User blog comment:Squirrel719/Mapping Improvment comic/@comment-25802715-20160320195018/@comment-25802715-20160325213459

Copy and paste? I can't copy or paste or I get screwed by copyright. Unless it is public domain, I still use my mapperdonian gun designs from Mapperball animations. Also I don't use gradient (i.e using my USABall). Whoever was there on my livestream during production of Mapperballs saw how I make shadows. And let me stop you right there, it wasn't motherf*cking gradient. Gradient is actually uglier than my USA.

There are many ways to create that effect (Have you see school textbooks? They have a lot of that and it is not a straight line). The only reason why you may think it is gradient because the USA concidentally looks almost like a circle. But if you take your time and experiment on some pixels, there are lots of replication. So what if I drew all the straight lines on a circle, does that make it a circle tool? Because a circle is a bunch of straight lines.