iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

the funny little blocks will flow, just give me time to cook ☀️

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...while completely redrawing everything else in a similar style, but all-original and more semi-tiled (everything aligns to a 16x16 grid but isn't hardline restricted to that). it's still tough lately because of my own auDHD struggles and...well, America being a fascist hellhole, but I am trying.

specifically: a personal refresh of Pokemon RBY's stuff I worked on almost a decade ago in a pirated copy of Photoshop, a cheap Logitech mouse, and a struggling laptop. I mostly just colorized the existing RBY tiles while introducing a few custom tiles. I may bring those custom tiles in...

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light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

proof-of-life post I guess? like damn I didn't expect to latch on to photography the way I did, completed a couple paid shoots recently too I've been easing back into pixels when I have time for it, about to start my next Retro Redrawn entry & redrawing an old tileset from years ago too ✌🏼

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thank you, Arya. you were loved by more people than you could ever have known. say hi to Niko for us.

There were a few others I tried, but they weren’t great and thus not worth mentioning. These were the best of the bunch. They are all on the App Store. I don’t use Android so I am not sure what is available for that. These apps do not collect personal data, any diagnostics collected is anonymized.

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Epilogue Flashback Emulates the Game Boy Camera sensor. Has full color and a few palettes from Lospec (second shot is Kerrie Lake’s Coldfire). No zoom or importer, but this can record video & if you have a real GBCam + Epilogue’s GB Operator, this app can connect to them & use the cartridge. Neat!

Photo of a whiteboard with a sticky note on it. Given a pixel effect to simulate a Game Boy Color display.

Photo of a whiteboard with a sticky note on it. Given a pixel effect to simulate a Game Boy display.

Retrospecs Can simulate a variety of things, or create your own setup. Freemium app (one-time $1.99). Can use inbuilt RGB palettes & includes some from Lospec. You can use your own as well. Needs more tweaking than others but can get great results. Uses standard iOS camera interface or importer.

Photo of a Damask rose bush. This version of the photo has been given a few different effects to resemble a CRT display with a SEGA Master System.

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Pixellate 4-color palettes only. Comes with a few and you can make your own. Much sharper images out of this. Importer has crop tool to fit 10:9 ratio. Can see effects before taking a photo/committing import. Good for mono shots. Can also pinch-to-zoom, but still limited to main/selfie sensors.

Photo of a Damask rose bush. This version of the photo has been cropped and given a pixel filter, as if it were being displayed on a Game Boy screen.

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1. Pixel Cam (John Friday) 3 modes: grayscale, DMG-style, and full GBC color. Can convert existing images. Softer dither than others and handles color nicely, but there’s no proper “live preview” yet to see your effects before committing. Importer has no editor yet either. Coming along tho.

Photo of a Damask rose bush. This version of the photo has been given a pixel filter effect, as if it were being displayed on a handheld retro game console.

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I’ve taken a sabbatical from pixels to get out more, focus on photography, and navigate some life changes. And yet I still feel the call of the blocks, so I’ve been playing with some iOS apps to simulate old consoles. This is the test shot, taken on my Nikon Z50II + DX 24/1.7 prime. 🧵

Photo of a Damask rose bush with a pink bloom in focus, as the rest of the scene gradually fades into bokeh.

light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I finally made a ko-fi. (Took me long enough.) Only the Nikon recipes I've been working on are there rn, but more photo/art resources I make will follow soonish. I have some pixel art stuff that will be put up at some point. ko-fi.com/blind3dbylight

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light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

getting a ko-fi together, finally. for sharing art and providing a place to actually distribute all the photography and art resources I create.

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light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Most of this was done from late 2016 to 2018, and had started it after life hit a personal “rock bottom” up to that point. I was just getting back into pixels after having grown up doing Sonic and Mega Man sprite edits and drooling over GBC Zelda’s tilesets (still a major inspiration for me).

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light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I was doing interiors for a while and had heavily referenced FRLG. I completely redrew some of that game’s tiles to the scaling of Gen 1 (while sticking mostly to the GSC palette I had). I may build off of the palette Retro Redrawn was using for Kanto/Johto to pick my own (re-)redraw up again.

Image of a pixel scene using custom-drawn tiles. They are redrawn from Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen in the style of Generation 1 games.

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light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Slowly picking up pixels again. I recall when I colorized/detailed the Gen 1 Kanto map (specifically, RB’s tiles). I’d even started drawing my own tiles by the time I finished—and started building the Sevii Islands from FRLG. This time, I want to do it with all-original tiles drawn in that style.

A scene using the Pokémon Red/Blue tileset, colorized with the color palette of Generation 2 games with some custom additions.

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You ain’t wrong, brother. I know a lot of what I make isn’t in mainstream taste, but I don’t care. I just want to make pretty things and write my silly little stories. More people need to stop letting others dictate their taste to them.

You ain’t wrong there, brother. Gotta find what you actually want to do first. Most of my likes aren’t in mainstream taste. I say mainstream taste can pound sand, I’ll do it anyway.

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I’ve been thinking about my setting and characters again. Really trying to give them more love. I ought to draw them more, but I’ve been in a weird place lately. Need to doomscroll less and fill it with art creation more.

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I can tell you right now: Yes they would

Sen the donkey @sengrisane.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

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Sorted my thoughts about censorship, so I can stop thinking about it.

Infograph about censorship. It compares it to magnets.

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to expand a bit: People need to stop thinking like “content creators” and more like “creators”. Creating worlds, characters, or just scenes. Whether it’s with a pencil or a camera. Can’t think of it as just “content”. Think of it as the art that it is, even if it’s just silly stuff.

