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There is a broad range of musical influences that make up the steampunk sound, from industrial dance and world music [80] to folk rock, dark cabaret to straightforward punk, [124] Carnatic [125] to industrial, hip-hop to opera (and even industrial hip-hop opera), [126] [127] darkwave to progressive rock, barbershop to big band.
A character generator, often abbreviated as CG, is a device or software that produces static or animated text (such as news crawls and credits rolls) for keying into a video stream. Modern character generators are computer-based, and they can generate graphics as well as text.
Brian Kesinger (born June 20, 1975) is an American illustrator, author and Emmy award winning animation artist who has worked at Walt Disney Studios for 20+ years. His works are steeped in Victorian steampunk art.
Character creation (also character generation / character design) is the process of defining a player character in a role-playing game. The result of character creation is a direct characterization that is recorded on a character sheet .
The term solarpunk was coined in 2008 in a blog post titled "From Steampunk to Solarpunk", [11] in which the anonymous author, taking the design of the MS Beluga Skysails (the world's first ship partially powered by a computer-controlled kite rig) as inspiration, conceptualizes a new speculative fiction subgenre with steampunk's focal point on specific technologies but guided by practicality ...
Steampunk author Sara M. Harvey made the distinction that decopunk is "shinier than dieselpunk;" more specifically, dieselpunk is "a gritty version of steampunk set in the 1920s–1950s" (i.e., the war eras), whereas decopunk "is the sleek, shiny very art deco version; same time period, but everything is chrome!" [39]
The action of the story follows Sybil Gerard, a political courtesan and daughter of an executed Luddite leader; Edward "Leviathan" Mallory, a paleontologist and explorer; and Laurence Oliphant, a historical figure who, as is portrayed in the book, was a travel writer whose work was a cover for espionage activities "undertaken in the service of Her Majesty". [2]
GURPS Steampunk 3: Soldiers and Scientists followed in February 2019. It focuses on steampunk characters, providing notes and creation templates for people from the setting. [42] [43] GURPS Steampunk Setting: The Broken Clockwork World is a short campaign setting about a steampunk based alternate reality crossing to our world, released in July ...