Taking advantage of my post-layoff free time by finally taking a new profile photo for my socials! Last one was getting close to 7 years old 💀

Welp, ya boi got gommaged from work but with Meta having given up on the metaverse already this felt inevitable 🤷‍♂️ Gonna spend some time working on personal projects and enjoying the summer, but if you're looking for a gameplay programmer/character tech artist hit me up! 🔧

Going into our 4th round of layoffs in 6 months at Meta this week, having finally gotten around to playing Expedition 33 it's crazy how knowing about this layoff months in advance has made people's attitude about it feel similar to getting gommaged 🥀

DLSS 5 OFF vs DLSS 5 ON

Imagine if the US did stuff like this instead of just using our tax dollars to accelerate the downfall of humanity 🥲

Just finding out about Yerba Buena becoming paywalled off by GDC this year??? Encroaching on THE most organic meeting spots of the event feels super icky and desperate ngl Super bummed, I even brought a blanket this year bc fully expecting to spend like 80% of my time sitting in the gardens :/

Bump!! I fly into SF today and will be around through next Saturday! Any mutuals also going let's meet up!

First time trying out Nomad Sculpt bc my lazy ass wants to 3d model on the couch. idk if I’d commit to doing 100% of my sculpting in it yet, but I like it so far! #3dart #gamedev

Feels like the legacy of this game won't be the game itself but rather the fact that it's *the* case study for how unsustainable the current state of the games industry is. Even if it's a fluffed PR number, 2 million players still not being enough to last longer than a month is totally wild to me

One of the best first looks for a new Pokemon game we've seen in a looong time, praying the gameplay holds up to how good this trailer looked when it finally releases! The 2027 release date gives me hope that GF actually has time to cook with this one 🙏🙏🙏

Officially booked for GDC!! It's been 3 years since last time I attended, so I'm super excited to be able to make it again this year! 🎉 Gimme a shout if you're also gonna be there and want to connect!

Coven of the Chickenfoot is probably gonna be my favorite trailer/announcement of the Game Awards tbh, I'm a sucker for unconventional hero + animal companion 😍

I've genuinely wondered for years why anybody still held Geoff or TGA to any legitimate regard when they obviously don't care about the industry beyond pandering to corporations, but *even then* I still hoped to be a part of Future Class someday. Clearly it got too in the way of the pandering... 🫠🥴

Blessed by the gods to have snagged the 2nd to last one at my local Best Buy for the launch event last night 🙏🙏🙏

Definitely was a DUMB idea to assume the Switch 2 pre-order reservation would actually come from Nintendo and not look into other options for getting a Switch at launch... We'll see if I can snag one on launch week but I'm fully expecting to have to wait a bit at this point 😭

First 2025 game review: Animal Well!! About a year late to playing this, but I'm genuinely surprised by how much I LOVE this game. Didn't think much of it from the GDC demo a few years ago, but I'm so glad I gave it another chance after seeing the hype around it omg 9.5/10

📢 Announcement: ✨ VFX Vault is online ✨ ➡️ www.vfx-vault.com I'm part of this huge project we've been cooking for many months 🎉 ➡️ High quality realtime-vfx asset library for UE -> materials & VFX are game ready for your own project #vfx #rtvfx #UnrealEngine #gamedev #realtimeVFX #UE5 #indiedev

Trying to be more intentional about setting time aside every day to play games, since life is so busy rn that I genuinely haven't played anything in months (besides Pokemon Go lol) 🥲 Gonna post mini-reviews here to A) actually keep accountable, and B) keep a log of everything I play!

Indie developers: Please never sign away your IP to a publisher unless you are getting a massive deal out of it and you genuinely do not care. Please please please do not do this without a strong reason AND the publisher guaranteeing/giving up a significant amount in return.

This is quite literally worse than the servers going dark

Life's fine and totally not dystopian, just the sky's full of smoke and everything's on fire but I still have to finish writing my annual performance reviews for work today 🫠

Made the mistake of checking LinkedIn this morning. First post is some VC claiming that the "solution" for the unhealthy food problem in the US is to "use AI to find foods with bad ingredients and put them on the blockchain so they get fixed." Peak tech bro brainrot, be so fucken fr rn 🙄🙄🙄

* Tech tip! * Offset the UVs of your caustics texture to get a cool chromatic aberration effect 🌈 uv1 = uv + (split, split) uv2 = uv + (split, -split) uv3 = uv + (-split, -split)

One of my goals for 2025 is to actually play more indie games! Competing in Pokemon Go has eaten up almost all of my gaming time this year so I wanna make more of an effort to actually play other stuff lol If you have any suggestions hit me with them!

