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head honcho @VirtuosoComms. artist+designer+dev | personal acct. https://t.co/oXztdyS4UY | ethan/@/virtuoso.world
Joined January 2010
stop talking about "graphics" and start thinking about art direction.
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sick of hearing people mythologize the insanity of this year. it's not "tWeNty TwEnTy", it's years of poor leadership and systemic bullshit finally yielding predictable results that experts have foreseen for years now.
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Blender 3D is a pro-grade full-featured modeling/sculpting/animation tool with a natural user interface and completely scriptable workflow - it is also free and open source. use that instead.
Autodesk has unveiled its new pay-as-you-go pricing system called Flex. Users will now be able to pay on a day-by-day basis by pre-purchasing online tokens:. #autodesk #maya #3dsmax #gamedev #3dart
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no real game designer is excited by this concept. our whole schtick is creating experiences that are a reward unto themselves, extrinsic motivation is the antithesis of play.
Sorry but “play to earn” is just an incredibly bleak concept.
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cw: violence. you can’t reform this.
My suburban police department has a tank but my kids teachers ask me to send at least $150 dollars worth of supplies per child each year for school. Priorities.
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life is too short to “ironically enjoy things”. just own up to it and like what you like, you’ll have more fun.
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all my recent work's secret, so threading some favs
Juneteenth is coming up, so BLACK ARTISTS🗣 Please QRT with some of your work that you’re proud of!!✨.
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if you want to support artists, buy their shit; commission custom works; spread the word about their art; leave them a kind message. you don't need "web3" for that, and expecting some kind of a return on that "investment" is baffling.
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some contextless WIP UI for [redacted]. really pleased with how it's turning out
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fidelity isnt "quality". "more real" isn't better necessarily. excess isn't always abundance.
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Arc Systems is on a whole different level with this animation
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bringing this back for #portfolioday - I'm Ethan, I'm a multimedia designer focused on aggressive hyper stylization
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begging on my hands and knees for folks to stop equating literal fidelity and filmic similarity as the medium achieving “maturity”.
Just as video games have become more sophisticated and detailed, so has the music composed for video games, with lush orchestral scores written to fit an individual's gameplay. Conor Knighton looks at how the field of video game music has exploded.
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before anyone misconstrues, I'm not shitting on high-fidelity stuff - it's a valid creative choice that can be leveraged to breathtaking ends. but is shouldn't be treated as a default, and visual appeal isn't a sliding scale from "bad" to "detailed and accurate".
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some of my in-game work, from one of the 3 games I have in active development now [old screenshot]
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this has no bearing on the overall quality of the game proper. it's not a reflection on the passion or care the developers put into either game, merely the resource allocation towards minutiae versus big-picture.
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@kianamaiart my company @VirtuosoComms makes bright games for better days, we've got this + 2 other games coming very soon (old shot, same reasons lol)
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it's 3D, using a new shading technique I've been messing with
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live on fucking national TV. beyond the blatantly obvious racism here, this is a member of the press being arrested for seemingly no good reason after complying with law enforcement - this is what actual suppression of free speech looks like.
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if you’re 400hrs deep in a game saying it’s gotten repetitive and “desperately” needs new content. maybe you’re just done with it for now? I’ll never understand this viewpoint.
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cyber-Reagan and “blm-as-terrorist-cover-up” are the final bosses of big games’ obsession with chasing the signifiers of realism/relevance/importance and the refusal to have any deeper dialectic about them, let alone taking a stance on anything.
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fuck this. sacrifice is willful - George Floyd was vindictively murdered by the state. he should still be alive, and none of us should have to die for us to be treated like human beings.
@AlexNBCNews @SpeakerPelosi Speaker Pelosi: "Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice . Because of you and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your name will always be synonymous with justice.".
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I'm Ethan, I make BOLD & FUN videogames and stylized art for @VirtuosoComms - here's some character designs from one of my upcoming games for #PortfolioDay 🤘🏾
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@kianamaiart old work bc NDAs, but I'm an independent designer/game developer. also on insta @
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tired: where is the next F-Zero.wired: where is the first #KillerAuto.
some of my in-game work, from one of the 3 games I have in active development now [old screenshot]
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facts. lo-fi 3D is a whole style of its own, not just slapdash sloppy models with random distortion and down-sampling.
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replicated my terrain elevation shader in-engine - creates elevation lines for everything relevant to your current depth/altitude, discards the rest
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nobody tells you about 99% of designing 3D action games is learning and using the most fucked up mathematics you could possibly imagine.
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what irks me the most about this remaster trend is it effectively devalues the work of technical artists and designers - the constraints of the time are a piece of the work. creative media isn't construction, you don't need to bring works "up to code" to appreciate them.
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name's Ethan, I'm a game designer + 3D artist specializing in aggressively stylized 3D✌️🏾#PortfolioDay
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the key to finding your style imo is continually asking yourself what you find compelling and digging deeper into that. do shit you wish others did more of, then do more of that than you did. become more yourself.
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optimized the shit out of the UI stuff, took the opportunity to go for a cyberfunky redesign [#KillerAuto #screenshotsaturday]
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#artvsartist: yo I'm Ethan, and I make bold, aggressively stylized, colorful 3D art and games, specializing in expressive #lowpoly art
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we _really_ don't talk enough about how fuckin cold the Megaman Zero series' art direction was
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total cam tracking overhaul - smoother + much more dynamic follow action now [#Raddminton/ #gamedev #wip]
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totally necessary sci-fi shader in the editor to keep level design fun
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this generation of designers won't stop until the only logo is the word "logo" typed out in helvetica.
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muting thread but dropping this here - don't let the money stop you from realizing your potential. I believe in ya ♥️
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I get this is most likely coming from a good place, but please for fucks sake enough with the torture porn. let us be more than our struggles.
New video game “Our America” puts the viewer in the driver's seat as a black father taking his son to school. Along the way, they are pulled over by the police, leading to life and death choices.
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wires on that sonic for the curious - took ~15min, from memory. tried to channel the R/OVA/Mania looks
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no one with any taste or ability is excited by this shit.
Font design is about to get a huge upgrade. Traditionally, given the same font, the letter ‘A’ looks identical everywhere. How about a smart & magical font that draws ‘A’ differently based on the semantic meaning of the word? Smells like Stable Diffusion?. Deep dive with me: 🧵
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please leave them be.
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truth. believe it or not, we make sci-fi, fantasy, drama, comedy, and everything else you could ask for - let us tell those stories. if I never see another civil rights or chattel slave torture-porn drama it'll be too soon.
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BLAZING LEGION: IGNITION .The Insurrection Lives. 2017. OST by @PaganThaPriest .#gamedev | #indiedev | #lowpoly | #BLAZINGLEGION
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my goal is to kill my idols. I want to make videogames that are more videogame than have ever existed. there's no nostalgia here - we learn from the past, never copy; continue paused threads, never retread.
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