#cog creates

[vaunted-and-vilified]

poor aiglamene

#cog creates #the locked tomb #nona the ninth spoilers #kiriona gaia #crux #comics #black on black on black on black on black #sorry to your screen gamma but im built different #bonus: when crux is like 'i knew your were dead' another four? pages later #like no shit you knew she just told you #everyone on the ninth was affected by the stupid gas apparently #aiglamene

[ariadne-mouse]

I love the tranquil, haunting music in Scavengers Reign that sometimes plays even when there is something scary or combative going on. The planet is just being the planet, creatures being creatures, circle of life etc. It's almost scarier when the whole environment is just telling you this is normal, this is fine. We're already playing your soft outtro, thanks for playing your part in the ecosystem. You might be an interloper here, but don't worry, a decay-loving flower will bloom from your corpse all the same.

#scavengers reign #something something the universe is big and humanity is so very very small which makes for a poignant beauty in the human experience #as being both insignificant/cog in a machine but also how incredible to create shared meaning and connection despite and because of that #cosmic dread is one face on a coin and the other side is cosmic wonder #and scavengers reign is spinning that coin so fast it looks like a sphere #op #body horror

[eegasleega-will-change-this-l8r]

-OUR FOUNDER-

⚙ THE CHAIRMAN ⚙ OF COGS INCORPORATED EST. 2003 ---------------------------------

So I've never talked about this on here before, but Toontown was one of my absolute FAVORITE games as a kid (despite never having membership so being locked out of 99% of the actual game jlkjfsakj) Like it was absolutely formative for me, I drew the cogs a bajillion times and they inspired a ton of my own stuff later on (and still absolutely do) Then the game closed and Rewritten came out so I could actually play the whole game for the first time (haven't gotten anywhere close to getting to the end though) To this day I have an on again off again interest where once or twice a year I'll suddenly get absolutely smitten with it again haha

So, if you're also into Toontown, you'll obviously be familiar with the mysterious, unseen overarching villain The Chairman This is my own take on his design that I came up with a few years back ^^

We don't have much to go off of from the original game for what the Chairman might've been like, so I had a couple of different inspirations

Obviously the giant head in the Sellbot Factory, since those old Chairman pics with that head pasted onto a cog body were absolutely what I was most exposed to as a kid, but it's also not a 1:1 lift

In some of my earliest sketches trying to come up with the ideal design I tried making him look like he had the giant robot from the old installer video underneath his suit, so he had like lanky, cartoonish proportions, toonier hands, etc It looked really bad though and I couldn't do what I wanted with the head since it would've had to fit over the shorter, wider robot head, so I just ended up scrapping it (i do take some inspiration from the video for my vision of Toontown's story, but i've just scrapped the robot entirely) Oh I also gave him the eyes from the Field Office since I thought that could be neat, but it looked out of place so I simplified them to what he has now (they're still stylistically similar to the eyes on regular cog buildings, so i don't think i'm really losing any of the meaning behind them at least)

By far the biggest inspiration was when the FY11 plans got released

Holy FUDGE did this blow my mind when I saw it for the first time All those years as a kid of the Chairman not even being ACKNOWLEDGED except by the CEO's final words and a couple odd references in obscure magazines and whatever Desperately speculating and grasping onto all those tiny pieces of some mysterious, horrifically evil entity behind everything And then this??? This awesome, ominous silhouette?? Plans for something huge??? Seeing it is what drove me to go and draw him in the first place, it still gives me chills just looking at it

So yeah, I wanted mine to have that same aura of cold evil, that striking silhouette, while also having a bit more character to him Like most cogs are frozen in the same screwed up scowl, where there's not much room for expression If I could, like, make an actual model for him, I'd want him to have the same sort of capacity for different expressions as the toons have (even some you wouldn't expect from the head of the cogs)

He's ruthless, calculating, doing everything he can to maximize the profits and efficiency of Cogs Inc and expand their operations to the entirety of Toontown, with no regard for ethical business practices or the wishes of the people he plans to subjugate (But does it work? Is he happy?)

