Environment Art Director at Psyonix (part of Epic Games) - we make Rocket League. Tolkien collector.
If I say stupid stuff it's my fault, not my employer's.
Today marks 15 years for me at
@PsyonixStudios
. From a humble studio beginning to one of the biggest eSports in the world, it has been a wild journey. I get to work with amazing people every day on a game we love and I wouldn't change a thing! 💙⚽🧡
I recently received one of the highlights of my
#TolkienCollection
- a copy of The Hobbit completely written in Tengwar (the written language of the Elves). It is one of 100 copies made by Elmenel (), also owned by
@AlanLee11225760
and Christopher Tolkien
It's been amazing to watch this fine gentleman go from being one of our best SSARPBC players to now casting for
#RLCS
over the course of 10+ years.
Thanks for supporting us for so long
@EmileCole93
! You're doing amazing at that desk! 💜
I made this topper probably a year ago and have been patiently waiting for it to come out. I consider it the crowning jewel of the items I've made.
Does it squirt milk? No, no it does not.
Does it flop around in response to your car? YES. YES IT DOES.
@EmileCole93
"... we were friends with people at Psyonix as well. We spoke to them, and they loved what we were doing. They thought the crowd was incredible."
There's a reason why it's immortalized on Forbidden Temple. ❤
So this was the first trailer I got to help out with, thanks to the great art direction of
@MonteOnTheRun
and
@Ethan_Snell
. I did the modeling while Ethan did the polish of everything else.
Much love to
@machin3io
and
@mxeon1001
for their
#b3d
addons that I used! <3
LET'S GO!
The RLCS is returning for its ninth season and it'll all kick off next weekend. Check out the article below to get caught up on everything you need to know about the biggest RLCS season yet!
📰:
I write this every season but it's still relevant:
Players competing in
#RLCSWC
, remember that win or lose you're still one of the best in the world. Enjoy the experience, the friends, and just have fun!
Best of luck to everyone!
@theSWANKYkid
@JoseConseco3
@ZappForThat
This is a common way of making clothing in 3d now. You make it out of panels almost as if you were making it in real life and then the program stitches them together. The body is used as a collider so the fabric drapes over it naturally.
Rocket Racing is not all we've been working on - has some QoL updates to RL maps that players always complained about.
I'm sorry to everyone that is upset about things. If for some reason you hate me personally feel free to unfollow, it's ok.
I've always wanted to make one of these!! 😃
This is more of a refinement of my "Lead Artist" title but given that my favorite thing to do is work on environments I'm incredibly honored to make it official and to focus my work on RL maps.
@jwaaaap
Every Rocket League map has tons of them. The longest running joke though is the moai head that is in every single map somewhere.
My favorite though was when a billboard ad was made for me in dedication to my love of LOTR.
I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by
@khtrammell
for
@cgcookie
, along with my partner-in-crime (and Blender expert)
@Ethan_Snell
. We talk about our use of Blender in development of RL.
@DigitalTrends
@elonmusk
@Tesla
What? They didn't release it. Releasing it would mean the public is getting that feature in the over the air updates now, which is completely untrue. They demonstrated it. Big difference.
Stop being so clickbaity.
Every
#RLCSWS
, seeing our amazing fans and players come together and support each other, even as competitors, reminds me of why we work hard to try to make
@RocketLeague
as good as possible. Our community is simply the best. ❤️ Thank you all.
True story - I actually made all of these cars (except for Pepe). I had no concepts to work from, just the task of "make a variety". I think that the people that worked on the updated versions for RL sure made them look amazing!
I'm really happy to finally be able to give something new to the Hoops community, and my friends at
@RankedHoops
!
@damBeckwith
and
@BenBeckwith
and I worked hard to get this one out so I hope everyone loves it as much as we do.
The Block is now open! Jump into Rocket League and enjoy The Block Party LTE.
The Block Party includes:
🏆 Challenge Rewards
🏟️ The Block Arena
🏀 Hoops Mode
Learn More:
This map was a ton of fun to work on! We got to work a lot with
@MikeAultMusic
and his team (since they're the audio experts here) and I always find inter-department collabs a lot of fun.
And as a synthwave lover the theme we went for appealed to me greatly 😍.
🔊 GET READY TO TURN UP 🔊
Season 2 drops 12/9 and is bringing a new Rocket Pass, Arena, Player Anthems, features, and its very own headliner:
@Kaskade
!
Full announcement: ➡️
First thing I'm looking forward to doing when I get back to work is the same thing I do after every
#RLCS
- add player names to a banner in Champion's Field.
Congrats
@Cloud9
! I look forward to adding
@SquishyMuffinz
@Torment
@Gimmickrl
!
To the tune of "booooooooooooooooooooo":
"Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"
(do this for however long it takes you to walk out of the arena and not come back)
@Raynat9
@BarackObama
The vaccine drastically reduces the chances you will get COVID, it does not eliminate it.
People who are vaccinated and do still get COVID often are either asymptomatic or they have such mild symptoms that they don't need hospitalization.
@PabloVazquez_
@intel
@BoxxTech
Now THAT is a nice thing to do! Good on you Boxx! Few people are more deserving of being given such a nice gift than this man that has given so much to the community.
