Howie Day

Howie Day

@howieeday.bsky.social

Tech Art Director at Zynga. I love nostalgia! All thoughts my own... and not great? (he/him) My YT! https://www.youtube.com/@HowieDay82 Lewiston, ID

3,944 Followers 429 Following 2,892 Posts Joined Aug 2023
6 days ago
A Star Wars "B Wing"  first seen in the movie Star Wars Return of the Jedi. Pictured against a blue background of stars and asteroids. A second ship is in tha background in the top right.

B-Wings (again, I make no apologies) I love these ships ever since they made their appearence in ROTJ. #Lightwave3d render of @howieeday.bsky.social 's model.

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6 days ago
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So much of concept work is meat and potatoes props. But that work is fun and fills a space! The palette team on Marathon did a brilliant job bringing my concepts to life πŸ’™

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6 days ago

I can't get over how great this is

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1 week ago
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An older idle of mine, but still a favorite

Topaz
#art #pixelart #animation #oc

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silly dogfighter I made in 3 days for a game jam

silly half-baked mechanic too. you collect fishbones (trash) and crystals and can use either as ammo.

But I still love the 2.5D presentation
castpixel.itch.io/junkstar

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Huge Star Trek shot update! Fixed all sorts of issues, added some cool VFX to the scrubbing action, and fixed the lighting angles. High-sample render, working on the SFX now! Enjoy, and suggestions are welcome!

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🎾🎾🎾 #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

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We've had a fully functional demo of our Advance Wars style game, 'Skies of Chaos: Battlefields' for a while. But I might re-do the maps in 3d/lowpoly, but keeping the 2d sprites. Needs something more to visually stand out πŸ§πŸ€”. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

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bsky loves to ruing the quality of gifs... will this video fair any better!....

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A bit more progress on this zelda inspired tileset. Feeling nice and lush so far. Not quite happy with the grass yet - already done a lot of versions! but coming together! #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

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Next up is to figure out a design for the player character!
#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

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Huge Star Trek shot update! Fixed all sorts of issues, added some cool VFX to the scrubbing action, and fixed the lighting angles. High-sample render, working on the SFX now! Enjoy, and suggestions are welcome!

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best book i’ve read in a long time

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STAR TREK TNG Aquiel: Concept Artwork of relay station 47. Artwork with screenshot from the Episode. Artwork by Rick Sternbach.

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Indie World Showcase 3.3.2026 YouTube video by Nintendo of America

Nintendo Direct Indie World Showcase (My studio Klei and our new game Rotwood is at the 10:00 mark exactly):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DCt...

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1 week ago

low-poly laws dictate that this rat must be an important character (enviro rats don't get bones nor textures above 32px size).

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Yep! Competitor for the advanced warp drive research program with the Excelsior! (Think F-32 and F-35) Repurposed after the famous humiliation of that program as a long range, long endurance general scientific vessel.

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Star Trek shot update! Some of the timing on the scrubber masks got f'd up, but I'll fix that in the next go round. Also, I feel like the lighting angle shifts a bit *too* much over the course of the shot. I'll tone that down. Enjoy, and suggestions are welcome!

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Star Trek Textures.zip

Actually, I just remembered that I already have! This is an archive of all the textures I've used on my ships. All the Starfleet vessels use the same texture set. drive.google.com/file/d/1t13S...

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I did! I actually made them in 3dsmax! I can post them up sometime if you're interested?

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It's a combination of deliberate UV mapping and procedural triplanars. The textures are 16K resolution square!

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USS Arges Departs a Mysterious Planet (WIP) YouTube video by Howard Day

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ApB...

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1 week ago

EXACTLY. :P

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1 week ago

Nope, it was more WALL-E, to be honest. Also, I needed to have a way to convey how minor the damage was - if a glorified karate student can buff it out, then it can't be that bad, right? :D

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Another WIP Star Trek shot! This one will have a voiceover commenting on how they managed to prevent all but very minor damage, then you have these workbees in floor polish mode. :D Suggestions welcome!

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5 months ago
Six shiny Star Trek logos, all recreations of officially-used logos except for one.

1. As it appeared on the Original Series VHS tapes
2. As seen on one of the Original Series soundtracks
3. As used on the Strategic Operations Simulator game
4. From the 25th Anniversary logo, 1991
5. As used on the TNG VHS covers
6. My own mashup logo, in the style of the Wing Commander logo
7. The Deep Space Nine logo
8. The Voyager logo

Polishing my chrome Star Trek logo collection.

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2 weeks ago
SC: Evo Complete SC: Evolution Complete Official Site

Yes! There is an extension mod you can play now, where within the SC2 arcade, you can play with both SC1 or SC2 factions, on any multiplayer map. And there are SC1 vs SC2 tournaments. They also are making some campaign mission remakes too in the future. More info: liquipedia.net/starcraft2/U...

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This was a quick inspirational painting using a #Homeworld 2 background by the legendary Rob Cunningham as a base and staging the new HW 3 style of missile frigates I was developing with Aaron Kambeitz.

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