Hugely sad. We've lost John Blanche. It's hard to know where to begin. He set fire to a generation's imagination, and those fires show no sign of stopping burning. His work very much illuminated the darkness.

'Battle Milk' is now stuck in my head, as a concept, forever.

The State Tree engineering in Unreal 5 is kind of crazy. Being able to pipe data around to any parameter or task input/output/context seems really hard to do. Really powerful stuff.

Ralph McQuarrie working on a Cloud City matte painting:

William Hawkins (1895-1990) American Artist

STALKER 2 finally has its hooks in me! I wonder how much they're getting out of the truly open map. They're essentially still doing what the old games did by cordoning off biomes by unpassable walls (radiation, rivers, keyed exits, etc) anyways, except now they're streaming everything.

random rock, trying to make myself draw anything #pixelart

“Sonoran Magnetism” by Marc Maggiori, 2022

Obsesionado con la obra de Zdzisław Beksiński por culpa de mi fijación por los libros del New Sun de Gene Wolfe. Un Giger especializado en ilustrar tierras muertas. Aquí toda su obra visual recopilada github.com/itdaniher/Zd... Uno de sus artbook en Internet Archive archive.org/details/fant...

From the animated trailer directed by POTTO Collective for "La Langue des Vipères", a graphic novel by Juliette Brocal, published today in France by Rue de Sèvres. Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH56...

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm a french illustrator specializing in landscapes and sceneries. I'm available for freelance work. ✉️ [email protected] 🔗 arthur.baron-clement.com/en/

random photo study wip cos i got nothin else

Shore Pines 6”x12” Oil on cradled wood panel

My tribute sketch to Angel’s Egg I remember watching Angel’s Egg for the first time and thinking about how beautiful the film was, I couldn’t resist drawing the girl and her egg Graphite on paper #angelsegg

Vagrant Story's hand-painted shadows weren't new at the time, but damn did they did it so well. Pinnacle game art for the PS1 generation.

I think about this a ton. A VERY high percentage of games that have had a huge impact on me took time to cook, pivot, or fully rework. A luxury in today's climate for sure, but it's cool to see some companies pulling it off by keeping their burn extremely lean. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

I really like playing Returnal with my kid but I feel like its difficulty would be less volatile if they solved getting off-screened by teleporting enemies. Maybe Saros evens things out?

Adios down, which I'll def continue to think about. Now for Eclipsium! I'm about an hour into it and I'm in love with how absolutely WILD it looks. Dithered first person hand art is a delightful aesthetic I didn't know I still needed (Lucid Blocks gets a nod too). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn_I...

A selection of shots animated by Kim Kyeongbae for Scavengers Reign (2023), created by Joe Bennett and Charles Huettner, Titmouse

So hey! In more concrete terms: I got hit by the Epic layoff yesterday. - Looking for Senior/Principal/Lead-ish roles around Level Design, Technical Design, Systems Design, etc. - Strong preference for US/Seattle/Remote Site is a little rough from the last time around, but: andrew-weldon.design

Crush Depth, A Short Hike, Metal Garden, Caput Mortum, and Routine are now complete. It's so awesome being able to actually finish games with a ton of heart and just... move on to other great stuff.

I can't believe how much time has snuck up on me, but today is already one year anniversary of Metal Garden's release! (It's also 30% off right now for the Steam Spring Sale!!) store.steampowered.com/app/3539440/...

Well would you like at that! My investigation into the origins, themes, foundations, and modes of what I call the "weird space opera" is live on ARB! I look at The Centauri Device (duh) and Web of Angels (not so duh) to find the working principles of this beloved and odd sub-genre!

New weapon type for FlyKnight: Wands I want to empower players that enjoy spellcasting and wands are a way to, not only do some damage, but recharge your mana inbetween spellcasts. Of course if you whip it out to enemies that are weak to magic it kind of shreds on its own lol.

"Vaccum Dream" a space guard fast response ship with an armored "Zodiac" attached. The Zodiac is equipped with a substantial thruster package used to stabilize vehicles in distress or with dangerous spin rates. #spaceshipart #scifiart #illustration #conceptart #scifi

Really enjoying Horripilant so far. It's like someone made a Vermis/Incremental mashup just for me. store.steampowered.com/app/3525970/...

Made low-poly goldfish #256fes 256 polygons, 150 vertices each

MekaCentiped, Ray Harryhausen vibes.

Clair Obscur gameplay was 95% blueprints and used Sequencer for a ton of things including battle abilities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Cr...

more old pages 💀

Here's a small portion of an animated bumper I made to promote a video game from @owlcatgames.bsky.social (Blind Descent). Seeing the latest advances in generative AI and how they've invaded space, I feel lucky to have at least produced this little piece from start to finish 🥲.

X-Wing (Totally Games/LucasArts) was released circa 33 years ago. I find it hard to accept that so many of my fond memories are a third of a century old. 😅

This is a super useful Epic talk on savegame serialization. I've reimplemented a basic version and it does seem you can store off object references and reconstruct them fairly easily. 🙏 Having a human-readable copy of every save file is SO USEFUL. dev.epicgames.com/community/le...

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Headquarters designed by architect Paul Rudolph (1971) r/brutalism

Angel's Egg (1985)

PSA: Rider's insane autocomplete can be turned off by disabling "Local Full Line Completion Suggestions" in Editor->General->Inline Completion Every time I hit TAB it was like someone grabbed the steering wheel and drove off a cliff for no apparent reason.

screenshots of the startmap I built for qbj3 or Quake Brutalist Jam III some fancy bits in here will be in the coming update, like the paintings and plaques

A few screengrabs from RyanUkAus' wonderful vid. Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere, original or gutted international version, remains a dispensary of timeless vibes. Peak Namco era.

Not sure how I missed this but a player named Vezeto made a sick lego version of the Executor class interceptor from House of the Dying Sun. It's CRAZY close to the in-game model. Damn. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

Skin Deep is nominated for the IGF EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN award! I'm so proud of what we made. Skin Deep's designers: - Suzanne Will @binarypartitioned.space - Tynan Wales - Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social Skin Deep credits: blendogames.com/skindeep/cre... IGF noms: tinyurl.com/2zzt8sw4

Warmups from today. More StellaStar explorations

Looking for a job #PortfolioDay

Oh my god. Brian's playing with spaceships and XR.

Sixteen more hours to get my favorite space dogfighting game of all-time at a super deep discount.

Another one to get is Caput Mortum. I think about this one a lot. If you're willing to veer away from standard controls, it can bolster an already strong thematic experience. It's short but cohesive, tense, and full of clever puzzles that didn't stall me. store.steampowered.com/app/3555980/...

Highly recommend Path of Achra if you're into focused roguelikes, mysterious Wolfe/Vance-styled setting, and deep and connective combat sandboxes. It generously delivers broken build fantasies while remaining challenging. It's 50% off for a few more hours. store.steampowered.com/app/2128270/...

still a very very solid space combat experience. Doesn't waste your time and gets you into the thick of it, with an easy to learn, hard to master flight and combat model. I still can't leave my shield at home to master jump tricks.