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youtu.be/oKUyU2TBlYQ Wind's howling and its time for a new devlog video going over some art. Tune in for some prop and texturing breakdowns and analysis. #art #gameart

A screenshot from a YouTube thumbnail that shows me with a backdrop of stylized art. I'm wearing a black shirt and a Witcher inspired necklace, next to me there is text in yellow and blue saying "Art Devlog. No AI".

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This is where painting clouds the past days led me. #art #gamedev #gameart

Screenshot of an island diorama with a tower sitting in the middle. It has blue, purple and orange floating spires. There are blue mushrooms and crystals all around. The island is engulfed in fluffy clouds.

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This is where painting clouds the past days led me. #art #gamedev #gameart

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Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · 23/09/2026

youtu.be/oKUyU2TBlYQ Wind's howling and its time for a new devlog video going over some art. Tune in for some prop and texturing breakdowns and analysis. #art #gameart

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I sent a video link to a friend and he responded "It looks inspiring, I'll save it and watch it in 5am like a normal person".

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Yuukimiie @yuukimiie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My latest 3D project, rendered in Unreal Engine. Inspired by a Southern French Village, I really wanted to create a soft, warm atmosphere, achieved through the warmth of the stone and the abundant greenery 🌿🧡 #3D #3DArt #3DArtist #Blender #UnrealEngine

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YouTube video by Pete Dimitrov

In my newest video I go over experimenting and trying out ideas in 3D and any art in general. It's in the form of devlog so give it a watch if you are interested in game art and stuff like that. #art #gameart youtu.be/98cgG4ZC6R0

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Iteration in 3D Art

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Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · 18/09/2026

A rare photo of me. I can't remember when the last time I posted one was. I've done some gym progress I'm really happy with so I decided I'll post it for once.

A photo of me in a gym, flexing my left arm, wearing gym gloves and tank top.

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Some skybox work + painted and stenciled in some cloud billboards. Going to be painting some detail on them next. #art #gamedev #gameart

A screenshot from UE5 showing a fantasy tower with lots of blue gems around it. There are oversized mushrooms on the island that the tower sits on. The spire has a blue, purple and orange glowing details. In the distance, there are rudimentary clouds with no detail on their textures yet.

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Some skybox work + painted and stenciled in some cloud billboards. Going to be painting some detail on them next. #art #gamedev #gameart

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It's super good! Im nearly at the finish now and its been incredible.

What a beautiful game, honestly. I can't decide if its the visuals or the strings of its soundtrack playing at my heart more. Probably both.

A screenshot from the game South of Midnight showing overgrown three canopies and platforms made out of branches that the player can jump onto.

A screenshot from the game South of Midnight. It looks up to a giant tree with oversized peaches.

Another South of Midnight screenshot. It focuses on the main protagonist. She is seen in the interior of an old house, leaning next to a window.

Screenshot of UI elements from South of Midnight. It's an open book with ink drawings on top. They depict forests, jungles and animals.

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This was amazing to see, thanks so much for the insight!!

Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · 16/09/2026

Fun part is while painting this and struggling for RAM, having UE5 constantly cry (I'm importing the result in there), I also ran out of physical memory on the SSD I was saving the psd to.

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Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · 16/09/2026

How many gigs of memory do you need to paint a sky? 17gb? No? More? I mean I get it, its 16x8k image, its hdr, but come on Photoshop, really?

An image of a sky with clouds I'm painting and a window showing that Photoshop is using 10gb of RAM.

Another Task Manager window spelling out memory usage. 17gb is shown going into Photoshop.

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Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · 15/09/2026

One of the times I could hear him walking on gravel, footsteps louder than the voice, trying to pick the words and it was the most intense thing I had heard to date.

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Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · 15/09/2026

I have an acquaintance that answers my texts with voice messages and I take psychic damage every time I get one. Please just text or instead call. No in-between, I can’t take it.

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Like I cant number the amount of times in past years theres been "private" projects of taking vanilla WoW and remaking old, walled off, unfinished zones. It's a surprisingly high number. Forever seems to do exactly that, but is official.

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I think it probably won't draw me fully away from Retail WoW, but Forever looks very cool and I think there is demand for something like it so I like it.

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My Diablo blizzcon stream is obscured by darkness

A picture of a tv with Diablo livestream from Blizzcon 2026. In front there is a black cat looking casually to the side

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Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · 10/09/2026

Overwatch support heroes guns and overall kit are always creative, fun to learn and play so new support hero definitely means I’ll be going back and giving it a try.

