#Puppets of the Code

[frillsand]

Welcome Home/ Wicked with the bestest of friends

They’re dressing up :)

[nomiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

hiii!! its been like.. over a month since ive posted on tumblr 🪦, I havent really drawn any new tsams/eaps doodles so have some old not posted ones! the fourth pic is just the comic cover art for my TSAMS AU series!^^ I’ve mentioned it before but .. I feel like I should introduce it a little more formally. Thing is, Im not sure how. I did make a blog for it (cough @thedreadedcode ) but yeah! TDC is just my main focus right now so sorry for the lack of posting💔. Im hoping you guys will like the series though!! been working on this for two years 🦈

[forgrtashes-blog]

It's been a while since I've drawn something with... this much detail, lol.

Not really happy with how Julie's face turned out but the rest of the drawing looks just fine to me, so far! you know how an artist's perspective on their art varies so crazy :-)

Anyway, yeah, this has no context at all (maybe). Give it the one you want yourselves.

[skeletoninthemelonland]

Phantom Fellas!

[garagepanic]

My piece for the Lies Of P art contest - I poured all my soul and few night hours into this one...! Lies Of P universe and its characters are heartbreakingly haunting, so I tried to draw something haunting.

I created a Twitter/X account especially for the contest. I guess you can now find me here now too ! Here's the post link.

[solargeist]

thought abt evoau taurtis bc of this song, i don't have much to say abt him, i don't think he's a watcher, but he's unknowingly a puppet for them

[pillowspace]

you think you understand the fnaf lore, then you try to write a fnaf fic, and boom. when and where did literally any of this take place

[leafeyrune]

Hey guys you can tell i am normal about what could happen in AVA 11

YT version under cut!

[briskchips]

HELLO!! big fan of your animatics!! How do you make them and do you have any tips for inspiration, planning, and what software do you use?

Thank you! I'm glad you like them!

I think the realization that revolutionized the way I think about storyboarding the most is that you HAVE to let your imagination drive. I start off every animatic with super loose, super messy, barely legible sketches, with wrong anatomy, janky movement, etc. Instead of focusing on making it look good, I can just focus on setting it up for its potential, and starting my motivation at the highest point it can be. I never let my first draft take more than a few hours over the course of like 2 days max, or else the drive dissipates.

If I start a board right away with the cleanest, most beautiful art I can muster, I'll kill my own motivation, like "Oh god, in my head, I imagined a huge spinning 3D camera shot here, with a bunch of dancing characters. That last panel alone took me like 30 minutes to draw, I don't wanna do this! I'll draw a simpler, flatter scene instead." and then it ends up looking nothing like how I imagined, and I get demotivated before abandoning the project. But if I start with super messy lines, just barely enough to get the idea out onto a screen where I can watch it, the excitement and imagination will drive, like "Wow, this shot with a huge spinning 3D camera and all these complicated characters looks SO COOL! It's gonna take a lot of work, but look how interesting it looks already! I can't give up on this!"

For reference, this was puppet boy's first draft!

Storyboarding is a bit different from a lot of other visual art mediums because it takes a LOOOOT more work before it starts feeling rewarding. Learning to manage your own motivation is a huge part of building the skill that I feel a lot of people don't mention.

But when it comes to learning how to finalize it, study up on your storyboarding rules! Learn about perspective, anatomy, screen direction, and learn to draw FAST (that's a big one). Draw out shots from your favourite movies, study their composition and take note of their camera/character movement, and how it aligns with the shots sandwiching them. Learn from other artists (I recommend Toniko Pantoja, he's a very experienced board artist who makes a lot of videos abt improving your boards and what it's like to work in the industry), and PRACTISE! Your first piece of art, whenever you try anything new, is going to SUCK. You're gonna think its bad. That's just how art goes. But the next time you do it, you'll always, always, improve, even if just a little, even if you can't see it for yourself.

The biggest thing to keep telling yourself when making storyboards is DON'T GIVE UP YET. YOU'RE SO CLOSE TO MAKING SOMETHING COOL. And then you have to keep telling yourself that over, and over, and over, and over, through all the sighs, and the frustrated rage-quitting, and the exhausted temporary give-ups, and then eventually, those animatics you keep building in your head get to be real! And it feels incredible.

[seoulmatez]

“these are for you, lesser lord kusanali!” you kneel down to gift the archon the flower arrangement you made for her the night before. “thank you so much for coming to see the performance.”

the imposing presence beside her doesn’t go unnoticed.

“i brought you some, too.” your smile doesn’t falter when you turn to face the wanderer, slowly standing up and holding out the second bouquet you had put together in anticipation of today.

his fingers twitch at his side. you brought something… just for him? his lips curl downward as he tries to imagine just why you’d go and do something like that. perhaps it’s a mocking gesture, a show of pity, something of the sort. but the smile you’re wearing makes the answer clear—it’s the same reason you gifted them to nahida, because you’re simply happy to have seen him.

he takes the flowers from your hold, rotating the collection bound by a pink ribbon in his hand. soon, violet eyes like the night sky are staring deeply into yours. “i have no use for these.”

the words scratch at your heart like a cat’s claw—quick and painful, but you try to ignore the way it stings.

“oh, well, you don’t have to keep them.”

you reach out to take the flowers back but the gloved hand tightens around the bunch of stems, and you’re almost certain that the wanderer pulls the bouquet closer to his chest. “it’s rude to ask for gifts back, is it not?”

“i suppose you’re right.” the scratch he left behind on your heart is quickly bandaged, the lingering sting disappearing like it was never there to begin with. you can’t help but smile, let hope sprout in your heart at the thought that maybe you’re making your way into his. “in that case, i hope you find some use for them.”

[firestorm09890]

my post-chapter 4 thoughts on Kris and how they might feel about the player (based on my own run specifically)

[ecoeclipselion]

So uh…. KillCode Plushie anyone?

My girlfriend made a KC Plushie off of Cosmic-Jester Sun and Moon Plushie Base. He is Public. Feel free to nab him through his link~

Now we have every (almost) TSAMS, TLAES, and TEAPS plushie gang lmao

Enjoy~

[demont0es]

Get cubed

[crispycreambacon]

birds of a feather, we should stick together

[jesting-bug]

Oh poor neighbor! The flower wilted! @:[

[thatthirstyweirdo]

Silly doodle I did of Maverick A WHILE ago and just never uploaded