A pencil crayon drawing of a rocky path through some small trees with white trunks. It’s Autumn in the Scottish Highlands and the ferns at the sides of the path are orangy brown, and the trees have already lost their leaves.
Another pencil crayon study. This was quite tricky and it’s not really finished, but I’m really enjoying using real pencils.
Limited edition of the Folio Society's A Christmas Carol, illustrated by me. It's bound in red leather with embossed gold wreath and lettering, and the box is lined by and illustration of a snowy night time Dickensian city scene. Surrounded by stuff on my desk (pens, glasses, glue etc).
The standard edition of the Folio Society's A Christmas Carol illustrated by me. The book itself featured a view of Scrooge in a long black coat with a top hat and red scarf from the back, surveying the snowy London skyline. The slip case is green and has vignettes of relevent scenes and motifs in the style of Georgian wallpaper. One of the vignettes is a circular cut out, so when the book is in the slipcase you can see Scrooge's head through it. Surrounded by the loads of rubbish I have on my desk.
An illustration from the first stave of A Christmas Carol. Scrogge is sat by his fire eating his gruel when across his large but shabby drawing room, Marley's ghost appears.
An illustration of the fourth stave, featuring Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas yet to come (who is a Victorian widow in high mourning, completely draped and almost invisible in black net and bombazine). They are in a graveyard, which is based largely on St Cuthbert's Kirkyard in Edinburgh. She points to his grave, and he looks at it in horror. There is a smaller gravestone to his right, capped with snow which features a skull in bas relief and the words 'MOMENTO MORI' in a motto scroll over the top. The moon shines from an Atkinson Grimshaw-esque greenish winter sky, illuminating the dome of St Paul's Cathedral.
The big thing I did this year and haven't been able to say much about up until now is that I was SOMEHOW asked to illustrate the new Folio Society edition of A Christmas Carol, introduced by Simon Callow. Bit of a dream job. www.foliosociety.com/uk/a-christm...
Landscape gouache painting. A little rock pathway leads to some fields and an autumnal forest.
autumn #art
Hey Godot devs, it’s skin care time! Don’t miss these free skin and eye shaders on GitHub.
github.com/matmadness/H...
#gamedev #indiedev #godot #shader
Desaturated seascape acrylic painting of a little sailboat in a stormy weather.
Seascape No.15 - Acrylic (2023)
#art
So it works now!
If you have Bakery, can you try getting the latest github patch and using it?
Add "Bakery Light Filter" component to an object to make it act like stained glass 😋
(video from RTPreview for fanciness, but it looks the same when baked)
#gamedev
Photo of an overcast valley in Scotland with some cloud capped mountains in the distance.
A mountain in evening light, mostly covered in pine trees with some broken clouds in the sky.
View over a loch, the sky is overcast but broken with hazy sunshine, and the hills disappear into the haze.
Loch and lumps (mountains). Pitlochry is a lovely part of Scotland.
I'm working on a GamesIndustry.biz article about the Steam and Itch content crackdowns, and I'd love to hear from someone in a country where payment options online are limited. If you're reliant on PayPal or another highly specific processor to get hold of games, please get in touch!
A rainy view of a church tower and old houses in Edinburgh.
A row of old Edinburgh town houses in the rain, seen from a window high above the street.
Doing a holiday, currently spending a few days in Dunwall.
This snuck under my view cone until recently, but my word is it beautiful - demo was a lot of fun!
store.steampowered.com/app/2377280/...
The day-job got announced!
youtu.be/kuK4THl_XFM?...
This is great to see, really hoping Valve make community building for smaller devs actually part of the Steam experience.
An illustration of a cross section of Loch Ness, dark with green and red tones, split into two panels. On the top panel there is a boat in which is a man training his camera on the Loch Ness monster, who appears to be swimming away from him, in front of the ruins of Castle Urquhart. There’s a red sun setting behind dark mountains. In the lower panel the ‘monster’ of the upper panel is revealed to be a lure, anglerfish style, and is actually the tip of the tail of the actual monster which has a giant skull and spine and is about to gobble up the small boat from below.
Loch Ness - a (horrible) story in two panels. Not sure about this really but I could twiddle on with it forever.
Well I'm currently playing Hob's Barrow on PC and was just thinking it'd probably be excellent on Switch and OH NO
Could use a sabbatical from making games in order to make some games (side-eyeing personal projects)
A photo of a model of the head of a velociraptor from Jurassic Park, supported on a stand and there are modelling tools on the table.
Started building this original '92 vinyl kit of a Jurassic Park raptor. It is absolutely *gorgeous* and excuse me while I regress to childhood.
Grainy black and white photo of a field with a single telephone pole silhouetted against some light wispy clouds.
A black and white photo of a bundle of twine hanging from a tree, looking a bit creepy and witchy.
Black and white photo of a field stretching into the distance with an odd T-shaped water pipe sticking out of the ground in the mid-distance.
Black and white photo of a grassy track leading to some farm buildings surrounded by trees. A deer is just visible in a field the distance, looking at the camera.
Beautiful day for a walk, some nature, and messing about with a camera.
Not my home, but I know my way around
Love seeing Godot go from strength to strength - definitely going to have to find some time for a small project at some point.
It's time for #MittensMemeMonday!
Please enjoy Mittens' re-enactment of the vibing cat gif.
Recreate it yourself in the Schrodinger's Cat Burglar Demo right now!
Being able to instantly switch between OG and remastered graphics with a single button press is genius. Hope that becomes a standard thing in remasters.
Photo of a Nintendo Switch console on a quilted blanket. On the screen is the main menu for Tomb Raider.
Ouch. Just got kicked in the nostalgias by a menu screen.
Holy shizzleballs congrats 😘
Daily Sketch
Photo of an XP Pen display tablet at a computer desk
I have an XP Pen 15.6 pro - it's great! I think there's also a newer version out with better accuracy. The included stand isn't great tho - I have mine on a monitor arm and it's really helped with aging back/neck position! 😅
The demo was great! Just a delightful time with lots of lovely fun touches, and the kind of puzzling that makes you feel very clever.
Check it out and give @abandonedsheep.com some love!
I just pushed a new "Lite" version of my spherical harmonics shader library for HLSL: github.com/TheRealMJP/S...
The Lite version does not use templates, and is compatible with FXC or other compilers that don't support templates and operator overloads.
So gang - what's indie #gamedev using for small-scale project planning these days?
Notepad and post-its for life?
