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Carl Holden

@carlholden.bsky.social

Concept artist and 3D generalist in the Entertainment Industry. Working on Themeparks and Arcade games mostly. Manchester https://cara.app/carlholden

1,745 Followers  |  576 Following  |  89 Posts  |  Joined: 20.08.2023  |  2.1788

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Woah, Kahl! you've been gone for 5 years Sharl exclaimed.

Seems I stopped playing animal cross around halloween time back then considering all the decorations.

30.10.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ship I've been noodling on between freelance the last few days. It's been ages since I've done one, and it used to be all I was known for! Around two hours so far. Funny these things take me so much less time than other projects. Hopefully finish it this week when I have time.

29.10.2025 07:15 β€” πŸ‘ 123    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Bit of rigging tonight of the rudder.
Tried the Aileron/flaps in conjunction with the ......yoke? But ha ha.

Shapekey on the exhaust next and a test shader that heats up

28.10.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Work in progress shot of an 3D model aircraft and getting side tracked looking at reference photos

Work in progress shot of an 3D model aircraft and getting side tracked looking at reference photos

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Bit more, but from the front this time as I've been at the weird intake. Need to be careful I don't detail one area up to much compared to the others, so will do the back flappy bit next.... positive that's the technical name [flaps hands in left and right motion]

22.10.2025 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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May drop the front bit. But yeah that's the next chunk until another night. Looking forward to detailing bags and bits stringing it together.

14.10.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tonight's bit. I have all the parts i'm making off to one side as instances.

09.10.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
It's a group of blocks vaguely in the shape of a plane to build over.

It's a group of blocks vaguely in the shape of a plane to build over.

09.10.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I have about 45minutes free a day. So been doing the get it started then polish it later thing.

Started building the replacement for the placeholder ship [next post], but got a base animation sorted......sort of, it'll change, learning stuff.

09.10.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Flat plywood is erm, mmmmm yes, more. Only issue when specifying it was stopping contractors from using the ones with massive logos and text printed on it :D

07.10.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Continuing with the low to low baking + bevel shader post series, I wanted to show how I’m using @marmoset3d.bsky.social Toolbag to texture while incorporating vector layers for fine detail that would traditionally be baked from a high poly.
1/10

03.10.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

As I get deeper into blender its quiet madness. Today was working out maintaining object instances across scenes yet allowing for seperate lighting and material setups per scene on many gb, several thouand object files.

I can't abide shit file management these days :D

26.09.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Angels Power Chapter 5: The Diabolics, painted fantasy epic High quality print of 100 pages full color, full art softcover with exclusive bonus pages.

Consider supporting this. The first comic collection was excellent and is also available as part of a selection.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

24.09.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Eliot CN (@eliotpotato) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform I'm 14, i am a small 3d artist, i do little projects occasionaly when i have time, as a hobby.

My son has been doing 3D modeling for a few years now

He lacks motivation, because he's a bit alone at his age to have #Blender as a hobby
I've been bugging him for months to build up a portfolio of his own
If you are on #Cara don't hesitate to leave a comment or share his work
cara.app/eliotpotato

14.05.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

I work on all those experiences. There is a hell of a lot of work and really quick turn arounds in those sectors even outside Disney.

You get to do short movies, computers games and sports within it all as well.

06.08.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wonder if it stems from the age old aguments about if peeing in the shower is okay or not and one of the devs was so worked up over the argument they were just. "Its so wrong i'm gonna label it!"

28.07.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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badbrush’s profile badbrush uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 2,174 films watched. Favorites: The Thing (1982), Possessor (2020), Junk Head (2017), Hamilton (2020).

I'm on there. Sometimes write reviews, generally just rating though. Been running a film get together once a week with friends for a few years now.

letterboxd.com/badbrush/

24.06.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Think there have been a few actors specifying this with the whole Peter Cushing fiasco setting it off and hologram music tours not too long ago.

23.05.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A few sites last September were circulating a parody article about a family in hospital after using a gptchat made mushroom identification book published through Amazon after a few were found on there.

17.05.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep didn't get into game dev until I was 37. Although even then i thought I was applying to theme parks design.

I kinda starting giving up on game dev, but turned out they made AR/VR, arcade games, CGI short movies, interactive movies and ride media as well, so getting to do a whole range now.

10.05.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Lying low. #b3d #blender #animation

10.05.2025 06:23 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Blender native, I may get the flip fluids add-on it looks useful.

Blenders a bit finicky compaired to what i've seen a collegue do with liquigen / embergen, he also wants to try flip fluids because of the pigment color mixing based on Mixbox

09.05.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

lol, that honestly brightend my day. Thanks

09.05.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

oh wow that video compression is rough.

09.05.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Been wanting to learning water simulations. Last nights test.
Too much cowbell.

I don't know why it looks like the water multiplies in it :D

09.05.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Usually a big bump when added to a large accounts starter list.
Think its just the standard social media sharing, repost outside of that.

08.05.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#b3d #conceptart #hardsurface #hardops #DECALMachine

"-It's remarkable that they've managed to fit a gimballed engine into this frame, but how does it brake?"
"-Feet first. It brakes feet-first"

07.05.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

It's going to be hard, look after yourself and know people care.

04.05.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Was excellent, nice and simple story but love the acting,designs and props,watched it a few times now. Ian Huberts behind a fair bit of the vfx, provided some 3D scans of characters and backpacks on his patreon which was nice to see. I'm gonna stop now. heh heh.

27.04.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Couldn't work out what was up.

The replies took my innocence and now I'll be expecting them on every billboard size print.

27.04.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rasberry All-nighter.

Sounds a bit like a play on words for diaherria [apple splatters], or a sex position.

...........Dirty Carl

27.04.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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