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Pete Dimitrov
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Senior Environment Artist at Rebellion on Sniper Elite: Resistance & SE5. Posting lots of art and work-in-progress broken 3D meshes. He/Him
Creating Game Art educational videos at https://youtube.com/@petedimitrov
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Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · Dec 15
Here is my #artvsartist2023 Top rows are new art (from one giant project). Then few of my older works below.
#gameart #gamedev #UE5 #art
Art vs artist 2023 collage that has 9 image in a square grid. In order: a blue crystal floating in the middle of a ruined room. A purple crystal seen in a close up zoom. A green crystal seen even closer up. It's shards are square and shiny. Another image showing a sci-fi crown with a blue gem that sits on an alien head. Then an image of the artist - me - a gym selfie, wearing a blue tshirt and holding a smartphone. Followed up is a picture of a vortex VFX on a gap in a floor. The next image is a Japanese style shrine that is build from wooden structures. The next picture is lots of bamboo orangle candles, from the same project. Final picture is a large portal gateway from a sci-fi project full of metal. All of the screenshots were taken in Unreal 5 and Unreal 4.
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I decided I'm going to isolate the gate and work on it as a mini diorama. I'll add grass and a path around it and figure out my grass textures, stone pavings, foliage, before returning to the bigger scene.
#gamedev #gameart #art
A UE5 screenshot of a gate with a portal. It's made out of stone and has golden motives. The background around is dark blue.
December 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Baked the door yesterday and put preliminary gold. Next is hand painting on top. #gamedev #gameart #art
A screenshot from UE5 showcasing the lower part of a tower, sitting on green placeholder material. There are blue crystals around. There are golden elements on the tower too.
December 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Baked the door yesterday and put preliminary gold. Next is hand painting on top. #gamedev #gameart #art
A screenshot from UE5 showcasing the lower part of a tower, sitting on green placeholder material. There are blue crystals around. There are golden elements on the tower too.
December 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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This is just getting ridiculous. Affordable personal computing is looking to become even more challenging. RAM - for the longest time - was one of the more price relaxed categories of a PC purchase. Not anymore for the foreseeable future. I have no idea how the world keeps on this trajectory.
tomwarren.co.uk Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 5d
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead. It’s already getting hard to build an affordable PC, and the exit of the longstanding provider of consumer memory is going to make that even more challenging www.theverge.com/news/837594/...
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Another blow to PC gaming.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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When an Unreal 5.3+ game runs, it will immediately kick off precompilation of global shaders. You should wait for that to complete before starting the game, otherwise you'll likely get hitches. You do that with the NumPrecompilingPSOsRemaining node. #uetips
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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After a long day of environment art at work, I'm heading into WoW to do some more environment art and set dressing there as well.
A screenshot from the new housing mode in World of Warcraft. It shows a Fire Mage character looking at a few paintings, book shelves and a floating mage book. Editing gizmo is shown and scale and rotate settings on the bars of the UI are seen too.
December 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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After a long day of environment art at work, I'm heading into WoW to do some more environment art and set dressing there as well.
A screenshot from the new housing mode in World of Warcraft. It shows a Fire Mage character looking at a few paintings, book shelves and a floating mage book. Editing gizmo is shown and scale and rotate settings on the bars of the UI are seen too.
December 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Some UVs. Love UVs.

The left and right side of the geometry have their UVs overlapped, so I save on texel density (and on my sanity when I start hand painting on top).
#gamedev #gameart #3Dart #art
A screenshot from Blender that shows UV space, on the left and the mesh the blue UV shells belong to, seen on the right. The right side is a 3D view of the prop, which is a gate with spike and leaf elements. It is rendered gray and textureless.
December 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Some UVs. Love UVs.

The left and right side of the geometry have their UVs overlapped, so I save on texel density (and on my sanity when I start hand painting on top).
#gamedev #gameart #3Dart #art
A screenshot from Blender that shows UV space, on the left and the mesh the blue UV shells belong to, seen on the right. The right side is a 3D view of the prop, which is a gate with spike and leaf elements. It is rendered gray and textureless.
December 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Oh how I've loved working in indie games & getting to paint all the cool things ❤️✨

These assets are all from a demo level for a slavic vampire game called Thirst - would have loved to spend a year or two in this world
2D platformer interior scenery & light fixtures 2D platformer scenery background assets, kitchen items 2D platformer assets - checkpoint sarcophagus & holy relic door 2D platformer assets - COLUMNS!
December 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Flickr makes me feel old. Time moved but Flickr stood still. It’s digital catalogues are like a graveyard.

