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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 20h

Was at a typewriter museum today and scrib doon'd.

Photo of a paper page from a typewriter with various people's test typings on it. I have typed "Biddy Blais was here. SCRIB DOOOOOOOOON!"

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Samus: I am RAVENOUS and I am going to suck my enemies dry!! Samus' Enemies:

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I spent a week in San Francisco and drew Spruce as different local Sunset / Haight neighborhood business mascots. Can you identify them all?! Since I invented him while I was still living there, this felt appropriate.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Had a weird dream that the surface of the planet had become uninhabitable, so we all had to live in Chinese cave-bunkers. The dream did not clarify if that meant they were dug out and built worldwide (but managed/engineered/financed by China) or if everyone on Earth had to move to China.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

A little shuffle dance as a test with #Blender #GreasePencil ! I'm hoping to expand on this, so this is more like the idling stance that other more involve dance moves come out of. #animation #dance #shuffling

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The final days and it's close to funded! Just needs a final push. If you were thinking about it and forgot, now is the time. I really want to see this happen! Maybe I can show a demo there of the game I am currently tricking myself into working on.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Redesigning Afterglow to be a 16bit-era video game mascot. Including an all new jazzercized dance tracksuit. Going for big simple shapes here, easily readable expressions and clean posing. Something easily read at a small size.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A discord channel reaction meme inspired me to do a draw challenge: This specific smug smarmy face. Can't make it TOO smug or cock the eyebrows TOO much, that's just getting into DreamWorks Face territory. This one is more subtle and insidious. #drawchallenge #smug #mixtape #drawing

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Quick Moho test to try out a liquid shapes approach for Waxwane Gibbon. It works! But... How to handle expressions? Something to figure out.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I would very much like to go to this - please everyone pledge if you can, and come meet up with me there! I'll draw you a Reploid. :)

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This looks hella fun AND it's in Seattle!

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

More art for Waxwane Gibbon! I'm delighted by how they turned out. Had this one in the works for a long time and finally cracked it after a long break. #megaman #oc #characterdesign #monkey #heatpump

Artwork for Waxwane Gibbon, a robotic gibbon with pipes, valves, and other Heat Pump gear all over it.

Waxwane is arguing with themselves.
"We never listen to me!"
"You just want to let people burn!"
"SO WHAT?! It's their fault!"

Design concept for Waxwane Gibbon. It's individual halves are Waning Gibbon and Waxing Gibbon.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Back to character design projects. I had this idea for Waning Gibbon, a dual-element HVAC robot for a while and finally got somewhere with it. I'm thinking this is a Silhouette Mirage situation where in a side scrolling game, they use ice or fire attacks based on if they are facing left or right.

Design sheet for Waning Gibbon and Waxing Gibbon, a robot monkey with various Heat Pump and HVAC components built into their body. They are split down the middle so the left side is fire themed and the right side is ice themed.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

- start growing my hair out to be more androgynous and NB - random people have already started saying my hair looks "cute" - PRESS THE BUTTON HARDER. I NEED MORE. MOOOOORREE!!! (they are reacting to the teal over my shaggy, still mostly guy-coded hair length but I'll take it)

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Finally back on here after being stuck logged out for ages! Here is a little something I drew of some old friends.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Got a walk cycle going in @mohoanimation.bsky.social , pretty happy with this one! Feels great to finally get her moving after working on the rig for so long. Gonna work on some dances next - finally!!

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

POV: You made the mistake of catcalling at these two :O (Hoping to draw more "quick" pieces like this as a character and worldbuilding exercise, would you all want to see more?)

Zoe, a Latina goth girl, towers over the viewer and looks really pissed off. Her fists are clenched and raised up. Her shy friend Afterglow looks on from behind her with a shocked expression. Its implied that you, the viewer, just said something they didn't like.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Been hard at work on this Afterglow rig in Moho all month. I am trying WAY TOO MUCH and want her to be able to do everything lol. Primarily I just want her to be able to pull of fluid dance moves. I think I am on the right track - just have to finish her bottom half and add hand swaps.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Working on a few little dances for Afterglow. This turned out more like her just flailing around, I think I'll use either half of it as a transition between other dance loops to get her moving around the screen more. And instead of inking and coloring this by hand, I'm gonna make a rig.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Having fun making custom Ride Machines in Kirby Air Riders! Some are more successful than others... #kirbyairriders

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Colored it! I added the big moon at the last minute to give it even more of a Sonic vibe, but that also throws off my lighting direction completely. Oh well lol. #drawing #goth #originalcharacter #artwork #sonicadventure2

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This started as a joke sketch to draw them doing Sonic & Shadow poses from SA2 but I actually really like this and can't wait to color it. Goth Girls Adventure 2!

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

More development sketches of Zoe. Some of these are also storyboards for a script with her and Afterglow in it. I'll have to redo some of these with the asymmetrical bangs to see if I like that better.

Various sketches of Zoe, a stylized cartoon goth girl with long black hair and bangs that cover part of her face.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Designing some friends and supporting characters for Afterglow since I'm writing episodes for her now. Here is Zoe! Going for a 90s mall goth look for her. Still developing but I like these early drawings.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The OG destroyer of innocence right here. I even was friends with / had a crush on a girl in high school who looked kinda like her. Short, strawberry blonde, autistic 😂😍 So this one hits deep.

