I was super excited to get to build Marj, one of our queer NPC's. There's one easter egg in #SpiritCrossing that I think has gone largely unnoticed and might be my favorite...the tattoo on her arm is Violets - Lesbian Violets, iconography that started with Sappho. 🥹🧡💛🤍🩷💜 #Art #CharacterArt #GameDev

So I want to share a story about my favorite concept in our latest game, The Killing Stone, and how strong art direction recognizes the potential of an idea and can empower artists working to capture it.

In case anyone's interested, this is the process I'm using to generate normals for the painterly portfolio project I'm working on. This is in Substance Painter, but you could also do it in Photoshop or 3D Coat I convert them to tangent space after the fact, but you could also do that in a shader

These are some of my favorite materials I made for Mind Over Magic. I was responsible for creating all of the tillable texture/trim textures shown, as well the shaders that handled their mapping/FX. Check out a lot more here: www.artstation.com/artwork/DL4znR #gameart #indie #MindOverMagic #Unity

These are some of my favorite materials I made for Mind Over Magic. I was responsible for creating all of the tillable texture/trim textures shown, as well the shaders that handled their mapping/FX. Check out a lot more here: www.artstation.com/artwork/DL4znR #gameart #indie #MindOverMagic #Unity

As promised: Faces! 😁 Here's a thread about some technical details for how stylized faces get made in Spirit Crossing. 🧵 The game is inspired by media like Ghibli and BotW, but our faces are unique. There was lots of early discussion about face style & we landed on dot-eyes early...

It's my birthdayyy today so I'm going to ask for a cheeky lil artshare if you like my work since I'm still pretty new to the bluesky art community c: Hii I'm Marby, I'm from the UK and living in the US. I like world building and fantasy art, I'm also working on a personal game project for fun 🖤

Karlach WIP

A huge part of Spirit Crossing's visual style is the cel-shading and outlines! Everything is modeled for the appearance of these shaders and how it renders in Unreal. That means using soft edges where you don't want an outline and hard edges where you do.🧵

No studio will ever generate 4 options and be like one of these is perfect. They will generate hundreds/thousands driving up executive indecision and take just as long. The actual problem is not how long artist take, its leadership not knowing exactly what they want. AI will not solve that.

Hi!👋I've been leading character art on Spirit Crossing with @spryfox.bsky.social for the last few years and, as I'm new to BlueSky, I thought I'd try sharing some of the work that's gone into making characters for an MMO over the next few months! Follow if you like characters and lil tech details 😊

I just hit 8k followers, so let's do an art share for artists under 1000 followers! Drop some pieces below, and don't forget to share your portfolio website and contact info!

Happy #PotfolioDay everyone! I'm Stephen, and I'm looking for fulltime/contract opportunities. I'm a 3D Generalist with over 15 years of experience in the games industry working on characters, environments, animation, shaders, and vfx. 🖼️: stevston89.artstation.com

It's #PortfolioDay and I'm available for new projects! Hi! I’m a senior freelance 3D Character artist in the UK with over 10 years experience creating stylised characters, specialising in both bespoke heroes and highly adaptable customisable characters See more here! artstation.com/shayleenhulbert

Hi #Portfolioday! I just love making characters and ice skating!!

Happy Newyear! Heres my 2025 work

Happy #PotfolioDay everyone! I'm Stephen, and I'm looking for fulltime/contract opportunities. I'm a 3D Generalist with over 15 years of experience in the games industry working on characters, environments, animation, shaders, and vfx. 🖼️: stevston89.artstation.com

I've been helping out with VFX on Marvel Snap this year, and wanted to share some of my favorite VFX I've made. You can check out more here! www.artstation.com/artwork/lGkQYo #rtvfx #vfx #gameart #MarvelSnap #Unity

I've been helping out with VFX on Marvel Snap this year, and wanted to share some of my favorite VFX I've made. You can check out more here! www.artstation.com/artwork/lGkQYo #rtvfx #vfx #gameart #MarvelSnap #Unity

Brioche the Doughmancer 🫓

marmoset.co/posts/crafti... - wrote a little walkthrough of the making of the Mouse in Marmoset.

Hey! Need 3D character art for your project? I'm opening up for freelance and commissions in October! With almost 15 years of experience across over a dozen games, I'm comfortable in both stylized and realistic work, as well as mobile and VR Drop me a line! 🎨 xavierck.com 💌 [email protected]

A bunch of nasty foes you might encounter along your way :

oldie - magical energy vine effect in unity

Check out more high res breakdowns in my portfolio. www.aminues.com/MindOverMagi... I'm almost done updating all my work from Mind Over Magic!

