haven't touched Unreal Metahumans in a while(since december!) just warming up now, might do more sculpting in zbrush to bring out some more features, especially in that 3/4 view

man shut the fuck up

almost every place that ive now interviewed at for a gamedev job has either shut down their studio or laid off 90% of their staff. there are 2 i can think of that are big studios, and i think theyre not immune especially when Bluepoint was even shut down.

oh wow artstation was eating up my ram for some reason, i closed my tab and then my PC didnt sound like a jet taking off anymore

I'm so jet lagged, if I close my eyes for 3 seconds, I'm gonna doze off

TACO strikes again

Seeing Twisted Pixel closed down by Meta is so sad to see but also angers me that these big tech corpos are buying studios but not investing in games at all. Stay indie, resist these corpos for fast money but will throw you out in the end.

So far in the Philippines

America showed that it craves oil and once the entire world figures out how to manipulate America by limiting, circumventing or stopping oil trades entirely, they can easily get whatever they want from the US.

To all the new folks moving over here, I am best known as the Director of the Castlevania and Castlevania: Nocturne animated series on Netflix! I am an animator and storyboard artist, and occasionally post pretty things (but often dumb things). Hello and welcome. 😊✨🦇

I STAND BY IT (though I did also make this video which includes 5 indie games you likely haven’t heard of that are all kinds of fantastic: youtu.be/ZCAR-9OAhH8

Max, 2022

Just some thoughts

I have a new mesh to metahuman workflow coming soon

The artist of a generation.

We out here for about a month, stay safe and have a well rested holiday everyone

Cancelled my Paramount+ account tonight. They ask you why you are canceling in the web form and I wrote “Bari Weiss”.

Xmas present to myself

do every streamer that just discovered ex33 just not read or pay attention to the story? like they played so much gun and ball games that reading comprehension in games is just goes out the window

One way to combat AI is to double down on creativity, AI can only copy and can't make anything new. It makes slop because that's what you get when you mix everything up. Be creative, think outside the norm and make sure it comes from within you, from your own experiences and tastes. Ai can't do that

TIL that the song Alicia from Ex33 is gibberish at first but until you get more and more into the game, the song starts to become more discernable and at the end, the song changes to Maelle and its fully understandable in French and paints the whole story about the game

I'll be completely honest with you. It's a tencent directive to use Ai to TRAIN AI in the long run. I've worked on a game that was by proxy a tencent one and the concept art was all AI or AI assisted. Concept artist I worked with were just not into it and eventually quit.

quickly threw it to metahumans my PC sounds like a jet engine

Actually didn't watch the awards show, just scrolled here on social media while I was eating pho with the missus

They're hiring

remember the spiderman and elsa fiasco? yeah thats now gonna multiply like crazy, heres to protecting the kids! 👎

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

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

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Number one my ass can't even beat green bay. That's all I want, is for them to whup green bay's ass but for 10 years it's been humiliation every single game. Shouldn't have watched the game, just upped my blood pressure for nothing

i think toolbag 5 has this bug that if you delete the high poly mesh (if its a large mesh) or replace it while the app is open, it kinda borks the file and its not replaceable anymore or deletable anymore

Couldn't resist splashing some color on her. Agrias printable model should be up on my Kofi whenever I can figure out how to do that. ( ﾟДﾟ)b

At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs. There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.

A real good one from Drew. youtu.be/W8Z3MfNpJpE?...

im alive

I can still do retopology for free with my perpetual licensed brush 2022 using zspheres

A Japanese game studio now asks art applicants to draw a picture during the interview process, to prove they don't just use generative AI. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-japan...

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Game developers were here first. Not executives. Game developers make games. Not executives. Game developers have skills & knowledge important to the business. Not executives. Game developers deserve to keep their jobs. Not executives. Executives are replaceable. Not game developers.

They spell it out plainly in Project 2025. They want a white Christofascist nation controlled by white males with subservient females. All others are either in a servant role, slaving in worker camps, or sent to extermination camps. This is not a drill.

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

To shovel or not to shovel

been cooking up something, will update in a couple of months from now youtu.be/WdzJ-3-kwdc

A couple images from my Substance Signature Collection. Created in Substance 3D Designer, rendered in Marmoset. #madewithsubstance #gameart #gamedev #procedural #space

Serenity also used the Papyrus font.....

Bad policies create bad consequences, Austin housing market starting to crash. Who knew that laid off tech people will move out of places they can't afford. We were there and we couldn't buy a house. Now it's doable but you couldnt pay me to move back there.

Ai, creating solutions to problems that don't exist.