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Carter

@carterlodwick.bsky.social
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quiet poster, mostly game/3d modeling projects. I'm newly unemployed and looking for work. If you're looking for a illustrator or 3D artist, please have a look at my portfolio: www.carterlodwick.com/3D.html

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
nobody made anything like eidolon before and nobody's made anything like it since. one of one! store.steampowered.com/app/286140/E...
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Eidolon on Steam
Narrative exploration game located in a massive, post-human Western Washington. Navigate an open world that has been reclaimed by nature. Use journals, letters, zines, and other documents to learn the...
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Carter @carterlodwick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I made a new portfolio site in anticipation of applying for work! There's illustrations, various 3D, and documentation of all my game projects. I think it's pretty fun to peruse! www.carterlodwick.com/3D.html
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Gregorios Kythreotis @eteogreg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My favourite level design and environment art resource and the best website on the internet is still noclip.website
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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
South Evanston
White vintage tile floor circa 1900 with waves of blue and green in the border and vibrant green wall tiles.
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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
AAAA Costa Rica was able to fully reverse deforestation HOPECOREEEE earth.org/how-costa-ri...
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How Costa Rica Reversed Deforestation and Became an Environmental Model | Earth.Org
Costa Rica is the first tropical country to have stopped, and subsequently reversed, deforestation. What can the rest of the world learn from the country?
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hol @thnewlands.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Come out and play games with us at Lloyd!!
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Carter @carterlodwick.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
coupla sketches inspired by my LAST trip to portland, recently unearthed from my recent trip there
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Liz Walcher @lizwalcher.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Hi #portfolioday! I'm Liz, a Senior 3D Artist & stylized art specialist. I've worn all sorts of hats over the last 10 years, with my most recent non-NDA work on "Coven of the Chicken Foot!" 📨 eliz.walcher@gmail.com 🎨 lizwalcher.artstation.com (private portfolio avail. upon request)
Screenshot from the trailer of "Coven of the Chicken Foot" by Wildflower Interactive. It shows a dark, mossy forest at night. The scene shows a few skeletons, an old sword & shield, some pine trees, and two mysterious-looking characters in the distance illuminated by bright green light.Screenshot from the trailer of "Coven of the Chicken Foot" by Wildflower Interactive. It shows a bright, foggy, grassy forest in the daytime. Amidst the trees there is a wooden signpost with a crow sitting on top.A screenshot of two "demodogs" from the game "Stranger Things VR." They are in a black void space. One of them is in a walking pose with its mouth closed, and the other is roaring with its mouth open.  Screenshot from the VR game "Fujii" by Funktronic Labs. It shows a garden from the game, a whimsical, glowy, lowpoly-stylized room full of plants and flowers.
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Carter @carterlodwick.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Giant Sequoia babies
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Carter @carterlodwick.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Some recent ones 🔵🟢
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
HOW TO LOOK AT ART by Lynda Barry

In the first panel, a dog-headed woman, a mother, looks at a painting in the "Madonna with Baby Jesus" vein. A small blobby child is standing next to her.

Mother: IM NOT SURE HOW TO LOOK AT ART.
Child: WHATS SPOSTA HAPPEN?

In the second panel the dog-headed mother holds up her hands (paws?) trying to explain to the child.

Mother: SOMETHING BIG. A REVELATION.
SUDDENLY YOU JUST UNDERSTAND.

In the third panel dog-headed mother goes back to looking at the painting. The child holds up their arms to be lifted.

Mother: NOT SURE HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
Child: HOW BOUT LIFT ME UP SO I CAN SEE BETTER

