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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade

@kalvinsarcade.bsky.social
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#3Dmodeling, #digitalart, and solo #indiegame dev. Sometimes #traditionalart. Frequent #miniatures posting. #halloween freak. No A.I. or N.F.T.s, ever! Projects: TANKETTES 🔞 GalaxyRancher War Grid Material often 18+. He/him

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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 6h
An efficiency committee just visited our blood bank. We rank in the top 10 company wide, sometimes top 3 for output. They tried to “optimize” our workflow and it added nearly 2 hrs of work. We gave them feedback saying 80% of their ideas were bunk. If I’m unemployed come 2027 it won’t be a surprise!
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
The final #animated Franky from 2023! This one was the last one I did and turned out VERY different from the sketch. #art #myart #oc #myoc #halloween #spookymonth #digitalart #2dart #animation #pixelart #pixel #werewolf #mummy #vampire 16/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
In 2025, I had the idea of drawing Franky as an Ed Roth-like Drag Nut. Originally I wanted to give him a junky ride, but settled on a glossy, chromed-out ‘59 Coup Deville that may be… alive? #oc #myoc #halloween #spookymonth #spookyseason #myart #2dart #digitalart #werewolf #mummy #vampire 18/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
In 2024 I made a Franky #costume and it was a bit of a pain! But I think it ended up looking pretty good after some photoshop touch-ups! #oc #myoc #halloween #horror #spooky #cosplay #werewolf #mummy #vampire 17/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Backtracking a bit, in 2024 I did a special #halloween #battletech project where I painted a battalion of Draconis Combine 10th Ghost Regiment. For the command company I used a hand-painted Yōkai theme. #mechwarrior #spookymonth #spookyseason #mecha #tabletopgaming #miniatures #minispainting 19/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Another #animated Franky from 2023! This one was inspired by the Ramones song "Chain Saw." #art #myart #oc #myoc #halloween #pixelart #pixel #2dart #animation #spookymonth #spooky #gore #mummy #werewolf #vampire 15/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Here's one of the animated Frankys from 2023. I had a lot of fun making this one! #art #myart #oc #myoc #pixelart #pixel #2dart #horror #halloween #animated #animation #spooky #spookymonth #trickortreat #candy #werewolf #mummy #vampire 14/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Also in 2023 I started to explore Franky's more sinister side. He IS a walking Monster Mash, after all. Some of them are inspired by songs. Like these two "Some Heads are Gonna Roll" and "Steal Your Face." #art #myart #oc #myoc #horror #halloween #spooky #gore #spookymonth 13/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Stuff like this is why I have largely disengaged with the Battletech online community. It’s full of far-right-wing psychos and people who accept them because they painted/modeled a mecha. I don’t want to go to the Nazi bar. I’m content to engage locally with people I know are NOT raving fascists.
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Also in 2022, I circled back to my roots to finish the 2012 Franky sketch and draw a new Franky for the first time in 10 years! I decided to go for broke and animated him! #animation #animated #oc #myoc #art #myart #2dart #digitalart #halloween #spookymonth #spooky #mummy #vampire #werewolf 10/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
In 2023 I had some SERIOUS catching up to do on Franky drawings! He was 14 and I had only made 4! So I sat down and made 9 Frankys that October! I started to anchor his recurring elements. The "WTH" and the ankh #art #myart #2dart #oc #myoc #halloween #horror #spookymonth #spooky #digitalart 12/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I finished this one! I had a LOT of trouble with the background but after ~5 hours of fiddling with layers I'm satisfied with it. Y'all have to wait until Devil's Night to see the whole thing. Here's the teaser again, colorized. #digitalart #Halloween #vampire #2dart #spookymonth #horror #spooky #oc
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
**FLASHING LIGHTS** In 2021 I found extra time to learn how to use Hexels. I learned it had a user-friendly animation interface! This was directly inspired by my home state of Oklahoma. #animation #animated #horror #spooky #pixelart #pixel #art #myart #digitalart #2dart #halloween #spookymonth 8/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
**FLASHING LIGHTS** In 2022 I embraced Hexels for both textures for 3D models and making short, animated loops. I made this Headless Horseman the week of #Halloween that year and finished it and 2 other pieces before then! #animated #animation #pixelart #art #pixel #2dart #myart #spooky 9/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
While I don't do a lot of #fanart, it IS the 20th anniversary year of my fav #zelda game, #twilightprincess. I hope they talk about TP in the #zelda40th #nintendodirect! #Watercolor and #ink on multimedia paper. 20 hrs. #traditionalart #midna #tloz #nintendo #impmidna #thelegendofzelda
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Flatwoods Monster, aka Braxy. After watching like 7 different youtube documentaries on this thing, I landed on a more mechanical interpretation of this alleged visitor from the stars. #cryptids #ink #traditionalart #lineart #blackamdwhite #sketch #alien
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fresno Nightcrawlers. I always appreciate #cryptids that are “disovered” in the digital photography age. We should never stop adding to our lexicon of weird folklore. #ink #traditionalart #blackandwhite #lineart #sketch #alien
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Working on a little project involving #cryptids. Mothman sets the tone: kinda creepy but also fuzzy as hell. #ink #traditionalart #blackandwhite #lineart #insect #moth #humanoid #alien #sketch
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I finished this one! I had a LOT of trouble with the background but after ~5 hours of fiddling with layers I'm satisfied with it. Y'all have to wait until Devil's Night to see the whole thing. Here's the teaser again, colorized. #digitalart #Halloween #vampire #2dart #spookymonth #horror #spooky #oc
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Happy Halloween! This will be a mega-thread of all of my Halloween art starting in 2009 up to the current year! Kicking things off with a post celebrating the 15th anniversary of the creation of my Halloween #oc Franky. #Halloween #myoc #art #2dart #pixelart #pixel #spookymonth #horror #spooky 1/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
I wouldn't draw Franky again until 2012, doodling him in my sketchbook during class in college. I had grown quite a bit in my #art journey and stylized him significantly. I would not color this #sktech until 2022. #oc #myoc #myart #digitalart #spookymonth #halloween #spookymonth #spooky #2dart 4/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
