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Jay Broderick

@cosmicjaybird.bsky.social

โœจ Painter โœจTech Art โœจ Game dev โœจ Links: https://linktr.ee/cosmicjaybird Senior Technical Artist @flixinteractive / Indiedev / Ex-Games Design Lecturer #indiedev #techart #painter #gamedev #BAFTAConnect (she/her) ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ ๐Ÿ“ Stroud, UK

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Brake downs are hard and there is no one way to do it but my take is be concise and to the point not spending long one one part but show the full body of work and Lawrence definitely chose that approach. Go check it out and give your support โฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธ

15.02.2026 18:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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DNA CODEX: The GameDev Library DNA CODEX is a free digital GameDev Library built and maintained by DnA Creative - a curated and community supported digital archive for game development resources.

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20.06.2025 00:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 601    ๐Ÿ” 302    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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I've been inspired by great greek painters I saw last week. So here's PBR made out of watercolor paintings. And of course, the normals were handpainted as usual. Made in a pretty modified version of UE5.

#GameArt #UnrealEngine #UE5 #WaterColor

06.07.2025 17:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 158    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Easel Going! @ Develop - Plein Air Sketching/Painting ยท Luma Easel Going! Is a group for gamedevs who love to sketch, paint and make things traditionally. This is our first organised meetup at Develop, a perfectโ€ฆ

Any gamedevs here going to Develop who would love to do a spot of painting/drawing outside on the (hopefully) sunny Brighton Seafront? ๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธ๐Ÿ–๏ธโ˜€๏ธ

If so come along to the Easel Going! Plein Air Sketching/Painting event on Tuesday 8th at 13:00. More details in the event page:

lu.ma/r189qsos

04.07.2025 12:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Antique Chest, Hannah Dickson I decided to create this old 17th century chest to brush up on my modelling and texturing skills after taking a break from prop creation (having focused on environments in recent years)โ€Ž โ€Ž โ€Ž โ€Ž โ€Ž โ€Ž โ€Ž โ€Ž...

Happy to share this wooden antique chest I made with Maya, ZBrush and Substance Painter. Lots of fun! ๐Ÿค—

03.02.2025 22:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A list of reasons to make art:
-horny
-spite
-for the bit
-if you don't who will

09.12.2024 22:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17020    ๐Ÿ” 7339    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 110    ๐Ÿ“Œ 297
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and here it is in motion!! Many thanks to @cosmicjaybird.bsky.social for sharing her water shader techniques I've borrowed here during Into Games Env Art course last Sept!
I'm a little late on finishing the project since my scene needed a hard reboot, but it's been so worth the extra work and time

26.01.2025 15:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yooooo that looks awesome! Great work! ^.^

26.01.2025 15:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I updated my portfolio site!!

Come see all my professional work from Crescent County, Sea Of Thieves and other projects as well as my personal paintings and illustrations.

www.cosmicjaybird.com

24.01.2025 17:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hiii! Thanks โ˜บ๏ธ .We are in the very small club of DMU grad tech artists from Bristol. ๐Ÿ˜‚

19.01.2025 18:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm open to feedback from peeps if there are any readability/weird formatting issues aswell, as I'm still tinkering with the html/CSS. ๐Ÿ˜…

19.01.2025 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jay Broderick - CosmicJayBird - Portfolio / Website Hi I'm Jay Broderick. @CosmicJayBird. A Tech Artist, Game Developer, Illustrator and Worldbuilder. This is my portfolio website home to all my artwork: professional Tech Art and VFX work from games su...

www.cosmicjaybird.com Just redid mine! Got more tech art/professional work coming soon but I'm much happier with this one.

19.01.2025 17:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
17.01.2025 18:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13535    ๐Ÿ” 3096    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 70    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17

Uchikoshi I love you

05.01.2025 01:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3496    ๐Ÿ” 1869    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
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NEW WEBSITE! NEW LOOK BLOG! LIFE THINGS! An update on Jay's journey into game development/illustration for the past 5 years. Including highlights from professional and personal work.

I've updated my art/gamedev blog after like 4 years! ๐Ÿ˜… Highlighting some of the major things I've been upto since I last posted.

Also gave the entire site a liquidy makeover. Let me know what you think, there should be a lot more posts soon!โœจ

#devlog #gamedev

www.jaybroderick.blog/2025/01/new-...

07.01.2025 10:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hi! Thanks! โ˜บ๏ธ I do plan on setting up a store at some point soon but trying to get more work under my belt first so it's more cost efficient to make/sell prints. I'm hoping to sell originals too.

I'll post an update when store is up. โœจ

30.12.2024 13:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Out painting again! Just off Stroud canal, there is this old sewage pumping station that is due to get demolished soon apparently. I just wanted an excuse to practise painting some greys which I generally struggle with.

#oilpainting #pleinair #michaelhardingpaints #urbanpainting #stroudartists

29.12.2024 16:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Late night comic studies! Read Once and Future by Kieron Gillon, which is an amazing comic with great art by Dan Mora. Been itching to do some studies of it and some other of my favs. Maybe I'll fill this sketchbook with just comic panel studies...

29.12.2024 01:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I wanna make oil paintings of these

20.12.2024 00:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Love it when an ad for The Outlaws on Amazon plus plays with a line that says 'Hey Google, how do you dispose of a dead body?'

Especially when my Google home starts to then read out instructions.

18.12.2024 00:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I need helpppp: anybody know how I can get an email contact for Nintendo customer support??

For some reason the contact form isn't displaying for me on their site after trying on some different devices.

15.12.2024 15:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also buy the album!!!!!! It's out today! ๐Ÿ’–

12.12.2024 18:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mannn it's so bizarre seeing my art be used as an actual album cover. ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

So glad though I got a chance to help @rupertcole.bsky.social with the art for the Completely Stretchy Album, was honestly SO much fun to paint in oils!! ๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธ

12.12.2024 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Art vs Artist ๐Ÿซก #3dartist

10.12.2024 14:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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my new texture painting tool is now available in Gradientsapce UEToolbox 0.1.7. Lots of nice features, and more to come! In the vid I (tried to) make this Quixel burger box look a bit greasier by painting into the roughness map (8k textures!!). Get it here (free!): www.gradientspace.com/uetoolbox

10.12.2024 16:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

So happy to have helped out with painting this single cover! First time doing any sort of art commission like this, especially traditional. It was such a blast to paint! โœจ

29.11.2024 11:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Indie games

24.11.2024 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 171    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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๐ŸŸก Heavenscale Janna Ult Fanart โ›…

#vfx #rtvfx #gameart #unrealengine

20.11.2024 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I feel this all the time when trying to reach out and network and do things for potential indie stuff, very very easy to put pressure on yourself and put that mask on.

Keep doing you though Anna, the studio is great because your personality shines through it! โ˜บ๏ธ

20.11.2024 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Already flight planning back to Italy before March so I can see his exhibition. ๐Ÿ˜…

18.11.2024 18:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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