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visionvortex
@visionvortex.de
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Richard Schmidbauer - he/him - Artdirector at @SkywardAssembly, Indiedev, Freelance Artist and Art Director, 3D art, environment art tech art and pixelart. I love horror, scifi, pop culture, nature, mystery, art and ruins among many other things. No AI
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · 4m
Thanks! Maybe for a complete game a color more wouldn't hurt ^^ Although back then in retro gaming days there were really good monochrome games. That's still some kind of aspiration for me
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · 49m
Right? Cute pixel skeletons are t3h best ^^
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · 50m
🙏Thanks ^^
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · 51m
Since it's ~Spooky Season~ I might as well share some of my spooky artwork!

Doing art with a low palette color count is always a challenge, but it's kinda soothing as well. Also >>> pink rules

#spooky #halloween #horror #darkart #pixelart #skeleton
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · 1d
Just rediscovered this 1Bit top-down Zelda like RPG mockup I did a while ago. It's called "Morguetown" and thought to be a weird mashup of a post death western where you play a skeleton undertaker that has to save the city from... idk yet..

#1bit #pixelart #mockup #gamedev #indiedev
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · 2d
"A solemn gate adorned with signs of foreign tone and light. Drawn to it, slowly made my way, felt glass and iron cut my skin, my spilling blood a sacrifice to all the horrors kept within."

Full art and process vid > www.artstation.com/artwork/qJmnXn

#illustration #environmentart #horror #occult
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · Sep 4
I sometimes loose track of what it was that brought me into #gamedev. For me it was building games from scratch, with #pen #paper and #imagination.

Brought some stuff to family vacation. Designing a dungeon deck with my kids. :D

#gamedesign #gameart #analog
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · Jun 2
I am a big fan of horror movies and especially the pulp horror movies of yore. The movie posters of those hold a special place in my heart. This is a faux movie poster as a little fun hommage to the genre!

>>> Artstation bit.ly/4kJ5XxU

#horror #pulp #popculture #fiction #movieposter #design
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · May 1
Doing my best, thank you :D
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · May 1
Hah ^^ I'll take it
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · May 1
Death Crusader ---+

A relentless carcass bound to armor by heretic ecclesiarchy. A creature like this usually heralds worse thinkgs that follow in the wake.

#pixelart #fantasy #creature #creaturedesign
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · Apr 28
Awesome! Definitely should feel like this ^^ I'm still doing demoscene stuff nowadays. Mostly C64 stuff though. But not as much as I'd like to.
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · Apr 28
Trying to push PixelComposer 3D features as far as I can. Worked on 3D style lowres pixelart radar displays for -/%$$$%.df. Not sure why my PC responded so strangely today. Something felt off ...

#pixelart #3D #procgen #indiedev #gamedev
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · Apr 10
Kinda true ^^ Although I will save you time once you get the hang of it. The time investment is super frontloaded. Just "dabbling" in it will only cost you. But if you stick with it you'll get to a point where you have your tools ready and things go really quick.
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · Apr 10
Inner Oculus is finished. There is a second layer for the outer bulge. It was quite the challenge to create a fully procedural eye texture

Textures done in Substance3D Designer, Modeling in Blender.

#procgen #gamedev #3DDesign #Blender #Substance #SubstanceDesigner #gamedev #indiedev
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · Apr 2
Scatter Splines on Splines is opening up a ton of possibilities in Substance Designer I have long been waiting for. Designing proper ocular blood vessel patterns for example XD

Also debuging these is strangely calming.

#substance #substanceDesigner #procgen #texturing #3D #gamedev
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · Apr 2
Important additions (for my purposes at least) Offset UV, Tiling UV and H/V tiling switch compatibility.
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · Apr 2
Just made a more useful Cartesian to Polar node for Substance Designer. I kinda got frustrated by the built in mode and I really wanted to make circular pattens better without using scatter circular (as it has it's own problems).

#substance #substancedesigner #procgen #tools
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · Mar 18
I love pixelart explosions. Always did. Really glad that I can do a bunch of them now for m ewr32tg2rt ------,,,,,,,n..'*ÖÄ

[branch03]|added feature 0901394189217377731982415

#pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #metalVector
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · Jan 21
Eldritch cat... like one from Innsmouth XD
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · Jan 21
I'm a big Minecraft fan myself... so I decided to make a creeper themed vintage style poster for my kids ^^

#minecraft #creeper #poster #vintage
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · Jan 21
What is this creature!?! *frozen in horror*
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · Jan 18
Starting the year off with a three part series about my thought on AI (LLMs) and the entertainment industry. It's a critical take on the matter but hopefully worth the read! Let me know your thoughts.

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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · Jan 15
Hey! I'm Richard Schmidbauer, Freelance Artist and Art Director from Germany. I do lot's of stuff including illustration, pixelart, 3D and tech-art. Let me know if I can help ^^

#pixelart #illustration #gameart #art-direction #3D #gamedev #indiedev
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visionvortex @visionvortex.de · Jan 8
Missing so many birthdays cause I'm abstaining from socials as much as possible. So this year for my birthday, to everyone whose birthday I missed Happy Birthday!

To celebrate I made an artwork for us all. With all skull and occultstuff y'all like ^^'

#pixelart #occult #birthday #skull #neon
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