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Jake L. Provo

@jleedesign.bsky.social

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Environment Artist @ Gunfire Games 8 years of experience in Games Worked on College Football, Madden, PGA, Rogue State Revolution, some unnanounced and canceled projects.

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Jun 24

One game you’ve worked on - no words just trailers

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Jun 21

I genuinely never thought I would get anywhere close to 100, let alone almost 1000 subs

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Jun 19

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Another new video; this time about what artistic realism is, how it pertains to video games, and how developers trick players into think it’s realism

What Exactly is Realism? (and How Video Games Trick You)

YouTube video by VertexLock

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Jun 16

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New video on some tips to enhance your game scenes
(More beginner friendly tips, branching out later into more intermediate and advanced tutorials and videos)

4 Simple Tricks to Better Environment Art!

YouTube video by VertexLock

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · May 19

I’m an artist- we just ignore that (jokes aside I’m fixing that; it’s angry about shadows right now.)

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · May 19

Doing some crazy unreal scale tests. The scene is something over 400square miles, all done procedurally
(All assets are placeholder for right now while I refine things)

All 400 square miles or so are traversable and populated with assets

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · May 18

It crashed immediately after hitting 128 because it ran out of space, good luck when you do haha

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · May 18

Such a beautiful sight lmao

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · May 18

I love watching my ram creep up from 20FPs to 128gigs when converting an unreal scene to world partition over the course of an hour…

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · May 6

Nearly every movie you’ve seen uses outside the US support studios.

How the hell do you even enforce a tarrif

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Apr 19

I’m getting random job-rejection emails from jobs I didn’t even apply to at 3am like it’s some sort of ghost, what the hell

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Apr 3

Wait- republicans honest to god put up a bill to repeal OSHA on the anniversary date of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?! You’ve got to be kidding

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Apr 3

I was asked what the most helpful thing I learned in college was (in terms of my career):

Take a Modern Art class. It will fundamentally change how you view art, color, light and the process of creating art.

(This usually ranges from the 1860’s realism to the 1980’s Neo-Expressionism)

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Mar 31

Thank you!!

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Mar 30

An update :)

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Mar 28

If Build a Bear made an actually decent build a bear plush they would make so much money I alone would buy 3

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Mar 23

I can’t put this damn game down. I’m 25 hours deep and still mesmerized by how good it looks

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Mar 23

This is such a cool glitch it might as well be a feature, somehow broke the game so that the “Ink” filter didn’t go away when I left photo mode. Even in the menus too

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Mar 22

Environment artist tip:

Figuring out themes, forms, and styles of a place before you stylize it will always give you a drastically better result than creating a style first and trying to make something fit it.

Figure out the why,when, how first- then you can change it

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Mar 19

Unreal nerds; why can’t I used a blueprint actor inside a tool?

Why can’t I use a spline tool inside of a blueprint?

WHY this would make life so much easier

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Mar 19

I saw a 15 second clip of Assassins Creed shadows where they were just riding through the mountains of Japan-

That clip was so gorgeous I immediately went to my PS5 and bought the game.

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Mar 8

I’m seeing a massive increase of people going after companies/recruiters on LinkedIn because they didn’t get a job-

They’re just doing their jobs man, the industry sucks right now- I get it. But that isn’t the way things are going to get better

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Mar 7

Full stop WWE2k25 is the best wrestling game in 20 years. This game is bonkers

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Mar 6

You miss a toll in NY you get to wait on for phone for over TWO HOURS to pay it.

What the actual hell NY??

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · Mar 2

Got some career news coming soon <3 stay tuned

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