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This was such a banger track, that I played with the visuals of it even after the game was released 😂 Let me go on rave with Sforzando plz! 🚨▲▲▲� #UNBEATABLE @peakdivide @MUSTDIEmusic #blender

@orenjalt It is 2026 and artist are still yearning to emulate analog way of working that will ruin their bodies. Shrimbacking is not the way to go.

wait......

@wizardbrainz @SebAaltonen Things that are abundant and easy will always have less perceived value, so the moat is still going to be some sort of skill which is multiplied by the ai but proportionally things will stay the same. You can be Shein, H&M or Hermes

@longiy @SebAaltonen The majority of games, even the less commercial creative ones are products though - whose utility is measurable. I see @SebAaltonen thinking as product centric too btw. And it's looking like AI will sail past the slop to the Uniqlo/H&M fast fashion stage very soon.

Unpopular opinion: Nobody will make money by single shotting a game or app. There's always somebody else who is willing to put in more effort. You spend 15 minutes, they spend a whole week. Of course their product is better. You beat their 1 week product with 1 month product, etc

@Cartidise This is what consent looks like

it’s 2026 and this is how you install apps on macOS

@wizardbrainz @SebAaltonen Well, making slop is inherently unfashionable and not trendy in all creative endeavours. You are applying product thinking to art (yea heayh not all games all art yaddayada) which doesn't work because utility is not very well measurable.

@SebAaltonen I would say you actually furthered my point. With so much content the problem becomes discovery which is led by key influencers and fashion trends.

@aestheticsguyy @pigeonpixelz So Ragnarok Online

Imagine a Pokémon game that actually looks like this

@ToshiCG The solution is to use drawing tablet.

I recently found out that using a mouse with my left (non-dominant) hand is not hard at all for less demanding tasks. For focused work, I still need to use my dominant hand. I've been dealing with some carpal tunnel pain. Still manageable but needs to be addressed. Here are my thoughts and experiences. Switching to a vertical mouse pretty much removed wrist issues but over time I developed some pain at the base of the index finger. Standard mouse does the opposite: good on fingers, sucks for the wrist. All of these issues are due to "repetitive stress" so there is no solution that fixes it all. My current approach is to alternate between a standard and vertical mouse every couple of weeks. And as I said, I use my left hand when possible. This way, I give my right hand a lot more rest. I also tried submerging my hand in ice water for a couple of minutes. This is supposed to only give temporary relief but I experienced a lot less discomfort for 24 hours after one icing session. I need to get into the habit of doing it regularly.

@byteHumi Lfmao, git workflow with linear media. Clearly they have never worked on any big project.

he literally decomposed a DaVinci Resolve timeline into domain-split JSON so editors, colorists and sound designers never touch the same file. he's 18 btw.

@AsyncEditor @jakeinmotion AE's render lag is a feature at this point lol

@jakeinmotion Kinda crazy… could be a game changer if AE’s render doesn’t lag the timeline too much

Introducing: Railcut Track-based editing for After Effects. Cut, slip, slide, ripple edit, waveforms, thumbnails. No more round-tripping to Premiere. jakeinmotion.com/railcut

@poellll It is perennial at this point, and also a great rorschach test for clients

this title sequence has designers in a chokehold

@henningsanden youtu.be/CMoZjcpgivM?si…

It's actually insane how bad the quality of clothes have got recently. Some months ago I bought a second hand shirt. I found a drycleaning note pinned to it, from 2004. It was a regular Marks and Spencer's shirt. The quality was *much* better than of my modern shirts.

@doronstudio If you want to scale some design systems things you will need to translate the design elements and layouts into math. Which is sometimes slower than just manually doing it.

if you can’t do this intuitively as a designer you are cooked

I wish I had time to play #marathon :( At least I can fiddle around with its sick aesthetics in #blender 🙌

@KuroshiroX You should start with light placement first and the decide wether the place needs the lineart at all. If you are worried about losing the effort in the lineart then don’t do the lineart in places where it doesn’t matter to the final piece.

Getting lighting done is hard. Like how do you achieve a compelling composition while not loosing the details of the lineart? Every time I try to map out my light scenario the hierarchy gets messed up and ruins the effort put into the linework.

@TheRedDragon It incentivize lot of anti collaboration behavior (human to human) which is inherently antisocial and alienating with lot of longterm negatives. For some tech people being antisocial is a feature clearly.

Only argument against generative AI is that it learns from human work so they call it 'stolen.' By that logic, every artist is a thief. None of them invented drawing, they went to school or studied others and techniques and built on it. Every musician learned chords someone else invented. Every writer absorbed styles from books they read. AI learns exactly the way humans do, by observing, absorbing, and building on what came before. It just does it immensely faster & better than humans That's literally how learning works with everyone The only other argument i've seen is people say it looks like crap. Look where it's come in only 3 years. It's already fooling most people because it looks so good. In another year, you won't be able to use that excuse either.

@hiradsab @pentagram Cool toy, now try to get this approved in a way that the client will actually use the interactive system (hurdle 1.) correctly (hurdle 2.) without having to call design studio for help if thing look bad (hurdle 3.)

ok this is legit crazy. every click generates 6 new logos here im replicating and morphing the OG + new MIT media lab design system by @pentagram interactive design systems are more accessible than ever

@BenjiGameDev I‘d day that in AAA, arstyle is not being developed in collaboration with asset artists. Just follow the art bible from the artdirector

I'd love to hear the perspective of a AAA insider on this when a game's artstyle is being developed, it wouldn't surprise me if higher fidelity stand-ins are sometimes used. In the same way directors often score their movies with music from another film, to lock in the vibe

@kelskiYT Left is a painting, right is a bad photo.

I'm not able to play Crimson Desert with ray traced lighting on my laptop, but I almost prefer it turned off anyways?? Left is without. Right is ray traced What do y'all think looks better?

@LateNightHalo „ I wonder if they are aware of their own art style?“ sounds pretty direspectful to the art team

Im not sure how to articulate it but I've always loved Bungie's "house art style." All their games have this specific look to how the world is rendered, how characters are proportioned, How bulky armor is, how light reacts off stuff, etc. Its not cartoony but its not realistic. Its really interesting and ALWAYS makes Bungie games feel visually breathtaking in a way no other game studio can. its this.. idk, Bungie look that they never got rid of and I appreciate it. I wonder if they are aware of their own art style?

@kelin_online @XdanielArt I feel like most client will not want this because that sounds like "extra work" unless it works automatically under the hood.

@XdanielArt but it is also way easier to create one-off pieces of software that you can hand to a client to let them adjust the parameters however they want now. technique is accessible & top of mind to a wider range of designers now

prediction: resurgence in generative logo systems now that brand designers can easily vibecode them

@milkpack This is just standard military practice tho

I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or an intentional nod, but I like to think the environmental labels in Marathon (on crates, bags, stacks, etc) are an homage to Virgil Abloh’s legacy.