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Ben Carnow

@carniferus.bsky.social

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Senior Character Artist at Bethesda Game Studios. Fallout 3/4/76. Skyrim. Lead Char Artist on Starfield. 99% personal sketch/garbage art here. All opinions my own AI and NFTs go right in the trash

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Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · Oct 20

Making a thread to contain my old Skyrim art. I basically never posted any of this stuff. Prob re-post my previous Falmer stuff in here eventually to have it all in one place. #gamedev #3dart #portfolio
Here’s the whole iron weapon set, based on concepts by the great Adam Adamowicz.

Zbrush renders of the models for the Skyrim iron weapon set.
sword/dagger/mace/greatsword/greathammer/greataxe/axe/bow/arrow/quiver

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Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · 1d

Just some guys I know

Brightly colored crude digi painting of 3 monstrous figures.

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 16d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · 3d

Every artist knows that the ideal workflow starts with trying to clean-up a stolen design translated to look like a melted plastic potato. We definitely don’t have extremely specific needs based on hand grip, animation, first person FOV, etc to consider. This definitely saves time and is very smart.

Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · 7d

Guilla-monster is very hungry

Zbrush sculpt. Monster with a crowned human figure trapped in its mouth. A sculpture of a hooded figure suspends a crescent shaped blade from chains above.

Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · 8d

All jokes aside, birth/labor is an astonishing and terrifying process. We ended up having a vastly different labor with our daughter than we had with our son each with unique challenges. I thought we were going to meet her Monday(due date) or Tuesday at the latest. She was born Friday. lol. Lmao.

Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · 12d

This is a joke of course. I am extremely involved in this birth as I was in the birth of our son and am doing everything I can to support her emotionally and physically. Later we will have the doula and midwives to get us through the climax.

Meanwhile I get no support. A gamer’s agony.

Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · 12d

My wife is in labor, but I am stuck in Bilewater doing the horrible run back to fight Groal the Great, so who can say which of us is suffering more?

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Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · 14d

Making up a guy… to love

Digital pencil sketch. An oddly proportioned man with extremely long legs and bulging eyes holds a flowering carrot.

Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · 15d

Making up a guy to hate

Digital pencil sketch of an unfortunate man

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Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · 16d

Bleh

Sketch of a monster man and some little floating weirdos.

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Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · 22d

Explorin’

Digital pencil sketch. A small horned figure carries a torch and illuminates a large four-armed figure with crossed legs.

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Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · 25d

I have learned that by context switching hundreds of times a day I can maintain the feeling of extreme business and stress while accomplishing nothing. I am red-lining my engine in the garage, melting my GPU. This will certainly start generating a profit soon and no one should be alarmed.

Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · 28d

Buncha guys

Procreate pencil sketch of a bunch of dudes

Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · Sep 20

I don’t know if anyone else ever runs into this, but I was able to locally backup my tools/projects/zstartup in the files app and then wipe/reinstall Zbrush.

Could not figure out how to preserve my settings, but at least I no longer feel like my files are in limbo until I reformat my iPad.

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Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · Sep 19

Bug

Procreate greyscale symmetrical sketch of some kind of arthropod.

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Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · Sep 19

Zeal and Ardor is so fucking good

Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · Sep 19

Bug

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Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · Sep 18

Since updating to iPadOS 26 Zbrush once again refuses to open or make any new files. It worked fine during the beta. Last time this happened I had to manually backup all my work and wipe the whole iPad. This shit sucks.
Searching is so terrible these days I don’t know if anyone else has this issue.

Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · Sep 18

Ribbit

Procreate sketch. Rough line work of a nonsense creature.

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Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · Sep 15

TLT is the best! I made a sculpt earlier this year of Harrow wearing a necromantic exoskeleton to be able to wield The Sword.

Zbrush sculpt. A small woman (intended to be Harrow from the Locked Tomb) is suspended within a large skeleton. It wields a two handed sword that pierces the ground.

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Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · Sep 15

Opponents despondent. Tearfully searching for the right classified tank schematic to leak that will give them the edge.

Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · Sep 14

I see it now

Procreate sketch. Abstracted face with a lot of crab limbs and nonsense.

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Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · Sep 10

Doodlin some freaks

Procreate pencil sketch. A couple of lanky weirdos.

Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · Sep 8

There’s nothing wrong with porn. I don’t know what you think you heard but porn is structurally sound. We did not fake any crash test data surrounding porn and it is very safe. The engine will not fall out and the seatbelts work and every case of drowning in lubricant has been ruled user error.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Sep 6

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:

1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial

: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

www.theregister.com

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