iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

keep your eyes off my baking errors

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

i find myself once more making thingamajigs and what-have-yous

3D render of an ambiguous object made of metal and wood

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

another render, as a treat - for myself

Set of three renders of technical-looking 3D model

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Classic bit of Tech-Nonsense cooked up with #ConjureSDF

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

i tell the barkeep i'm on the rocks again. he gives me a sympathetic nod, he doesn't understand

3D renders of four different rock styles

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

The vast majority is also a single texture which, like much of my work, is laziness rebranded as skill.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

It's a few years old now so some parts definitely make me wince, but I'm still pretty happy with how this scene came together. A rare example of me finishing a project.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

But as much as I moan, I'm chuffed with how they turned out. It's nice to try and update the ol' portfolio more than once a decade.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I spent time last night on the drudgerous work of getting renders for my recent material work, something I'm normally pretty bad at getting done.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

oh no, i bricked my computer. ha ha, just a little environment art humour

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

hit em with the ol' how it started // how it's going

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

"The best pavement I've made so far" really isn't the sort of personal achievement I thought I'd be puffing my chest out over, but game development has a way of changing a man.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

better check the skies for airborne trotters because I think I might actually be making progress on a new scene

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

There may come a day when I don't spend all my time making materials and forget to start an actual environment, but I fear that day is a long way off.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I had a brilliant time at Develop once again but just realised that literally the only picture I took was at the train station on the way back because I thought it was a good texture reference.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

These materials are also an excuse to practice some decorative patterns; something I normally take great pains to avoid.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

TILES. Need to start building a material library for a new personal project, and you gotta go with the classics. Those who call this procrastination to avoid doing more gameplay scripting are haters. #gamedev #gameart #substancedesigner #screenshotsaturday

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Some more hard-surface texture nonsense. Fully procedural... round, things.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Doing a harddrive cleanup and finding all sorts of fun prototypes and experiments

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I'm a simple man, I enjoy a quirky colour variant.

3D renders of a scope in multiple colours

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I didn't even mean to make a scope, I think it's just something that happens to a 3D artist at a certain age.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I had to keep the assets under 256 tris and only use 256x textures, and I'm really chuffed with what we managed in a couple of days. It was also my favourite in-person game jam event so far, big thank you to @bristolgameshub.bsky.social for putting it on.

Diversifier slide; 3D models can use no more than 256 triangles and a 256x256 texture

Art slide; texture and triangle limit, conveying more through texture, consistency. Images showing textures used in the game

Fun-First Design slide; find single fun thing. References showing Devil Daggers, Skate Story, Anger Foot

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

For #GGJ25 I made some art for a kick 'em up at the end of the universe. globalgamejam.org/games/2025/i...

Screenshot from IX BILLION AD showing an enemy block being kicked

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Woke up with a powerful need to make some flipbook textures.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Just tested out a couple of Designer nodes by @flownepp.bsky.social and hot damn, I don't think I can go back. Managed more in an hour than I usually get done in a day.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Something I could definitely see myself using #ConjureSDF for is whipping up stamps and details for use in textures. Could easily make dozens pretty quickly, and then you're sorted for a project.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

More concept doodling. Some sort of... oh I don't know, let's say spaceship.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Tried out #ConjureSDF this weekend and it's genuinely such a joy to use. I can't imagine a better tool for hard surface concepting.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Bit of leisurely 3D doodling on a Saturday afternoon

3D digital models of various technical-styled shapes

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