One game you’ve worked on - no words just trailers youtu.be/hBoxLXvTLXw?...

I genuinely never thought I would get anywhere close to 100, let alone almost 1000 subs

youtu.be/m-t8FBX98ow?... Another new video; this time about what artistic realism is, how it pertains to video games, and how developers trick players into think it’s realism

youtu.be/uO-2zCQLzSg?... New video on some tips to enhance your game scenes (More beginner friendly tips, branching out later into more intermediate and advanced tutorials and videos)

Doing some crazy unreal scale tests. The scene is something over 400square miles, all done procedurally (All assets are placeholder for right now while I refine things) All 400 square miles or so are traversable and populated with assets

Such a beautiful sight lmao

I love watching my ram creep up from 20FPs to 128gigs when converting an unreal scene to world partition over the course of an hour…

Nearly every movie you’ve seen uses outside the US support studios. How the hell do you even enforce a tarrif

I’m getting random job-rejection emails from jobs I didn’t even apply to at 3am like it’s some sort of ghost, what the hell

Wait- republicans honest to god put up a bill to repeal OSHA on the anniversary date of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?! You’ve got to be kidding

I was asked what the most helpful thing I learned in college was (in terms of my career): Take a Modern Art class. It will fundamentally change how you view art, color, light and the process of creating art. (This usually ranges from the 1860’s realism to the 1980’s Neo-Expressionism)

An update :)

If Build a Bear made an actually decent build a bear plush they would make so much money I alone would buy 3

I can’t put this damn game down. I’m 25 hours deep and still mesmerized by how good it looks

This is such a cool glitch it might as well be a feature, somehow broke the game so that the “Ink” filter didn’t go away when I left photo mode. Even in the menus too

Environment artist tip: Figuring out themes, forms, and styles of a place before you stylize it will always give you a drastically better result than creating a style first and trying to make something fit it. Figure out the why,when, how first- then you can change it

Unreal nerds; why can’t I used a blueprint actor inside a tool? Why can’t I use a spline tool inside of a blueprint? WHY this would make life so much easier

I saw a 15 second clip of Assassins Creed shadows where they were just riding through the mountains of Japan- That clip was so gorgeous I immediately went to my PS5 and bought the game.

I’m seeing a massive increase of people going after companies/recruiters on LinkedIn because they didn’t get a job- They’re just doing their jobs man, the industry sucks right now- I get it. But that isn’t the way things are going to get better

Full stop WWE2k25 is the best wrestling game in 20 years. This game is bonkers

You miss a toll in NY you get to wait on for phone for over TWO HOURS to pay it. What the actual hell NY??

Got some career news coming soon <3 stay tuned

JOHN CENA TURNED HEEL?!?!?!?!?

Man I was so upset about that gray hair I messed up my own title leak Senior ENVIRONMENT Artist haha

Facial MOCAP animation test using lines from the game. Not final design of the character, and probably not the final voice (IM NOT A VOICE ACTOR I TRIED) but it's surreal to see major progress like this that's causing some reworks to the overall plan of the game that make me excited

I HAVE A GREY HAIR?!? man I know I just made it to Senior level ARTIST BUT IM ONLY 29 IM NOT READY FOR GREY HAIR I DONT EVEN HAVE A BEARD YET

I’ve been Messing around with facial animations for Into The Bleeding Trees so I can actually make cutscenes. This is actually amazing how clean this rough edit looks from the raw footage. I crap on unreal sometimes but this is bonkers. (There is no audio, you’re not going crazy)

For the first time in my life I didn’t get carded at a liquor store. Chat it’s over. I’m only 29 please card me I’m not ready to feel old yet

In a not at all surprise, it didn’t actually download anything- the app data folder was empty, and it sat on 134% for like an hour. Also the Metahumans plugin is missing, the folders that DID load in content browser are all empty, guess I’m not going to be doing Into The Bleeding Trees testing

Why is the metahuman character creator A BROWSER WINDOW THAT NEEDS AN INTERNET CONNECTION like bro Adobe Fuse had this figured out a decade ago. Epic what are you doing guys.

Unreals transition to FAB is one of the worst implementations ever. How the hell is my metahuman 134% downloaded??

My wife was laid off today by EA. She’s an awesome video game producer with more than two decades of experience. If anyone is in need or knows of anyone in need of a producer please DM me. Greatly appreciate any leads.

It’s kinda funny and sad to see people in real time go “Fake frames! Those games are fake!” On 5000 series and immediately turn around and go “oh wait this is kinda amazing” on like every tech channel on YT and I give it 3 months before gamers fallow suit

I rented a 140hp VW Jetta for 12 days while In SOCAL; needless to say getting behind the wheel of my 400HP Challenger again is going to take some readjustments haha

We just got back to NY- so many pictures to sort out, but we had an absolute blast in SoCAL. Can’t wait to go back.

Another thing that Insanely surreal in person to see

Tried In-N-Out for the first time. I gotta say, it’s good- doesn’t beat out my favorite burger joint quite yet. Has a tanginess to it I didn’t expect. Milkshake was great. Fries were okay.

In Santa Monica today and keep wanting to call it Santa Modesta in a Destroy all Humans accent

It’s so weird to see the Hollywood sign in person. I never thought I would In my life

Day 2 of Los Angeles; Traffic (so far) doesn’t seem so horrific as people have made it out to be. Granted, I also come from NY- which is it’s own level of shitstorm

Going to DisneyLand today and going to find out if Lightning McQueen is as cool in person

First night of LA traffic: This feels like the NY thruway. Like entirely. It even had the same people beating the hell out of scooters for no reason on the sidewalk

Saw a post on Twitter of a student stressed about not getting modeling quickly. Students- please please please, remember that this takes time. It’s very hard, but the results of the time and the work are worth it. It just takes time. 2012 (Blender cycles render) 2024(Unreal 5.5 real-time)

2025 marks a decade since I decided to pick up game art seriously as a means to cope with abuse I was experiencing at the time. It’s wild how much life has changed. Game art, both directly and indirectly, saved my life in 2015. Follow your dreams. Don’t let anything stop you.

Going to be in Los Angeles in early Feb- I have two extra days I don’t know what to do with. Thoughts?

Happy #portfolioDay! I’m Jake, an environment artist that’s been out of work for a minute and still looking! (ArtStation found here: www.artstation.com/jacobprovo)

Some more tests of the shader for Bleeding Trees

Cooking some post process stuff (base paper texture; Outline, Shading) When it runs in real time the pencil lines move

For the people who follow my game art educational work; What topics would you like to see me discuss/cover? I have a few ideas myself but always curious to know what people want to learn about

If you want to know what my philosophy for what I make is, These have lived on my monitor since 2017.