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vidarrapp.bsky.social
Senior Character Artist at Arrowhead Game Studios on Helldivers 2. Mainly art, sculpting & retro games. Collecting hobbies since 1984. Previously at Machinegames, Starbreeze, Avalanche, Rebellion & FallDamage. Game dev for two decades, opinions my own.
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Been doing some UE explorations recently during my free time, this video really hits home: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwI_...

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So that now makes Lena McDonald, KC Crowne and Rania Faris leaving ChatGPT prompts in their ‘books’. I’m so fucking tired, guys. If you don’t write, you’re not a writer. It’s that simple. Stop doing this to your readers, who PAY. Readers and authors deserve better than this. 📚💙

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Spring cleaned my LinkedIn connections, gone are all recruiters/talent/head hunters.. Also anybody with AI anything in their title, and most with word salad titles several sentences long. 🤡 Back down to under 1k connections, most of them artists and programmers I’ve actually worked with.

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So happy with the home office right now, great place to work and just upgraded with a walking threadmill to get some extra steps in during work.

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Picked up these vintage Namco speakers recently, they have a really nice and warm sound to them. Should really get them on risers to better aim towards the listening position and get them off the floor.

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Finally got my hand on the complete set of The Art of Star Wars. Was missing the Empire Strikes back but now I've got it. Love expanding my library of art and reference books.

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Just finished Press Reset by @jasonschreier.bsky.social and found it a really great take on where we are in the industry with lots of interesting stories from the trenches of game development. Many good insights and sad stories of studio closures.

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Had a great time holding a talk for the cg art students at Nord university in Levanger today. Did a little retrospective on my career thus far in the games industry as well as a live demo and a QnA session. Thanks to Nuria Martínez Francés and Pálma Karsai for arranging this workshop!

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Early morning as I'm on my way up to Levanger, Norway to visit Nord university and their cg art and animation students. I'm holding a talk that's a retrospective on my career in the games industry, as well as doing a practical demo in Blender.

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"i never heard of autism growing up"

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added something important to fallen london this week

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Very sad to read the news that Fall Damage/Walker labs shut their doors last week, with ALARA Prime likely never seeing the light of day. If you're hiring I can really recommend all of the art team, it's a very competent group of people and I hope they all land on their feet. <3

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Reading this excellent edition of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness again tonight. Barangers illustrations are truly inspired and really capture the story. If somebody wanted to develop a game based on the story and get the rights to use his art as a primer it would be a dream come true.

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You can try the Microsoft just released a Quake 2 demo that runs on genAI. It forgets where you are you each time you look at the floor and soft-locks when it's to dark. A technological marvel. You can try the "Copilot Gaming Experience" here: copilot.microsoft.com/wham

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_3_... Extremely interesting and relevant take on where we are headed by Yanis.

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WHATEVER THEY'RE PAYING THE ASSASSIN'S CREED SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER ITS NOT ENOUGH

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Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

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Thanks to @softndeadly.bsky.social for holding a fun roundtable on the future of art in games and to Game Town for hosting us. Nice to meet so many artists in games, many great discussions tonight.

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How this greybeard game dev looks like, or did this sunny winter morning at least. #whatagamedevlookslike

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oh yea looks almost production ready for me- hey, did we need faces?

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Signed up for the Artist night at Game Town next week, hope to meet some cool folks from around town and talk art in games.

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Fun time attending Yokai-themed talk at Etnografiska museet with Johan Egerkrans tonight #artresearch

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Recharged for the week, great weekend.

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Had a great time yesterday at Kappa Bar, attending the roundtable evening hosted by Epic. Just about recovered from it..

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Almost a perfect fit, way better then having it external since now I can boot from disk images directly.

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Alright, this should fit better inside the original floppy enclosure. #atari #gotek But that's enough retro tinkering for today, time for dinner with my love.

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