Jake L. Provo
@jleedesign.bsky.social
Environment Artist @ Gunfire Games on Darksiders 4 10 years of experience in Games Fmr: Edglrd, EA sports, Little Red Games
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Most of the inking phase is in before I go to actual paint
Jake L. Provo@jleedesign.bsky.social · 2w agoI started another painting on this long weekend, but it’s ~4x the size of the previous two (22x36 versus 8x10) so it’s going to take a second- I’m a lot happier with this one so far
I started another painting on this long weekend, but it’s ~4x the size of the previous two (22x36 versus 8x10) so it’s going to take a second- I’m a lot happier with this one so far
It’s not perfect, but it’s a vast improvement from the last painting that’s all we can hope for, on to the next one with lessons learned
Jake L. Provo@jleedesign.bsky.social · 3w agoI started another watercolor, will update when it’s done. Need to fix up some color bleed areas, wasn’t paying attention and there’s some light inconsistencies but it’s a major improvement from the last one!
I started another watercolor, will update when it’s done. Need to fix up some color bleed areas, wasn’t paying attention and there’s some light inconsistencies but it’s a major improvement from the last one!
It’s not like- the best but I painted for the first time in over a decade and if you squint it actually looks like something so I’ll take that as a net positive. (But no fr it’s been nice to do something not on a computer again I may paint more who knows)
You can find cool pendants in my store like this one! Helm weave and resin flower from Samantha’s garden.
Here’s a close up at one of the necklaces on my store! It issues a Japanese 12-2 weave with deep red stones!
hey just got laid off, who needs a remote game designer
Two of my closest friends use ChatGPT so much and it’s like watching a car crash in real time as the person I know they were slowly deteriorate into a weird husk. It’s actually super depression that no amount of intervention seems to get them to realize it either.
Ingnoring the mixamo character I have for reading, I may have went crazier with scale tests in unreal. First person to guess how far away that mountain is wins a prize (the prize is being right)
Jake L. Provo@jleedesign.bsky.social · last yr.Doing some crazy unreal scale tests. The scene is something over 400square miles, all done procedurally (All assets are placeholder for right now while I refine things) All 400 square miles or so are traversable and populated with assets
What’s happenin I finally was able to get back into this account
One game you’ve worked on - no words just trailers youtu.be/hBoxLXvTLXw?...
Rogue State Revolution FMV Trailer
YouTube video by Little Red Dog Games
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Jimmie Myers@jimmiemyers.bsky.social · last yr.One game you’ve worked on - no words just trailers (I did the trailer too though 😅) youtu.be/hh5HV4iic1Y?...
I genuinely never thought I would get anywhere close to 100, let alone almost 1000 subs
youtu.be/m-t8FBX98ow?... Another new video; this time about what artistic realism is, how it pertains to video games, and how developers trick players into think it’s realism
What Exactly is Realism? (and How Video Games Trick You)
YouTube video by VertexLock
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youtu.be/uO-2zCQLzSg?... New video on some tips to enhance your game scenes (More beginner friendly tips, branching out later into more intermediate and advanced tutorials and videos)
4 Simple Tricks to Better Environment Art!
YouTube video by VertexLock
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Doing some crazy unreal scale tests. The scene is something over 400square miles, all done procedurally (All assets are placeholder for right now while I refine things) All 400 square miles or so are traversable and populated with assets
I love watching my ram creep up from 20FPs to 128gigs when converting an unreal scene to world partition over the course of an hour…
Nearly every movie you’ve seen uses outside the US support studios. How the hell do you even enforce a tarrif
I’m getting random job-rejection emails from jobs I didn’t even apply to at 3am like it’s some sort of ghost, what the hell
Wait- republicans honest to god put up a bill to repeal OSHA on the anniversary date of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?! You’ve got to be kidding
I was asked what the most helpful thing I learned in college was (in terms of my career): Take a Modern Art class. It will fundamentally change how you view art, color, light and the process of creating art. (This usually ranges from the 1860’s realism to the 1980’s Neo-Expressionism)
If Build a Bear made an actually decent build a bear plush they would make so much money I alone would buy 3
I can’t put this damn game down. I’m 25 hours deep and still mesmerized by how good it looks
This is such a cool glitch it might as well be a feature, somehow broke the game so that the “Ink” filter didn’t go away when I left photo mode. Even in the menus too
Environment artist tip: Figuring out themes, forms, and styles of a place before you stylize it will always give you a drastically better result than creating a style first and trying to make something fit it. Figure out the why,when, how first- then you can change it
Unreal nerds; why can’t I used a blueprint actor inside a tool? Why can’t I use a spline tool inside of a blueprint? WHY this would make life so much easier
I saw a 15 second clip of Assassins Creed shadows where they were just riding through the mountains of Japan- That clip was so gorgeous I immediately went to my PS5 and bought the game.
