Jake L. Provo

One game you’ve worked on - no words just trailers

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I genuinely never thought I would get anywhere close to 100, let alone almost 1000 subs

YouTube video by VertexLock What Exactly is Realism? (and How Video Games Trick You)

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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

YouTube video by VertexLock 4 Simple Tricks to Better Environment Art!

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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)

I’m an artist- we just ignore that (jokes aside I’m fixing that; it’s angry about shadows right now.)

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

It crashed immediately after hitting 128 because it ran out of space, good luck when you do haha

Such a beautiful sight lmao

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)

Thank you!!

An update :)

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.

I’m seeing a massive increase of people going after companies/recruiters on LinkedIn because they didn’t get a job-

They’re just doing their jobs man, the industry sucks right now- I get it. But that isn’t the way things are going to get better

Full stop WWE2k25 is the best wrestling game in 20 years. This game is bonkers

You miss a toll in NY you get to wait on for phone for over TWO HOURS to pay it.

What the actual hell NY??

Got some career news coming soon <3 stay tuned

JOHN CENA TURNED HEEL?!?!?!?!?

Man I was so upset about that gray hair I messed up my own title leak Senior ENVIRONMENT Artist haha

Dont* attach your worth, autocorrect

It’s okay to fail.
You/your scene are not going to be perfect, relax, breath, it’s okay.
It takes time.
Don’t compare your success to others, go at your own pace.
To attach your worth to your job, having a job, your title, and don’t do it for others as well.
Be kind, and give back when you can

(And no, i know i said in the last post i had a grey hair but i do not look like this lmao I made a metahuman for testing)