Matthias Schmidt

Thanks for the shout out!

screenshot of a ground texture. it's brown, porous, and has large cracks

screenshot of the same texture, but it's black and the cracks are glowing like they're filled with lava

can't afford therapy so I'm making textures instead

Hand embroidery of a fennec fox, stitched in light neutral tones, walking in a strong wind

How I feel in 2025 so far
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#embroidery #handembroidery #blueskyart

I hate how AI bros are ruining the word vibe. I work a lot by vibes but it's based on an intuition that comes with lots of experience and knowledge. In their case it's an euphemism for knowing f all about what the hell they are doing.

Definitely wasn't me. I'm more of a Histogram Select and Histogram Range man.

Often it's just vibes. Imo instead of trying to understand every step of another artist it's better to just experiment with all the nodes and get a intuition for how you can manipulate things. Last year i had to work in other artists files and everyone just has their own unique way of doing things.

I've posted the material work I did for my university VR team project, "Hexed". My team and I were extremely pleased with how the project turned out within the 12 weeks!

You can check out the breakdown here! -
www.artstation.com/artwork/lGy06V

#art #gameart #substancedesigner #materials #gamedev

The grift is about transferring investment money into someones pockets. The economy behind it makes no sense otherwise. Like OpenAI creating a benchmark about solving 1 million dollar worth of real world tasks when actually this work will have no value left when done by an AI.

I called his bs when just a couple weeks ago he twittered that people just can't get enough of AI.

Germany has a TON of interesting and fancy ones. The search term is "Wasserturm".

What's next in medical school they teach quackery?

Yea you're getting ripped off big time. 84 tabs with 200mg cost 339 Euro in Germany (of which the patient has to pay 10 Euro). So even someone with private health insurance and no coverage for medication would only pay a fraction of what they make you pay.

I've argued with an AI bro before who considered gAI procgen. My take is if a procedure can't be isolated and exposed to deterministically tweak the output to my liking then it's not really procgen in a practical sense and we don't need to bother to liken both techs to each other.

I never bothered with recruiters. Imho LinkedIn got ruined when they suddenly showed up. Don't see the point. If i'm interested in a place/project i will personally get in touch with someone. And if a company or a lead sees my work on AS etc. they can contact me if they want to work with me.

Really appreciate you sharing your refs. They are great. Saved them all and want to do more of them if i have time for personal projects.

WIP of a metal floor material based on two of the London refs provided by @deswalsh.bsky.social The cigarette buds are from a Megascans atlas. #gameart #substance3d #substancedesigner #madewithsubstance

hi welcome to my account I post random ass shit

I don't think they even produce that model anymore. It's an old SteelSeries mouse. When i tried to open it one of the screws broke. The new one that i ordered looks similar. I hope the buttons arn't worse or some bs.

Thought i brain farted and forgot how to use Substance Designer. Turned out my mouse middle button was broken. Now i have to buy and get used to a new mouse which i always dread because it sucks so much when it doesn't feel perfect.

I wonder what mister AI slop avatar thinks the word art direction means.

Remember to claim your cash refund from Epic before February 19th if you have points from Quixel left. I almost missed it because i don't check the old email adress linked to my account very often.

I can't even be happy about the bubble bursting. Cheap AI still poses a threat to artists and creatives. Also as always it will be small workers and employeees who will take the brunt for companies going down.

One for the ref folder.

Nice little piece! Is there a name for this type of glazing/color pattern?

But we get told that our company is a family until the day we get thrown under the bus for short term financial gain or corporate level bonuses.

I xhitttered today that i think companies that go that route make themselfes utterly unattractive as work places for the most talented and creative people. Glad to see that this is already starting to pan out.

Would be interesting to know the purpose of these surfaces. From todays perspective looks pretty crude as either anti slipp tech or for fastening metal plates.

Awesome, congratulations!

Maybe you are a night owl but the necessity to get up early for work or school makes you go to bed at an hour outside of what your body wants.

My parents only got interested in gaming after they retired. But now they play all day everyday.