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Romain Durand

@rdurand.bsky.social

Founder at Ripostes.games Lead Environment Artist at GravityWell.games Previously : Wayfinder, Crash Bandicoot 4, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Besiege... https://www.romaindurand.com/

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I don't understand, you don't want non-human abominations to produce what humans will be looking at? That's a bit of a weird stance, please rethink it.

14.10.2025 12:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#DeathStranding2

13.10.2025 18:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 78    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hey,
my contract will end end of October and I'm posting this to let people know that I will looking for a new job from November!
I'm a senior concept artist with more than 14 years of experience in videogame (indie, AA, AAA), and doing both chara & environment/props/moodboard...

13.10.2025 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"Please, think about upgrading to a newer tablet"

13.10.2025 11:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

if you own a Cintiq 27QHD DO NOT UPDATE THE DRIVERS, the new drivers (that I got from a nice notification from Wacom to update mine) are not compatible and Wacom will just put a dumbass "Think about buying a newer tablet that is supported by this driver" afterward.

13.10.2025 11:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We have two opened, Enviro Art, and Enviro Art with a spe in Hard Surface.

10.09.2025 07:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hey! Want to join a great company and be part of my environment art team?! Gravity Well is hiring an Environment Artist!

09.09.2025 18:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Monseigneur Guillemot, a team of 3 indie aussie just crashed all of the game selling platforms on the planet.

04.09.2025 14:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Your portfolio will speak for itself, it will show me your motivation, taste, experience and prob a part of yourself Way more than any stupid resume or cover letters.

16.08.2025 06:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

only engaging myself here,
thereโ€™s so many artists applying and Iโ€™ve been reviewing applications hereโ€™s a list of priorities that Iโ€™m looking at:

- Portfolio
- Portfolio
- Portfolio

resume and cover letters, I prob wonโ€™t even take more than 5 secs on if the folio is not fitting what I need.

16.08.2025 06:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ah yes! Bakery!

12.08.2025 06:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We had this really cool little project for fun with a few friends a while back, and even though we didn't really spend much time on it nor go very far with it, I enjoyed working on this little character so much; bold shapes, warm & colorful palette, overall theme, pretty much my kind of stuff!

11.08.2025 23:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 154    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Traffic

10.08.2025 18:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4835    ๐Ÿ” 961    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

a Bit of a short notice but I'll be closing my Gumroad account in a few moments, all of the tutorials won't be accessible anymore, but hopefully, new ones will appear on my personnal site soon. Those were outdated/bad, and I want to centralise where to find everything related to my work on my site.

10.08.2025 07:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Gravity Well

Exciting news! โœจ We're growing our team and have 3 new openings for talented folks in the Design and UI/UX spaces. If you're passionate about making amazing player experiences, come join us!

Check out our open roles here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/

01.08.2025 21:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Was included myself yep, I live in the 5th rounding

18.07.2025 17:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And Iโ€™ve just noticed that two persons of that team are already in Lyon! You only gotta move Cara and we get this started

18.07.2025 17:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sometimes the risks are worth it! ๐Ÿ˜‚

18.07.2025 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™d make the art for that, if you want it painterly ๐Ÿคท

17.07.2025 20:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Also, yes, the liquid color, glass color, specular color, height of the liquid, angle of it can be changed, I'm using Custom Primitive Datas here in order to have everything on a single material instance.

13.07.2025 15:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bsky compression is kinda killing most of the subtle details.

13.07.2025 15:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Some painterly bottles, everything is fully opaque, using cubemaps for fake transparency.

13.07.2025 15:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 244    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Had a couple of hours today, added some bricks, moss, dust and water leaks, on top of small plants, everything is pretty "lose" and I'm going try to keep it that way for the all scene.

12.07.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bunch of things that includes how the light propagates on the surface, colored terminator, some specular modifications

06.07.2025 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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And here's a static image

06.07.2025 17:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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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The abandonned buildings of Athenes are such perfect references.

05.07.2025 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Rejoins le serveur Discord RDurand'sย ! RDurand's art discord. | 292ย membres

As a reminder, I created a Discord server used to learn Env Art, we share references, art inspiration, and try to provide constructive feedbacks. The old invitation link probably died, so here's a new one

discord.gg/eUgzDsZPGy

29.03.2025 13:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Stickers by Antony Ho.
linktr.ee/antonyho
#JapanExpo2025

03.07.2025 17:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8946    ๐Ÿ” 2281    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 26
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Today I'm doing some good ol' fashioned character art. (Cel-shaded model + paintover tweaks). #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev #็ฉบๆƒณๅฎถ

17.05.2025 11:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1084    ๐Ÿ” 84    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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