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Ben Hale. He/They. Senior Environment artist at UnknownWorlds, working on Subnautica 2. prev ILMxLab. 2d/3d artist. Rock enthusiast. Music composition hobbyist. https://makkon.itch.io/ https://cara.app/makkon ๐ŸšซAI/NFT

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going to sleep listening to Symphony of the Planets tonight. really farming for that bizarre dream content.

04.08.2025 08:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Done with sanding! Itโ€™s not glued yet, just barely holding together with some tack, haha. Iโ€™m still deciding whether to paint this one or print a new version. I noticed a few sculpting mistakes that need fixing.
Iโ€™m still amazed by the quality of 3D printings. Itโ€™s magical ๐Ÿ˜ญ

04.08.2025 01:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1439    ๐Ÿ” 141    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
drawing of 4 muscular demon women in various standing poses. their colors are pink, purple, red, and sky blue

drawing of 4 muscular demon women in various standing poses. their colors are pink, purple, red, and sky blue

๐Ÿ˜Œ

02.08.2025 22:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1469    ๐Ÿ” 253    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

yeah good point

03.08.2025 22:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

cut out the tail, posted to Cara again, it worked. the automod absolutely thought it was a dick. how abysmally stupid, and entirely my fault. this shit is ass. I don't want to draw anymore.

03.08.2025 09:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I cut off the tail on the leftmost one and posted it to Cara again and it succeeded. it was the goddamn tail :( :( :(
I love tails, man. this sucks. but it's up

03.08.2025 09:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this shit is genuinely bumming me out. I was working on another drawing but I don't have the energy to finish it now. honestly I don't know how NSFW artists deal with this kind of digital prudishness.

03.08.2025 09:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I tried posting this to Cara too and it wouldn't let me. I don't really understand, what is it about this image that makes the automods think this is pornographic? is the tail on the leftmost figure reading as a phallus or something?

03.08.2025 09:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A highly stylized 3D knight character wearing red and white armor and brandishing a huge water cooled sniper rifle

A highly stylized 3D knight character wearing red and white armor and brandishing a huge water cooled sniper rifle

A  large red cel-shaded boss monster from the Dragon Prince: Xadia

A large red cel-shaded boss monster from the Dragon Prince: Xadia

Roughly 30 different avatars I made for Creature Crew

Roughly 30 different avatars I made for Creature Crew

Mr. Negative and one of his goons from Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)

Mr. Negative and one of his goons from Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)

Hey!

Do you need a highly technical character artist with almost 15 years of individual contributor and leadership experience? Looking for someone to wrangle your shaders? Or perhaps you need a person to assemble your character art pipeline?

That's me!

๐ŸŽจ www.xavierck.com
๐Ÿ“ซ xavierck.3d@gmail.com

30.06.2025 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 352    ๐Ÿ” 113    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Portfolio โ€” Hazel Monforton Senior Narrative Designer (2021โ€”2024)

It's been one year since I was laid off, and my contract with Blizzard ends in two months. I'm still looking for my next role as a senior writer or narrative designer!

I have over 8 years of experience working in AAA games from live service MMOs to single player. You can find my work on my website.

31.07.2025 13:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 952    ๐Ÿ” 446    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

nanite meshes still have a video memory impact. if you have 8 rocks at 2 million polygons each, and that's your whole rock kit, you'll be fine. but if you have a rock kit of 100+ meshes, each at an equally high polycount, you will start to run out of video memory just like you would with textures

03.08.2025 01:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it's possible they were referring to video memory, in that the mega assembly makes a new mesh, as opposed to being in a container like a blueprint or level instance. I don't really see the use for mega-assemblies, and have never used them professionally

03.08.2025 01:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I want to specify that the geometry still exists and is not deleted. in particular, the hidden geometry is not rendered. you are not paying for the hidden geometry. this is not how classic static meshes work, where even if most of it is hidden you'd still pay the full cost of rendering the mesh.

03.08.2025 01:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Unreal Engine 5.0, it's foundationally how it works

03.08.2025 01:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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imogene von valencius

02.08.2025 00:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1563    ๐Ÿ” 301    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

at this point I wonder if making an appeal to moderation even does anything? I doubt they have the staff around to have a person look at it to make that judgement call, and if they did, they probably have to look through so much that they're going to flub it anyway

02.08.2025 22:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the auto-labeler hated this one. figure drawings with no features showing are now explicit sexual material? fuck me I guess.

02.08.2025 22:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

anatomy studies turned into demons again. I tried rendering these, but that's something I've yet to figure out in procreate

02.08.2025 22:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
drawing of 4 muscular demon women in various standing poses. their colors are pink, purple, red, and sky blue

drawing of 4 muscular demon women in various standing poses. their colors are pink, purple, red, and sky blue

๐Ÿ˜Œ

02.08.2025 22:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1469    ๐Ÿ” 253    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

carving away the unused geo is unnecessary with Nanite, the clusters are culled and you don't pay the cost for it. this is the big feature of virtual geometry

02.08.2025 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the channel has been inactive for years, this kid started replying to a comment of mine from 8 years ago. I'd like to be able to block them so they don't even see me

02.08.2025 03:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

had to navigate a menu, but sure. doesn't stop their comments in threads outside of my channel, where the harassment started. had to delete my comment in order to nuke the conversation.

02.08.2025 02:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

man, when someone decides to harass you on youtube, you have basically no recourse. you can't even block them. best you can do is mute them and hide their comments?

02.08.2025 01:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can confirm - MeshBlend is the real deal ๐Ÿ™‚

01.08.2025 14:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have been using Toreโ€™s MeshBlend tool for months now, and itโ€™s an absolute next-level game-changer when it comes to unifying visuals. It has fundamentally and forever changed the way I think about scene-building.

01.08.2025 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

that was before my time, I'm working on the new one

01.08.2025 16:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it's out!!! we use this on Subnautica 2, and it's transformed how we approach our worldbuilding. we have complete confidence that we can blend anything. an absolute game changer!

01.08.2025 15:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 268    ๐Ÿ” 40    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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MeshBlend is finally here! ๐Ÿฅณ

So proud to finally release what I've been working on for 16 months!

MeshBlend brings next generation blending to Unreal. Easy to use, fast and great quality!

Available on Fab for #UE5 now!
#gamedev #unrealengine

01.08.2025 13:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2005    ๐Ÿ” 279    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 52    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23
Legend of Zelda fan art. BOTW link and Zelda and dancing in front of a mirror whose reflection shows multiple iterations of other Zeldaโ€™s and links dancing together in the background.

Legend of Zelda fan art. BOTW link and Zelda and dancing in front of a mirror whose reflection shows multiple iterations of other Zeldaโ€™s and links dancing together in the background.

A dance that never ends #loz

31.07.2025 22:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15786    ๐Ÿ” 5691    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 127    ๐Ÿ“Œ 45

"I can't brainstorm without ai" "I can't draw without ai" "I can't write without ai" "Ai summarized it for me cause it's too hard of a read"
So what exactly /can/ you do? Because you sound fucking useless to me

01.08.2025 00:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4936    ๐Ÿ” 2069    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 32

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