Even the Micans thinks the Chat Pile track needs to be louder.

Digging up some old files. I've always liked the approach on this project—ZSpheres to get the silhouette, rough sculpt dictating the edges, decimate (lazy, perfect) and a manual sharpening of edges. Tiny texture, project UVs and you're gold. #gamedev #3Dart #ZBrush #Blender3D #TheKeepersLog

The job market is dead. The script is broken. The luteal phase is winning. But I bought a pen that looks like a pipe from a starship engine, and I wrote 200k words about monsters falling in love inside a black hole. Survival is weird. Art is weird. We keep going.

I stare into the loop. I do not look away, because the loop does not look away. #b3d #blender3d #shadernodes #TheKeepersLog

Angel Wings. When pressed, they look like they belong to something ancient, subterranean. The vasculature is mesmerizing under light.

Designing the origin myth for the world's primary magic resource. Born from a goddess's regret. Weaponized grief. Good. #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #3dart #Worldbuilding #Lore #TheKeepersLog

It is done! Watch it sit snugly on the shelf. I feel... strangely empty now that the grind is over. Dark Souls 2 left... Can't wait 🥹

This week's creative highlight (see what I did there?) I need to start using "dermis" in daily conversation. #TheKeepersLog #rotgospel #writing #AmWriting

They made me do it. The bastards actually made me fight him on NG++. I hate them. 2nd try, though. My hands are shaking.

"A fine line between exhaustion and murder." An overpaint test over the sculpt. The goal: fight the poison of over-rendering. I needed to respect the anatomy, test the palette, and break the dead-eyed doll trap 3D meshes tend to have. #Hedera #characterdesign #conceptart #drow #TheKeepersLog

Writing the damage is one thing. Sculpting the scar tissue is another. “Survival isn’t poetry. It’s a hard shell you grow over torn skin. And waking up tomorrow—that’s the only victory that matters.” #ZBrush #characterart #sculpting #digitalart #anatomy #storytelling #Hedera #TheKeepersLog

I handwrite the draft at night. Type it into the phone in the morning. Somewhere in between, autocorrect decided to turn a lance of darkness into a lethal vegetable. A terrifying way to go. #amwriting #TheKeepersLog #vegetableofdoom

Why spend years learning to paint when you can spend days bullying a render engine with math until it submits? The Lie vs. The Node Tree. Picking up a pen is too simple, huh? #ScreenshotSaturday #b3d #npr #shader #nodes #gamedev #3dart #TheKeepersLog

40/43. I can smell it.

The Pancake Rite. Application of percussive maintenance to a Lothric Knight. The armor is steel. The club is wood. The result is physics. Still no medal. The beatings will continue until the RNG improves. #DarkSouls3 #LargeClub #TheKeepersLog #thegrind #pancaked

Breaking the helmet. Strand by strand. The irony is that it takes hours of precise, grueling geometry to make it look like she just ran her hands through it in desperation. Calculated chaos. #ZBrush #3dart #hairsculpt #characterart #digitalsculpting #WIP #TheKeepersLog

A Denoising Normal XYZ pass from the archives. Technically, it's just coordinate data. Visually, it’s the exact last thing my character sees after I mistime a dodge roll against a swamp boss. #b3d #cycles #rendering #3dart #gamedev #abstract #TheKeepersLog

Oh gods, it's Patches... #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #indiedev #prototype #narrativeart #TheKeepersLog

I Love Being Part Of The Economy, It's What I Was Born To Do OUT NOW!!! With video by @plagedark.bsky.social Watch the full thing here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDta... #vocaloid #hatsunemiku #初音ミク

The raw, heavy clay: the thing as it actually is— Versus the stylized low-poly: the pretty, efficient lie we feed to the machine to keep it happy. (there's a metaphor in here, somewhere) #gamedev #3dart #lowpoly #stylized #ZBrush #Blender3D #TheKeepersLog

Just a cute little smile. Positively harmless. I'm sure it's a friend. #ZBrush #3dart #creaturedesign #digitalsculpting #characterart #TheKeepersLog

If you're going to forge a blade that cuts intention, bends the veil between worlds, and hums with a god's regrets—you can't just toss it in the armory. You have to spend the extra hours making its archive page look halfway decent. #ScreenshotSaturday #3dart #worldbuilding #indiedev #TheKeepersLog

I was about to mock Eevee's fog render—but I did a double take when I recognized the brutal sketch of silhouette framed by a fast, chaotic watercolor study of atmosphere and focus. Eevee: 1, Andra: 0 #Blender3D #Eevee #gamedev #conceptart #worldbuilding #WIP #TheKeepersLog

As the final hour nears, the coven awakens. A colorful wish for those who have passed to be witnessed once more 🎃 #3dart #characterart #halloween #coven #reliquary

An echo from the archives for the season. An old animation exercise—a flicker of innocent joy 🎃 #animation #blender3D #3dart #halloween #reliquaryarchives

Mothman sways like a demon in the night as the barrier between the realms gets thinner 🎃 #greasepencil #blender3D #animation #spookyseason #offering

Peaks of the Dolomites shrouded in clouds.

The third sentinel—the one grizzled by time and hardship and yet—stubbornly—refuses to go 🎃 #zbrush #3dsculpt #characterart #spookyseason #offering #reliquary

Week 2 of wrestling Cycles, fog, and light into submission. Silencing the nefarious voice inside my head whispering "we need more lights." #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #3dart #Blender3D #Cycles #TheKeepersLog

The second sentinel—the one who, despite the absolute horrors, is just vibing 🎃 #zbrush #3dsculpt #characterart #spookyseason #offering