Cubinator's 8-Bit Drawings and Music And Stuff [Latest: Brown Dwarf]

[cratercracker]

14 minutes ago, cubinator said:

Red:

For all your red pixel needs, this pixel is 100% pure-bred #FF0000! You can download this pixel if you manage to click on it!

But I am on mobile! Haha!

Oh wait....

Thanks for the brand new red pixel though!

[cubinator]

6 minutes ago, RoadRunnerAerospace said:

WHAT KIND OF CRUEL JOKE IS THIS?! YOU CANT CLICK ON IT!

It's like encountering Gilly. But it's a drawing!

[RoadRunnerAerospace]

NUUUUUUUUUU!

[cratercracker]

5 hours ago, cubinator said:

Saturn V:

Ohh this looks awesome duuuuuuuuuuuude

[cubinator]

49 minutes ago, cratercracker said:

Ohh this looks awesome duuuuuuuuuuuude

It really looks properly tall, doesn't it?

My reference photo:

 

[cubinator]

Galactic Core:

The differences in brightness and color in the accretion disk are due to intense Doppler shifting of light as the material in the disk is moving close to the speed of light.

[cubinator]

Not a meteor:

Hints that all is not what it seems about the overworld...

Edited July 26, 2017 by cubinator

[cubinator]

(Oh yeah maybe I should post this drawing here too)

In light of yesterday's crewed launch...

Soyuz:

And a theme for the spacecraft:

https://spaaace.bandcamp.com/track/soyuz

My discography is now a square! Hooray!

Edited July 29, 2017 by cubinator

[cubinator]

Lunar Caverns:

These are real places, and they are really that big.

[cubinator]

Falcon 9 at sunrise:

[YNM]

On 7/22/2017 at 7:53 AM, RoadRunnerAerospace said:

WHAT KIND OF CRUEL JOKE IS THIS?! YOU CANT CLICK ON IT!

If you're clever, you can.

Here's another.

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These looks nice ! I love pixelated pictures as they show that it really is our brains that makes images, not just the eyes. Are most of them manually "placed" ?

[cubinator]

9 minutes ago, YNM said:

These looks nice ! I love pixelated pictures as they show that it really is our brains that makes images, not just the eyes.

I've never thought of it that way before. You're right!

9 minutes ago, YNM said:

Are most of them manually "placed" ?

Simple shapes are done with line, rectangle, "circle"* tools. Things like star fields, gas clouds, and rocky surfaces are done with a "scatter" tool that has various settings and is quite versatile. For instance, the cryogenic gases around the Saturn V's first stage, the black hole's accretion disk, the star field around the black hole, and the moon cave were all made with the scatter tool. More precise shapes, like characters and details are done more by hand, like the hardware on the outside of the Soyuz capsule. For planetary features, I usually layer a bunch of effects. See this picture:

Boundaries are rarely very crisp on planets and moons (Earth is an obvious exception) so I use strokes with low opacity to give my planets a more authentic look.

So, no, I don't place each pixel individually. I have basic painting software tools (and a few less basic ones too!).

[YNM]

3 hours ago, cubinator said:

I've never thought of it that way before. You're right!

I've interfered enough with old enough people to have some pixelated things within my memory. Here's the forum where I had my first account (not my first post ofc, that's hundreds in already).

Example are your last image - to me the two top layer actually goes inverted, being more yellow on top. Thanks brain !

3 hours ago, cubinator said:

... So, no, I don't place each pixel individually. I have basic painting software tools (and a few less basic ones too!).

Ah, well, I know we have them nowadays, it's just that I thought it was as elaborate as what people could do in that other forum I mentioned (well a lot ends up converting from something else, and usually helped by randomizer or shader or something).

Edited August 17, 2017 by YNM

[cubinator]

On 8/5/2017 at 8:23 PM, cubinator said:

 

 

The scatter tool is pseudo-random, so it's algorithm generates a grid pattern in this image. For some reason, I can discern it quite easily on PC, but not on mobile. I can barely see the lines on my phone, but I can see the whole grid on PC even between the differently colored regions. How do you guys see the grid?

[cubinator]

Papyrus Freeman:

I should do another one with Terminal Seven Luigi. But I can't make a template because this suit is drawn to Papyrus' rather disproportionate body type.

Edited August 19, 2017 by cubinator

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2017-08-21, Eclipse III!

Be assured that this one is absolutely realistic!

Edited August 26, 2017 by cubinator

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Europan Base:

The rocket is burning hydrolox because it is a local transport between the moons, so boiloff is less of a problem, and water is abundant in the system for fuel manufacture. (Also I drew this in an airplane in flight)

Edited August 27, 2017 by cubinator

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Jupiter:

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Just for lols, here's a half-finished drawing so you guys get to see what one of my half finished drawings looks like:

I have at least at least five drawings like this.

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Note: Hydrogen makes red plasma.

[cubinator]

Goodbye Cassini, it's been a spectacular load of science!

[cubinator]

2!

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Mario Odyssey:

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Earth and Moon:

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Decided to try a proper coastline today, one which isn't just a boring line:

I'll elaborate on this drawing later, give it more detail and more color. Maybe even a little green?