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[anthias]

EDIT - hijacking my own thread. See third post.
EDIT - sorry I thought this was on wips. Can it be moved there please?

For those wondering what I've been up to

I have two tables underway. First, IGF, based on a story series I might publish one day, and second is a silly mod of Sorcerer (Williams, 1985) by JP, theme twisted into "Saucerer." Art and layout changes.

Art for Saucery was assisted with a new ai tool called Whisk, where you feed it multiple images as well as text prompts, an image for "subject", "style" and scene, using your original sketches to give it inspiration. I thought that sounded interesting and this was the result after a few hours in Photoshop tidying it up as AI is not real smart (still a lot to do though) as prompts I gave it my original sketch and text prompts for subject, a photo of a Sorcerer whiteboard for scene, I had to add into the text prompts "flat Playfield image, not full game" before I got anything decent, and some basic cartoonish pictures for style, as well as a detailed text prompts to say what I wanted done to the original sketch. AI still can't make a Playfield to save itself, but Whisk comes closer than anything else to date. It even made a few layouts in the artworks it gave that might be interesting to play with later.

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Edited by anthias, 13 August 2025 - 03:05 AM.

[anthias]

A bunch of changes and tidy ups to Saucerer art
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[anthias]

I don't know what happened but now I have sixteen WIPs on the go!

I think I've list my mind haha.

I'm not about to start all new threads so I'll stick little sneak peaks in here as they develop.

This one, Off Road Racers, will be out in a few days hopefully.  msg-9159-0-93518000-1755006629.png   1.85MB   6 downloads  msg-9159-0-22869300-1755006669.jpg   271.45KB   6 downloads

There's also:
Dogfight (with my 4yo Lijie) which has a thread here
Pink Wind Turbine (with Lijie)
Water Balloons (With Lijie)
Puppy Fun (For Lijie, mod of Pink Bubble Monsters))
Magenta Cars (With Lijie, mod of pink bubble monsters)
Boston (an old thread here somewhere)
Titans of Magellan (an old thread here somewhere)
Tinker Belles (a steampunk fairy table)
Hell Hound (a Cerberus mod)
Flying V (rebuild of vp6 table)
Reach The Green (rebuild of vp6 table)
Compact Touring (rebuild of vp6 table)
Tower Builder (rebuild of vp6 table)
The Mountaineer (new build inspired by a table I designed in 2000 or 2001)
Quick! Silver! - a rush to riches (Mod of Stern Quicksilver)

Additional:
Punchy The Cow

Edited by anthias, 24 August 2025 - 08:11 AM.

[anthias]

Photos if a couple of the others running on my cab:

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[anthias]

And some samples for you from the art for Tinker Belles:

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(This table is a LONG way off, no layout confirmed yet. Has a rich background story to be written into the rules. It's a novel I will write at some point. Thankfully I have less novels planned than I do pinball tables!)

Edited by anthias, 13 August 2025 - 02:22 AM.

[anthias]

A couple of backglass art candidates:  flyingvbg.jpg   207.96KB   5 downloads  hellhoundbg.jpg   330.43KB   5 downloads  mountaineerbg.jpg   186.23KB   5 downloads  water balloons bg.jpg   107.22KB   4 downloads

[digitalarts]

Hi, If you need a Beta Tester - i'm Here 😉

[anthias]

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Not a lot to do before this is released. Notice the layout change = raising the centre targets onto a platform to form a raised shooting gallery!

[UberAlvy]

Hey Anthias! the art on Saucerer turned out amazing! i'll surely take a look on Whisk myself hehe
Dogfight has a super unique layout, LOVE THAT! i'll keep a eye on your releases hehe

[anthias]

Well that quick silver mod is slightly delayed. I've given the layout a couple more changes, with a new vuk and ramp returning to the flipper lanes, and the lanes themselves altered to two inlanes and no out, since it was playing brutally. I've got the ramp scoring using existing rom calls, but the vuk is in need of further attention. The vuk is positioned at the end of the right channel below the R light. (Not in way of the channel) And the ramp loops right then down to the RHS lanes. The platform has shrunk a ball width to the right, improving shots to it and from the left flipper to the centre to right field shots.

[anthias]

Ramps on. Couple extra targets under the platform too  IMG20250822000810.jpg   286.94KB   5 downloads

[Noah Fentz]

Man! This is CLASSIC VP at its finest.

 

Also, moved to WIPs.

[anthias]

I'm a glutton fur punishment. Adding another wip. A character concept from Mr 4:

Punchy The Cow

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[anthias]

Punchy The Cow has had a few hours in Photoshop now. Still a lot to clean up.
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[jpsalas]

Punchy The Cow has had a few hours in Photoshop now. Still a lot to clean up.
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That reminded me of the movie Kung Pow

[anthias]

Punchy The Cow is all but done. Just holding on for a moment as it's the wee hours and my brain is goo.  IMG20250831002959.jpg   236.05KB   2 downloads

[anthias]

Moooove like a bovine, sting like a bee!

She's a bovine boxer of a grumpy disposition. She's udderly fed up and not taking anybody's bull. A grass fed Geronimo, a horned heroine, and she's going to milk this thing for all it's worth!

Punchy The Cow is coming soon.
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[anthias]

So Mr 4 discovered Batman. He then immediately asked that I help him make a batman pinball. I explained the existence of several, showed them and he rejected them all, saying no, he wanted toake HIS batman pinball. So I gave the my Boston wip layout, since I've now retired it as another Boston table was released. He's now made many changes. As with his other tables I've done the work at his direction.

So now we have Elijah's Batman Pinball. Stil in progress.

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[Fusionwerks]

Lol... did he say "I want batman to have muscles on top of muscles, with muscles on the side of them!"
I think it's awesome to take direction from a 4 y.o., you never know, someday he could be designing tables for real

[anthias]

I may be a little bit crazy. But another one is underway.

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