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Principal 3D artist at Phoenix Labs. Former 3D Senior Artist II at Blizzard Entertainment. Makes pxl art for fun.
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This trick should be shared for stylized art imo. A lot of people struggle with this kind of detail. This method is clean and fast and most importantly you have control over it, can fade parts with morph target etc. It's basically inner glow from photoshop
#zbrush
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some experiments I'm doing on my sprites to get real time shadows. very very promising.
#pixelart
#gamedevelopment
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Speaking of bent planes, here's an other easy tip. "spherize your rocks". Most people just planar cut every face, giving it a very chiseled/mechanical feel. A simple trick for more wonkiness/playfulness and to make the faces read better with lighting is to add a spherize deformer
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15min Pumpkin, inspired by the zbrush summit sculpt of challenge. Pumpkins are always fun to sculpt 🎃
#zbrush
#sculptober
#sculptober2023
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Blizzard recruiter using shitty AI to illustrate job offers for their survival game, including artist jobs, is like an insult to all the art made on this game, even some that has shipped and could've been used instead. I feel bad for all my artist friends over there. Huge L take
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Came back from portugal. Here's all the kitchen converted for dynamic lighting and some living room props. Trying to create a vertical slice of my interior test, to answer a bunch of questions.
#screenshotsaturday
#unity
#gamedev
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Lighting is the most powerful tool in games, before models and texture. Terrible art with great lighting will always look better than great art with terrible lighting. People sometimes really underestimate how much of an impact light makes on your game, especially in Indy games.
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"bent-plane" is something I introduced back on heroes because I was never quite happy with spheres & planes to showcase tillable work. Imo it's a great balance! It's less abstract than a sphere (more camera context) and not as flat as a plane, showing more volume and roughness.
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If you love stylized rocks like I do, you're probably gonna love the Sleeping Giant Provincial Park cliff. look at these readable shapes! 😍
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an other quick tip, how to make clean edge damage. Hope that’s useful for some ppl who struggle with that.
dam standard or any brush to create the initial dip > smooth to control where my planar will hit > planar cut to..cut > planar with alt to clean up > smooth sharpen edges
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@leslievdb
yeah, edge definition is one of the most important thing for readability, I remember doing something similar for heroes,
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Cthulhu shrine. Probably not a good idea to make an offering. Just an example of what you can do if you want to make concept arts to convey an idea without spending too much time on it. You can use a BPR render and just have fun adding brush strokes on top.
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A big chapter of my life is closing. The Blizzard chapter.
After 10 years working there I decided to open my horizon and seek new opportunities in my life. Blizzard was always a big dream of mine, the biggest probably.
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facebook giving me this me 5 year old picture for portfolio day, perfect, cuz I barely have anything new on on my page haha. NDA 4ever
#PortfolioDay
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Advertise your account with one image : probably my raven from 2014🐦⬛
I could probably find a few different images, but(t) let's be real.🎯🍑
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working on a pixel art game with a friend, we're figuring out a lot of the tech for now. dynamic shadows and normal maps working great already
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Probably my most frustrating issue when I sculpt is the "edge bending" problem. You draw a line and when your line gets close to an edge, the line just bends on it, making it really hard to just have clean lines flowing all along, anybody knows a way to fix this?
#AskZBrush
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using stop motion and 3D printing for animation "frames"
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2015 cliff I made for heroes, i’ll also post the process on instagram later.
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Apparently It's
#PortfolioDay
?
Well I'm a 3d senior environment artist at blizzard and here's 4 things I loved making <3
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Created these 11 years ago for Titan and I'm happy to still spot 'em every year at Overwatch's Halloween events. For the backstory I made them on my free time and got them in the game in secret. I remember Jeff Kaplan loving them and showing me apreciation for the idea 🩷
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I usually just sculpt that stuff but recently experimenting with ways to create bevels from masks selections, so far no "one push button". This is a mask>polished polygroup>ctrl+shift extrude (for polygroup thickness) and then orb pinch (no bump) and alt moves. Not ideal but ok
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@guylygon
for rest areas, personally I use the 70-30% rule most of the time. The idea is that 30% percent is filled with the main focus and details, and the remaining 70 percent is rest area, meaning surfaces with very low to none eye catching detail. Details are thoughtfully placed.
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QRT render clay?
I pretty much only use this matcap from my gumroad to sculp and render all my art. I just like how simple and clean it is, how it highlights cavities and edges just the right amount for my taste, to highlight the sculpt but also it's imperfections as I sculpt.
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hey
@ArtStationHQ
how about doing something about the AI spam on your shop, it's unusable. Give us a way to uncheck it at least. This is getting ridiculous. Real work is getting buried on a sea of generated garbage.