By 2015 I had graduated with my BFA in Animation but the job I landed didn't exactly allow for me to be creative. So during #spookymonth I was experimenting and came up with this doodle, inspired by Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. #digitalart #art #myart #2dart 5/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
The same week, I made this #animated spooky face in Photoshop. Photoshop's animation features are TERRIBLY user unfriendly compared to other software I have tried since. #art #myart #animation #2dart #digitalart #spooky #creepy #halloween #horror 6/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
By 2017 and I was back on my #halloween kick. Away from my hometown for 7 years, I started to draw and animate more elaborate things, including learning Unity to start making my own games. #art #myart #animated #animation #digitalart #2dart #pixelart #pixel #demon #oni #devil #spooky 7/∞
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CommodoreBlog @commodoreblog.uk · 03/10/2026
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Non-AI Decomps and Recomps
Around the early 2020s, we witnessed a decompilation that changed everything. The ability to play your classic games NATIVELY on your PC with mods at uncapped FPS? It’s a dream come true! Thanks to do...
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
The second time I drew Franky was the following year, 2010. Though as I recall the party didn't happen because 2010 was a rough year. But still, the spirit of #halloween must carry on! #digitalart #myart #2dart #oc #myoc #spookymonth #spooky #vampire #werewolf #mummy 3/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
The first art I did of Franky! He's a mummified werewolf vampire (y'know, the Universal classics). He was the mascot for a #halloween party my friends and I threw in 2009. He's also the first time I tried #digitalart, launching a 15 year journey. #art #2dart #myart #oc #myoc #spookymonth #spooky 2/∞
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sorry, was stuck in Texas and I refuse to do age verification. To answer: battletechfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Urb...
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The Urbie Derbie
The Urbie Derbie (or, to give it its full "official" name, the Whenever-We-Feel-the-Needually UrbanMech Battle-Royale Extravaganza for the Making of Unit Cohesion and Good External Relations Through S...
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let the festivities commence! Stay spooky everyone! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 3/3
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This year, I promised myself a real break as I’ve been dealing with some severe burnout and depression from my day job. I’m keeping it lighthearted by watching a silly slasher movie every day this month and only doing two #halloween art pieces, one of which is complete (to be revealed later). 2/3
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s time for myfavorite time of year, the 31-days-long celebration of #halloweeen! When we celebrate the ephemeral nature of life and grapple with our mortal fear of its inevitable end! A time to celebrate the harvest, remember the dead, embrace the strange, and spend time with our loved ones! 1/3
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Metin Seven, Moon Child's dad 🌝 @seven.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Variation upon the well-known XKCD cartoon showing all modern digital infrastructure as an unstable structure. In this variation, the sturcture is covered by a thick muddy sludge, indicated as AI slop.
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey @softkaiju.bsky.social, I’m ready for that Urbie Derby! I call him: Pinocchio! He’s a real war machine, honest! I haven’t posted anything #battletech in a while so I took about 2 hours tonight to build this little guy. Just hand-carved pieces and superglue. #miniatures #scratchbuild #mechwarrior
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This one brings back some memories. It was part of a series where I was experimenting heavily with half-tone and "cut-out" borders. Also extreme colors (but that's nothing new for my colorblind ass 😆). Way back in 2017. #digitalart #spookyseason #halloween #ramen #rainbow #cats
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thanks! I picked this one back up last night. Hoping to have it completed by the second weekend of October.
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeah that’s her alright. lol
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This one brings back some memories. It was part of a series where I was experimenting heavily with half-tone and "cut-out" borders. Also extreme colors (but that's nothing new for my colorblind ass 😆). Way back in 2017. #digitalart #spookyseason #halloween #ramen #rainbow #cats
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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Kaiju 🐲🍉 @softkaiju.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am NOT an artist. But with the powers of @xmegantronx.bsky.social (the pngtuber) and @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social (the background) combined. I can, sort of, edit a pfp for spooky season. I’m just really fortunate to be surrounded by people more talented than me. 😂🖤
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James @nitrorad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
you'll never be able to generate respect
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey @softkaiju.bsky.social, I’m ready for that Urbie Derby! I call him: Pinocchio! He’s a real war machine, honest! I haven’t posted anything #battletech in a while so I took about 2 hours tonight to build this little guy. Just hand-carved pieces and superglue. #miniatures #scratchbuild #mechwarrior
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Finally started coloring these. I’m continuing to experiment with water colors. Centaur. Element: water. #2dart #traditionalart #sketch #ink #painting
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My ongoing disgust at the state of the video games industry and digital art in general being consumed by all this GenAI horseshit has prevented me from working on any gamedev stuff for over a month. So sorry if that was why you followed me. TRADITIONAL ART POSTS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES.
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Posting again for the ongoing madness.
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm telling you guys, you gotta put killcodes in the games you make now and hold them hostage. Day 0 patch set to automatically apply and delete everything if you aren't there to manually pause it. Go full Pandora Tomorrow. Your bosses don't know anything about coding, they can't fix it!
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Skye Centrella @skyeactual.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lore-Accurate, Canon, BattleTech meme.
MEETING BEGINS:

