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RetroGamer429

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Today is the birthday of Sally Acorn, so here's a render I made for the chipmunk herself!
Credits: @adampixelrush.bsky.social for the Sally model!
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#SallyAcorn #SallyFanArt #SonicTheHedgehog #SonicFanArt #SourceFilmmaker #SFM

November 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM

RetroGamer429

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Here's a redraw of this IDW Sonic panel with my character: Hyphen the Cat, this redraw was very fun to do!
Original Post: twitter.com/blu3s_doodle...
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Fun Fact: This redraw was originally created on October 29th 2025

November 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM

RetroGamer429

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Everybody's been talking about Sonic Rush's 20th Anniversary, so here's a Blaze render I made to celebrate 20 years since her debut!
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#SFM #SourceFilmmaker #BlazeTheCat #BlazeFanArt #SonicTheHedgehog #SonicFanArt

November 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM

RetroGamer429

@retrogamer429.bsky.social

Happy Halloween!
Here's some SFM renders I made with Sally & Rouge models by @adampixelrush.bsky.social!
Shoutout to him.
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#SallyAcorn #SallyFanArt #RougeTheBat #RougeFanArt #SourceFilmmaker #SFM #SonicTheHedgehog #SonicFanArt

October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM

RetroGamer429

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Decided to join in on that Rouge redraw thing, how did I do?
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October 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM

RetroGamer429

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This year is the #SuperMario40thAnniversary, so I drew some art, sorry for the low rushed quality, currently burnt out.
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#SuperMario #Mario #Nintendo #fanart #digitalartwork #digitalart #art

September 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM

RetroGamer429

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After almost a full month in development, I FINALLY finished my large mod project.
I've modded 10 of my OCs into Castle Crashers, available for YOU, yes, YOU, to play right now if you own both the game (duh) & the "Painter Boss Paradise" DLC.
Follow-Up posts contains the link:

September 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM

RetroGamer429

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It's been awhile since I drew some artwork with my characters, so here's some art with my main 2 characters (read alt text for more info)!
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This artwork contains a picture being held with two characters in the frame, the character on the right is "Kayden", featuring a new design with a light blue hat and shorts, brown hair and belt, a dark blue short sleeved open shirt, and a short sleeved white shirt underneath it, with the eyes, hair, and face still remaining the same. The character on the left is "Audrey", also featuring a slightly different new design with a black short sleeved crop top shirt and black pants with a gray belt, the black color scheme of her clothing and the black hair tie(scrunchy?) being the same from her previous gym-wear inspired design.
These two ARE together and have a thing for each other, hence the picture being taken.
The photograph and the background are taken from an episode from the show: "Phineas & Ferb", with the characters originally being Phineas (right) and Isabella (left).

August 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM

RetroGamer429

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I animated Knuckles over the TF2 Soldier in: "Meet the Knuckles"! Check it out!
[Video link in follow-up post]
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#TF2 #TeamFortress2 #SourceFilmmaker #SFM #Knuckles #Sonic #SonicTheHedgehog

August 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM

RetroGamer429

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I animated Tails over the TF2 Engineer in: "Meet the Tails"! Check it out!
[Video link in follow-up post]
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#TeamFortress2 #TF2 #SourceFilmmaker #SFM #Tails #MilesTailsPrower #SonicTheHedgehog #Sonic

July 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM

RetroGamer429

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What happens when you give someone who loves Sonic & TF2 & access to animate & give them access to edit one of the game's promotional shorts?
You get "Meet the Eggman"!
Link in the follow-up post!
#SonicTheHedgehog #Sonic #TeamFortress2 #TF2 #SFMAnimation #SourceFilmmaker

July 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM

RetroGamer429

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Yall remember those "Mimi-Sentry" designs the TF2 community made awhile ago?
I do, I vibe with those designs, so I tried making a cool render with one of them.
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In this render, you have the "Dell-Spenser" (commonly referred to as the male version of the "Mimi-Sentry" with a pistol in one hand, and adjusting their glasses with the other hand.
With cinematic bars on the top and bottom, with the top bar being behind the character and the bottom bar in front of the character, creating an effect where it looks like the character is coming through the screen.
The hair is also edited to be colored brown (in the program it was orange, but because of how the program works, the hair ended up being a dark color that looked brown, but if the brightness was set lower it would be black and if the brightness was set higher the color would be the normal blue color), to add my own take.
Fun Fact: None of the additional items (the pistol and glasses) are locked to the model, since I had to resize the models to fit. And if I tried locking the models together (i.e locking the gun to the hand), the size returns and looks awkward.

