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Vidar Rapp

@vidarrapp.bsky.social

20+ years of AAA character art, making games at Experiment 101. Previously at MachineGames, Starbreeze, Avalanche Studios, Rebellion, Fall Damage & Arrowhead Studios. Collecting hobbies and staying curious since 1984. https://linktr.ee/vidarrapp

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Treasures! Wish I could find more of my old stuff from back then..

Will have to do some digital archeology at some point.

28.02.2026 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Something like this for the art cave at home.

26.02.2026 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

cue. Weird Al's "white and nerdy"

24.02.2026 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Look what just arrived in the mail

24.02.2026 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Can think of a lot of things to do with that.. and a Nazi.

08.02.2026 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ugh yeah, recall a friend insisted on bringing their 21" CRT to the Assembly demo party/lan in Helsinki back in the day.. weighed a ton.

30.01.2026 07:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Helt okej! Tar mig igenom vintermΓΆrkret sΓ₯ gott det gΓ₯r πŸ™‚

20.01.2026 06:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Grattis!

19.01.2026 09:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - seapear/AffinityOnLinux: A repository that helps users get affinity software working on GNU/Linux 🐧 A repository that helps users get affinity software working on GNU/Linux 🐧 - seapear/AffinityOnLinux

github.com/seapear/Affi...

Would love to see native releases though..

08.01.2026 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What about the framework ones?

08.01.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Worth considering it's very reusable if your doing studies.

Spend a little on a used crockpot for melting models and heating the clay.

07.01.2026 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Quite

03.01.2026 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Terminid Predator Stalker, Vidar Rapp I was responsible for making the Predator strain terminid variants of both the Stalker and Hunter. Original terminid models by Felix Fritzell.

Finally got around to posting some of the enemy units I worked on while doing post launch support on Helldivers 2.

www.artstation.com/artwork/y4LN4n

29.12.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Impossible Build: How They Made the Alien Suit
YouTube video by CinemaTyler The Impossible Build: How They Made the Alien Suit

Really good video essay on the production of the Big Chap from Alien.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGWw...

18.12.2025 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
YouTube video by Canonical Ubuntu Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10

One of the more interesting talks I've watched in quite some time from Scott Jenson.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...

15.12.2025 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Underbart

01.12.2025 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Post your favorite β€œLord of the Rings” character. Wrong answers only.

29.11.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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before asking "how's that project going??" to any creative, just assume it's going like this

12.05.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4203    πŸ” 867    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 54
lindken.com

The last toast by the legend herself:

I leave it up to you to go to lindken.com and look up Jennell Jacques, now look at her job description, goddess of technology… and fuck cancer, fuck it in the ass

- Becky

17.11.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 928    πŸ” 225    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 40

Nice!

16.11.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Ultima Underworld Retrospective | Forging a New Era
YouTube video by Majuular Ultima Underworld Retrospective | Forging a New Era

Mojuuls series of retrospectives on Ultima games are a real gem:

youtu.be/KegyZSGhVMg?...

03.11.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This finally arrived in the mail yesterday!

Such great designs by Emerson, would love to play an RTS in this world.

31.10.2025 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Incredible mood in these

30.10.2025 04:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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3D-printed some mounts for attaching proper speaker terminals on my Sonab OA-12 speakers.

No more DIN connectors 😊

25.10.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Music Power Up on Steam As a musician in the 1980s, create music for early video games. Make your own sounds and melodies from scratch, or use pre-composed patterns. Play games, upgrade the music app, meet programmers, edito...

Music Power up looks awesome, really like the vibes here. Can't wait to try it out!

store.steampowered.com/app/2246370/...

21.10.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is dope

16.10.2025 05:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Home workshop got an upgrade today, classic Ender 3 printer.

15.10.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This workshop will initiate with people from Mexico, Latin America and Europe to strengthen the ties of stop motion and collaboration and, in exchange, education will be provided for free for one Mexican / Latinamerican student for the first ten years also.

11.10.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1646    πŸ” 402    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 12
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Just found the manual on how to make a JRPG.

09.10.2025 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

08.10.2025 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1796    πŸ” 518    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 13