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I get you. I think if you subbed to PS to get an odd job done, you can unsubscribe immediately and you can have them give you 70-80% of your money back. It used to never be the case but they made it more customer friendly after they were under the crossfires (rightfully so) few years ago.

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Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · 10/09/2026

I think subs and price tags are unfairly high tbh, but if you get a perpetual license, you can stay at that version and never buy newer one. Like Painter gets amazing updates but for stylized like my work above, its not needed. You just need the basic functionality.

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Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · 10/09/2026

Ye, Substance Painter is "Substance 3D Painter" now, and I kind of say whichever first comes to mind. Adobe renamed it some years ago after the purchased it. As for the price tag: I hate subscriptions & Adobe so I get mine as indie perpetual license on Steam. I'm kind of surprised it still exists.

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Cooking up some entrance hand painted textures (endlessly redoing geometry and texturing). #art #gamedev

A screenshot from 3D Painter showing me hand painting a stone entrance with gold / bronze trims. There is a blue gem on the entrance. On another window to the side, there is a lower cut of a tower body with lots of spikes. That's another prop I've made, placed there as reference.

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Here was the old one for anyone curious. It works in my old diorama, but I'm bringing it into a new one and I wanted something slightly different.

A screenshot of my older version of entrance. The gold trims are more yellow and "gold" than bronze. The top is spiky and there is no blue gem to the front. All of the stone surfaces are the same as the previous image.

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Cooking up some entrance hand painted textures (endlessly redoing geometry and texturing). #art #gamedev

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A dark figure clipping through ground or wall with no sound: glitchy, incomplete. A dark figure clipping through ground with sounds of waterphone or other dramatic musical instruments: horror, supernatural, complete. I always blows my mind how much sound design brings life into games and movies.

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Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · 07/09/2026

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Been tweaking and painting the tower textures so they are bit more balanced and detailed. #art #gameart

A screenshot showing a magical tower with golden trims. There are lots of blue gems and oversized mushrooms around it.

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Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · 07/09/2026

Comparison to the old one: bsky.app/profile/pete...

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Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · 07/09/2026

Been tweaking and painting the tower textures so they are bit more balanced and detailed. #art #gameart

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I needed a placeholder book cover for a library puzzle I'm working on. Think I nailed it.

A 3D model of a book, specifically The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells. The placeholder cover illustration is a childlike scribble.

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Jack The Generalist @jackgutmann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Excited to share my latest podcast episode with Simon Verstraete, a Houdini Artist for Games, specializing in proceduralism and tooling! - Watch here: youtu.be/pJkuwHPN7hs

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emma @emmagamedev.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Something small that I love about South of Midnight is how it starts with an intro animation short and it plays every time you open the game (you decide if you wanna skip). It reminds me of my childhood favorite games in early 2000. Most games stopped doing that long ago.

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textures i painted with gouache vs. model i used them for

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*Stronghold intro animation short playing in my head, imprinted*

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I extruded a cylinder and inverted its normals then slapped a gradient on it and got my mushrooms a magical glow underneath. #gameart #gamedev

An image showing before (left) and after (right) of the same shot of some fantasy mushroom sitting next to blue gems. In the second image there is blue gradients of glow under each mushroom.

The 3D model of the mushroom with a cylinder "card" that has glow on it but is not visible here. Parts are colored red and those are the flipped normals - the faces closer to the camera end up always invisible, while the ones in the distance, rotated, will be visible.

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I've actually made camera facing cards in this project already, I have them, but a cylinder that is inverted flows better with the silhouette of the mushroom than any square or rectangular card.

I invert the faces because I want a gentle glow in the distance, almost like a card that faces the camera. If I don't invert them, the cylinder is much more visible, and the glow hides big parts of the mushroom as in general too strong.

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!!! Omg thank you!! I made the entire thing and then got irritated by the edges, spent some time thinking of anything clever to fix it, but nothing came to mind. What a brilliant solution. I'll do that next. Thanks for the tip. It's exactly what I needed.

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I love those ideas! I'll do that tomorrow, ty.

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I extruded a cylinder and inverted its normals then slapped a gradient on it and got my mushrooms a magical glow underneath. #gameart #gamedev

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Thanks!! I don't get many comments so I really appreciate you stopped to drop one. Made my day!