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🦝 I’m a cartoonist who likes to draw animals with swords! | Pixel Artist and Animator for the future indie game, Blackmask⚔️ Website: mastafran.com LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/mastafran Blackmask: https://blackmaskgame.com/

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · Jul 8

#portfolioday

I'm an indie cartoonist, animator, and on good days, game developer creating pixel art for upcoming indie games.

If you wanna commission me, send a dm or check out my website!
www.mastafran.com

Green monochrome pixel illustration of an anthropomorphic raccoon wearing a large jacket, the camera looks over his shoulder to see a female anthropomorphic jackal wearing an eye patch long coat, ruffled neck collar, a sword and standing with a cane.

Monochrome green pixel illusion of three anthropomorphic animal characters. Left is an an anthropomorphic female goat with a silly beard. Middle is a anthropomorphic female sheep carrying a travel sack on his back and a mini sword. Right is an anthropomorphic pig in overalls tipping his hat to the camera.

Pixel art background layout mockup for the game Blackmask, displaying an interior room of broken stone pillars and bricks with an anthropomorphic raccoon standing among them

A green monochrome pixel art mock ups of a forest environment in Blackmask game to demonstrate a potential day and night system The player charcacter, Cole Blackmask stands on the left. The image is a compilation of two variants of the same image. The top image depicts a forest environment in the day time with large, thick tree trunks behind bushes and foliage. The bottom image depicts the same forest environment in a dark forest with large, thick tree trunks behind bushes and foliage.

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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 3h

candy hearts, Beatles edition

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 2h

As Claudia is a busy cat witch doing important witch work like pondering her crystal ball for dank memes, she hires Stacie the Skunk Maid to help out with cleaning services in her garbage dump of a home.

Pencil sketch of an upset anthropomorphic female skunk in a maid uniform standing in front of an anthropomorphic female cat in a witch outfit lying on the floor with broken plates on the shelf behind them.

Pencil sketch of an anthropomorphic female cat in a witch outfit faceplanted on the ground after crash landing from her broom riding.

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Pixel Nomad | Wishlist Bugboy on Steam! 🐝 @ratpackdigital.com · 5h

The Bugboy playable demo is coming to Steam Next Fest in February!

Wishlist the game for #WishlistWednesday!

store.steampowered.com/app/3095130/...

🐝 Fill your bug compendium
⚔️Train and battle your creepy crawlies
👀 Fishing, gathering and puzzles
🎉 Nifty RPG mechanics

#gamedev #indiedev #gameboy

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Yoyoyollie @yoyoyollie.bsky.social · 23d

Games called DELIVERY MUST COMPLETE now
#gamedev #indiedev

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ZCKRY.EXE @impactzack.bsky.social · 15h

"Grisly murders, curses, lunacy... Luckily, devil-worship makes me smile, so this is my idea of a paid vacation."
Day 7: ALONE IN THE DARK
#DailySpookyGames

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 1d

Another bunch of sketches of Claudia the Cat Witch. Initially she was an idea for a general cat mage enemy for Blackmask but things turned out different.

Traditional Gel Pen Sketches of and anthropomorphic cat character named Claudia. Many of these doodles are close ups of her character design and clothing to understand how to draw her better. There are close ups of her stripped shirt sleeve with her thumb through them. Close up of her toe less stripped socks. Sketches of what Claudia's head looks like without her hat, as she has regular cat ears under her larger hat with two ear-like points. There is also doodles of her back view and her messy hair.

Pen and ink drawing of an anthropomorphic cat witch wearing a two pointed witch hat reminiscent of cat ears, a short dress with a stripped long sleeved undershirt and stockings. She rides on top of a broom in the sky like a skateboard or surfboard.

Two traditional pen and ink sketches of an anthropomorphic cat character dressed as a witch, name Claudia. The left sketch is a basic standing character wearing a two pointed witch hat reminiscent of cat ears. Claudia also wears a black dress with a stripped long sleeve undershirt and stockings. She holds a simple straw broom in her hand. Right sketch is Claudia riding on top of said broom like a skateboard or surfboard.

A variety of traditional alcohol marker sketches of an anthropomorphic cat character dressed as a witch wearing a two pointed witch hat reminiscent of cat ears a dark indigo short dress with a indigo and white stripped stockings. Many sketches show the cat riding on top of a broomstick like a skateboard or surfboard.

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 19h

Gen AI can't succeed because every day it's bleeding billions and still can't make a profit after years of trying.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21h

just an obscene lie, but because it's "will be" nothing happens. Oracle is posting razor-thin gross profit margins (which do not mean they're actually making a profit, by the way!). Oracle lost $100m in three months on renting out Blackwell GPUs.

www.theinformation.com/articles/int...

In the three months that ended in August, Oracle generated around $900 million from rentals of servers powered by Nvidia chips and recorded a gross profit of $125 million—equal to 14 cents for every $1 of sales, the documents show. That’s lower than the gross margins of many nontech retail businesses.

As sales from the business nearly tripled in the past year, the gross profit margin from those sales ranged between less than 10% and slightly over 20%, averaging around 16%, the documents show.

