Steve Stark 🌕

Hello! It's been a year and some change since I was laid-off from my previous job, and I'd love a new one.

My name is Steve and I have 7 years of experience in the animation industry as a background artist and illustrator. I've worked on shows like Castlevania, and card games like MtG!

Steve Stark

Full portfolio here: www.sstarkm.com

Hello! It's been a year and some change since I was laid-off from my previous job, and I'd love a new one.

My name is Steve and I have 7 years of experience in the animation industry as a background artist and illustrator. I've worked on shows like Castlevania, and card games like MtG!

Gonna do a painting of Oahu

The timed missions 🤢

GF is pinoy and is so proud of them! We didn’t go to the dinner service but had breakfast and yeah the pastries are insanely good lol.

For example

Slowly becoming a hat guy, please clap

Me looking at New York, Jersey, and Virginia tonight

I need short capes to make a comeback

Help I can’t stop

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

Panel 1: A girl with poofy dark brown hair, brown skin, and yellow beads holding the hair in a "space buns" hairstyle, is looking back at you while sitting in a computer chair in front of a drawing tablet. She wears a purple sweatshirt with a yellow "stitch" pattern going down the sleeves, and has apparently drawn a golden-armored knight standing on a cliff with billowing clouds and night stars in the background. She is labeled "illustrator" and says "It took me 10 hours to draw this!" Panel 2: Shen points at her with his right hand, a manically smug expression on his face and the other hand on his hip. He is labeled "comic artist" and says "HAH!! Just ONE drawing in 10 hours??" Panel 3: Shen continues speaking, pointing at himself with his thumb. He says "I'D have to get like TWENTY drawing done in that time." Panel 4: Behind the still-smug shen is a slouched, deformed, horrible beast of a man with a drawing tablet in one hand and the other hand holding the pen, and also strapped to a plank of wood for wrist stabilization. It wears only a ragged loin cloth. The neck is long and extends far forward, and the hair is wild, going in all directions. In the darkness of the face two small eyes glint. This creature is labeled "animator"

Seeing a professional artist on the other site go viral with an AI meme

Watching a geometry nodes tutorial be like

This image is funny but legit this is how 3D art feels like to me. The way I talk to other artists about shader node groups may as well be like two wizards sharing magical runes between each other.

I think I finally am cracking the code on this 3D-Ghibli stuff. I watched an amazing tutorial on the trees from @AversionReality
that really helped me understand shader nodes way better.

I'm also using assets from @Reipart_
(The grass) and @FaruqTawsif
(The flowers).

In retrospect I can't believe this is what I had for this experiment just a few days ago:

bsky.app/profile/ssta...

Thanks dude! I've been chasing the 2D-look in 3D for 4 years now and I finally have time to really tackle it.

Scene setup as well!

Here's another vid to show the 3D-ness of it all!

I think I finally am cracking the code on this 3D-Ghibli stuff. I watched an amazing tutorial on the trees from @AversionReality
that really helped me understand shader nodes way better.

I'm also using assets from @Reipart_
(The grass) and @FaruqTawsif
(The flowers).

Waffling back and forth on whether I wanna get the new Pokemon game.

Anime Garden || Painterly Asset Library for Blender Painterly Foliage Assets for BlenderGet access to over 200 carefully crafted painterly assets for blender and start creating fabulous painterly scenes!What makes this asset pack special is it's custom...

This is my own material/shader, but the original mesh is from here! omarfaruqtawsif.gumroad.com/l/lbajds/chi...

I think I'm gonna remake the mesh though with geometry nodes.

Someone showed me the beauty of custom normals

Congrats!!

I think to sell this better I need to paint 2-3 foliage textures that are long and seamless, so there can be a bit of a scrolling effect as the camera turns. That's the ideal at least.

Alright we're getting places

Anime Garden || Painterly Asset Library for Blender Painterly Foliage Assets for BlenderGet access to over 200 carefully crafted painterly assets for blender and start creating fabulous painterly scenes!What makes this asset pack special is it's custom...

omarfaruqtawsif.gumroad.com/l/lbajds

Experimenting with Ghibli-style trees in Blender. Most of this is based off of @FaruqTawsif's amazing Ghibli-inspired asset library (link below), but I modified it to have a camera-vectored shadow texture on top, and a custom texture for the tree mesh itself.