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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I edited a dialogue portrait of Ralsei in a pure state of rage. #pixelart #deltarune #ralsei #fungang #2dart

Edited pixel art of Ralsei the white fluffy goat with pink horns from Deltarune. Their gums are exposed and coloured green, teeth bared, drool and tears flowing down, and their eyes are pink too.

Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

@pipeworksstudio.bsky.social I adjusted some screenshots of GDAMM remastered, reducing the overall redness of the lighting and post processing. A hint of blue, more lightness, these changes really make the visuals pop more. I hope this criticism is welcomed. Really looking forward to playing this!

A screenshot of Godzilla: Destroy all Monsters Melee Remastered, of the Tokyo arena, during the day, of Godzilla 90s preparing to strike down King Ghidorah the golden three-headed dragon.

A close-up screenshot of the San Francisco arena, during the day, of King Ghidorah the golden three-headed dragon roaring at the camera.

A screenshot of the Monster Island arena, during the day, of Godzilla 90s being attacked by one of the heads of King Ghidorah the golden three-headed dragon. A river is running behind them both.

A screenshot of the San Francisco arena, during the day, of MechaGodzilla 70s standing tall amongst office buildings. The iconic pyramid building sits in the background.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

A large UFO model. Around 2k triangles, 1k diffuse and emission texture. #3dart #3dartist #1950s #50s #aliens #artist #blender #gamedev #scifi #videogames

A shiny metal unidentified flying object made of brushed metal, with purple glowing highlights. It has 12 porthole windows, 1950s style space fins, and glowing lights on the underside.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I'm experiencing some weird Bluesky bug where I upload my image of my UFO model from different angles, only for the image to glitch and become blue or green lines. I don't know why this happens, or how to fix it.

A screenshot of a deleted tweet. The image in the screenshot is many blue and purple lines instead of the silver UFO that should be there.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Idiot is too close to the camera now the image quality got crunched

An orange chubby hamster up close to the person viewing the art. His tongue is sticking out. The image quality has jpeg artifacting.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

What if you walked into your dad's study and this loading screen appeared:

A loading screen from Oddworld: Munch's Oddysey for the original Xbox videogame games console. The game is a sequel to Abe's Exodus on the original Sony PlayStation.

The top screen says "RAISIN'S CAVE" in a bright green font. In the middle is a gold and purple decorative mural thing. Near the bottom are two bamboo sticks stuck together with bands. Between the sticks is a purple glowing energy with thin black on top that says "LOADING...".

The background is made of gold and grey metal circles, green jungle vines crawling their way up the screen.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

A while ago, I made some low resolution grid textures for use prototyping levels in 3D games. Out of curiosity, I tried using them as sprite tiles...they actually looks great! #WIP #Workinprogress #Indiedev #2dart #pixelart #deltarune #retro #leveldesign

Kris and Susie from Deltarune, in their light world forms, standing in front of an orange grid wall, on grey grid floor, similar to how Source engine games look in the Hammer Editor.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I'd also like to recommend n64guy's free #Nintendo64 style assets on their OpenGameAart page. Their textures are great and more people deserve to know about them! opengameart.org/users/n64guy #1990s #90s #assets #freeassets #gameassets #gamedev #indiedev #leveldesign #n64 #retro

Two screenshots sit side-by-side. On the left is an ocean with cobblestone pillars rising up from beneath the water. A white brick staircase ascends into a white sky.

On the right side is a small red brick room where a path, of dark green stone slaps winds around a room with knee-deep water.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Has anybody ever struggled collecting these two stop 'n' swop eggs in Banjo Kazooie? They're well hidden, that's for sure. And the ice key of course! Feels weird but, sometimes, it makes me feel like Banjo's on some kind of forbidden path.

A mostly greyscale screenshot of the Nintendo 64 3D platforming collectathon videogame Banjo-Kazooie, of the Stop 'n' Swop menu specifically. A bunch of grey eggs with question marks on them sit near the top of the screen. Only the pink and yellow eggs have any colour. Beneath the eggs, sits a bright blue ice key in the middle.

This image is a reference to Deltarune (a quirky RPG) and the fandom's fixation of the colours pink and yellow. Especially the weird route, chapter 2 and 3 onwards.

Banjo-Kazooie belongs to Rare LTD.
Deltarune belongs to Toby Fox.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Backup links if the itch.io page doesn't work: - Archive,org: archive.org/details/prot... - OpenGameArt.Org: opengameart.org/content/prot... #1990s #90s #assets #freeassets #fpsgames #gameassets #gamedev #indiedev #leveldesign #nintendo64 #n64 #ps1 #psx #retro

A small corridor leading into a big orange room with a large alcove to the north. A big yellow trigger box sits in front of the narrow corridor exit.

