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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Got a first-pass moving on from the block out animation. Went through a whole process of feeling good about it, doing a little more work and feeling really bad, and then realizing all the spikes in the animation graph were probably why it was looking so janky. Cleaned things up a bit and here it is

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Getting back to animation practice with a simple block out for a run cycle. I've been neglecting it, but I want to get better

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

When it feels like things just aren't going right, sometimes you just gotta start making mechs. Maybe just me, idk. The idea is a quick melee type, with accessories including what'll essentially be big brass knuckles. And maybe a scarf. I like it when the person who punches stuff has a flowy scarf

A work-in-progress mech mesh in a default untextured gray. It has wide hips, narrow shoulders and waist, a squat, flat head, and proportionally enlarged forearms and hands

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I’d made two batches of pecan scone dough to use up some excess sourdough discard leftover from another recipe. One still sits in the freezer, awaiting its destined time. The second is shown here, which I feel came out nicely! If perhaps *slightly* over-baked, to compensate for freezing the dough

8 lightly-browned scones topped with a sugar maple glaze

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

For #screenshotsaturday here's a sample of some mutant crop sprites I've been cooking up for my game, Polyculture Shock. These three are tomeltos, malachite apples, and potopticons. Now that I've got three knocked out, I feel like the latter sets the minimum bar for weirdness I wanna shoot for

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I did some baking because too much is always happening and it’s a helpful source of joy; Charleston Chewies. Never actually had em before, despite growing up in SE-US. I hated anything with pecans, peanuts, or walnuts back then

Two stacked plastic containers filled with bars of Charleston Chewies, a type of blondie filled with chopped pecans. The top container is open

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

So far I've come up with a few abilities (a ram, sprint, and spin-attack), which can be powered up (Rad Mode) by spending radiation you collect by ... some means I'm still deciding on. It's been a nice excuse to put some reusable systems I've been working on through their paces

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

A bit late for #screenshotsaturday, but I've been working on a low-poly rat since my sister told me about a game jam themed around such rats about a week ago. I call them the Rad Rat. I didn't have much in mind for mechanics at the start so I'm sorta just tinkering (footage below)

A low-polygon, brown rat with a lighter stripe down its back. They're wearing sunglasses with wide, triangular lenses, and there's a green radioactive glow leaking out from around the edges of the glasses. They're just standing around, being chill.

The same rad-looking brown rat as the first image, standing on their hind legs and looking to its right, like they saw something cool.

The radioactive rat is jumping through the air, front paws outstretched with their tail flicked upwards.

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I feel like I've put more range into the face rig than I'm likely to use for a project of this scope, but there are some neat things here I'm proud of. I'm using Godot's new stencil features to sort of make a "hole" for the mouth - it's actually completely detachable from the face, like a 2d cartoon

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I plan to do more polish passes later once I've filled out the game with more artwork (characters and crops both), but for my first piece of art for this yet-unnamed project I'm happy to call it complete.

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Been working on a game about managing mutant crops in a distant post apocalypse to pay off treatment costs for excessive-cryostasis, and I got my first piece of character art put together this past week: Dr.* Shelly! (more art to follow) *not actually licensed #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

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