My role in this was incredibly minor compared to the amazing amount of work that
@scheist_
put into this, but as someone that got to watch this be built it is awesome.
@404FNC
and
@FiveWalnut
did a great job - go check it out!
Introducing Rocket League Live! A brand-new way to watch
@RLEsports
inside of Fortnite 🏟️⚽🏎️
Drop in to the legendary Champions Field built by
@404FNC
and
@FiveWalnut
to watch the
#RLCS
Winter Major from March 23 - March 27.
Come work with us! Unless you are rude or mean, in which case we're not hiring. But if you're cool and would love to work somewhere with a fun art team please apply! Don't be afraid - at least half of the team came here out of college (long ago), so being industry-new is ok!
New art positions just posted up at Psyonix and the Rocket League team, including Generalist, Character, UI, and FX roles! We're indie, makes games we like to play, and we don't crunch! RTs and shares appreciated 😄
#gamedev
#gamedevjobs
There are few things more humbling than when a fellow artist is inspired by your work enough to make their own masterpieces.
This Octane/Neo-Tokyo image from Toasty is so amazing and I can't stop looking at it, especially as someone that loves the style of Blade Runner.
@RocketLeague
Made a stormy version of Neo Tokyo this time using the green screen and scene depth as well as some compositing done in after effects. Really fun to play around with these new tools.
It took 3+ months of watching stock trackers in order to get all of these parts at MSRP but I finally did it. Now to put them all together and then spend all night figuring out why it won't turn on. 🤪
Can I just say how insanely proud I am of our eSports team that put this new format together? This was amazing!
And thanks to everyone who cast, watched, played in, and was involved in the production of this! RLCS gets better every year. ❤️
This is a journey that I've been traveling now for 12 years. Thank you to everyone who has helped make all of these years so special, especially the last 4 as our RL family has grown. ❤❤❤
Rocket League is officially 4 years old. From all of us at
@PsyonixStudios
, THANK YOU to all of our devoted players, wonderful community, and to everyone who has made Rocket League what it is today. 🎉🎉🎉
@idSoftware
@PsyonixStudios
DOOM and editing wad files was my first experience with game development, and now I work on Rocket League. Oh how wonderfully the world has come full circle. ❤️
Today is my birthday!
For my birthday I'd like a bunch of people to win thousands of dollars, play a game they love, and have fun doing so.
Let's make that happen!
It was an absolute honor, and one of the highlights of my career, to have been asked to do this interview. I have nothing but love for the
@Allegorithmic
crew and it was great to talk about how we make RL come to life with their help.
(RT since the first was deleted)
I am super excited about this map!
@NimbusHypeTrain
and I led up the look of this one and I think the team did a fantastic job together! I really hope everyone loves it and all of the items we made.
Special thx to
@SubParButInHD
for the unknowing easter egg help😉
@apocalynds
@xavierck3d
I'm glad I read that whole tweet word for word because "BleaChugz420" is the best invented word I've read all day. Thanks for that.
2D/3D artists:
Please remember that it's totally fine to have "dead space" in your art. Not everything has to have intricate details taking up every inch of space. Give the eye somewhere to rest so it can travel to the next well-placed-and-purposeful details.
@AnneWalker1608
@theoneringnet
As a counter: I was listening to a LOTR podcast once and the narrator read "Song of Eärendil" in a rhythm that was so beautiful it was the first time I really enjoyed hearing one of the poems/songs. Really made me realize how important the tune or rhythm is to appreciating them.
@AndrewHodgson3D
@RafaelMoco
I can't use Blender without this add-on. It cleans up the modifier list display, but as a side feature it has lots of improvements to lattices. Check the first part for the section called "Improved UI/UX for Lattice modifier".
Sorry for posting a few of these, I'm just really happy with how this map turned out. :) Adam and I had this as a late-night brainchild and to get the support to make it was lots of fun.
You're totally invited to the biggest '80s-themed summer bash Rocket League has ever thrown. Welcome to
#RadicalSummer
, our latest in-game event! Hit the link to watch the trailer:
We've been honored with nominations for both Esports Publisher of the Year and Esports Game of the Year in this year's
@esportsawards
!
Go vote (for us) now 🗳️:
Spent two days attempting to solve a technical issue at work. Tried everything I knew, nothing worked.
Figured I would take a stab at learning
@machin3io
's MESHmachine. After a small learning curve I got it all fixed.
Learning something new to fix a problem is great.
My best friend has always known that I work on Rocket League but he had never played it before. He's not a big gamer. His 13 year old got a Switch for her birthday so he tried the game.
A month later he's asking me about our eSports.
We still got it, baby. 😎
I wish we could all start integrating greetings or praises based off Nordic/Greek/fantasy/other cultures in our daily speech. They just sound so much more meaningful.
"A star shines on the hour of our meeting!"
is way better than
"Hey, what's up?"
We have something exciting for you guys. We are proud to announce our 7th Community Cup 'RLICC
#7
'. The cup is open to Indians only. Visit: or join our Discord: for more info.
#RocketLeague
#RLICC7