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They say things come in threes, so even more pumpkins! those are a bit less old, 2015 (lol), made for heroes of the storm. They were inspired by a concept from the headless horseman from Lauren Austin I believe
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saw a meme about environment artists finding a way to make characters but in statue form. I sure did a lot of statues 😅
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Years ago, I created a concept and model for a tutorial. I even recorded a good portion of it, I was just missing the rocks. But I got lazy and thought it didn't look as good as I wanted so I abandoned it.
Hey artist! Show that unfinished piece of art you did some time ago.
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need some quick dirt for a pot? or want to make dirt tiles quickly? It's the kind of abstract texture that feels tricky sometimes in zb but I think this process makes it really easy. I tried to stay simple on the steps but obviously you can play with scale and amount of detail
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Thrilled to announce that I’ll be contracting with Theorycraft as a Principal Prop Artist! Excited to create some amazing art with the team. Can’t wait to get started!
Say hello to SUPERVIVE, a neon-apocalyptic hero battle royale
Watch now and sign up in the 🧵👇
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I still don't understand this, it's the most annoying thing ever. Can we revert back to just having the info on the center and remove this annoying smart rescale? Like.....just revert this crap
@artstation
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There's no right way to sculpt stylized, there's just different "right ways". You can have different looks from game to game. There is, however clearly right principles to know (edge thickness, rest areas, implied details etc) Ignoring all of them could lead to the "wrong way".
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wow, found this old drawing from early throne design! 😅
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Once everybody is vaccinated, hopefully everything will go back to normal
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An entire library of base meshes to be used for anything, prototyping, concept art, early sculpt, low poly games, all free. It's early but If this gets updated often, I could see this becoming pretty big, like "megascan" big for low poly meshes. Nice!
Say hi to 2.0! 👋
New functionality, improvements and a fresh look!
- 3D viewer for all assets
- .GLB file format added
- Displayed Tri-Count
- New Filter Categories
- Sort by Newest
- Numerous model fixes
- & More!
100% free. CC0.
Happy Creating!🥰
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It's really cool to see the same bathroom I had in 2D, fully converted in 3D (below), with dynamic lights, ssao etc, everything feels so much more grounded and softer. My friend's working on a 16 angle aim for the character while I'm gonna port the whole 2D apartment I had, in 3D
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I know you like those lol. An other "I'm lazy to paint normal maps so I'll just sculpt it😆", never thought zbrush see-through option would be so useful.
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Today marks my one-year anniversary as a Principal Artist/Lead at Phoenix Labs. I am extremely pleased with the team I am a part of and I have never felt more fulfilled in my career. I'm very grateful for the opportunity I was given.
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Honestly odyssey was like my biggest hope for blizzard. Talented team, a great idea, the game was still legitimately fun when I left. But it looks like bad decisions after bad decisions spiraled it down. What a waste of talent. I hope my friends at blizz can find a place asap.
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If you're an artist on twitter, look into Brandolini's Law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle. It states that it takes 10x more energy to correct nonsense than to produce it. Don't waste your energy, prioritize creativity over controversy.
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we all know blender guys. And they are right, blender’s awesome lol
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I’m officially one of these weirdos with a vertical mouse
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Well some people asked for a video explaining freeze subdivision levels, enjoy my shitty accent.
I tried to keep it under 15min. I cut all the process times.
#pixologic
#zbrush
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Wanted to share a friend's project who's working on his own metroid vania game. So much work done, really digging the dissolve death tech 😎
#gamedev
#unity
Just finished adding bones and organs to all the organic enemies in Badru's Labyrinth. Really want to add a satisfying dissolve to the death animation. Hoping the death animations feel like small visual rewards and incentive to fight more enemies.
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hey I worked on this thing :p. Super excited blizzard finally announced it, It's a great project and team.
We’re building a survival game in an all-new universe.
Join us in writing our next chapter:
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dynamesh versus zremesh: FIGHT
explanation on this post (too many words for twitter lol)
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I finished all the normals and did a lighting pass for my side project. Can't use sorting layers on my lights cuz it breaks the sprite sorting. So for now the lights affects other rooms or go above the hero etc. Hope you like it
#indiedev
#gamedev
#pixelart
#gamedevelopment
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@themarkehlen
found it, it's the Stabilize orientation slider in the brush menu, when I put this to 100 it seems to fix all these issues. You did it indeed!
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going back to my love for pixel art. Always wanted to see how handmade pixel art normal maps would look like lol.
