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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Join us on September 10th at 8:00PM CET, for our final week of Dincon Digital! This time, we have a panel talk with Chris Radsby, Yinuo Chen, Kyle Horwood and Jeremiah Estrellado - discussing career journeys and the difficulties faced along the way👀 See you there! 😄 buff.ly/1JK8f7P

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And following Mahmoud's talk... we have our very own Jeremy Estrellado hosting a talk on working with intent, instead of drowning in endless learning content- at 9:00 PM CET on August 20th! See you there! 😄 buff.ly/hsLpwBw

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Join us on August 20th at 8:00PM CET, for our sixth week of Dincon Digital! This time, we have Mahmoud Hady hosting a presentation on Unlocking The Adaptive Eye and Continuous Learning in Art Direction 👀 See you there! 😄 buff.ly/g4QjrI1

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Join us on August 13th at 9:00PM CET, for our fifth week of Dincon Digital! This time we have Sergei Leoluch Panin hosting a presentation on creating Nanite-ready environments 👀 See you there! 😄 buff.ly/W9h3Ijv

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

And following our Natsura Presentation.... we have Sigge Sandström hosting a masterclass on procedural tree creation in Natsura as well at 9:00PM CET August 6th! See you there! 😄

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Join us on August 6th at 8:00PM CET, for our fourth week of Dincon Digital! This time we have George Hulm and Feike Postmes hosting a presentation on Natsura, a total conversion mod for Houdini geared towards plants and foliage modelling. 🪴 See you there! 😄 buff.ly/7q8wtdp

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

And following our panel talk.... we have Hugh Chew hosting a talk on layered material workflows at 9:00PM CET July 30th! See you there! 😄 buff.ly/hsLpwBw

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Join us on July 30th at 8:00PM CET, for our return to Dincon Digital after a small break! This time we have Jacob Norris, Laura Dilloway, Javier Perez and Miroslav Baev hosting a panel talk on career journeys and difficulties! See you there! 😄 buff.ly/hsLpwBw

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Join us on July 9th at 12:00PM CET, for our second day of Dincon Digital talks! This time we have Alwyn Hunt, who will be sharing the importance of fundamentals in 3D Art! See you there! 😄

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We are super excited to announce.... DinCon Digital 2026! 🎉 Over the span of 6 weeks from July 2nd - August 20th, we will be hosting a plethora of talks from some familiar Empire faces, to guests from our Industry, covering all things game art, careers, tooling and production! See you there 👀

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today, we're featuring Natallia's Stylised Pumpkin house! This is a lovely stylised scene with some great assets, from a recent Mentor of DiNustys! Check it out: buff.ly/oW10PT3 #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Piotr Pinderak's Offroad Car! This is an extremely well optimized car for the quality it hits! Really nice texture work on this one! Check it out: buff.ly/V2TqfE0 #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Michael Khinevich's Winter Tower Scene! This is a beautiful scene with some lovely stylized assets, and it's composed very well. Check it out: buff.ly/ldOT99h #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Kris Catteau's UE5 Procedural Flesh Generation tool! This is an awesome Houdini tool that adds creepy, procedural organic flesh meshes to any environment. Super nice work! Check it out: buff.ly/RGyYfAS #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring our very own Nick Hofbauer "Art Nouveau Door" Diorama! This is an excellently crafted and textured, small-scale scene to show off a variety of skills. Love it! Check it out: buff.ly/ffjbd02 #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Finn Bogaert's Medieval House - UE5 Environment! This scene is an extremely faithful recreation of the wonderful concept by Junhyuk Yoon, with multiple weather scenarios on the full post below! Check it out: buff.ly/LHh0Q0Q #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Franek Leszczynski's "The Growth" Environment! This is a masterclass in composition, lighting, and conveying mystery and mood through storytelling! Check it out: buff.ly/loki0WP #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Recently, Geremia Merzari shared their wisdom on the workflow used to texture the props for a Crash Bandicoot-inspired project, in a Dinusty Empire Article, talking all things stylisation! Check it out: buff.ly/iMMRaSd #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring André Felipe's Urban Resistance Environment! This was a great result from André challenging themselves to make an environment in one texture for mobile! Love the style going on here. Check it out on Artstation: buff.ly/PxGZ8Ev #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The Empire has been busy... Blockouts are being finalized, gameplay systems progressing and full art production is underway. 👀 Keep posted for more updates on our Community Project: Audit 13 as we move into Phase 3! Read more here: buff.ly/HAlnmnP

