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Steven Sugar
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Art Directing at Pillow Castle! Previously: Concepts at Possibility Space 🎮✨ BGs at DisneyTVA 🦉🏠 and Cartoon Network ⭐💎

For work inquiries, email me at [email protected]!
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Steven Sugar @stevensugar.art · Jul 28
Hi, I’m here now too! I’m Steven, I make illustrations and backgrounds for cartoons and art for games!
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I hit the button ✅😭🐸
🚨BIG HOPS is OUT NOW🚨
Get it on Steam | Switch | PS5 for just $17.99 with our 10% launch discount!
#indiegames #nintendoswitch #ps5
January 12, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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We announced today with Day of the Devs that Big Hops will release on January 12th on PC, Switch, and PS5 

And yes it runs great on Switch 2!!!

Wishlist over here:
store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/...
December 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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🌒🌓🌔Realis! Coming soon!!!🌖🌗🌘
A preview of an illustration made for the upcoming TTRPG Realis, featuring an alien musician sitting in a warmly lit marketplace, surrounded by flowers.
November 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Ahh that means a lot, your work has such a great energy to it! Really enjoy seeing your problem solving in the time lapses! 🙏🙏
October 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Big Hops— a wonderful indie platformer from @luckshotgames.com that I’ve been doing concept art for since 2020— has a demo out on Steam 🌟right now🌟 and a Kickstarter underway to help make the game the best it can be! Support ambitious indies and check it out!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/chr...
An illustration of Hop, the main character of Big Hops, laying in the grass and eating a sandwich.
May 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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🚨HUGE News🚨

🐸BIG HOPS is a froggy platformer with deep movement, fresh tongue-gameplay, where you use powerful veggies to grow paths forward!

✨Free demo out NOW
🎮Coming to Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 in Q4 2025
💰Our publisher dropped us, so we're KICKSTARTING
(links below)
May 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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My final piece for Blender class! Wanted to try using the model more specifically for layout and rendering, while solving the color and details afterwards in Photoshop.
November 26, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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Rooftop Pursuit
An illustration of two bird characters jumping across the rooftops of an industrial fantasy city, being chased by a crew of armored spearmen. There are two moons in the sky, one eclipsing a red sun.
November 26, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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Bugs for #bighops by @stevensugar.art and @saphizzle.bsky.social !
November 22, 2024 at 3:47 AM
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This was my penultimate piece for the #Blender class I took! Set out to treat this model as more of an underdrawing, and build it out specifically with the camera in mind.
A blender model of an industrial fantasy with overcast skies and a thick fog. A shoebox view of the previous Blender model, showing how the scale and layout of the city was cheated by placing objects with the camera view in mind.
November 21, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Arrival at the City Gate
An illustration showing a pair of clocked figures, one with a sword drawn, approaching the gates of an industrial city. Telephone wires lead over the city wall, and a towering blast furnace rises over the city skyline.
November 21, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Another experiment! Trying out using two separate UV maps— one fully lit and one fully in shadow. The thought was that hand painting the lights and shadows would offer more granular control over the colors (and allow for some fun pops of saturation that only appear in the shadows!)
November 19, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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The textured model and its geometry!
A render of a tree stump modeled in Blender with hand painted textures. The geometry of that same tree stump model, with each object randomly assigned a color.
November 19, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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An experiment with hand drawn textures in #blender from earlier this year! Trying to bridge the gap between my Blender models and my illustrations.
November 19, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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Yep, class was through Warrior Art Camp— 9 weeks, all online! I've tried a couple small intro level tutorials in the past, but nothing made it all click quite like a two month boot camp did.
November 16, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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Modeled out all the innards and then lowered the alpha! Think I did some fiddling with the material to get that blur in the translucence, but it looks like I lost those settings when I updated Blender. Nothing fancy though that's for sure, I didn't know what I was doing haha!
November 16, 2024 at 7:20 AM
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Topology's not the cleanest, but here you go! The class was focused just on Blender as a tool to help with visdev rather than making usable game assets, so good topology took a bit of a back seat.
November 16, 2024 at 6:58 AM
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Ahh thank you!! I took Kelsey Roland's Blender for VisDev class through Warrior Art Camp— would 100% recommend it if it gets offered again, absolutely fantastic class!
November 12, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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Whoops looks like that GIF didn't work! Let's try this again—
November 12, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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A couple more early pieces— learned a lot from doing these two! (Plus a first couple attempts at drawing into the models after the fact!)
A 3d model of Amos the Half-Shrike, at various angles and in various poses. Various views of a 3d modeled fantasy tank, with a tall turret, engraved armor, and banners mounted on the side. An illustration of Amos slicing off the gun of a fantasy tank, drawn using the previous two 3d models as a base.
November 12, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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The framing of the class was to make pieces relating to an original story pitch. Took a couple characters from an old illustration, reworked their designs a bit, and went from there— the first assignment was to design a food stall that could exist within the setting!
A drawing of two geared up adventurers— Amos (a Half-Shrike Half-Human trainee) and Hamish (a big brutish bird man). Forward and reverse views of The Roving Jewel, a trade wagon stocked with wine and fruit, and carrying barrels and crates on top.
November 12, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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Took a Blender class earlier this year! The first assignment was to model a Game Boy!
An animated GIF of a 3d modeled spinning Atomic Blue Game Boy Color, with an Oracle of Ages cartridge inserted in the back. Various angles of a 3d modeled Game Boy Color.
November 12, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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Drew this back in 2019 to commemorate the end of Waypoint's Big Boy Season during that year's Save Point stream.

Well, Save Point is back *right now!!* Go watch the @remapradio.bsky.social crew play Bloodborne: The Board Game at twitch.tv/remapradio and support a good cause while you're at it!
An illustration of a Big Boy, a big-nosed pink-haired Hunter standing amongst flowers and gravestones.
November 9, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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After 2 years, we're picking up our Bloodborne board game campaign as we continue to raise money for Anera!

donate.remapradio.com to donate
twitch.tv/remapradio to hang!
November 9, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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A bit of early visual development work for #TheOwlHouse season 3! Some of the last work I did on the show back in 2021.
A visual development drawing of a fantasy landscape with with a giant horned skull in the center and an ornate crown castle suspended above it. A visual development drawing of an ornate hallway lit by floating stars and moons. A drawing of a messy basement that's been furnished into a makeshift bedroom. Two visual development drawings of a flooded graveyard lit by a full moon.
November 7, 2024 at 10:58 PM