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Richard Schmidbauer - he/him - Artdirector at @SkywardAssembly, Indiedev, Freelance Artist and Art Director, 3D art, environment art tech art and pixelart. I love horror, scifi, pop culture, nature, mystery, art and ruins among many other things. No AI

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I am a big fan of horror movies and especially the pulp horror movies of yore. The movie posters of those hold a special place in my heart. This is a faux movie poster as a little fun hommage to the genre!

>>> Artstation bit.ly/4kJ5XxU

#horror #pulp #popculture #fiction #movieposter #design

02.06.2025 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Doing my best, thank you :D

01.05.2025 16:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hah ^^ I'll take it

01.05.2025 16:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Death Crusader ---+

A relentless carcass bound to armor by heretic ecclesiarchy. A creature like this usually heralds worse thinkgs that follow in the wake.

#pixelart #fantasy #creature #creaturedesign

01.05.2025 07:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Awesome! Definitely should feel like this ^^ I'm still doing demoscene stuff nowadays. Mostly C64 stuff though. But not as much as I'd like to.

28.04.2025 20:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trying to push PixelComposer 3D features as far as I can. Worked on 3D style lowres pixelart radar displays for -/%$$$%.df. Not sure why my PC responded so strangely today. Something felt off ...

#pixelart #3D #procgen #indiedev #gamedev

28.04.2025 20:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Kinda true ^^ Although I will save you time once you get the hang of it. The time investment is super frontloaded. Just "dabbling" in it will only cost you. But if you stick with it you'll get to a point where you have your tools ready and things go really quick.

10.04.2025 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Inner Oculus is finished. There is a second layer for the outer bulge. It was quite the challenge to create a fully procedural eye texture

Textures done in Substance3D Designer, Modeling in Blender.

#procgen #gamedev #3DDesign #Blender #Substance #SubstanceDesigner #gamedev #indiedev

10.04.2025 10:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Scatter Splines on Splines is opening up a ton of possibilities in Substance Designer I have long been waiting for. Designing proper ocular blood vessel patterns for example XD

Also debuging these is strangely calming.

#substance #substanceDesigner #procgen #texturing #3D #gamedev

02.04.2025 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Important additions (for my purposes at least) Offset UV, Tiling UV and H/V tiling switch compatibility.

02.04.2025 09:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Just made a more useful Cartesian to Polar node for Substance Designer. I kinda got frustrated by the built in mode and I really wanted to make circular pattens better without using scatter circular (as it has it's own problems).

#substance #substancedesigner #procgen #tools

02.04.2025 08:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I love pixelart explosions. Always did. Really glad that I can do a bunch of them now for m ewr32tg2rt ------,,,,,,,n..'*ร–ร„

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#pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #metalVector

18.03.2025 07:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Eldritch cat... like one from Innsmouth XD

21.01.2025 12:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I'm a big Minecraft fan myself... so I decided to make a creeper themed vintage style poster for my kids ^^

#minecraft #creeper #poster #vintage

21.01.2025 12:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What is this creature!?! *frozen in horror*

21.01.2025 06:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Starting the year off with a three part series about my thought on AI (LLMs) and the entertainment industry. It's a critical take on the matter but hopefully worth the read! Let me know your thoughts.

visionvortex.de?blog%2F20250...

18.01.2025 11:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hey! I'm Richard Schmidbauer, Freelance Artist and Art Director from Germany. I do lot's of stuff including illustration, pixelart, 3D and tech-art. Let me know if I can help ^^

#pixelart #illustration #gameart #art-direction #3D #gamedev #indiedev

15.01.2025 07:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Missing so many birthdays cause I'm abstaining from socials as much as possible. So this year for my birthday, to everyone whose birthday I missed Happy Birthday!

To celebrate I made an artwork for us all. With all skull and occultstuff y'all like ^^'

#pixelart #occult #birthday #skull #neon

08.01.2025 08:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy Holidays and a happy new year to you all! here's a favourite pixelart piece of mine. I love christmas and I wish everyone the best!

#pixelart #christmas #occult #illustration #darkart #xmas

24.12.2024 11:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Had fun sketching up this lil' mage guy.

#pixelart #1bit #monochrome #mage #pixel-art #gamedev #indiedev

10.12.2024 10:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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More 1bit because why not ^^

Undead Crawler

#pixelart #1bit #fantasy #illustration #gamedev #indiedev #monochrome

05.12.2024 13:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This was actually the first one I did. looks kinda cute with the big head XD

03.12.2024 19:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You can't slide through the week without some pixelart, can you. I know I can't myself! Here's some of my creature ideas with some minimalist UI on top.

#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #1bit #gameart #conceptart #retro #gaming

03.12.2024 12:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Store plug before Christmas. If you want to enjoy Christmas in stylish Cyberpunk/Techwear style, look no further. I've got a new shirt up on my stores AND it's proper christmas themed.

linktr.ee/visionvortex0

#christmas #apparel #christmassweater #techwear #cyberpunk #fashion

02.12.2024 13:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œFolks were calling her witch. Couldnโ€™t be further. Sheโ€™s been bound to the aspect of lower void long ago. No magic involved, just will.โ€œ

#pixelart #1bit #characterart #characterdesign #pixel-art #blackandwhite #monochrome #digitalart #visionvortex #TheHaze #monochrome #retrostyle

01.12.2024 19:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@gameengines.bsky.social
I would like Unity, Godot, Construct please!

30.11.2024 09:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's part of what I do professionally. And since art is also my passion I am extending that even outside of my business responsibilities ^^

29.11.2024 08:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm doing a new one every year ^^

29.11.2024 06:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If you are looking for some alternative greeting cards for christmas... some with a lot of pixelart actually... I just updated my store on redbubble and will probably add another card these days :D

www.redbubble.com/people/visio...

#pixelart #christmas #xmas #greetingcards #gamedev #indiedev

28.11.2024 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cthulhu by Gaslight - Wikipedia

Here's the link. It's a PPRPG book published by Chaosium in 1986. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu...

22.11.2024 16:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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