Trace 🎷🐛 (artist looking for work!)
LightNews LightNews
banner
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
Trace 🎷🐛 (artist looking for work!)
@yourpaltrace.bsky.social
150 followers 440 following 520 posts
30 / 2019 SCAD Animation grad / 2D animator, artist, toy and movie collector, winner of a 2001 Shrek coloring contest / he/him / Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes 🎸
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
Trace 🎷🐛 (artist looking for work!) @yourpaltrace.bsky.social · Aug 17
Character bios for my work in progress retro-future sci-fi series Moving Parts! Might as well make a thread that I periodically update since it’s been a few months since I made the initial post.

#artsky #OCart #procreate
Amy balancing on a wrench and waving. Her bio reads: “Amelia “Amy” Burroughs is a young girl who eats, sleeps, and breathes technology. Think the scatterbrained genius of Doc Brown with the pluck and determination of Leslie Knope from Parks and Recreation, mixed together with the raw unfiltered enthusiasm of a young preteen girl. Amy’s aspiring to become a great inventor, just like her dad, Thomas. The only problem is that she isn’t very good. But what she lacks in prowess (and for that matter, common sense), she makes up for with a sheer, unadulterated love of her craft. Even if the odds are stacked against her - and they frequently are - she works as hard as she can to overcome them. Above all else, Amy is a dreamer, and she does what she does because she genuinely wants to use her talents to help make the world a better place for everyone to live in. Amy might even be one of the most powerful minds in the world...she just doesn’t know it yet. Mouser beeping happily. His bio reads: “Mouser is Amy’s very first robot, a mouse-shaped machine with wheels, built with her dad back when she was just a kid. Mouser is part pet, part Swiss army knife, and can transform into a variety of tools to help Amy complete her projects. Mouser is fiercely loyal to his owner, and does whatever he can to make sure that Amy stays safe -- which is difficult, seeing as he’s the size of a toy car.” A young Black girl stares awkwardly at the viewer while clutching a book. She wears green horn-rimmed glasses, a green polo, and has her braids done up with a white headband. Her bio reads: “Genevieve Johnson, or “Gen” as Amy calls her, is a very mousey, meticulous person - the kind of girl who can't start working until she has every pencil precisely lined up, every label applied neatly, her favorite lo-fi music playlist on at a respectable volume, etc. The two have an almost Odd Couple dynamic together: Amy is very loud, chaotic, and outspoken on her beliefs, but her outlandish inventions frequently backfire; whereas Gen has great, practical ideas and the knowledge to back them up, but is very shy, awkward and introverted. But the two share a mutual love of engineering and building, and have the same goal of making the world better. They complement each other.” A young Puerto Rican girl with big eyes and huge bangs smugly grins at the viewer. She’s wearing an old ringer tee with a peace sign and bell bottom jeans with hearts at the legs. Her bio reads: “Cristina Torres was born with a permanent chip on her shoulder. Heir to the Torres brand air fryer fortune, everyone knows her family, one of the wealthiest in Atom City — everyone except Amy, that is. But Cristina has a genuinely brilliant mind as she aspires to build robots and inventions like Amy, and she'll be damned if this new girl from the sticks takes away her spotlight.”
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
They should add Columbo to Fortnite
November 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
Forgot to post this last night because I finished at the last second, but as promised, here's Amy in her Rocketeer Halloween costume!!

