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Peter W @petedubs.bsky.social · 4d

I have been in the hyperbolic time chamber for the past few months and have emerged with news: I am officially a Houdini Guy now and did a bunch of cool tech art stuff in my latest project, which is a procedural cliff generator!
Check it out:
www.artstation.com/artwork/K38dVy

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Alan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · Aug 17

Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians – Oh My!
New mathy blog post to try and make some scary sounding terms less scary.
blog.demofox.org/2025/08/16/d...

A snippet of the blog post, showing a short explanation of derivatives, as well as a graph of a quadratic function, and a graph of its derivative.

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TONY GRAYSON 🗻 @tonycomputerentertainment.com · Aug 11

Insane what they used to get away with

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Tobias Wink @somethinglikegames.de · Aug 13

I have finished my plugin for exporting image sequences directly from Substance 3D Designer, and if you are interested, you can download it for free: www.somethinglikegames.de/en/blog/2025...

#gameart #TechArt #TechnicalArt #MadeWithSubstance #indiegames

Something Like Games | Export image sequences with Substance 3D Designer

This post shows you how to export image sequences from Adobe Substance 3D Designer using my free plugin.

www.somethinglikegames.de

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Peter W @petedubs.bsky.social · Jul 29

With their recent announcement i can finally share some of the work I completed for Manticore Games on Out Of Time! Check out some stills here:

www.artstation.com/artwork/P6aDO1

Out Of Time - Materials, Peter Wandelmaier

Some highlights from the large material collection I created for Out Of Time at Manticore. Tileables were in huge demand as OOT's design at the time had a major UGC element. Players being able to repu...

www.artstation.com

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Peter W @petedubs.bsky.social · Jul 25

Visit Todaiji in Nara, feed the deer!

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Peter W @petedubs.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hello #PortfolioDay gamers

I'm Peter, I'm an environment artist from the east coast US. Most recently I worked at Manticore games but I'm on the hunt again for work. Check out my stuff if you want, otherwise have a good day ~

www.artstation.com/petedubs

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Chaabs @chaabs.bsky.social · Nov 20

If anyone's looking for me, I'll be here. Happy. Staring at a big bunch of water shaders, courtesy of all you lovely lovely techartists.
THREAD OF LOVELY WATER SHADERS--->

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Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · Jun 4

Ucupaint is an extension that comes with Blender (since 4.2) and that makes the whole texture painting process better and more nondestructive, using layers. #Blender #b3D #Blender3D #ucupaint

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · Jun 11

Disney and NBCUniversal is suing Midjourney for mass copyright infringement - commencing the first major legal battle against an AI company that could dictate the future of generative AI.

(Read more: Deadline)

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Dec 21

New trailer of "False Memory" chinese animated series by Flint Sugar & Studio Tumble (based on a 2020 indie short film).
Coming in 2025 on BiliBili.
Full trailer >> www.catsuka.com/news/2024-12...

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Peter W @petedubs.bsky.social · May 29

Heat?????

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Darya @daryam.com · May 26

Meme in the style of "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign that says "you wouldn't overscope a project"

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Peter W @petedubs.bsky.social · May 26

Moving to a new machine and I have to say the level of positivity I have towards windows directly correlates with how much bloatware I'm able to hack out of it

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Allison F @ablington.bsky.social · Mar 30

yes

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Peter W @petedubs.bsky.social · May 14

My late #Mayterials entry for day 9-10: Fortress
I got a little carried away on deliverables this time, hope I have time to do another one with a more reasonable scope.
Watch a cool video here:
www.artstation.com/artwork/2BbQDJ

#Mayterials2025 @theclubdiscord.bsky.social

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Fran @sydmus.bsky.social · May 6

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flip phone minato @minatums.drive-in.lol · May 6

It's time I finally announce that I will be at Pax East running a panel Sunday @ 11am in the Arachnid Theater!!!

"I'm in Art School But I Want to Make Games" with @petedubs.bsky.social , @elliotmitchell.bsky.social , and Luigi Guateri - it's all about how to turn an art degree into a games job!!

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Andras Ketzer @fluidninjavfx.bsky.social · Apr 17

Dark fantasy RPG Mandragora is released - with baked fluidsim effects made with FluidNinja VFX Tools!
#unrealengine #realtimevfx #fluidninja #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #actionrpg

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Peter W @petedubs.bsky.social · Apr 26

I've seen this movie so many times I just recreated an obscure 3 second sequence because it lives rent free in my head. More at
www.artstation.com/artwork/gRK9xx

Peter W @petedubs.bsky.social · Apr 23

Thank you based unreal sequencer for the 1 frame flashbang every time I render something out never change

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Peter W @petedubs.bsky.social · Apr 23

Yucky yucky oil flowmap stuff. Experience full goopage:
www.artstation.com/artwork/nJLaA9

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Peter W @petedubs.bsky.social · Apr 20

Shader shtoof, cooking with the subsurface shading model
www.artstation.com/artwork/oJl5ww

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Peter W @petedubs.bsky.social · Apr 13

Following up last material with brickwork from the Forbidden Mountain :o
www.artstation.com/artwork/1N36Wo

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Peter W @petedubs.bsky.social · Apr 9

Made some spoopy tree trunks. Wooooo!
www.artstation.com/artwork/V24dV5

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