In some cases, Oracle is losing considerable sums on rentals of small quantities of both newer and older versions of Nvidia’s chips, the data show. A spokesperson for Oracle, which doesn’t publicly disclose the AI cloud server unit’s financials, did not have a comment on those figures.

The 14% gross margin figure appears to take into account the labor, power and other direct costs of running Oracle data centers, including depreciation expenses for some of the equipment. Other unspecified depreciation expenses would eat up another 7 percentage points of margin, the documents show. Equity analysts such as Gil Luria from D.A. Davidson say they tend to account for depreciation of chips and other data center equipment when calculating a cloud provider’s gross margin, as the equipment is a key cost of selling cloud services.

That dynamic seems to contradict Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s recent comment that the release of newer chips essentially wipes out demand for older ones.

Oracle’s margins are also affected by how many of its servers customers are actually using—and paying for. Utilization of Oracle’s GPU cloud servers ranges between 60% and 90%, depending on the type of Nvidia chip that powers them, according to internal documents.

In the three months that ended in August, Oracle lost nearly $100 million from rentals of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, which arrived this year. That’s partly because there is a period between when Oracle gets its data centers ready for customers and when customers start using and paying for them, the documents show. It’s not clear what causes the gap or how Oracle plans to shorten it.

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 19h

How does one admit something like this in public?

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sink @sinksadventure.bsky.social · 1d

My new open world precision "batformer" Vampire's Best Friend is out now on Steam and itch with a 10% launch discount!

Vampire hunters are after a mischievous vampire girl, and it's up to her pet bat to save the day!

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ੈ✩‧₊˚Dee ੈ✩‧₊˚ @thefairyartmother.bsky.social · 3d

The best grapefruit soda to ever do it!

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 29d

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 1d

Another bunch of sketches of Claudia the Cat Witch. Initially she was an idea for a general cat mage enemy for Blackmask but things turned out different.

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Jeff Busch @jbuschgallery.bsky.social · 1d

Ed Gein 14" x 11" watercolor on blocked cold press paper

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 1d

Ah I see! I'll give that a try and see if I have better luck with it.

Mastafran @mastafran.com · 1d

So far, I haven't been able to fine tune my individual brushes to specific settings, like adjusting the opacity and flow on pen pressure and adjusting stability per each brush. I'm still on the surface of working with Krita so I'd need to find more tutorials and look at it's docs to find out more.

Mastafran @mastafran.com · 1d

So far, I can't find a way to get Clip Studio Paint working on Cinnamon, Krita is adequate if one can work with less custom brush features. Aseprite has a Linux version, so making pixel art is fine. But there aren't Linux versions of Unity engine, so I can't use it for my main dev work on Blackmask.

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TH3GADFLY COMMISSIONS OPEN! DM for details! @th3gadfly.bsky.social · 1d

Princess Peach in the @kuroitsune (on instagram) Outfit! #princesspeach #supermario #mario

Princess Peach in a jacket outfit with exposed thighs and cleavage

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 1d

I've been trying out Cinnamon and Krita on a Huion Pen Tablet for the past few months. Some general work software replacements are ready out the box like LibreOffice, but trying to get other software that doesn't have specific support has been hard to get working. It's been much to get used to.

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AXEL LYCAN @axellycan.bsky.social · 1d

I may make fun of what I consider Vivziepop's dogshit writing and worldbuilding, but I would never go out of my way to try and stop someone else from being a fan of the works she puts out, because that's not the point of critique.
If there was an actual ethical issue, that'd be different!

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Travis Bickerstaff @bickpixx.bsky.social · 1d

Monty's serving up smiles!

Monty in a food service outfit and roller stakes.

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · Oct 30

Claudia thr Cat Witch sketch for an Illustration in the near future.

Two traditional pen and ink sketches of an anthropomorphic cat character dressed as a witch, name Claudia. The leftt sketch is a basic standing character wearing a two pointed witch hat reminiscent of cat ears. Claudia alsl wears a black dress with a stripped long sleeve undershort and stockings. She holds a simple straw broom in her hand. Right sketch is Claudia riding on top of said broom like a skateboard or surfboard.

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 1d

That's a new one I hadn't heard of. I'll see if I can give that comic a read!

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 2d

Did a little bit of work editing my website. I compiled my archive of pencils sketches to a single page as I don't remember post these sketches everywhere I am on the socials. This will update periodically with old and new work as well as alt text, come by and take a look.

Sketches - MastaFran Comics

Gaze into Mastafran's archive of pencil Sketches and preliminary art to understand his arduous art process.

www.mastafran.com

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 1d

Still have a good amount of playmats for sale on my website!

New Chibi Commander Playmats - MastaFran Comics

New 24 x14 Chibi Commanders Playmats are for sale on my store. Enjoy these cuter renditions of the masterful Commanders of Magic!

www.mastafran.com

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Rayjay @rayjay.bsky.social · Aug 20

Full-fledged, Mean-Girl, Bully/Popstar ✨️😎✨️

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