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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

wanna know one of the dirty little secrets of how to make a cool science fiction set? this bad boy right here, the NFS 4 Freezer Spacer. this fucker shows up EVERYWHERE in scifi set design ceilings? check! floors? check! walls? check! tables? check! instant scifi vibe

a black freezer pallet spacer made of wide-corrugated plastic with cross ridges and grid holes (the majority are square, but there are vertical strips of long rectangular holes as well)

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Robert Poole @0poole.bsky.social · 22h

Want to get into digital art but only have a mouse? Well, here's a method you could use, which is the same one I started with years ago. Full vid below

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gomypretties @gomypretties.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I implemented dynamic subdivision so that the texture warping isn't too extreme. I didn't want to subdivide it too much though, so you can still see some warping. #gamedev #lowpoly #psx

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 30/09/2026

Fun little UV trick I stumbled on because I'm really stubborn about how long I keep my mirror modifier active: Giving mouth textures a "profile" view when I slide them away from the mirror point #b3d

Head on view of face sprite with standard mouth

Moving the mouth's UVs slightly to the right breaks the mirror, revealing the left side of the mouth sprite (flat edge)

From the side, the revealed left side of the mouth looks like an intentional anime-style mouth viewed from the side

Texture sheet view of mouths drawn for this effect

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H (エイチ) @therealhanamaru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally the -tober prompt that I can follow to my heart's content

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 28/09/2026

I've heard Pixar does a thing where they render the first, middle and last frames of each shot before rendering the full shot and that's super legit but unfortunately it is incompatible with my workflow (hitting render and getting up to make a cup of coffee)

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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🐈🐐 @caprinecombo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

oh yeag here's goat in a quick lil skirty skirt from last night

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm doing a little experiment with pre-rendered backgrounds. I wanted the backgrounds to look lousy as hell, btw

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 21/09/2026

I've never seen a "save my place" button, this is the most futuristic retro web comic site I've ever seen

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 21/09/2026

Also in the tutorial space I think this is a useful intermediate niche. If you have a baseline understanding of most systems, it's helpful to see actual works in progress, where they get stuck, and how you *use* those million tools in practice

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 21/09/2026

It's not obvious from the thumbnails/titles (which do play up the "look at this disaster" energy), but these are *submitted* for corrections with questions attached. He always starts with a compliment and frames it as "you're going for ____, here's how you could get there"

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 21/09/2026

Vertex Arcade has been doing a video series recently of Blender model "corrections" and while I avoided them at first because I assumed they were meanspirited clickbait, they are honestly incredibly positive and some of my favorite recent tutorials #b3d

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I Fixed 54 of YOUR Blender Models

YouTube video by Vertex Arcade

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 20/09/2026

Rotating the bone also blends over to a cel shaded version and I do like how chunky cel shaded vertex lighting is

cel shaded version of character from first post

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 20/09/2026

I'm irrationally opposed to doing drivers in shaders so I like this system because I drag and drop the modifier on a character, point it to a bone, and all the shader needs to know is "ooh there's a b/w mask saved as (attribute name)"

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 20/09/2026

Made a simple little Geometry Node vertex (well, face corner) lighting system that uses a bone as a "light" and saves the dot product per face corner as an attribute that the shader can then reference as a simple mask between colors #b3d

Screenshot of a Geometry Nodes setup to calculate the dot product between (normalized vector pointing towards a given bone) and (face corner's normal). I used face corners instead of vertices because I really like my sharp edges (see the nose shadow). The other transforms of the bone are also stored for use in the shader (scale affects threshold/easing and rotation switches between cel/smooth shading)

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i've started to learn blender and i gotta say, it's resulted in some really boring anecdotes. to take one example, yesterday i intended to keyframe-shift an object to 15.5 on the z-axis, but mistakenly entered 15.5 on the y-axis instead! thankfully i realized and corrected my mistake some time later