July 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM

RetroGamer429

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[Content Warning: Blood]
So... this is accurate to Shadow '05, right?
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In this render, Shadow the Hedgehog uses a gun (a gun model from Half-Life 2) and shoots Sonic the Hedgehog, which is super effective as the bullet causes and open wound with blood emitting from the chest, knocking Sonic backwards.
This render was made as a test of various Source Filmmaker Steam Workshop items, the bullet and blood effect, as well as the wound.
And the concept of this render was more or less based on the CG opening for Shadow the Hedgehog (2005), where Sonic trembles after being dealt with by Shadow.
This was not meant to be venting any frustrations at all, I just decided to make this render because I had a random thought and decided to make it a reality.

July 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM

RetroGamer429

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Here's some art I made from July 2nd - June 4th, with one of them (in 2 alt versions) being based on a YouTube thumbnail (check the follow up post).
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This artwork is based on a thumbnail from a YouTube video titled: "Rivet Takes on 100 Men in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart", uploaded by the YouTube channel: "Huggbees: Gamer Mode".
This version of the artwork contains a wide majority of my characters, so starting from left to right we have: Princess B.Berry (Short for "Blueberry"), an old character that is making their return after last being seen on January 27th 2024.
We then have "Lyra the Rabbit" in front of Princess B.Berry, and in front of Lyra is Kayden".
Next to those 3 is "Makoto", one of Kayden's closest friends.
In the middle is "Jade the Fox", wearing an outfit based on Krystal from Star Fox, specifically her outfit from "Star Fox Adventures".
Next to her on the right is "Professor Luis", then after him is "Nixie the Cat" closer to the bottom, then the top is Kayden's "evil" doppelganger.
Then we have "Hyphen the Cat" on the middle far right, and beneath him is the mysterious "Moth-Man", another one of Kayden's close friends.

In this artwork, Audrey (the character on the left) is tied up and unable to move and escape (as to what led to this scenario happening, that's up to your imagination), as she has to deal with Kayden's (the character on the right) humorous dialogue making light of a bad situation while he is also tried and hung upside down. With Audrey being a little bit (and reasonably) infuriated at the current situation.

In this artwork, you have "Makoto", one of Kayden's closest friends and the first in the friend group, working at a "WcDonalds", a reference to how anime would have a McDonalds under the different name of "WcDonalds" to not infringe on copyright.
With Makoto not really enjoying the job, but however they aren't alone as they have a "Emotional Support Kayden" plush that is alive and sentient (given to them as a gift from Kayden).

July 6, 2025 at 4:20 AM

RetroGamer429

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Offer taken, here's Rouge and Topaz drawn in my style!
The artwork is based on this Twitter post by: "Adam (PixelRush)": x.com/adampixelrus...
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#RougeTheBat #RougeTheBatFanArt #digitalartwork #digitalart #art

July 4, 2025 at 4:27 AM

RetroGamer429

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I had a vision with Rouge & Sally, I had to.
Credits to @adampixelrush.bsky.social for the Rouge & Sally models!
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#RougeTheBat #RougeFanart #SallyAcorn #SallyFanart #SonicTheHedgehog #SonicFanart #SourceFilmmaker #SFM

Rouge the Bat is flying across Station Square (from Sonic Adventure) while carrying Sally Acorn, with Rouge giving a wink and a smirk at Sally, and Sally holding her arms up with closed hands and a shocked/concerned facial expression.