I'm absolutely gonna do an analysis of the cogs as a whole at some point (as long as my interest doesn't plummet for a little while longer), there's a ton of stuff I wanna get into about my interpretation of them as villains because oh my god I love them so much

OTHER STUFF - He's not as massive as the other boss cogs, but he's still absolutely huge (iirc the highest level cogs are all canonically like 8ft?? and he's got a LOT of height on them) - He's drinking oil in the pencil drawing - I happened to watch this video where one guy talked about the way the villain in Tarzan held a glass of wine and how it left a huge impression on him, so I just arbitrarily decided to emulate it in my drawing XD - Oh yeah a big reason for the main drawing in the post was that I really felt like I was getting too attached to a single style in my digital stuff (literally just using the same default pen tool for everything, never changing the size), so I wanted to force myself to try something new - I drew the frame myself, just kinda winged it so it's. not as good as it could be but it works fine I think

#toontown #cogs #the chairman #emilyart #emilyramblings #uhh so this is a pretty big departure from my usual MOTHER stuff #hope it's not too offputting #i've got a really cute porky thing i've been working on but i'm struggling with one of the poses >< #will be done soon hopefully #oh yeah so i've played a lot of rewritten which is definitely my favorite toontown thing #captures the old feel that i love while wayyy surpassing the original #and they really nailed the new cog designs they revealed a while ago office clerk my beloved #AND THAT CHAIRMAN TEASER FROM THE FIELD OFFICE UPDATE OFJOEIWJK #i love what clash brings to the table and how much it's gone above and beyond to create a whole new experience but it's not really my thing #totally different chairman interpretation from what i'm used to but man he's hilarious #i'll dig up some of my original sketches for the chairman at some point it'd be fun to see that process

[yarnlegend]

this knocked me out cold when i first watched it

#the way the gold things on his pants on the skin make him look caked up when the horse bucks + the phlegm + shiver me coggers im cogging ou #block idiot tag #hermitcraft #bdoubleo100 #create mod s2

[bucket-of-amethyst]

Studying the molecule

ENHANCE

Diagnosis: scrombly creachure, cogging out variety

#HES COGGING OUT!!! #bucket of random #create series #bdouble0 #bdoubleo100 #mcyt

[aceghosts]

BELLAMY [UNKNOWN] A.K.A DALLAS WARDEN A.K.A WHISKEY-FOUR

How long have I felt this way? Sign of the times Shadows sway to light up my life Trace the answers, tears have never made me Change from violent delights -Rotoscope by Spiritbox

TEMPLATE by @marivenah

#whiskey-four #whiskey-four if #interactive fiction #choice of games #hosted games #cog #anyway I replayed this demo recently #and I wanted to make something for Bellamy #also hello mutuals i am alive #just been dealing with stuff lately and haven't been too inspired to create or be on here lately #i'm gonna try and catch up on stuff this weekend though #my edits

[the-sweater-lodge]

My epic box set of Toontown Corporate Clash Regional Manager gijinkas

#[ Cogs ] #[ Art ] #toonblr #toontag #I created this over the span of several weeks #Like a sculptor of olden days chiseling from stone day after day #Not a second goes by where I am not rotating the regional managers around like gas station hotdogs in my head #They are all so. So #Heart❤️

[nanowatzophina]

:( trying to figure out choice script is hard…

#too many things #im too adhd #I want to learn but can’t wrap my head around it #keeps giving me error messages #I just wanna make gender #let me crEATE GENDER #cog #wanna make an interactive fiction #cuz I got ideas #and some beautiful ocs that deserve the light of day #at the be romanced #only issue is that im not allo so— #idk how that will actually work if I do it— #but I want to

[shieldsurf]

kind of insane that gaza is like completely scorched earth fucked right now literally post apocalyptic mass graves everywhere 80% of urban areas reduced to nothing but rubble and meanwhile israel is excitedly announcing their newest shake shack location

