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Meri Mayhem

@merimayhem.bsky.social

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she/her 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ gamedev, 3d artist, guitarist, model Senior QA @ Blizzard (Classic WoW) Previously: Respawn (Jedi Survivor, untitled Star Wars FPS) All views are my own, etc. https://www.artstation.com/merimayhem

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Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · Jun 28

Yo, I'm Meri.

I work in video games, I'm a 3d art student, and sometimes I play guitar & model. I'm also hella queer 🏳‍🌈

Meri with a gothy gay mullet of bleach blonde hair and gay skull makeup

3d stylized model of Cammy from Street Fighter

Stylized 3d model of a demon waitress with roller skates

Meri in a black and white photo, sitting cross-legged, nude, with a guitar covering her torso. Heavy lesbian undertones.

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Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 1h

But what about my sleeveless bikini?

Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 8h

Working on modeling this concept by @etiennesavoie.bsky.social , initial blockout done ✅️

Now to start pushing some geo around to get those fun angles

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Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 13h

Remember the Panama Papers? That was such an optimistic few weeks when we thought there might be any consequences.

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Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 13h

This looks awesome, love the mix of materials and especially how the draped cloth looks!

Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 17h

Oh wow I haven't thought about this movie in a long time, watched it a few times back in college during some watch parties. Gonna hafta gather up some folks for another watch of this.

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CODE-CWA @codecwa.bsky.social · 1d

Today, nearly 400 workers with Blizzard's Platform & Technology department have formed a union with @cwaunion.bsky.social!

“We are forming a union to hold leadership accountable and to ensure that we can focus on building amazing experiences for the gaming community.” 💪

Activision Blizzard’s Platform and Technology Workers Form Union with Communications Workers of America

Today, nearly 400 video game workers within Blizzard’s Platform & Technology department have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.

cwa-union.org

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Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 8d

🎂🎂🎂🖤🖤🖤

Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 9d

Oh heck yeah, another Barbarous book 🖤🖤

ananth @ananthhirsh.bsky.social · 9d

ICYMI: We launched the Kickstarter for the ✨ BARBAROUS Chapter 6 book ✨ this morning! And we're rapidly approaching goal!! You guys are the best! So psyched to get this into your hands!

Check it out:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/746...

Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 9d

Rendered out a closeup turnaround of my puppet Cammy model.

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Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 10d

I worked with a lot of these folks back when I was at Respawn, and I can't praise them enough. If I wasn't super happy where I am now, I'd be jumping on this myself.
Go apply to this, tell your friends to apply!

Gravity Well @gravitywell.games · 10d

Gravity Well is looking for a Senior QA Analyst to join our team! 🎮👾

If you've got sharp testing skills, a passion for video games, and experience with QA efforts, we want to hear from you!

Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...

Senior QA Analyst

Remote

job-boards.greenhouse.io

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Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 11d

I kept Des's photo sitting on my computer for a bit before seeking out more references from Abney Park to use for figuring out my own cemetery stone material as my way of learning Substance. He's a treasure trove of material references, and I'd have never discovered Abney Park otherwise!

Full rendered stone material on a substance preview sphere. Mottled grey stone with variations in the darkness and roughness. There are a few large divots from damage. Dark green algae cover much of the lower third, and the top has a patch of crusty lighter green lichen.

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Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 11d

I've never watched Buffy, Game of Thrones, nor Breaking Bad.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 11d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 12d

I always thought it was supposed to sound kinda French, like "beh-oolv". But it's pretty neat having some well acted official pronunciations for everything now.

Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 16d

Ooooooh, so this is the machine they were raging against.

Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 16d

We've really hit a point where unionizing is absolutely necessary to have any amount of job security in the industry now.

Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 17d

Always love these little tutorials of yours 🖤

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Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · Jun 20

Another school term done, another project to show off. Really had a lot of fun with this one.

Based on art by the toy designer Valerio "Dreelrayk" Buonfantino, one of my favorite Cammy designs mixing together her classic and Alpha looks.

#3dart #zbrush #maya

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Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks! I spent a lot of time trying to tweak that to look as close to real felt as possible and get all those little fly-aways :D

Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 17d

Reference sheet featuring Adreena Grubb's stop motion puppets that really inspired this look!

Original concept art by Valerio "Dreelrayk" Buonfantino, and the base model from earlier this year.

Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 17d

Updated my Cammy model with full texturing and grooming!

Loved learning Substance, XGen, and Renderman for this!

#3dCharacterArt #SubstancePainter #Cammy #StreetFighter #Maya

3D model of Cammy from Street Fighter, made to look like a stop motion puppet made of different fabrics. The body is a coarse linen, her bodysuit and hat cable-knit wool, and her hair is made of felt.

Backside view of the model showing off her braids

Close-up of the face, showing the eyes as painted glass

Closeup of the hip and right hand, showing the glove made of cotton and details of the coarse linen on the skin.

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Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 18d

Alt girls 🤝 pokemon ink

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Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 20d

Looking forward to a trend of Gen Alpha making horoscopes out of youtube vids and tweets from their birthdate.

Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 20d

Just mix in some female mechanicus as attendants to amplify the sapphic undertones.

Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 21d

I liked Renshuu for polishing up my rusty Japanese

Meri Mayhem @merimayhem.bsky.social · 23d

Do you love vegemite or do you LOVE vegemite?