Once a radical dreamer, now a prince of zeal
Catlinman
From 2013 to 2020 I went by Catlinman online, or Cat to most people. The old version of this page introduced me as a radical dreaming humble fishstick and fiendlord, which still about covers it. I did a bit of everything with a computer: digital art, animation and 3D modelling, programming and game design, websites, and electronic music.
This site is what's left of that work. The cover art, animations and renders are in the gallery. The games, music visuals and communities I helped run are on the projects page, and the timeline further down puts it all in order. If you want to talk about any of it, the contact page has the ways to reach me.
Timeline
- Started Hivecom with Jokler and Trif, back when it was still called Hivemind
- First game jams: Colorblind for Ludum Dare 26 and Strikewatch for Ludum Dare 27
- Made the Indestructible Phoenix Team intro in Blender
- In the Dark for Ludum Dare 29, playable in the browser
- Co-founded the music label Tradrec
- Logo, intros and video editing for the band Visual Snow
- Released free After Effects audio visualization templates, which passed 100,000 views on YouTube
- Released Campdown
- Visuals for meganeko's boy irl girl url
- Took over Tradrec as owner and manager
- The PHP version of this site was up, with the gallery and projects pages this rebuild draws on
- Started working with Bossfight, beginning with their intro animation and the Elevatia visuals
- Built a custom visualization template for Sound Remedy
- Launched Mavulp with Jokler
- Made a lot of the cover art in the gallery
- The Heks EP for Bossfight, Subside with Ephixa on Monstercat, and visuals for nanobii and Chantaro
- Ran the Nekodrop server network, with Comrelay behind it
- Rebuilt this site in Python and Sanic
- Made a video for zYnthetic's Killing Floor 2 Krampus soundtrack, still my most viewed at 1.3 million views
- Animated the Endless Inside soundtrack for Jan Dolanský
- Animated the album video for meganeko's Nascens
- Animated the cover art for Falcon Funk and Bossfight's Comeback, which runs in the background of Monstercat's release
- Made the teaser animation for Bossfight's Work
- Released NekoRoX, my foobar2000 theme
- Animated the album video for meganeko's Eclipse
- Retired the Catlinman handle and moved on as zealsprince
People & Places
A lot of this happened with other people, in places we built together.
- Hivecom: the gaming community I started with Jokler and Trif in 2013, and still around today.
- Tradrec: the electronic music label I co-founded in 2014 and ran from 2015.
- Mavulp: the development collective Jokler and I ran, home to Hivecom and our other projects.
- Nekodrop: my own server network, which has since run its course.
Thanks to the artists I got to make things for: Bossfight, meganeko, nanobii, Chantaro, Jan Dolanský, Dex Arson, Sound Remedy, Noyire, Johann Regaya, Axis Defied and everyone else in the gallery. The quotes you can unlock on the front page were written by friends: Trif, Jan Dolanský, Chantaro, Kagedreng and Mixilaxi.
This Site Through the Years
2014 to today
catlinman.com went through a few lives before this one. The Wayback Machine still has most of them.
- Until 2016: a PHP site with sprite-based navigation and a colorbox gallery. Archived copy and source.
- From 2017: the Python and Sanic site this one is modelled on, with the particle background, the quotes and the location map. Archived copy and source.
- From 2023: a single README on GitHub Pages, with a note that the old design would be back once it was done.
- Today: this rebuild, which brings the 2017 design back as a static site. Source.
Setup & Tools
I spent a lot of time making my tools look and feel right, and most of it ended up on GitHub under the neko name.
- neko-config: configuration files, themes and workspaces for just about everything I used, from Atom, Sublime Text and Blender to a TeamSpeak skin and icon pack, terminal setups and server configs. The command line dotfiles have since moved to zealsprince/.dotfiles.
- NekoRoX: a foobar2000 theme forked from CaTRoX, with custom panels for synced lyrics, cover flow, Last.fm, Discord rich presence and YouTube playback. It's the most starred thing I made as Catlinman. These days I work on rox, a standalone player built to do everything NekoRoX did.
- Neko Atom UI and Neko Atom Syntax: a contrasted dark theme for Atom with a customizable accent color, and a subtle syntax theme matched to it.
- Neko Fox: a clean, focused Firefox theme that stays responsive for mouse and keyboard users alike, based on moamenk's minimal theme.
- Nekobeat: an osu! skin covering every game mode.
- Neko Style: neko flavored website themes for Stylish and other CSS replacers.
- Hivecom TeamSpeak: the Hivecom take on my personal TeamSpeak theme.
One of the questions I got asked most was what tools I use, so I kept a full list of my hardware and every program in my workflow. It's preserved exactly as it stood in 2017.