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Cygnus
@cygnus.gay
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- Technical artist for Quillmark
- Minecraft mapmaker
- Motion graphics artist
- A little bit of everything else
https://cygnus.gay
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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meyoco.bsky.social
beyond the veil 🌙
Digital artwork of a witch wearing long white dress and starry veiled witch hat
November 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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alt.burssty.com
DESPOTISM EPISODE 2 IS PREMIERING IN 15 MINUTES!!
youtu.be/MNinqHuPxWE
DESPOTISM Ep2 - GENESIS
YouTube video by Burssty
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
cygnus.gay
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Highly Illegal
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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crimsontentacles.bsky.social
Listen to me. Listen. If you're making images that will only be displayed on screens, YOU HAVE TO LET GO. You can calibrate your screens perfectly, but then 25k people will see it on their shitty $50 monitors or cracked phone and its out of your hands. Don't think of it. Achieve enlightenment.
Tweet by @night margin "digital artist woes" image of the same color gradient on various screen (monitor 1 appears very grey purple, phone appear VERY pink, monitor 2 appears a more saturated purple, laptop appears brownish red, family's phone appears much darker and bluer etc.)
October 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
cygnus.gay
I randomly check my profile after a few weeks of not playing GD and notice I have 3 creator points out of nowhere--apparently a level I made two weeks after 2.2 came out got featured! :0
October 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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awawawa.world
i might be gay
September 13, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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tobyfox.undertale.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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teamcherry.bsky.social
The hunt is on! Hollow Knight: Silksong is available now on all platforms, including day one on Xbox Game Pass!
September 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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fireb0rn.bsky.social
wait lemme add one more to this list

- Hollow Knight: Silksong
September 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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teamcherry.bsky.social
Four days until release! Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available on 4th September.

Release times:
7AM PT | 10AM ET | 4PM CEST | 11PM JST

Game price:
USD $19.99 | EUR €19.99 | JPY ¥2300
September 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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brunodias.bsky.social
The idea that 'AI can speed up dev cycles' would require a premise that dev cycles are long because people are taking forever to make assets (so you could replace them with shoddy slop and it'd go faster), which you could only believe is true if you've never actually tried to make a video game
August 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
cygnus.gay
Updated my resource packs and data packs to the latest version, most of them support 1.21.5 through 1.21.8 now :)
A list of data packs and resource packs on Modrinth's website. The entries are "Ultimate Accurate Hitbox Pack", "Cygnus's Pride Flag Totems", "Simple Sitting", "Swordless", and "Scalable Mobs"
July 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
cygnus.gay
I love Geometry Dash discourse
A grid of Geometry Dash opinions making up a political compass
July 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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lanostry.bsky.social
Just a water bird 🌊
#Minecraft #Blockbench #Gamedev #gamedevelopment #lowpoly #minecraftskin #skin #pixelart #voxelart #forge #modding
July 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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bombsfall.bsky.social
I hope all these blows to the social safety net and stabilizing government services in general dont lead to predictable negative societal outcomes that will require more and more desperate scapegoating of select people groups to explain it.
Oh no,
July 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
cygnus.gay
Alphabets
Six pixel-art renditions of the alphabet and Arabic numerals
June 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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vippori.bsky.social
I made a music video for Hatsune Miku ! ✨
Please check it out 💜💙
June 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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undertale.com
HOW LONG

IT HAS BEEN.
June 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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cygnus.gay
💙 #minecraft #blockbench
A Minecraft skin depicting a girl with pink hair, a white and orange shirt, jean shorts, black socks, colorful shoes, and an aqua headband. She's floating in an abstract space with a purple background and blurry floating pink, white, and blue dots, and she's holding a heart with a transgender pride flag on it. A white, slightly transparent ribbon-like shape encircles her, with the text "Existence is Resistance" written on it in a script font.
January 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
cygnus.gay
The map I've been working on with Quillmark for the better part of a year, Desolate Desert, is finally out!

I'm very proud of the art I made for it, so I'm glad that others can finally enjoy it too. Get some friends together and check it out! :) www.planetminecraft.com/project/deso...
Desolate Desert | 1.21.5 Survival Games Minecraft Map
Desolate Desert awaits! The desert used to be a calm and peaceful place, where Pharaohs and their followers would gather and worship the ancient god...
www.planetminecraft.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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galacticcharlie.bsky.social
Hey if you didn’t know, a few cool people are in the Java Creators MapJam until Monday at 9PM so head over to shrimple.gay for some really inspiring sneak peaks at our map jamming so far!! 😊🦐💕
May 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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lena.fyi
not that i take fault in people pursuing realism in digital media, but as realism becomes more real & infallible (speaking globally: computer graphics, sampled instruments, voice synthesis, "intelligence"), it's the impressionistic and blatantly artificial that speaks more to me as an artist
April 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
cygnus.gay
Updated my pride flag totem resource pack to 1.21.5, now fully vanilla--no mods required! :) modrinth.com/resourcepack...
Twelve pride flag models on a white background.
April 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
cygnus.gay
Latest snapshot has one of the biggest resource pack changes ever, being able to rotate cuboids in block models in increments finer than 22.5 degrees is so huge--the fact that this was quietly added with no fanfare is crazy
Minecraft screenshot. Top down view of dark reddish bricks on brownish-red sand. The bricks are slightly askew.
April 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM