Joseph Beacham

Introducing Agent K9! Your new canine companion. 🐶 (and a good boy)

Our newest Fights in Tight Spaces DLC adds a versatile and highly agile canine companion, as well as new enemies, enhancements, and events.
Out on Steam on 24th September 🦴

I don’t talk about Dunning Krueger club because I’m too amazingly good at club promotion (I assume). If I were to talk about it, it’d get too popular and the vibes would be ruined.

EGG

Made a couple of letterboxes
#gamedev #indiedev #echorailway #ue

I've been getting a huge amount of use out of this add-on. Really recommend it.

A material in Unreal Engine

Sci-Fi scene in Unreal Engine

The vast majority is also a single texture which, like much of my work, is laziness rebranded as skill.

Sci-Fi scene in Unreal Engine

Sci-Fi scene in Unreal Engine

Sci-Fi scene in Unreal Engine

It's a few years old now so some parts definitely make me wince, but I'm still pretty happy with how this scene came together. A rare example of me finishing a project.

Outer Wilds Poster

"Come, sit with me, my fellow traveler. Let's sit together and watch the stars die." #outerwilds #outerwildsgame #outerwildsfanart #fanart #poster #indie

Finally had some time for personal work, feels good.

Artstation with some more WIP: www.artstation.com/artwork/WXvZzv

Captured straight from the Viewport in Blender, I love it.

Also calling this one done, maybe some minor tweaks

Cheers!

Thanks so much!

Link to ArtStation on my profile if you've got a thing for high-resolution pictures of the most mundane surfaces known to man or beast

Wood materials

Wood materials

Wood materials

But as much as I moan, I'm chuffed with how they turned out. It's nice to try and update the ol' portfolio more than once a decade.

Pavement material

Pavement material

I spent time last night on the drudgerous work of getting renders for my recent material work, something I'm normally pretty bad at getting done.

Brick material

Brick material

Brick material

Brick material

oh no, i bricked my computer.

ha ha, just a little environment art humour

Wood Materials A wood material in Unreal Engine 5 with a number of variants. Created procedurally in Substance Designer with exposed masks and vertex paint parameters in UE5 to create material variations.

Threw together some wood material variants for a portfolio piece, proving definitively that the life of a 3D artist is non-stop rock and roll.

josephbeacham.artstation.com/projects/DL8...
#SubstanceDesigner #UnrealEngine #GameArt #DigitalArt

I recently announced Shutter Story but it went under the radar!

It's a horror game about revealing and categorizing signs of the paranormal in a family's photographs 📸

Steam link below, RTs appreciated 🖤

#screenshotsaturday

A young person, playing Altered Beast on a retro console. Picture by author

I’ve started a newsletter to note thoughts and musings on game development. For my first proper I am musing on the challenges of providing work experience placements for video game developers and also some possible solutions. exploringgamedevelopment.substack.com/p/the-challe... #gamedev #gaming

Unreal Engine 5 early scene

Unreal Engine 5 street scene

hit em with the ol'

how it started // how it's going

So nice! And the way they reflect and refract on the water is 🔥🔥

Pavement material in Unreal Engine

"The best pavement I've made so far" really isn't the sort of personal achievement I thought I'd be puffing my chest out over, but game development has a way of changing a man.

Blockout of a scene in Unreal Engine

better check the skies for airborne trotters because I think I might actually be making progress on a new scene

highly recommend @flownepp.bsky.social's custom nodes for Substance Designer, they make texture creation a blast

Brick material in Unreal Engine

Brick material in Unreal Engine

can't stop won't stop

Various materials in Unreal Engine

There may come a day when I don't spend all my time making materials and forget to start an actual environment, but I fear that day is a long way off.

This is exactly why I've been loving SDF modelling. It's forgiving enough that you can just try stuff that's normally way out of your comfort zone and still get something cool!

UK train station platform

I had a brilliant time at Develop once again but just realised that literally the only picture I took was at the train station on the way back because I thought it was a good texture reference.