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ShawnTheMiller | PlayTiltshift.com @shawnthemiller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I may see myself as a Solo Developer but at some point there’s just simply too much to do! I need some help! #IndieDev #GameDeveloper #UIArt #GameArt Also happy to take expressions of interest for the future, especially from producers, social & production support!

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm definitely both of those things, for sure

A LinkedIn message from someone asking to connect with "IT professionals interested in the property market"

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Beware of cute cats, they might have laser eyes. Mr Bigglesworth is now available in Hearthstone! They are the ninth pet in the game, continuing my rigging work for Superseed Studios in collaboration with the team at Blizzard

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

After weeks of working on reels and writing up a talk, getting back to doing some good ol' rigging feels so refreshing

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We've all got to start somewhere right? Ten years ago I was starting my first day at MPC London (RIP), and these were the first two rigs I worked on there. Blink and you'd have missed them.

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The next Hearthstone pet, Mr. Bigglesworth, is dropping this weekend! He's the first cat rig I've done in a long time

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Woo, go team! Mixtape is a finalist in 5 AGDA categories this year, including game of the year!

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My latest Bandcamp Friday haul from over the weekend

A tiled grid of 12 covers showing music I purchased during Bandcamp Friday

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

After nearly 8 years of living in Melbourne and rarely venturing outside the city and suburbia, I've purchased a used car. I'd like to see more of the state of Victoria, particularly out in the country. Any good recommendations for places to go on day trips or extended drives?

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Earlier this year I rigged a cartoon octopus and chicken for Equip Super's "Super Equipped" commercial campaign. I've put together a little rigging reel for the project, showcasing their action behind-the-scenes and breaking down their unique features

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I remember being blown away by Prowlies when I was a teenager. It was a massive source of inspiration to me, along with all of Adam's other work too

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

@mariskahara.bsky.social and I are giving a talk at GCAP in October this year! Join us as we go through the process of building all the NPCs for Mixtape in "The Mixtape Townie Talk (feat. Characters & Rigs)". We're on at 12pm Tuesday on Day 2, don't miss it!

Two photographs of Mariska and Robbie side by side, with a blue boundary and text overlaid indicating they are speaking at GCAP (Games Connect Asia Pacific) in October 2026 in Melbourne Australia

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Bruce Straley @brucestraley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

👀 Coven of the Chicken Foot statuettes!!

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The feathery and friendly Q'onzu is now available in Hearthstone! They are the eighth pet in the game, continuing my rigging work for Superseed Studios in collaboration with the team at Blizzard

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Steve(n) Rynders is looking for work @angrymobofsteve.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'm still looking for full time work! I've over 10 years experience in tech animation/art/rigging and asset implementation. I can also whip together a mean Gamemaker demo. stevenrynders.artstation.com Open to remote and Seattle-based roles, willing to discuss relocation Please reach out, thanks!

stevenrynders.artstation.com

Steven Rynders

Senior Technical Animator and Technical Artist in Games

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The feathery and friendly Q'onzu is now available in Hearthstone! They are the eighth pet in the game, continuing my rigging work for Superseed Studios in collaboration with the team at Blizzard

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I love the possums around our apartment, but I do not love how much they shit on our walkway

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Check out the Mixtape behind-the-scenes over on 80 Level! It shows some of the rigs in action, including the iconic tongues that took me all of 2 minutes to skin up

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Forget London's red telephone boxes, in Australia ours have true culture

The image of Tina from Bob's Burgers on an orange background holding a wired telephone on a Telstra phone box. The text "Free for all" is above her

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Oh man, I want

A twitter post from Bruce Straley showing 3D prints of Gertie and the Creature from Coven of the Chicken Foot. A squat grandma in a blue dress with chicken feet, and a tall black monster with white fur

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm Robbie, a freelance rigging TD working in games, film, commercials and more. I specialize in highly bespoke rigs. I'm open to short and long term work, dropping in and out of projects as needed. All my work is 100% human made 🎨 robbiereidrigs.com 📫 robbie@robbiereidrigs.com

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Freelancing has had the unintended outcome of making me enjoy meetings. It's one of the few times I actually get to see and talk to the people I'm working with

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D. V. Rico @mrnohbdy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Hey, I'm Rico. Been working as a Rigging Artist in Maya on and off for about 15 years. If you need a rig built or fixed, whether its a character, vehicle, or prop, I'm free to do some work. I wish I had more recent work to show, but all of it has been minor or stuck the NDA void

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Alt VFX have shared their breakdown for 2degrees' "Turning Blue". You can see the chameleon I rigged in action, plus all the other technical work that went into bringing the cute little blue guy to life

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2degrees - Turning Blue | Alt.vfx

YouTube video by Alt.vfx

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Can confirm. This is a very standard issue that comes up in things like film digi-doubles all the time (And never stops being funny). Always test your skin weights against animation folks...

