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Ian Zell

@ianzell.bsky.social

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Game dev, artist, programmer | he/him Senior Artist at Ustwo Games. Alba, Assemble With Care, Desta, Monument Valley 3 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ian_zell/

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Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · Oct 19

Hello! First post on bluesky, I'm Ian, senior artist at Ustwo Games. Working on Monument Valley 3 right now. Also work on personal games in my free time. Love making naturey stuff and bugs and little creatures

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ustwo games - MV3 OUT NOW ON PC AND CONSOLE! ✨ @ustwogames.co.uk · 2d

immaculate vibes at any hour 😌

An image of the lighthouse from Monument Valley 3. The image is split into 3 horizontal colour bands, each representing a time of day.

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · 8d

I should probably design a new plush pattern but I just am enjoying making different colours of the same round bird. this ones a magpie

small magpie plushy

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Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · 9d

new little bird plush, theyre sort of addicting to make. I find sewing so relaxing

blue and yellow bird plush

blue and yellow bird plush with purple and blue bird plush

plush pattern cut outs

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · 9d

new little bird plush, theyre sort of addicting to make. I find sewing so relaxing

blue and yellow bird plush

blue and yellow bird plush with purple and blue bird plush

plush pattern cut outs

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · 11d

Made another bird plushy! I figured out a more invisible hand sewing method and I used a super soft fabric

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · 15d

my girlfriend showed me her childhood yu-gi-oh collection and she has BULE-eyes white dragon!! super rare, much better than the vastly inferior Blue-eyes white dragon

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Henry Halfhead - OUT NOW! @lululu.games · 22d

👁️Henry Halfhead👁️
OUT NOW
👃

🍎 Play as 250+ everyday objects
💌 Experience a wholesome life story
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Join a friend in the local co-op mode!

Get it on Steam, EGS, PS5 and Switch!

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Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · 28d

Cheers to Silksong and Hollowknight for making creepy bugs popular

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · 28d

some Bug Story time behind the scenes

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · 28d

some Bug Story time behind the scenes

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · Sep 4

Gathering

a bunch of bugs gather around a big bug

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · Sep 3

it was a typo actually, I meant to type 'sean creatures' because theyre all named Sean

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · Sep 3

sea creatures

☁️ ☁️☁️ ☁️
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Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · Sep 3

the most valuable art will be obviously or provably human/handmade stuff. People will naturally flock to it and search it out. Just like people hold rubies to a higher value than amethysts. Even if there is barely any difference between them

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · Sep 3

AI slop devalues itself because of the built it fact that it is extremely accessible and easy to produce. Our assignment of value to art and jewellery is based on rarity and the difficulty of its sourcing.

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · Sep 3

I watched a video recently about how Amethysts used to be considered the most valuable jewel. Then they discovered a giant stash of them and all of a sudden they are basically worthless.

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · Sep 3

the funny thing about generated AI stuff is that it will always be associated with slop. No matter how "good" it gets, there will be so much low effort slop out there that it will be unable to escape that tainted association

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · Sep 2

thanks!! :D

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · Sep 2

a few behind the scenes of this illustration. fun fact the fuzzy framing background texture is from a zoomed in picture of a Labubu. no one had the required brainrot to guess it

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · Sep 2

if time travel was invented in the future there would have been a bunch of future versions of me hanging out with me and my dog when she was still alive and I never saw that so I guess time travel never exists

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · Aug 13

I have been in the industry 14 years now and have been part of 14 games and many of them and my personal work can be seen on my portfolio and I'm available for environment work in the UK, Here is some work for 4 of them titles.
#gamedev #3dart

www.artstation.com/pikminman

High poly helicopter made for jurassic world evolution

Track for the racking game Stampede royal racing

Level art for the game South of the Circle

Park ride for Planet Coaster

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · Sep 1

10 points to whoever guesses what I took a picture of to get the framing background texture. reveal tomorrow

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · Sep 1

Village 🌞

black and white house with a strange twisty sun with eyeless creatures sitting underneath

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · Sep 1

Village 🌞

black and white house with a strange twisty sun with eyeless creatures sitting underneath

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Seren🌷 @ieafy.bsky.social · Aug 30

Hallucigenia 🪱

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · Aug 30

hmm actually this one is nice, a bit more subtle

Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · Aug 30

trying to pick a font that isnt overdone or cringy in some way is so hard. this is a cool one right??!!