#screenshotsaturday
#pixelart
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I love that I can put lights literally inside the sprite, and that my normal map is picking up the light on the two little knobs at the top
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I made a set of blocky brushes for my texturing. I really want a "knife brush" texturing style across everything. Mostly details of 2 pixels wide and very large blocks of color variation. Made this ambulance to test them, hopefully I can use the cross of life in pixel art lol
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We might not like what asmongold is saying because we're artists and we have pride in our craft but the fact remains that within the context of a game as a product, he's a 100% right. Most player just don't care about these things, palworld sales number are a direct proof of that
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My team is recruiting, a LOT. All I can say is that it’s an unannounced PC/ console project with the best people at blizz obviously :D. Send me a DM if you’re interested and I can send you the appropriate links to apply ✌️
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testing the irokaru filter. Not gonna lie, looks quite cool! I'd love to have that effect as an option in real time like those old emulators
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Not sure what palworld says about the game industry. That people don't give a shit about stolen assets (stealing pokemon base meshes and IP/AD) as long as the end product is fun. Or if pokemon has been so lazy for years that they needed a wake up call. Maybe both.
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not gonna lie the new path of exile trailer really hurts my eyes. There's no concept of rest areas or player readability which makes it really hard to read what's going on or know where the character is. The rest areas I see are out of bounds, it's like it's reversed lol
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I posted a supply depot I made for heroes (starcraft map) on my instagram, also with textures and animations here ( ). It’s not something I posted on artstation cuz idk..I forgot I guess, and now it’s a bit old.
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I'll be joining Phoenix labs very soon as a principal artist on an incubation game. I'm really excited to work on this new project, with a new role , in a new company. A lot of new for me, which is exciting. Wish me luck 😉
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Kim Jung Gi worked in mysterious ways. It's like art was drawing itself in front of him. Composition, perspective, story, characters, just...appearing in front of us. Truly a big inspiration and one of the few we can call masters of their craft. Take care of yourselves, artists.
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Lua as the new lich queen? Just an idea...
(I'm holding the helmet from the top ^^)
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for people wondering, it's 3D. Basically using my sprite as a texture in camera mapping on a mesh with custom normals pointing at the camera. It's a complete hack and only works if I keep my camera iso but it works. Just needs some polish on shadows and 3d silhouette.
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the irony too...it would've take 3 extra seconds to use amazing art made by the team! there just can't be a good reason to do this, apart from being completely out of the loop regarding AI issues. It also completely misleads people about the look of the game.
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damn!
A early RT stylized shader and workflow test.Howls Moving Castle has my favorite painterly style, even unique within Ghibli films
#UnrealEngine
#UE5
#gamedevelopment
#indiedev
#shader
#gameart
#gamedev
#techart
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this is probably the closest thing to what i use to do in zbrush in terms of stylizing shapes with bevels, it’s the right concept: weathering the edges based on corners. Imo if you’re trying to do stylized shapes easily, it’s a no brain.
I released a new node! It helps create smooth corners and sculpt edges for your cell shapes.
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Aww thanks! For my art train I'll invite
@AllardJulien
@NickDCarver
and
@Phandy_Porter
! These guys are inspiring artists. For my part, I have a lot of new stuff brewing that I can't wait to share, but for now, here's some oldies from me!
Art Train🚂!! Thanks Andrea ✨ I’ll invite
@StylizedSculpts
@zugzugart
@orb_3d
All them are my mentors and amazing artists ✨
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this method works great as well, switching from Cont, to Once in the picker menu, well that's a button I'm adding to my UI... Thanks for the find
@CorDeVore
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-added loot boxes to fifa games
-wanted to charge players 1$ for reloading in battlefield
-said devs who don't think monetization when they start a game are "fucking idiots"
That's unity CEO for you, greed incarnated. So no, these last unity changes are not that surprising
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that little boost of volume, focusing the light on your roughness and details, can make a big difference. Even without any texture, it's obvious how much flatter and boring left looks like.
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I was not expecting my brushes to pop on the last zbrush stream haha. That was very cool. I'm always happy to see new uses for them, like on realistic stuff <3
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You'd be really surprised at how much difference it makes on even simple pebbles
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I made a bowser brooch for my gf's cosplay of malon, going for the more modern look he has. Curious to see how he's gonna print.
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had the pleasure to talk a bit about stylized art on the gdd podcast :). It was pretty chill and organic, hope you like it.
On the GDD podcast this week we have a very special guest, the creator of the widely used 'Orb Brush Pack', Senior Enviro Artist at
@Blizzard_Ent
@orb_3d
, we had the pleasure of deep-diving into everything stylized in art and unpacked the whole medium.
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I don't usually use twitter to talk about politics or personal stuff. Honestly I wish I could just talk about cool art and video games than expressing myself poorly like I always do.
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