Marco Bucci
I make art vids: www.youtube.com/marcobucci
- Here’s a little sequence from my pinball machine, where you can bother Grimey by going around Sector 7G.
- Between the arcade cab and the pinball machine, I have unintentionally built myself a Simpsons shrine
- My pinball machine is in its natural habitat today. An arcade!
- Me and my finished homemade pinball machine will be at 8-BIT BEANS arcade all day this Sunday! Come out and play if you’re local to Durham Region (Ontario, Canada)!
- @chaddundas.bsky.social Thanks for the shout out about the pinball machine! Games shall be free for your son, to honor his achievement of beating the Simpsons arcade! (Assuming we ever cross paths IRL. There is an arcade & pinball show in Tacoma, WA that I want to drive my machine to one year.)
- Here’s a flythru of the now-completed pinball machine. Almost 2 years to the day since I started the project!
- First game honors of the now-fully-built pinball machine of course goes to my son
- And the playfield is finally reassembled. Now to get someone to come over and help me lift it back into the cabinet.
- Scrubbing this playfield until it shines
- Reposted by Marco BucciEdges practices from the one and only @marcobucci.bsky.social. Environments are not really my thing, but I tried to focus on what the lesson was about: the use of sharp and diffuse edges on a piece of art to lead the attention of the viewer. Marco's channel: youtube.com/@marcobucci
- @cpi.pinball.horse out of curiosity, did you ever play Pinball Fantasies (DOS game, 1994)?
- The clearcoat is finally cured, and most of the playfield is reassembled. Tomorrow is polishing and waxing, then the two wireforms can go back on… then I think it’s DONE-done! #pinball
- It’s coming back together!
- Reposted by Marco BucciSome more value practices. This time, I followed @marcobucci.bsky.social's lesson and then made a male version of my own. Incredible artist and teacher, in case you didn't know him: www.youtube.com/@marcobucci
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- 3 coats of a polycrylic seal, then 3 coats of automotive 2K clear, and things are smooth and shiny.
- Holy crap the playfield art is on!
- My process for lining up the digital art to the physical playfield of my homemade #pinball machine. This is just a cheap, large-format print, where I’ve manually cut out all the lights. Took me six drafts…but things finally all line up! Final print next 😬
- I am on the FINAL PHYSICAL STEP of my pinball machine build. Here’s a little update.
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- Got a test print done of my pinball playfield art. Need to ensure all the lighting inserts line up, sign off on the look, and then can move onto the production vinyl print
- Ratcheting mechanisms: among my favourite things in this world.
- Reposted by Marco BucciWe're learning about color theory with @marcobucci.bsky.social in our newest video! 🔗 youtu.be/vdvOGfWYxqk #digitalart #howtopaint
- A pan around my studio, where I work every day. Hard to get things done in here for some reason.
- Got to sketch this cat as a quick demo for a mentorship session yesterday
- I kinda love how we’re like, “Yeah, here’s the electric chair for bugs, and you can buy it for $9.99.”
- The circuitry in these things is deviously cool. Good fodder for a @techconnectify.bsky.social video, maybe? Would watch!
- A little tour around the playfield of my homebrew pinball machine. I am *almost* ready to put playfield art on it and call it finished!
- Behold, the almighty chicken
- The homebrew pinball machine, all glittery at night
- Fun fact about this piece: the running figure in front of the bright door is Agent Smith from The Matrix (I traced his silhouette.)
- Homemade pinball machine now has a hidden video-mode where you get to play as Dredrick Tatum!
- Teaching my 3-year-old son common hardware terms. Me: What’s this? Son: A bolt! Me: Good! What’s this? Son: A nut! Me: Right! What’s this? Son: A shower!
