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~GoodBYE, Columbo
A few things going on lately!
I sent out the next Vargas chapter to be beta'd so it's happening!! Depends on when I hear back from her and how long I decide to fret about it before I post it, haha. It always feels like such an event to me! It's nice to get the ball rolling on it though.
I went back and fixed the broken images in the giant sketchposts at least, although posts with individual images are still broken. I figured the giant posts would be the ones people would most likely be looking at, haha. Relive the memories! Or not! I can't tell you what to do!
In terms of my cool music page, I added two more cassettes I found! One called "Radio Picks 92" which really only has a handful of songs and, mysteriously, Silent Lucidity like four times in a row?? If it was me who recorded it I don't know what I was thinking. The other one is "Special tape for car only" which despite its name just has very normal music on it. BACK BEFORE MY TASTE IN MUSIC BECAME TERRIBLE BEYOND BELIEF
If I decide to do any more tapes maybe I should set up a second page, it seems long with just the four on it already! Or maybe my resolution is just too small.
On a related note, there is now also an ipod on that shelf! You can click it to get to a new page for my car playlist, which is like 1300+ songs long at current. No downloads or links for that one because christ but I have been working on a youtube mirror of the playlist, although I'm only like 900 songs through it. You can get a taste of it though!
Setting up the ipod to flip open on hover was really annoying, I ended up trying like a few different methods and running into weird roadblocks before I got it doing what I wanted. Tough to get it to stay in place too! Getting a good shot of the ipod itself I could use was also annoying, I went through like three different versions of it open/closed before I decided on this one. It looks so realistic on the shelf!
I also made some Teeny Tower rooms!
One for Horses because that's so inappropriate lol. I need to make a post about that at some point. I love how the little horses came out, cute and creepy at the same time, poor things. Had a hard time thinking of a background but then I figured I could work with the whole silent film/theater symbolism it has going through it.
BRAINLESS RAAANDYYYYY there is SO MUCH fog in the Illbleed cutscenes I swear
Hornet and Shakra are girlfriiieeenddsss god, everything in Hollow Knight/Silksong is so ornate and intricate, it was murder to try and get it all down into such a small space. I based it off of my bellhome in Silksong so I have all the relics in there and everything, haha. Very hard to get a sense of metallic surfaces on a small scale!
Something reminded me or made me think of how a lot of Undertale environments would make for good little rooms, so I went with Asgore's throne room first. He looks so cute!! Cutest tiny Asgore! The window was a pain to try and shrink down. It's interesting seeing this one set against all the others since it has dark outlines, which very few of my other rooms have. Really emphasizes how simplistic Undertale's art style is...
And the brothers' room! Well really it's all about the Mettaton TV, haha. Mettaton on every channel! He's gotta be doing something! I spent way too much time on all those little segments. I could still add one for the news if I felt ambitious...
And as a complete tonal shift, that one scene from Hereditary. If you've seen it you know! I wonder how recognizable it will be to people when it's so tiny? It was a lot of fun to recreate this, trying to balance the right amount of darkness in the doorway so you're not sure if you see something.
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I sent out the next Vargas chapter to be beta'd so it's happening!! Depends on when I hear back from her and how long I decide to fret about it before I post it, haha. It always feels like such an event to me! It's nice to get the ball rolling on it though.
I went back and fixed the broken images in the giant sketchposts at least, although posts with individual images are still broken. I figured the giant posts would be the ones people would most likely be looking at, haha. Relive the memories! Or not! I can't tell you what to do!
In terms of my cool music page, I added two more cassettes I found! One called "Radio Picks 92" which really only has a handful of songs and, mysteriously, Silent Lucidity like four times in a row?? If it was me who recorded it I don't know what I was thinking. The other one is "Special tape for car only" which despite its name just has very normal music on it. BACK BEFORE MY TASTE IN MUSIC BECAME TERRIBLE BEYOND BELIEF
If I decide to do any more tapes maybe I should set up a second page, it seems long with just the four on it already! Or maybe my resolution is just too small.
On a related note, there is now also an ipod on that shelf! You can click it to get to a new page for my car playlist, which is like 1300+ songs long at current. No downloads or links for that one because christ but I have been working on a youtube mirror of the playlist, although I'm only like 900 songs through it. You can get a taste of it though!
Setting up the ipod to flip open on hover was really annoying, I ended up trying like a few different methods and running into weird roadblocks before I got it doing what I wanted. Tough to get it to stay in place too! Getting a good shot of the ipod itself I could use was also annoying, I went through like three different versions of it open/closed before I decided on this one. It looks so realistic on the shelf!
