gloriouscowgloriouscow@oldbytes.space
Aug 17, 2026, 6:10 PMLet's make a 5.25" pixel art floppy!
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- gloriouscowgloriouscow@oldbytes.spaceAug 17, 2026, 6:12 PM
The inner mylar disk or "cookie" (biscuit if you are from the UK) needs some depth.
So we're going to make a jacket shadow layer, set to Multiply.
- gloriouscowgloriouscow@oldbytes.spaceAug 17, 2026, 6:14 PM
My favorite feature of Aseprite is that the [ and ] keys walk up and down the perceptual brightness of your indexed palette. So it makes it super easy to boop in really nice shading effects.
- gloriouscowgloriouscow@oldbytes.spaceAug 17, 2026, 6:20 PM
now lets make a new layer to give the cookie a bit of a surface variation.
- gloriouscowgloriouscow@oldbytes.spaceAug 17, 2026, 6:28 PM
We're somewhat limited in grayscale tones, so stippling comes to the rescue
- gloriouscowgloriouscow@oldbytes.spaceAug 17, 2026, 6:30 PM
Time for our floppy jacket shading layer
this will use our overlay shading technique, so we can easily make the floppy different colors later if we want
- gloriouscowgloriouscow@oldbytes.spaceAug 17, 2026, 6:32 PM
shading the upper-left corner. Maybe need to dial this back a bit.
- gloriouscowgloriouscow@oldbytes.spaceAug 17, 2026, 6:39 PM
Putting bevels on a circle is easy - just trace the outline while using [] to slowly shift from dark to light as you go around
- gloriouscowgloriouscow@oldbytes.spaceAug 17, 2026, 6:44 PM
Here's our label. It looks a little flat, though. Let's give it some tasteful shading.
- gloriouscowgloriouscow@oldbytes.spaceAug 17, 2026, 6:49 PM
You might think something flat like a paper label doesn't need any shading, but adding some really makes it pop.
- gloriouscowgloriouscow@oldbytes.spaceAug 17, 2026, 6:54 PM
Et voila. One pixel-art floppy disk. Tres magnifique, non?
- gloriouscowgloriouscow@oldbytes.spaceAug 17, 2026, 6:58 PM
Here's the final thing. Still might tweak it a bit.
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- gloriouscowgloriouscow@oldbytes.spaceAug 17, 2026, 6:58 PM
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- gloriouscowgloriouscow@oldbytes.spaceAug 17, 2026, 6:59 PM
i think the left side edge highlight is a bit too bright.
Joe's Computer MuseumMuseumJoe@oldbytes.spaceAug 17, 2026, 7:12 PM@gloriouscow I think it may depend on the context of the background it's laid against. Human vision is weird.
- gloriouscowgloriouscow@oldbytes.spaceAug 17, 2026, 7:16 PM
@MuseumJoe It is indeed.
