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I love when AAA devs think they're god's most special boy and a gift to the world because they got a junior industry job 15 years ago when those still existed. I think a little bit of humility is in order here

My clownfish Carlito turned 7 years old… I think? I don’t know when exactly he hatched but I’ve had him since 2019

If you’re doing art in the hope of becoming an AAA game artist with a six-figure salary, you’re already fighting an uphill battle There are roughly 83,000 direct game industry employees in the United States. Concept artists, character artists, environment artists, animators, technical artists, VFX artists, UI artists, and other art-related roles likely account for only 15–25% of that workforce. That’s somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000 people To put that into perspective, that’s roughly the same number of people currently working as nuclear engineers in the entire country You’re trying to break into a profession that represents around 0.007% of the US workforce. Those are odds most gamblers wouldn’t take even on a good day And that’s before considering that many of the people currently working in the industry got in over a decade ago. They’re not above tribalism or gatekeeping, especially amid the devastating layoffs that have been sweeping through the industry You don’t need the approval of corporate executives or studio heads to make art. Your work doesn’t need to be attached to a big-name AAA IP to be good or meaningful. Stop trying to suck up to the people who will choose AI and cheap outsourcing over new talent every chance they get. They don’t care about you

I just wanna be a good artist who’s happy (impossible)

Weapon design for my own project, Death Spiral. The Ravager is a lever-action shotgun that fires burrowing explosive slugs

A lot of my characters are smokers even though I can’t even smoke irl because of my fucked up lungs

Commission for @Deathlocket, thank you!

Still suffering from crippling insomnia and headaches… hope my condition will improve soon

Apollyon loves her black leather bolero jackets, it’s been kind of a staple of her wardrobe

Minor nitpick about the look of the energy sword in Campaign Evolved: its blades are made out of superheated plasma and always had this alien, fluid-like energy pattern. Why the hell does the one in the remake have this retro CRT scanline pattern on it?? Did they forget their own lore and think the blades are made out of holograms?

Guys!!! Halo is trying to use bisexual lighting and intentionally signaling trans (screenshot taken in 2010). This mf needs to get his brain checked out

This account also have a track record of not crediting the artist at all so I’m not surprised that they didn’t ask for permission x.com/mgecko117/status/20539…

Gears of War E-Day looks really good so far, I’m glad the devs understood the assignment and didn’t abandon the classic cover system for the stupid cinematic dynamic™ contextual cover system that’s in every modern AAA third-person game nowadays when they switched over to a new engine, cover in Gears needs to feel snappy and magnetic

Titanfall “successor” but with no speed, no momentum, all the grittiness stripped away, and every edge rounded off into a market analyst approved, generic, mass-appeal, investor-friendly esports art style. It was an open book exam, and they still fumbled it

A closer look at Justice without the gear