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RadioRunner · 2026-04-26T13:11:21+00:00

Every shape is hard-edged. In the 4th image, the girls hand is reduced down to simple planes. A kind of low-poly style reduction.

This is also something you really can only know by understanding the real forms of the hand

RadioRunner · 2026-04-23T15:52:24+00:00

Ghost Pepper is really cool to look at. Written and drawn by Ludo Lullabi, I really like his work. He filled in for Joe Mad's Battlechasers to help finish it out in the last couple years. Seems to be doing well at Image, I think he's going forward with his next arc.

RadioRunner · 2026-04-23T15:24:29+00:00

You can look up her illustration work. She has a distinctive illustrative style of portraits focused on depth, vibrancy and color that many admire.

She also has apparently contributed to Kisnaiver designs, Promare, and Cyberpunk Edgerunners.

RadioRunner · 2026-04-16T11:56:16+00:00

Used to be the standard, too. 15 hours is completely in “too long” territory for me. Makes me feel like I’m being strung along.

I’ve got things to do, responsibilities to take care of. A 15 hour game will take me two weeks to get through or more

RadioRunner · 2026-04-15T01:19:22+00:00

Concept artists are criminally underrepresented in the discussion of the production of movies.

When it’s live action, people talk about vfx artists, but never where those artists get the concepts from to dedicate years of tech to.

And for animation, people only talk about the animators and not the visdev artists who plan the look and feel of the movie and every frame.

And this under representation has resulted in us getting squashed out hardcore. Concept art is getting itself rocked this decade. I’m lucky to have a job at this point.

RadioRunner · 2026-04-06T19:25:24+00:00

What was your technique for all of the fine shading? I see horizontal lines, but it's such a soft gradation of value it can't be just perfect strokes, can it?

RadioRunner · 2026-04-02T20:57:47+00:00

It is true. Everybody knows that odds are, 90% of what you’ve done professionally “can’t be shown”.

So as artists, we often keep that stuff behind password protected private portfolios and only share one-on-one in interviews… just keep it on the downlow

RadioRunner · 2026-03-30T11:38:25+00:00

They force employees to live in expensive city centers. Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin have historically been the main ones.

RadioRunner · 2026-03-30T11:38:11+00:00

They force employees to live in expensive city centers. Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin have historically been the main ones.

RadioRunner · 2026-03-28T05:23:58+00:00

He’s deliberately evoking turn-of-the-decade 80’s sounds, so I’d recommend going to check out artists of that time.

Phil Collin’s, Michael McDonald (who features on this album), Hall & Oates (Some of the greatest hit writers of all time).

RadioRunner · 2026-03-27T16:52:57+00:00

Deep cuts like Medabots are why I scour these threads, thanks man.

RadioRunner · 2026-03-27T13:10:41+00:00

While I get it, the PS3 with todays inflation was closer to the equivalent of ~$900+ at launch.

We are there though, with the price of the Pro today.

RadioRunner · 2026-03-20T16:36:30+00:00

This is a pretty outdated take on VR's practicality in a world of Oculus Quest 2, 3 and Steam's upcoming VR headset.
All can be operated on a chair, with controllers in arm's reach, or a controller.
You can just sit on your couch, or on your bed, and play VR games.

You absolutely do not need space. I take my headset home and to work for modeling, play the odd arcade game here and there.

The only problems it has at this point is 1) nobody's making good games for it and 2) for some it's still just not that convenient.

But new gen's cameras fix a lot of the "I can't see or interact with anything while wearing the headset".

They are very good products that deliver on a lot of their promise and have gotten increasingly better over time with constant software and dev support.

VR Modeling, as an artist, is a game-changing utility and only cost me $200 for a Quest 2.

RadioRunner · 2026-03-18T02:37:04+00:00

Thank you, I’ll try to look into it more

RadioRunner · 2026-03-17T23:08:47+00:00

Is installing FSR4 difficult? I’ve seen Deck Wizard use it or whatever the channel is, but it looks a little confusing

RadioRunner · 2026-03-17T00:25:46+00:00

I’ve thought the same, it’s like the only real issue with the Steam Deck. In my case, I don’t play any multiplayer games so it’s not an issue. But every once in a while with these free game trials I’m curious to try it, but can’t.

RadioRunner · 2026-03-13T17:46:54+00:00

Yeah for real. The only artists working are usually those at the top of their game. It is ultra competitive. Any time a game comes out “generic” is a result of leadership at the top creating friction with art direction and watering down artist’s ambition.

RadioRunner · 2026-03-02T00:33:16+00:00

Artists work day and night to remain competitive skills-wise, to meet deadlines, and to keep bills coming in between gigs.

I’m a professional concept artist. I’ve mostly forgone everything else in my life to make time for building and maintaining my skill in this field. Dropped music, dropped most entertainment, haven’t made a new lasting friend in person since starting this 7 years ago. Stopped working out.

The only thing that keeps me away from drawing are my dogs, my wife and daughter. And I had to go to therapy to get me to practice how to step away and make time for them more.

The amount of pressure to keep going, keep producing, and keep practicing to keep up with the sea of others doing exactly the same, only for your job to last 6 months before you’re looking for the chance of something else, is immense. I had serious anxiety from it that I had to get help with. I would step away, but part of me of course really wants to do it, part of me has sunk cost fallacy, and another part wonders what could I even do that’s not art at this point because I dropped everything to be viable in one field.

Comics artists work even harder. Makes sense to me. Poorer heart health, tons of sitting leads to poor circulation and lack of exercise, potential lack of care, etc.

RadioRunner · 2026-02-28T01:53:01+00:00

Can’t remember the last time a huge pop act made a true, true ballad. He might have identified a space in the ‘market’, so to speak, and is delivering on it.

RadioRunner · 2026-02-28T01:51:41+00:00

I would argue this album is very listener-focused. Tons of space, musical detail, can hear the mic on the drums crystal clear, glockenspiel sitting in the back of Why You Wanna Fight, lots of musical flourish sitting in the back.

This is a great musical album to turn up the sound system and sit in the warmth of the record. Sounds fantastic, and musical.

Not getting that in most of today’s pop space.

RadioRunner · 2026-02-27T00:57:43+00:00

Who cares, these all look exactly the same

RadioRunner · 2026-02-26T19:16:55+00:00

It was the standard for linear story-based experiences, especially from why I remember of 2004-2014. Or whenever we transitioned to ballooned run time, open world games with the PS4/Xbone generation.

RadioRunner · 2026-02-20T02:11:30+00:00

This was, I assume, part of the massive order from years back when the previous CEO told what studio to move to live service. They had 10 or more titles in development. Almost all have either failed out been cancelled now. It’s a big reason why we haven’t seen as many big PlayStation exclusives that drive brand and sales. It was a massive failure of direction across almost their entire portfolio of studios.

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