#walksprite

[davekatkins]

Crotunasprite! I really like how this came out. I used Cronus' walksprite and the Mituna walksprite without the helmet from the Homestuck Roleplay Wiki.

[brufterfly]

hey guys 👉 👈

decided to open up commissions on my pixel walksprites

2 styles to choose from, u can contact me here or twitter or discord

would appreciate spreading it arnd if u can

thx ❤️

[chromaji]

i drew that siegril fullbody so quick that it kinda astonished me. flabbergasted, even. Now i’m sitting here like damn okay maybe it wont be so bad to make the fullbodies for my assets…

[dyke-stuck]

more sprite edits :D!!! jake edition bc i love her<3

please use she/her for jake on this post, she is a trans girl!<3

[kooki914]

Not only that but there's also Kris BLUSHING walking sprites!

TRUE, honestly! Even though Kris' unused sprites are only of them walking downwards, there's still plenty of room for them to get full blushing walksprites that can be used in-game!

[reliquarian]

having fun with sprite portraits but i have a little worm in my brain asking what if i did tiny fullbodies

roll20 apparently? supports animated tokens...im barking snarling howling etc

[utopiasbrood]

Austin’s most recent set of Walksprites! They were done by my friend @/draconecozie on Toyhouse using bases from @/Deepseahorror (who also made the trollcall base)!  His original, much frumpier walksprite (done years earlier by yours truly) is under the cut!

[slimercore]

alright...only three more rooms to get through!! ive realized i can reuse things like walls and carpets for other rooms which makes it a whole lot faster so the main thing to do is just the actual objects. im probbb not gonna do it detailed more like. blocks of color. that represent what the thing is.

and also im beginning to realize im going to have to remake every room / area from scratch bc i have to code certain tiles to be certain things. but id have to redraw everything anyways so its not a huge issue. itll be tedious but gives me a lot more control and end result wise look better anyway. i do the same thing with writing! first couple drafts always get completely rewritten, not edited.

this really is just about laying a base and it wont feel as over whelming. ill have some visible where i can go back and comb through it section by section...still a bit unsure what to do when i get to the actual. event part where i have to code stuff to happen. i should watch more tutorials but im so bad with focusing lol

[metavandetta23]

Just finisheed some walksprites for main Dr Yellow duo. Also updated Kanako design a bit, since I felt the old one was a bit lacking. Not much to say, expect I will be probably showing dw outfit, once my collaborator finished kanako one.

[doomsdaydicecascader]

wow you’re the first person i’ve seen actually support the retcon, that’s cool

i’ve always been neutral on it but would you be down with explaining your opinions on the retcon?

so my number one feeling is that the way homestuck is most like a game is not in its framing or its many subsystems within itself, but in that homestuck is a challenge to the reader first and foremost. it challenges a lot of existing preconceptions about what stories are, what stories can be.

sometimes this is in some stupid ways, but a lot of the time, it's in very palateable ways. hussie describes stuff like the juxtaposition of the earthbound walksprite panels and hussnasty mode as a "creative power move", something that keeps readers on their toes, something which kind of prods at your expectations and why you have those expectations.

and it helps to ask, what challenge is homestuck presenting to me, the reader, by doing this. this is the repeated motion of homestuck, like. "oh, what, it's insane that there's a whole playable game", "oh, what, it's insane that the fallout and consequences of an entire session of the game is being given in just three walkarounds". rose's arc is a challenge to the idea of a "coming of age" story, how do you come of age into a world where the metrics for growth and maturity and adulthood are denied to you? what if "adulthood" and "maturity" were fake ideas all along? well, if nothing matters, maybe you should have a drink to rest your mind about it.

one of the most direct challenges is the challenge of what death means in a story - there are a lot of stories where death is a bad end for a character. an impactful enough character death can change culture around itself for as long as it remains relevant. but that's not what death is in homestuck. death in homestuck is the freedom from being in homestuck. this is most prevalent with its deployment of gnostic ideas - yaldabaoth's treasure being homestuck itself expresses this most directly. the creator has made a flawed world and encourages the suffering of its inhabitants.

death is freedom from this flawed world, and this is expressed in terezi: remem8er. characters who did terrible things, horrible things, unforgiveable things, can find peace in death.

and i think the retcon is far and away the headiest challenge, the final boss of storytelling in homestuck's terms, because it directly challenges the idea of continuity, which is, by the way, TOTALLY FAKE.

continuity isnt actually real, its a thing youre actively constructing as you read. the drawings, the words, the music, the animation, the gameplay - all these things can help shape the idea of art, but the art itself, that's produced by you, the reader. and i think this is a good time to switch over to talking about the never-ending story for a moment.

