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#upd8 spoilers

even though you can’t see the fucking things

no it’s okay.. i’m just someone who needs very precise instructions otherwise i get overwhelmed trying to work out what people want

is this what you meant? i made them transparent just in case;;

wasn’t exactly worth it seeing as it was on a plain background but here you go

last upd8 i made puella magi based meenah and aranea sprites using this and this and i thought some folks might maybe want the blanks?

mmhmm!

yeah sure!

and ah!! it sounds like a totally viable theory to me!! that could be a pretty interesting backfire on her plan

somebody asked for this rip but tumblr ate it?? uh anyway, here you go!

Have some 8/05/13 updort rips. I messed up on a few, though. :c Hopefully that won’t be too hard to fix if you want to.

alright, so the chances are that if you read my last tutorial, you get the general idea of how you can make a really shitty version of john’s planet, but you’re still wondering where the hell you’re supposed to go from there. alright, cool, you can make some place with earth-like geography and a shitload of clouds, but how are you supposed to make something awesome like, say, dave’s planet?

the short answer is more or less with the help of this tutorial, which is less of a tutorial and more of just me swearing and pretending I know things

the long answer is the rest of this tutorial

alright, I’m going to make a planet called the LAND OF CHILL AND CIRCUITRY, which is DEFINITELY a very original idea that I came up with on my own. 

alright, well, making an ice planet is pretty easy. basically just a really pale blue color with a gradient, I don’t need any textures for that. but then…….. what the hell about circuitry? how do I make that look good?

I mean, I know what circuit boards look like. they’re messy, with wires and conduits and transistors and ok I’ll admit I actually know jack shit about circuitry but this is what I got from a google image search so it’ll do.

I can’t really…… use this image as a texture, though. there’s no way that will ever look good, no matter how hard I try. I’ve got to try something different.

thankfully, on top of being incredibly attractive and having an amazing voice, I am also a genius, so I have a solution to my terrible problem.

first, I use the magic wand tool to eliminate most of the green shit and other unnecessary stuff. I have a black bg just so it’s easier to see what I’m doing.

next, I use the brightness tool and general buffoonery to mess around with the colors and details of the image. the most noticeable change is that now, everything is white.

next, with interpolation off, I scale down the size of my silicon clusterfuck, making some small modifications with the binary tool to help it looks more circuit-y.

then, I use the paint bucket to fill in the area around my ice planet black. I use the magic wand tool to cut this area and paste it on a layer above the planet.

after that, I make a new layer between the planet layer and the black area layer, which I’ll use to place my circuit pattern.

well, I plastered down the pattern a whole bunch of times, but it still doesn’t look….. good? all the depth that the planet had before has been lost, and there are too many ugly little diagonal lines sticking out!

to solve this problem, I turn off anti aliasing and go around with a small eraser, fixing details and leaving a spot in the center for something special. I even add a cool glow effect to the circuits by duplicating the layer and blurring it slightly. looks even cooler in hi res!

………. but the planet still totally looks like a flat disc. what the hell do I do now?

first, I hide all layers except for the circuit pattern layer. I then use ctrl/cmd+a to select everything, and use the select by color tool to select all of the circuits and make a pretty radial gradient going from white to a mid grey.

it looks like this.

After a few minutes of fixing gradients and redoing the glow effect, I merge the black area with the circuit and glow layers and then delete it, leaving me with this nice, neat planet.

and now I do the other stuff!

obviously, unlike LOHAC, there aren’t any huge, towering structures on this planet. circuits stay pretty much entirely on the ground, but having a planet with a flat edge just doesn’t really look that great. hey, radio towers look pretty cool, and fit with my digital theme! how about I put some of those down?

after a brief google search, I find a pretty nice, simple picture of a radio tower that’ll be easy to rip from the image, since it’s all one color.

bam, ripped. awesome.

alright, so I’ve thrown down some towers. looking good, but I don’t think it’s quite enough.

how about some power lines?

this looks pretty good!

ripped.

oh, cool! I like the look of it!

And now, a finishing touch…

rhythm plateau! 

well, this looks like another successful cheap knockoff to me. I hope some of the techniques I used here helped you to be fucking awesome and do cool things!