Akihiro Yamada

I heard it's goblin week

Visual development for PRIMAL, season 3.

Art for our upcoming game @gardens.dev 🌳

A new painting (by me) I can share for the game we are working on here at Gardens. I still can't say much, but things are moving along smoothly and I'm excited for you all to see it when it's ready. I really appreciate all the enthusiasm everyone has shared with me about the art we've shown so far.

New Website! Some new art from the team and myself here at Gardens in the presskit, and a silly picture of me sneaking around a forest.

Autumn’s Waning 🍂

Hi, I'm an Art Director & 3D Game Artist Available for hire 👐 I worked on award-winning stylized games Looking for the next project I can contribute to 👀 Please reach out! 💌 [email protected] RT appreciated ✨

actual drawing, again

more capes

Pa

guys some really handsome and cool guy scanned and uploaded a mediocre pdf they may or may not have scanned of the fabled D'Arc Volume 1, and i hear Volume 2 will be scanned sometime soon! what a cool guy, whoever they are!! archive.org/details/darc1

one of my favorite activities: sitting less than two feet away from a cintiq and "just fixing one quick thing" with a mouse for about two and a half hours

Lace Platinum-class, the workhorse destroyer of the Pacific Armada (1/n)

Deer are so beautiful, aren't they? painting medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

Switching to traditional media is the best decision I'v made in a long time. It feels so much nicerto paint on real paper. With brushes for scale, you can also see how tiny my work is in person.

a bit further back, one from 2018 #reruns

I got the fantastic Jusant art book recently, and as well as enjoying all the amazing art, I found this little treat inside! This genuinely made my year. I struggle with finding purpose in my personal art, so even though its small this really means a lot to me. Thank you @edouardcaplain.bsky.social.

Art directing anecdote: years ago an AD asked me to make a bunch of mood/refboards as the initial part of exploring a new area. It felt trivially easy to the point that I had impostor syndrome about whether I understood why I was spending time just collecting good examples of a visual theme

the dragon/eel, resting his wings

Full DEADSUN strip. A little experiment. I know it's not what you want to see from me but it can't always be robots :/

been working on a personal world building project for fun 💗🕊️

I loooove @cavesofqud.com and I wanted to try a little something about the Stilt !

Seed Dagger

Zelda Williams (the daughter of the great Robin Williams) sure had a lot to say about the “Studio Ghibli style” AI images that have been trending recently. I think those people should read these posts and really think about what they’re doing.

비숑 스티커 도안

달리는 강아지 스티커 도안

More Puss In Boots: The Last Wish development, Three Bears’ house

trees pic, sans text. since these have all breached containment by now

Damn this is insanely good stuff. I almost like it more with not actual game because I have no associations to it. Then I can dream and imagine the worlds behind the music myself.

Painting rocks whenever I can

Their tasks are endless, always cutting down foliage, going to war but against an enemy who has no emotion. --- Project Baiyu First introduction to the servants that you will meet on the Moon.

A Gardener Human Souls who have done badly in their lifetime, and are now being punished by doing a thousand years of labor on the moon.

3 years of Elden Ring QT with your Elden Ring art

👁️‍🗨️ ᛄ Poekin are natural cultivators. Transporting sapling Dustkin through the wilds to help decompose, while also planting mysterious seeds along the way ᛄ 👁️‍🗨️

The Blacksmith's Forge. I really should do more of these, it's a lot of fun but very time consuming. Probably worth the effort though.

A very old daily I liked, this is around 2019-2020 I believe.

The Blacksmith's Forge. I really should do more of these, it's a lot of fun but very time consuming. Probably worth the effort though.

sketch

Were the giant creatures being grown or buried, enshrined kings or trapped prisoners? One of the mysterious discoveries found deep within the deserts of The Reach.

Were the giant creatures being grown or buried, enshrined kings or trapped prisoners? One of the mysterious discoveries found deep within the deserts of The Reach.

A triptych of paintings dedicated to adventure, exploration and discovery (my favorite verbs). I always imagined if I made a game from this all it would be from this perspective.

A triptych of paintings dedicated to adventure, exploration and discovery (my favorite verbs). I always imagined if I made a game from this all it would be from this perspective.

I have a love/hate relationship with social media, but I think it's healthy if used in the right way so I'm gonna attempt to rebuild and repost a few of my favourite pieces of work here and maybe I'll find some inspiration for something new too. Also you might not have seen these before, so enjoy!

I've mostly abandoned X/Twitter, but I'm not very active here either so lets change that - My first public work as Art Director for @gardens.dev! Very excited about the project and team I'm working with including artists @benmce.bsky.social @rangerwang.bsky.social, Noah Alonzo and Ma-Ko.