Me looking at New York, Jersey, and Virginia tonight

Help I can’t stop

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

Seeing a professional artist on the other site go viral with an AI meme

This image is funny but legit this is how 3D art feels like to me. The way I talk to other artists about shader node groups may as well be like two wizards sharing magical runes between each other.

I think I finally am cracking the code on this 3D-Ghibli stuff. I watched an amazing tutorial on the trees from @AversionReality that really helped me understand shader nodes way better. I'm also using assets from @Reipart_ (The grass) and @FaruqTawsif (The flowers).

I think I finally am cracking the code on this 3D-Ghibli stuff. I watched an amazing tutorial on the trees from @AversionReality that really helped me understand shader nodes way better. I'm also using assets from @Reipart_ (The grass) and @FaruqTawsif (The flowers).

Waffling back and forth on whether I wanna get the new Pokemon game.

Someone showed me the beauty of custom normals

Alright we're getting places

Experimenting with Ghibli-style trees in Blender. Most of this is based off of @FaruqTawsif's amazing Ghibli-inspired asset library (link below), but I modified it to have a camera-vectored shadow texture on top, and a custom texture for the tree mesh itself.

Still thinking about Chicago, such a beautiful city.

Hell yeah

Saw “Perfect Blue” for the first time today. Y’all…animation is so beautiful.

I’m starting to come to the very toxic opinion that Bilewater is my favorite area in Silksong. I’m not even joking.

A few weeks out from finishing Silksong, and I think the Citadel may be one of my favorite levels in all of games.

Detroit Lions - 38 Baltimore Ravens - 30

Weirdly annoyed that Hornet never says SHAW in Silksong.

It’s finally time.

We did it yall

There’s a LOT of bullshit in Silksong that I defend, but not being able to farm shell shards in the final area is insane. Sekiro, a game that also requires you to spend currency to craft tools, even allowed you to go somewhere else to farm said currency.

*Vague Silksong spoilers* I feel like Team Cherry does a great job of making familiar areas feel super creepy upon revisiting. In Hollow Knight, it was Crossroads, and in Silksong it’s definitely Wormways.

Hard to feel any semblance of optimism for the future of this country.

I asked Castlevania's @samueldeats.bsky.social to weigh in on which was harder.

Been thinking about Silksong’s Bilewater area today. I get the intention with the area, I mean it’s pretty obviously oppressive, but I feel like it veers into ‘beating a dead horse’ territory. I think Caelid from Elden Ring conveys similar feelings without as much mechanical tension.

I see people trying to say the platforming in Silksong is harder than Hollow Knight and like, I’m almost at the end of this game… and there ain’t anything even remotely close to Path of Pain. Absolutely nothing.

It’s genuinely crazy how bad the job market is for artists right now lol

Silksong, we gotta talk about your over-reliance on gauntlets into bosses. Truly feels like it’s doing a disservice to this Karmelita fight! I bet she’d be fun to learn if I didn’t have to spend 5 minutes getting to her each time.

Silksong…The Slab….iykyk

Today, the clown makeup comes off.

Had a good job interview last week, now just waiting on word about it. Please wish me some good luck y’all 🙏

i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat

Tried Geometry Nodes in Blender for the first time

Everyone is preparing for Silksong by playing Hollow Knight, but I’ve already played it like 4 times, so instead I’ve been playing Paper Mario 64 with custom textures. Gonna play the remake of TTYD next.

Dunno how many newer followers have seen this stuff; but I've been working on a personal project in my off-time for about 8 years now called FOLK. It's a closer look at ordinary people set in extraordinary worlds. I might even be working on the next piece for it 👀

Dunno how many newer followers have seen this stuff; but I've been working on a personal project in my off-time for about 8 years now called FOLK. It's a closer look at ordinary people set in extraordinary worlds. I might even be working on the next piece for it 👀

Was looking through old Castlevania: Nocturne art and found some backgrounds of the area of the Louvre that Olrox and Mizrak have some fun times in

I understand why it’s like this, but I’m annoyed that LinkedIn has a limit on how many people you can connect with.

This industry is genuinely so cruel.

Background paintings by Sue Mondt for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (2004–2009), created by Craig McCracken, Cartoon Network Studios

I feel like DK Bananza is a bit too easy and frictionless. I’m kinda just mindlessly hitting through terrain and slamming the ground until I find something. …on the other hand though, Ooh, banana

Saw it again the other day, and was trying to think of why I liked Superman much more. I think that, for me at least, Superman as a film not only had a stronger identity, but way more to say as a film, even if what it was saying wasn’t profound.

New Fantastic Four movie was…amazing, spectacular, a real journey into mystery! An incredible tale to astonish! Truly uncanny!

Got to see a black swallowtail emerge from its cocoon within a 24 hour span

I love working and creating art, but the freelance life is tough. I have nothing but grace and admiration to permalancer artists who do this 24/7, y’all are strong. But I really would like a job with a steady paycheck again, real bad.

I still go on the other site mostly, but it’s becoming less and less part of my life. I come here and it’s like oh hey this is where all my cool friends and peers are hanging out now that seems nice.

One of the challenge room tracks in Donkey Kong sounds like something I’d hear in a Shin Megami game, it’s great

Oh, banana…!

Was in Chicago a week and a half ago and saw lotta cool art, and took some pics of them. Looking at them now, it’s crazy how badly phone camera mess up the colors/values. It makes you appreciate seeing these pieces in person even more so.