July 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM

RetroGamer429

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Random Art Dump where I draw various characters of mine over memes images I found.
Check the "Alt Text" to know the characters in each image.
(1/2)
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The character on the left is "Kayden", and the character on the right is "Audrey", drawn in an attempt at replicating the Family Guy character artstyle since the post was talking about a shot from the show.
Kayden and Audrey are canonically together, so of course I had to pick them for this redraw.

The character seen in these YouTube thumbnails is a character called "Moth-Man", as indicated by the wings on the back and the weird bug-like antenna on the top of their hoodie. Despite being known called "Moth-Man" as if he's some sort of super hero, he's actually just a normal guy wearing various accessories to hide their identity like a real super hero. Despite being friends with Kayden and his crew, none of them know his actual name or what he looks like behind the face mask, glasses, and beneath the "Moth-Man" outfit.
He's a more comedic and wacky character, so having that in this character's personality made him the perfect candidate for this redraw.

The character on the top left and bottom is "Nixie the Cat", and the character on the top right and bottom right is "Hyphen the Cat", these two are sort of parallels to Kayden and Audrey but as anthropomorphic cats, they're even have a thing for each other as well! So with that fact, it made them perfect to be in this redraw.

Ok, this requires a bit of an explanation and lore dumping...
The character on the top of the image is named: "Dr. Rob", and the character on the bottom of the image is named: "Zachary".
These two characters were based on characters I drew a very, VERY long time ago when I used to do stick figure art (I was young and learning how to draw), these two along with Kayden (Who wasn't named "Kayden" back then) were the main trio back then, along with an antagonist. This was before the insane amount of characters I created and made a world and story for them.
However, as time passed by and I made more characters, these two were forgotten until December 31st 2021 as their grand return with new designs only to be forgotten again until May 5th 2022, a 1 year disappearance.
And with their return here, it's been 3 years. You can tell I moved on from using these characters from that era considering how I barely use them.
Dr. Rob is a scientist, and Zachary is his human lab rat btw.

June 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM

RetroGamer429

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On this day, 34 years ago, SEGA created the "Blue Blur" himself, Sonic the Hedgehog!
To celebrate #Sonic34th birthday, here's a render I made!
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#SonicTheHedgehog #sonicfanart #SFM #SourceFilmmaker

June 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM

RetroGamer429

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I remembered a specific moment from one of Sonic 06's cutscenes featuring Amy Rose, & decided to draw it.
#amyrosefanart #amyrose #digitalartwork #digtialart #art #redraw #SonicTheHedgehog #sonicfanart
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June 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM

RetroGamer429

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So, that #DonkeyKongBananza Direct, game looks pretty fun doesn't it?
Anyways, here's some fan-art I made. First time drawing these two.
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#art #oc #ocart #ocsky #digitalartwork #DonkeyKongfanart #Nintendo

We have Donkey Kong (loosely based on his redesign that originated from the Super Mario Bros. Movie and has been used in Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza, which is what this artwork was inspired from) standing giving a thumbs-up and looking at Kayden (my main human OC), who sitting on his arm looking back at DK and giving a peace sign, with Pauline (also loosely based on her appearance in the Donkey Kong Bananza game) holding onto DK from the back and waving at the viewer. The text reads "Donkey Kong Bananza", since this artwork was inspired by the upcoming release of the game.

June 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM

RetroGamer429

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I got my hands on a PS5 last month, meaning I was finally able to play Astro's Playroom & Astro Bot.
I 100% completed both & enjoyed them!
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In this artwork, you can see Astro from "Astro Bot" on the left jumping while flying via the rockets underneath his feet looking to his left, and on the right is a "Special Bot" (robots that in Astro's home series he has to rescue, the "Special" variety of bots are usually robots dawning attire and items based on whatever video game character they're trying to represent) based off the artists' (me, RetroGamer429) OC named "Kayden".
Both have brown hair, blue shirt and black pants. The "Kayden Bot" is riding on top of the Playstation 5's "Duel Sense" controller, which is how Astro travels to different planets in his game, while having a happy expression and giving a peace sign.
The picture of the controller is actually a picture I took and removed the background to add it into the image, since drawing the controller was gonna be very complicated.
The half-visible sharp angles on the left and right side of the image is meant to showcase the fast speeds the controller is flying.