#every night i pray to whatever power that be that every cog of the israeli machine bursts into the most painful flames ever created #and die in previously impossible levels of agony

[lunarblazes]

theories on why tango only has one arm in create, go

#personally i think he had to sacrifice it to the gods of the cogs to get the smp started #tangotek #create smp

[jos-has-too-many-hobbies]

I’m gonna need a counter for how many times bdubs says “cogging out” by the end of the create series

#create mod #bdouble0 #cogging out #I just know I’m going to accidentally pick it up in my own vocabulary #and my friend ds are going to think I’m more crazy than they already do

[vaunted-and-vilified]

John 1:20

this started as a much bigger idea but three days of sketching in i realized my brain-eyes were bigger than my hand-stomach could manage. i probably still couldve taken it further than i did but i think im still happy with what ive got for two and a half weeks worth of working on it.

also full disclosure the shot of johns politician puppet is almost entirely lifted from a photo of a white house meeting room (mirrored and with some people left out) and i straight up traced the city of melbourne from a stock photo because at that point i was afraid that if i didn't take some pretty extreme shortcuts id never get past it and id lose all my work up to that point. the original intent was for both images to show up for a second or less in an amv or an animatic or whatever were calling them these days so it would probably have felt like less of a big deal. so like, sorry to the original photographers for jacking your shit but also thank you for your service o7

#cog creates #the locked tomb #john gaius #mercymorn the first #cristabel oct #ulysses the first #titania tetra #gideon the first #nona the ninth spoilers #fanart #artists on tumblr #tlt

[mossyriverrocks]

Hi can we learn a bit more about the oc in your pfp (I forgot her name I am so sorry ;—;) she seems really cool

AJDHJSJS YES OK SO

That is Desirea

she is

the silliest ever I love her sm

So she’s part of a story I’m working on called Time’s End, I won’t specify her role since I wanna make it into a comic one day so that’d be spoilers

basically all you need to know is

she’s almost as powerful as the creator god themself (named Dimitási), she’s a being of pure evil, she’s lived for a very very long time, and she’s British.

I could go on for hours about her character and backstory but that’s be hella spoilers and I wanna make the silly comic haha

under the cut is her description on artfight along with some art of her :3

“Desirea is a mysterious being, locked away thousands of years ago She is said to be the second most powerful being in existence, only topped by Dimitási, the creator god themself. How she got so powerful is lost to time, as almost all records of her mere existence are gone. And despite that, despite almost no one in the current day knowing of her existence, she was one of the most important figures in history, she helped shape the world as we know it, whether that be a good or bad thing. The only remaining pieces of information suggest she almost destroyed and reshaped reality to her own, before Dimitási lock her away in an inescapable pocket dimension known as The Void.”

(Characters on the height chart left to right are:

Spite Aurelia, Desirea, Vega Silver, The Time Mistress, Aria Sillia, Tippi Turvy, The Executioner, Cyrus Cogs, Sterling Silver, and Eris)

#She! #im so happy you asked about her #I was able to get my friends obsessed with her as well #fun fact I created her based off of one of my friends characters when we were at a soccer game together #asks #answered #desirea (oc) #Look at herrrr #I’m just gonna #Spite Aurelia (oc) #Vega Silver (oc) #The Time Mistress (oc) #Aria Sillia (oc) #Tippi Turvy (oc) #The Executioner (oc) #Cyrus Cogs (oc) #Sterling Silver (oc) #Eris (oc) #Never doing that again #Anyways #I didn’t name Tippi because of spm I swear #Myart #my art

[perichuuu]

The innovation cogs i mentioned, meet the Planbots! This will be my other signature ladder(along with my Rave n Ecobots)

The cogs of new ideas and problem solving! They always have a new cog function they thought of and want to share! They also critic the current mechanics of cogs and work with the Techbots to improve any major flaws. As a sister department of the Techbots, they have a quirk like them. While the Techbots are swift cogs that move before toons, Planbots tend to be harder to get a chuckle out of.(takes less damage/higher defense) Their boss, the Chief Innovation Officer(CINO or Ceeno) has the most thinking power(literally, their brain is a light blub) of all cogs, they know how to analyze cogs and knows exactly what to do to make them stronger I went for a generic cartoon robot(almost like the Gearloose Robot) look for them.

