Peter W
@petedubs.bsky.social
artstation.com/petedubs 3D Artist @ iRacing Studios prev. Manticore Games, Deep End Games Let he who is without cringe cast the first stone
My next release will be "vertLab" 🔬🧪 Tools to create attributes directly on geometry including curvature, ambient occlusion, thickness etc. Roughly 10x faster than my previous free ao solution. (Just needs some final touches, docs etc.) #b3d #geometrynodes
My erosion filter is out! Video, blog post, and shader source. It emulates erosion without simulation, so it's fast, GPU friendly, and trivial to generate in chunks. Explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4V2... Companion blog post: blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast... #ProcGen #vfx #GameDev
still just really upset about this variety.com/2026/gaming/... unreasonably upset. uncouth ass industry
One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals
One-third of U.S. video game industry workers say they were laid off over the past two years, according to GDC.
variety.com
A Gorillaz short film by The Line studio is coming on February 27 on Youtube : "The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God". www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRu...
This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous. Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
speaking of cool cheap effects: the shadow from the ceiling fan in Robo Recall is not a real shadow or even a light function or even a decal, it's a rotating translucent mesh
Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com · 7mo agoFave visual trick in Halo 1: swapping out the warthog tire texture for a blurry one when they're spinning fast. Fake motion blurrrr
I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.
Spent the morning having a quick look at the ultra early new Substrate Toon BSDF / Toon Profiles added to UE5-Main Branch this past week, looking cool, although no specular stuff is implemented, just diffuse but promsising! #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #TechArt #Stylised
I have been in the hyperbolic time chamber for the past few months and have emerged with news: I am officially a Houdini Guy now and did a bunch of cool tech art stuff in my latest project, which is a procedural cliff generator! Check it out: www.artstation.com/artwork/K38dVy
Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians – Oh My! New mathy blog post to try and make some scary sounding terms less scary. blog.demofox.org/2025/08/16/d...
I have finished my plugin for exporting image sequences directly from Substance 3D Designer, and if you are interested, you can download it for free: www.somethinglikegames.de/en/blog/2025... #gameart #TechArt #TechnicalArt #MadeWithSubstance #indiegames
Something Like Games | Export image sequences with Substance 3D Designer
This post shows you how to export image sequences from Adobe Substance 3D Designer using my free plugin.
somethinglikegames.de
With their recent announcement i can finally share some of the work I completed for Manticore Games on Out Of Time! Check out some stills here: www.artstation.com/artwork/P6aDO1
Out Of Time - Materials, Peter Wandelmaier
Some highlights from the large material collection I created for Out Of Time at Manticore. Tileables were in huge demand as OOT's design at the time had a major UGC element. Players being able to repu...
artstation.com
Hello #PortfolioDay gamers I'm Peter, I'm an environment artist from the east coast US. Most recently I worked at Manticore games but I'm on the hunt again for work. Check out my stuff if you want, otherwise have a good day ~ www.artstation.com/petedubs
If anyone's looking for me, I'll be here. Happy. Staring at a big bunch of water shaders, courtesy of all you lovely lovely techartists. THREAD OF LOVELY WATER SHADERS--->
Ucupaint is an extension that comes with Blender (since 4.2) and that makes the whole texture painting process better and more nondestructive, using layers. #Blender #b3D #Blender3D #ucupaint
Disney and NBCUniversal is suing Midjourney for mass copyright infringement - commencing the first major legal battle against an AI company that could dictate the future of generative AI. (Read more: Deadline)
New trailer of "False Memory" chinese animated series by Flint Sugar & Studio Tumble (based on a 2020 indie short film). Coming in 2025 on BiliBili. Full trailer >> www.catsuka.com/news/2024-12...
Moving to a new machine and I have to say the level of positivity I have towards windows directly correlates with how much bloatware I'm able to hack out of it