A floating orange island surrounded by floating red skulls and X crosses. A big NO sign hovers in the exit of the floating island.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

A #free collection of grid textures for designing your level prototypes with. Made by me! emerald-eel.itch.io/prototyping-... #1990s #90s #assets #freeassets #fpsgames #gameassets #gamedev #indiedev #leveldesign #nintendo64 #n64 #playstation #ps1 #psx #retro

32-by-32 pixel orange walls and a grey floor grid textures on a small room diorama. A narrow doorway sits on the northern wall of the interior. The textures also have white grids on them.

From left to white: Red, blue, white and dark grey textures on a corridor's walls. A lighter grey texture covers the floor. The colours are set up in a way to show how they could be used in a multiplayer map with teams, like capture the flag.

A green grid texture covers the ground, simulating grass. A brown/ochre texture covers the walls just below the green, and a plane covered in a blue water texture sits in the bottom half of the image.

A dark grey checkered box sits atop alight grey checkered low poly cylinder platform. A dark grey checkered cylinder sits atop s blue-and-white checker cuboid platform. The latter two have less detail density than the former.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

#WIP requested by @friendlywriter.bsky.social. The Fun gang dressed like Alice in Wonderland characters! On the left is Ralsei, as the white rabbit. In the middle, Kris dressed as Alice. On the right is Susie, as the Queen of Hearts. #Deltarune #Fanart #Aliceinwonderland #Darkworld #Crossover

The fun gang in the scarlet forest, in Deltarune. Ralsei is on the left, wearing green bunny rabbit ears looking down at a golden stopwatch he's holding.

Kris in the center, wearing a blue dress and a blue bow in their hair.

Susie on the right wearing a black and red dress with yellow markings on th lower half. She also has a white collar and a golden crown atop her head.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

DELTARUNE CHAPTER 3 SPOILER!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I might've made a monster...I call them the Roaring Guy. #Deltarune #Fanart #Deltarunefanart #Chapter3 #Spoiler #Pixelart

A black and white silhouette sprite of the the Roaring Knight with the head of the shadowguys from Deltarune Chapter 3. Wears a hat and carries a large sword.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Made these light world & dark world sprites of @zigamazoo.bsky.social's OC, Ziggymoloch. Give them a follow, their art's amazing. bsky.app/profile/ziga... #Art #PixelArt #Deltarune #Kris #KrisDeltarune #OriginalCharacter #Persona

At the top left is a sprite of a light world version of a dinosaur original character, Ziggymoloch. They are a dull purple, with a blue underbelly and orange goat-like eyes. They have dull horns on their head and their skull is domed. On the right hand side is a sprite of Kris' light world form from Deltarune.

On the bottom left hand side is a dark world sprite of Ziggymoloch. Deeper colours with the addition of a floating tophat and a red bow tie attached to their neck. On the right hand side is a sprite of Kris' dark world form.

Both Ziggymoloch sprites made by me, the Kris sprites were not.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

When I was a kid, I'd always see a manhole cover and think how it'd look great as a boss arena in a videogame. Like Bowser's boss arena in Super Mario 64 lol #Nintendo64 #N64 #SM64 #SuperMario64 #Gaming

A manhole cover with an intricate pattern of hexagons going around in circles on it. In the center, a symbol of a bell with the text "BELL SYSTEM" on it.

The first Bowser arena from Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64. A model of a large blue circular arena.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The brown bear got hungry, now he's eating honey. We all deserve a treat sometimes. #2d #art #bear #digitalart #krita #mammals #painting #watercolor #watercolour

A watercolor painting of a bear, with brown fur, holding a green honey pot in one hand, and scooping its other hand around inside the pot. His mouth is covered in honey as he licks his lips, an expression of pure bliss on his face.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Lazy brown bear. Simpler than my other watercolour animal pieces, but it was fun and quick to make. #2D #Art #Bear #DigitalArt #Krita #Mammals #Painting #Watercolor #Watercolour

A watercolor painting of a stylized brown bear. It is drawn and coloured in a simple way, most of the detail in its face and fuzzy cheeks. It's staring blankly ahead.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Has anyone ever made a fusion of Ultraman and a Grunt from the Halo franchise? I need fanart on my desk by yesterday! The combination would be a sight to behold. #Art #Ultraman #Kaiju #Tokusatsu #Halo #Xbox #FPS

Two fictional characters in a white void. On the left: Ultraman. On the right: a Covenant Grunt from Halo: Combat Evolved.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Two OG PlayStation-specific feeds on Bluesky, worth following them if you're looking for more 5th gen goodness. - PS1-era Retro Gaming: bsky.app/profile/dfac... - PlayStation+: bsky.app/profile/tomo... #5thGen #1990s #90s #PlayStation #Playstation1 #PS1 #PSX #Retro #RetroGaming #Sony

On the left-hand side of the picture: a feed called PS1-era Retro Gaming. The feed currently sits at 26 likes.
On the right-hand side: a feed called PlayStation plus. The feed currently sits at 27 likes.

