Josh 🖌

@josh3dart.bsky.social

He/Him 👨‍🎨 3D Character Artist 🎨 Unbending Determination of a Shonen Character 🔥 🎨 www.artstation.com/joshd3dart 📬 josh.donaldson3dart@gmail.com

A lot of people (accurately) point out that premium video games are cheaper today than they were 30 years ago thanks to inflation, but discussed less often is how much bigger the margins are for game companies now that sales are 80-90% (soon to be 100%) digital. No more retail or packaging costs!

my one big takeaway from this years pile of Showcases is that Unreal Engine 5 has co-opted or sort of, I dare say, polluted the visual language of games, where nothing stands out theres a kind of mediocrity that comes with being "photorealistic I guess". PBR substance everywhere, but not distinct

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こちらは一昨年銀座の路地裏巡りをしたときのもの。銀座は江戸時代の裏店通りが残っているので、時代に取り残されたような風景も多くて良かったです。このあたりは詳しい人がいろいろまとめているので、気になった方は是非調べてみてください。

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First ever post on BSKY as I finally have something personal to show yay! I painted something quick during the weekends because I need to update my portfolio. Only diffuse and ORM maps

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The AI stuff really feels like a sickness when people think they can just say things like “agentic social app” and “atproto” and expect us to know what the hell they mean.

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Getting closer and closer with this project but there's still a bunch of little things to fix and then I really want to get some videos rendered out - will I get it done before the end of the year? 👀

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