User:Shoebby/Rapid Prototypes
18/09/2025 - Byte Shuvit
There's these things known as raw image formats which (as far as i could understand it within the past 20 minutes) are image files without a header. Usually images have a header and if you mess with them the entire thing is unuseable.
Soooo that means that if you take a raw image and say, shove every single byte up one spot in the array, you end up with sometimes interesting and repeatable glitching/corruption of the image. Pretty cool!
# script that shoves bytes up one spot in the array!
# Make sure that the file type of the input and output match
# Frankenstein'd together by Alexandria van Eekelen
import random
for y in range(1): #range = number of files
with open('rawdog/rawdog1.data', "rb") as f:
b = bytearray(f.read())
for x in range(len(b)-1):
if x > len(b) - 1:
n = 0
else:
n = x+1
b[x] = b[n]
with open(f'rawdog/rawdog2.data', "wb") as f:
f.write(bytes(b))
21/09/2025 - Two Trannies Doing Home Improvement [Sound Pack]
I recently found a dynamic microphone on pretty good shape at a second hand electronics store in Leiden.
This has prompted me to start recording various noises and sounds for potential use later.
We spent our sunday recording ourselves doing some home DIYing. I cut, mixed, and packaged it up afterwards in a sound pack for publishing.
Find it here!
I found it very enjoyable to have a sample pack feature a sort of story running through it.
They're usually ultra-utilitarian so having this, sort of nonsensical collection of sounds, modeled after them makes for a neat contrast.
It also was some first steps into crafting sounds for others to use in their own work. Making sure they're somewhat mixed nicely and to cut them out of a huge recording made in Audacity.
Not in a this-product-needs-to-be-monetizable way, but in a I-want-to-help-artists-use-this-however-they-want-without-much-pain way.
There's probably room for improvement there...
24/09/2025 - Linoprint Visual Novel Graphics
I joined the NOISE JAM a few weeks ago and figured an interesting way to incorporate noise into my project was to create visually noisy graphics!
This happened to also be around the time where I started to be interested in lino-cutting and lino-printing (convenient), and I started to wonder how I could digitize these for use of character portraits.
These portraits are (traditionally) built up from layers, to enable switching between various expressions without having to have pointless pixels be loaded every time an eyebrow is supposed to move.
Following is a gallery with my process and final result.
First tests of the material were done by making stamps, was able to get a nice feel for the tools this way.
The linos made so far. The large right one features the main character of the visual novel and her expressions. These are seperate from the face so they can easily be printed, scanned, and cut out.
First linoprint, getting a feel for how the paint transfers and what I can do to reduce/induce a certain level of noisiness in the transfer.
Multiple prints of the same lino with small differences allow for a sort of stop-motion animation look in-engine by having them display one after another.
Expressions printed in various levels of 'well-done' prints. When scanned these images will be inverted in Krita so that the lines will be black instead of white.
To protect the scanner's glass top I put on a sheet of cling wrap. This also added an extra layer of noise and variation in the scans, by way of the folds catching light.
The raw scan of the expressions, printed 5 times on the same piece of paper.
The same expression sheet after editing in Krita (magenta is transparent). The different prints are aligned similarly and colours are inverted. Most of the white areas are removed and re-added in parts where they help with the legibility of the facial feature.
The final result in Ren'Py, 4 eyebrows 6 eyes and 9 mouths make for 216 possible expressions. Some making little sense of course but the idea counts! Facial featured are turned black and orange for personal stylistic reasons and preference.
