Sam Santala

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Sam Santala

@SamSantala

👤 Creature/Character Concept Artist 💼 Prev: Rare, Ubisoft, SixMoreVodka, Volta ✉️ [email protected] 🇪🇺 Carbon-based biped

Helsinki, Finland Katılım Ağustos 2012

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·26 Oca

Whilst not one of the Riot/Blizz folks, I was let go from my role as a concept artist as well this week and am now looking for work. I specialize mostly in stylized or creature work, but I'm very interested in more character-based and historical projects artstation.com/samsantala

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·8h

@Kitsooki There's a few avenues, but none are amazing really Grants, Patreon, Kickstarter, Invstors, Publishers. Each with their own costs and benefits. Unless you have a lot of money in the bank, or want to relinquish control to others again, you have to bootstrap and keep it small

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🍂Kitsooki🐿️@Kitsooki·9h

@SamSantala Where would the stability come from then? Crowdfunding like Kickstarter? Or from other places like Patreon and Subscribe Star? These are loaded questions. Your post made me feel so much excitement and inspiration!

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·12h

I had an interview about this and during it I coalesced around why this might have hit a nerve. A lot of game devs were probably sold the dream of working in a studio, having some stability and working on what you love, but we've learned there is no such thing as stability 1/3

Sam Santala@SamSantala

Posted on LinkedIn last night, woke up to several hundred notifications, friends requests, etc. Seems I struck a nerve in the industry by saying I wanted to create my own projects and not be at the mercy of execs. It's going to have to be smaller studios and smaller projects.

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·12h

So now the calculation is shifting. No longer is it: 'Do I threaten my stability for creative control and freedom?' It's now: 'I have no stability OR control. So why don't I just do what I love and reap the rewards?' The big studios no longer offer us what we need 3/3

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·12h

We have families, mortgages, adult lives to live, but a studio role could be gone next month. We can't save, can't plan, and as creatives we all have ideas we want to realize, but we sell our ideas for some stability If there's no stability, there's no point being in studio. 2/3

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·6d

@mlopezaudio Love your music Mike :D Definitely jotting your work down for later. And feel free to DM me if you like

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Mike@mlopezaudio·13 Mar

@SamSantala love your art! need sounds ? 😏

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·12 Mar

@AftermathZGame I think I'll take you up on that advice :D I'll have to reach out to you later if that's okay

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TJ | Aftermath Z: Red Pine Lake 🏕🧟‍♂️@AftermathZGame·12 Mar

After 10 years working on projects for other people, I decided to open my own studio too. It's not easy, and I still am working on managing scope a few years in. I still offer my services to help cover development, but it is way more rewarding working on my own projects. I am happy to help with any advice from what I've learned or even with development services. All the best.

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·12 Mar

@Luetin09 Yeah I grew up in the UK playing Rare games and Timesplitters 2, always wanted to work for Rare and Free Radical, it's a shame things went the way they did

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Luetin 😐@Luetin09·12 Mar

@SamSantala Its interesting you worked for Rare, the first thing that came to mind when I saw this post was the sad loss of Free Radical.

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·12 Mar

@TomBrienTweets Thanks a lot man :D It's a shame Everwild never came out, I think some of the designs we made folks would have really loved. But I appreciate your support here 💛

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Tom Brien@TomBrienTweets·12 Mar

@SamSantala Wow your art is amazing! I was really into Everwild. Good luck, I hope you catch a great and achievable idea. I think a game that utilises your paintings could be exciting.

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·12 Mar

@ImLocalStranger Yeah that's pretty much what I've been thinking should be the plan, with a constant drive to at least build some kind of financial buffer over time

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Local Stranger@ImLocalStranger·12 Mar

@SamSantala The best advice I ever read is that when you have your own studio you pump out smaller games in smaller timeframes while engaging with your audience on social/livestream. Because if it’s 1 long project for 1 big game and it flops then you’re done for

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·3 Şub

Britain has a unique strength and I wish we utilised it more Unlike being English, Britishness is more of a feeling, a culture, and anyone can adopt a culture. We can take people in from around the world and have them become British citizens and it enhances and empowers us all

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@MrRetiredX @itsbighonkin

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Mr. X 🌌@MrRetiredX·1 Şub

@itsbighonkin He wanted to expose them back then

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big honkin caboose@itsbighonkin·31 Oca

Elon Musk desperately trying to get on to pedophile atrocity island and having the most evil people in the world be like “nah this guys sucks” puts him at a level of loser we’ve never seen before

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·30 Oca

@JackieD86388657 > Doesn't represent the country He's the PM > Without our consent He won a majority. Must be hard living in fiction.

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JD 🇬🇧@JackieD86388657·29 Oca

I hope people around the world realise that Starmer does not represent the majority of British citizens He isn't acting on our behalf, he's just doing whatever he likes without our consent He's doing the opposite of everything we want him to do

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·27 Oca

First Mercosur, now this. the EU just wrapped up 3 decades of trade deals in just a couple weeks of each other. The EU is doing their best to make sure it is never overly reliant on any particular trading partner 💪 reuters.com/world/india/in…

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·25 Oca

MAGA must be trawling the Internet for a non photogenic picture of this guy so they can turn their brain off and say he deserved it somehow

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·25 Oca

ICE shot a nurse. They executed a nurse, and a mother. What next? A priest? A baby?

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·23 Oca

@MarkHeath45 What's it like having brain damage?

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Mark Heath 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙏🏻@MarkHeath45·22 Oca

FARAGE, is NOT the enemy TRUMP, is NOT the enemy ORBAN, is NOT the enemy MELONI, is NOT the enemy PUTIN, is NOT the enemy LE PEN, is NOT the enemy STARMER is most definitely the enemy, along with his WEF globalist overlords. Ursula von der Leyen is too. Pick a side! ✊🏻🇬🇧

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·22 Oca

When I first visited Finland, the idea that homes could be warm in winter was like witchcraft to me. I'm glad to see the UK government making moves to actually make homes somewhat liveable in a mild winter.

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I know things are tough right now, and I know people are feeling the pressure. That’s why my priority is to tackle the cost of living. Our Warm Homes Plan will upgrade millions of homes across the country with proper insulation to lower bills and help with the cost of living.

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·21 Oca

I am 10,000% on board with the idea of a European social media system (actually was looking into someone might make this), but this doesn't sound great, and continues the trend of native European products having just... the fucking worst brand names. cybernews.com/tech/europe-so…

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·21 Oca

@Neccccy Sounds like treason to me.

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