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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I have been going strong since I started my Art Jounal, drawing something everyday from everyday life. See more at my art Instagram. Link below

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

It's been a few days with Art Journalling now! And im still drawing something every day! I'm posting daily on my Art Intagram. Link in comment! 🔗

Page in Art journal, motif is in blue and yellow water color depicting a face mask, thermometer, crumbled paper and pills. The text reads "last two days + flight home with the flu". Picture is drawn to so elements of sickness

Two pages in Art journal, in line art, sketch pen and water color. First side depicts sailor moon sitting on the moon, vegan karaage, cabbage and sauce. Text says "sailor moon store tokyo." And "veg. Kaarage, nom nom, shibuya". The other page shows a sake bottle and a cup, a crepe and fluffy pancakes from japan. Text says:"10 different sake. I am dry sake." And "marion crepes, mascarpone berry crepe, seasonal flavour" and "fluffy pancake".

Art Journal page with indiana jones hat, whip and a xbox controller. Both the hat and whip is in brown and yellow watercolors and white highlights. Xbox controller is white with some bluish shadows. Text says: "started playing indiana jones during the holiday season".

Picture shows a page in na art journal. One can also see a tray with water color pigments and a pen on a table. The picture has three christmas ornaments shaped like balls hanging. They are I purple, orange and green with gold painted on the top. Text says" we don't really decorate at gome, but I love the idea of it" followed by a emoji heart.

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

2nd and 3rd entry of my watercolour Art Journal journey! This is from when I went to Akihabara during the one week trip. I also realised that I didn't have a black colour when I drew this one... it was actually brown, so I tried saving it with adding some purple 💩

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I always felt drawing is hard, so I decided to start art journaling, sketch everyday life as well as learn using watercolours. I have been at it for a few days. 1st entry is from my one week trip to Japan before Christmas, ramen from Tokyo Station. Book 12cmx12cm (4.7x4.7")

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Starter packs seem to have helped many find part of there audience but there scattered to the winds so making a thread of them, you find them add them be they art, dev any kind of creative outlet and see if we get more people with there audiences and find new ones.

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Hi! So many new followers! 🌸✨️ I'm Kim Aava, currently working as an Art Director at Toca Boca! I'm mostly known for my articles and talks on 'Realism vs Stylized'. I also worked on games such as Horizon:Zero Dawn, Battlefield, VR and more. Working on my own games in the evening, stay tuned!

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

Me and some friends spend the weekend having a mini game jam! We made a local asymetric co-op game. We had a blast, and I am super happy with what we delivered in 24h total 😄 it's buggy and unfinished, but feel free to give it a go! dee-kej.itch.io/islands-and-...

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Islands and Cats in the Sky, and also a Hook by Dee-Kej, AslanItch

Quick asymmetric co-op game made during a gamejam at Easter 2024. Available for Windows

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

Just realized it's been ages since I last updated my portfolio website - totally forgot I even had my own URL 😅 finally took the time to give it a fresh redesign and update the content. Felt so satisfying in a way😊 kimaava.com for those who are curious

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Kim Aava (also known as Aavachan) official website, containing portfolio work and personal projects. Website also contains links to collaboration such as speaker recordings, stream recordings, article...

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Wishing you all a Happy New Year filled with joy, growth, and success! May this year bring you exciting new opportunities, and may you achieve all that you set out to pursue. Here's to a year of possibilities and fulfilling adventures!

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

You realise you are a bit work damaged when you are on a trip to Marrakech, and all you can see is "oh that is a cool texture!" Or "I should photoscan that!"

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Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · 25/11/2023

A sculpt I just finished last week and another one from back in 2020. Old one was made with Maya and Zbrush. Recent one is made with Blender and Zbrush. #gameart #3Dart #art #gamedev #artist

A Zbrush rendering showcasing 3 angles of the same prop. The prop is a rock orb that has crystal shards attached on its south and north poles. The rendering is made with a glossy, warm grey matcap material. 2023.