In the last panel, the dog-headed mother is holding the child, their position mirrored by the Madonna and baby Jesus in the painting.
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dvlsblsh @devilsblush.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
jet de go / psx racdym / taito, 2000
hiroshima-nishi airportplane on the runway beneath a blue sky
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GP @mousefountain.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This is the difference you get not just photo-sourcing textures and using very deliberately applied contrast and pixel level detail.
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Biogenesis @biogenesis.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Eli🍊 @cauleyflowers.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
GARBAGE COUNTRY 🌵 Just properly announced our game at PC Gaming showcase! Go check out our fancy new Steam page and drop us wishlist. store.steampowered.com/app/2530870/...
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Carter @carterlodwick.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A little scripted camera setup. You can see on the right how the camera target (red circle) changes from pointing at a neural position at the center of the area (green) to following the character as they approach the doorway. Then it's smoothed a lot (yellow).
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10,000 Motivated Rats @bombsfall.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
man,
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Black White Feminism: Melancholy Smoke
ALT: Black White Feminism: Melancholy Smoke
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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 01/06/2026
california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...
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Still Need to Mail Your Primary Ballot? Don’t Rely on USPS, Officials Say | KQED
State officials are warning that some ballots mailed too close to Election Day might not be counted. Here are other recommended ways to submit your ballot instead.
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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Metro bus, rail, bike, and micro are all FREE tomorrow for election day in Los Angeles. Don't let fear of gas and parking restrictions stop you! It's never been easier to cast your ballot! Voooooooooooooote! #vote
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Bryce B @brycebucher.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Fatum Betula is on sale for a while and plus I am broke as shit if u can believe, sorry unrelated comepletely haha... 👉👈
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dreamfeel @dreamfeel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Announcing Bog Bodies from Dreamfeel! A "short hike”-alike 3d adventure set in a far future Ireland populated only by radioactive talking cats. Players explore a late 19th c inspired landscape full of strange characters and stories...
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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
loving Game Poems, a new "online playable magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames" www.gamepoems.com
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Game Poems Magazine
Game Poems is an online playable magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames. The videogame poem is a concept that challenges traditional boundaries betw...
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Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com · 14/01/2026
Objectively the best set of bugs in BIG HOPS! Which is your favorite? #indiegames #nintendoswitch #ps5
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Carter @carterlodwick.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The little house on fire got a chuckle
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Carter @carterlodwick.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I looked at this again for 15 minutes today, and am just astounded by the art direction. Pause and look at the backgrounds. The line work is amazing!
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Carter @carterlodwick.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Trying out colored pencils over the past couple days, jumping between sketchbooks to see how different paper feels.
Three open sketchbooks, showing various colored pencil drawings I've completed recently: LA at dusk, a garden building in Venice, and a bunch of colorful fantasy drawings showing a camouflaged figure in a gasoline-colored forest, a stern knight, and a woman with huge red eyes. Three sketchbooks open to pages with recent colored pencil drawings I've completed: the LA river at night, a drawing of the side of my apartment in the afternoon, and some drawings of a ponytailed knight with a pistol.
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 15/12/2025
Analgesic's latest RPG is a sharply designed counterpoint to open world excess.
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Angeline Era is a shrewd and poetic examination of the past
Sprawling yet intimate, the new RPG Angeline Era offers sharp, personal design in an age of open world excess.
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
We library folk do a good job talking about all the free services we offer, but I don’t see many of us talking about how libraries are one or the only places where you can use services without being advertised to.
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Carter @carterlodwick.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
aghh the language in Angeline Era is just so consise and evocative. so rare in games. can't remember the last time i arrived at a town in a game and got excited!
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LawyerDog @cmddog.com · 03/03/2025
i love "Terracotta mask in the shape of the head of a fox, dog, or bat ca. 600–480 BCE" so much he's so perfect
Terracotta mask in the shape of the head of a fox, dog, or bat ca. 600–480 BCE
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Despelote is one of my favorite games of the last few years. Documentarian and personal and unlike anything else I’ve played. Go run around as a little kid trying to make sense of the world in the shadow of the World Cup.
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Marina Ayano Kittaka @even-kei.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It seems people want to ponder orbs—I mean learn about Matcaps! They're great for gesturing at complex lighting and reflections within a stylized art style. And as a bonus, no UV unwrapping! ^.^
diagram showing matcap textures and where they are used in game models.

Matcap (short for “material capture”) materials apply a texture to a mesh using normals *instead* of UV maps. These textures generally look like shiny orbs that have complex lighting and reflections baked in. They are often used in the process of 3D sculpting, but work well for stylized game art like Angeline Era’s!

There are tons of free matcap textures available, and setting up a matcap material is pretty straightforward!

Metal balls combine a traditional UV texture with a gentle matcap sheen!

