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Cadmiumcoffee @sishir.com · Nov 29

My name is Sishir, I work in a lot of things, but I am an illustrator at the heart of it. Follow me here and Insta for process, sketches, animation, experimentation and art

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EAM

@elizmcmahill.bsky.social

I've just been poking around and it's interesting what game companies choose to include in their press kits.

The CD for MDK is notably dense and extremely well put together. It would be a little overwhelming but undeniably useful. The text files ("diaries" and image descriptions) are fascinating.

from one of the "diaries" by David Perry
https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/a4941eb7-7d02-48d3-b656-b72f28aa2df4

From that day forward, the stress of making a video game, making it cool, making it on time and having to constantly explain to your chick that they matter more to you than video games is REALLY damn hard. So I would like to publicly apologize to the spouses of my team members to say SORRY on behalf of all the future MDK players. But the game must go on.

Editor, please put in a picture of a bunch of flowers here while I get back to talking about ripping heads off alien scum.

MDK takes gaming so much farther than you have EVER experienced before. Remember all that hype about the morgue eyes on the Resident Evil box?. Forget that nonsense, I ordered a whole bunch of "DEATH" tapes from the dark corners of the Internet, just to do research for MDK.

These 'DEATH' tapes show people dying in every possible way (including being blown up) and then show you what they look like afterwards. Video nasty central, truly gruesome stuff. That's the wonderful power of the Internet kids.

So for all those wimps that were planning to write distressed letters and complain about MDK. Don't bother wasting the trees,

just Piss Off.

This game is for adults, and we could care less if you object.

Now, for the gamers that think that we have concentrated too much on violence and death, rest assured. We are having a lot of fun making this game, it is rich in gameplay. There are also a lot of gag's. Basically the magic happens whenever you play a serious game and then see something funny, it is like a sucker punch. It is so much more

from one of the "diaries" - interviews with the programmers. Here it's Martin Brownlow.

https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/9a0a1fbe-000f-408c-8a2b-86b809eccf87

You're currently working on improving the frame rate in MDK. How do you go about that?

The first task is to isolate exactly where the program is spending all of its time. Usually you would use a program called a profiler for this.

After running the profiler, you basically get a list of how much time the program is spending in each part of the program. I would then go away and look at each of the sections of the program that it spends a significant amount of time in (there's no point in improving a section of code that the game only spends 1% of its time in, since even cutting execution time down to 0 will only get you 1% of the game's time back). The first thing to look at is whether or not the program section is written in the right way (there's more than one way to skin a cat and some will take significantly longer than others). Then you see if you are recalculating things that are constant (for instance if you are combing your hair, do you put the comb down after each stroke, look for it, pick it up and do another stroke? Or do you realize that the comb is still in your hand?). Finally, you go down to the machine code level and rearrange instructions to make the best use of Pentium processor instruction pipelining.

from the first "diary" entry. A sort of introduction to the project written by professional freelance writer Tommy.

https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/bf6da5cf-98a4-41e7-b61b-eb089793aabe

To start the project Shiny had to create a design video, this was made using an art package on the PC called 3D Studio. It clearly showed the way the game would look. (For fun, the guys put a really horrible looking

platform game on the video first, just to see the reaction on the unsuspecting publishers face!).

Making a video killed four birds with one stone..

(1) It saved typing a 200 page description of what the game would look like.

(2) It made fun of the publisher (which is always fun).

(3) It saved trees.

(4) The graphics where finally just used in the game which gave a great push-start to the project.

Exceprt from a text file describing photos in the directory.

https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/0b8335a1-6947-493b-8b8f-5b68869e339d?sortField=title&sortDir=asc&showUncatalogedFiles=true

FILE: gumball.jpg

This is the Shiny gumball machine, lots of MDK is designed whilst munching on these yummy gumballs. This is were the guys would come when they forgot to eat dinner.

November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM

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Lukas

@lukasdrawsart.bsky.social

🚨 NEW CARTOON!! Please enjoy my weird cartoon for Hellavision Television's Web 5000.0 open call, The Paper Clip from the Year 5000 📎 Everyone speaks gibberish in the future and Clippy is the last remnant of the internet, so Clippy fans rejoice

November 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM

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Miles Davitt

@milesdavitt.bsky.social

The full programme for Web 5000.0 is online! Go watch all these phenomenal contributions, including a little something I made with a couple friends.

This episode was spearheaded by @sishir.com.

Web 5000.0

YouTube video by Hellavision Television Network

youtu.be

November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM

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Kyle Knapp

@bummervacation.com

My animated short for the latest episode of Hellavision Television, directed by @sishir.com
youtu.be/96PwUBvi3Ws?...

Internet of Birds

YouTube video by bummervacation

youtu.be

November 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM

Cadmiumcoffee

@sishir.com

youtu.be/VOOLsGMRtno

I worked on this short over the summer and early fall. It was an intro for Hellavision Television's WEB 5000.0 episode! Please check it out, because a lot of work and love went into this one!!

#animation #3d #blender #3danimation

WEB 5000.0 Introduction

YouTube video by Sishir Bommakanti

youtu.be

November 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM

Cadmiumcoffee

@sishir.com

youtu.be/jrqCTZeHLmw

#3d #blender #houdini #animation #motioncapture

Soft Horror Sibling Rivalry

YouTube video by Sishir Bommakanti

youtu.be

October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM

Cadmiumcoffee

@sishir.com

October 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM

Cadmiumcoffee

@sishir.com

Nu American Gothic

#illustration #3d #art #blender #zbrush #adobemedium #vrsculpt

October 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM

Cadmiumcoffee

@sishir.com

Detective Work

#blender #3d #illustration #zbrush #adobemedium #VR #vrsculpt

October 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM

Cadmiumcoffee

@sishir.com

Soft Horror Alien Tourism

#3d #blender #houdini #animation #motioncapture

October 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM

Cadmiumcoffee

@sishir.com

WEB 5000.0 Poster made in collab with @petersteineck.bsky.social for Hellavision Television

#illustration #blender #3d #art #poster

October 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM

Cadmiumcoffee

@sishir.com

Tantrums

VRSculpt/Zbrush/Blender Experiment

#vr #vrsculpt #adobemedium #illustration #blender #b3d #zbrush #sketch #sketchbook

October 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM

Cadmiumcoffee

@sishir.com

I got VR again, and started using Medium to create creatures and all. Love this process with the Blender Filters here.
#blender #vr #Adobemedium #illustration #art