yeast-riseman @aysamanra@sometimes.when.computer

✏️ The first post in a new series: "In Praise of Netpbm", where I demonstrate how to create procedural pixel art with no library support in basically any programming language: https://journal.infinitenegativeutility.com/how-i-do-generative-art-in-praise-of-netpbm

I've been uploading a few videos of me (badly) practicing guitar to YouTube, and YouTube appears to scrub the whole video to select the goofiest possible facial expressions as its thumbnail choices.

Well, I've got a "finished" fantasy font, complete with vowel diacritics that get automatically applied using font ligature support. I'm pretty pleased with how it looks!

Doing some fantasy font experiments with ligatures.

I've been hoping to write a poetic-meter-generating bot for ages, and I've finally sat down and started it. I'm happy with it so far!

"Hey, Getty, how are you coping with current events?" Oh, you know, in the healthiest way I can come up with.

I saw this post from @aphyr this morning and decided that it should be my hasty warmup sketch today: https://woof.group/@aphyr/105473280393419636

I've decided the next big thing will be Boomer-style political cartoons but about programming, so I'm gonna get in on the ground floor of this terrible trend.

I've added a simple placeholder landscape, but I should probably add some invisible walls so you can't escape into the pastel void.

Starting to make little video games with my low-poly experiments now.

This is not a "Renaissance cat"; this is a 1972 painting by the Colombian artist Fernando Botero titled 'Still Life With Green Soup'.

Experimenting with flat-shaded low-poly modeling.

Anyway, No Man's Sky is still very lovely and it has been nice to spend some calm refreshing times in space.

Last night I was playing some No Man's Sky with some friends, one of whom had rushed to build a house in a storm and ended up with an awful mess of a building. We all gathered to make fun of it, then posed on top of it, then contributed to making it Worse.

Still digging these matching masks and bow ties. A very good investment on my part.

Did some art style explorations from a photo reference tonight.

Doing more low-poly modeling tonight, this time with a heavy gradient aesthetic instead of the pixel-heavy one. This was fun for a change.

To give a bit of comparison, here's what the same scene looks like without normal maps on the models. I try to keep things detail-less and flat, using only the normals to give them texture.

I've been doing low-poly modeling in Blender with hand-drawn pixel art normal maps. I'm really into this look.