#toontown cogs #toontownfancogs #toontown #toonblr #planbots #finally a ladder that was easy to create

[gothamcityneedsme]

sorry about the continuing spammage.  i knew this would happen as soon as i started replaying arkham. sometimes i just need to get really into arkham knight again.  its mandatory.  jason todd‘s story in that game has imprinted in my brain since 2016.  every once in awhile i have to replay it

#shitpost #and i think about him all the time but like. man #getting to arkham knight at last is Something #the arkhamverse in its entirety is someting really. theres a lot #in the character arcs and the plot progression/worldbuilding #how its named arkham but its all about arkham falling to pieces #Origins is obvious. you see the cogs. the policiticalism #Asylum doesnt seem like it'll extend larger but at the same time you can still see the plot shifting behidn it all #City is when it realy shows its face. and the fall of City IS the death of Arkham. #The Arkham Knight is ARKHAMS LAST VICTIM. COMING TO HOLD BATMAN TO TASK #THATS ALL. I HAVE TO SAY. #(no it isnt) #love how scarecrow is the headliner but really his movements are so. typical. unassociated to arkham really #hes such a fake headliner to me #the story is ABOUT jason. it is ABOUT arkham as an entity. why it existed why it was built how it shifted and how it falls #about how many people arkham both created and destroyed #and of course. jason. both created AND destroyed by arkham. the final representative of it #even his red hood costume still calls to the Arkham symbol. it gets subtle but the bird he wears (BIRD. not a bat!) has that shape inside

[reel-fear]

Genuinely, I reblog everything I like, if I liked smth it will eventually go into my queue to be reblogged. It is not that hard, if u can't reblog stuff from ur favorite artists bc they're not worth the effort... Maybe think about why you think you're entitled to art but they're not entitled to at least COMPLAIN about never getting their stuff shared. It hurts, I've been there, I've also had plenty of young artists send me dms or asks after I reblogged their art telling me thanks for the reblog or the tags I left. It makes a difference. When I was a young artist I literally screenshoted every reblog with tags I got.

Imagine being such a piece of shit you think it's not worth your time or anyone's time to take a few seconds to give someone that joy.

When I look at my old Transformers art, yeah I still like it but when I see maybe 4 or 5 reblogs on art I considered some of my best [most of them by me], it hurts. It was unsustainable, I just knew I couldn't keep going on the hope that if enough people liked it, it would be pushed up in the tags. It's human nature to like sharing what you create or your thoughts and having people enjoy it n tell you why. I can't think of a mindset more rotted by capitalism than thinking those people aren't even allowed to complain about how little people share their creations. If an artist putting reblogs > likes on a post bothers you that damn much...

Fucking make the art yourself asshole. Cause eventually those artist will get demotivated and stop posting, then you'll get what you wanted! Nobody will complain about how little traction their art gets when nobody is bothering to share their art anymore!

#ramblez #genuinely though just think of how you would feel if someone said this about like ur friends commission post or like ur own art #like if ur friend was sad ppl dont share their art on social media I highly doubt youd look them in the eyes and say #are u sure thats not just a capitalist mindset? You sound stupid and like a cog in a horrible machine ur being dumb lol #like if anyone said this about like someones commission post it would be on blast wouldnt it? #but I guess as long as its just stupid casual art it doesnt deserve to be defended from that kinda shit #who cares abt fanartist theres dozens of them surely even if u never give them any kind of decent feedback on their work #theyll still create for u bc thats what they exist to do! Theyre just machines built to create #and if they dont like their art sitting dusty in a corner with just a number slapped on it but no comments thats their fault! #theyre the entitled ones!