Even the logo uses a matcap!
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Carter @carterlodwick.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
These graphics are such a delight. Congrats to the Angeline Era team! Looking forward to playing it.
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
small worlds, screenshots, browser (2009) archive.org/details/smal...
a lofi chunky pixelized platformer. the protragonist looks like a thick match stick.as you move, the world zooms out and you become smaller, creating an interesting effect.even further zoomed out, you are getting quite small now. still not sure what the setting is.. possibly a space station or something.you are now tiny but can see much more of the map that you have now explored (without having to use a map).
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Marina Ayano Kittaka @even-kei.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Angeline Era is out NOW!!! ^.^ here's a breakdown of some elements and techniques I used to create the HUGE visual world of Era. Ultra-dense action and secrets meant a bigger focus than ever on visual clarity and communication! ⚔️🔍 See it in action!! store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
Cube-based environment art (along with melos’s “auto-cuber” tool) allows for the efficiency and complex secrets-hinting of 2D tilesets combined with the benefits of 3D lighting and atmosphere.

Large “EnviroChunks” with flexible triplanar materials quickly establish setting in the background of scenes.

Gestural vertex colors quickly and beautifully define characters that pop against the environment and look good small or large onscreen.

iNaturalist.org can be an amazing resource for game artists, featuring species id and many public domain community photos of life on Earth!

Matcap materials are good for creating shiny or translucent objects while maintaining a simplified/stylized look.
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eva khoury @evakhoury.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
shrimply crabbing a wonderful christmas time
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Liz Walcher @lizwalcher.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
our tiny art team worked so hard to bring the hand-drawn style of this game to life!! I'm very proud to have been a part of crafting the beautiful things in this trailer.🌿
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shinji 🪻 信志 @shinji.zone · 14/10/2025
hi #portfolioday i'm shinji! i'm a game developer based in japan that likes to make nice games and nice effects! also an occasional illustrator, amateur photographer, and slow language learner 🐛 🔗 www.shinji.zone
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Carter @carterlodwick.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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mcc @dryad.technology · 19/04/2025
Heads up to anyone who may have recently been sent an incorrect passport. Possible relief soon.
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Carter @carterlodwick.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Some moody images of a pump station, modeled after one I found while exploring Sauvie Island in Portland last spring. #blender3d #environmentart
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Carter @carterlodwick.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Returned to LA but today. Bookended the drive with plant pics: Oakland stershies and a good ol dusk palm
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Mark Choi @choiby.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It's finally time to talk about a dream project - @sonarisensemble.bsky.social! We are all professional musicians active in the video game space, and between us have recorded and arranged for projects including Horizon, Baldur's Gate 3, Alan Wake 2, Manor Lords, Slay the Princess and Hollow Knight.
Five musicians looking happy and laughing with each other, with some holding their instruments (except for the singer and the pianist...), all the while pretending that it wasn't a freezing cold day
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Jurge Cruz-Alvarez @jurge.site · 20/03/2025
WINNER OF EXCELLENCE IN AUDIO AT THE INDEPENDENT GAMES FESTIVAL AWARDS 2K25!! DESPELOTE IS COMING MAY 1ST
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮 We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.
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Carter @carterlodwick.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
CODE-CWA booth is BUSY
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
cwa, which represents over 2,000 workers across companies like microsoft, is launching a new games industry-wide union that anyone can join, even laid-off workers. with legal frameworks for organizing under attack, it's a return to tactics that predate those systems aftermath.site/uvw-cwa-vide...
"With the tumultuous start of the second Trump Administration, two of the agencies that workers rely on to protect their rights and hold corporations accountable – the Department of Labor (DOL) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) – are under attack,” she wrote. “Between Trump’s illegal firing of NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox, Elon Musk challenging the National Labor Relations Act as unconstitutional, and huge tech giants like Amazon already using the vacant NLRB as grounds to reject union wins, it’s clear that Trump and the billionaire class he represents are working day and night to dismantle labor laws and put even more power back in the hands of corporations. We can no longer expect to rely on traditional legal frameworks to build worker power and to improve workplace conditions.”

If the right-wing, reactionary government that we increasingly have wants to start stripping away that process, they're going to quickly remember that, actually, the NLRB and NLRA are a peace treaty between workers and bosses.
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Carter @carterlodwick.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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Evan Balster 🍂 @art.imitates.life · 19/03/2025
An E-bike battery burned my house down on the first day of GDC. Seeking mutual aid from financially stable colleagues. gofund.me/47306b15
A column of fire envelops an RV in a pine forest late at night. My bedroom and office reduced to ashes. The metal walls and roof are largely destroyed, revealing the forest beyond. A class C RV gutted by fire. The heat of the fire has killed most of the plant life in a nearby garden. A segment of an RV's exterior wall. The heat of the fire has melted through the aluminum panels.
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