Alright, due to popular demand, let's start talking about the 🎶 Beasts with the fur (with the fur) 🎶 in ✨HERDLING ✨ Here's a 🧵 with the process and tech behind the fur on our fluffy Calicorns:

Hey #PortfolioDay! 😄 I'm Alexandra, Stylized 3D Artist for games.🌺 I'm still looking for a full time position in indie gamedev! Here's some of the work I did for Mind Over Magic, Released on February this year 🧙‍♀️✨ 💼: www.aminues.com 📧: [email protected] #PortfolioDay #IndieDev #3DArtist #GameDev

The catch of the day, again.

🧵 breakdown thread of the Halo energy shield vfx! (there's a couple approaches you could take for this, and a lot of optimisations possible for each part, so take this more as a general 'approach' than a specific step-by-step!) 1/5

With how many layoffs we’ve had over the past several years, remote work should be the default. Requiring relocation at this point is unreasonable for the risk that we’re just going to get laid off two months, six months, a year in.

One cool way to save 30mil is to fire the guy at the top making 30mil

was an honor to be included in this devlog, you get to see a bit of my pipeline for making rocks on this project!

I've spent *years* researching 3D Platformer Cameras in hopes of making Slime 64's camera "not terrible." In this thread, the White Cylinder is the Camera Target (slightly above the player!), and the Orange Cones represent the "vertical dead zone" where the camera won't follow player movement.

Mages just wanna have fun! ✨ 🧝‍♀️ 💃 🕺 👯 🧝‍♀️ ✨ Check out the Recreation rooms of Mind Over Magic! 🏫 #3DArt #3DArtist #MindOverMagic #GameDev #IndieDev #GameArt #Sparkypants #KleiPublishing #ColonySim #MagicSchool

Check out more high res breakdowns in my portfolio. www.aminues.com/MindOverMagi...

It's now time to show off the gorgeous rooms of Mind Over Magic! 😄 Starting with the Bedrooms! The beds were some of the first assets I worked on during my time at Sparkypants. ☺️ #3DArt #3DArtist #MindOverMagic #GameDev #IndieDev #GameArt #Sparkypants #KleiPublishing #ColonySim #MagicSchool

I'm still updating my work in of Mind Over Magic. This time for the outdoors! Working on plants and foliage is one of the things that I enjoy the most when working in 3D ☺️ #3DArt #3DArtist #MindOverMagic #GameDev #IndieDev #GameArt #Sparkypants #KleiPublishing #ColonySim #MagicSchool

Hey #PorfolioDay! I'm Alexandra 😊 3D Stylized Artist in games. I recently worked on Mind Over Magic, super proud of that project and our team! 🧝✨ I'm open to talk about remote opportunities for indie games! 💼: www.aminues.com 📧: [email protected] #3DArt #StylizedArt #GameArt #GameDev #IndieDev

More of my work on the dungeons of Mind Over Magic! Featuring Ted Terranova's favourite asset of mine: the dungeon roots 🌳 #3DArt #3DArtist #MindOverMagic #GameDev #IndieDev #GameArt #Sparkypants #KleiPublishing #ColonySim #MagicSchool

Spirit Crossing, the game I've been AD'ing at Spry Fox since 2019 just got announced! A prosocial MMO where you connect with others to build and maintain a community while helping wayward Spirits in need; I've been very lucky to work with this team on this game youtu.be/RNGs3tLPaF0?...

A Magic School's gotta have students! In classic prep school fashion they adhear to a uniform dress code, but also have to stand out amongst their peers. We also needed to signify different levels of student education. #conceptart #characterdesign #gameart #stylized #indie #klei #mindovermagic

The Creatures of Mind over Magic!! (Vol 1) #klei #steam #gameart #3dart #indie #mindovermagic #colonysim

In Mind Over Magic you can capture and tame wild rats and croas and feed them your excess of crops to keep them happy! 😄 I worked on the croa and rat coop. The beautiful babies were modeled and textured by @andyfps.bsky.social and the concepts are by @andrewcollins27.bsky.social #MindOverMagic

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One of the main things you do in Mind Over Magic is build your school. I prototyped the look and built out all of the FX and shader for our construction fx. Higher res videos below! www.artstation.com/artwork/3EZa3B #rtvfx #vfx #gameart #indie #MindOverMagic #Unity

A wonky magic school needs a staff to match. In #MindOverMagic Humans, cultists, wolfkin, sentient stitched together fleshbeings and magical crystal people all working together in harmony! So fun to design, and they're even cooler in game. #conceptart #characterdesign #gameart #indie #stylized

I finally finished all of my portfolio updates last week. All new work from Metric Empire, Sumo and Fuzzy Bot are live and ready for your eyeballs! It would mean a lot if you checked it out 🤗 www.artstation.com/shayleenhulb...