Hmm, Wonder What This Machine Could Be For...?

Hmm, wonder what this machine could be for...?

Congrats to this squishy little guy, for finally getting its game after over a decade!

If there's one thing I'd like to add to my artistic repertoire, it's 3D modelling. So over the past week, I decided to work away with completing a full 3D model in Blender—and my choice for modelling was the wrench Ica wields (Partly to make it easier to draw it at various angles in later art). For a first go at modelling from start to finish, I'd say it turned out pretty well, and Ica thinks so too! The main thing I'd say I learned from this is to trust the scale—I resized the guide image I made to 3 times its size when modelling, and when putting it into Clip Studio Modeler I had to shrink it down a lot to be of a more reasonable size. But hey, now I know for next time!

And as for fun, I looked to see how it looked with a subdiv modifier, and it looked kind of amusing—though he was a lot less appreciative of this version. I've made a timelapse of the model being made, though it's not been edited down yet. But for the moment I can offer up Ica's reaction shots, separate from the renders!

(For those curious, the gradient on Ica's censor bleep goes from #667563 to #6B213F. As for why I made it those colors... Try messing around with them, in that order.)

Here's Pete again, with another character I'm surprised I haven't shown off yet—Professor Neon Greene! Well, he's a Junior Professor, working under his father Forrest Greene, but a professor nonetheless. Aside from famed scholar Thomas Devlin Bear (now the megalomaniacal T.D. Bear), he's the leading influence for Ghostie becoming such a science-oriented kid. Whether it's astrology, chemistry, or dimensional exploration, Neon knows... well, a decent amount in the subject. Most of his recent research sits squarely in geology. In case you're curious, the half-green-half-yellow color of his fur is hereditary, and it's basically heterochromia. Like Ghostie, Neon was based off a Game Maker version 6 sprite of an entirely yellow teddy bear, made half-green by me because at the time it was one of the coolest things I could think of to enhance a character. Pete's based off a GMv6 sprite, too! Though his had no embellishments, just a blue ghost with red eyes and black markings that were either teeth, stitching, or a moustache—which I dropped quick as he became his own thing. (Man, I wish I could find those sprites so I could provide comparison, but Game Maker version 6 seems to have nothing substantial recorded online...)

Ooh! A toy! ...Do foxes play with cat toys? Who knows! It's cute either way.

A fellow on the r/OriginalCharacter subreddit made a post offering their opinion on an OC's musical instrument of choice. I offered up Cole to their opinion, and, well, the results speak for themselves. He probably doesn't play the saxophone in a club like this, but I do like the idea of his insect world being a haven for jazz.