iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 10h

Animators show things early because it's a lot of work and others need an idea how it'll look in 9 hours. I'm good at this. I'm not good at dealing with misintepretations of my rough blocking because I haven't given them enough/the right information. There must be a workshop. #3danimation #gamedev

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 21h

Ahhh. Crisp, clean water, fresh for the Oct 2026-Aug 2029 painting season.

A beautiful mason jar full of water you could drink now, but will kill any number of rats by next month.

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s almost #Orktober!! Last year I painted two boyz and that was a lot for me. This time I’m trying to do two boys, two grotz, and a dread, so I cheated and started a couple weeks ago. Good progress so far though! It might just work.

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Went to the mailbox, brought back one package for myself and one for my wife. She got new perfume with middle notes of bergamot and angelsomething and "kind of earthy ... but not." I got AK Sepia Filth Wash.

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New brush day! Took forever, very expensive, sharp enough to chip ice, I’m gonna beat the shit out of these. 😘

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In Coyote vs. ACME, there's a shot that pans across a spooky sign with cobwebs and a scary spider. The spider crawls up the sign, and is waylaid by an even scarier spider! And then the scarier spider pulls out a KNIFE! Then the sign is offscreen, and I laugh and laugh for the rest of the day.

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Shokkjump Dragsta has fun, memorable roles in two of Mike Brooks's ork books, and the FOMO of not being able to buy one is krumpin' me. #warhammer40k #orks Painting a resin vehicle sounds miserable, but I'm charmed by the dragsta-shaped options suddenly available as STLs now. Life finds a way.

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#ZeroCompany is the best game I've played for a long time. It's true to XCOM, but in the ways it's different, it's all just better. I watched the final cutscene with a tear in my eye. 10/10, go play!

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Developing crushes on my whole crew and that does include the one with fleshy head-tails. #ZeroCompany #Togruta

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I finished painting my Bad Moons snazzwagon for #warhammer40k! I posted a long time ago that even if I never play, I want an ork army to sit on a shelf and look pretty. It begins! #miniaturepainting #orks #waaagh

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Something nice about GTA is that the world doesn't seem to have collapsed. In Night City I get a feeling of maimed peasants finding the strength to go on after the last plague, while in Vice City, everyone's a car with a sunroof away from standing through a sunroof and shouting "WOOOO".

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We conveyed our respects to Tim Curry by watching Clue in 2026. I recommend you play Red Alert 3 instead.

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I don't think Tim or Dolly would want to belong to the same club as the third 80 year-old who comes to mind, but I feel like they'd both hold the elevator door open if they saw him shambling down the hall. Actually, their elevator would be going up. Good point, thanks.

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

About to glue this thing together! I’ll miss the interior with its bottles and cans and shells that were so fun to paint but will never be seen with the roof on. I love that the little grot co-pilot has been kicking through all this garbage like a college student. #warhammer40k #miniaturepainting

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I hate this model. I couldn’t see how I’d paint the goblin hanging out the window after gluing it in, so here I’ve had to cut off the top part of the door to place the goblin after painting. It doesn’t fit anymore, there’s glue everywhere, and ugh. #Warhammer40k #miniaturepainting

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’m trying to plan markings for the roof of my Bad Moons war buggy. They all suck but I like the one with the big moon glyph best. If I did a second one, I’d shave that raised skull and the little vent thing down to flat, so I wouldn’t need to paint through them. #warhammer40k #ORKS

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The power’s out. It was scheduled to go out, we’ve been expecting it to go out, yet it’s very difficult to resist going and flicking the light switch on and off a few times, just to see.

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HAYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @dirtcupart.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

ok i redrew this in a more like "accurate" style bc he looks rly bad in the way i usually draw

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Jason Felix @jasonfelix.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Another side project.No AI was used, no thumbnails, no 3d. Just a surreal scene showing a humanoid botanical being. Calling this Upon the Golden Fern. Loving the whole body merging with plants. #creatureconcept #aliendesign #alienconcept #fungus #storytelling #narrativeart #keyart #personalprojects

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

‘Sup! I’ve Novel Coronovirus in December 2019!

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If I offer a Reform voter money for their Farage/Binface ballot, would that be considered foreign electoral interference? Because I'd really like to have one.

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I sit in office chairs I can just about afford. I need a new one every few years because they gradually collapse beneath me. My wife's Herman Miller is older than my last three Staples chairs, bought by an ex-employer and sold cheap in the liquidation, and will still be intact years from now.

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just beat a possessed nun to death with an aspergillum while a taxidermied crocodile stalked the corridors of the abbey. Otherwise, not much. you? #FinalGirl

Ending of a Final Girl game in the Abbey.

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

As I walked through the desert on a horse with no name It never occurred to me to name my horse

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Thanks to all the tortoise shell Persian cats for their patience with us during this difficult time.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Not being able to comment on your post does *not* prevent me telling you to STAY OUT OF THE WOOLSWORTH!