June 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM

RetroGamer429

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I saw a YouTube video thumbnail, then had a cursed idea.
If I had to make this, you're gonna see it
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In this artwork, there is Sonic the Hedgehog with Rouge the Bat's outfit and gloves, along with her blue eyelids and eyelashes, and also went through plastic surgery to try to look convincing as possible. You have Tails with big eyes and shocked facial expression, which is meant to be a reference to the image of Sackboy from LittleBigPlanet dressed up as Sonic with the big eyes and a scared expression that became a meme, and also has a emoticon bubble with a water drop icon to showcase Tails' shocked reaction. Then there's Knuckles with one eye brow being raised and the other lowered, and a question mark emoticon bubble to show Knuckles' confused expression. Then there's Amy Rose who is looking away blushing, while having her fingers touch each other and a heart emoticon bubble, showcasing how Amy is in support of this. And then there's Rouge in doodle form laughing while slamming her fist on a table, as this was actually a dare between Sonic and her, daring him to dress up like Rouge.

June 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM

RetroGamer429

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Here's a collection of various artwork featuring my OCs, check out the "Alt Text" to know who each of these characters are.
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#art #oc #ocart #ocsky #digitalart #digitalartist

This artwork contains my OC, "Jade the Fox", a female fox who is named so after the color of her eyes and fur. In this artwork, Jade is wearing and outfit based on the video game character "Chun-Li" from Capcom's "Street Fighter" series. Jade is also holding a phone taking pictures of herself in the outfit with a mirror that isn't shown, while striking a pose on the left artwork, and sitting down on a chair turning back to look at the mirror and taking the picture.
The artwork is based of a picture of a Chun-Li cosplay I found from a YouTube video, but unfortunately I do not know who the original cosplayer was that took the picture that inspired this art piece.

This artwork contains my 2 OCs, Kayden (left) and Audrey (right), posed in front of wooden sign with spray painted text saying: "Who Woulge?", a reference to an inside joke between me and one of my closest friends. Kayden is posed to be pointing at Audrey with a cartoonishly happy expression, while Audrey is holding a plate with a cake/pie slice (it could be any one of the two) in one hand, and a fork in the other, while having an unamused expression.
This artwork is based of a thumbnail from a YouTube video called: "Oh Yeah, I Absolutely Would in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart" uploaded by the YouTube channel: "Huggbees: Gamer Mode".
The link to the video is in the follow up post.

This artwork contains my OC, "Nixie the Cat', a black & white cat with yellow eyes who in her normal appearance would wear white overalls with yellow buttons, inspired by the classic black & white cartoons from many years ago.
Her appearance in this art contains her wearing a brown cowboy hat, red bandana, blue shirt and a brown short sleeved over-shirt.
She has a sad expression with big shiny eyes, based on the various images of sad cats found on the internet.
With the text on screen reading: "You just gonna scroll by without saying 'Meowdy'?" being a reference to images online about cats wearing cowboy hats.
As obvious from the background looking a bit melted, this was taken from an image I found from a YouTube video, but unfortunately I know nothing about its origins like who took the picture.
I used a scrub tool to hide the original person in the image so they wouldn't be seen through the drawn character meant to replace the person.

June 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM

RetroGamer429

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Sonic the Hedgehog & Amy Rose take center stage (with some people cheering them on in the background) singing a song together!
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#SonicTheHedgehog #amyrose #sonicfanart #amyrosefanart #SourceFilmmaker #SFM

May 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM

RetroGamer429

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The following 17 post Thread contains pictures from 2 conventions I went to, starting with a con that happened in April 26th 2025, and then my first con back in October 21st 2023.
I wanted to do this to showcase my journey.
Here's my cosplay for the 2025 convention, Tails!
(1/17)

May 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM

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