iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Lisa Holling @artholling.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Fybe Update! Not only am I a vendor but now a trusted vendor! This shows to customers they have done additional checks and approval that I don’t support ai, I make as much as I can by hand and all these ideas come from my head. Check out Fybe for the additional blue badge! Support handmade! 💖💖💖

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Most of the inking phase is in before I go to actual paint

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I started another painting on this long weekend, but it’s ~4x the size of the previous two (22x36 versus 8x10) so it’s going to take a second- I’m a lot happier with this one so far

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s not perfect, but it’s a vast improvement from the last painting that’s all we can hope for, on to the next one with lessons learned

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I started another watercolor, will update when it’s done. Need to fix up some color bleed areas, wasn’t paying attention and there’s some light inconsistencies but it’s a major improvement from the last one!

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s not like- the best but I painted for the first time in over a decade and if you squint it actually looks like something so I’ll take that as a net positive. (But no fr it’s been nice to do something not on a computer again I may paint more who knows)

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Lisa Holling @artholling.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

You can find cool pendants in my store like this one! Helm weave and resin flower from Samantha’s garden.

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Lisa Holling @artholling.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Here’s a close up at one of the necklaces on my store! It issues a Japanese 12-2 weave with deep red stones!

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Nina Marotta ☢️💙 @mrschief7.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

hey just got laid off, who needs a remote game designer

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Two of my closest friends use ChatGPT so much and it’s like watching a car crash in real time as the person I know they were slowly deteriorate into a weird husk. It’s actually super depression that no amount of intervention seems to get them to realize it either.

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Ingnoring the mixamo character I have for reading, I may have went crazier with scale tests in unreal. First person to guess how far away that mountain is wins a prize (the prize is being right)

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

What’s happenin I finally was able to get back into this account

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I genuinely never thought I would get anywhere close to 100, let alone almost 1000 subs

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

youtu.be/m-t8FBX98ow?... Another new video; this time about what artistic realism is, how it pertains to video games, and how developers trick players into think it’s realism

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What Exactly is Realism? (and How Video Games Trick You)

YouTube video by VertexLock

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

youtu.be/uO-2zCQLzSg?... New video on some tips to enhance your game scenes (More beginner friendly tips, branching out later into more intermediate and advanced tutorials and videos)

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4 Simple Tricks to Better Environment Art!

YouTube video by VertexLock

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Doing some crazy unreal scale tests. The scene is something over 400square miles, all done procedurally (All assets are placeholder for right now while I refine things) All 400 square miles or so are traversable and populated with assets

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I love watching my ram creep up from 20FPs to 128gigs when converting an unreal scene to world partition over the course of an hour…

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Nearly every movie you’ve seen uses outside the US support studios. How the hell do you even enforce a tarrif

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I’m getting random job-rejection emails from jobs I didn’t even apply to at 3am like it’s some sort of ghost, what the hell

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Wait- republicans honest to god put up a bill to repeal OSHA on the anniversary date of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?! You’ve got to be kidding

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I was asked what the most helpful thing I learned in college was (in terms of my career): Take a Modern Art class. It will fundamentally change how you view art, color, light and the process of creating art. (This usually ranges from the 1860’s realism to the 1980’s Neo-Expressionism)

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

If Build a Bear made an actually decent build a bear plush they would make so much money I alone would buy 3

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I can’t put this damn game down. I’m 25 hours deep and still mesmerized by how good it looks

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

This is such a cool glitch it might as well be a feature, somehow broke the game so that the “Ink” filter didn’t go away when I left photo mode. Even in the menus too

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Environment artist tip: Figuring out themes, forms, and styles of a place before you stylize it will always give you a drastically better result than creating a style first and trying to make something fit it. Figure out the why,when, how first- then you can change it

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Unreal nerds; why can’t I used a blueprint actor inside a tool? Why can’t I use a spline tool inside of a blueprint? WHY this would make life so much easier

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I saw a 15 second clip of Assassins Creed shadows where they were just riding through the mountains of Japan- That clip was so gorgeous I immediately went to my PS5 and bought the game.

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I’m seeing a massive increase of people going after companies/recruiters on LinkedIn because they didn’t get a job- They’re just doing their jobs man, the industry sucks right now- I get it. But that isn’t the way things are going to get better

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Full stop WWE2k25 is the best wrestling game in 20 years. This game is bonkers

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

You miss a toll in NY you get to wait on for phone for over TWO HOURS to pay it. What the actual hell NY??

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Got some career news coming soon <3 stay tuned

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

JOHN CENA TURNED HEEL?!?!?!?!?

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Man I was so upset about that gray hair I messed up my own title leak Senior ENVIRONMENT Artist haha

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Facial MOCAP animation test using lines from the game. Not final design of the character, and probably not the final voice (IM NOT A VOICE ACTOR I TRIED) but it's surreal to see major progress like this that's causing some reworks to the overall plan of the game that make me excited

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I HAVE A GREY HAIR?!? man I know I just made it to Senior level ARTIST BUT IM ONLY 29 IM NOT READY FOR GREY HAIR I DONT EVEN HAVE A BEARD YET

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I’ve been Messing around with facial animations for Into The Bleeding Trees so I can actually make cutscenes. This is actually amazing how clean this rough edit looks from the raw footage. I crap on unreal sometimes but this is bonkers. (There is no audio, you’re not going crazy)

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

For the first time in my life I didn’t get carded at a liquor store. Chat it’s over. I’m only 29 please card me I’m not ready to feel old yet

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

In a not at all surprise, it didn’t actually download anything- the app data folder was empty, and it sat on 134% for like an hour. Also the Metahumans plugin is missing, the folders that DID load in content browser are all empty, guess I’m not going to be doing Into The Bleeding Trees testing

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Why is the metahuman character creator A BROWSER WINDOW THAT NEEDS AN INTERNET CONNECTION like bro Adobe Fuse had this figured out a decade ago. Epic what are you doing guys.

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Unreals transition to FAB is one of the worst implementations ever. How the hell is my metahuman 134% downloaded??

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Tim Wallace @bd-1.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

My wife was laid off today by EA. She’s an awesome video game producer with more than two decades of experience. If anyone is in need or knows of anyone in need of a producer please DM me. Greatly appreciate any leads.

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

It’s kinda funny and sad to see people in real time go “Fake frames! Those games are fake!” On 5000 series and immediately turn around and go “oh wait this is kinda amazing” on like every tech channel on YT and I give it 3 months before gamers fallow suit

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I rented a 140hp VW Jetta for 12 days while In SOCAL; needless to say getting behind the wheel of my 400HP Challenger again is going to take some readjustments haha

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We just got back to NY- so many pictures to sort out, but we had an absolute blast in SoCAL. Can’t wait to go back.

Sunrise by Claude Monet at the Getty Center

Hollywood Sign from Griffith Observatory

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Another thing that Insanely surreal in person to see

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