#Spwatchton

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It's been another while since I uploaded something. The animation is going slow as I'm also multitasking with commissions, and I just wanted to burn steam doing something else that sprung in my mind. Just an overly-stylized Spwatchton with a weird background experiment, nothing too fancy. I'm still brainstorming about how to represent the Creation powers he shares with Swatch 🤔

((edited because I forgot a few tags -- you know what? let's add something more in-line with the visual novel conceptualization -- Spamton after the data hijacking still can't forget certain things from his past (like the Angel) and that still haunts him and produces monsters inside his dreams and sometimes by accident during their waking hours. Good thing that the head butler is there to pull the leash on Spamton in order to avoid him to fall to the amounting ruin of his past self, least they both fall together into the abyss, and Swatch the last thing he wants is to lose the only thing that keeps the monster inside himself at bay 👀))

(([[SACRÉ CUNGADERO]] today I can't type apparently -- corrected typos))

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I'm still itching to draw stuff but I can't until I get the PSU this coming week :cri:

I wanted to upload something related to my project even if it's old art. Here's the first sketch study I did of teh guy around January, Spamton after hijacking the body of Swatch. Would go for more iterations but one must start from something. I think this would make his birthday around January 28th, though since they both share the same body, that would make it for 3 anniversaries in a single year, Spamton's around May 3rd and Swatch's is February 19th. Lucky guys! 😅

I'm dying to draw him again... asdkljhfgdfjfkjdkj 😭 <crawls back into the beetle pit>

Edit: I forgot to mention that tomorrow I need to go to a doctor appointment to get some pachymetry done. Apparently the pressure of my eyes is 20/20 or something and they want to check if something is afoot that could end with me getting a glaucoma. I'll 🤞 that they don't find anything of import because the last thing I want is to get eye surgery to make my eyes to drain better the liquid inside them. I don't want any sharp or pointy tools getting any close to my eyes 😰

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This was an old pic I did around the end of February, to thank people for pushing my Ko-Fi milestone up beyond 50. I had the idea of doing a "thank you" commemoration pic every 50 coffees... Oh well.

There is my amphysien-cockatrice phantom bird digital monster and the guy himself, who adopted her by accident when he found an odd stray egg bobbing on one of the acid fountains of the Queen's palace gardens. It's just an spin-off story not really tied with the main plot of the AU, but I liked the idea of Spamton and Swatch taking care of an abandoned v-pet that in the Dark World it becomes more close and personal (and Swatch couldn't resist to adopt yet another birb to the family 👀) (she calls Spwatchton "papa" and she evolves into some sort of witch phantom knight digimon if someone was curious).

If you don't know what an amphysien-cockatrice is I'll leave this here for the record.

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I drew this like this past month. A friendly gift given to a good friend of mine I fatefully met in the Undernet fandom group, featuring them as Kris next to my MC, with a motivational message and a generous cupcake of Oreo (because we both love Oreo). Was practicing a new style of painting that I wanted to use for my visual novel, at least for the illustrations and background parts. It took me a while to figure out how to make it to look eye candy enough but guess I managed to pull it out despite being the first time not using my original style, which is more "painterly" I thinks 🤔

Anyhow, I need to keep practicing drawing more or I'll never get the hang of drawing Spwatchton nor anybody else. I also notice that this depiction of him is not accurate to his real height I brainstormed this past weekend (which should be 278 cm ~ roughly 109.44 inches). It's a bit "funny" because Swatch was taller originally, but after the forced hijacking of his data, the final amalgamation got him "compressed" and thus the height and bulk is now less. That reminds me I still need to draw the character sheet of Swatch and the rest of the characters. So much pending work OTL

I apologize if I don't have anything new to show. With my current schedule I barely have time to even stop in front of my tablet to create something new or that would advance the progress of the visual-novel. I hope things get lenient with me before the end of this month, but these RL deadlines are destroying my Darkner soul... and just this past Friday things got awful as I got hit by a sunstroke so badly that it made one of my neighbours to pick me up with her car to leave me at home or I'd just have collapsed in the middle of the street right there. That left my brain fried and in pain up until today, when I feel much better to resume work and check the socials for DMs and whatever else on my mail.

Well, enough of the unpleasantries. During my sun fever thing, I took notes to fleshen out a little more all of the Swatchlings, the 28 of them. With that I only need to draw them all to settle on stone their designs. At least that was some modicum of progress forward...

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SYNERGY

“We were a good team. They knew the best strategies and they listened to my ideas with an open mind. It was the recipe for their success, earning a nice promotion within the company and making me proud. Being the talk of our co-workers was the cherry on top.” — Spam

It takes effort to create something that was never seen before. It takes guts to keep pushing forward with that never before seen idea that is not aligned with any of the current trending standards. You know that people will not take it seriously, but that shouldn’t deter you from delivering more and more of it. In time everything will click into place, and you will be glad that you haven't stopped when you started to hesitate along the way. It’s daunting, and at the same time, discouraging. But moving forward is the only way, the only path. I think the Addisons of my AU has shown me a lot of that, that ideas can’t bloom if they aren’t sown before, even if they look ugly and dull at first. To keep nurturing them alone is very hard, but one day the effort will pay off and no regrets will come to bite you back.

