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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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Fire VFX in @unity.com Stacked 8 fire sim flipbooks from EmberGen to an atlas with Substance Designer. Shuriken with random row flipbook animation. Resolution is still a bit low but the map is 4096x1024. Still need to balance the quality.

#vfx #gamedev #indiedev
December 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Really happy to share that I have been invited by SAE Institute Germany to give a masterclass in February. Sharing a bit of my personal journey, my methods and inspirations. Also talking about the current state of our industry.

bit.ly/4it9Ozi

#masterclass #art #digitalart #gamedev #indiedev
December 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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The best season of the year is right around the corner! If you are looking for game or pixelart themed holiday cards... look no further! You can get all the prints I made over the years on Redbubble

bit.ly/4rqtBDN

#christmas #printables #greetingcard #pixelart #retrogaming #gaming #holidayseason
November 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Sometimes we tend to forget what makes gemedevelopment a real passion. But when the things we painfully craft start to click together... oh that feeling!

Also we can go ahead with full confidence and say: switch to @godotengine.org complete.

#gamedev #indiedev #madewithgodot
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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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
October 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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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
October 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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"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
October 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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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
September 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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
June 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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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
May 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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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
April 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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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
April 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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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
April 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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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
April 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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I love pixelart explosions. Always did. Really glad that I can do a bunch of them now for m ewr32tg2rt ------,,,,,,,n..'*ÖÄ

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#pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #metalVector
March 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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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
January 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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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.

visionvortex.de?blog%2F20250...
January 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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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
January 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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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
January 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Happy Holidays and a happy new year to you all! here's a favourite pixelart piece of mine. I love christmas and I wish everyone the best!

#pixelart #christmas #occult #illustration #darkart #xmas
December 24, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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Had fun sketching up this lil' mage guy.

#pixelart #1bit #monochrome #mage #pixel-art #gamedev #indiedev
December 10, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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More 1bit because why not ^^

Undead Crawler

#pixelart #1bit #fantasy #illustration #gamedev #indiedev #monochrome
December 5, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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You can't slide through the week without some pixelart, can you. I know I can't myself! Here's some of my creature ideas with some minimalist UI on top.

#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #1bit #gameart #conceptart #retro #gaming
December 3, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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Store plug before Christmas. If you want to enjoy Christmas in stylish Cyberpunk/Techwear style, look no further. I've got a new shirt up on my stores AND it's proper christmas themed.

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#christmas #apparel #christmassweater #techwear #cyberpunk #fashion
December 2, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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“Folks were calling her witch. Couldn’t be further. She’s been bound to the aspect of lower void long ago. No magic involved, just will.“

#pixelart #1bit #characterart #characterdesign #pixel-art #blackandwhite #monochrome #digitalart #visionvortex #TheHaze #monochrome #retrostyle
December 1, 2024 at 7:39 PM