Clan Wolf: "Trothkin, the invasion is not going well. What ideas have you to defeat these honorless surats of the inner sphere?"

Clan Smoke Jaguar: "War Crimes."

Clan Ghost Bear: "American Football."

Clan Diamond Shark: "Logistics: spare parts, ammunition, and in-theater supply chain expansion."

Wolf: *glares*

Diamond Shark: *stares*

Diamond Shark: *thrown from window*
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My ongoing disgust at the state of the video games industry and digital art in general being consumed by all this GenAI horseshit has prevented me from working on any gamedev stuff for over a month. So sorry if that was why you followed me. TRADITIONAL ART POSTS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES.
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Got a jump-start on my #halloween piece for the year. I wanted to do more than one this year but I waited too long to take a substantial vacation and I’m very burnt out. Maybe my trip will rejuvenate me but I’ll likely be MORE exhausted. 🙃 #digitalart #sketch #vampire
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Flatwoods Monster, aka Braxy. After watching like 7 different youtube documentaries on this thing, I landed on a more mechanical interpretation of this alleged visitor from the stars. #cryptids #ink #traditionalart #lineart #blackamdwhite #sketch #alien
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fresno Nightcrawlers. I always appreciate #cryptids that are “disovered” in the digital photography age. We should never stop adding to our lexicon of weird folklore. #ink #traditionalart #blackandwhite #lineart #sketch #alien
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Kalvin’s 🪦Cryptic🪦 Arcade @kalvinsarcade.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Working on a little project involving #cryptids. Mothman sets the tone: kinda creepy but also fuzzy as hell. #ink #traditionalart #blackandwhite #lineart #insect #moth #humanoid #alien #sketch
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