Jake Benbow

Thank you mate, glad you're enjoying it!

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Ok I need to sort my schedule out, this is my first in-person event in years so be kind. If you are:
- Going to Develop
- Want to talk state of the industry
- Want to talk production
- Want to scream into the void

Lets do a thing please, HMU 🖤

🟠 TRON: Catalyst is finally out in the wild! 🔵

Been a great ride making this, and a memorable first credit. I hope everyone enjoys exploring the Grid as much as we enjoyed putting it together!

Back on environment art, lemme tell you about @jakebenbow.bsky.social . This is Jake’s FIRST GAME, and yet he arrived guns blazing, and delivered so many of the most beautiful environments and vehicles in the game. He’s a superstar, and is respected across the team for being just..that..damn..good

Process breakdown for the rocks in my current personal project. Sculpted in ZBrush, processed in Houdini, rendered in Unreal.

Been learning a bit of speedtree for a personal project I'm working up. Very out of my wheelhouse but happy with the results, might revisit them again later to make a few tweaks.

Shoutout to @artofdape.bsky.social, would recommend his excellent vegetation course to anyone starting out with trees.

I cranked up the subdivision from 6 to 7 on one of my material spheres in Marmoset, took it to about 80m triangles and was using over 2gb of vram 😂 I always think those sorts of input fields should have a warning that asks "are you sure you wanna do this?" if you're about to put in a silly number

#01 - Overgrown

Would it even be a monthly challenge if I didn't immediately fall behind schedule...

Definitely need to improve my speed and try to not get bogged down in the weeds, but I do think this turned out really nice!

#Mayterials2025 #Mayterials @theclubdiscord.bsky.social

friends are calling this unhinged but I am calling it honest 💜

follow Crescent County on Kickstarter today!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann...

Research cozy games I'm doing research about cozy games for my graduation project.

Hey everyone!
I'm working on a small cozy game project for my graduation and I'm currently doing some research to the target audience and what you like about cozy games. If you would fill this form in for me, that would be lovely!🫡🙏 It's only a few questions, thanks! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I’m now available for work so giving this collection of personal work a bump.
Any and all shares are deeply appreciated right now and portfolio link in the bio.

Cheers and hope you’re having a great day.

Top tip for folks looking for 3D art jobs in games: have chairs in your portfolios. Doors. Fuck, have a really good bit of skirting board.

Character art is cool and sexy and eye catching, but damn, videogames need like a really large number of doors.

Enjoying my new life as a freelancer, hopefully I can continue to find jobs, have some stuff hopefully sorted (touch wood!) but in case I don't, I am always looking for potential projects. Drop me a DM if your interested!

Step through the scary red door with us. This is not a cozy game.

Hey bluesky! We're hiring for a few positions! Come work with us on Project D :) ->

halfmermaid.co/jobs

🌟 Senior Character Artist
🌟 Cinematic Manager
🌟 Senior Environment Artist (European timezones)
🌟 Level Designer (European timezones)

Something in the works...

My Fundraiser for WWF UK Help Becky Kelly raise money to support WWF-UK

My partner is doing a sponsored 100 Miles over March to raise money for the WWF. I'd appreciate if you could spare a few quid for a donation that goes towards improving the planet for all of us!

Link here👇

www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

Gravity Well Logo

Dark moody concept art

Bright concept art

We're #hiring interns at @gravitywell.games! The industry can be a little bleak right now, but it's important we provide these avenues still.

Our last two interns had a blast:
💸Paid Internship
❤️Empathetic AAA Team
✈️We'll pay for flights + housing

Apply here!
gravitywell.games
#gamedev #gamedevjobs

We have a release date! 🎉

Wood plank sculpt practice in ZBrush

just a beautiful box

Siegecaster on Steam An active skill-based siege defense game. Prepare your aim and quickly assess the coming onslaught. Survive a large-scale assault on your home as you build outward to strengthen your arsenal. Engage e...

Siegecaster is an active experience, and we'll soon find out how the audience feels about it (but getting folks sending me screenshots with dozens of hours played is hopefully a good sign). And the controller support is really helping with engagement.

store.steampowered.com/app/3138350/...

I'm literally five minutes into downloading this and I already love it. You can immediately tell this was made by an artist, for artists.

Need to get back into this project and wrap it up

Siegecaster on Steam An active skill-based siege defense game. Prepare your aim and quickly assess the coming onslaught. Survive a large-scale assault on your home as you build outward to strengthen your arsenal. Engage e...

I'm proud to announce Siegecaster, an active skill-based siege defense game. It will be ready for everyone to check out next month as part of the Steam Next Fest!

RTs appreciated!

store.steampowered.com/app/3138350/...

I've been working on a master material for a new #Gamedev collab I'm doing & I was inspired by a post by @jakebenbow.bsky.social in which assets were made using Vertex Colour and texture overlays.
I wanted some additional control so I added use of various UV channels;

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Wales

My ArtStation Recap 2024. The stats shown are: 1 New Project Published | 94 New Artists Discovered | 198 New Followers Top Project: Life at the temple - UE5, featuring a 3D-rendered image of an temple dome with arches, bathed in golden light, surrounded by a bright blue sky. The text also notes "Started a Blog." And there is an ArtStation profile link: artstation.com/beatrizgamero.

Every year, I tell myself, This is the year for more personal projects! And every year... well, here we are again.

But hey, I did start a blog! (Okay, fine, I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus thanks to some medical stuff, but still --it counts, right? 😂)

#ArtStationRecap2024

Got one more project that I wanted to get finished before the end of 2024, but it's still been a good year. Excited to move on to even bigger and better things in 2025!

#ArtStationRecap2024