apostate with an added explanation of the intentional ambiguity in the title, with the apostate (the translation he gives is 背信者) being decided by the outcome of the battle

there was an old track called shrine.ogg which notably didn't sound even a little bit like a stage theme, especially not a stage theme like Shrine of Farewell. the pre-release song which has the most in common with the Shrine theme proper is actually titled boss3.ogg. if you think about the Shrine in the context of being a boss (which makes a weird amount of sense, it just doesn't register as one because it's kind of free-floating), I guess it could come third?

people used to theorise about Aozora/Aoxola, the final boss from Radio Zonde, being Lost Property 771. I don't really believe this is true, but it's worth pointing out that Aozora/Aoxola's hidden phase theme is incredibly similar to Shrine of Farewell, to the point where I wouldn't blame someone for thinking the Shrine theme is a direct arrangement. I'm actually still kind of suspicious, myself

speaking of Radio Zonde callbacks that imply... something? the string section in Fade Away. apostate appears to be an arrange of Opaque Heart from Radio Zonde

there are cat sounds in a startling number of songs. the earlier in the game the song is, the more distorted the cats will be, but they're still almost omnipresent. the most obvious are in the second to last phase of the GARLAND theme where there's a constant choir of cats singing the melody, but you can also hear them in Segment 4 and 5 (both sides, stage and boss theme) if you listen carefully. hiranyon likes to bury them in sections with lots of other instruments

there are, generally speaking, two kinds of cat sounds that I've noticed pop up in the soundtrack. I'm going to call them the "cat piano" and the "meow pad" because hiranyon uses both of them pretty extensively, and it's really obvious what he's doing because he uses them most in songs directly associated with Lost Property 771

most people know this by now and I almost wasn't going to include it, but it feels weird to have a list of Hellsinker soundtrack trivia without mentioning that Past Rising Again (reprised as PAST RISINGS AGAIN) is an arrangement of the boss theme for early bosses in Radio Zonde. it's a distorted version of that theme because you're fighting a duo boss that's meant to resemble the old players, now having been distorted into prayers

the cat screaming in The Great Majority isn't a sound effect playing from one of the enemies. it's actually baked into the song. this probably isn't trivia to anyone who got into the game through the soundtrack, but I felt insane when I listened to the soundtrack and realised this

The Way of All Flesh, being the finale, reprises the game in reverse order. as an aside, all of Hellsinker is synced to the soundtrack (and hiranyon prides himself on this), but it really stands out here more than anywhere else. there's one especially notable bit where the screen flickers, displaying the text "Wherever did you put?" before

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[1] hiranyon: 盛り上がる前のトコ　公開当初の時点では。音が中央に寄る（圧迫感）→ステレオに戻る（開放感）という　絵に同期した仕掛けを意図したものでしたが。後期のものは音を限界まで横に広げ中央を空けて、ちょうど画面上では音の逃げた跡の。真中手前にボスが迫る、という演出構造にしたつもりでした。

[2] hiranyon: 満身創痍になりながらもそれを気にかけず進む者・それに相対する敵。強くありたいが周囲に押し流されそうな危うさや　そうなりきれずともそうあろうとする姿

[3] hiranyon: そう言われている時点では、その場に居るどちらがapostate（背信者）かは不確定です。恐らくどちらかが膝を折った時、それは決まるのでしょう。

[4] shrine.ogg is REALLY short, almost like it was only expected to loop for a single input screen. this seems to imply that the Shrine of Farewell might have gotten its name from originally being something at the end of a run or stage, like the results screen theme in Radio Zonde, but afaik there's no actual information on this at all and I just like to draw conjecture.

[5] hiranyon being someone who likes motifs and also someone who has specific flourishes that he keeps unconsciously using when writing melodies makes it really hard to say anything like this for sure. he actually complained about his tendency to over-write organ sections in his blog post about about rewriting Fade away. apostate lol

[8] the first instance of the cat piano I can think of occurs in Segment 2b, although it's heavily filtered so you almost have to know what it sounds like in the final boss to pick it out here. the first instance of the meow pad, however, is in the first menu theme