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celebratory redraw of this old art from 2022!

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SILKSONG SEPTEMBER 4TH AJSHHEHRHUDRJDSJABFFHCHE.

WE WON CHAT. WE FUCKING WON.

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SEPTEMBER 4 FELLOW CLOWNS!!!!!I NEVER DOUBTED YOU

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Butch 4 Butch

DELTARUNE ANIMATIC

It's finished! <3

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Butch 4 Butch

DELTARUNE ANIMATIC

It's finished! <3

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The Character will literally have you saying shit like "shes literally my special princess. she can do 9/11 as many times as she wants"

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wplace has taught me that the two strongest forces in the world are undertale and brazil

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who in isat thats not a siffrin should be allowed to purr. discuss

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2025 June 25th

Kris glancing back at you when you make them kill 8-bit Susie and Ralsei messed me up, dude. That's gotta be terrifying, not knowing the player's intentions. Like, they only killed them because this is just a game, right? ...right...?

Rambling and behind-the-scenes stuff under the cut

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Especially terrifying if Kris has the meta-knowledge that they're in a game. Because if so, the previous cope doesn't work.

Originally, I planned to recreate a screenshot of the 8-bit game only so I could paint over it. However, I was going to slap the image into Blender 3D to warp it with a fisheye lens anyways, so I had the idea of making a CRT shader. Turns out I have shader skill issues and wasn't sure where to start! So I copied the homework of u/CalculatedBinary on Reddit. (Link in replies because I'm still paranoid of the days where external URLs blocked posts from showing up in tags / searches. Filter by oldest first if you don't see it right away.)

I did make some changes, though. CalculatedBinary's shader just makes a ray tube overlay that doesn't react to the texture underneath. But I had the idea to split the RGB channels of both the CRT overlay and image texture, darken each color of ray tube by the image texture's corresponding RGB value, then recombine all 3 channels. Might be easier just to show it.

Note that the "CRT shader" input is JUST the CRT overlay. This node group slots into the stage where you mix it with the image texture. Speaking of, unless you're working with a high pixel resolution or are viewing it from far away, you'll need to blend this result with your image texture again afterwards, because uhh...! The effect's real strong, captain!

There's cheater sub-pixels in there to mimic chromatic aberration, but otherwise this is an authentic representation of how CRT screens work! I made some other tweaks to the shader to get the CRT pixels to line up with the image texture pixels more precisely, but I won't get into that unless someone asks because it's nitty-gritty perfectionism stuff.

To circle back to an earlier point, this CRT shader sorta depends on well-defined pixels, so no paint-over for me. Given how long it took me to recreate a screenshot by hand based on nothing but blurry, compressed YouTube videos, I'm considering it fair usage, LMAO. Not like I'm making money off of this.

I love using Blender to solve my problems. Don't know how in the goddamn fisheye lenses work? Blender. Want to make or borrow image filters? Blender. Want that filter to follow the image's perspective? Yep, Blender.

I have minor beef with some of the anatomy and shading, but this piece was taking too long, it's Time to Stop. 😂 I friggin' cooked on the line art and their hair though, heck yea. A shame the dark shadows ate some of it.

Time taken was 33 hours and 38 minutes (at minimum. Forgot to time some of my Blender side-quests.)

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July 11th edit: *teleports in like Rouxls Kaard* So CRTs actually don'th worke like that. There's a reblog chain [here] where I ramble even more about stuff I got wrong, I'll update the link when/if it continues.

The TL;DR: 1) I already knew but didn't mention the lack of CRT "pixel" grid staggering because it looked bad in the WIP, so the perfect grid actually looks more like an LCD screen. 2) I totally forgot that the low pixel resolution is a limitation of the game, not the screen. So there should be way more screen sub-pixels per pixel art pixel. 3) I used lots of incorrect terminology in the above description because I didn't know how CRTs worked on a mechanical level. Learn something new every day! 4) Blender renders are Real Quirky and an even more authentic render wouldn't have worked out either way.

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What do you use to draw?

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Susie design/hcs ^-^ this isn't super relevant so i didn't do it even though its true in my heart but please imagine i slapped an intersex flag at like 70 percent opacity over these images.

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It is okay to lick him just be gentle okay ?

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character development

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at least there's susie deltarune

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doing speedrun of ch3 to get weird route file to ch4 for streaming with mom, and like i'm doing it pacifist since no reason not to. and i'm realizing this has to result in some particular psychological horror for kris where like the soul avoids violence and is kind to everyone EXCEPT when noelle is involved

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Sorry to be obnoxious for a second but i think its a bit jarring when people will draw their ttrpg character or oc or whatever as like a big lovable sensitive gay nerd but still have this like generic fantasy armor on that communicates an implicit intent for violence BUT violence has been so abstracted in the context of the subject that it isn't really equivalent to real world acts of violence at all. now thats wordy but in a practical sense think about a "modern" version being like your big lovable sensitive gaY nerd character always wearing a kevlar vest and open carrying an assault rifle

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Sorry to be obnoxious for a second but i think its a bit jarring when people will draw their ttrpg character or oc or whatever as like a big lovable sensitive gay nerd but still have this like generic fantasy armor on that communicates an implicit intent for violence BUT violence has been so abstracted in the context of the subject that it isn't really equivalent to real world acts of violence at all. now thats wordy but in a practical sense think about a "modern" version being like your big lovable sensitive gaY nerd character always wearing a kevlar vest and open carrying an assault rifle