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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 30/09/2026

nothing is more optimistic than a mailing list being like "did you unsubscribe by mistake?" girl don't even ask you are embarrassing yourself

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

paid for a green bin collection for the first time and feeling like the landed gentry

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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 · 28/02/2026

For Unreal specifically I've been using Diversion and it's pretty frictionless, highly recommend. For Unity I've gotten along decently well with GitHub.

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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 · 25/10/2025

These are so nice! Super clean but with so much personality and flavour.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I've been getting a huge amount of use out of this add-on. Really recommend it.

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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

Link to ArtStation on my profile if you've got a thing for high-resolution pictures of the most mundane surfaces known to man or beast

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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 · 28/07/2025

So nice! And the way they reflect and refract on the water is 🔥🔥

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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 · 12/07/2025

This is exactly why I've been loving SDF modelling. It's forgiving enough that you can just try stuff that's normally way out of your comfort zone and still get something cool!

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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 · 28/04/2025

Another tough day at the office, time to unwind with some gaming. *closes Substance Designer on creative cloud, switches computers, opens Substance Designer on steam*

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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 · 07/04/2025

I really recommend this one. I've mentored with Limit Break for the last couple years and it's incredibly rewarding.

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James Parker @jamesgroundshatter.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

As much as I don't want to admit it, I think this was probably the pinnacle of my games development career.

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Joseph Beacham @sometimesjoseph.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Can confirm that this game is buckets of fun, and made by an incredible team. One to seriously check out ⚔️

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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 · 19/02/2025

Already looking a lot nicer than any of the editor tools I end up making! I always tell myself I'll come back and neaten up the UI, but two years down the line and all my buttons are still stuffed inside the same panel 💀

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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 · 17/12/2024

It's mesmerising, I'd love to see more. In terms of the row sizes and ratios, do you end up gravitating towards the trim layout I spotted in the first video, or will you adjust per-project (or even per-asset)?

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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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