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·1d

British identity is more than skin colour, its values, its community and what we believe ourselves to be We are a multi-ethnic society, & whilst not perfect, integrated better than many other places in the world Progressive people like myself should be louder in supporting this

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·1d

Racism of papers like The Daily Mail is utterly alien to me and my understanding of the UK I don't get it now, I didn't get it during the fury at the Olympic ceremony for having a story of a young black couple as part of the show We should celebrate successes like Bellingham

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If you want to understand just HOW racist the UK newspapers are - you don't need slanderous Meghan Markle articles. You just need to see what they said about Jude before this World Cup started

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·5d

@ajhuxlee Things like Horizon, and God of War. Whenever they release a game I just think, well I'll buy it on Steam in two years.

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@SamSantala The death of the disc was always going to happen when the likes of streaming and digital downloads came in. Which exclusive have they put on PC?

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·5d

The death of Sony as a console company will not come from a lack of physical discs (something that feels pretty inevitable anyway), but because they started selling their *exclusive* IP on PC Marketplaces, removing the entire function of their console for short-term profitability

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·23 Haz

Andy Burnhams new battle bus

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·14 Haz

The UK education system is super efficient. It spends hundreds of thousands of pounds per student training kids to enter the workforce, then at age 18 encourages them to take unpayable loans which can be increased unilaterally so talent never wants to stay in the UK. 10/10

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·11 Haz

Ahhh, another white nationalist riot in the UK. People who believe their culture is superior to everyone elses and want to show that by... -checks notes- Burning down their communities. Masterful.

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·25 May

Hey folks, I have a gap in my calendar so if anyone would like a comm I'm opening them up again for a bit :) samsantala.com/commissions #Dnd #commission

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elpadaalt@elpadaalt·7 May

they did surgery on a grape

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·27 Mar

And I would still love to connect with people of a bunch of disciplines, especially gameplay programmers, 3D, VFX etc People make the best games when they're passionate about what they work on. So I'd love to hear what games you love. Let's find the people we align with

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·27 Mar

I'm *still* reaching out to people from a couple weeks ago, hoping to make the right next steps to not just be vibes, but to actually build something like that. So I'll try to keep you folks updated as I continue, and I would love to hear from you if you feel the same

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·27 Mar

The games industry is full of such lovely people I've had more calls with folks the last few weeks following my post about the industry than I've ever had. Everyone is so supportive, with such passion and energy for the games we make & it's really inspiring.

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·26 Mar

Folks, check this game out! Vaunted is a turn-based tactics game made by some Gigantic alumni and others, and I was lucky enough to be asked to contribute :D it looks great! youtu.be/d_EWcCv7G_0?is…

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·25 Mar

@Dramorake In the newest Blender, hold R in Sculpt mode and it will bring up the grid, you can then drag to the density you want and use 'voxel remesh' to remesh to that density

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Dramorake@Dramorake·25 Mar

@SamSantala Whaaat how?

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·24 Mar

Trying to get over my aversion to Blender and asked some 3D artists for advice, so I'm jumping in it now. I have to say, the default buttons still bother me. But this feature where you can visually determine your polygon density using a grid is fantastic.

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·20 Mar

Can I ask a question for the Art Directors. What techniques or methodologies do you use to develop your artistic library and taste? I'm developing a map of sorts but I'd love to hear other ideas.

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Sam Santala@SamSantala·19 Mar

@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·19 Mar

@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·19 Mar

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·19 Mar

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·19 Mar

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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