the never-ending story is a story about atreyu. he goes on a fantasy quest, one which involves the death of his beloved steed artax, the plight of the world of fantasia, and confrontations with the nothing, this devouring force which threatens to end it. and ultimately, he loses. the forces of the nothing are just too overwhelming for a fictional character to overcome. the stakes are too high, no ending could be satisfactory and not contrived.

but then he doesn't lose.

because the never-ending story, the movie, is about bastian, and the relationship and empathy he builds with atreyu as he follows him on his adventure, and bastian, as the reader, is capable of caring about atreyu and fantasia even as it's been reduced to nothing. and its bastian caring about it, and bringing his own context, his own experiences - the name of his dead mother - to the story, that allows it to be reborn as something that can be completed.

and then he rides on the big luck dragon falkor and barfs on the bullies from the start of the movie.

homestuck is doing the same thing, but filtered through the language of video games. if youre playing ff9 and lose to black waltz #3 or whatever, it's a video game, that's to be expected. just do better next time. you wiped on the trial, it's normal, regroup and pull again. youve got 90 minutes. and in that time, in that regression, you become the kind of person who could overcome that challenge.

and it's a powerful challenge! it's one most readers don't overcome, because they are still stuck in the terms of thinking about things in what they expect out of it, instead of what it is. and this is kind of the core idea of homestuck.

hussie put it the best themself:

Homestuck, as an examination of all forms of creative practice, whether cosmic or artistic, isolates the tension between perfect, celebrated idealization and specific, flawed instantiation. The purity of the ideal is what's initially sought, but the imperfection of the specific is what has true value. Conflict and suffering arise from the guilt and stress associated with overvaluing the former. Deliverance and humanity come from recognizing and embracing the latter.

and honestly, i like what the retcon does for basically all the characters it changes dramatically. people take issue with rose's alcoholism plotline being resolved with vriska_slap.png but i don't really, because rose's alcoholism isn't like, of itself if that makes sense. it's alcoholism as an extension of nihilism, in a way that doesn't reflect real alcoholism, but it doesn't have to. s'a story. things can mean things nonliterally.

and vriska regresses as a character, but i think this specific regression is the core of homestuck. you get the platonic ideal of vriska-ness, one who didn't see and feel the trauma she inflicted on tavros, one who has completely supplanted gamzee's role as the plot-mover guide in the alpha session. and one who only makes token gestures at reparations and atonement for her misdeeds. one who is still obsessed with being at the center. and between 2016 and 2019, i was so certain that she had died a heroic death in act 7 that it is an immovable core plot point of my own comic.

(homework: why would homestuck call act 7 the rapture?)

and like, those pre-retcon characters literally do still exist, they show up in remem8er. remem8er goes unbelievably hard on giving every single dead character in the comic the best catharsis available to them: deliverance from having to be in homestuck. and i mean that entirely sincerely! the best ending for a homestuck character is not being in homestuck. and that's a tough thing for people to get their minds around.

but again, it kind of comes naturally with taking homestuck as it is, and thinking intently about what it's doing, what conventions it's challenging and how it's challenging them. because sometimes it's deeply stupid (decade-plus of thought on the matter has not made the incest any more palateable or understandable)

but sometimes it's the best shit in the whole world

[davekatkins]

DIRK STRIDER (DAVEWAYS)

This wasn't a request I just made him. He's literally me (real). Lightly inspired by @geekkboy 's design (link)

Please refrain from tagging as Kin/Me/ID/etc.

-Mod Karkat.

[lilybug-02]

Remember those walksprites I did for the CT gang? What if I made sprites of the final scene where they're on the pc screen 👀

👀 OOOOOOOOH! If you want I'd love to see! No pressure though!!!

[spootsaline]

(( surprisingly i have an art job, when im done working away on that for today im thinking abt walksprites today 2

but as always i am indecisive so just tell me who to do:

[frogkiing-arts]

a bunch of little walksprites - I do these as commisions for £5 each! the first two characters belong to me, the others belong to sigilsuits, GooseHaunter, BeaverFur and @spoutlore

[kooki914]

So a very, VERY long time ago, before chapter 2 released I think, I posted some Dark World designs for Toriel and Asgore, but since then both my understandings of their characters, character designing overall and personal tastes have evolved, so I made new designs for them! (including revamping the official light world walksprites because god knows deltarunes spritework is flawed) I'm slowly working on doing all their battle animations too, but until then, just the idles will do I hope.

[chronicsheepdrawing]

Unfortunately I don't have a big fancy commission sheet post but would anyone be interested in receiving some pixel art from me?

I'm thinking depending on the complexity and size it'll range from 10$ USD to 200$ USD.

I can do icons, walksprite sheets, simple 3 frame animations, etc.

Feel free to message me and we'll work out a price that suits you.