iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Hayny @hayny.bsky.social · 1h

Drew a little background for my new drawing tablet! (I was so so close to giving up);

Digital painting of a white lady with white hair, and a white doberman head barking next to her. They are contained in a greyish blue rectangle. In the background of that rectangle, there's japanese text, faintly visible over a dark purple background.

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Joe @joegamedev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm making a #blender add-on that lets you sculpt directly onto low poly models via the manipulation of object space surface normals under the hood

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Vincent @vincentbcht3d.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

made some plants for our game project! 🍃

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

movement in non-euclidean quaternionic space

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5423 @fluorurodecobre.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

it's getting dark

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Hayny @hayny.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Shlurp Shmu

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hale @halefall.net · 18/04/2026

ouh that is tasteful I really like how that looks it's amazing in motion too!

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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Think of how many games where the verb is violence. How many games (including the ones nominated for tonight’s BAFTA awards) where you shoot, fight, kill. But when games want to explore the topic of violence in a meaningful way, that’s the issue?

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RED ❤️ @777angel.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Fractured Sense of Self

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hale @halefall.net · 06/04/2026

I am in disbelief at how good this game is, it really got its hooks in me haven't dared any rook runs yet, the idea that everyone else is in teams spooks me somewhat

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

My erosion filter is out! Video, blog post, and shader source. It emulates erosion without simulation, so it's fast, GPU friendly, and trivial to generate in chunks. Explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4V2... Companion blog post: blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast... #ProcGen #vfx #GameDev

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taxiderby verified @taxiderby.coven.cafe · 26/02/2026

If you aren’t supporting trans people then it’s only a matter of time before nobody’s supporting *you,* no matter what happens to us.

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Brendan Casey @brendancaseyart.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Its been a few years since I did any keyframe creature animation, so my most recent personal project has been exactly that :) I referenced Daniel Fotheringham’s quadruped blog quite a bit while learning his workflow, it was a lot of fun :) Rig by Yang Xiao and Agora Community

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eisfrosch @eisfrosch.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Talking about applications of GPUs to 3D graphics. youtu.be/VP-q4jFdU8c

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Why GPUs Are Good at Graphics

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hale @halefall.net · 24/01/2026

i find this idea really fun, i could understand how it feels somewhat immersion breaking but i like the personality of such a system too much for that to matter to me tbh

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I made a directional noise type I call Phacelle Noise which is pretty fast! Is it new or does something functionally identical already exist? I'm not sure! But I didn't come across one like this yet anyway, so here's my findings: blog.runevision.com/2026/01/phac... #Graphics #Shaders #Shadertoy

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hale @halefall.net · 13/01/2026

i'll be using this displaced plane to represent the simulated surface, but right now i can check that everything is scaled correctly and that the computed gradient gives decent looking normals before i go further #techart

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hale @halefall.net · 13/01/2026

started a lil side thing that will hopefully finally let me build out my own library of tools and help me make the shallow water sim project ive been letting sit idle for now, just a distance field capture as heightfield to get things going

Screenshot of the unreal engine editor, with the third person template project level visible in the main viewport.
The sidebar is visible on the right, slightly cropped, with the outliner and details panel both showing the selected niagara system sitting in the middle of the scene.

A top down view of the same scene as the first picture, in monochrome red.
It is a heightmap, the further up an obstacle reaches, the brighter its color.

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Dan Fessler @danfessler.com · 05/01/2026

quick engine test

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I've overhauled my puzzle level generation so a level is now "grown" like cell tissue in a triangle tessellation. New elements can be inserted anywhere, and the whole level deforms to make room. This makes it easier to control topology and create paths that loops around areas. #ProcGen #GameDev

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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 17/12/2025

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

Swen Vincke @LarAtLarian

Holy fuck guys we’re not "pushing hard" for or replacing concept artists with AI.

We have a team of 72 artists of which 23 are concept artists and we are hiring more. The art they create is original and I’m very proud of what they do.

I was asked explicitly about concept art and our use of Gen AI. I answered that we use it to explore things. I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art. The artists do that. And they are indeed world class artists.

We use AI tools to explore references, just like we use google and art books. At the very early ideation stages we use it as a rough outline for composition which we replace with original concept art. There is no comparison.

