Steve Stark 🌕
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Supervising Background Designer for Netflix’s Castlevania: Nocturne. Fix your hearts or die.
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Figured it was time to update this again.
Hi, I'm Steve, I'm the (soon-to-be) Lead Background Supervisor on Netflix's Castlevania! In my spare time I'm also a fantasy illustrator 😄
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real artist shit is spending way too much time on a part of your painting, 600% zoomed in, that no one will ever notice.
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Happy 5th birthday Undertale. Here's fanart I did for it like 200 years ago:
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Literally nothing in games was as cool this year as riding the elevator down, and seeing Siofra River in Elden Ring for the first time
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Heyaaa, I've been working on this piece for a while now. It's just some chill animal handlers hangin' around and working with their chill animal friends.
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lrt, I'm always surprised the Saskue in-between caught on but "Wide-Superman" didn't
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For no reason whatsoever, I just really wanna point out that Lilo & Stitch has some incredible backgrounds and is overall an amazing film.
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A thing I've noticed from studying up on a lot of Ghibli backgrounds is a lot of them are very contour-heavy, more so than you'd think initially looking at one. They loooove to emphasize edges in whatever way they can. This BG is a bit dramatic in that sense even for them but:
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Hiyaaa, this is my new personal piece, which is a take on an alchemist. It's sort of supposed to mirror the previous piece I did, which I'll post below for comparison.
Probably my last personal piece for a while, hope you like it!
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One last tutorial bit that I forgot to include in the original. Credit to Tyler Thull for showing me this awesome trick.
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Just a nice witch making a little lunch for her friends coming over.
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Me when I think of classic final fantasy vs what square enix apparently thinks of classic final fantasy
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If they ever release Silksong I hope they have an optional clown costume that you can equip to take more damage or something.
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It's one thing when some random 13 year old uses AI for whatever, it's another when other professional artists not only use it, but promote it in such a ridiculous sense as to claim they're changing the industry or "democratizing" art.
Nothing but shame to
@CorridorDigital
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Apparently it's Undertale's 4th anniversary, so I thought I'd share this painting of mine again. Sorry Asgore fans.
#undertale_4th_anniversary
#Undertale4
周年
#undertale
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The “”””backlash””””” over the Hades II character designs is funny because no one actually cares.
Hades II early access hit over 100,000 concurrent Steam players in its first 24 hours.
That's almost 3x the all-time peak playercount of the original Hades. 😳
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So....The Cat Painting from Castlevania Season 4...
Okay, lemme explain.
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Castlevania is a series known for gothic castles and ruined towns, but I thought it’d be fun to have my first art drop feature some of the lovely bits of nature I painted for the season! I worked really hard to get that Ghibli-feel going with these!
#CastlevaniaNocturne
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@ammaar
@andyheriaud
@CorridorDigital
It’ll still be empty because the folks pushing this stuff (like you) do not care about art, have never cared about art, and never will because you are as empty as the things you attempt to create.
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the lack of games where you play as a cool dragon is concerning
Wyverns and Dragons lovers, you gonna love this 🦾
I will add more stuff on the weekend before I update the file for you guys to try it.
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Here's some small-ish tutorials on using Photoshop's Blend-If for some painting/photomanip techniques using photos as a base. This stuff was originally shown to me by Reid Southen, I recommend checking out his YT channel for more technical goodies like this.
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Before I go to bed, I just want to shoutout that I finally peaked in my career because I got to draw anime food, specifically this pan full of roasted garlic. Goodnight.
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this incredible trio of paintings by Chase Stone were done for motherfucking KFC.
I...
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There's an extremely bad ArtStation post going around right now that essentially says don't post art if you're a beginner as well as don't post WIPS.
To quote exactly from it: "if your work is trash it should not be on the internet"
I disagree.
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I feel like a broken record at this point but please, learn what Blend If does. I use it in LITERALLY every painting:
OK, Twitter, I have a curiosity for you: reply with your job/discipline/creative medium and one highly specific & concrete piece of advice/wisdom/experience/reference that you feel might help someone like you one day. Please feel free to go super niche or specific.
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This relatively new AI is literally stealing from an artist who has died within the last year (Miura). Shameless doesn't even begin to describe the people who helped enable this.
Here is a collection of relatively modern or currently working artists that they advertise as styles to steal on their site(there are hundreds of others). This is just gross.