#art #artsky #OCart #OCsky #movingparts #halloween
Amy dressed as the Rocketeer flying in the night sky with a plume of smoke coming out of her jetpack
November 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
Come to TMBG in concert if you want an ass kicking
Concert stage where They Might Be Giants will be playing soon
October 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
Who should Amy dress up as for Halloween?? Whichever costume gets the most likes at the end of the week gets a full illustration by Halloween! (since Bluesky STILL doesn't have polls, grumble grumble)
#art #OCsky #movingparts #halloween #procreate #retrofuture
A paper doll style drawing of Amy in front of a spooky Halloween backdrop. The Moving Parts logo is next to her, and text around her reads: "Help Amy choose her Halloween costume! SCROLL! -> Vote for your favorite in the comments!"
October 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
BASS WAS A STORYBOARDER??? Just when I thought I couldn't love his work more
ffrancavilla.bsky.social Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 29d
Amazing clip of famous poster and logo designer SAUL BASS discussing his storyboard for Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (yes, he storyboarded the shower kill and the Arbogast murder)
October 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Reposted by Trace 🎷🐛 (artist looking for work!)
4brandonjs4.bsky.social
Seems the new Tron is out.
So you should see it on Disney Plus.
This one right here. Totally the new Tron. Do it. It’s got Elijah Wood in it.
#tron
October 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
This happened to me once
ultrakillblast.bsky.social ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · Oct 7
GHOST IN THE MACHINE (1993)
October 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Reposted by Trace 🎷🐛 (artist looking for work!)
jongraywb.bsky.social
Brak telling Space Ghost he thinks he’s pregnant
October 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Trace 🎷🐛 (artist looking for work!)
makkon.bsky.social
a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"
October 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Reposted by Trace 🎷🐛 (artist looking for work!)
crisppyboat.ca
Happy Pacman World 2 Re-Pac release day!!

To celebrate, I'm giving away a free copy of the game!! Just like and repost to enter! #BandaiNamcoCreator
September 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reposted by Trace 🎷🐛 (artist looking for work!)
esfio.bsky.social
Season 2 Episode 24 - Frame 777 out of 5296
Season 2 Episode 24 - Frame 777 out of 5296
September 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
As someone who hated the sensation of scraping my teeth on the wooden stick when I ate these: VINDICATION
September 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Reposted by Trace 🎷🐛 (artist looking for work!)
grapenutsrobot.graphics
September 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
I have gotten four separate notification popups from PlayStation today to let me know that the Gex Trilogy rerelease is on sale
September 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
Getting ready to enjoy some new PTA in 70MM this fine Friday morning @plazaatlanta.bsky.social
The Plaza Theatre marquee reading "One Battle After Another is here in 70MM" Me in the theater waiting for One Battle After Another, the title is projected on the curtains while I hold up my ticket
September 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
hey man, sorry, i can't come in to work today. yeah, i'm getting raptured right now. yeah, god's divine light is sending me skyward into the heavens. is it cool if i come in tomorrow instead
September 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Reposted by Trace 🎷🐛 (artist looking for work!)
lalafellss.bsky.social
img that says “got a really crazy art coming up in the next 7-8 years. Stay tuned.”
September 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
Come to Grateful Daze in Dahlonega GA if you want an ass kicking #movingparts
A crayon drawing of Amy Burroughs clipped to a metal poster of Betty Boop at a general store
September 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
Renting a cabin for the weekend with the family for a birthday trip, and the rec room downstairs has ALL the hits the kids these days are playing
A copy of Balls of Fury for the Wii
September 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
My style icon
September 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
No new pictures, where are you at mentally?

This @othatsraspberry.com sticker sums it up nicely
A sticker of James from Silent Hill 2, holding up a peace sign and winking, with "I'M DEPRESSED" written over him
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
Man I wish it wasn't this hard to stay positive
September 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Reposted by Trace 🎷🐛 (artist looking for work!)
sardonicus.eu
man rolling rock up hill how it started how its going
September 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Reposted by Trace 🎷🐛 (artist looking for work!)
esfio.bsky.social
Season 2 Episode 22 - Frame 2123 out of 2631
Season 2 Episode 22 - Frame 2123 out of 2631
September 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
yourpaltrace.bsky.social
I watched Barton Fink for the first time this week and ended up drawing John Turturro fanart for no one but myself #artsky #procreate
A cartoony recreation of John Turturro as the title character of the Coen brothers's movie Barton Fink
September 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM