Working on a new blacksmith NPC, "Thora" after finally getting some free-time from a very hectic September. I love how she turned out, hope to make her workshop soon. #3d #3dart #blender #indiedev #gamedev #Re:Kindled #PSX #gamedesign #lowpoly #ScreenshotSaturday

Got a mockup for gameplay. Explaining ideas with organized visuals is so much less of a headache. Also working on fixing up the design documentation. So much easier to read and understand now. #3d #3dart #blender #indiedev #gamedev #Re:Kindled #PSX #gamedesign #lowpoly #ScreenshotSaturday

Eleanor finally has some color. I'm really happy with how the glow turned out. Now to get her rig all set and ready. #3d #3dart #blender #indiedev #gamedev #Re:Kindled #PSX #gamedesign #lowpoly #ScreenshotSaturday

#WIP of another playable character. Eleanor a few more touches before moving onto texturing and a rigging. #3d #3dart #blender #indiedev #gamedev #Re:Kindled #PSX #gamedesign #lowpoly

Taking a break from the lowpoly game work and doing a quicker side project. Might make it part of something bigger down the line? Unsure at the moment. Hoping to try out the hand-painted look with this one. #blender #3d #3dart #3dmodeling #WIP

Finally had some time to get more tiles and assets planned out. Need to figure out the best route to condense the textures in an efficient package. For now, I will just cut the UVs as I go. #3d #3dart #blender #indiedev #gamedev #Re:Kindled #PSX #gamedesign #lowpoly

Finally beginning to get a real start of a full level tile set. I'm really happy to see this all starting to come together, even if textures aren't even ready at the moment. #3d #3dart #blender #indiedev #gamedev #Re:Kindled #PSX #gamedesign #lowpoly

Another planed, playable character ready for animation. The final product came out very clean, I'm incredibly excited to see her in-game. #3d #3dart #blender #indiedev #gamedev #Re:Kindled #PSX #gamedesign #lowpoly

A #WIP for another planned playable character. She is around 60% complete? Thank you, @latnorth.bsky.social (please check out their work) for the initial sketch, been a blast to translate the design to the #lowpoly look! #3d #3dart #blender #indiedev #gamedev #Re:Kindled #PSX #gamedesign #rigging

Had some late night motivation to push through some texture work and item sprites ready for testing. #3d #3dart #blender #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled #PSX #gamedesign #pixelart

#blender is full of fun options. Render needs some light clean up but this is super handy to have for later UI elements! #3d #3dart #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #pixelart #Re:Kindled #PSX #gamedesign

I discovered NLA in #blender. It doesn't seem too difficult, but I've only really scratched the surface at this point. Keeping all the animations as different tracks & being able to mix them together will be very useful. #3d #3dart #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled #PSX #gamedesign #rigging

Decided to adjust some skin weights and started the process of adding easier to use controllers for the current rigs. I'm sure future me will be grateful. #3d #3dart #blender #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled #PSX #gamedesign #rigging

Another enemy design. A bit on the simple side but I love how they turned out. These are planned to be more of a general grunt-type threat for the player to deal with. #3d #3dart #blender #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled #PSX #gamedesign

Her rig is all set, but her tank's cables are not as easy to figure out I as would have hoped :/ Hoping some physics added to the mesh in-engine will be the solution I'm hoping for. #3d #3dart #blender #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled #PSX #gamedesign

Finally in a spot to move on to rigging & animation for this asset. Might come back later and add some rust / wear on portions of the mesh, not really sure just yet. #3d #3dart #blender #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled #PSX #gamedesign

Currently tinkering on a #WIP for one of the enemy designs. I'm sure the inspirations are clear. I think I will have a ton of fun trying out some more primal animations when the time comes. #3d #3dart #blender #indiegdev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled #PSX

Love to see the progress overtime. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #Re:Kindled #GameDesign #3d

Elyse is all set and rigged. I can't wait to do some first passes at different animations. And once the fabric simulation is all set up and working it will be a nice final look. #3d #3dart #blender #indiegdev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled #PSX

Finally got some texture on Evie's props. Turns out the skin weights need a bit more tweaking before I start animation / fabric simulations. Overall, I'm enjoying how she is turning out! #3d #3dart #blender #indiegdev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled #PSX

Blender rigs aren't too crazy once you get them rolling. Though skin weights on low poly models can be tricky. Next step are the items and figuring out fabric simulation on the lower portion of her attire, hence the gap on the model. #3d #3dart #blender #indiegdev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled #PSX

I got a much cleaner texture pass this time around for Evie! This doesn't look too different, but the process went much faster than my previous texturing workflow. Hoping to work on textures for a handful of items next. #3d #3dart #blender #indiegdev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled #PSX

February really flew by. Decided to give Evie a better set of UV's before doing a second pass at texturing. Worth the extra effort for less warping. Having symmetrical UV's incase asymmetrical texturing is needed later on. #3d #3dart #blender #indiegdev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled #PSX #WIP

I do plenty of work on a little MC server network. We are finally getting some nice renders for the website. Just a #WIP for one of the "coming soon" art pieces. It's nice to have a handful of active projects at any given time to help avoid burnout. #Blockbench #Minecraft #lowpoly #3D #Blender

Just started the first of many drafts for control schemes. This portion of any game project can be pretty daunting and is incredibly important to get right. No wonder there are designers who dedicate whole careers to this part of game design. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #Re:Kindled #GameDesign

I don't often post my MC related projects, but I had this reimagining of the old Dungeons design for "Guardian Vex". I figured to show this kind of stuff off along with my regular dev work & art. TBF the old design was made way before the Vex redesign in 1.20. #Blockbench #Minecraft #lowpoly #3D

First pass for a stone floor tile set. Still unsure about the highlight placements / shadow details when there will be dynamic lighting. Thankfully, it's easy to make changes when all the tiles pull from the same texture file. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #Re:Kindled #lowpoly #pixelart

Finally got the texture style down for the character models. I'm sure I'll make more changes as this project goes on but for now I'm quite happy with the current direction. #3d #3dart #blender #indiegdev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled #PSX

Did a first pass and not sure if I'm sold on this texture direction just yet. Great placeholder for the time being, will likely circle back for a version II in the future. Plenty of other textures still to make. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #Re:Kindled #lowpoly #pixelart #3D #Blender

Hope everyone's New Years was enjoyable! Decided to it made sense to start texture work before I ended up creating an ocean of untextured 3D meshes. Here's a #WIP of a lowpoly spellbook texture I hope to have done in the next day or so. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #Re:Kindled #lowpoly #pixelart

Hope everyone had a happy holiday! Took a break to recharge after a long year. Hoping to spend this New Years continuing to tinker on the Design Doc. These never are finished till the end of any project if I'm being completely honest. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #Re:Kindled #GameDesign

I will have my work cut out for me when I finally decide on a texturing workflow for this project. I'm excited to see how these will turn out. For now, I will productively procrastinate with setting up the UVs. #3d #3dart #blender #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled #PSX

Trying out some testing and just general visual dry runs with this #WIP. This is using some shader settings on a quickly colored 3D model just to see how it could look as a more traditionally pixel sprite. #3d #3dart #blender #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindle #pixelart

Chipping away at some more modeling work for this project. Referencing older firearms for inspiration. I'm happy with how everything is turning out so far. Hoping to keep most of the weapons under 1.5k polygons. #3d #3dart #blender #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled #PSX

Still a #WIP but had some time over the holiday. #3d #3dart #blender #indiegdev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled #PSX

I swear I'm not pushing off UVs and textures. I'm just having fun with the PSX lowpoly look. #3d #3dart #blender #indiegdev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled

messing around with some camera movement for the previously mentioned low poly/""retro"" style. turned out eevee/blender completely shits the bed when it comes to rendering at lower res so had to port everything to unreal and accidentally made a game level lol

Another character ready for future texturing! #3d #3dart #blender #indiegdev #gamedev #lowpoly #Re:Kindled

Just started 3D work on a rogue-like horror survival indie game project. I'm starting to really love the PS1 inspired look this project is aiming for! #3d #3dart #blender #indiedev #indiegame #lowpoly #Re:Kindled

Moving stuff in to this new platform, it will be a while to get everything ready and settled in.