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Hey so these paintings below as well as others are part of a series I've been working on for 3-ish years. It's all about exploring everyday jobs through the lens of fantasy worlds. I have a list of jobs I havent tackled yet and was wondering if yall have anymore ideas?
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I mean
ARTISTS you can only use one Art picture to convince people to follow you.
Which art piece you using?
OK GO UWU
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I DID IT, FIRST MTG CARD AHHHHH
Inspiring Leader
Art Director: Dawn Murin
For Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
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Starting today I am *officially* the Lead Background Designer for the new season of Castlevania 😊
(Previously I was just the Lead for Post-Production)
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Every Fromsoft trailer just is like "Wanna see some of the sickest shit you've ever seen in your life"?
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Here's an unused Castlevania Season 4 promo I did. Was kinda trying to mirror the warm colors of the promo stuff from season 1.
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Can’t believe I have to say this, but animation studios rarely have any say in the writing of the show they’re producing, so please don’t direct your story complaints at the the artists, it’s not that hard!
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I heard you guys like the dhampir "Alucard", son of Dracula from the famous animated series *checks notes* Captain N: The Game Master.
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You know what, I think I'm gonna just make a lil' thread of my Castlevania Season 4 stuff that I can link to in the future. This doesn't have *everything*, but is like a little portfolio for twitter purposes.
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So in episode 4 of Castlevania season 4, I got to mock-up these backgrounds that appear in the Infinite Corridor. They're all locations from Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, and they were all super fun to make, especially that first one haha.
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Boy that image on the left sure looks familiar 🤔
I need some help! ！🙌🙌🙌
My concept art "Loki's Revenge", was stolen and presented as concept art for the notorious NFT game "Epic Hero Battles" !
@EpicHeroio
Can you explain this???
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Making Castlevania: Nocturne was worth it for a vast number of reasons, but seeing so many people react to stuff like this is one of the best.
WE GETTIN BLACK VAMPIRES AND VAMPIRE HUNTERS!!!!??
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Reply or QRT with your most popular drawing:
Really it's my Undertale piece, but I posted that recently so I'm gonna go with my 2nd most popular.
Reply or QRT with your most popular drawing:
Always my best selling work online and at any convention.
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Same with this shit, I ain't got time to reach my hand over there.
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JOB ALERT: We're looking for a background artist to help with CASTLEVANIA: NOCTURNE! The job can be remote or in the studio. We need artists who can paint as well as the below images, so please keep that in mind!
Apply here or if you're a mutual, DM me:
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When your supervisor approves your art without any revisions.
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A very small thing I've been thinking about in the aftermath of the Blizzard/Activision stuff; if you're a studio bigger than like 10 people, you should probably retire the whole "were a family" bit.
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Here are some of my backgrounds for Boston in episode 1 of
#CastlevaniaNocturne
! The idea from the start was that I wanted there to be a sequential change of mood throughout. We start with warm and safe, transition to threatening and oppressive, and finally sad and scared.
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Here's the comparison! Wanted both to be takes on how to work around a similar "obstacle".
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oh shit I painted this
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Man I should really get back into working on this 'fantasy job' series again, I really loved it. I need to start thinkin' on what kinda job I'd tackle next though.
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Fun fact, most of the background shots in this sequence are straight up raw 3D renders, maybe some painting here and there.
Castlevania: Sypha and Trevor vs Demons
S3E10 "Abandon All Hope"
This is the fight that made me watch the show
#castlevania
#animation
#2danimation
#fightscene
#sakuga
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When Naruto pulled out a rifle, I ascended to another plane of existence
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Actually instead of doing every pic one by one, I'm just gonna post all of them at once to save your feed from getting more cluttered haha. I know y'all already saw the last one, but it was posted on FB today so why not?
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Hi, I'm Steve, I work on Netflix's Castlevania! Going by my pieces I can be your angle….or yuor devil!
#artvsartist
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In the likely event that Twitter is no longer around within a few months/weeks/days/hours(??), I’d like to promote my print shop (link below!)
Go there and buy pretty prints like these :)
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Is this cute
#CuteShare
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I'm pretty sure Trevor defeated Dracula with this subweapon
The new Crazy Calzony from
@littlecaesars
fuses together a pepperoni pizza and a calzone.
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Noah's a fucking embarrassment of an artist/human and should never be let back in. He's had many many many times to acknowledge his awfulness, and he only publicly acknowledged it when he was forced to, after a myriad of stories came out, with them spanning a decade.