Anyway, the backstory of Spamton and his Addison co-workers has a very storied past. Slowly I’m gleaning some of what he was, how he got to know his friends, why the White Addisons are a dying breed and why he was forced to change his name and his own archetype to stick it to the system. You might be surprised of all the stuff Spam needed to do in order to survive, but for now, concept arts of ideas and research is all what I have to share about that.

I’m weaving a very deep story behind the origins of Spam and the forces controlling the market of Cyber World and the life of the Cyberians, and why the law forbids any direct contact with Lightners (that was before Kris and friends dropped by). Spam here is just a number, subject #451, one of many. All look the same. All do the same. All have no interests beyond the success of the company in which they grew up to become another white-collared walking utility. Everything would change when he receives an invitation to a cyber-grill to meet with one of the marketing groups he was assigned to. It was the beginning of change, and the start of his voluntary corruption. That's as much as I can say 👀 Oh, also I found out while sprucing their profiles that Sears and Spam share the same birthday day, 3rd of May, though Sears is 5 years older than Spam as they were born in 1973 😅They are the oldest of the Addison group, and that makes them the butt of jokes sometimes.

I need to explore some art-style in order to give substance to this part of the plot and tweak its world-building, which will be unlockable flashbacks in the visual-novel. There's also a new character villain I'm trying to breath life to who appears during the epilogue of the first season. I hope people will like to see a new villain Darkner. He's also another walking DAEMON like Spwatchton but this one works for the LOCAL-SYS whereas Spwatchton is one of the undercover rebels.

Sorry if my content is coming out slow or half-baked. I'm still concept-arting and being nagged at the same time by RL more often than not. Yesterday I had yet another doctor appointment to go to and this week should be my ophthalmologist...

I also... joined the Art Fight of this year... My first time doing this. Though I'm not sure if I'll be able to be very active, I'm going to fill everything with Addisons and other Darkners from my AU to force myself to make their character profiles and see if anybody would do fanart of them (who doesn't like to get fanarts of their OCs? 😅)

As of other updates, we are expecting a final interview with a good company next week that seemed pretty interested in us as we fit their profile well. Fingis crossed! 🤞

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A bitter-sweet alliance, born from betrayal and desperation. Everything has a raison d'être. This here are just close-ups of the two sides of the banner experimentation I did a while ago, trying to fleshen out the conceptualization of Spwatchton for the visual-novel. Spamton and Swatch shares the same body, thus their personalities remain the same, but now dealing with the inconvenient tug'o'war of their different morals and modus operandi that each of them has. Spamton was shap'd and scarred for life by the hardships of living in the streets of the suburbs of Cyber City and the Trash Zone, whereas Swatch had an easier life born into the highest echelons of Cyber City's society. It's a peculiar clash of ideals and motivations, Chaos and Order sharing the same body, but they must get well with each other, otherwise the amalgamation of both of their essences gets unbalanced and starts to melt and twist them into an unsightly beast of sorts...

Anyways, I still need to practice drawing him more, to keep myself more consistent between iterations.

This is how the banner looks, though it isn't animated here sadly. If you want to see the animated version, just go to my DeviantArt entry here. More and more practice.

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Set-backs and retaliations

I'm going to spare you the details but had a huge set-back IRL that will dent my ability to focus on the project and get the bills paid next month.

I'm opening my 2D commissions again because I need that kromer urgently. I'll do the best in my ability to create the best character illustrations I can muster with my phone and my GPU-less computer.

Just please, don't request me smut 😿You know the style I do (sensual character interaction or sexy poses are fine -- just no to explicit stuff -- only SFW). 🔵 You might see my gallery of pictures I did this year here: https://ko-fi.com/spwatchton/gallery 🔵 And my commission menu here: https://ko-fi.com/spwatchton/commissions

I'll be glad to do any OCs or even fanart of official characters if that is your choice (if you order me for Deltarune or Undertale characters or OCs, you'll put a smile back in my face 🤗).

Nothing else. Just praying that posting this here works because barring doing it on my Twitter, I don't have anywhere else to go... I don't even know how to tag this type of post... I'll keep this post pinned until I manage to get my life fixed from this crashing, as I'll not be able to focus on the Delta-Gambit project at all as long as I'm hanging from this thread.

Here, have a pixel Spwatchton made from memory with the mouse that I did some days ago to quell my uneasiness during a very long phone call...

I just wish I could keep the cool as well as he does... 😞 If Spamton taught me something is to try to make the most of every single hour of the day and to stop crying at the bottom of the dumpster. I'll pick up myself and keep moving forward, even if my limbs ends chopped and the strings strangle me on the way to the surface.

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More RL updates

I managed to find an old cable to plug the main screen to the integrated graphics card which had an older port. It works fine, enough to allow me to keep using my most used software and normal internet navigation. Not enough for heavy duty graphic power like running Unity 3D or VRCHAT to test out the 3D avatars I make to get some extra kromer to afford a new tablet.

