Jonathan Hau-Yoon
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Jonathan Hau-Yoon
@techartjon.com
artist 🌟 tech artist 🌟 game developer @ Free Lives 🇿🇦
Working on Dressmaker, previously Terra Nil, Fortnite, Broforce, GORN, Genital Jousting
If you and Lena ever decide to visit the southern tip of Africa, let me know! 😅
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
(our studio eats the model fee.) I try to find cosplayers and stuff too, I love getting dancers and athletes, but I wonder if it's the nature of timed study. Some folks find it stressful, or feels too much like work, staying at the studio after hours for it. I'm not sure how to improve it.
November 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
With the weekly group that I run our model rotation only repeats every 4+ months, though we tend to lack male models. But yeah, aside from a few dedicated regulars (who are friends and use it as a way to hang out), most people come for a few sessions and then fall off. We don't even charge entrance.
November 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
He's so regal 🥹
October 30, 2025 at 6:21 AM
It was a really long time ago, but I remember it feeling like software that was taped together by hobbyists. Like programmers making a thing to make programmer art? Maybe that's how open source and proprietary stuff differs, but I feel like Blender and Krita think about the artist as the end user.
October 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Having basically fully switched from 3ds Max and XSI to Blender and knowing that a change in mindset was critical, I'm going to go in not expecting it to be PS, but to learn what sort of workflow it wants to have and to try and streamline that. But I just can't do that under work deadlines. 😅
October 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I had a really bad experience when I tried it over 10 years ago, but 10 years is a long time, and I should probably give it another try, especially with a different mindset.
October 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
And I don't know how much of this is your direction vs the models being good, but there's so much more expressiveness and storytelling going on, as opposed to just "pretty person existing". The ones with Neri in particular are incredible. Thank you for putting these together!
October 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Hi Abbey, I subbed and was really impressed. I buy reference pretty often for for-fun paintings, and often in packs of like 1000+ images, arguably less than 10% are actually good reference photos (tbf for $10-$15 sometimes it's worth it anyway). TrueRef photos are like 90%+ winners though.
October 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
That's so good! Your consistency is really inspiring!

I said in my head "good ol' Sriracha" about a second before the VO said it. XD
September 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Thank you very much for the write up! 🌟 We've just released an update that adds lace, and makes the sewing a lot easier. We also got the go-ahead to make a Steam page for wishlisting!
September 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Wow, that corvid is gorgeous! Your work is beautiful, I'm sure you won't be searching for long, but best of luck! 🌟
September 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I believe so yes!
August 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM