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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 20h

working on my best boy Captain Armory next, he's a Tortle with some dragonturtle ancestry

a work in process digital painting of a large Tortle character with a cannon for an arm

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 05/10/2026

enjoy some visions of Dutch children's television

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 03/10/2026

Here's some of the other steps in the process

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 03/10/2026

gave a workshop on art process and decided to push the demo I did a bit further than I usually would

Old tree forest guy with moss beard and fairy buddy

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 01/10/2026

You can set a date range in google, if you set it to before genAI ruined the internet, you can still kind of find things sometimes.

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 30/09/2026

You can get rid of those jaggies with the pinch tool right on the edges

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 23/09/2026

Waving this sword about, the candles flutter and diminish, but draw blood with it and the wax refills and the flames roar ever brighter and hotter! #swordtember #TTRPG

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 23/09/2026

I'm turning a couple of my favourite sketches into slightly more rendered item cards, they'll be system agnostic and don't sport any specific rules, just descriptions and vibes.

Brushwhacker, a sword-shaped bush.
The gnomes who sold you this short sword swore to
you that it was a potent magic weapon. You’ve had it for nearly a month now and it’s been very underwhelming so far but for the times you swear you can see it moving by itself..

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 19/09/2026

Important news: puppy belly

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 19/09/2026

New member of the family ❤️

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 18/09/2026

Having a lot of fun with #swordtember this year, keeping the renders very loose for sake of time but there's some fun ones in there I might render out later!

six oddly shaped swords, titled Brush, Harvest, Wax, Comedy, Tragedy and Circus

five oddly shaped swords, titled Gamble, Crane, Mandrake, Crustacean and Bake

six oddly shaped sword titled Surgical, Nest, Ship, Seed, Portal and Monkey

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 15/09/2026

Of course! It should look good next to this other book i just got ;) ❤️

Adventures with friends, a collection of DND one shots by Rose Whitaker and Niels Jansen

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 12/09/2026

No new game stuff for #screenshotsaturday, but I did make this fancy logo animation for Crash!'s splash screen

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 10/09/2026

Oh man what if it's a commentary on people leaving trash on Everest

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 08/09/2026

went to turn shit off and had apparently already turned all the shit off before

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 08/09/2026

oh eh fuck time for a new mail client

gmail: AI-powered email for everyone banner

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 05/09/2026

PC fixed! Back to the game soon, busy weekend first!

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 04/09/2026

Me, a Dutch guy, growing up on US shows, speaking English mostly with Brits:

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 30/08/2026

Ended up making grape juice instead of games, it helps, a little

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 30/08/2026

Haven't been able to work on my games for like ten days and I'm starting to feel some withdrawal

A disassembled pc missing it's motherboard and cpu

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 25/08/2026

I quote this all the time :')

Bart: This is the worst day of my life
Homer: The worst day of your life... so far.

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 18/08/2026

I mean they're right next to each other :P (ok maybe I wondered if it'd work)

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 18/08/2026

HAHAHA I'm dying, accidentally hooked pitch to my volume slider :')

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 18/08/2026

I'm getting it built, but holy shit does UMG need some work.

a main menu for a video game showing a settings box

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 17/08/2026

Why the fuck does the text component determine the scale of it's parent box component?

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 15/08/2026

Ok but what if it was actually consistent with the style I established before

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 15/08/2026

The settings menu is going to have the only four useful settings I can think of. (please remember, this is a side project)

A settings menu featuring a volume slider, resolution toggle, screen mode toggle and a sensitivity slider.

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 15/08/2026

You know Joram, if for once in your life you'd make a rectangular interface with equally sized buttons, the interface would be a lot less work

The guy who just loops "yes" each time from that one rick and morty episode

an interface that definitely does not have equally sized buttons

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 14/08/2026

Nice little scene like this

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 14/08/2026

Ended up just sculpting it in about 5 minutes :')

A parachute draped over a bunch of beams above a crashed emergency pod

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 11/08/2026

aditionally, I would love to use the Simulation mode to just do Keep Simulation Settings like you'd do with other physics sim stuff to "bake" it, but this doesn't work for cloth?

A UE5 dialog stating "no properties were copied"

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 11/08/2026

Help! #ue5 I'm doing a cloth sim to have parachutes hanging off some beams, in some spots I have Blocking Volumes in the way of spots that I'd like to have a parachute. I can't find a combination of collision settings that will let me have the cloth sim on static objects but ignore the volumes.

parachute hanging off a beam in a spot where the blocking volumes don't pose a problem

The cloth sim intersecting with the (invisible) blocking volume

collision settings for the parachutes, they only intersect with world statics

collision settings for the blocking volume, they should only intersect with the pawn (but they are still technically world statics)

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 11/08/2026

Me: tries to keep build size down to a reasonable size. The official Unreal Engine 5 animated logo:

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 10/08/2026

Back on Twitter we used to have a "what they see vs what I see" meme come around in the #gamedev hashtag pretty often. Just spent an evening fixing collisions throughout the side project map and had to remind myself the level wasn't a world of pink and teal boxes haha

A screenshot of Unreal Engine 5's collsion view, a landscape of pink and teal boxes and volumes.

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 10/08/2026

The face is very distorted because I literally just put a visor shaped mesh in front of the camera and put the texture on there. I should probably make a widget instead but this is a remnant from when I thought I'd be doing actual reflections from a 3D mesh.

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 10/08/2026

You'd think I'd have let this go, but instead I painted a face to see if this effect could work with just a texture animation instead. It kind of works? I'd have to manually determine areas where you'd see parts of the reflected face and I'd have to paint a bunch of expressions..

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 10/08/2026

Spent some time fitzing around with the idea of having the Pilot's face reflected on this inside of the visor (some times). Found out that getting mirror reflections to look good in Lumen is much harder than you'd think it would have to be and costs a bunch of performance.

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 04/08/2026

Last night in France, sleeping right between the vineyards

Vineyards, church, watertower, soft light streaks across golden grass

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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 28/07/2026

Caaaan do! This is the Cantal cheese, a cheese from the Cantal region of France. Its very mild and soft cheese that lends itself greatly to bringing along on long hikes across volcanic landscapes.