☽KastaNik☾

Sometimes you come across something online that perfectly describes one of your core obsessions, even though you hadn't realised it was one

This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous.

Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

Started a new save on Twilight Princess and *wheezes*

#legendofzelda

NEVER LET AI MAKE YOU STOP DRAWING!!! Your time and effort are valuable!! 🔥

eeeEEEEEEEE i’ve been feeling crappy and burnt out but now i wanna draw smth to celebrate 🤩

Prince of Persia was an experiment in rotoscoping. It put lifelike animation on '80s home computers.

Designer Jordan Mechner converted VHS tapes and movie footage into pixels -- and went way beyond the tech of his time. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-the-li...

Last October.

Hey Discord!

10 years ago, you and I would have called the shit you're attempting to do now SPYWARE.

So stop it with this invasive Identification bullshit before I treat you like one!

Re: Discord garbage

Dont fall for this wishy washy bullshit made to placate you, get the fuck off dont analyze me!!

I also included the original 2023 piece in this post for context sake, but basically I wanted to draw it again. This time, I wanted to draw with my OCs updated designs AND have the picture flip like a playing card (something that 2023 me felt was too much of a challenge).

This took me longer than it should (plus several instances of Clip Studio Paint crashing on me) but besides the animatics I've been doing, here's my first official art piece of 2026!

~ Stained Glass (2026 Redo + 2023 Ver)

The art description is in the replies to this post vvvvv

#soulcalibur
#soulcalibur6 #libraofsoul
#theconduit #grøh #azwel #zasalamel #natalie #dion #daniel #valtro #art #fanart #digitalart #videogames #originalcharacter

finished the soul calibur chibis!! they're charms and stickers and available as two sets ⚔️
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generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023

people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip

Iron Man meme, edited, Obadiah Stane yelling, "Your ancestors made timeless art in a cave! With berries and ash!"

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

The idea of “gatekeeping art” is the reason people turn to AI because of it is funny to me as an artist from a working class family. Like…I learned to draw and my mom was a waitress

I don’t like people trying to hide behind the idea working/poor folks can’t draw, because we create and always have

#rynvents

People that go around roleplaying as empaths and try too hard to convince others they're an empath piss me off.

A lion doesn't need to convince you it's a lion.

The people I've seen call themselves "empaths" end up being the most selfish bitches that has no problem ruining the lives of others.

Work in progress pt 2

👀
#workinprogress

i’m gonna tell the flowers what you did. and then they’ll tell the bees and the bees will tell the birds. good luck next time you come to the meadow bro

Some "blunt" people are hilarious to me after they say some of the most insane shit ever, especially if they're like "but hold on, don't come at me cos it needed to be said."

Like, no, people are just gonna be blunt right back at you, regardless if what you said "needed" to be said.

#rynrambles

what if we booked this for a wmg meetup…..

ソフィーティア(SE)
#ソウルキャリバー
#SoulCalibur
#タイムラインにナムコ作品を流そう

Toad sits glumly on his bed while Frog looks on. From "Tomorrow" In *Days with Frog and Toad*

Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.”

“Why?” asked Frog.

“I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.

When playing hard-to-get works a litte too well.

(Chronologically, this happens before Kasta met up with Grøh).

Well, here's the other animatic I promised (I actually didn't think this one would be longer than the other one I did, but...yeah)!

#soulcalibur #art #maxi #theconduit #cats

The Birthday Massacre is medicine for the soul.

So since this one won the majority vote in a poll I posted on Tumblr, I focused on making this one. Let's just say this took longer than I expected. XD

Raphael hadn't been the same since the slums (or that "balls in your jaw" situation). But at least he got spirit!

#soulcalibur #raphaelsorel #amysorel #nightmare #animatic