Peter W

One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals One-third of U.S. video game industry workers say they were laid off over the past two years, according to GDC.

still just really upset about this variety.com/2026/gaming/... unreasonably upset. uncouth ass industry

regarding the recent news

A Gorillaz short film by The Line studio is coming on February 27 on Youtube : "The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRu...

This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous.

Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

speaking of cool cheap effects: the shadow from the ceiling fan in Robo Recall is not a real shadow or even a light function or even a decal, it's a rotating translucent mesh

NOISEMAN SOUNDINSECT | OFFICIAL YouTube video by STUDIO4C

It's up on Youtube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOhd...

A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:

www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...

I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

bioshock banner on statue that normally says no god or kings, only man, edited to say just innocent men on the bottom like the meme from BBC kits with Hacker T Dog and Lauren Layfield

I saw a vision

Spent the morning having a quick look at the ultra early new Substrate Toon BSDF / Toon Profiles added to UE5-Main Branch this past week, looking cool, although no specular stuff is implemented, just diffuse but promsising!

#UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #TechArt #Stylised

I have been in the hyperbolic time chamber for the past few months and have emerged with news: I am officially a Houdini Guy now and did a bunch of cool tech art stuff in my latest project, which is a procedural cliff generator!
Check it out:
www.artstation.com/artwork/K38dVy

A snippet of the blog post, showing a short explanation of derivatives, as well as a graph of a quadratic function, and a graph of its derivative.

Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians – Oh My!
New mathy blog post to try and make some scary sounding terms less scary.
blog.demofox.org/2025/08/16/d...

Insane what they used to get away with

Something Like Games | Export image sequences with Substance 3D Designer This post shows you how to export image sequences from Adobe Substance 3D Designer using my free plugin.

I have finished my plugin for exporting image sequences directly from Substance 3D Designer, and if you are interested, you can download it for free: www.somethinglikegames.de/en/blog/2025...

#gameart #TechArt #TechnicalArt #MadeWithSubstance #indiegames

Out Of Time - Materials, Peter Wandelmaier Some highlights from the large material collection I created for Out Of Time at Manticore. Tileables were in huge demand as OOT's design at the time had a major UGC element. Players being able to repu...

With their recent announcement i can finally share some of the work I completed for Manticore Games on Out Of Time! Check out some stills here:

www.artstation.com/artwork/P6aDO1

Visit Todaiji in Nara, feed the deer!

Hello #PortfolioDay gamers

I'm Peter, I'm an environment artist from the east coast US. Most recently I worked at Manticore games but I'm on the hunt again for work. Check out my stuff if you want, otherwise have a good day ~

www.artstation.com/petedubs

If anyone's looking for me, I'll be here. Happy. Staring at a big bunch of water shaders, courtesy of all you lovely lovely techartists.
THREAD OF LOVELY WATER SHADERS--->

Ucupaint is an extension that comes with Blender (since 4.2) and that makes the whole texture painting process better and more nondestructive, using layers. #Blender #b3D #Blender3D #ucupaint

Disney and NBCUniversal is suing Midjourney for mass copyright infringement - commencing the first major legal battle against an AI company that could dictate the future of generative AI.

(Read more: Deadline)

New trailer of "False Memory" chinese animated series by Flint Sugar & Studio Tumble (based on a 2020 indie short film).
Coming in 2025 on BiliBili.
Full trailer >> www.catsuka.com/news/2024-12...

Heat?????

Meme in the style of "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign that says "you wouldn't overscope a project"

Moving to a new machine and I have to say the level of positivity I have towards windows directly correlates with how much bloatware I'm able to hack out of it

yes

BIG HOLE

My late #Mayterials entry for day 9-10: Fortress
I got a little carried away on deliverables this time, hope I have time to do another one with a more reasonable scope.
Watch a cool video here:
www.artstation.com/artwork/2BbQDJ

#Mayterials2025 @theclubdiscord.bsky.social

It's time I finally announce that I will be at Pax East running a panel Sunday @ 11am in the Arachnid Theater!!!

"I'm in Art School But I Want to Make Games" with @petedubs.bsky.social , @elliotmitchell.bsky.social , and Luigi Guateri - it's all about how to turn an art degree into a games job!!

Dark fantasy RPG Mandragora is released - with baked fluidsim effects made with FluidNinja VFX Tools!
#unrealengine #realtimevfx #fluidninja #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #actionrpg