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Adam Dencker's "The Curator's Daughter "! This project is a great showcase of Adams' texturing skills, with some lovely props and foliage in a well-composed shot! Check it out on Artstation: buff.ly/mLLMQcG #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Sady Fofana's Botanical Research Facility! Compositionally, this scene is really strong with some lovely foliage and hard surface assets. Check it out on Artstation: buff.ly/dlYi6WA #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Franek Leszczynski's Fisherman House! This scene is full of atmosphere and mood, with some nice storytelling points and a great video render to show it all off! Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/YHT2LTV #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Artemy Belzer's 'What a View' Environment! There is a real sense of scale and wonder in this scene, with some great composition and lighting! Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/8duvQ40 #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Melissa Kumpmann's Cosmea Plant Study! These flowers look great up close and afar, and the full post shows a great timelapse of the full process of creating these lush foliage! Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/EDTIoAS #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Zian Hsu & Paul Tsi's Shinjuku Station collaboration! The material definition in this scene is spot on, and it's paired with great lighting and composition! Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/Pxs8Tai #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Kirill Shornikov's "Venezia Nova" Environment! This scene is beautiful, with stunning lighting and composition and lots of high-quality assets, with some great breakdowns on the full post! Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/0JtmNWu #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Justin Colombini's Warding Temple! This environment is jam-packed with awesome architectural and organic elements, paired with a great composition and storytelling! Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/tfrPosZ #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Eric Rogers Stone Wall Material! This is an excellent tileable material with real attention to detail that has gone into matching the reference, from of one of our Shogun Elite members. Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/kC8tE8d #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 New Article featuring Giora Nohl, with a focus on the strategies used for managing assets, avoiding burnout, and staying on track! Check out their artistic journey on their latest project: Racing Time! Check it out: buff.ly/7wfabc8 #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Melissa Kumpmanns 'Garden Diorama Art Test'! This scene is a real showcase of Melissas foliage and composition skills in a lovely, lush diorama that just makes you want to walk around it! Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/uHOrnUF #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Joppe Stijfs Franchi SPAS 15! This is an excellently modelled and textured gun, with great material definition and lots of awesome tiny details. Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/SJNTj4w #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Sheila Alessandrini's 'Cinque Terre' Environment! This scene is a lovely showcase of great props, lighting and shader work with some really nice breakdowns on the full post below. Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/Hk8wDbi #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Finn Bogaert's Wind Town! This is a lovely Stylized environment that is full of life and story! Really nice vibes all around 😄 Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/evxbNl2 #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Martin Martschenko's 'Present Moment Farm'! This piece ticks all the boxes, with great composition, texturing, lighting, and prop work from one of our long-time community members! 👌 Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/3eNzGsw #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Anand Shukla's Project Autumn! The daytime scene is so vibrant and inviting, while the nighttime shot really catches the Arcane Zaun vibe 👌 Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/Itc7wcX #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Freya Swartz's Library Cafe! The environment is full of life and story, with some excellently composed shots! Check it out on Artstation www.artstation.com/artwork/6L58Nx #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Radim Jelíneks' Rose Window Sketch! The scene was created to showcase a trim sheet workflow, but the composition and rendering are just chef's kiss! 👌 Check it out on Artstation www.artstation.com/artwork/8BEKdn #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 A couple weeks ago Helena Hansen shared her wisdom on creating a project without a concept, in a Dinusty Empire Article! She goes in depth about picking a project, and handling scope and compositon. Check it out: www.thedinustyempire.com/articles/for... #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Chico Span's book on Creating High-Quality Vegetation for Games! The scene was created for Chico's new book, which showcases every step of the foliage pipeline for games! Check it out on Artstation www.artstation.com/artwork/dy9Px3 #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Aadil Sharifs' Elm Tree! This is a lovely game ready tree with multiple variations of life cycles using just 1 atlas. Great job! Check it out on Artstation www.artstation.com/artwork/lGKdPk #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

We’re doing something fun! Let the challenge begin… www.thedinustyempire.com/audit-13

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The DiNusty Empire is a media sponsor for the Leartes Studio Challenge the went live today. For more information check it here and of course if you working on anything for the challenge it is welcome in the discord critiques stream! Next Thursday is our next one.

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Now with a fancy fresh article! David J Chan takes us along with him as he shares what he learned about going from concept to final product during his Mentorship. Expanding his skillset on sculpting, material layering, as well as workflows and methodology. #unreal5 #3d #gameart #breakdown #article

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The Monument by David J Chan — Dinusty Empire

David J Chan takes us along with him as he shares what he learned about going from concept to final product during his Mentorship. Expanding his skillset on sculpting, material layering, as well as wo...

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Devin Gee Sr's 'Reverse Engineering' Environment! The scene is awesome, and has come a long way from its original critiques in our community, great job! Check it out on Artstation www.artstation.com/artwork/Ez45z4 #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Duuk Dollekens' Stylized Marigold Flowers! The composition and rendering of this shot is absolutely breathtaking, with some lovely breakdowns too! Check it out on Artstation www.artstation.com/artwork/a08EVJ #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Kejti Ballas Medieval Town Environment! This is a lovely and expansive environment, which is fit for exploring around, not just a pretty camera shot! Great work! Check it out on Artstation www.artstation.com/artwork/dy348x #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Jack Goodmans 'Beekeeper's Hut' Environment! With a great composition, crunchy sculpts and lovely lighting - this scene hits all the marks of a great environment project! Check it out on Artstation www.artstation.com/artwork/dy3eg3 #GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Ben Closes' 40k Inquisition Hallway! The atmosphere and quality of materials in this scene is awesome, and it is a great 40K fan project! Check it out on Artstation www.artstation.com/artwork/8BoR2Q #GameDev #Art

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