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little guy with a little tie 👔

(based on the IBM PC from the 1980s)

visit the article and also my discord if you like retrofuturism and art and scifi

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pulled this masculine remix of @eggnogo's amazing robot design from an alternate timeline

(my drawing is on the right)

done with this i think

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morning doodle

(btw check out our discord, we need more machine/robot artists!)

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Sketch of a robot oc from my worldbuild, SANGUINE HAZE

Designed by Honda Hokota, set up to defend Martian-Japanese assets, has gotten more erratic over time even before humanity vanished. hacked their own faceplate to produce kawaii expressions

(it's ironic because they're a computer. get it? binary? please get it)

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Quikbrew (a coffee mech from Raypoint Products) wanders the innovation cubes looking for mugs to refill

Meanwhile, miss whiskers waits for the machine to enter the sacred food cave

full image below and article link

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I think I gotta go with "piss colored coffee machine" 😭

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trying to figure out how to color this in

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Western combat walker and Soviet agricultural drone

(AENEAS and GRUZ, best friends on post-mankind Venus! story here)

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Turned one of my gremlins into a marketable sticker :]

(stealing eggnogo's idea)

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That computer looks fucking horrible, so I wish you the best of luck.

Making things out of ugly aesthetics is a massive challenge but incredibly rewarding when you succeed

done with sona i think

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Cannot express enough how much I love these designs and colors. Using Polaroid colors is inspired

Would kill to see a future bot based on horrendously unsexy stereotypes, like a balding middle manager. Maybe that's something I should try...

done with sona i think

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If you snap a latent-parallel screen in half, the fluid that makes them work spills out and gets everywhere

Don't let the fluid touch any exposed electrical contacts or you will have a bad time.

By their nature, these screens can only ever be fully monochromatic.

looooooooooooooore in link

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Holy crap what a fascinating and useful reply!! Thank you so much!

An interesting part of all this for me is... I actually don't like a lot of this aesthetic, but I also kind of like it? Like in a similar way to fugly Soviet heavy industry and vehicles. It's a very intriguing challenge to try to adapt it and transform it into something I can enjoy :)

Also I hope to see others tackle these less common aesthetics when designing robots/tech. It's really cool to see things outside the usual contemporary styles

A robot from a world where the '90s never ended

The lore and story are good I promise

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How about some ✨aesthetics✨ talk about this bot?

Yeah, I wanted to draw something outside my usual style to serve as the "aliens" for the cassette futurist bots of the main timeline... but also...

Have you noticed how there's nearly nothing robotic based on the frutiger aero and y2k era?

It's like you have a ton of raygun/midcentury era robots... then a little bit in the cassette era (the emptiness there is why I began to explore those more, most robot stuff there seems to be the synthetic stuff like Blade Runner and Aliens, or mainframes), then next to nothing in the 90s and 2000s styles, then a whole lot of contemporary.

My only references were like, the iMac G3/G4 and those shitty robot dog toys, mostly...

I'm interesting in exploring this design language a bit more in the future, so if you have good references for machinery (or other stuff?) please reply with it! Or if you have ideas let me know!

A robot from a world where the '90s never ended

The lore and story are good I promise

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A robot from a world where the '90s never ended

The lore and story are good I promise

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If you like my robot stories even one bit, absolutely go check theirs out. It's wonderful and thought provoking and comes with a fascinating robot design. It's even set in the same Sunset universe!

(The story even uses the same character quotes that I use for mine, it's very well made)

Did you know? Dot is on Sunset System! I couldn't submit them without passing up the opportunity to write some robotic existentialism, so go give it a read if you'd like. Don't leave your printer alone for too long, it might start having some strange ideas. Thank you, prokhorVLG!

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Hologram tech does exist, and it's a bit reminiscent of overhead projectors. 

Basically just a special gas directed by Martian gravity tech, combined with cleverly positioned lights and lasers to cause the gas to glow.

article on my site with more lore