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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 24/09/2026

"When 27 seconds old you reach, look as good you will not" Yoda, #zbrush time lapse, rendered in #blender

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 19/09/2026

#zbrush doodle, history exported and rendered in #blender

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 26/01/2026

I was just seeing if I could find any evidence of one I made years ago, but no joy. Did find this related blockout though.

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 21/12/2025

ahhhh, the click of death

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 08/12/2025

I’ve experienced this a lot, and for me it perfectly illustrates how they will drop artists as soon as the tech makes it viable for the required end result.

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 08/12/2025

You can have it both ways: I’ve had clients make me toil for weeks trying to turn their AI pitch image into something better/more considered/production ready, etc, only to slowly realise they just want the AI image. Nothing compares to the dopamine hit they got when they instantly “created” it.

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 01/12/2025

You know what they say, “small balls, small pants”

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 25/11/2025

Ahh, that old chestnut, still does the job! I spent way too long in Alyx just idly waving bottles of beer in my face, cooing.

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 19/11/2025

“put ‘em up…PUT ‘EM UP!” Some #zbrush on iPad action

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 31/10/2025

Can’t tell you, it’s a bit of a spoiler!

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 22/10/2025

..the relatively new iPad version has a more modern simplified UI, and the desktop needs to follow suite IMHO. There's a lot of bloat from old versions in there, and to be honest you can do most stuff with a hand full of brushes and a few core features.

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 22/10/2025

I've been using it over 20 years now, so I'm out of touch with beginner tutorials. Zbrush is a very strange beast, it needlessly reinvents the wheel and does things in a most peculiar way, I think artists who haven't used other 3d software fare better with it because of this...

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 05/08/2025

Props to that team at Axis for all the hard work.

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 05/08/2025

Back in 22/23 I worked across a myriad of characters and props, both modelling and surfacing, the highlight of which would have been creating the Last Black Panther in ep 4 It's a sad reflection of the state of the industry that the animation company responsible for this folded before it even aired.

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 25/03/2025

It's funny because it has this illusion of being the 'professional' social media platform, when it is, IMHO, one of the biggest shit holes on the internet. 😄

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 14/03/2025

Happy Friday .... RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 12/03/2025

I’ve been very much enjoying Common Side Effects, thought I’d have a stab at a quick model of Marshall. #commonsideeffects #blender #zbrush

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 25/02/2025

Oh god this reminds me I’ve got to finish this… I gave up on my first attempt, it was excruciating. 😩

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 13/02/2025

He's just been to the pooch parlour (then he ate them)

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 12/02/2025

Apparently it’s #werewolfwednesday, as good an excuse as any to repost this one

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 07/02/2025

UK folks, if you want your voice heard in regards to the government selling the creative industries down the river to AI tech firms, then you can do so here: www.gov.uk/government/c...

gov.uk

This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 24/12/2024

Just be sure that every time you press it, somewhere you are causing chaos.

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 24/12/2024

I’d say stud finder too, but they usually have a 9v battery…. Try www.reddit.com/r/whatisthis...

reddit.com

For the identification of mysterious objects

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 05/12/2024

“You were lucky. We lived for three months in a newspaper in a septic tank. We used to have to get up every morning at 6am, clean the newspaper, go to work down the mill: fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt”

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 05/12/2024

It’s probably the hardest thing to comprehend for the younger generation.. there just wasn’t really any of the poly modelling tools we now take for granted. Modelling was HARD, and don’t get me started on UVs …

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 05/12/2024

This is a piece I wrote a while back, critiquing some of my early work in the industry, and talking about the technical limitations we faced as 3D artists in the year 2000. It was a struggle! www.artstation.com/blogs/mattcl...

artstation.com

ArtStation - How it started, how it's going....

A discussion about the limitations of tools in the 3d industry 20 years ago, and my own growth as an artist.

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 04/12/2024

I'd buy that for a dollar!

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 04/12/2024

There’s some behind the scenes stuff floating around, looks like they made a decent prosthetic, but it got buried under CG. I guess as a character it has too much performance to do for it to work like Bishop in Alien 3.

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 03/12/2024

This is pure design by committee. I can only imagine how many rounds of feedback, how many soul destroying meetings it took to get this bad. 😵

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Matt Clark @thepixelhive.com · 03/12/2024

When I did this I did think with a bit of time/money it could easily be fixed, and then a few months later Romulus came out and down into the uncanny valley we fell…

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