Ben Formaker-Olivas

Kinda wild but @nextplayau.bsky.social got offered a preview card for the next Riftbound set! 😱 #Riftbound

Massive shoutout to @riotgames.com for sending this incredible horde of goodies to celebrate the launch of Riftbound: Origins!✨

Very excited to dive into the game and hopefully pull some epic champ cards👀 #RiftboundOrigins #Gifted

#gamedev #LA #Events #Community #Networking

🌱 Announcement!
Next Gamedev PerkUp will be September 13th, 10am - 2pm @ Good People Coffee's gorgeous venue in Santa Monica! ☕

✨As always, RSVP is required for attendance/name badge! We'll be doing some quick check-ins when folks arrive.

We'll see u there! 🌞

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Who am I gonna see there? 🤠

Art of the Seriema, a spacecraft with a triangular formation of wings and a pincer-like bridge.

A new rules update for Commander coming with #MTGEternities: Mike Turian shares that starting with the set, Legendary Spacecraft and Legendary Vehicles will be eligible to be played as your Commander!

Had so much seeing @dimension20.bsky.social at the Hollywood Bowl last night! Met folks that flew across the country to come see this. Great way to kick off pride month 🏳️‍🌈

Heroes of the Storm is 10 years old today! I started one year later as an Associate Environment Artist. My first assignment was to redesign the "King's Crest" healing fountain to be more in-line with the game's final art style.

Blocking out the first half of this assignment. Gonna have Omega (awesome rig from Agora) roll forward and bounce up the barrels and crates to reach a door that it’ll open with a button press using the tail 🦝

Had fun being on Team Turtles, even if just in a small way 🐢🍕

I like to think of Blueprinting as Orc Speak.

"You have thing?"

"YOU HAVE THING!"

"Thing valid?"

"THING VALID!"

"Okay now destroy thing and make NEW THING."

Radiance

*taps the sign with incomprehensible force*

Any video game can bring back their FULL voice cast IMMEDIATELY during the strike, once they agree to enforceable AI protections via a SAG interim agreement, and the game CAN still keep its non-union actors after doing so.

Out on my birthday, "Perrenation" for #mtg and it feels right.
"In botany, perennation is the ability of organisms, particularly plants, to survive from one germinating season to another, especially under unfavourable conditions such as drought or winter cold." Thanks to AD Forrest Schehl!

Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon Magic: the Gathering card. Legendary creature - Phyrexian Dragon Skeleton

Kaalia of the Vast Magic: the Gathering card. Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

Master of Cruelties Magic: the Gathering card. Creature - Demon

Angel of Despair Magic: the Gathering card. Creature - Angel

My "Tragic Romance" Secret Lair deck previews dropped! I'm so glad these have finally been released 🖤

wait-- we can post gifs now!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I've been playing Monster Hunter! How did you know?

Here's a little work in progress I started last week! He's just too adorable not to make! 😭

Hey Bluesky, here's my "obligatory reel post that's gonna be pinned" later!

I'm a 3D Animator in Vancouver who loves animating dynamic stuff.

AHEM.

90’s/Y2K themed party vibes were immaculate

Part 2 of the assignment. We were told to add motion along the X and Y axes. I also remixed some audio in Audacity to pan and follow the saucer from left to right across the screen.

Never thought I’d be so excited to animate a pendulum swing, but here we are 😌

I've been quiet on here because I have my head down job-hunting and also because the world is on fire, but I've been tweaking some of my animations and did a more extensive overhaul on this one. I think it's a big improvement!

Bari being released in Smite 2 means I can start sharing some of my work that I did one her!

This jump is one of the most satisfying things I've ever gotten to animate. If you jump once it cycles back to the run, but if spammed it is a perfectly looping spin!

This was put on the back burner for a little bit, but I collaborated with
@theycallmesal.bsky.social oRPG97
for him to add some 2DFX on this Ganondorf animation I made awhile back and the result came out amazing. Please be sure to check Sal's work guys!

Rig by
@stoff.bsky.social

Haven't had a chance to take advantage of the addition of videos yet so now's the time! Did a little turn-around composition of my Zelda models. #zelda #fanart #3d #model #gameart

Latest animation assignment—animate three different types of balls to show differences in weight and movement. I decided to add some environmental interaction for an added challenge. This was my first time animating a rigged prop too ⚽️🎳🏐

Bouncing ball assignment for my intermediate animation class. We move to using some simple rigs next since this is just an assessment, but it felt good to get this classic assignment out of the way 🤩

Devastating. :(

Yeah we had to settle on a Monday night since most time slots were during the day or too late at night. Hopefully you can get spots! And they sell the merch on their online store in case you miss it.

My bf and I hit the Arcane-themed boba experience in Koreatown 🧨