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tuomaspirinen.bsky.social @tuomaspirinen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

John Blanche has died. Absolutely devastating news. I have no words right now. It will have to wait. Farewell, old friend.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Hugely sad. We've lost John Blanche. It's hard to know where to begin. He set fire to a generation's imagination, and those fires show no sign of stopping burning. His work very much illuminated the darkness.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The Bell of Lost Souls tolls for John Blanche, legend. R.I.P. to a truly prolific master of illustration, groundbreaking miniature painter, and all around great man, you will be missed.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Digital clay sculpting. Blender and a Wacom tablet. Photo reference of the original Jes Goodwin miniature from the lovely Lost Minis Wiki

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Makoto Kobayashi Newtype March 1987 A painful two page spread stitch. Mr. Kobayashi's deep texture layers of hatching and screen tone makes for a lot more effort in blending and fill. A glorious work, with a near perfect checklist of all that is good in traditional SF illustration.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

類似点 John Blanche Naoyuki Katoh (加藤直之)

John Blanche Adeptus Mechanicus painting for Rogue Trader

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Yutaka Izubuchi in 5709 vertical pixels. Stitched from Mobile Police Patlabor: The Early Days.

A long camera pan across various green mecha (Labors) drawn by Yutaka Izubuchi.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Did a rescale and slight layout adjustment to this Rabidly Dog Blueprint from Dual Magazine no.9 (June 1984). The original was 1/35 scale but 1/72 moves A.T.'s to a very manageable ~6cm tall. Seems a fun modeling project. Sourced from the excellent Votoms section of @timeldred.bsky.social 's site.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Figured out a thing. Though that annoying seam has to go. photoshop and blender.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Just 10 terabytes to overwrite a human consciousness.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Hyperart Thomasson 超芸術トマソン

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I'm going to treasure this Clotho 新年の寿, thanks bunches @combattlerrickv.exportaud.io

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ヤマダユージ @mechaimaging.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

「超時空要塞マクロス」

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

"I'm going to retrain myself from the beginning" Made a Blender hotkeys zine to take notes in as I do tutorials for 5.0. Thanks to Blender Guru on YouTube for the PDF. I really just did the (IKYK) cover and did a spreads layout.

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ヤマダユージ @mechaimaging.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

「重戦機エルガイム」

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I love mecha. メカが大好きです。

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Roses are red. Violets are blue.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

3025 map of the Inner Sphere overlaid on the Bluesky map cluster. You could probably rotate the cluster arbitrarily and get some poignant results. #battletech

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Well that tracks, exactly where I would wish to be. Big shout out to all those Indonesian K-Pop fans for shining so bright out there on the fringe. Someone needs to overlay this with a map of BT's inner sphere.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

You can just watch the SDF Macross SD opening on repeat.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Listened to Cory Doctorow hold forth with Joe Reis while drawing today, might have been a bad choice as I had to pause (the drawing) to take notes. Well spoken people who think deeply and well are a gift. Not going to disgrace my TL with YouTube engagement bait thumbnail so no link.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

One of my hobbies is the digital cleaning of poorly scanned or photographed SF art while respecting the source material. (I.E. No AI upscaling, descreening, respectful color grading, etc) Removing the dust, fibers, creases, tears, logos and branding can be a pleasant way to unwind.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

It's been a long winter, but drawing SD Macross can brighten your mood and cover your desk with eraser crumbs. The bottom and left VF-1J's were drawn while referring to the original production materials.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

日本人ではいないけど末然のアイシャドウをもって生わる人もいるんだよねとんでもねーハナシだわい Mr. Mamoru Nagano's tiny handwriting is too hard to read. I'm pretty sure I messed up transcribing this panel margin note about Sopp's natural eyeshadow, but this is pushing my skill limits.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Scanning last few year's sketchbooks and revisiting old projects. MWO Corsair reimagined as a production militia mech. Goals: Lots of corrections. Incorporating more JPTech design elements. Emphasizing reuse of existing industrial components. Properly readable asymmetry.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Old long since. I drew this 22 years ago.

Cover art for a Reno/Portland single speed bicycling zine.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Still one of the coolest SF space ships, regardless of canonicity/lore. Battletech Argo Blender w. PGI's assets

A quite large spaceship, improbably low in the atmosphere.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Needed a new vertical BG for monitor 2: Sid Mead's Moon 2000 (1979) HSV, Levels CRT mask, curvature, vignette. Bit Rot

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Thanks Coach. トップをねらえ!

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I want a set of ICO こけしnow.

PS2 texture from ICO videogame, ran through a fake CRT filter

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Bonus follow up BattleTech post: Numbers 9-12 are Jeff Laubenstein's redraws of Shoji Kawamori redesigns repurposed as arena customs. Bonkers timeline. 1991 Solaris VII: The Game World box set.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

バトルテックメック図鑑 1992 Contents will be in the replies but it will be a minute as I'm cleaning the pages.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Sprite comp at 4x scale of various BattleMechs drawn for MekHQ. Originally only meant to cover Technical Readout 3025, it grew quite a bit.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Today is Director Keita Amemiya's birthday. You should set aside some time to enjoy the beautiful cuts and designs of his 1991 SF film ZËIЯAM. It's not the greatest movie ever made, but it is immensely stylish.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Frame two is the most important one.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Bladerunner is still a perfect film. Photoshop

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

...any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

There is just something about the early 80's and B/W art. Tony Hough: unused Rogue Trader illustration Mamoru Nagano: panel from The Five Star Stories Hayao Miyazaki: panels from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Just gets the creative juices flowing.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Spending some quality time with Mr. Nagano.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Nice. Zeonic released their retranslation of M.S. Era. One of the most refined Gundam artbooks with a powerhouse team coming off their work on 0080: War in the Pocket.

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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Front Mission is one of those game series that just never quite made it. Niche genre (mecha) in a niche genre (turn based tactics videogames). Playing Pokémon again after all these years has really opened my eyes to some squandered potential in gameplay.

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