I felt like orientating the floppy disk this way better indicates insertion.
I also added some more subtle gradients to the floppy body and label.
I think if I had a Patreon maybe this is the sort of thing i'd offer , like the source files in Aseprite and PSD formats.
Here's the rotated 5.25" floppy.
I had the nagging feeling that the jacket was a bit too "flat" so I have this two-tone gradient. Applying a gradient over the entire thing was too noisy, but i think this is an okay compromise?
I have spent ages faffing around with this HD logo. Do you know how hard it is to make something fairly detailed look embossed at this resolution?
after drawing something in aseprite there is something to be said about rigging it up in Photoshop, it has a lot more powerful layer system
like a clipped solid color adjustment layer makes for e-z colored floppies
@gloriouscow asking because it's how i would do it, but is it not equally as easy to simply flood-fill the colour in aseprite, if you already have shading as overlays?
@mavica_again yeah but that requires more clicks , this lets you just wander around in the color picker realtime until you get exactly what you want
although you're cheating now and no longer indexed color...
@gloriouscow that's fair, i agree it's easier in photoshop!
but it's not that dissimilar in aseprite, if your colour layer is a single index
please don't take this as prescriptivism, i'm just curious about other people's workflows (and comparing them with my own)
right... i guess a better example might be how i can make the HD hole optional by applying the mask to this whole layer group
@gloriouscow goobering around is how i learnt my stuff!
@gloriouscow i genuinely mean it when i say my "oh, why've they done it that way" comes from a place of "is there something wrong with the way i'm doing it" or "i wonder if this will improve how i do things"
@mavica_again i'm not an expert in photoshop or at pixel art by any means i'm just some goober on fedi