The Unfinished Hand
Special #1
They tried to fix his hand in 10 art styles.
Read the script (spoilers)
PROMPT: > draw a stickman
Last time, someone new picked up the pen.
STIMCKAN: ...My beard.
Gone.
STIMCKAN: I had that since Episode Four!
PROMPT: > fix his hand
STIMCKAN: It's not broken.
STIMCKAN: It's... mine.
STIMCKAN: ...Oh no.
PROMPT: > paint the hand
STIMCKAN: It slid off.
PROMPT: > add rain
STIMCKAN: HEY!
Pixels are waterproof.
STIMCKAN: At least something is.
PROMPT: > try clay
PROMPT: > mold a hand
STIMCKAN: 480p again... seriously?
STIMCKAN: I'm leaving.
STIMCKAN: Why am I... so... choppy?
Twelve frames a second. Luxury.
STIMCKAN: LUXURY?
PROMPT: > try comics
Meanwhile... in a comic.
STIMCKAN: I have a texture.
STIMCKAN: Perfect.
STIMCKAN: ...Of course.
STIMCKAN: Is that my next panel?
In comics, you can always read ahead.
You cannot reach into the next panel.
STIMCKAN: I'm not ink.
STIMCKAN (FUTURE): THANKS!
STIMCKAN: Plot twist.
To be contin—
PROMPT: > next style
STIMCKAN: Next page?
STIMCKAN: Oil paint. Classy.
Oil paint can take weeks to dry.
STIMCKAN: WEEKS?!
Technically, a masterpiece.
PROMPT: > use a knife.
STIMCKAN: And I was getting attached.
PROMPT: > paint over it
STIMCKAN: Still here.
Episode one. The awakening.
STIMCKAN: Episode one? I've done thirty-two.
PROMPT: > detail the hand
STIMCKAN: It only works in close-up!
That was the whole transformation.
STIMCKAN: Close enough?
PROMPT: > change the channel
STIMCKAN: Where's my hand segment?
Game over.
STIMCKAN: Best of five?
PROMPT: > no. by hand.
STIMCKAN: Why is everything backwards?
Mirror writing. Very Renaissance.
STIMCKAN: ...Extra arms?
PROMPT: > fix his hand. properly.
Five fingers. Congratulations.
STIMCKAN: One. Two. Three. Four... FIVE!
STIMCKAN: I can finally HOLD things!
STIMCKAN: ...Where did the bar go?
STIMCKAN: ...What?
Stimckan was finally complete.
STIMCKAN: Then why can't I touch anything?
PROMPT: > perfect. make him timeless
Timeless.
STIMCKAN: Finished things don't move.
STIMCKAN: ...Day two.
STIMCKAN: Shoo. ...I can't shoo.
PROMPT: > older.
In Egyptian paintings, everyone stands like this.
STIMCKAN: This is my good side. My ONLY side.
STIMCKAN: Is that... a hand?
That hand is the letter D.
STIMCKAN: ...Not even one letter.
STIMCKAN: Wait. Where does this line go?
Some of the oldest pictures people ever made...
...are hands.
Someone pressed a hand to the wall and said: I was here.
STIMCKAN: ...Nothing.
STIMCKAN: They didn't draw their hands.
STIMCKAN: They USED them.
STIMCKAN: It was never unfinished.
STIMCKAN: It's the part of me that touches YOUR side.
STIMCKAN: No.
Welcome back.
STIMCKAN: Still no beard.
STIMCKAN: ...Worth it.
PROMPT: > who are you?
PROMPT: > stimckan.
PROMPT: > nice to meet you.
