iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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STUDIO ATMA | GRAVASTAR @studioatma.com · 19/04/2025

It’s #screenshotsaturday! Come for the awesomeness of our Boss Battle in-progress, stay for a snippet of our amazing Boss Battle Theme by #composer @chrishurn.bsky.social ! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #videogames #ost #gamemusic #jrpg #rpg #gravastar #gameart #3d #animation #wip

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STUDIO ATMA | GRAVASTAR @studioatma.com · 15/02/2025

We are of the firm belief that a true #JRPG must have: - An airship ✅ - An explorable World Map ✅ - Fishing 🎣 Here’s a #wip of the first 2! 😄 Snippet of our amazing World Map Theme by @chrishurn.bsky.social ! #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #videogames #indiedev #gamedev #rpg #gravastar #ost

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Johan Peitz - Icy Tower is coming soon! @johanpeitz.com · 06/02/2025

🚨 NEW GAME ALERT! My 64x64 metroidvania is getting a deluxe treatment and is coming to Steam. Twice the content, upgraded graphics and controls, more challenges, more lore, and even a save feature! Please wishlist: buff.ly/3Q4sGr4 ❤️ 🎵 Music and sfx by Brent Houston as always!

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STUDIO ATMA | GRAVASTAR @studioatma.com · 06/02/2025

Set dressing process! I move the characters to the edge of our collider and make sure there is stuff in-camera. This is about 20 mins of work condensed down to 56 seconds. Next, we do mesh, texture, and light bakes! #indiedev #gamedev #videogames #indiegames #leveldesign #3dart #jrpg #gravastar

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

So cool! That asymmetrical outfit on the top left is awesome! 🤩

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Thank you! Yeah it was a lot of fun trying to blend all the elements I love together while not losing his character. I’m glad it comes through ❤️

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🥺 thank you 🙏 I still need to spend some time cutting him all up for print!

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maru @koyamori.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Wip #art Painting to relax

A wax figure strikes a match
The heart is lit afire

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Sylessae @sylessae.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I know you're all out there grinding, trying to be the best artist you can be. But don't forget to stop and take time to play. Have fun. Fun gives you purpose. Fun reminds you why you want to draw in the first place.

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Doig & Swift @doigswift.com · 01/02/2025

this is our stream when we laugh about the question, what would you do if your mum was your house?

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

So true, it is kind of wild that games to the caliber that exist even get made. Game Dev is such a house of cards at times and only other devs understand this.

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I sincerely appreciate being a part of the list ❤️ thank you ❤️ I was wondering where the new followers were coming from 🤣

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Wow that is a wild thing to find out 🤣 kind of crazy how strong the subconscious can be

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I have been considering getting a smaller screen tablet to see if it strikes the balance for me but was curious what works for other artists out there.

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

For all the artists out there. What is your favorite tablet to use? I used to use a Cintiq but kind of found I preferred an Intuos pro. I find that I get a bit too hyper focused on details too quickly with a Screen tablet. Does anyone else relate to that?

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Dom2D 💜 @dom2d.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

ha ha 🐶 #illustration

cute tree sketches and a dog character saying haha everything sucks

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Not sure if I got added to some list but I appreciate all the new follows ❤️

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

One of the first characters we Developed for “Stonehold” where I was Art directing. Nate Ramsey and I collaborated a ton to balance all the elements and establish our foundation for the rest of the characters. Modeling/Texturing: tinyurl.com/Nate-Ramsey Concept by: Vsevolod #3D #character #gameart

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

This Nvidia keynote just feels dystopian…”virtual employees” and Automation manufacturing. Brother we can’t even get health care…. Somehow these companies can’t foresee if nobody has a job we can’t feed all the corporations the money they need for this insane expansion.

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Yes! I referred to this all the time when I start out painting digitally. Absolute gold

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

People are just still salty about the last of us 2… people mischariterized one of the main characters as trans when in reality they were just buff…. “Woke” “DEI” are just repeated buzzwords and they want to claim we are the sheep….what a bunch of losers.

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

youtu.be/VLGy63pt9vA?... This looks amazing! congrats to the team can’t wait to see how it all comes out. On a side note the “anti-woke” brigading happening on these videos is insanity. Any hint of a non stereotypical female and making them a lead is apparent hell on earth to these losers.

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Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I really loved the original, this looks awesome!

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I struggle knowing how to balance how much I should care about making “content” around the work so I can grow the amount of people seeing it or just focus on just the work itself and presenting it on its own. Or I’m just overthinking it all 🤣

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

and that is on top of the whole process of just making the art and what you are trying to put into it. I personally find it a bit distracting to the work itself and honestly confusing to know what “works” but I get the desire of wanting people to see the work.

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

It seems like a whole extra skill and understanding required to make things that grab peoples attention and thus allow your work to get more attention. It also requires an interesting foresight to make sure you are recording your screen for a Timelapse or make things in a way to edit “content”

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Is creating content around the creation of your art part of the process or is it a result of what feeds social media? I am curious on peoples thoughts on the added layer of “content” creation that surrounds making art and sharing it online.

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Finally wrapped up the texture and rendering on Thor. Had a lot of fun with this and had a blast during my time in the Heroic sculpting class taught by Mike Thompson at the Stylus League Not time to learn about cutting and keying so I can make a big ol print of this guy. Glad to be back in zbrush

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I realize I could have phrased it a lot better my apologies 😅

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Oh yeah totally sorry I didn’t mean to sound like I was blaming you at all. I meant the video quality on the site. I had a similar experience uploading my own video.

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Nice! Yeah the video quality can definitely use some work. Sucks to realize after posting. But this is looking amazing! ❤️

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Sylessae @sylessae.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Professionals use art reference. Hobbyists use art reference. Newbies use art reference. Teachers use art reference. Everyone uses reference. Use reference for your art. You're not cheating.

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Sherif Dawoud @sherifadawoud.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Torso anatomy study I did a while back

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◁ Ian Whittaker ▷ @ianw-3d.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

If you see this, post a knight Praise the sun!

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

And I will venture that it's the last make up FX / puppet extravaganza we will see in our lifetime. Dozens upon dozens of creations- many of them elaborate animatronics were created for this film. We utilized several make up FX studios and gave almost every creature a cameo in which to shine. Sigh

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