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Q'onzu, the next pet in Hearthstone, is coming at the end of July! With a bunch of feathers and folding wings, their rig was a nice little technical challenge

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

When I modify a Maya ASCII file in Notepad to open it in an earlier version of Maya

A screencap from the movie "Hackers". A young man with blonde hair is sticking his head out of a police vehicle yelling "hack the planet!"

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

After updating to my new rig codebase and working back-to-back on projects for a few months, I can finally return to my true passion: Tweaking rig control shapes for ease of selection and affordance

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ANNAPURNA @annapurna.com · 21/06/2026

Happy Father’s Day! Even to a certain cop dad who’s a total bummer.

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Blizzard have released a little behind-the-scenes look at the making of C'thun, the latest pet in Hearthstone. Check out the animation and the stretchy rig in action, along with the 2D art that served as the starting point for the character

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The squishy, adorable and totally evil C'thun is now available in Hearthstone! They are the seventh pet in the game, continuing my rigging work for Superseed Studios in collaboration with the team at Blizzard.

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

C'thun is coming to Hearthstone next week! I know I probably say the same thing with each pet release, but the animators really took this one to the next level. You've got to see this squishy guy in action

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I've started buying cheap CDs off eBay in efforts to strengthen my collection of physical media. It also gives me the benefit of ripping high quality FLAC files for my DAP. This was my first little haul

A top down photo of 4 CD cases on a white table. The CDs are Alex Lloyd's Watching Angels Mend, Moby's mobysongs, Corona's The Rhythm of the Night and Jamiroquai's A Funk Odyssey

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🩷💜💙Marie-Michelle Pepin🩷💜💙 @mariempepin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Little gouache sketchbook study from Mixtape ( I wasn’t going to leave this spread looking so empty…) #mixtape #mixtapegame #gouache #sketchbook #gouachestudy

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Seven years ago, Jorge R. Gutierrez post this about a movie made by an entire team of artists and animators because he didn't like the visual style. Now you may call it petty to remember something from so long ago, but now I get to post this...

A tweet from Jorge R. Guitierrez, a tiled grid of stylized movies with the photo-real Lion King in the middle. It says "Stylisation is the key to NOT YOU creating memorable expressive characters". He apologizes to artists who worked on the film if they were offended

The same image as the previous, with the photo-real Lion King being replaced with the AI slop duck of Gutierrez's latest project

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Today I found out about the genre of music "Slurmcore", and my world is forever changed for the better

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Apparently I got a credit on We Bury The Dead, the new Daisy Ridley zombie movie. I worked on it for literally one day, rigging a zombie arm stump. I'm so used to the industry being awful with crediting that getting one for a day's work seems wild to me, when it absolutely should be the norm

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Joe T @animboy90.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Mixtape is 100% hand keyed animation created by myself and my small team of animators (4 including me). I'm VERY proud of what we were able to accomplish.

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Got sick the day I was supposed to get vaccines to help stop me from getting sick. Bloody typical...

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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 12/05/2026

The studio behind Mixtape has remarked on its notably strong critical acclaim, which briefly saw it positioned as the highest-rated game on OpenCritic for 2026. "It was always about getting more people to listen to Devo and I think that’s probably happened," they told This Week in Videogames.

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'Mixtape' Developers Pleased 'More People Listening To Devo' Following Acclaimed Debut

Coming-of-age title Mixtape debuted as one of the most acclaimed new videogames in 2026 to date. The developers are humbled by the reception.

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Robbie Reid the Rigger @chowgood.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Mixtape is out! I was the rigging TD on the game, working as a contractor for Beethoven & Dinosaur across it's development. I worked with their amazing team of character artists and animators on all the human characters. The game is something special, I'm so glad everyone can finally experience it!

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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

There are a lot more hard-hitting examples of this that Chris isn't mentioning probably because you should play Mixtape for yourself and be absolutely floored

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MIXTAPE by Beethoven & Dinosaur @mixtapegame.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

We made www.makeyourownmixtape.com so you could make mixtapes too! MIXTAPE IS OUT IN 1 DAY #mixtape #indiedev #mixtapegame #music #gaming

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