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Pete Dimitrov
@petedimitrovart.com
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Senior Environment Artist at Rebellion on Sniper Elite: Resistance & SE5. Posting lots of art and work-in-progress broken 3D meshes. He/Him
Creating Game Art educational videos at https://youtube.com/@petedimitrov
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I decided I'm going to isolate the gate and work on it as a mini diorama. I'll add grass and a path around it and figure out my grass textures, stone pavings, foliage, before returning to the bigger scene.
#gamedev #gameart #art
A UE5 screenshot of a gate with a portal. It's made out of stone and has golden motives. The background around is dark blue.
December 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Baked the door yesterday and put preliminary gold. Next is hand painting on top. #gamedev #gameart #art
A screenshot from UE5 showcasing the lower part of a tower, sitting on green placeholder material. There are blue crystals around. There are golden elements on the tower too.
December 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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We are cookin outside now. How fun.
A screenshot of the outside of a World of Warcraft house plot. There is the player and next to them are hand placed trellis and plants leading to the front door of the building.
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Books, more books. You can never set dress with too many books!
A screenshot of the library-like corner. There is a new warm light source. There are more books scattered on the floors and on a new coffee table.
December 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Hmmm, we were in need of some light sources to sculpt out the shapes.
A screenshot of the same corner with books, tables and magical items. This time around, there are some light sources as well, throwing warm growth in one corner. In the other one, the source of light is blue and cold.
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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After a long day of environment art at work, I'm heading into WoW to do some more environment art and set dressing there as well.
A screenshot from the new housing mode in World of Warcraft. It shows a Fire Mage character looking at a few paintings, book shelves and a floating mage book. Editing gizmo is shown and scale and rotate settings on the bars of the UI are seen too.
December 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Some UVs. Love UVs.

The left and right side of the geometry have their UVs overlapped, so I save on texel density (and on my sanity when I start hand painting on top).
#gamedev #gameart #3Dart #art
A screenshot from Blender that shows UV space, on the left and the mesh the blue UV shells belong to, seen on the right. The right side is a 3D view of the prop, which is a gate with spike and leaf elements. It is rendered gray and textureless.
December 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Reading old computer graphics white papers is super fun because every so often you come across the most liminal, weird looking images. Like this one from 1983.
A screenshot from a Computer Graphics white paper dubbed "Pyramidal Parametrics" by Lance Williams, 1983. It looks at mipmaps as a concept. The screenshot here shows two dark images. It consists of black background with exploded cubes on top. On each side of the cube, imagery is mapped. One looks like an eye, the other like an overexposed coin, and the other one like 4 heads next to one another. It all has creepy colors and visuals. Under it reads "Figure 8-9" Sunstone by Ed Emshwiller, segment animated by Alvy Ray Smith Pyramidal parametric texture mapping on polygons."
November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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The sculpt is done, so now it's time to go away from Zbrush and back to Blender. Time for some hand retopo.
#gamedev #gameart #3Dart
A screenshot of a sculpt loaded inside a Blender scene. On top of the sculpt (gray material preview) there are green parts which show the topology of hand made matching pieces.
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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With videos and tutorials done, it's time to get back to some sculpting and 3D art.

Resuming the sculpting of the front gate of my stylized tower diorama. #gamedev #gameart #3Dart
A Zbrush screenshot of a 3D gateway with leaf motives and a bunch of spikes. The render is clay and is grayscale.
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I logged into WoW and got 21st Anniversary achievement. The first one I ever got was their 6th. That was 2010. Makes me feel old and like I'll crumble into dust any minute now.
A collage of images showing World of Warcraft achievements from inside the game. Top one is "WoW's 6th Anniversary". Bottom one is "WoW's 21st Anniversary". Top is listed as earned in 2010 and bottom as earned in 2025.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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I wanna morph into a baby head pigeon and be put into Doom as cannon fodder annoying mob, always there, tormenting players for eternity. Bliss.
A close up of a painting from Paolo Veronese called “The Adoration of the Kings”. It depicts few baby beads with bird wings flying downwards on the canvas. A close up of a painting from Paolo Veronese called “The Adoration of the Kings”. This second shot is a close up of another baby face. This one is at a comical angle. The colors are warm and bright. The bird wings are dark and teal.
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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As someone new to YouTube, with less than 500 subs, sometimes it feels like uploads don’t get seen by many real people. So when I get a comment like the one below it really makes my day. 💙 I hope people enjoy the art and the tutorials.
A screenshot from YouTube that looks at a comment under a Short I’ve uploaded. User “neytrql” says “Keep up the good work! ❤️ You will get to good places I can see it.”
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Cursed accidental DaVinci thumbnail preview.