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 18/09/2026

I never understood sports rivalries and getting so passionate about differences in fandom until I got into low poly modeling and started seeing people who grew up with n64 and intentionally use linear filtered textures. I love you and respect you, but also what is wrong with you. get real. trash

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

...for the Tech Art nerds or folks who like to peek beyond the curtain 👇🏻

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 16/09/2026

now more than ever we need Stranger of Paradise 2 but every level is a FFXV character instead of an FF level. the cubes are Coleman camping products

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 16/09/2026

omg the lil blinks. Precious

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kelsey irene @holographic.pink · 28/08/2026

i completely fucking forgot how good this method can look, the last time i looked at it, it looked crummy so i was considering abandoning it the plane is solidified and has two textures kinda like an inverted hull would-- they're identical textures but the one on top has the transparent cut outs

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He cooked Ed Sheeran on IG

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Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words
"Free Palestine" and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, "I don't take sides."

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 09/09/2026

There are almost certainly other ways to do this (a comment says you can create a "rest position" shape key that also gives you an attribute and I bet there's probably even an "original position" node in shader nodes) but just conceptually this seems like it could be a neat workflow

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 09/09/2026

This is one of those techniques that seems so obvious in retrospect. If you want an object space texture on an animated character without committing to a baked texture, you can just put a geometry node up top to store the original position in its own attribute, before the Armature modifier

youtube.com

Jim discovered this setup to avoid UVs and still make a texture stick to the Object #b3d #blender3d

YouTube video by CG Boost

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Roddy E @alteredbits.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I understand you're looking for parts for your Gummi Ship. #kingdomhearts #ANDOR

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Scott Wills paints a background for the first run of Samurai Jack (2001–2004), created by Genndy Tartakovsky, Cartoon Network Studios

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 08/09/2026

did you know this little shit's eyes are floating planes? they didn't even have blender's shrinkwrap modifier yet

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 08/09/2026

I don't actually have any attachment to Zelda but in light of today's hubbub, I'd recommend this decade old set of articles going over some of Wind Waker's stylization and how it pulls off some of its effects

medium.com

Wind Waker Graphics Analysis

Learning from the masters

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Akira linetests. Always a treat.

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uint8_t Cyan; @logaritmonatural.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Cooking a low poly model with pixel art textures, wip #pixelart #lowpoly #gamedev

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 03/09/2026

Chaos Legion rules and it's time it got its due

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Dr. Gabagool and the Salami of Secrets @jimpjorps.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

cognitive behavioral therapy enjoyer in the waiting room: think positively, he's probably late for a reason, maybe there was an emergency, maybe his current appointment's running long doctor: i'm da king of the golf course

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barinky @barinky.net · 03/09/2026

wip wip wip

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celestialmaze @cmzw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

non euclidean dice

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James Stokoe @jamesstokoe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Mixed media: pen and ink, photoshop, tortilla

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charlie deeds done kirk cheap @gizmouse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

bad news oomf. they just announced a new remake of you at the latest game conference. yeah you got that unreal engine 5 sheen and everything. they changed your entire voice direction and its flat and quirky now. they updated your mechanics. theyre gonna kill you if it doesnt sell one billion copies

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Mr Dude @mrdude.art · 25/08/2026

Me when I try to do flat shaded pixel art: this is atrocious, having the shading rotate even 10 degrees without respect to light direction draws too much attention Me seeing a mech turret lit from the front rotate 360°: this is perfect and I would not change a single pixel

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Krysidian @krysidian.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Light Accumulation might be the biggest NPR feature for Blender since the realtime compositor. This is a whole paradigm shift Custom Light calculations for each light and much more. #b3d #npr #blender #blender3d #3d #stylized

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The ungodly archvillain, Chrysanthemiasma! @chrysanthemiasma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

the new 3d mainichi modern is so good i love thompson so much

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's too late for me to get invested in Kingdom Hearts, but if there were ever a guide I'd trust to shepherd the curious through it:

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