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People gotta get more comfortable doing it purely for love of the game.

light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

fuck Abrahamic extremism. it always goes back to controlling everything at the hands of a few rich and powerful men (who NEVER practice what they preach at all).

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light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

the continued babyfication of the internet at the hands of American payment processors--and evangelical groups like Collective Shout refusing to do anything but be everyone's problem. it's all power and control, dog. they don't give a damn about "protecting" anything but their power.

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light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I honestly didn't hate the carousel. I'm fairly accustomed to carousels on Instagram and Threads (my photo stuff is more active on the latter). I sense Bluesky users aren't much different than Tumblr users--neither of them like when anything changes.

3-5AM and I somehow came out with one-half of a sapphic substory script after a Yap™ about my setting/cast (after cranking out and turning in a final essay at the last possible minute that still got a solid A-). the point is that I am absolutely bonkers and cannot be trusted with the nuclear codes

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Weird-ass art direction aside, it IS nice to see that Star Fox as an IP isn’t totally dead in the water and that Nintendo is doing SOMETHING with it. It does seem like this remake (of a remake) is expanding on the source material in a way SF0 was more or less afraid to.

look at him. look what they’ve done to my boy.

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presenting: a remake of a (functional) remake, whose remake got (functionally) remade on a handheld, then separately remade *again* with shitty controls nobody liked. now featuring even shittier character designs. $80 pls

presenting: a remake of a (functional) remake, whose remake got (functionally) remade on a handheld, then separately remade *again* with shittier controls nobody liked. now with even shittier character designs. that’ll be $70 please

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If you’re gonna make a game about furries in space, you should probably hire fursuit designers for your character designs

Executive dysfunction sucks man. All the methods I try to use, my brain just tunes them out in like a week or so and I'm back to the doomscroll. (Living in America while it's being...well, America, isn't helping much either.)

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I've barely drawn anything, or journaled, or played any video games...and struggle to even just start. Photography is something that I can do on the go, and while trying to get out and take a walk on nice days, but sitting down to do anything has been a struggle.

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I've been in a funk ever since I quit vaping a little over a year ago now. Hobby hopping, inability to focus, mind like a storm. I now know that wasn't just nic withdrawal, it was indeed undiagnosed ADHD that I now take meds for. But man have I fallen off the horse in so many things.

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I say do it. FFIX is one of my top games in the series for a reason, Zidane is a great protagonist and there was a lot of love put into the mainline series' final PS1 outing.

light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

That shit was staged. They'll use it for more propaganda, mark my words.

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light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

all four of my Retro Redrawn contributions (latest revisions): Hyrule, SMB3, Koholint, Kirby’s Adventure maybe I will join another when life chills out a bit #pixelart #retroredrawn #hyruleredrawn #mario3redrawn #koholintredrawn #kirbyredrawn

Pixel art depicting three screens of the original Legend of Zelda map, with Link and a couple monsters strewn about. It has been drawn in a completely new style within the original NES system palette.

Pixel art depicting a mock-up screenshot of Super Mario Bros. 3, with Raccoon Mario flying in place and a red Koopa Paratroopa flying to the right against the ocean sunset. It has been drawn in a completely new style within the NES system palette.

Pixel art depicting a slice of the map from The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. It is the eastern half of Mabe Village, with Link, Marin, and the Flying Cucco posing in front of the large weathercock. It has been drawn in a completely new style under the palette used by the original GBC title.

Pixel art depicting a mock-up screenshot of Kirby’s Adventure, with Kirby coming down from a jump as a Waddle Dee snoozes to the left and a Parasol Waddle Doo floats down to the right. Kine the sunfish can be seen in a small underwater window. It has been drawn in a completely new style under the NES system palette.

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light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Munch enjoys a spot of forbidden clussy

light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I’d found a way to trick my brain into finishing the Kirby redraw. But when I’m directionless and don’t have any kind of hard deadline…I get stuck. ADHD unmasking process is wild. So many drawings and pixel projects I keep wanting to do…and yet I start goddamn none of them.

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light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Kirby’s Adventure Redrawn: Ice Cream Island 1-B #pixelart #kirbyredrawn #retroredrawn

Pixel art piece depicting a stylized redraw of a portion of Kirby’s Adventure for NES, drawn in the style of a mock-up screenshot as if you could be playing it.

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light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

yeesh, this took me ages to buckle down and just finish the last couple sprites ADHD be wild

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Elyon113 @elyon113.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

www.reddit.com/r/linux/s/jf... Mega thread on who is behind these age verification laws, spoiler alert it’s Meta.

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Heather Franzen @heatherfranzen.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Theme: Fox Soon to be souvenir for my neocities website’s visitors. #art #pixelart #pixel_dailies 🐡 🦊 @pixeldailies.bsky.social

Pixel art of a sitting red fox (vulpes vulpes) looking over its red shoulder.

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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

One more little tweak to the test scene! #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

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light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

couple journal sketches trying to get back into drawing on the reg again

Pencil sketch of an ink bottle, with the tools used to draw it on right. From left to right: non-photo blue pencil, black pencil, clic-eraser, plastic ruler.

Color sketch of a fountain pen, with its ink trail drawn with actual brown ink.

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light ☀️ @blind3dbylight.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

hey sorry, been absent again dealing with a lot of stuff. busy. ADHD executive dysfunction has hit me hard lately. still here. i still try to take photos where I can, been active on my real name photo account. just got a lot going on. not gone tho. trying to get back to pixels.