Mike Cockayne
@mraygames.bsky.social
3D Artist, primarily focused on Environments and props, but dabbling with a bit of everything. I also stream from time to time, mostly rpg's https://mikecockayne.artstation.com/ https://youtube.com/mraygames https://twitch.tv/mraygames
Been doing something a bit different lately - I reached out a couple months ago to an independent print magazine about writing some reviews/articles, and the issue I've contributed to has just been published! Huge thanks to Zeitgeist Gaming magazine for the opportunity
ZeitgeistGaming
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Googled to check the SGF show time this week and ai spat out Thursday 5th June 2026. The 5th is Friday. It cant even read a fucking calendar....
Only been a year and Clair Obscur love has already seeped into trophy lists in other games. Love when studios do this
Honestly, partly why I spend so little time here now. Chill out a bit guys
Smooth Dunk@smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 6mo agolol the shooter has a BLUE SKY ACCOUNT, well here’s one excuse that won’t work:
The US military has 22 sites in the UK. Every day long range US bombers are taking off here to drop bombs on Iran. This is a rogue state carrying out war crimes, and threatening more. The UK Government must grow a spine - and stop our bases being used for this war.
Im in my 30s and own a strat, so naturally i only play John Mayer now
Slightly diminish a game: Penultimate Fantasy
Justin Đoàn@soundaholism.bsky.social · 9mo agoSlightly diminish a game: Baldur's Door 3
Not posting here much anymore, the vibes have been off. But this christmas i spent the last of my redundancy pay on my dream guitar, and its an absolute dream. I now want 100 strats.
That Horizon mmo is such a monkeys paw situation. Not on ps5....im sorry, what? And mobile focused to boot. And looks like the guy who gave us airbrushed Aloy is the lead character artist. Which is whatever, but its so far removed from Horizon that its jarring
XBox out here celebrating their most successful generations 20th anniversary by making their subscription $360 annually. Inspired.
Drove through a town yesterday completely plastered in England flags. It felt gross as hell. I dont think thats the reaction they want, maybe they should be a bit introspective and ponder why that is
It took 36 hours but I finally beat hollow knight (87%, i was done). It was great, then I found out it has 5 endings and I am absolutely not doing that
Quickly coming up to being unemployed as of October 1st. Job search is going poorly, even among the jobs id absolutely loathe to do. If anyone knows of any entry level art roles or is willing to give a guy a chance, I will fully convert to the church of you mikecockayne.artstation.com
Mike Cockayne
3D Artist
mikecockayne.artstation.com
Ok! Published the final results on ArtStation! 😅 www.artstation.com/artwork/V2lDmN
R.E.M.E.R. Delivery Unit (RDU), Giles Mullen
My final results from Sierra Division Academy with Robin Mariančík. The motorcycle model was provided at the start of the course. We had to create the UVs and texture the model from scratch. Big thank...
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Marmoset is magic
Jordan Cain@oddenough.art · last yr.I thought I’d share how I’m using the new Low to Low baking mode and bevel shader in @marmoset3d.bsky.social Toolbag 5. The bevel shader does more than just smooth out edges, it also blends surfaces between objects, so you can create complex forms by using simple shapes and primitives. 1/7
Does anyone have any experience with Sierra Division art courses? Curious about the environment course and the student work out of it looks pretty great. Feel like im brute forcing my way through projects and could do with a good pipeline and better fundamentals
Well, I was very hopeful that plasticity would be the answer to alot of my hard surface modelling woes, but alas, the cad to low poly workflow just isn't working for me. It's a much faster modelling tool for high poly meshes, but thats as far as it goes when it comes to game assets I think.
I have been in the industry 14 years now and have been part of 14 games and many of them and my personal work can be seen on my portfolio and I'm available for environment work in the UK, Here is some work for 4 of them titles. #gamedev #3dart www.artstation.com/pikminman
Des Walsh@deswalsh.bsky.social · 2y agoHi I'm Des and I do prop and environment art in the games industry and here is a collection of some of my personal projects.
The thought of going straight from this soul destroying admin job into another one, with the likely addition of office based and micro-management, is just the most miserable thing imaginable.
Plasticity is REALLY good. So much easier than standard Blender/Maya workflows. we'll see how well it cleans up though
Define your music taste in 6 artists: 1. Fightstar 2. Don Broco 3. Paramore 4. Dance Gavin Dance 5. Emarosa 6. Biffy Clyro
Erica Dahlia@ericadahlia.bsky.social · last yr.Define your music taste in 6 artists: 1. Coheed and Cambria 2. Protest The Hero 3. Dead and Divine 4. Atrium Carceri 5. Spiritbox 6. Picture Me Broken
Now that I'm playing guitar again, I'm getting a little nostalgic. Used to tour and released a few singles back in the day. Let's see if this does well on bluesky, since posting music on socials at the time was absolute cancer for engagement youtube.com/watch?v=ugGz...
Fenrir - Bones
YouTube video by Fenrir UK
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Now that I'm playing guitar again, I'm getting a little nostalgic. Used to tour and released a few singles back in the day. Let's see if this does well on bluesky, since posting music on socials at the time was absolute cancer for engagement youtube.com/watch?v=ugGz...
Fenrir - Bones
YouTube video by Fenrir UK
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Barely played my guitar in years, so naturally all my calluses have gone. Thought maybe I'd get back to playing casually. This shit hurts, it was a terrible idea
Only been messing with plasticity for about 30 mins and I already can't see me ever going back to poly modelling
