LÆMEUR @laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org

That new Atlas robot video made my doggone night! WOOHOO ROBOTS! https://youtu.be/LikxFZZO2sk

If I'd played my cards right and never gotten married, this could be me right now! High-five to all the 8-bit #hackers, sceners, and microcomputer enthusiasts out there, livin' the dream and making poor dietary choices in the glow of a #CRT monitor. https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/fqCccTkkjrOufR8aBgY #sketchbook #inktober #demoscene

In the days of manual color separations in comic books, everything that wasn't line-art was full-saturation RBY (no black halftones for grays unless the inker used some Zip-A-Tone). So human skin-tones could get a bit interesting. White folks in DC's early days were 25% red; Marvel did 25% red + 25% yellow; Asians were often varying degrees of pure yellow; and people more darkly complected came in a small set of ink-heavy gray/browns. https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/R7ffS8YxPqiDooQgDlk #inktober

Alright, so markers are now something I have taken an interest in. It dawned on me the other day that if I just get three reds, three blues, and three yellows that I like, then I can color sketches/drawings in a manner akin to vintage comic-book color separations. I've done that digitally for years, but it's always been too ~clean~, y'know? So this is worth exploring for a bit. https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/fUOgTCYxq60bPFAgSt8

Sure, let's tag this with #inktober since I drew it with real pens. Some design concepts for a character I'm playing with named ATARIUS.
#drawing #illustration #atari

THIS GAME LOOKS LIKE A BLAST. https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/SGSqiD3EsjVHAp4j34

Oy. Jumping into some code I haven't touched in over a year. The good: my comments are adequate. The bad: ...uh ...how do I Python again?

Did this for The Hollywood Reporter a few weeks ago.
#illustration #cartoon #art

Reading in The Art of Atari, some of the industrial designers mention that they were big fans of Bang and Olufsen stereo equipment ... you don't say!

Been getting some coding done on P·HYDRA, my Atari/POKEY sequencer. Here's a six-minute sampler of some of the sounds I've been makin'. The stuff at the end is the most exciting as I'm doing some frequency modulation and getting some hairy sounds out of it.