Richard Lumsden
@inkboardstudios.bsky.social
Canadian writer, artist/illustrator/letterer.
Learning to reinvent my life, living with invisible disabilities.
I support imagination and creativity.
Just be you.
www.inkboardstudios.com
Learning to reinvent my life, living with invisible disabilities.
I support imagination and creativity.
Just be you.
www.inkboardstudios.com
Good Mornin' Peeps!
I finished up the base male body this morning.
Today is going to be getting the base structure for the 8 frame walking animation.
I will need to make a back view, but luckily I dont need full rotations, so that will save a bunch of work... whew!
#GameDev #PixelArt #GameArt
I finished up the base male body this morning.
Today is going to be getting the base structure for the 8 frame walking animation.
I will need to make a back view, but luckily I dont need full rotations, so that will save a bunch of work... whew!
#GameDev #PixelArt #GameArt
December 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Another process post.
Experimenting with a 3 colour cell shader visual style.
I need to do proper colour palette and tone down the muscles some, but its a concept anyways and will be in greyscale for ingame skin colour selection, plus swappable heads for customization.
Once step at a time.
Experimenting with a 3 colour cell shader visual style.
I need to do proper colour palette and tone down the muscles some, but its a concept anyways and will be in greyscale for ingame skin colour selection, plus swappable heads for customization.
Once step at a time.
December 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Another process post.
Experimenting with a 3 colour cell shader visual style.
I need to do proper colour palette and tone down the muscles some, but its a concept anyways and will be in greyscale for ingame skin colour selection, plus swappable heads for customization.
Once step at a time.
Experimenting with a 3 colour cell shader visual style.
I need to do proper colour palette and tone down the muscles some, but its a concept anyways and will be in greyscale for ingame skin colour selection, plus swappable heads for customization.
Once step at a time.
This morning's project... a basic 2D ragdoll to make an animation walk template and and get some basic movement into game. I will work on actual character designs later.
Off to runs some errands!
#GameDev #PixelArt ##2DAnimation #GameArt
Off to runs some errands!
#GameDev #PixelArt ##2DAnimation #GameArt
December 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This morning's project... a basic 2D ragdoll to make an animation walk template and and get some basic movement into game. I will work on actual character designs later.
Off to runs some errands!
#GameDev #PixelArt ##2DAnimation #GameArt
Off to runs some errands!
#GameDev #PixelArt ##2DAnimation #GameArt
Today is playing around with a seamless background for the underground world where tiles are dug out. Top and fill tiles with a couple varients to break things up. Am going to pop into the game engien to make sure it works before rendering it out.
#indie #gamedev #pixelart #gameart #affinity
#indie #gamedev #pixelart #gameart #affinity
December 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
My previous tilesets for stone and dirt did not work the way I wanted with shaders in game for day/night, so new approach! I am much happier with how this one worked out, so lost time but lesson learned and experience gained. 🎨👍🍻
#2D #GameArt #GameDev #Affinity #pixleart #learning #art
#2D #GameArt #GameDev #Affinity #pixleart #learning #art
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Well, as always with learning, the right tool for the job is the best way to improve...
So, I switched over to #Aseprite to create my sprite animations.
A much nicer experience for creating and testing animated sprites!
From Noob to... well less Noobish... 😄
#Learning #Gamedev #Gameart #Pixelart
So, I switched over to #Aseprite to create my sprite animations.
A much nicer experience for creating and testing animated sprites!
From Noob to... well less Noobish... 😄
#Learning #Gamedev #Gameart #Pixelart
April 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Back and forth between 2D and 3D game assets, playing around with more styles. Today I was experimenting more with #PixelArt with hair and gear layer styles, and colour tones.
Trying to keep things super simple yet not cartoony.
I like how this concept style turned out.
#GameDev #GameArt
Trying to keep things super simple yet not cartoony.
I like how this concept style turned out.
#GameDev #GameArt
April 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Updated the body mesh to improve deforms and began rigging! 😬
"G'damnit Kirk, I'm an artist not a rigger!" - Bones
Yeah, I know you know what I did there... 👀
#Gamedev #Gameart #Learning #3DModeling
"G'damnit Kirk, I'm an artist not a rigger!" - Bones
Yeah, I know you know what I did there... 👀
#Gamedev #Gameart #Learning #3DModeling
March 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Updated the body mesh to improve deforms and began rigging! 😬
"G'damnit Kirk, I'm an artist not a rigger!" - Bones
Yeah, I know you know what I did there... 👀
#Gamedev #Gameart #Learning #3DModeling
"G'damnit Kirk, I'm an artist not a rigger!" - Bones
Yeah, I know you know what I did there... 👀
#Gamedev #Gameart #Learning #3DModeling
Day 1: Learning and playing with Blender interface.
Day 2: Mutilple low poly figure builds.
Day 3: Learning basic rigging and Inverse Kinematics.
Day 4: Learning UV unwrapping fundamentals.
