Hello! I'm Jonathan. I've shipped games on mobile, PC and console wearing lots of different hats, though "tech artist-illustrator" best approximates my current skillset.
I'm all about #gamedev and #art, and look forward to sharing my progress. I'll play a bit of everything, but I love games that tug on my heartstrings. #introduction
Check out Terra Nil, a free solarpunk city-building game about reviving ravaged ecosystems.
Spent a bit of time last week updating my old reel with some new work. Feels good to look back and see all this stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez98pbhNAUs
I'll be polishing up the UI we have for our game, Second Earth, working on animations and shaders in Unity on stream. Come hang out! https://www.twitch.tv/free_lives
I've been working on art for a base-building/defence prototype at work. Check it out at https://squidcor.itch.io/second-earth
I've been working on this for the past while for the #3dBustChallenge. I planned to paint my textures in Photoshop's 3D viewer, but found it cripplingly laggy for some reason. Substance Painter was smooth, but has a rubbish colour picker. I finally settled on using the 3DCoat trial, which has been a pleasure to use. I'll definitely pick it up if ever I have to do more hand-painted work! (I know it does much more, but my other software covers that.)
A sketch for a bust that I'll be making a hand-painted 3D bust for in the next couple of weeks. :) #mastoart #creativetoots #illustration
Tonight's drawing courtesy of a date cut short by her being called into the hospital because they were short-staffed. 😞 #mastoart #creativetoots #sketch
New painting, to go with all of the pink, blue and neon theming going on in my recent game prototypes... :D #mastoart #creativetoots
Spent another week and a half on this, adding music from Jason Sutherland (borrowed from a game jam game we worked on earlier this year, though I've locally been listening to Perturbator). #madewithunity #gamedev
Oh, they're still comfortable, but all of my audio's pretty muffled through the thick layer of hair. 👻
Made this for #7DFPS, but I had around 3.5 days so I just made something that'd look nice in a capture. :P #madewithunity #gamedev
If you're ever looking for a sublime resource for building intuition on how quaternions actually do their magic, look no further:
https://eater.net/quaternions/
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With not having been able to do art and game dev outside of work hours because of the wrist problems, I've turned to dating, dancing and introspection to patch up some glaring problems in my non-work life. #journalcomic
We had a creative day at work last week, where we experimented with ink. I learnt that acrylic ink and I aren't very good friends... 😬 #mastoart #art #creativetoots
artist, tech artist, game developer at Free Lives. previously Fortnite, Genital Jousting and Broforce. mostly posts art, and gifs of tech demos and prototypes.