Dean Wilson

For anyone interested in painting or fine art, I decided to make my first video ‘how to’ on photorealistic oil painting which is a bit of a hobby of mine when I’m not noodling in bats and lizards…

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I’m getting that quote stencilled on the wall behind my sofa/settee. Thanks guys 🫶

Here’s the file stats. If I’d have done this in 2 hours that would have been 17 brush strokes per second. I’d have some serious RSI by now…

Glad you liked it, so much new content and surprises like this to look forward to, it’s pretty much a whole new game. The whole team and everyone involved have done a great job.

Basically…. It was a bit heartbreaking as Dr Quack took ages to get right and got binned as I had the added challenge of getting the logo in too. Alas Dr Quack will forever be a hidden layer in YookaReplaylee_keyart_FINAL02.PSD…

Hey Nikki-it was a while ago and my memory’s hazy but- I think it was a compositional thing.It was quite a busy,asymmetrical image so I opted for symmetry at the top to kinda bridge it all.Also, having Cap B centralised on his own made him a bit more menacing with a focus on him being the villain :)

Tiny correction 😬🫶

As it’s #sonicthehedgehog ‘s birthday today, seems like a good time to shamelessly plug a little oil painting I did recently. Who needs AI when you’ve got oil, pigments and canvases ;)

Who are you again?

Wow

I’m assuming you meant ‘slag’?

Harsh

Wow

Good job you’re still in the bog then. It’s your turn….

Grow up!

Most sadly of all, I’m going to see a massive downturn in contributions to the ‘swear jar’ in my car, now I won’t be driving @daleykong.bsky.social around as much 🙈

I’m happy to be contacted personally for character reference also

Yo! in a sad turn of events this past 2 weeks, Playtonic lost a number of talented individuals across various disciplines. If any of my contacts/Rare alumni in senior/hiring positions around the globe have space for eager and gifted talent in 3D art,production,design,UI or narrative let me know.

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Hi to all you lovely new followers (and old) 👋🏼. Whilst I dig through my files to dig up interesting yooka Laylee tidbits from the past in the run up to #yookareplaylee, please enjoy the weirdest crap that I’ve ever actually been paid to do….

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Here’s the rough 3D model of the Tribalstack diorama I created to help with the composition. Working 3D into 2D art can help with some of the heavy lifting :)

Here was the first palette test. Yooka and Laylee’s pose was originally doing to be a little different

Thanks for being a part of what helped make Playtonic a reality in the first place ;). #yookareplaylee will be the piece de resistance of 10 years of growing and experience…

Here’s my first sketch of what became the final key art. Dr Quack was going to be in there originally, looking menacing until we decided to go chips-in on Cap B looking REALLY menacing…

Could have been folks…. Could have been 🥺

First image was a look at recreating the footprint of the original key art with a more dynamic pose and more characters

With the (going to be…) amazing #yookareplaylee on the horizon, here’s a peak at how the spangly new key art came about. As with everything in #gamedev, things go through process, with only the final iterations being what the players usually see. Anyway, here’s a few early sketch ideas…

Happy Friday folks. Sooth your eyes from the Vendi hoodie debacle with a couple of not-seen-before early concepts of impossible lair’s overworld :)

Nice to hear this, that would mean a lot to the team 💚💜

Hi followers new and nearly new 🙋🏻‍♂️. Here’s a few more super early #impossiblelair test art scenes from a couple of years before we finished it :). A lot of love goes into the journey in our games 💚💜