I'm going to change the goal on my Ko-Fi to adjust it to fund the new GPU. Without GPU I can forfeit any use of a new tablet because it needs to be plugged to a GPU to work. My Ko-Fi is here if interested into helping me getting the GPU faster https://ko-fi.com/spwatchton

For anything else, I'll see if I can finally upload something about the project, that has been delayed since this past 21st (which was when I had plans to upload it first). I also has the itch of drawing Sears to cheer myself up. This summer has been very cumbersome and again uncertainty looms in the future as we reach September and October (which are the deadlines for the trial).

My mood is down in the slums as certain people who called themselves friends abandoned me just because I refused a gift that I had no need to use, but that the kromer alone would have helped me to solve other more pressing problems instead (and they got angry as a result, for not accepting the imposition of that gift that was useless to me and that I had no right to turn into coin so I got none in the end). It's obvious that no friend would punish you by rescinding the invisible "friendship contract" they had with you, but here is where I am now, short of 2 "friends" while pulling forward with what little I considered my allies. I find it hard to smile while perusing the Spamton artwork of others nowadays. Guess I'm going through some degree of depression... Hope it will pass in time, so that I can recover the spring in my step and draw more.

I wish for you a wonderful September. Some will start their college and school. I know that some others started those during August but here in Europe some countries does this during the first week of September. Hope you have a good return from the summer vacations. It feels so far away in time for me since I had any vacations... Yeah, so many many years ago, when my family was still whole and not driven to the brows into blood feuds. I must go on...

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Characters' sound-bits

I'm testing uploading some sounds here to see how they look like on Tumblr, don't mind me. I'd like to have some feedback on them because I'm going in blind with my sound experiments (and yes no real voice-lines because I highly doubt I'll ever get enough money to get me some VA's, plus the sound-bits are more faithful to the original game).

In this case they are the SOUND-CUEs that are going to be used for the dialogues while the characters talk. You might be familiar with the sound-bits that many characters in Undertale and Deltarune has.

Well, since I need to make up many as many Deltarune characters lack of their own sound-bits -- plus the fact that the original ones needs to be tweaked enough to be of rightful use -- I took the time to create a few SOUND-CUEs for these ones:

Spamton >> Using the original one and tweaking it a little so that it sounded more natural.

Swatch >> He originally had the default sound-bit for his dialogues in Deltarune, so I needed to make something unique for him. I always likened Swatch's voice as low bass, to go with his big and more somber nature because of his origins, and to contrast with Spamton's which is more high-pitched.

Spwatchton >> Is just the fusion of both Spamton's and Swatch's voices, but needed to tweak it a bit so that both would mesh together without stepping on each other's voice. What do you think? 🤔

Tasque Manager >> She was the hardest to come up. Since her sound-bit is inexistent and Toby recorded his voice to give her some voice-lines during the fight against her, I tried to come up with something that would sound feminine but still mature and kind of electric because how she is stylized kind of robotical. I'm no expert and just experimented a little but maybe this one is the one that needs the most feedback. I'll listen to any advice or reference that you might suggest.

And as last freebie, some placeholderish reference (NOT FINAL) experiment for a voiceline that should go on the logo intro of the project -- guess which character is speaking here 👀(you may want to lower the volume because I see that it sounds kind of loud after I recorded it 😅) (the phrase in English translates roughly to "from the filthy world of CHAOS, we rise anew")

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A small question and a lil update

Today hopefully I'll finally be able to finish and upload the character profile of Sears (the Blue Addison). The next in the queue should be Joel which is the Pink Addison of the group of co-workers that is pivotal to the events from Spam's flashback and during the epilogue of Season 1. After that Genie the Yellow Addison and that will complete the pivotal triad of the plot. The rest of the Addison co-workers will follow suit with the character profiles but they weren't as impactful to Spam as these other three, hence the low priority.

Also, it came to my attention after perusing some blogs that there is some roleplay activity with characters that have their own blogs. People can send them questions and the author replies in character and sometimes with a little cool something thrown in between. Like I already had the idea of replying in character if asked through the "Question the Darkner" button, and I like the idea of increasing engagement with followers and other randoms if they can have me (and are polite while doing so). However, I had this dilemma of if making a separate blog just for Spwatchton and company or keep using this blog and make a few adjustments so that you can Ask questions to any of the characters of my AU (yes even to that White Addison called Velveeta 👀)

I think it would be more tidy if I keep everything in the same blog, because the moment I make more blogs for each one, my mind will break in the sparsecity of all of it (and I has the attention span of a low sodium can of Spam). I better centralize the Ask so that others don't need to run to the specific blog to speak to their favourite character, me thonks. (the DIRECTOR is also part of the cast and represents me as the author so if you have any questions for the DIRECTOR those questions will be addressed directly to me)

Just me mussing a little about increasing a lil bit the engagement in a more open manner 🤔Also this week we should know if we land a new job or not and if not... well, guess we'll be [[ROYALLY SCREWED]] until next week (because nobody hires on weekends) <slumps back in defeat>