I talked about how we use ML here if you would like to know more:
https://gamespot.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-dev-embraces-machine-learning-for-tasks-that-nobody-wants-to-do/1100-6531123/

We've hired creatives for their talent, not for their ability to do what a machine suggests, but they can experiment with these tools to make their lives easier.

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hale @halefall.net · 17/12/2025

oh that's really cool! figuring out the normals is where I left off last time I explored this DI, I'm very curious to see how you work it out!

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hale @halefall.net · 16/12/2025

wait no iterating directly over RTs is really messy as I realized recently, especially reading and writing in the same step will mess up the RT in incomprehesible ways without proper ping pong buffering, which makes total sense in hindsight The Grid2d Collection DI should do that automatically

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hale @halefall.net · 13/12/2025

saw a really cool puddle the other day

Top down view of a rain puddle, with silt and other debris floating in the water creating intricate and abstract shapes resembling meandering rivers in some parts, and sharp erosion induced runoff in others

Side view of the same shallow-ish puddle, revealing the asphalt it sits on. The intricate shapes and patterns are still visible.

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Lumi @lumi-sco.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

L'interdiction des évènements du Lyon Antifafest (moment majeure dans la région) par la préfecture du Rhône est une nouvelle preuve de la fascisation en marche. Soutenez les militant.e.s, bénévoles et intervenant.e.s, ce n'est pas possible de se soumettre.

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Vipère @troglodette.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Here's a cleaned up version with a little breakdown at the end. All made and animated with Substance Designer ✨

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Oliver Franzke @p1xelcoder.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

If you are curious how the morphs were made in Keeper, then you can watch me create this "monkey-bunny" from scratch utilizing the tech I developed for the game. Enjoy and let me know what you think. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9V_...

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celestialmaze @cmzw.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

very quick doodle

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Oliver Franzke @p1xelcoder.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Bonus post to end the week: If you are a graphics programmer do yourself a favor and get a MIDI board. It makes the work way more tactile and fun. Full props to Matt and @aaronmjacobs.com for getting me on the MIDI train. :)

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Oliver Franzke @p1xelcoder.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Keeper's morphs are authored as scene-graph or more specifically as a scene-tree, which is evaluated bottom-up. I wrote a “compiler” which turns the tree into a command list which can be executed on the GPU. The compiler does a fair amount of optimization (e.g. dead branch pruning) to minimize cost.

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hale @halefall.net · 13/11/2025

keine ahnung wie das alles in den Arbeitsspeicher passt, sind wahrscheinlich GPU Partikeln

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Tirrel @tirrel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Cats are liquid Especially on Halloween 🎃🐈‍⬛🎃

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Kaemelo @kmlo.art · 27/10/2025

Are you an investor, journalist, showcase curator, interested in small-scopes and unique indie game titles? Let's get in touch! Been working for 1.5 years as a solo game dev on Dungeon Tourists. I am so happy with how far I've got. There are still many things I want to do, but I am having a blast!

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tharlevfx @tharlevfx.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

youtu.be/dVkGXoW4MLE This week I've been working on an improved Starter Content pack for UE5 - better content and all organised the way I recommend! Available to buy on Gumroad: tharlevfx.gumroad.com/l/starterpro... #ue5 #vfxfriday #tutorials #gamedev #unreal #screenshotsaturday

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Unreal 5 Improved Starter Content

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hale @halefall.net · 19/10/2025

This seems like an excellent way of telling the brain "it's ok to let go now" and the result is beautiful

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mimi @stalepancakes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

match stick cats

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Cherub @polygoncherub.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Hell yeah. Whole system now 100% functional. The capture rate UI needs final art, and later I'd like to make MODs have a rarity value, but yeah, you can knock an enemy down and take their limbs! I'm gonna go finally play some Silk Song. #CherubDev #UE5 #GameDev

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hale @halefall.net · 07/09/2025

you could totally accelerate the wear on that hinge even further by using this to play accordion! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEaX...

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Crazy accordion on laptop | ORIGINAL

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hale @halefall.net · 02/09/2025

it's so cool!! incredible work

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Dylan Browne @dylanbrowne.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Finally got around to updating my #UnrealEngine reel! So here it is my 2025 Unreal Engine Showreel, The full length in 4k is avaliable here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ5o... #UE5 #GameDev #Cinematic #TechArt #FX #VFX #EnvironmentArt #Lighting #LookDev

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