Another Zbrush render. This one depicts a large statue. It is a Lamassu that is portrayed as a hybrid. Has body of either winged bull or lion and a human head. Artwork is inspired by Mesopotamian Mythology & ancient Sumerian and Assyrian art. One can observe the scale of the statue because next to it there is an Unreal scale mannequin. The statue is rendered in cold gray matcap material. 2020.

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Someone asked a long time ago what my lowpoly and uv process was, my answer - very manual and slow 🐌 I mean - it's just a personal project, can take all time in the world right 🤣 Here's a link to the 2020 stream part 10 youtu.be/J2pxoI7t2iA #gameart

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Realistic Prop: Doctor's Saddlebag - Maya | Zbrush | Substance - Part 10 of 20

Part 10 in the Doctor's Saddlebag live streaming project of me making a realistic prop for games. You will see me using software such as Maya for blockout, l...

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Material Definition for texturing tip! Understanding the materials' properties can significantly upgrade the realistic look of your texturing. Likewise, this helps with stylization and understanding what elements are important to keep when working with simplifying and exaggeration of shape & form

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Just added a freelance sculpt project I made specifically for 3d printing earlier this year to my artstation 😊 www.artstation.com/artwork/yDxAm3 #zbrush #miniature #3dprint

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

All 4 parts of the full stream from 2018 are now up on youtube! Link to final part: youtu.be/1j4fUbuSHuM #gameart

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Part 2 out of 4 of the full Skull Barrel streaming Project from 2018 is now up! youtu.be/Yi9MM2SGSIQ

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Part 1 of 4 in the Skull Barrel Project - full stream is now available! This project stems back to 2018, thought it would be a fun way of hyping myself to get back to streaming to make some of my old streams public😊 youtu.be/acqoPn05XV8

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Stylized Prop: SkullBarrel - Zbrush | Maya | Quixel | Substance - Part 1

Part 1 in the Stylized Prop Creation of the Skull Barrel that I made while streaming on Twitch. This is one of the first props I made while live streaming, I...

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Jasmin Habezai-Fekri @lowpolycurls.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Gonna share more of the different sets I worked on for Wayfinder. Skylight was a big collaborative team effort and I really enjoyed helping out on the architecture sets for it. Here is a part of the wooden ones! 🪵🪟

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Borrowed a gem from the library and stumbled upon some highlighted wisdom! Those marked sentences? Absolute gold!✨ But hey! Don't scribble in the library books! 😤

Highlighted words from a library book. The sentences highlighted are. 1. In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities. 2. The stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act.

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Monica Ion @monicaion.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

Some 5min studies with the Warriorpainters people 😄 Making me hungry..

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Bundling up for Swedish winter like: scarf - check gloves - check endless determination to survive the dark and cold - um, working on it!

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Leaving the Netherlands today, going back to Sweden. I had a great few days, first speaking at Dutch Game Day, meeting old colleagues from Guerrilla Games, then hanging out with an old friend of mine that recently moved back after many years abroad 😊

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

I visited my old colleagues at Guerrilla Games super fun to see many of them again in their new office! Thanks for having me ❤️

Kim (me) posing with peace sign in front of a wall that features a large mechanical robot at the top of the wall from the horizon games.

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Tomorrow, I will be giving my talk Realism vs Stylized 2023 version at #DutchGameDay (powered by ControlMagazine I will cover the foundation of the gestalt principle and how that can help any artist master both #gameart

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I'm having a talk at Dutch Game Day next week! dutchgameday.nl

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Our game dev careers are limited by time; we only have a few games to create. Make sure you spend that time on the projects that truly matter to you, bring you joy, and fulfillment ❤️

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

I have been diving into self care books recently and the various methods. One thing that keeps popping up is journalling, sometimes also referred to morning- or evening pages. Anyone who been giving this a try? If so, how do you keep motivation with it going?

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

#XDS2023 We had our talk today! Thought it went great! It will be on youtube in a few months as well. Excited to see how it turned out 😊

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Kim Aava (Aavachan) @kimaava.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Off to Canada 🇨🇦 on Sunday for #XDS23 to spill the beans on how EA DICE keeps the game dev magic flowing with external partners! 🎮 #gamedev #3Dartist

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