And yes, I name my timelines with "_Final_Final_final_finalIpromise".
A preview of timelines in DaVinci Resolve. It shows one where programs UI is scaled down. Under it says "Video006_FINAL_s...". Then the next one is "Video006_vertical" and its thumbnail is my face zoomed onto the eyes and the nose. It has a red tick in one edge too, indicating its selected.
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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There is a new cool website project that my brother @miroslav.bsky.social has been developing and you should definitely check it out.

feeltheworldnow.com
A screenshot of a website that is titled http://feeltheworldnow.com The webpage has an old fashioned wallpaper and reads “How do you feel. Select an emotion and see what the world feels right now.” Then different boxes with different emotions and colors are listed: angry, disguised, happy, scared and so on.
November 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Some spooky arts from a drawtober I did a few years ago. Have them again because it's spooky time.
(mostly UE5 shader work + custom sculpts in Zbrush)

#art #gamedev #Halloween #UE5 #artwork
A black and white drawing of a monster that is 3 human shapes merged together into an amalgamation. There are roots coming out of them. They are lit from a hand held torch from the viewer's perspective. The art work is 3D and uses shaders to make it appear black and white and drawing-like - UE5, Zbrush. A bunch of rock like eggs float in outer space. Two human figures are running towards the eggs. The background is starry. Things are lit with aggressive outlines.
October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
An image of a player going through a red portal. In the corner there is a rainbow portal. There are the Blender and Unreal Engine 5 logos. Text reads "Part 1 - 3D Model the Gate | Blender, UE5".
October 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Labubu said they can solo everything, labubu delivered (timewalking in @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com)
A screenshot from a Timewalking raid, where a player called "Labubu" on the realm "Pozzodell'Eternita" texts in the chat going "Just invite all, I can solo". The next image below shows a damage meter of the raid with same player Labubu having dealt 2.3 billion damage which sums up to a 73% of the total damage done in the 20 people raid.
October 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Game dev tuts I've been making the past 6-7 months are now nearly complete.

Final video scheduled to be out in the next days (covering SFX). Start watching the course over here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Learn 3D art, Blueprints and more. Please help to spread the word through reposts. Ty!
A thumbnail showing a portal with a rainbow vortex, seen inside of Unreal Engine 5. There is an arrow pointing to it and inside of it a screenshot from UE5 shows a blueprint version of the portal, seen from the side. Text reads "Part 6.4 - Recolor Vortex UI Widgets".
October 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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One of my friends came back from Lithuania and he brought these chocolates to the office. They feature the Blender splash screen cat (from the animated movie). It’s so cute! And tasty! #b3d
A picture of my hand holding a box of chocolates. It has the Blender splash screen - a black cat swimming around fish. The package says “Flow”. Behind that is a PC monitor with the Blender splash screen showed, featuring the same cat.
October 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I really don’t get the thinking behind using an AI sludge gen thumbnail for your game playthrough video.
Game has so much imagery you could use, why churn a generic image and mislead?
I mean it’s nice filtering because I would never watch your channel or your walkthroughs, but ye.
A YouTube screenshot of a thumbnail of a video that features play thought in the game Control. The thumbnail has AI generated image that features a woman who looks nothing like Jesse Faden or anything from the game.
October 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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I finally have a diamond sword.
A picture of a tiny Lego set featuring Minecraft characters and a diamond sword in the hand one of them.
October 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Hi #PortfolioDay I'm Pete.

I'm a Senior Environment Artist working on stuff like SE:R at Rebellion. Last year, I also started a YouTube channel with game dev educational videos and some Blender and UE5 tutorials.
www.youtube.com/@PeteDimitrov

Here's some of my art:
Game screenshot from environment in Sniper Elite: Resistance by Rebellion. Depicts muddy banks and bunkers in 3D that I worked on. Everything is grassy and wet and muddy. Another Sniper Elite: Resistance screenshot. This one shows a dam that has been damaged. An UE5 screenshot of a scene of a ruined interior. Light spills inside from the daylight outside. There is a rock orb in the middle of the composition and it floats. On its ends there are blue crystals. A Japanese shrine depicted in 3D with fantasy twists. Showcases early morning scene with lots of wooden structures and orange bamboo candles. Unreal Engine 4 artwork. Artist signature in the corner says the art was made 2018.
October 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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PBR texturing and stylised art.
#gamedev #gameart

Cut from one of my longer videos where we talk about hand painted, stylised, 3D art.
October 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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The songs and music are always my favourite parts of the games from this studio, just so good. I'll be there listening, don't even want to go out fighting no more.
Screenshot from Hades 2 where the main character is singing together with Artemis. They are in a green and lush environment.
October 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM