These two go way back. They were all friends once, long ago, at the start of the project. There were five of them all together, but the real philosophical rift was between Væri and Blit. The others were forced to take sides, but by then they'd all been trapped inside the System they'd been building and the conflict was unavoidable. It nearly caused the System to collapse into oblivion. Nearly.
#bitkin #administrators #vaeri #blit #multiplearms
Bitkin have access to a "morphology settings" on their own personal DataFrames. Glimmer here can never decide whether he likes two legs better or four, but he has the freedom to choose, and that's something bitkin didn't always have. It fits his personality to be indecisive, though; he's solitary and philosophical, which means he overthinks thinks and changes his mind a lot. Maybe six is worth another try? Maybe zero? Maybe.
#bitkin #multiplelegs #forest #glimmer
It's been a while since I did any pixel art, but this project is going to demand a lot of it, so I need to figure out a good style for the Bitkin. 16 by 16 is the size of a single tile in a stage, and that makes Patch here pretty small. A little too small, I think, but this is a good place to start from. I can also afford to use more colors; this is just 7 (counting transparent) and I can go up to 16.
Some pencil sketches; it's been busy lately, but I've still found time to get characters figured out.
• Piper, pump-bitkin, displaying the obligatory cartoon bird wing-hands; he runs Aquatic Park, source of the System's water
• Glimmer laying down a bass line; bitkin are naturally musical
• Arkha, another administrator; if she had her way the whole System would be as realistic as possible instead of colorful and cartoonish. She wouldn't approve of Piper's wing-hands.
A sketch of Ruby, the security-guard Bitkin with the laser tail. She's friendlier than she comes across, and has a hidden playful side, but until she eventually gets out to meet other people she's paranoid and guarded at all times, not wanting anyone to get through the passages of the Inner System she guards. It's an important job — there's stuff in there nobody should mess with — but that doesn't mean she has to distrust everyone as much as she does.
#bitkin #taur #sixlimbs #laser
Working a bit more on Væri's design. She can remove her armor, leaving her looking like this, and - much like Blit - can manifest a pair of wings when she flies around, although hers are butterfly-shaped and made of tiny sparkles. She's supposed to be somewhat fae; her name is a blend of "faerie", "ferret", and "variable".
#bitkin #fourarms #multiplearms #ferret #sketch
Working a bit more on Væri's design. She can remove her armor, leaving her looking like this, and - much like Blit - can manifest a pair of wings when she flies around, although hers are butterfly-shaped and made of tiny sparkles. She's supposed to be somewhat fae; her name is a blend of "faerie", "ferret", and "variable".
#bitkin #fourarms #multiplearms #ferret #sketch
Væri is her name, and you could call her Blit's counterpart in some ways. She's the same kind of thing he is, a semi-holographic digital life form, and the two of them (plus a handful of others) have a shared past. They're probably the only ones of their kind, and they haven't seen one another in a very long time. Their story will eventually be told, but for now I just thought I'd try redesigning her with this new focus in mind.
#digital #bitkin #green #ferret #fourarms #multiplearms