Von Pixel

I haven’t lost a fulls day of work in years I’m actually completely devastated right now.

I’m a little scared to keep using Nomad now to be honest.

Nomad sculpt just… vanished my project file? It was absolutely saved. I save like every minute. Restarted my iPad and it’s just straight up gone!

Any Nomad people ever seen this happen? Why did it happen?

Is the really what the trunks look like??

I am now obsessed with this tree.

Post a tree that you photographed.

Ohh Minecraft update just yeeted my kids entire inventory in our cave dweller world and he’s devastated

I don’t sculpt often but when I do I love it. Especially in Nomad because I can take my iPad and set up in a cool spot instead of at the battle station. Change to that vibe.

I need to see John Wilson’s debut movie The history of concrete to heal my soul

making a huge bird nest for ue5 with nanite. why not live a little. still deep down inside it feels dirty doing this.

I’ve only ever read the first six issues of Bone when I was a teen and I’m currently on the third collected book right now with my kid and like holy shit Bone is incredible.

A big piece of advice I can give to people doing level layouts or environment art is make sure you dont get caught up with the view of your level from way high up in the sky. Its really important to stay down where your player is often and absorb that context.

Knighy of the seven kingdoms is absolutely the good shit. They’re changing it up from the books in just the right way so far. Great stuff. So much better than house of the dragon. Feels like it’s being made by people that actually like what it’s based on.

I always said that place was one of the best in the city. Was very sad when it closed. I remember the smoking shop with the Indian statue a few doors down.

This cocktail tastes exactly like the beef and lamb shawarma made by the day shift lady (not the night shift) from Falafel Queen (rip) at queen and Bathurst and that’s maybe one of the highest compliments I can give a drink.

Could you imagine seeing this in a portfolio from an environment artist?? Lort.

What is even happening. What is this ai slop. Like… just why? Lmao. I’m trying to buy some ram and maybe some new fast storage ffs.

Absolutely. I still keep my eye on lots of stuff too but that urge do everything has gone and been transferred almost into instead being fuel for doing creative things.

job listings be like

accidentally cranked the tessellation of something to an absolutely obscene number (10) and hard crashed my machine and now Im looking at probably 3hrs of shader compiling in unreal again lol

there is usually another way to make things bigger

Just a friendly piece of advice when dealing with complex systems in 3d- avoid scaling anything at all costs.

Hey that’s a nice thing to say ❤️ thank you

I think I like it? Gonna sit with it for awhile and see how I feel

Oh damn ok I did it

Kuwahara + Outline post process shader

For reference here is the kuwahara vs the cel + outline post shader comparison.

So here’s the Kuwahara filter I built in action. I like it but I feel like the other outline effect I had a was much better for this game. Still going to try to combine the two.

Ok- this kuwahara stuff is cool but i really miss the outline effect I had before. I wonder if I can combine the two cheaply hmmm

Thank you! I’ve always really liked this look but never really gave it a shot outside of straight hand painting materials. Lots of good info out there on different ways to approach it.