I also made some Teeny Tower rooms!
One for Horses because that's so inappropriate lol. I need to make a post about that at some point. I love how the little horses came out, cute and creepy at the same time, poor things. Had a hard time thinking of a background but then I figured I could work with the whole silent film/theater symbolism it has going through it.
BRAINLESS RAAANDYYYYY there is SO MUCH fog in the Illbleed cutscenes I swear
Hornet and Shakra are girlfriiieeenddsss god, everything in Hollow Knight/Silksong is so ornate and intricate, it was murder to try and get it all down into such a small space. I based it off of my bellhome in Silksong so I have all the relics in there and everything, haha. Very hard to get a sense of metallic surfaces on a small scale!
Something reminded me or made me think of how a lot of Undertale environments would make for good little rooms, so I went with Asgore's throne room first. He looks so cute!! Cutest tiny Asgore! The window was a pain to try and shrink down. It's interesting seeing this one set against all the others since it has dark outlines, which very few of my other rooms have. Really emphasizes how simplistic Undertale's art style is...
And the brothers' room! Well really it's all about the Mettaton TV, haha. Mettaton on every channel! He's gotta be doing something! I spent way too much time on all those little segments. I could still add one for the news if I felt ambitious...
And as a complete tonal shift, that one scene from Hereditary. If you've seen it you know! I wonder how recognizable it will be to people when it's so tiny? It was a lot of fun to recreate this, trying to balance the right amount of darkness in the doorway so you're not sure if you see something.
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I'd like to relive memories with giant sketchposts. :0
"Special tape for car only" evolved into "You don't want to be stuck in a car with me", haha.
It doesn't seem long to me? Seems like there should be enough room on the shelf for more tapes.
The ipod looks sick! It's so old and scratched and opens up everytime you hover your cursor over it. Feels like that type of old PC games which rewarded you with images you could send to your printer. |D
I like the film scratches on the Horses room!
A Horses post? :'D
I guess I could add it to the list of potential entries. Before there were: Deltarune chapters 3 and 4 posts, The Sims 4 screencaps post, Xanth post, sketch post, language post and Handplates reminiscing post. Sorry, I have cursed memory for things like that, lol.
Woah, that Silksong room really is intricate and detailed! The shape of that bath..cup(?) shown with the lighting..
Awww, Asgore's adorable. He looks so fluffy. :3
He translated so well into the tiny pixel form. It should be easier to translate pixel sprites into smaller pixel sprites, haha.
Toriel's throne is still in there...
The skelebros' room with Mettaton on TV might be one of the longest animations you made for Teeny Tower rooms. The transition from the logo to singing Mettaton in a dress is so smooth. :0
Oh wow, that room with the scene from Hereditary is so dark and hard to see. No, there is someone in the doorway, standing there menacingly..
Nice green shade of lighting.
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Does the tape page load quickly? my concern is that i have the files embedded there so you can listen to them all at once, but i wonder if it loads ALL of them when the page loads so it might take a while, and if there are a bunch of tapes listed then maybe it'll be hard on my bandwidth... but i dunno how many people are looking at my tape page anyway, haha. Maybe there's a more efficient way to set up a little music player than directly embedding it...
my ipod has been through a lot! lol the case is so battered now |D
SOMEDAY I'LL FIND THE TIME TO SIT AND PUT DOWN THOUGHTS ABOUT SOMETHING IN DEPTH it always feels like there are other things to do!
simple pixel sprites should be easier to convert! unless they're REALLY economical with their space to begin with, then scrunching it gets very tricky. but it's usually still doable if you're creative!
i really like that transition too! it came out well, haha.
yessss it's from a super tense scene, hehe. trying to capture that on such a small scale is tricky!
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That's your Ipod from real life? Then that just makes the site more authentic! Your Ipod is a real relic and I guess it still works? Durable tech of the old time. |D
Concentrating on writing long texts is so hard for whatever reason...
It's the easiest way to make yourself productive about other things which you wouldn't do otherwise, lol.
These Tower rooms are entertaining to both make and see their animations play. ✨
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And yeah, that's my real ipod! It's the old-style little wheel one, hehe. I've had to take it in to get the wheel fixed a few times but it still works! Pretty durable too and the case helps protect it, even if it looks very tattered. Gonna try to keep it going for as long as I can!
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