I go looking for reference photos for 3D and I find stuff taken in 2007, but has just 11 views.
Comment under, dated “16y ago” delivered in old html design that is more pragmatic than flashy.
December 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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just as good as an "Error: error" dialog. thanks for nothing microsoft
an image of a dialog that says " Unsupported Unreal Engine version Unable to open Unreal Engine project, please check dependency requirements. Would you like to visit https://learn.microsoft.com/ visualstudio/gamedev/unreal/get-started/vs-tools-unreal-uproject? Yes No"
November 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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www.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/nyit/
www.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/nyit/fro...

it has been located
November 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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I found out it's from an ancient CGI titled "Sunstone" (1979). It's quite the trip to watch it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMW1...
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Reading old computer graphics white papers is super fun because every so often you come across the most liminal, weird looking images. Like this one from 1983.
A screenshot from a Computer Graphics white paper dubbed "Pyramidal Parametrics" by Lance Williams, 1983. It looks at mipmaps as a concept. The screenshot here shows two dark images. It consists of black background with exploded cubes on top. On each side of the cube, imagery is mapped. One looks like an eye, the other like an overexposed coin, and the other one like 4 heads next to one another. It all has creepy colors and visuals. Under it reads "Figure 8-9" Sunstone by Ed Emshwiller, segment animated by Alvy Ray Smith Pyramidal parametric texture mapping on polygons."
November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I found out it's from an ancient CGI titled "Sunstone" (1979). It's quite the trip to watch it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMW1...
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Reading old computer graphics white papers is super fun because every so often you come across the most liminal, weird looking images. Like this one from 1983.
A screenshot from a Computer Graphics white paper dubbed "Pyramidal Parametrics" by Lance Williams, 1983. It looks at mipmaps as a concept. The screenshot here shows two dark images. It consists of black background with exploded cubes on top. On each side of the cube, imagery is mapped. One looks like an eye, the other like an overexposed coin, and the other one like 4 heads next to one another. It all has creepy colors and visuals. Under it reads "Figure 8-9" Sunstone by Ed Emshwiller, segment animated by Alvy Ray Smith Pyramidal parametric texture mapping on polygons."
November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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ooo it's so interesting seeing how dual quaternion splines solve extreme rotational differences!

I made it prefer the shortest path within the quaternion double cover, so when control points pass the 180 degree switch with its neighbors, the path also changes its shape!
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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I would never do this in a professional setting, but bad commit messages in personal repos bring me a certain delight unlike anything else
Screenshot of the commit messages attached to 4 files in the github web repo view. The messages read "A bunch of stuff" "Idk man" "Some fucky shit" and "Finally fix that one weird bug"
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The sculpt is done, so now it's time to go away from Zbrush and back to Blender. Time for some hand retopo.
#gamedev #gameart #3Dart
A screenshot of a sculpt loaded inside a Blender scene. On top of the sculpt (gray material preview) there are green parts which show the topology of hand made matching pieces.
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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The sculpt is done, so now it's time to go away from Zbrush and back to Blender. Time for some hand retopo.
#gamedev #gameart #3Dart
A screenshot of a sculpt loaded inside a Blender scene. On top of the sculpt (gray material preview) there are green parts which show the topology of hand made matching pieces.
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Finally sharing my latest environment piece :) hope you guys like it! www.artstation.com/artwork/4NKPkY
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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With videos and tutorials done, it's time to get back to some sculpting and 3D art.

Resuming the sculpting of the front gate of my stylized tower diorama. #gamedev #gameart #3Dart
A Zbrush screenshot of a 3D gateway with leaf motives and a bunch of spikes. The render is clay and is grayscale.
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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With videos and tutorials done, it's time to get back to some sculpting and 3D art.

Resuming the sculpting of the front gate of my stylized tower diorama. #gamedev #gameart #3Dart
A Zbrush screenshot of a 3D gateway with leaf motives and a bunch of spikes. The render is clay and is grayscale.
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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New blog post out! Some images showcasing 3D assets + links to the videos on how to make them.

#gamedev #gameart #3Dart #art #tutorial
Make a UE5 Gateway - Chapter 3, 4 and 5
Create a portal. Preparing textures, working in Niagara and in Blueprints
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November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM