iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

What a beautiful human being and what a beautiful documentary!

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The white one is Roxy, and tabby is Ravi! I love them to bits <3

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Femke Nijsse @femkenijsse.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

🌍 We're all familiar with climate tipping points — like ice loss and rainforest dieback — but what if we can harness similar self-reinforcing feedbacks in climate action. Which techs to choose and how to change international cooperation? 🧵 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @thebulletin.org

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How to leverage positive tipping points for climate action

Negative tipping points for the Earth’s climate system are approaching fast, adding further urgency to climate action. But well-designed climate action may be able to trigger its counterpart: benef...

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Mmm what helps me is really deciding what is important for a piece and what isn't. Like nailing the facial expression is important, but doing intricate detail on the hair often isn't going to make it break an artwork. So there I can save time by doing more of an impression of hair instead of detail.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Shadow and Bone trilogie omdat ik het einde nooit op Netflix ga kunnen zien...

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Music is from Kevin Macleod "Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G, Movement I (Allegro), BWV 1049" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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incompetech – Music and also Graph Paper

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We could implement all these things in our current game ofc, but I think we'd rather start on something new and apply all the things we learned there :) On to the next game @bjornvandesand.bsky.social !

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The main thing that stood out to me in making this is how many UX things I take for granted in games. How to make it clear which items can be interacted with and not? Doors openings should be visible on both sides? Lots to learn!

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We originally decided to see how far we could get in a weekend (of course, it ended up taking far, far longer in the end) so I settled on a quite simple artstyle with an easy workflow and very minimal animation. Animation was done with a combination of rigging in Godot and spritesheets.

An illustration of the playable character of our game, Cat the Great.

An illustration of a noble cat character from our game.

An illustration of a noblewoman cat character from our game.

An illustration of the general cat character from our game.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The concept of this game came from our love of the series the Great, combined with these fancy portraits I made of our kitties at some point. Add in lots of cat puns, and Cat the Great was born! I did all art, animation, and gamedesign, while Bjorn did all the programming and dialogue.

A photoshopped classical painting of a white cat wearing fancy Elizabethan clothes, and wearing a crown.

A photoshopped classical painting of a tabby cat wearing an admiral's uniform.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

So a while back me and my partner @bjornvandesand decided to try and learn gamedev together, and what better way to do that than to try and make a very small game? It's very short, and very imperfect, but we had a lot of fun and learned a lot! #gamedev #indiegamedev #godotengine

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I absolutely have done that on discord

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Goodnight. 🖼️ The Trolls,Tolkien.

Fire in Forest glades trolls peering out from behind trees, great plumes of white smoke come off the fire, there is a barrel next to the fire. Illustration.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

But surely you can publish a chapter or two for your friends? 🖤

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Oof...so much for not talking politics on the internet. But thank you Zelensky for not giving in to those assholes in the US. You have our support in the EU.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I love the Cor Blok paintings, they're such an original take on Middle Earth. And so did Tolkien, as he bought two of them :)

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The Artist - Cor Blok's illustrations were on the front of the first Dutch LotR paperbacks from 1965. They were the first LotR edition I read, as my mom owned them, and seeing this art always fills me with nostalgia. #tolkien #tolkientrewsday

The cover art for the Dutch Fellowship of the Ring by artist Cor Blok.

The cover art for the Dutch The Two Towers by artist Cor Blok.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

They are! And they're very friendly too, although the tuxedo can get a little too friendly with his claws out. 🖤

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Yeah, I hate it. I never got into it and just gave up on Insta because of it.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I was out menacing @cindyvliet.bsky.social's cute kitties with my camera today. #cats #catsofbluesky

A photo of a tuxedo cat looking intensely at something next to the camera

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

It's my favourite too, it's my ultimate comfort movie!

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Thank you :D Ents are the ultimate combination of everything I love: trees, fantasy and Tolkien!

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Your atmospheres are so on point 👌

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Bittythings And Beasts @bittythings.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Thank you for the share! I'm a Canadian artist with a focus on critters, currently gearing up for my first convention of the year. :) #PolymerClay #furnalEquinox #AnimalArt

A pair of handmade earrings, featuring inchworms dangling from leaves.

A polymer clay figurine of a white and brown bunny. He is sitting up, curious.

A polymer clay figurine of an upset Desert Rain Frog.

A polymer clay figurine of a worried looking Grey Fox.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

That is such a beautiful piece of Howl's Moving Castle fanart 🖤 Perhaps it's time to watch the movie again for me.. :)

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Love love the vibe of your work! 🖤

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Ohh your art is magnificent! I love the depth, the colours, just beautiful!

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Thank you for the tag and congrats on the 7K! Hi, I'm Karin! I do ink and watercolour and digital, and I mostly draw trees, fantasy art, or both!

An ink and digital drawing of a crooked tree, covered in moss. There's a bird sitting below the tree.

A digital drawing of the hobbits underneath Old Man Willow. Merry and Pippin are sleeping between the roots, while Frodo is sitting on a root with his feet in the water.

An ink and watercolour drawing of a twisted, knotty tree.

An ink and watercolour drawing of Treebeard with lots of leaves and green hues. It's a portrait from the side.

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CrossRoadArt- Bear (1/2 Commissions Slots Open) @crossroadart.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

#ArtShare Time Thanku cryptids being so nice this morning, & a big Thanku for ✨7k✨ Hugely grateful 4 this place🦋 🍂Share Ur Art 🍂Repost the Share 🍂SFW (artistic nudes ok) 🍂Repost other artists (don’t drop & run) 🍂Use Alt Text 👹 AI posters can fuck off I’ll repost those that do the above for 24 hrs

The Art Share Cover
Featuring a painting of a centaur, named Rowan, sitting on a hill with dark grass and many little flowers, looking out into hilly forested landscape, which is warmly lit by the setting sun.

Sitting and leaning against Rowan’s equine body is a young squire named Arley, who is hugging himself and looks lost in his own thoughts, his gaze aimlessly directed away from the view. He is wearing chain mail around his shoulders, over a blue cowl with the hood down, a surcoat over a pale grey thinny padded gambeson, trousers and boots.

Behind them are the bold red words ‘Art Share’

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

🌳 Hope you feel better soon! 💚

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The brew for the brave and true! (It contains tea tho) #Tolkien #tea

A photo of a green dragon themed ceramic mug.

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Karin van Zon ☀️ @karinvanzon.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Yeah it was cancelled two months after it came out :/ Netflix pretty much seems to cancel everything immediately now unless they hit Stranger Things level viewership

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