After that, going back to learn more in depth about IK for joint constraints. 🥴
#Learning #Gamedev #Gameart
Day 2: Mutilple low poly figure builds.
Day 3: Learning basic rigging and Inverse Kinematics.
Day 4: Learning UV unwrapping fundamentals.
After that, going back to learn more in depth about IK for joint constraints. 🥴
#Learning #Gamedev #Gameart
March 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Going slow, making mistakes and learning from them.
That posterior though...
There are some verticies in there that are going to haunt me tonight. 😬
That posterior though...
There are some verticies in there that are going to haunt me tonight. 😬
March 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Going slow, making mistakes and learning from them.
That posterior though...
There are some verticies in there that are going to haunt me tonight. 😬
That posterior though...
There are some verticies in there that are going to haunt me tonight. 😬
Well.
Spent some time today learning Blender today.
Started a low poly model for fun, good way to learn.
The last 3D I did was way back with Max 2, but I have done a bunch of 2D AutoCad for industrial manufacturing.
Trying to pretend this is just a new tool design...
#Blender #Gameart #Gamedev
Spent some time today learning Blender today.
Started a low poly model for fun, good way to learn.
The last 3D I did was way back with Max 2, but I have done a bunch of 2D AutoCad for industrial manufacturing.
Trying to pretend this is just a new tool design...
#Blender #Gameart #Gamedev
March 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Watched teh #Canucks game then came back to the artboard, finished one of the side profiles. But, the crappy part about my directional lighting choice on art assets... I can.t flip assets.
Crap.
Rookie mistake.
Lol, maybe I SHOULD do it 2.5D... gonna sleep on it and decide in the morning.
Crap.
Rookie mistake.
Lol, maybe I SHOULD do it 2.5D... gonna sleep on it and decide in the morning.
March 27, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Watched teh #Canucks game then came back to the artboard, finished one of the side profiles. But, the crappy part about my directional lighting choice on art assets... I can.t flip assets.
Crap.
Rookie mistake.
Lol, maybe I SHOULD do it 2.5D... gonna sleep on it and decide in the morning.
Crap.
Rookie mistake.
Lol, maybe I SHOULD do it 2.5D... gonna sleep on it and decide in the morning.
Front and back.
Left, right and quarters to go. Then I cen go mack to some scripting to move (slide) him around in game before doing the animations.
I probably should have just done 3D... 🫤
Ah well. Design choices... 🫠
Left, right and quarters to go. Then I cen go mack to some scripting to move (slide) him around in game before doing the animations.
I probably should have just done 3D... 🫤
Ah well. Design choices... 🫠
March 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Front and back.
Left, right and quarters to go. Then I cen go mack to some scripting to move (slide) him around in game before doing the animations.
I probably should have just done 3D... 🫤
Ah well. Design choices... 🫠
Left, right and quarters to go. Then I cen go mack to some scripting to move (slide) him around in game before doing the animations.
I probably should have just done 3D... 🫤
Ah well. Design choices... 🫠
Every artist has their Achilles heel, hands, feet, whatever.
Mine is the back of the knee.
Took 7 attempts to just get a simple shape.
A pain in the ass...
Wait... in knee.
For the sake of this image, I thought best to calrify that. 😐\\
What is yours?
#gamedeve #gameart #illustration #pixelart
Mine is the back of the knee.
Took 7 attempts to just get a simple shape.
A pain in the ass...
Wait... in knee.
For the sake of this image, I thought best to calrify that. 😐\\
What is yours?
#gamedeve #gameart #illustration #pixelart
March 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Every artist has their Achilles heel, hands, feet, whatever.
Mine is the back of the knee.
Took 7 attempts to just get a simple shape.
A pain in the ass...
Wait... in knee.
For the sake of this image, I thought best to calrify that. 😐\\
What is yours?
#gamedeve #gameart #illustration #pixelart
Mine is the back of the knee.
Took 7 attempts to just get a simple shape.
A pain in the ass...
Wait... in knee.
For the sake of this image, I thought best to calrify that. 😐\\
What is yours?
#gamedeve #gameart #illustration #pixelart
This morning's experiment -- export the pixel art to the different rez ratios. From 256px > 128px > 64px > 32px.
Even with detail loss, I am happy with my options.
My intent was to scale to 128 for ingame, but now... maybe 64?
Was a good learning experience regardless.
Even with detail loss, I am happy with my options.
My intent was to scale to 128 for ingame, but now... maybe 64?
Was a good learning experience regardless.
March 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This morning's experiment -- export the pixel art to the different rez ratios. From 256px > 128px > 64px > 32px.
Even with detail loss, I am happy with my options.
My intent was to scale to 128 for ingame, but now... maybe 64?
Was a good learning experience regardless.
Even with detail loss, I am happy with my options.
My intent was to scale to 128 for ingame, but now... maybe 64?
Was a good learning experience regardless.