Admitted rapist Noah Bradley is back on Instagram trying to pretend he did not admit to raping women. His fans are welcoming him back and this all sucks. Which law of power is this one Noah?
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Hardest piece I worked on because I wanted to get it right. Got me some cash but the fans loving it was the real prize
#fanartgotmepaid
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Y’all I forgot that Castlevania season 4 came out this year lmao
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To all the fans of Castlevania, new and old, thank you for your patience during the last few years. Seeing the lovely reactions to our work really do motivate us to do our absolute best, and we can't wait for you all to see the whole show when it's out on September 28th.
I PRAY FOR YOU, RICHTER BELMONT. Witness the rise of our gaming icon and vampire hunter prodigy in the all-new Castlevania: Nocturne - premiering September 28, only on Netflix.
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Sometime in learning how to paint, I came across artists like Marek Okon and Johannes Voß. Both artists had, and still have, their old work sitting up alongside their newer work. Even today their progress inspires me.
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A fun
#CastlevaniaNocturne
fact, one of the opening scenes (SQ01_SC003) is mostly made in 3D! The only 2D assets are the sky, as well as all the FX that compositing maestro
@AdamDeats
added. Very happy with how nice the water in particular turned out.
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It's a shame that everyone hates Ghibli's "Tales from Earthsea", because it has some very good imagery that no one ever shares.
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Happy to say that after 7 years of tryin', I'm finally gonna be doing freelance work for Magic the Gathering. 😄
Thank you all for supporting me through this journey.
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Wait, tomorrow is the 1 year anniversary of season 3??? I swear to god it’s been a century since then
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Watched “The Mummy” for the first time last night and, I see it all now.
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Dunno who needs to hear this tonight, and I’m tweeting it apropos of nothing, but if you’re an artist struggling right now please please please don’t give up on your dreams of art. Even if you have to put them aside for now to focus on paying bills, never truly give up on them.
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A good day for this one.
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still can’t believe I got to draw some anime food (the garlic in the pan)
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This is how my goblin-ass works btw. Literally have the keyboard sitting on top of the tablet ☠️
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This is a reference I’ve been wanting to get in the show since I started working at Powerhouse 6 years ago. I very much loved watching Giant Bomb on the side while I worked, especially the Vinnyvania series.
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I'm always glad when this gets attention again because I keep forgetting this trick lmaooo
Our feature tutorial/artist for today is this AMAZING TIP on adding ATMOSPHERIC GLOW to lighting in your DIGITAL PAINTINGS, by the excellent
@sstarkm
. This little trick adds SO MUCH - try it out, it works BEAUTIFULLY!
#gamedev
#animationdev
#digitalpainting
#conceptart
#painting
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Hey guys it's DarkLurKr39 here, with another urban explorer vid today, this time featuring some creepy castle that I never noticed through all my walks down this same road every day. That's so funny! Far as I can tell though, no one lives here.
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Found out my piece “Soulsmith” has been accepted into Spectrum 26! Really happy to see it finally make it there.
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I showed my mom a gory scene from episode 1 of Castlevania and she told me she doesn't want me to work on the show anymore.
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Artists, how often did you prioritize speed when you were learning? Would you have liked to have known how much time pro artists were spending on their pieces? Do you think speed is a big deal in your industry?
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Heya, here's another bg I did for Castlevania Season 3. This is of the Judge's House and his Jordans collection going up in flames. ArtStation link:
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I had the pleasure of being able to work on the very last scene for Castlevania season 2. I wanted to contrast the warmth of the setting with the sadness the character in this scene felt.
You can view it on my Artstation here:
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ever wanna marry a logo?
Just announced in Hall H at
#SDCC
, Marvel Studios’ THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER with Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson and Natalie Portman. Taika Waititi returns as director. In theaters November 5, 2021.
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Hiya, here's a trio of Castlevania Season 3 paintings! These are all from the underground library of the Belmont Hold. It was fun getting these to work for the compositors so we could have the lights slowly turn on one by one.
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Fun fact, that first bg made me cry a bit!!
Fun Fact: Most of the past occupants in Drac's castle weren't able to catch those beautiful daylight views. ☀️⚰️ Thankfully,
@sstarkm
was able to capture them for us. And, along with the Belmont Hold, it was "the most important place in the world" at that time.
#Castlevania
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