Update 5 for my good old "Fluffy Tree" article. This time with added knowledge from @h3r2tic.bsky.social &@pomperi.bsky.social: simonschreibt.de/gat/airborn-... #gamedev #techart #ItsSooooFluffy

Somehow I completely failed to realize that The Game Awards were last night, but I've seen way more people talking about @tgagwcaga.bsky.social today so sounds like this is the more exciting awards event to catch up on😂

Hi again Bluesky! Was off the grid for a month but I came back to my followers having doubled anyway?? 🤯 Introduce yourself and/or share something cool you're working on, I wanna meet y'all!!

After putting it off for literally years, I'm finally getting around to gitting gud at Houdini. To my tech art/3d art friendos, any resources y'all would recommend to check out?

Shader Artists! Here's a super handy reference for the formulas behind Photoshop's blending modes✨

Ready for spooky szn 🙂‍↕️🎃

Free #UnrealEngine stuff! I've just shared some of my simple but useful material functions for anyone to visualize, copy, and paste into their projects using blueprintUE. Feel free to use them however you like! I'll be posting more free resources over the weekend. blueprintue.com/profile/bonz...

Hello #VFX enthusiasts Here's one I did for a prototype that never shipped Breakdown in 🧵

There are 59 places left on my Realtime VFX Starterpack. If you are a Tech/VFX artist or you know some which are not yet on the list, let me know! go.bsky.app/3R8aUNM #gamedev #realtimevfx #indiedev

Let's give away some free textures! These sketchy tiling textures are a great base for stylized materials in Substance Painter + Designer, Blender, Unreal Engine, all sorts really! I hope you enjoy using them, and please share the love! 🙌 jakebenbow.gumroad.com/l/JB_TilingPainterlyTextures_Vol2

Shoutout to Higround for sending me the Kojima Productions collab keyboard and mousepad! My office desk was in desperate need of decoration, and this is probably as sick as it gets

Pokémon Fire Red/Leaf Green were so ahead of their time for having these recap screens every time you reopen the game. I definitely didn't appreciate this enough as a kid since I was able to play it every day, but now I'd kill for every game to have this!!

Sharing my most popular posts from Twitter, re-exported even :D Basic fire effect from 2018 ! #gamedev #unity3d

One of my favorite monster designs, Dragoot!! This lil dragon spits out a stream of razor sharp seeds instead of breathing fire 💥 #ConceptArt

#realtimevfx Starter Pack 1.1.9 is out: go.bsky.app/3R8aUNM Added: @bonzerkitten.bsky.social @srrafles.bsky.social @bluebendypencil.bsky.social @kelvinvanhoorn.com @kobolds-keep.net @archanor.bsky.social

A closer look at some props using my watercolor shader! There's a breakdown of the shader on my website, link in bio!

Pray for me as I gut my game's custom action system to replace it with Unreal GAS, which I 100% should've used from the start 🫠

Always found the sailing in Wind Waker an extremely soothing experience. Just cruising the ocean with no goal. I tried to recreate this in #pico8. Dragon Roost Island next! #pixelart #lowpoly #3d

Using Splines in Substance Designer to create leaves in a non destructive way , I use this all the time when making foliage simple enough it doesnt need a sculpt , its a really quick way of making a large variety of shapes

⭐ GAMES INDUSTRY LABELER INSTRUCTIONS v2 ⭐ The automated labeler is working! Let's walk through the new process of getting a label! 🧵 #GameDev

💡 How do we review game pitches for Outersloth? 💡 Enjoy this detailed explanation of how @fortebass.bsky.social looks at and judges pitches*: ➡️ Pitch Deck ➡️ Due Diligence ➡️ Demo ➡️ Personal Preference *Note this is just his POV www.innersloth.com/how-i-review...

🏡Stylized Capybara House🍃 #3dart #gameart #unrealengine

Anyone enjoy Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, or Wind Waker Zelda combat?? They’re my favorite in the series, here’s some Targeting, fun visuals, item drops, rolling, and more!

re-sharing one of my fav pieces here 🌳🌷✨ if I could just make silly cosy forests and flowers forever I'd be a very happy lil artist 💕 #gameart #3Dart #stylized #UE4