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#FinalGirl I’m 0 for 6 on Station 2891 (homage to “The Thing”). You have to do all the things on a map that’s working against you, and fast: save victims, test, find weapons. It especially sucks when you draw the card that discards a Test Kit nearest you. It hates me. So try it on the USS Konrad!

Last turn of a Final Girl game: Kate vs The Organism on the USS Konrad!

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

#FinalGirl vs. the Evomorph! Which hasn’t managed to evo OR morph because I’ve spent the game running ahead and it and herding victims into escape pods. There is no rule for if the hatchling runs out of Terror cards without having killed anything. I HAVE BROKEN FINALGIRL! I AM QA ROYALTY!

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

“We don’t have AC in Seattle because we don’t really need it.” The time is wrong, it’s only 6:30pm, but still too freaking hot for a living room.

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

At ye Ren Faire, struggling to avoid making eye contact with a minotaur.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Here's an update on our Hardship Fund: - We've received over 300 applications! - Our working group has been working diligently on processing these, and have currently reached out to over 100 applicants so far - Expect 2-3 weeks for us to reach out with next steps (1/2)

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Just played my first game of Final Girl Evomorph! I had beginner’s luck with hot dice and a straight shot to the loader, soooo. Super fun. I won with Ellen. I didn’t recognize Vasquez in Jenette — good 80/20 joke — but did think she reminded me of John Conner’s foster mom. Wtf, brain. #finalgirl

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm trying to divest from FB and got the big dump of all my media. It's quick and easy, and practically the only thing that site has done well in about six years. Such memories! Here is Chase from my iAnimate class. #3danimation

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

You're laughing? Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham are in hell being sewn together into a human centipede and you're laughing?

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I ran from one end of the the house to t'other at 12:02am, to make sure my wife knew one of the worst people in America was gone. Had to preempt it though: "Trump's fine. And it's not Mitch. BUT IT'S A GOOD ONE."

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I respect Erik's persnicketiness about letting someone define terms without consensus. It's like when someone introduces a bad naming convention and you have to repeat it over and over for the sake of moving forward. Shiver. Also, corrections aside, I love the explanation of inverse square falloff.

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Correcting YouTube's Biggest Miniature Painter

YouTube video by Erik Swinson

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I finally got an expansion for #FinalGirl! This is the one based on Terminator 2, where Sarah Conner is trying to save John from being murdered in the mall but ten minutes after the opening credits the T100 shows up and kills him and the rest of the film is about regret.

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I finished Dakota's gigs, but was not psyched about whatever she might give me as a parting gift because it would certainly not be a fast car. And it's not. But the truck is decent, and I just pulled up to the Aldecados camp in terrain-appropriate wheels for the first time ever! #cyberpunk

Male V smiling on the hood of a big-ass truck.

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I don’t post a lot of WIPs but I’ve been painting this thing all week and I’m getting lost in the subassemblies:

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I'm a traditional gamer and would have turned down the Peralezes had they proposed a threesome, but it's pretty galling that they never even offered. #cyberpunk

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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Imagine having Bungie -- Bungie, the studio that made Marathon and Halo and Destiny and Marathon, that level of generational talent, one of the best teams to ever do it, consistently, for 30 years -- and not knowing what to do with them. Then imagine firing nearly 300 of them. Clownshow shit.

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Here’s my Snazzwagon’s larger subassemblies. Ork painters, is it overkill? I’ve never painted a 40k vehicle, but my instinct for max-tabletop paint quality is to reduce the inaccessible areas. Maybe it doesn’t matter, maybe it’s all just shadowy grime anyway. #WarhammerCommunity #warhammer40k

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Making quick and simple Bake Results and Delete Layers buttons have sped me up absurdly. It's not even so much the time it takes to hunt and click through the UI, but the interruption of flow. #3danimation #techart

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I painted the Echoes of Death Necromancer for #KingdomDeath! I love KDM survivor minis, they're beyond top of the line, but they all want a unique color scheme and the OSL stresses me out. Time to change gears and work from recipes for a bit. #miniaturepainting

Sullen Gothy girl with a skull-slung lance and lantern, glaring offscreen at whomever will eventually going to pick her up carelessly and snap off her spear. That is likely to be me.

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I painted the Echoes of Death 4 Boxer for #KingdomDeath! It's been like trying to paint miniatures in a tumble dryer this year. Everything is so distracting, I tend to just play video games or go back to work. I hope I'm starting to climb out of it. #miniaturepainting

Boxer miniature with big orange arm-glove-thing, grey-green wraps, violet hair and matching loincloth, and brass doodads. Very jingly, very punchy.

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Local Artist John Sheffield @thatdarnsatan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I'd bet good money that CDPR disabled NPCs in photo mode for this shot, so people wouldn't put Nibbles the Cat next to Reed and post on social media with the caption: "war. War never changes."

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