Both feeds are linked in this post.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

War of the Monsters alt costumes for Agamo, Togera and Preytor reference Sweet Tooth, Minion and Yellowjacket respectively. In Twisted Metal: Black, they're all from the same family (Needles Kane, Marcus Kane and Charlie Kane). Mind blown. #PS2 #Kaiju #RetroGaming #TwistedMetal #WarOfTheMonsters

From left to right: Agamo's fourth unlockable costume is the Sweet Bot, a robot design based on Sweet Tooth's ice cream truck, which transforms into a robot. The head is on fire, just like the killer clown from Twisted Metal.
Togera's fourth unlockable costume, the red demon skin with green eyes, is a reference to the demon called Minion, also from the Twisted Metal Series.
Preytor's fourth unlockable costume, the giant yellowjacket wasp with red eyes, is a likely a reference to the yellow taxi cab vehicle from the Twisted Metal series, who is also called Yellowjacket.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

"the farthest that anything go, and it really wasn't much of a character, I'm an Environment Artist, not a Character Artist. Found some old pics you might find interesting-this is the minotaur asset in a Twisted Metal Level we did as a test:" (15)

The skyscraper-sized minotaur model placed in the New York level of Twisted Metal for the PS3 in 2012. Snow is falling, and bright neon signs glow around them.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Mark Wahlquist, who worked at Eat Sleep Play, pitched some projects to potentially work on. One pitch was a War of the Monsters reboot, of which he made a giant minotaur beast as a proof of concept. He also worked on Twisted Metal 2012. markwahlquist.com/portfolio.html #WarOfTheMonsters #PS3

A building-sized minotaur beast model, with enormous horns protruding from its head. It's body is bulky and muscular. An angry expression on its face. It holds a chunk of debris from a building, shaped like a melee weapon. The creature was designed to look like something straight out of a Ray Harryhausen movie. This angle of the image is from the front of the beast.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Had some fun painting a hedgehog with some help from Krita's symmetry tool. #Art #Krita #Watercolor

A watercolor painting of a cute hedgehog.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

New render of the Primatus Rex skin for Excidio: The Kaiju Simulator. He's got an enormous brain and spinal column bursting out from his back. #Art #Kaiju #IndieDev #IndieGames #Steam #PCgames

A view of the dino-ape hybrid giant monster, Primatus Rex, from behind, revealing its giant exposed brain in its back, spinal column poking out. Their fur is orange, and their skin is dark grey. Their eyes glow blue.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Primatus Rex is coming to Excidio: The Kaiju Simulator as a playable skin to coincide with the official Primatus Rex plush, releasing today! As a collaboration with Dangerville. #IndieGames #Kaiju #Steam

A giant turtle-like monster, Excidio, fighting a giant ape-dinosaur hybrid, Primatus Rex.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Cute little mouse enjoying their hot chocolate. Using watercolour brushes. #Art #krita

A watercolour painting of small yellow mouse, wearing a blue blanket, sipping hot chocolate from a mug contently.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

WIP mouse character drinking hot chocolate. #wip #art #animals

Unfinished art of a mouse under a blanket sipping hot chocolate.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I may have edited Deltarune sprites.

Edited Deltarune Sprites. Each character looks twisted or subtly wrong. Kris is long, Susie has a big mouth and a bent left leg, Ralsei's muth is wide open, Noelle has a receding hairline, and Berdly has a long finger.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

What if Gezora™ was BLUE and ORANGE?

Toho Kaiju, Gezora, the giant mutant cuttlefish, coloured blue and orange.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Hello! I'm Emerald Eel, I've been an artist for almost 3 decades, and a Blender artist for over a decade. I like variety in my art, as it always makes things interesting and fresh. Congrats on the 4k+ followers! 🎉

A for-legged dinosaur covered in spikes, made of clay.

Sans the Skeleton, from Undertale, basking in the sun's rays.

A 60s-style book cover illustration, very abstract yellow and blue walls, with pink, blue and green balls bouncing around in space. A big red portal is in the center of the image.

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Bluesky's open, quote one art to promote yourself!

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Emerald Eel @emerald-eel.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

It's time for sharing game assets! You can follow the hashtags to find more. Let's start with the #Free Modular House Pack, by Qabsurdo! qabsurdo.itch.io/free-modular... #3DAssets #6thGen #AssetPack #GameAssets #GameDev #IndieGameDev #Itchio #LevelDesign #Modular #Retro #Tileset

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