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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

HEX BARONS 0.8! Our pay what you want, print and play, micro skirmish game has really arrived with it's 0.8 release! Malcolm and myself put so much work into this thing. A real labour of love. Play 1v1 or even solo! #boardgames #printandplay #wargaming #dice #cardgame #versus youtu.be/GZku3ZB7deQ

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HEX BARONS Version 0.8 !

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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Loving these patch weekends with the act 1 mtx grinds #poe2

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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Extrudin Mrs Roberts outta cubes! I haven't tried to model a 3D character since 2007 but here we are. Next step, texturing!!! #gamedev #3demm #3dmodelling #indiegamedev

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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Exploring an indie video game concept. Will try model this character like it was 1995. #gamedev #characterdesign

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As a professional artist it is hard to feel like you are giving up on art by making the pivot. It's a complicated move, and like me, a lot of your self worth and pride may be wrapped up in being a professional artist. But maybe life could be simple for a while? And maybe we can float for a time.

My 3 PIVOT career had these metrics 1. Creative 2. High Paying 3. Breezy What I learned is you can't have all 3. The creative part, the part I hold most dear doesn't fit into High Paying and Breezy. As those are the two I couldn't cut as those are the two Professional Arts ISN'T haha.

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So that means looking into the job market and finding a alternate career in an industry that isn't circling the toilet. IT, Technical Writing, Customer Service etc. The trick is, is to find your personal metrics for a job. I had 3 metrics for a pivot job. Cont...

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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Hey professional Artists. The industry (at least what I've experienced in MTL Canada as a 2D Animation director) is at an all time low. Most industry professionals like myself have been looking into the PIVOT. Where we plan an off-ramp or a float career alternative. Cont... #animators #arts

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Today we have a 24 hour live stream of all the short animated films made for our To Gaza With Love animation jam! Check it out: www.youtube.com/live/yuWokTb...

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To Gaza With Love | Palestine Solidarity | Help Gaza Live Stream

YouTube video by Animation Community 4 Palestine

Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I dug up this old artwork to go into my new patreon post about my history with TTRPG's and the art that they have generated over the decades: www.patreon.com/posts/dice-p...

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Dice, Pens and Paper - RPGs as story and art engines | Slyman

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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

An illustration from 2018 depicting a tense flying minivan ride from our old Starfinder campaign. The NPC is obviously the one bleeding. #traditionalgames #illustration

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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Ahhh, now the old base is the hangout loft. Nice and empty!

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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

The move continued! Transporting so many things! This really is like death stranding out here.

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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Play Dune Awakening like Death Stranding! When building your base, make traversal infrastructure for your fellow spice freaks! Instead of a grey box, why not make a bridge?! A mountain side staircase? A comfortable spot of shade to wait out the midday sun? Strand (sand) type gaming! #duneawakening

Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Listening to this at work. I used to play Phantasy Star Online on me dreamcast when I was like 15. Now at 39 and listening to it I'm getting flooded with emotions. My first experience to this kinda game, and the music was such a large part of the vibe. aetherial and drifting youtu.be/flCtIKNyDoM

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Phantasy Star Online Soundtrack • Dreamcast

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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

It was held together with super glue (I didn't have plastic glue with me). The super glue was melting things and a pain in the ass. I sprayed it with varnish clear matte as a final step, which did frost a bit. But I don't mind some frosting.

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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I dry brushed some white onto the weapon parts but I think if I did it again I'd just hand paint highlights and shadows. I got carried away and dry brushed a bit of the mobile suit and then had to paint over it because it looked real bad

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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Gunpla mini kit, Zaku Canon mobile suit. This is my first gunpla paint job. Pretty satisfied. But the assembly with the painted pieces was a mini nightmare. This is probably unique to mini kits, compared to a standard HG kit. Mini is so fiddly and fragile #gunpla #zaku #minis #paintjob #zakucanon

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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 21/06/2025

Elon Musk’s Culture obsession might mean he uses this alien Library solution on Grok. Not destroying human knowledge but rearranging it all into confusion.

Quote about alien general Traff and his promise not to destroy a captured library

Traff already knew what he was going to do. He solved the problem by shuffling the library, sorting every word in it into alphabetical order and every pixel of every illustration into order of color, shade and intensity. The original microfiles were wiped and re-recorded with volumes upon volumes of "the"s, "it"s, and "and"s; the illustrations were fields of pure color. There were riots, of course, but Traff was in control by then, and as he explained to the incensed and-as it turned out, literally-suicidal guardians of the library, and to the Empire's Supreme Court, he had kept his word about not actually destroying or taking as booty a single word, image or file.

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mismedleym (COMMS OPEN) @mismedleym.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

need to revisit her model occasionally to justify all the work i put into it #art #blender3d

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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Sure all these new AI music systems are "neat", but me? I only fuck with Microsoft Songsmith: youtu.be/3oGFogwcx-E

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Microsoft Songsmith Commercial

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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Started up a new mothership campaign at work. Created a new gang to build out some lore. #mothership #ttrpg

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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Calling all ANIMATORS. There is an Animation Jam to raise funds for animation workshops in Gaza. Donate what you can and sign up to participate and submit your 10-30 second animation with love to Gaza #animation #gaza #anijam ac4palanijam.gumroad.com/l/ToGazaWith...

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TO GAZA WITH LOVE: A Global AniJam

REGISTRATION PAGEJoin animators and artists around the world in a powerful creative call for peace, love, and solidarity with Gaza.TO GAZA WITH LOVE is a global aniJam initiated by AC4PAL (Animation C...

Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Here is the 2nd film presentation for the Gaza Animation Workshop patreon. The Kids Fixed It. Made by 20 girls aged between 9 and 14. Join up and support animation for kids in Gaza #gaza #animation #animationstories #palestine www.patreon.com/posts/02-kid...

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02 - The Kids Fixed It | Animation Stories

Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

here's the RULESHEET and updated FACTION CARDS

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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

ROUND 2 RESULTS of CUTIE FACTIONS! Oh no, a bubble tea misshap. Cutie factions is an ongoing story engine project that YOU can participate in. Just reply with a CUTIE FACTION ACTION with a photo of a dice roll using 2d6! Most liked faction action will be used. #cutiefactions #ttrpg #roleplaying #rpg

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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

My mother painted the lil guy! Shout-out to Mums.

Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Just a real lil guy in the yard. One of the littlest guys out there.

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Albert 2nd submission: "The rabbits do lots of houses underground"

Albert submission: "The cats try to become knights."

Charlie Jane submission: "The birds search for the heart of the forest"

Malcolm submits. (Forest Master note: the bubble tea is not "poop" thanks @animalcolm.bsky.social )

"Oh woops, let me just swap out that partial success with a critical success". The FOREST MASTER is starting to wonder if the success / failure % ratio is a little too kind. BUT then again... THIS IS CUTIE ISLAND.

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Lil game designers out there game designin!

It should be noted we can have any number of faction inputs from participants. So participate! The winning input is decided by the likes on the input reply. These doors close somewhat randomly when I start to draw the inputs a few days later.

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FOREST MASTER: "you doth present the same photo of dice for botheth actions?! You are playing with powers you do not understand! You are flirting with a curse?! A CURSE IRL?!"

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I was trying to mock up a lil landmass. I imagine them on some big lush CUTIE ISLAND, full of secrets and mysteries!