A screenshot from an episode of Rescue Rangers showing the most beautiful mouse girl ever designed, Gadget Hackwrench

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The industry leaders speaking at a AI-focused event I just attended posed a question they can't solve to the audience: as AI reduces the workforce and asks for higher skill sets for employees, how is the younger generation not left behind? They have no idea what to do here and that's terrifying.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

We all hate genAI here, but we need to be careful not to act like stubborn airbrush artists hearing about Thomas Knoll's new "photoshop" in 1990. As creatives, we should fight off AI slop but also fight to define "AI" as a tool. Just like Photoshop ended up being for those angry airbrushers.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Finished and colored up version of this Afterglow sheet. Want an embarrassing fact? Despite her whole deal being that her skin can glow and change color I haven't really drawn her DOING that other than slapping a cheap outer glow on a hand here and there. I'll change that soon.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I want Nintendo to make a sprawling sci fi space epic that weaves in Star Fox, Metroid, and F-Zero. They have so many space mercenaries/bounty hunters and never let them hang out other than silly tongue in cheek references. Make it real!

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I tried a different Procreate brush for each pose, so this counts as 9 Inktobers, right Chat? Excited to color and animate some of these. This is the best Afterglow has ever looked!

My OC Afterglow in 8 different dance poses surrounding a central
face portrait of her. She is wearing a baggy crop top hoodie and baggy pants, which flow with her dancing.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I only just found you but I love the style and proportions you use! I would have a few candidates for you if I won a sculpt... Robot animals? Cute dancing gal? Guess we find out together.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Drawing a bunch of Afterglow today became I just love her in this crop top hoodie. The tiny drawings are referenced from pausing various videos of dancers. I wanna do a bunch more of these.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

If you think the title of this show is "Cow Boys of Moo Mesa" you are wrong. If you think it's "Wild West Cow Boys of Moo Mesa" you're still wrong. C.O.W. is an acronym, so this horrible show's amazing full title is (inhales deeply)...Wild West Code of the West Boys of Moo Mesa.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I canceled D+ a while ago over something else stupid they did, but what they did this week is far worse. I was even about to come back because I want to watch Andor, but not after the Kimmel cancel. I don't even like Kimmel but I do love having rights! We all need to ditch Disney completely.

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soup_ @estroclysm.neocities.org · 16/09/2025

flintstones bit where fred washes his hands then pulls on the hand dryer dinosaurs tail and it rips ass for a minute straight

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Great lesson to learn for other mayors and governors: standing up to Trump works. He's a bully and a loser with no ground stand on.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Trying some shenanigans with a 2D rig "3D rotation". It's about 30 layers dynamically changing layer order over time + lots of vector point motion tweens of the shapes. It's not quite convincing yet but good for a first pass I would say. I want Hivehead performing more actions as the camera "pans".

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splendidland🌱 @splendid.land · 15/08/2025

flaming moe's

lenny is sat with homer at moe's with some pokemon cards scattered across the bar.
Lenny: hey whatcha got there homer?
Homer: oh i don't know... it's some crap the boy is into these days
Barney: hey! moe! this one looks like you!
Moe then snatches the card.
Moe: what? gimme that! i oughta sue the hell outta-
Moe then contrmplates the Magmar card, and finds recognition within it.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Various boards for an animated short. That falling animation was just a little test! The big wasp guy I designed back in college but I've never actually animated them. Better late then never!

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Whaddup! I'm Spruce! You're probably wondering how I got into this situation... (Just a clip I made during my work commutes. I used Callipeg and Procreate Dreams, and they worked really well together! Expect more!) #animation #procreate #callipeg #soda #cartoon #noAI

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I wanna share a current musical obsession of mine. Stage 1-1 and 1-2 of Jumping Flash!, and how it goes from cheerful to melancholic in a way very similar to Sonic 3's Angel Island. Here is 1-1. Love the bagpipes and that very low pitched echoy chord that pipes in here and there.

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Jumping Flash! Music - World 1-1 (Jump in the Grasslands!) In-game version

YouTube video by mstop4

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Maddi @maddihunt.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Made a picture to celebrate today 😁

A picture of the american flag in front of fireworks. In front of that is Naruto from the show Naruto with his thumb pointing down. At the top are the words “FUCK THE FOURTH OF JULY” in the middle are the words “DON’T BELIEVE IT” slightly under that are the words “AMERICA SUCKS” then at the very bottom are the words “HAPPY BIRTHDAY RACHEL’S GRANDPA HAVE FUN AT OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE”

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Adopted a sea turtle man alien in No Man's Sky and now its my GOTY. So glad I waited for 9 years of updates before playing it 😅

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Mario Kart World's soundtrack makes me feel like I am a teenager listening to TheMushroomKingdom.net WTMK internet radio again. They had all those obscure official remix albums from Japan streaming and a lot of them were synth or jazz. What a great time this is ❤️

themushroomkingdom.net

The Mushroom Kingdom: Super Mario Bros. downloads and information

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Nintendo deciding that Mario Kart is a big band jazz music franchise was an A+ decision. I wish MKW had a sound test, so many bangers here.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Petition to rename Galvanized Steel to Rancid Ass Steel

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Nice argument. Unfortunately I have already depicted myself as the smug and confident diplodocus and you the naive parasaurolophus.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Went to look at adoptable cats today, one of them was a tiny orange and white kitten just like Graham was 17 years ago and it really stung. Getting to hold him felt nice, though. Didn't go home with any, I think I need to wait more.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I am writing down the many nicknames I had for my cat, but "Orange White and the Seven Barves" is my favorite. He gained it after he threw up 7 times in one morning and we had to find each individual barf.

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Bill Cass @spiceopod.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Been playing this cute JP-only SNES game and keep imagining what a 1998 English release of it would be. The GamePro ad: in BEAKER'S BREAKOUT You're a FREAK OF NATURE escaping from the ILLEGAL SCIENCE LAB that created you. ABSORB the ACCELERGELS and INJECT them into blocks to defeat DR.ERLENMEYER!

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